MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Reubachi | 2026-02-16 15:29:10+00:00
I am in a similar area IE; usual coldest is low 20s, often sits around 32-38f. But have oft worked outside in consistent cold snaps from negatives to 10f or so, also on boats/the docks.

working in dry extreme cold is infinitely worse than balmy 35f. One because in both scenarios moving snow/moisute out is required regardless of temps for working safety, and two because dexterity is gone at the lower temps/layering becomes inhibitive to work.

Ie; I'd rather work in a rain/snowcoat and be able to use my hands to get back inside quicker, than to work 8 hours outside in the "Clear/dry" extreme cold.
by q3k | 2026-02-16 15:29:17+00:00
Stuff I've recently analyzed that IDA has no decomp support for (and Ghidra's is anywhere from good enough to actually good):

- AVR
- Z80
- HC08
- 8051
- Tricore
- Xtensa
- WebAssembly
- Apple/Samsung S5L87xx NAND controller command sequencer VLIW (custom SLEIGH)

And probably more that I've forgotten.

It's also not about lack of support, but the fact that you have to pay extra for every single decompiler. This sucks if you're analyzing a wide variety of targets because of the kind of work you do.

IDA also struggles with disasm for Harvard architectures which tend to make up a bulk of what I analyze - it's all faked around synthetic relocations. Ghidra has native support for multiple address spaces.
by Mattwmaster58 | 2026-02-16 15:29:18+00:00
I'll second this. I used opencode + opus 4.6 + ghidra to reverse engineer a seedkey generation algorithm[1] from v850 assembly. I gave it the binary, the known address for the generation function, and a set of known inputs/outputs, and it was able to crack it.

[1] https://github.com/Mattwmaster58/ic204
by jansan | 2026-02-16 15:30:06+00:00
> I can feel the AGI on this one :)

This was probably meant in a sarcastic way, but isn't it impressive how you cannot push Gemini off track? I tried another prompt with claiming that one of my cups does not work, because it is closed at the top and open at the bottom, and it kind of played with me, giving me a funny technical explanation on how to solve that problem and finally asking me if that was a trick question.

In this case I can feel the AGI indeed.
Show HN: Nexus AI – DevOps terminal bridge to Telegram (local-first, BYOK)
by BSanroma | 2026-02-16 15:30:16+00:00
I built this because I was tired of SSH'ing from mobile or carrying laptop to cafes
just to check logs. Nexus runs as a daemon on localhost, creates a private Telegram
bot that only responds to your OWNER_ID, and executes commands locally.

Key tech decisions:
- BYOK (Bring Your Own Key): You provide Gemini API key + create your own bot.
My operational cost per user = $0
- 3-tier security: Blocked patterns (rm -rf /), dangerous patterns (require
confirmation), safe patterns (execute immediately)
- Rate limiting: 100 cmd/hour + 2s cooldown + 60s confirmation expiry
- Local-first: Code never leaves your machine

$3 lifetime for first 1,000 users. Built with Node.js. Cross-platform binaries.

Demo: https://remote-nexus.dev
GitHub (public docs): https://github.com/BSanroma/nexus-ai-public

Happy to answer questions about the security model or architecture.
by singpolyma3 | 2026-02-16 15:30:35+00:00
> Two XMPP clients might support completely different feature sets.

This is of course true of Matrix as well. Just because you document everything in one place doesn't mean every app will support it all. Or that every app will even want to support it all. If every app were exactly the same there would be no point in having multiple apps, after all.

> The network effects of WhatsApp/Signal/iMessage are the real enemy, not protocol design.

Absolutely.
by closewith | 2026-02-16 15:31:01+00:00
> Blocking access to the information is the wrong way to deal with this problem.

That's an assertion, but what's your reasoning?

> This would be a perfect example of something which should be made open after a delay. If the information is expunged before the delay, there's nothing to make open.

All across the EU, that information would be available immediately to journalists under exemptions for the Processing of Personal Data Solely for Journalistic Purposes, but would be simultaneously unlawful for any AI company to process for any other purposes (unless they had another legal basis like a Government contract).
by skarard_ | 2026-02-16 15:31:08+00:00
Those cheap Bluetooth Tesla coils on AliExpress use A2DP audio as their control signal - a comparator converts the audio into spark pulses. I built a browser app that generates the right square wave audio to drive them. But you don't need a coil to play with it.

159 tracks, a step sequencer, tone generators, and a real-time lightning visualiser driven by FFT. Works on phone or desktop, no install.

I'm also building a pipeline to convert any song into something a coil can play - monophonic square waves, 20Hz-2kHz. Using Demucs for stem separation and Basic Pitch for note detection. The annoying problem: ML models keep interpreting a square wave's harmonics as separate notes, so there's a bunch of post-processing to filter those out.

All Web Audio API, all client-side. No server in the audio path.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-16 15:31:16+00:00
Orchestration and autonomy are the things people get hyped about, but validation is the real bottleneck, and I'm pretty sure it's not amenable to complete automation. The people pushing orchestration the hardest are trying to get their users to validate for them, which taints the AI related open source ecosystem for everyone (sorry Steve/Peter!).

I wrote a rant about this a while back to try and encourage people to be more responsible: https://sibylline.dev/articles/2026-01-27-stop-orchestrating...
by Aerroon | 2026-02-16 15:31:21+00:00
Why aren't we in the year of the Linux desktop? It's free and arguably close enough, better, or as good as Windows.

I think in the modern world people would absolutely sell the special shovel, because even if you have a better product that doesn't mean people are going to be using it. You need to have a much better product for a long time for that to happen. And being much better than the competition is hard.
by inetknght | 2026-02-16 15:31:31+00:00
> when you run a grep command in a large codebase and end up hitting way too many files, overloading context.

On the other hand, I despise that it automatically pipes things through output-limiting things like `grep` with a filter, `head`, `tail`, etc. I would much rather it try to read a full grep and then decide to filter-down from there if the output is too large -- that's exactly what I do when I do the same workflow I told it to do.

Why? Because piping through output liming things can hide the scope of the "problem" I'm looking at. I'd rather see the scope of that first so I can decide if I need to change from a tactical view/approach to a strategic view/approach. It would be handy if the agents could do the same thing -- and I suppose they could if I'm a little more explicit about it in my tool/prompt.
by davely | 2026-02-16 15:31:52+00:00
I’d be interested where you’re getting your data. SteamDB shows an accelerating trend of game releases over time, though comparing January 2026 to January 2025 directly shows a marginal gain [0].

This chart from a16z (scroll down to “App Store, Engage”) plots monthly iOS App Store releases each month and shows significant growth [1].

> After basically zero growth for the past three years, new app releases surged 60% yoy in December (and 24% on a trailing twelve month basis).

It’s completely anecdotal evidence but my own personal experience shows various sub-Reddit’s just flooded with AI assisted projects now, so much so that various pages have started to implement bans or limits of AI related posts (r/selfhosted just did this).

As far as _amazing software_ goes, that’s all a bit subjective. But there is definitely an increase happening.

[0] https://steamdb.info/stats/releases/

[1] https://www.a16z.news/p/charts-of-the-week-the-almighty-cons...
by graemep | 2026-02-16 15:31:54+00:00
Three of the best known Christians I have known in my life are gay. Two are priests (one Anglican, one Catholic). Obviously the Catholic priest had taken a vow of celibacy anyway to its entirely immaterial. I did read an interview of a celeb friend (also now a priest!) of his that said he (the priest I knew) thought people did not know he was gay we all knew, just did not make a fuss about it.

Even if you accept the idea that gay sex is a sin, the entire basis of Christianity is that we are all sinners. Possessing wealth is a failure to follow Jesus's commands for instance. You should be complaining a lot more if the prime minister is rich. Adultery is clearly a more serious sin than having the wrong sort of sex, and I bet your country has had adulterous prime ministers (the UK certainly has had many!).

I think Christians who are obsessed with homosexuality as somehow making people worse than the rest of us, are both failing to understand Christ's message, and saying more about themselves than gays.

If you look at when sodomy laws were abolished, countries with a Christian heritage lead this. There are reasons in the Christian ethos if choice and redemption for this.
by ant6n | 2026-02-16 15:32:08+00:00
Seems the AIs are quite self aware.

"If you pay attention to AI company branding, you'll notice a pattern:

1 Circular shape (often with a gradient)
2 Central opening or focal point
3 Radiating elements from the center
4 Soft, organic curves

Sound familiar?"

https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-butt...
by rebelytics | 2026-02-16 15:32:09+00:00
A meta-skill for Claude that watches your work sessions and captures corrections, judgment calls, and recurring patterns as they happen. It turns those into specific improvement suggestions for your existing skills and drafts new skill candidates from your workflows. It also observes itself, improving its own methodology over time. Open-source, domain-agnostic, CC BY 4.0. Looking for feedback from anyone building with Claude skills.
My AI now has a license to drive
by sebringj | 2026-02-16 15:32:17+00:00
Built something small to stop the endless "it works on my machine" loop with AI assistants.

Autonomo lets your AI actually see the app state, drive UI elements across devices, and verify changes in real time—right from your copilot or cursor etc. No more blind code suggestions.

If you're tired of AIs that talk big but can't prove it on real hardware, give it a spin and let the AI take the wheel for a bit. This is for apps only though so it's optimized for speed, not generic vision or specific device.

https://sebringj.github.io/autonomo/
Curious if anyone else is experimenting with giving agents proper eyes/hands in dev loops.
by vaxman | 2026-02-16 15:32:25+00:00
No crash yet, just a bunch of lawless stock manipulation by people raising money to feed gear to their LLMs. It's scaring students into other fields due to the attempt by these AI grifters to convert CS salaries into token purchases as they rob their customers with AI slop. This lack of jobs/graduates went on for six years after the 2000 dot-com crash(es), yielding the current dystopia of middle-aged web developers that don't know what a page fault is. All things being equal, we come out the other end in 2032 with vibe coders?

But all things aren't equal. Our country is deeply in debt and it is no longer clear to me that the government will reign in that stock manipulation activity before it crashes the market because it still believes, almost in desperation, the false narrative that by spending $600b on capEx, the grifters are going to exponentially increase GDP with magic AI productivity gains, thereby keeping the national debt at bay. This kind of setup could lead to a Greater Depression when they're proven wrong. Greater in the sense that people no longer know how to be that poor, not that they were particularly good at it in 1929. Way worse than 2001, and let me tell you...

"I'll take one." --watt hour that is :D https://youtu.be/5Bt_QVQexnI

@2:44 https://youtu.be/eegOQ3ErbFk those are bank owners .. don't (ever) ask me how I know
Would you use this? Anti-subscription web app passion project
by tlh_builder | 2026-02-16 15:32:55+00:00
Born out of a frustration that the world is so dang subscription-based.

I am OK if the margin is pretty low! More just me fighting back against tech.

Idea:

Essentially, "generic" versions of web apps. Walmart-brand or Amazon Basics d2c app "generics" (eg, Canva, maybe Airtable, Claude Pro, CapCut, etc.)

Value prop:

- NO SUBSCRIPTIONS

- Cheaper 90% of the time because you pay by usage

- Don't hit paywalls for very common/any basic features or usage

- Access many apps in 1 place (one stop web app shop)

Details:

- The 3 most common "plus" level workflows of these apps are 100% supported (super-user use cases not fully supported)

- No paywalls -- A lot of "free" tiers of web apps run into paywalls for what I'd consider pretty basic features.

- Pay by usage or buy it for life 1-time fee

- 1 login = access to several UIs that are generic clones of various web apps like (Not saying those are where I'd start, but you get the idea.)

- I'm ok w/ low margin. Maybe just like total operating cost + 10%.

Sure, I know that...

- The unit economics will work out or how realistic tech is yet (although I'd start with the most common web apps that I could realistically support the main capabilities of)

- There's a million cheaper clones of various web apps. But it's still a bunch of different logins & almost always subscriptions.

- Biggest challenge would probably be marketing, regardless of competitive value props.
by everforward | 2026-02-16 15:33:02+00:00
I like functional code, but part of the issue with React in that regard is that it likes to hide state from you.

Eg all those providers that are inputs to your component but get hidden away.

It really diminishes the value proposition of functional code because the implicit inputs make the output feel non-deterministic. Eg you can have bugs because of state in a provider that is a transitive dependency of a downstream component. You never pass it through explicitly, so it’s not readily apparent that that state is important and needs to be tested.

I find imperative to be a mess because of bugs in teardown (eg someone added a div, that div isn’t properly removed when re-rendering, problems only appear when there’s 3 or more left over divs). Unless you tear everything down and rebuild it on view change, which sounds pretty functional to me (though probably not pure, but what is outside of Haskell?)
by deaux | 2026-02-16 15:33:32+00:00
> So either you have to go down a very dark rabbit hole

So even after "there's a child sex trafficking island where all the elites have gone to party for decades" you're still skeptical of that claim? Knowing about Mossad operations? With Bibi on the record saying

> Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas … This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank

With most of the world's spyware, including Pegasus and NSO group, having hailed from Israel?

It's not "going down a very dark rabbit hole", it's the by far most likely option and therefore your whole comment makes no sense, presuming the much less likely option.

If we're still not at the point where we stop being this naive, my god..
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-16 15:34:02+00:00
> What I’m saying is, if you were stupid after your 18th birthday and caught a charge peeing on a cop car while publicly intoxicated, I don’t think that should be a factor when your 45 applying for a job after going to college, having a family, having a 20 year career, etc.

I'd go further and say a lot of charges and convictions shouldn't be a matter of public record that everyone can look up in the first place, at least not with a trivial index. File the court judgement and other documentation under a case number, ban reindexing by third parties (AI scrapers, "background check" services) entirely. That way, anyone interested can still go and review court judgements for glaring issues, but a "pissed on a patrol car" conviction won't hinder that person's employment perspectives forever.

In Germany for example, we have something called the Führungszeugnis - a certificate by the government showing that you haven't been convicted of a crime that warranted more than three months of imprisonment or the equivalent in monthly earning as a financial fine. Most employers don't even request that, only employers in security-sensitive environments, public service or anything to do with children (the latter get a certificate also including a bunch of sex pest crimes in the query).
by infecto | 2026-02-16 15:34:19+00:00
Can you provide some solid examples of companies doing this in an industry with high capex? Yes futures exist but largely in commodity businesses. Because what you described sounds more like pre-purchase agreements which already exist. To have a futures market you would need investors and a product that is more of a commodity and not something highly engineered.

You are also forgetting that the payback period on a plant is not a single year, it will be over many years and most likely no buyer is wanting to arrange purchasing that far out.

I don’t see how what you described sounds is set in reality even for “smart manufacturers”.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-16 15:34:26+00:00
'fast'

I'm sure it can do 2+2= fast

After that? No way.

There is a reason NVIDIA is #1 and my fortune 20 company did not buy a macbook for our local AI.

What inspires people to post this? Astroturfing? Fanboyism? Post Purchase remorse?
by cowboylowrez | 2026-02-16 15:34:41+00:00
"Boris Cherny" seems pretty good at this enshittification stuff. Think about it, normal coders would consider having a config like show details or don't, you know, a developers preference but no this guy wants you to control-o all the time, read the article its right there what this guy says:

" A GitHub issue on the subject drew a response from Boris Cherny, creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic, that "this
isn't a vibe coding feature, it's a way to simplify the UI so you can focus on what matters, diffs and bash/mcp outputs." He
suggested that developers "try it out for a few days" and said that Anthropic's own developers "appreciated the reduced noise.""

Seriously man, whatever happened to configs that you can set once. They obviously realise that people want it with the control-o but why make them do this over and over without a way to just config it, or whatever the cli does like maybe:

./clod-code -v

or something. Man I dislike these AI bros so much, there always about "your personal preferences are wrong" but you know they are lying through their smirking teeth they want you to burn tokens so the earth's inhabitability can die a few minutes earlier.
by CapricornNoble | 2026-02-16 15:35:01+00:00
> First Brands didn’t have the kind of money necessary to buy so many companies in such a short order, so it turned to financing.

So can we say that this collapse is a fallout from the easy money availability at the height of COVID? What was leadership thinking going on a such a buying spree though?

> If you thought all of that was bad, things got worse, as First Brands then sued its founder, Patrick James, alleging that he had pilfered at least $700 million from the company’s coffers.

......oh.

FT, Oct2025: The secretive First Brands founder, his $12bn debt and the future of private credit ( https://archive.is/jxn99 )

Guess I won't be putting a StopTech big brake kit on my Supra someday...
by pixl97 | 2026-02-16 15:35:03+00:00
Us being in the same pool as AI is one of the potential risks pointed out by AI safety experts.

To use an analogy, imagine you're a small fluffy mammal that lives in fertile soils in open plains. Suddenly a bunch of humans show up with plows and till you and your environment under to grow crops.

Maybe the humans suddenly won't need crops any longer and you'll get your territory back. But if that doesn't happen and a paradigm change occurred you're in trouble.
by MYEUHD | 2026-02-16 15:35:04+00:00
Snikket ( https://snikket.org/ ) is an easier way to self-host an XMPP server. It's a pre-configured Prosody server in a docker image, and you can use it with any XMPP client you like.

> I still use Signal for most day-to-day conversations and I’m not planning to stop.

You can run a Signal-XMPP gateway. See https://slidge.im/

This will allow you to use your Signal account from your XMPP client.
Bridging audio / video calls isn't currently possible. But most other feature work across the gateway.
by vaylian | 2026-02-16 15:35:12+00:00
Well argued. You do have a point for physical world data. But there are also some digital world constructs that need 128 bits:

- IPv6 addresses

- UUIDs

I don't think it is critical that we get a 128 CPU anytime soon, but it would still be nice if we could handle these values with only one CPU register.
by garblegarble | 2026-02-16 15:35:39+00:00
I couldn't parse the intended meaning from "lack of commitment to no longer commiting crimes"), so here's a response that just answers the question raised.

Do you regard the justice system as a method of rehabilitating offenders and returning them to try to be productive members of society, or do you consider it to be a system for punishment? If the latter, is it Just for society to punish somebody for the rest of their life for a crime, even if the criminal justice considers them safe to release into society?

Is there anything but a negative consequence for allowing a spent conviction to limit people's ability to work, or to own/rent a home? We have carve-outs for sensitive positions (e.g. working with children/vulnerable adults)

Consider what you would do in that position if you had genuinely turned a corner but were denied access to jobs you're qualified for?
by Aerroon | 2026-02-16 15:36:01+00:00
One of the problems with open access to these government DBs is that it gives out a lot of information that spammers and scammers use.

Eg if you create a business then that email address/phone number is going to get phished and spammed to hell and back again. It's all because the government makes that info freely accessible online. You could be a one man self-employed business and the moment you register you get inundated with spam.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-16 15:36:11+00:00
Hash tables are indeed O(1) in theory while binary search is O(log(N)) in theory, no problem with that.

But in practice, accessing a physical memory cell is not O(1), it is O(cuberoot(N)).

For a binary search, you need O(log(N)) operation, but each operation (accessing a memory cell) is O(cuberoot(N')) where N' is the number of elements up to the level of the tree you are at, ending at N for the last iteration. So that's O(sum(0, log(N), cuberoot(N/exp(n))), which simplifies to O(cuberoot(N)), exactly the same!

In real practice, the choice of binary search vs hash table depends on considerations like cache behavior. Hybrid methods combining hash tables with hierarchical data structures are often used when N is large. But that's my point, you won't choose a hash table over a binary search because one is O(1) and the other is O(log(n)), you chose one over the other because of how it fits your hardware architecture.

Contrast with, say, O(n.log(n)) over O(n^2). When n is large, barring space-time tradeoffs, you should always pick the O(n.log(n)) algorithm, because the reduction in complexity will always beat any sane hardware considerations.