MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rootnod3 | 2026-02-15 14:30:34+00:00
Sorry, but why should they? What makes OpenAI better at making Slack than....Slack? Sure, Slack can be improved, but why the fuck should that be done by OpenAI? Shouldn't OpenAI concentrate on...I don't know....AI?! And first try to break even on that promise and actually generate revenue on that shitty promise?
by Dumblydorr | 2026-02-15 14:30:46+00:00
They aren’t so hyped, HN is very divided. Many think it’s the next best thing, many others think it’s terrible and sloppy, and others are in between.

Relative to non-HN users, I find they’re a lot more opinionated and less bull-ish than non-tech folks I’ve discussed it with.
by mdtrooper | 2026-02-15 14:30:56+00:00
I remember that years ago when the android phones started there was a app for flash games....I don't remember the name the app (and maybe this app does not run in current android phones)

Now thanks to https://f-droid.org/es/packages/rs.ruffle/ (it has high % compatibility but it is ok) another we have again a handful flash games in the phone.
by n8henrie | 2026-02-15 14:31:00+00:00
Not to mention the malpractice risk and potential for extra income, which -- depending on where you live -- may strongly (if subconsciously) influence your physicians interpretations and recommendations.

Do you think a doctor is more likely to call something "possible cancer" and recommend that you either have a specialist do a biopsy (keeping in mind that many of these will be... hard to reach) or at least have a follow up MRI in 3, 6, 9 months?

Or tell you it's "pretty unlikely to be cancer, I don't think we need to worry about it" and then get sued for 20M when they are wrong about 1 in 100 cases (not to mention missing out on all the potential income from above).

At least in the US, the incentives here are grossly misaligned.
by api | 2026-02-15 14:31:24+00:00
He’s not wrong but screw Glenn Greenwald. I assume his solution will be to back the current or next strongman, because strongman rule will save us?

It’s like the “don’t tread on me” militia crowd voting by like a 90% margin for a regime that is now enacting every single one of the things they’ve been afraid of for 50 years: masked cops, opaque detention centers, assaulting (and murdering) people for legally exercising second amendment rights, mass surveillance, social credit systems, and so on.

Or, I guess, like Lenin creating a totalitarian state to enslave the workers to liberate the workers? Or the French Revolution replacing the monarchy with the terror? Many examples in history I suppose.
by JoeDaDude | 2026-02-15 14:32:19+00:00
Even if you don't have a telescope or binoculars, you can still enjoy naked eye star gazing. The book that got me started and which I highly recommend: The Stars: A New Way to See Them by H. A. Rey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stars:_A_New_Way_to_See_Th...

https://archive.org/details/stars00hare
by Bender | 2026-02-15 14:32:23+00:00
Also HN commenters: “I don’t want to pay for goods and services”

People became used to getting a thing for free then it slowly enshittified over time into the current blend of grift and bait. They also strongly promote via shorts the very things they discouraged because sex sells. Now they are promoting AI generated bait. As such they deserve any and all vitriol in my opinion. I personally would never pay for that hot mess.

I watch a few popular channels because I can but probably not much longer. Eventually I will just watch the videos people copy over to Rumble until that platform follows the grift patterns of YT. It won't be long.
by zahlman | 2026-02-15 14:32:25+00:00
I was on the fence about such an identification. The first "list with highlighted key points" seemed quite awkward to me and definitely raised suspicion (the overall list doesn't have quite the coherence I'd expect from someone who makes the conscious choice; and the formatting exactly matches the stereotype).

But if this is LLM content then it does seem like the LLMs are still improving. (I suppose the AI flavour could be from Grammarly's new features or something.)
by jezek2 | 2026-02-15 14:32:46+00:00
But that's the point, I don't want the same style executable as Visual Studio. Having to distribute bunch of DLLs and having worse compatibility is pretty bad.

A major part of the incompatibility with older versions of Windows is just because newer VS runtimes cut the support artifically. That's it. Many programs would otherwise work as-is or with just a little help.
by Tade0 | 2026-02-15 14:32:48+00:00
> The guitars were nearly impossible to play

I can attest to that, as I had a few in my hands - brought in as a curiosity by a friend or largely gathering dust in some school.

That being said those made in Czechoslovakia were the least bad out of all eastern block instruments.

The same infrastructure and most likely also people went on to make instruments for other manufacturers - notably Epiphone.

These models are sought after by collectors, if only because so few were made. Some say they were better made, but I only held one in my life for a brief moment and at the time wasn't aware of its rarity.

It's hard to compare as broadly speaking guitars have become much better in every aspect over the years.
by randallsquared | 2026-02-15 14:34:47+00:00
OECD data (most recent available, around 2020–2022): MRI units per 100K population: United States ~3.6, Canada ~1.0, United Kingdom ~0.7

I would argue that getting "predatory capitalism" out of the way has sharply curtailed MRI availability where that's been tried. Maybe we should loosen the leash on capitalism a bit to get better care...
by jdthedisciple | 2026-02-15 14:35:16+00:00
Actually not that complicated: You simply check in a global.json [0] where you specify the sdk and workload versions.

Then you also specify target platform sdk versions in the .csproj file and VS will automatically prompt the developer to install the correct toolchain.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/global-j...
by n8henrie | 2026-02-15 14:36:12+00:00
Like when someone has an anaphylactic reaction to the contrast dye for their CT?

Contrast-induced nephropathy?

Gadolinium accumulation in the brain doesn't sound good for you...

Although I think this argument is usually talking about the risks of the resulting procedures (eg an injury or complication related to a biopsy done for a finding on imaging).
by K0balt | 2026-02-15 14:36:14+00:00
Perhaps. But that also erodes the stability islands that motivate people to be hyper productive, and encourages investment in external economies, starving the local economy. So I don’t think those work, or at least I’ve never seen a working example. Costco, on the other hand, and many other employee owned cooperatives do seem to align incentives better than most situations without discouraging investment.

demurrage currency otoh is probably worth looking closer at IF a way to build an equitable two-tiered system could be developed. Perhaps corporate money would be demurrage , with personal money that has passed through a tax window stable.
by ornornor | 2026-02-15 14:36:20+00:00
This probably even has ramifications beyond US residents.

I'm confident Google etc will be compelled (if they haven't already been) to share their dossiers with the US and allies so that there is a file on each individual's psychology, weaknesses, and a how-to manual for gaslighting that person with the goal to silence them or coerce them into acting a certain way.

And by then, the Stasi would look like cute amateurs in comparison.

Those raising these concerns have been dismissed as paranoid for decades, even post-Snowden. And yet, surprising no-one, here we are.
by vharuck | 2026-02-15 14:37:05+00:00
The United States Preventative Services Task Force[1] reviews studies and meta-studies to make recommendations about screening procedures. Their ratings are used by Medicare and Medicaid to decide what's covered and for which patients. In turn, many private insurance companies cover the same procedures. The USPSTF explicitly doesn't consider cost in their recommendations. Most often, they look at whether a screening reduces mortality rates.

1: https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/
by fatherwavelet | 2026-02-15 14:38:08+00:00
I like the analogy but I think you are underestimating how much random knob twiddling there is in all art.

Francis Bacon and The Brutality of Fact is a wonderful documentary that goes over this. Bacon's process was that he painted every day for a long time, kept the stuff he liked and destroyed the crap. You are just not seeing the bad random knob twiddling he did.

Picasso is even better. Picasso had some 100,000 works. If you look at a book that really gets deep to the more obscure stuff, so much of Picasso is half finished random knob twiddling garbage. Stuff that would be hard to guess is even by Picasso. There is this myth of the genius artist with all the great works being this translation of the fully formed vision to the medium.

In contrast, even the best music from musical programming languages is not that great. The actual good stuff is so very thin because it is just so much effort involved in the creation.

I would take the analogy further that vibe coding in the long run probably develops into the modern DAW while writing c by hand is like playing Paganini on the violin. Seeing someone playing Paganini in person makes it laughable that the DAW can replace a human playing the violin at a high level. The problem though is the DAW over time changes music itself and people's relation to music to the point it makes playing Paganini in person on the violin a very niche art form with almost no audience.

I read the argument on here ad nauseam about how playing the violin won't be replaced and that argument is not wrong. It is just completely missing the forest for the trees.
by m132 | 2026-02-15 14:39:08+00:00
> On Linux, the toolchain is usually just a package manager command away. On the other hand, “Visual Studio” is thousands of components.

That package manager command, at the very least, pulls in 50+ packages of headers, compilers, and their dependencies from tens of independent projects, nearly each of them following its own release schedule. Linux distributions have it much harder orchestrating all of this, and yet it's Microsoft that cannot get its wholly-owned thing together.
by ajross | 2026-02-15 14:39:44+00:00
This was the era before optimizing compilers.[1] The overwhelming majority of commercial games were shipping hand-coded assembly still. Forth had the advantage of low overhead, no-worse-than-a-compiler speed, and better-than-assembly productivity. It was a small time window, but a good fit in the moment.

[1] Non-trivial optimizations were just starting to show up on big systems, but Microsoft C in 1985 was still a direct translator.
by Intermernet | 2026-02-15 14:39:46+00:00
>they tend to air on the side of caution

Completely off topic, and for future reference, it's "err" not "air".

Completely fine mistake, stupid homophones and all. Just thought you'd like to know.

Also, these things happen to me all the time if I use voice dictation. I don't trust it because of edge cases like this.
by derbOac | 2026-02-15 14:39:51+00:00
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-06-1...

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/19/gallup-crime-p...

There's always the question of where exactly you're referring to and what kind of crime you're referring to. But I assumed that's what the parent post was referring to.
by ben_w | 2026-02-15 14:40:54+00:00
> Humans are not machines.

Were this the case, we could survive any poison or injuries, and discern truth from falsehood, simply by willing it so. We would never fall to drugs, nothing would get fetishised (in any sense of the word), political parties would be evaluated on merit alone rather than which name they proclaim.

And a lot of stage magic just wouldn't work. Special offers wouldn't be in exciting colours, gambling done with the same methods wouldn't ruin people; get-rich-quick schemes would fool nobody; photosensitive epilepsy wouldn't be a thing, and neither would the so-called "god helmet" (which, ironically, had one attempt to replicate the god helmet correlated only with suggestibility): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet

> If your goal is to control rather than educate and guide, then we do not have shared values upon which to debate the contours of.

The guidance I offer is only these:

1) you cannot escape a box whose existence you refuse to acknowledge.

2) The socratic answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_that_I_know_nothing
by wordsunite | 2026-02-15 14:41:13+00:00
I know it seems hard, but just stop using Google, Amazon, Meta products. Tell everyone you know to stop using their products. They have all been acquiring and amassing surveillance for years through their products and now they're just double dipping with AI training to sell you more of it. The more you can get people to realize and disconnect the better.

I wish more people would use AI to build alternatives with a clear, binding mission not to exploit the data, not to sell or be funded by investors who expect it to, etc. We have the power to build more than ever. We should use it.
by staticassertion | 2026-02-15 14:41:53+00:00
Marketing teams are constantly out of touch with the message they want to convey vs the message that gets conveyed. The creative team is usually not even talking to the other teams that would drive decisions like this - they almost exclusively are an isolated team (purposefully, like how engineers are often isolated from customers) that talks to a separate marketing team that then manages things like legal/compliance, which then bubbles up to other orgs etc.

The people creating ads are just organizationally isolated in most cases.
by TyrunDemeg101 | 2026-02-15 14:41:53+00:00
A nuclear option that's worked extremely well for me is going into Youtube's settings and disabling history.

I no longer am even able to see shorts, they don't get suggested to me.

However, this is an extreme nuclear option and also disables the entire 'Home' and for-you type content. You can search and watch videos, but it flips it so it is 100% intention driven. Which means discoverability and browsing is non-existent. You're still able to see your existing subscriptions but that's it.

It's REALLY helped me disconnect from the addictive dopamine of the infinite, short type formats. YMMV
by V__ | 2026-02-15 14:42:03+00:00
Of course, they would. If the administration asked Bezos, and he gets a benefit out of it. He will task his marketing team to come up with something which tries to frame it in a positive light. Knowing that even if a few people make a stink this will blow over eventually and when it rolls out, he can always say it is just about puppies and neighborhood security. Nobody cares.
by randerson | 2026-02-15 14:42:32+00:00
Don't forget teenagers can be extremely skilled technically. Plus they have a lot of time!

But you're on the right track.

I think of a solution like:

1. Browser does one-time age verification through 3rd party service, without disclosing any details about which sites you'll access.

2. Browser stores your age, signed by that service.

3. When a site requests it the browser passes that signed age over. The site simply has to check if it has a valid signature by a trusted authority's public key.

The browser could even use Palantir in this example - but they would never get any data about what users are accessing.
by itsanaccount | 2026-02-15 14:42:38+00:00
I've noticed a big split in viewpoint between people who don't live in the US.

Its like those who live in the states have a incentive to act like everything going on is ok, while those outside are increasingly having statements like yours. "How do you not see this power 13 years past Snowden"

I've not given up trying to point out how dangerous the US govs powers are in the hands of an ever less capable and more fascist government, ie posting here on HN, but the odds to convince people are low.
by alejohausner | 2026-02-15 14:42:51+00:00
Glenn Greenwald is back on substack. Yay! For the past few years, he’s mostly done videos on rumble, and he’s fun to watch, but personally I prefer his writing. In case you’ve been under a rock for 10 years, Greenwald was the guy who published Snowden’s revelations. His focus has always been on censorship, surveillance, and hypocrisy in government.
by amluto | 2026-02-15 14:43:02+00:00
I would check your “slightly”. If I have an algorithm that operates on an n-element data structure through a helper function (this includes almost any nontrivial program - think managing caches, small databases or tables, lists of clients, etc), you get an extra multiplicative factor of n for each operation. All those nice linear-time or n-log-n algorithms turn into n^2, and accidentally quadratic programs can be bad news.

And if the language offers no facility at all to get the factor of n back, users may be forced to use something else.
by bob1029 | 2026-02-15 14:43:02+00:00
You can do a lot of "native" windows development from modern C#/.NET via win32 interop.

Newer C# features like ref returns, structs, spans, et. al., make the overhead undetectable in many cases.

https://github.com/prasannavl/WinApi

https://github.com/microsoft/CsWin32
by macNchz | 2026-02-15 14:43:18+00:00
Biopsies, radiation from additional scans, surgery, treatment for cancers that would not have developed further.

A lot of potential harms are at a societal level as well—from a public health perspective, if everyone starts having regular MRIs that produce incidental findings which require followup, you’re suddenly tying up lots of resources that would otherwise be available to actually-sick people. A person with symptomatic problems whose treatment is delayed because they can’t get an appointment because the specialists are booked full with incidental findings, that person is indirectly harmed by this.

The radiation from CT scans is not especially concerning at an individual level when there is a compelling reason for it, but, if we’re suddenly doing tons more to investigate incidental MRI findings, there may well be a point where those scans are causing a significant amount of cancer overall—a recent study suggested, I believe, that CT scans may be responsible for 5% of cancers already.
Doom Emacs package: ready to use configuration for Buf toolchain
by Piprim | 2026-02-15 14:43:46+00:00
Just publisehed a Doom Emacs package that provides ready to use configuration of protobuf-ts-mode for editing Protocol Buffers files with full Buf toolchain integration.
#emacs

https://github.com/pivaldi/pimacs/tree/master/lang-protobuf
by randallsquared | 2026-02-15 14:45:01+00:00
From the statistics on autopsy and other accidental discovery, it seems that more than 30% of the population has some cancer by age 40 that would never impact their life left untreated (mostly thyroid, prostate, and surprisingly-for-me, breast cancer). Regular widespread full body MRI might catch these, but the effects of treating (e.g.) prostate cancer are so terrible that most would be better off ignoring it.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-15 14:45:04+00:00
> This thread is talking about vibe coding, not LLM-assisted human coding.

I was writing about vibe-coding. It seems these guys are vibe-coding (https://factory.strongdm.ai/) and their LLM coders write the tests.

I've seen this in action, though to dubious results: the coding (sub)agent writes tests, runs them (they fail), writes the implementation, runs tests (repeat this step and last until tests pass), then says it's done. Next, the reviewer agent looks at everything and says "this is bad and stupid and won't work, fix all of these things", and the coding agent tries again with the reviewer's feedback in mind.

Models are getting good enough that this seems to "compound correctness", per the post I linked. It is reasonable to think this is going somewhere. The hard parts seem to be specification and creativity.
by jfengel | 2026-02-15 14:45:26+00:00
It's intriguing, but two things. Prospero is conspicuously not a knight. He is a pure scholar; his inability to look outside his books is the reason he got into this mess.

Also, Shakespeare had two more native inhabitants of that island, Ariel and Sycorax (Caliban's mother, defeated by Prospero).

So even if Shakespeare had noted this image, it doesn't sound like a core inspiration for the play. It's worth continuing to look at and see if we can learn anything about the text, but I suspect that this short article is both the beginning and end of that line of inquiry.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-15 14:45:49+00:00
Nobody knows

Some hypotheses

(A) AI helps most setup simple tools - even non technical people. But once you get beyond greenfield the cognitive debt builds so you can’t reason about it it. It’s possible mature products don’t get the same gains with AI (or have different types of productivity gains).

(B) We pay a SaaS company to be responsible for an SLA. I personally don’t want to be responsible for that SLA on my vibe coded app so I outsource it. See also support, etc

(C) We pay SaaS to be a reliable source of truth (like Shopify for my Ecom business). The app holds the state of something important. That investment in the ecosystem is itself a moat.

(D) Many “SaaS” businesses are not pure software. They handle payment, benefits, payroll. Often with complex human b2b backends. It looks like just software to us, but we pay to turn a complex set of human relationships into a slick dashboard.

If my business is a pure software tool, it doesn’t have a good moat - and frankly probably nevet did.
Show HN: Typemux-cc – .venv-aware Python LSP proxy for Claude Code (no restarts)
by K-dash | 2026-02-15 14:46:31+00:00
Hi HN — I built typemux-cc, a Claude Code plugin that makes Python `.venv` switching work without restarts.

Claude Code’s official pyright plugin spawns one backend at startup; if you create/switch `.venv` later (common with git worktrees), it won’t pick it up without restarting Claude Code.

typemux-cc is a Python LSP proxy that fixes this by keeping a per-`.venv` backend pool and routing requests based on `didOpen` `.venv` detection. It also restores open docs on spawn, queues index-dependent requests during warmup, and rewrites backend→client request IDs to avoid collisions.

Supports pyright / ty / pyrefly.

Repo + quickstart:
https://github.com/K-dash/typemux-cc

Feedback welcome — especially on the “fail loudly vs fallback when `.venv` is missing” policy and reliable warmup/readiness signals across pyright/ty/pyrefly.
by kube-system | 2026-02-15 14:47:29+00:00
This isn’t just about false positives.

Most people do have things “wrong” with their body, but they are asymptomatic. The human body can and does cope with a certain amount of failure and/or anomaly as a part of normal operation that we otherwise consider healthy.

The problem is that this information is often not actionable. An MRI is great at identifying which ways your body doesn’t look like a textbook reference body, but it doesn’t necessarily tell you what those things are or whether they will ever cause you problems. The way the body naturally responds to problems doesn’t always look perfect on a scan but if it results in no symptoms it is the best result. And for most asymptomatic findings, taking an invasive next step has more risk than the finding itself. And these findings will always be in the back of the patients head, whether relevant or not, and might complicate how they seek care for other real issues later on.