MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bitshiftfaced | 2026-02-14 14:53:04+00:00
Pie in the sky idea: users sign up and deposit to an escrow. If after x years, the user has been married to another user on the site for 1 year without being divorced, the matching site receives the funds. Otherwise, the user receives their funds back.

Might also work with using the users' registered home addresses instead of marriage. There are ways to game it and ways to make it less game able, but you get the idea.
by solatic | 2026-02-14 14:53:24+00:00
To each his own, but while I can certainly understand the hesitancy of an architect to pick Zig for a project that is projected to hit 100k+ lines of code, I really think you're missing out. There is a business case to using Zig today.

True in general but in the cloud especially, saving server resources can make a significant impact on the bottom line. There are not nearly enough performance engineers who understand how to take inefficient systems and make improvements to move towards theoretical maximum efficiency. When the system is written in an inefficient language like Python or Node, fundamentally, you have no choice but to start to move the hotpath behind FFI and drop down to a systems language. At that point your choices are basically C, C++, Rust, or Zig. Of the four choices, Zig today is already simplest to learn, with fewer footguns, easier to work with, easier to read and write, and easier to test. And you're not going to write 100k LOC of optimized hotpath code. And when you understand the cost savings involved in reducing your compute needs by sometimes more than 90% by getting the hotpath optimized, you understand that there is very much indeed a business case to learning Zig today.
by regularization | 2026-02-14 14:53:34+00:00
Navalny, wasn't that the heroic fighter for human rights who said people from the North Caucucus were cockroaches, then mimicked a gun with his fingers saying what he would like to do with them?

An obvious hero of western liberals fighting for human rights and democracy.

How is this cause of death verified? Someone claims they smuggled samples from his body and sent them to two labs in other countries? Sounds like quite a solid and anonymous chain of custody, rock solid proof.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-02-14 14:54:02+00:00
Claiming that a course of action is the only way and that there is no alternative, and that opposing it is being an enemy, a traitor, or "suicidal", is an age old trick, too.

In this case, claiming that giving up on our countries as sovereign states must happen to compete against China or the US is an obvious oxymoron and rather insane.
by whycome | 2026-02-14 14:54:12+00:00
I’ve been using country-identification as a doom scroll alternative. It’s a fun game with at least a little bit of benefit. What’s weird is that something markedly changed and it got way easier all of a sudden. Like something changed in terms of how my brain interpreted the maps. I suspect it’s probably closer to language learning for a pictographic written language (eg mandarin).

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/practice
Show HN: Flux – search, monitor, and nuke processes with ease
by Orbyss_Studio | 2026-02-14 14:54:16+00:00
Got tired of juggling top, grep, and kill -9 every time I wanted to identify what was eating my resources or kill a process. So I built flux - a clean and easy-to-use TUI that lets you search, monitor, and nuke processes with ease, with system resource tracking.

Features:

Real-time Resource Monitoring: Track CPU and memory usage, live

Port Discovery: Identify which processes are listening on specific ports

Batch Actions: Select multiple processes with Space or use --nuke to batch-kill by filter

Easy Navigation: Move around effortlessly with j/k or arrow keys

Smart UI: Context-aware coloring for high resource usage

Made in Rust.
by hnlmorg | 2026-02-14 14:54:22+00:00
There are obviously going to be exceptions. Every rules has that. Hear why I said “usually a sign” rather than “it’s a guarantee with out any exceptions”.

But to take your startup example, they generally short on base salary with the hope that you score big when the company sells / floats. Which is a very different scenario to saying “we aren’t going to pay you more because we are unprofitable”.

Also, if a regular (ie non-startup) business isn’t profitable and are then freezing wages as a result, then that’s another good indicator to update your CV. You might be lucky to get a decent severance package, but even if you do, you’ll still want that CV updated.

So my advice stands.
by gus_massa | 2026-02-14 14:54:24+00:00
In the research group I am, we have usually try a few approach to each problem, let's say we get a:

Method A) 30% speed reduction and 80% precision decrease

Method B) 50% speed reduction and 5% precision increase

Method C) 740% speed reduction and 1% precision increase

and we only publish B. It's not brute force[1], but throw noodles at the wall, see what sticks, like the GP said. We don't throw spoons[1], but everything that looks like a noodle has a high chance of been thrown. It's a mix of experience[1] and not enough time to try everything.

[1] citation needed :)
by tracker1 | 2026-02-14 14:54:38+00:00
Honestly if it were some with live models even at SD it wouldn't be so bad... I just find it's from a time that's kind of painful to watch... Much like Transformers: Beast Wars.

I enjoy the story, but the FX are IMO literally worse than pre-60s serial Sci-fi content. The blurry, low res CGI just detracts from the show today. I'm not asking for a reboot or change of the material marathon... Just the special effects and CGI to what it should have been at the time.
by 8organicbits | 2026-02-14 14:55:01+00:00
There's an RSS planet that curates blogs about emacs, for anyone who is looking.

https://planet.emacslife.com/

I've been building a list of blog lists, and I know of 136 feeds that use that category tag. (Open filters, select emacs under category, adjust language as needed).

https://alexsci.com/rss-blogroll-network/discover/
by retired | 2026-02-14 14:55:35+00:00
A yes, the wise Europeans like the Dutch who have homes in Amsterdam that are sinking into the ground due to rotting wooden beams sinking in swamp ground and homes in Groningen with cracks all over due to the earthquakes that came with pumping gas out of the ground.

Or the dozens of structures in Italy that came crashing down, like the various bridges over the past twenty years (250 bridge collapse events in Italy between January 2000 and July 2025).

Yes us Europeans are indeed superior and we never pick the wrong building material ever.
by dahart | 2026-02-14 14:55:38+00:00
Isn’t hearing some Spanish from time to time expected in Miami, whether you speak it or not? You prefer that advertisers read through your posts/emails/history/everything to make ads targeted at you? If you don’t care about the risks of targeted advertising, and don’t agree with the EU’s decision to ban manipulative behavior, then the proposal we’re discussing maybe isn’t for you. But at least consider that having an ads language setting is not ruled out by this idea, so if you can’t stand Spanish, then you can have your ads in English without the advertisers reading all your posts.
by adamtaylor_13 | 2026-02-14 14:55:39+00:00
I love that we can explore things like this without a huge time investment. I made a game that reminded me of the Spybotics: The Nightfall Incident

It's at https://adamtaylor13.github.io/botnet/ if anyone wants to try it.

It's still pretty rough compared to the original but, it's been fun enough for my kids to play!
by itissid | 2026-02-14 14:55:59+00:00
even if it is isolated, like no network or host access. Like say the malicious prompt created a wasm tool that patched your project code to leak information like logger.warning. but LOG_LEVEL was set to error.

Again running on that was container that code cannot reveal anything. But then another isolated wasm tool was responsible to build the binary and ship it to prod.

Shotgunned all over prod logs are spotted by a log watcher within minutes of deploy.

But you are already screwed.
by geethikaisuru | 2026-02-14 14:57:02+00:00
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Imagine you dictate a reply to an unique customer email, you spend 12 hrs building a feature. The app will pick it up and give you posts to share on social medias. No more AI slop because it's your stories. You automate only the storytelling.
Just copy and share.
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by toastal | 2026-02-14 14:57:24+00:00
Almost all clients support file sharing. The Movim client <https://mov.im/> supports screen sharing. It should be noted that both Jitsi & Zoom use XMPP for the roster/chat/handshaking as well; so if you set up a Jitsi server for calls & such, you would already have a working XMPP server on your server that could be co-opted.
by jtrn | 2026-02-14 14:57:56+00:00
I find that there is a big difference between how people that use the fact that they are "A perfectionist OCD person".

Some wield it at a weapon. Some use it as an excuse. Some start with the assumption that it can be harness into something good. And some beat them self up over it uses it to degrade them self.

I think its most helpful to view it as a "know thy self" data point, and not make it someone else problem, but use it as information as to what is ones own challenges that must be kept in check. And if one is relay good, use it for something productive.
by MisterTea | 2026-02-14 15:00:14+00:00
What does 'tacit' mean in the context of "A tacit array programming language"? What is being implied?

I'd also like someone to point me to a more beginner friendly primer on the benefits of an array based programming language. I can think of a few areas like bitmaps/graphics and audio. But what about more general purpose logic? This looks good for handling chunks of data but what about boring logic, e.g. GUI programs?

> Combining these already terse systems results in code with a very high information density and little syntactic noise.

I like the idea of glyphs but it does not seem to mix well with the above use of the word tacit as these symbols imply nothing until you learn their meaning. IMO replacing the symbols with words feels more implied as one could easily read the code without needing a mental map of symbols. Kinda how Ada programs read as a contract of what it will explicitly do.

However, there is a good argument to be made for glyphs: they eliminate the human language barrier making them more applicable and perhaps adaptable to non-English speaking programmers.

I also wonder if you use glyph based languages as a human language agnostic syntax. You could map language to the symbols using implicit words per symbol and instantly translate code between languages. This way a Japanese programmer can see the meaning of the symbol in their native language IDE, save it, then a Farsi speaking programmer could open it and see the symbols in Farsi. Comments would be a challenge but translation of some form can be used.
by pimeys | 2026-02-14 15:00:50+00:00
We recently watched all the 80's and 90's Star Trek for the first time. So it's really interesting to compare the serious from the modern perspective.

TNG is a classic, with the classic crew and after the first hiccups is some of the best scifi of all time. Absolutely great actors and amazing writing.

DS9 is the weird one. I do really enjoy the trajectory of many of its characters: Sisko, Odo, Bashir, Dax (one of my favorite characters in all ST), O'Brien, Quark, Kira, Worf, Dukat, Garak, Damar... The list of great characters in DS9 is the best part of this series. The last season was a definite letdown for me though, and I didn't like the ending at all.

Voyager was the surprising one. I expected a lesser series after reading the old discussion about the three Treks of the 90's. But wow. It's banger episodes right from the start, one of the most badass captains in all of Trek and in the fourth season arrives my favorite scifi character: Seven of Nine. There's a lot of great episodes here, and some filler. I didn't like how some characters never went anywhere. But there is more good here than mediocre. As a series I like it more than DS9, I just wished the other characters were up to the writing of Janeway, Seven and Doctor.
by dominikw999 | 2026-02-14 15:01:44+00:00
Finding a public dataset that exactly matches seasoned sales responses to specific customer questions or objections is actually pretty tough. Most published datasets around this space either focus on customer support interactions, which tend to be more about information and less about persuasion, or generic negotiation dialogs that miss product context. The closest proxies I’ve seen are business call transcript datasets or collections like MultiWOZ (for dialog) and the DailyDialog dataset, but these still fall short on reflecting authentic sales intent. Occasionally, larger companies will release anonymized sales call transcript snippets, but these are pretty rare and almost never include rich metadata like persona, product stage, or outcome. Sometimes people in the AI space use synthetic data to fill this gap, where sales scenarios are written from sample scripts. If you have some flexibility with quality, you might consider scraping or requesting anonymized snippets from sales enablement forums or podcasts featuring live calls.

By the way, if you are experimenting with automating or researching sales conversations, I’m running an early user waiting list for https://salespire.io/. The platform leverages AI agents to synthesize real customer sales interactions, including real world objections and responses, and might save you some data wrangling work. Always happy to connect with folks tinkering in this area especially at such an early stage.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-14 15:02:36+00:00
On average, TNG has better episodes, but it doesn't come close to the multi-season story arc of Babylon 5 and I think the character arcs of Londo and G'Kar are possibly the best of any drama that I've seen.

Also, Babylon 5 later seasons are directly relevant to modern political developments and fascism.
by piva00 | 2026-02-14 15:03:04+00:00
> About Us

> ... Accordingly, the mission of HonestReporting is to ensure truth, integrity and fairness, and to combat ideological prejudice in journalism and the media, as it impacts Israel.

The name seems to be a red herring, their mission statement is to protect Israel.

> According to a 2025 report by fact-checking site Misbar, many members of HonestReporting's staff have links to the Israeli government and military, and several previously worked in pro-Israel advocacy or served in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).[4]

> In December 2024, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar held a meeting with prominent figures from hasbara organizations, among them HonestReporting, announcing $150 million in funding to support their global outreach efforts.[21][4][22]

Clues that it is a pro-Israel mouthpiece. So Al-Jazeera vs HonestReporting cancels out?

Also from Wikipedia:

> In November 2023, HonestReporting published an article questioning whether Palestinian photojournalists had tipped off the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times and CNN prior to the October 7 attacks. The report led two Israeli politicians to threaten that these journalists be killed,[34] while the Israeli Prime Minister's office said the journalists were "accomplices in crimes against humanity".[35]

> On November 10, 2023, HonestReporting's director said he accepted that the media groups had no advance knowledge of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.[1]
by owisd | 2026-02-14 15:03:06+00:00
>> HN commenters are not legislators
> That doesn’t mean we’re not allowed to have a discussion about it.

To steel man, there's a commenting pattern where if someone doesn't like a high-level idea they demand answers to a dozen specifics that, if it were a legitimate proposal going through a legislature, could take hundreds of people months or years of committees, reports & consultations to decide on all the answers to, but if someone can't come up with an answer on the spot in HN then that's taken as proof that the idea is unworkable.
by strawhatguy | 2026-02-14 15:03:37+00:00
Okay. If you’re being vague, you get vague results.

Golang and Claude have worked well for me, on existing production codebases, because I tell it precisely what I want and it does it.

I’ve never found generic “find performance issues” just by reading the code helpful.

Write specifications, give it freedom to implement, and it can surprise you.

Hell once it thought of how to backfill existing data with the change I was making, completely unasked. And I’m like that’s awesome
by ghaff | 2026-02-14 15:03:51+00:00
The em-dash meme, if it's actually a thing, I find really annoying. That's the style in a lot of places and for a lot of people with or without spaces on either side. It was house style a a few different places I worked over about 25 years. More broadly, I assume LLMs are training on how a lot of people actually write. I'm not changing my writing style because some people will flag it as LLM-generated <shrug>.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-14 15:04:20+00:00
> ...in the cloud especially, saving server resources can make a significant impact on the bottom line. There are not nearly enough performance engineers who understand how to take inefficient systems and make improvements to move towards theoretical maximum efficiency.

That's a very good point, actually. However...

> with fewer footguns

..the Crab People[0] would definitely quibble with that particular claim of yours.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_People of course.
by aed | 2026-02-14 15:04:57+00:00
This is great and I’d love to hear more about what worked / what didn’t / how you achieved these results.

A couple of months ago I worked with my 9 year old to have Claude build a little game with threejs. We’ve now got three levels with characters shooting silly string and banana guns. It was really fun to see him imagine something, have it show up on the screen, and iterate it.

Anyway, I tried building an LLM-backed workflow that could guide kids through the game creation process and kids can see their idea come to like (think: “sparkly purple unicorn shoots stars at a dragon”). I couldn’t _quite_ get it to work like I wanted so I shelved it pending future ideas/improved models.
by bbarn | 2026-02-14 15:05:51+00:00
I still use it on iOS, and I've tried to remove all other keyboards, but Apple still just seems to "make up" keyboards I don't know are installed. Or switch keyboards on me mid-typing a word to a weird native one I also don't show as installed. It used to be very occasionally this would happen but now it's so repeatable since 26 I can almost not use my keyboard.

One caveat, I have an Icelandic keyboard installed on there. Sometimes web controls will force an input box to a US english keyboard (or numpad), which is annoying but at least that's sort of covered by a spec. What really drives me nuts is when I'm mid typing on the swype keyboard and suddely it switches to a completely square grid keyboard with up and down quotes in the autocomplete (which is not actually autocompleting or correcting(which while technically correct has almost completely fallen out of popularity since the dawn of the internet)
by kibwen | 2026-02-14 15:06:00+00:00
> The resulting constraint is roughly similar to that of never ever breaking ABI in C++.

No, not even remotely. ABI-stability in C++ means that C++ is stuck with suboptimal implementations of stdlib functions, whereas Rust only stabilizes the exposed interface without stabilizing implementation details.

> Unfortunately editions don't allow breaking changes in the standard library

Surprisingly, this isn't true in practice either. The only thing that Rust needs to guarantee here is that once a specific symbol is exported from the stdlib, that symbol needs to be exported forever. But this still gives an immense amount of flexibility. For example, a new edition could "remove" a deprecated function by completely disallowing any use of a given symbol, while still allowing code on an older edition to access that symbol. Likewise, it's possible to "swap out" a deprecated item for a new item by atomically moving the deprecated item to a new namespace and making the existing item an alias to that new location, then in the new edition you can change the alias to point to the new item instead while leaving the old item accessible (people are exploring this possibility for making non-poisoning mutexes the default in the next edition).
by macNchz | 2026-02-14 15:06:46+00:00
Absolutely agreed—seeing this post continue to circulate across all forms of media with seemingly zero critical thinking or evaluation of its author’s credibility reminds me of the Zoolander “I feel I’m taking crazy pills” meme.

I remembered this guy from his “Reflection 70b” scam in 2024. That should have basically put his credibility at zero, but clearly it has not.

I found this interaction in the HN comments from the time of that minor scandal to be prescient:

>> It's amazing what people will do for clout. His whole reputation is ruined. What was Schumer's endgame?

> But does reputation work? Will people google "Matt Shumer scam", "HyperWrite scam", "OthersideAI scam", "Sahil Chaudhary scam", "Glaive AI scam" before using their products? He wasted everyone's time, but what's the downside for him? Lots of influencers did fraud, and they do just fine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41485180
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-14 15:07:34+00:00
They are actors, young people paid to display exaggerated emotion while living in a world that values youth and appearance over everything. Then we ask them to constantly adopt new characters and shower them with on-again off-again false praise based on whether or not they are working on a given day. Frankly, i am impressed that any of them manage to walk away without profound mental health issues.
by troupo | 2026-02-14 15:07:51+00:00
More on disk read speed: https://planetscale.com/blog/io-devices-and-latency

--- start quote ---

A typical random read [on a HDD] can be performed in 1-3 milliseconds.

A random read on an SSD varies by model, but can execute as fast as 16μs (μs = microsecond, which is one millionth of a second).

--- end quote ---

If you drop frames in a TUI on a HDD/SDD read for a font file (10-20 KB), you're likely completely incompetent.
by zelda420 | 2026-02-14 15:08:12+00:00
> If you were laid off, chances are you weren't valuable enough. Pure layoffs happen. But from my experience useful employees almost never get let go.

I completely disagree, I’ve been on teams where the best players were let go because organizational changes.

As a matter of fact, I’m currently on a team where one of our best performing, well loved, cross team contributors was let go during Christmas for what I can only classify as politics. It was a company wide RiF and our manager protested, but he was in the target region. I honestly would have put myself or others on the chopping block first, as I don’t contribute half as much and get pad substantially more.