MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by refulgentis | 2026-02-19 00:34:13+00:00
For their sake, I hope not. I don't think an outside-donation-financed project with this much ADD can survive in the long term.

It's frustrating to discuss. It is a wonderful case study in how not to make engineering management decisions, and yet, they've occurred over enough time, and the cause is appealing enough, that it's hard to talk about out loud in toto without sounding like a dismissive jerk.
by coldtea | 2026-02-19 00:34:19+00:00
>The only thing my X230 struggles to do is run LLMs locally. My needs are simple, and I think normal people (i.e. probably not most people on this site) don't have needs that are any more demanding than mine.

People who edit video or make music and other such tasks are totally normal too, and there are hundreds of millions of them
by simon666 | 2026-02-19 00:34:29+00:00
One strategy that I've found useful for changing my behavior: changing browsers settings to not recommend sites or fill in urls from any source be it history, favorites/bookmarks, search etc. By not having the url auto fill it makes me type urls in manually from memory and this usually involves enough purposeful cognitive effort that I can stop any automatic visiting to sites. I've also uninstalled the browser from my phone (disabled built in browser on lineage and uninstalled firefox). If there is a rare time I really, really need a browser I'll download and install it for a specific task and uninstall it right after.
by xracy | 2026-02-19 00:34:49+00:00
My read of this account is that they're deeply conservative, and like to take every example of a terrible thing the current administration is doing as an opportunity to "both sides" it in order to attempt to normalize how bad the current administration is.

They have never condemned the current administration for doing this without also "whatabouting" the Obama administration.

So to answer your question, they will say they're doing the "liberal hypocrites" song and dance, but in reality they're working towards a case that "Actually concentration camps aren't that bad, because 'both sides' do them."

In practice most people actually on the left can recognize that the Obama administration (and the Bush, Clinton and Biden administrations) were deeply flawed, but they are still lightyears better than the Concentration camps of the current administration which are detaining children and separating them from their families based on which side of a line they fall on, on a map (or more likely, the color of their skin).

It's funny because Rick's examples always what-about the Obama administration which makes it likely a dog-whistle.

Rick, if you want to beat the allegations, please condemn the current administration for their actions if you think they're wrong. We already know what you think about Obama, so you can just call out the current administration without mentioning other administrations.
by indiekitai | 2026-02-19 00:34:51+00:00
In PostgreSQL land, uuid_generate_v7() (timestamp-ordered) is becoming the default choice for new projects. The sortability is a game-changer for B-tree index performance — you get chronological ordering essentially for free.

The practical benefit: your primary keys now tell you roughly when a record was created, your indexes stay cache-friendly because new inserts cluster together, and you can do range queries on creation time without an extra column.
by indiekitai | 2026-02-19 00:35:25+00:00
As someone who uses Claude Code daily for indie projects, the "cognitive debt" framing resonates. But I'd push back slightly: for me it's not debt, it's delegation.

The key shift was realizing I'm not "writing code with AI help" — I'm directing an agent that writes code. Different mental model, different skills required. The writing I do now is more like technical specifications: precise, unambiguous, structured.

The "space around AI" mentioned in the article is exactly right. The value is in knowing what to build, why, and how to verify it works. The typing part was never the bottleneck.
by miffy900 | 2026-02-19 00:38:24+00:00
I recall the source code for Windows XP was leaked some years ago; not just isolated parts of the code base, like with the earlier Windows NT4/2000 source code leak, but a completely buildable repository.

If I write an article on training an LLM on the leaked Windows XP source code, blithely mark the source code repo as in 'the public domain', but used Azure resources for the how-to steps, would that would make it OK Microsoft? You know, your Azure division might get some money...

Seriously, this is just so...blatant. It's like we've all collectively decided that copyright just doesn't matter anymore. Just readin this article, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
by skipkey | 2026-02-19 00:38:31+00:00
Eh, not really? If it's a legit company who provides services to various governments, they're going to pay you, they're going to report the income to the government, you'll get a 1099 for contract/consulting, and you'll pay your taxes on the legit income. No red flags. Assuming they're legit and not currently sanctioned by the US government that is.
I made $15K/month at 13. Built a YC startup at 20. Still looking for my person
by HNMaxHN | 2026-02-19 00:38:45+00:00
When I was 13, I created a fully modded Minecraft server doing over $10K a month..
Not birthday money, actual revenue, actual operations, actual problems to solve every day. I built the whole best French MC server alone because I was completely obsessed. It was a fcking amazing experience

At 20, I co-founded a startup, we had 40 employees, and we went through Y Combinator. It was real scale, real chaos, and it taught me a lot in two years..

Around 23, I started another one. Different industry, different vibe, but genuinely one of the best adventures I’ve had. The thing is, in parallel I never stopped freelancing.
I’m French, I like my freedom, and high-ticket freelance kept me financially untouchable while I was building a startup. That balance kept me sane.
That’s basically been my life since I was a kid. Build things, fund it myself, answer to no one.
Here’s what I’ve realized though: I can build almost anything… But I’ve always done it alone, not because I’m some lone wolf type, but because I’m wired in a way that makes it hard to find the right person, but because I scan people before I trust them, I move fast and I genuinely can’t stand people who talk more than they ship..
I’m looking for someone crazy enough to build things with me.
Not someone like me, but more someone who has a scar I don’t have yet, someone who sees what I miss, someone who reads this and just gets it, not because you’ve had the same path, but because you recognize the way of thinking..

I’m based in the south of France, and it doesn’t matter where you are.
If that’s you, please reach out :)
by DSMan195276 | 2026-02-19 00:38:57+00:00
> unless there is some reasonable person standard applied here like 'everyone knows Harry Potter, and thus they should know it is obviously not CC0'

Yes there's an expectation that you put in some minimum amount of effort. The license issue here is not subtle, the Kaggle page says they just downloaded the eBooks and converted them to txt. The author is clearly familiar enough with HP to know that it's not old enough to be public domain, and the Kaggle page makes it pretty clear that they didn't get some kind of special permission.

If you want to get more specific on the legal side then copyright infringement does not require that you _knew_ you were infringing on the copyright, it's still infringement either way and you can be made to pay damages. It's entirely on you to verify the license.
by bunderbunder | 2026-02-19 00:39:02+00:00
And, hear me out here - perhaps for the sake of morale it makes sense to leave a smidge of the part of the job that actually attracts people to this profession in the first place on their plates. Otherwise we may find that, after the novelty wears off, we’re left with a net productivity dropoff because there’s not as much left to keep people motivated to do à good job of the remaining work.
by xracy | 2026-02-19 00:39:08+00:00
This is the account's M.O. You can see my response above, but basically as far as I can tell they're deeply conservative, and they try and position themselves as a like "rational centrist" by doing this "both sides" Dance.

The giveaway that you've noticed, is they never actually condemn the existing administration without also comparing them to Obama (and for reasons beyond me, specifically Obama and not say, Biden, Bush 1/2, Clinton).

Here he is 36 days ago doing the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=RickJWagner&next=466...
by cosmicgadget | 2026-02-19 00:39:30+00:00
Yeah I have indexed a lot of em. I'm specifically talking about the ones that try to resemble the archetypal personal geocities site with tiled backgrounds, gifs, and whatnot. I've found that these predominantly were created as part of a web fad and were quickly abandoned.

I am all for handcoded html, SSGs, and minimal-to-no js.
by saghm | 2026-02-19 00:40:42+00:00
And yet in practice, it's been less than a week since a major CVE in Chromium due to memory unsafety: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel...

Having a checklist of "things not to do" is historically a pretty in effectiveway to ensure memory safety, which is why the parent comment was asking for details. The fact that this type of thing gets dismissed as a non-issue is honestly a huge part of the problem in my opinion; it's time to move on from pretending this is a skill issue.
Show HN: What We See. An AI generated art exhibition
by sarreph | 2026-02-19 00:41:42+00:00
Hey HN

I'm sharing an online AI art exhibition I made over the course of a few days. I'm currently interested in the ways in which AI + agents will be perceived as more and more humanlike as their involvement in our everyday lives increases. One such area where I think AI will start to make a real impact is in art.

I challenged myself (as a proud programmer and craftsperson) to use _only_ Codex's UI to create a 10-piece "exhibition" that was created entirely from prompts with zero human intervention.

I'm keen to hear people's opinions about how they think fully AI-generated art might take shape in our society, and what the utility is for humans and agents alike.

Thanks!
by bubblewand | 2026-02-19 00:41:59+00:00
Now that is an interesting dimension (ha, ha) of this I hadn't yet appreciated. I'm used, as a dude of fortunately-normalish proportions and skinny-enough (but not actually skinny) size, to only looking at a single measurement for rise (crotch to waist, measured on the front of the garment) and getting a really good idea of what I'll be dealing with, just from that. From your description I think I've understood the issue you're highlighting, and yeah, that'd be an annoying extra factor to deal with (and I'm sure it's really hard to get two rise measurements out of anybody, just about ever).

You've got me thinking back to a particular brand and style of (not at all fancy) jeans my wife used to love, that they discontinued, and she's never quite found another that works for her as well. From how she described it, in hindsight, I bet this measurement is the key thing she's not managing to nail on her attempts to find a replacement. Wish she still had a pair, I'd go measure front- and back-rise on them so we'd know what to look for!
by simonw | 2026-02-19 00:42:13+00:00
My problem with Ed is that he's established a very firm position that LLMs are mostly useless and the business is a big scam, which makes it difficult to evaluate his reporting.

He often gathers good information but his analysis of that information appears to be heavily influenced by the conclusions he's already trying to reach.

I do pay attention to him but I'd like to see similar conclusions from other analysts against the same data before I treat them as robust.

I don't personally have the knowledge or experience of company finance to be able to confidently evaluate his findings myself!
by rbtprograms | 2026-02-19 00:42:21+00:00
its interesting how much this comment feels like its AI written.

if it isn't, then it has seeped into your writing style and its quite a turn off as a reader; i dont care much to engage.

if it is, then why should i read it? what come to this website and even bother reading AI bot comments?

what is happening to writing indeed.
by PantaloonFlames | 2026-02-19 00:42:33+00:00
Yes and if you have o(1000) prs or issues in a single day, I guess you have a different scale of problem and will need to automate triage and management, probably through an ai-powered tool.

Even if it is 0.01% per day it’s still a very high volume. At that point it’s not a hobby. Millions of users maybe would point toward a more formal management and governance approach.

See Gemini-cli for example. Or a bunch of Microsoft projects. They use ai to triage and respond to tickets. (And they pocket veto many of them)
by altairprime | 2026-02-19 00:42:55+00:00
Some argue that it’s instead because we’ve promoted food strains that have more sugars and less nutrients, and I’m still studying that, so I have no data to offer about it yet. Brussels sprouts is a good example of doing this in a way that doesn’t damage the nutritional value, but the general U.S. avoidance of anything pungent or bitter is reflected in having bred out all of the ‘unattractive’ nutrients from our food strains. A good litmus test for this is to check for dandelion greens on the shelves; if present, the market likely sells a broad spectrum of produce that isn’t simply designed to be a sugar bomb; if absent, I’d be shocked if you found anything nutrient-dense at all.
by deterministic | 2026-02-19 00:43:28+00:00
I am 99.9999% sure my programming job will look pretty much the same two years from now.

I use AI daily, and it definitely helps me being (say) 10% more productive. However there is zero way an AI can do my job. And it looks as if LLM's have hit the limit of what is possible with the current AI architectures. So unless there is a revolutionary new architecture happening the next two years (unlikely) I don't see much change.

Also, using customer code generators makes me way more productive than using AI's. I simply declare what I want at a high level and the code generator in seconds spits out C++/Typescript/SQL/XML/JSON/CMake/Tests/... to do it. About 90% to 95% of the code I need is generated doing this. Way more efficient than using an AI.
by GregorStocks | 2026-02-19 00:43:43+00:00
Down the road I can definitely imagine being interested in that (basically split out the "web-based replay viewer" part from the "LLM harness that I want to debug with a replay viewer" part, and then ingest non-LLM games into the viewer), but for now they're super entangled and I'm not prioritizing separating them cleanly. I'll definitely keep this offer in mind for the future, thanks!
by refulgentis | 2026-02-19 00:44:27+00:00
> Everything Chris Lattner has done has been a "successful mess".

I don't have an emotional reaction to this, i.e. I don't think you're being mean, but it is wrong and reductive, which people usually will concisely, and perhaps reductively, describe as "mean".

Why is it wrong?

LLVM is great.

Chris Lattner left Apple a *decade* ago, & thus has ~0 impact or responsibility on Swift interop with C++ today.

Swift is a fun language to write, hence, why they shoehorned it in, in the first place.

Mojo is fine, but I wouldn't really know how you or I would judge it. For me, I'm not super-opinionated on Python, and it doesn't diverge heavily from it afaik.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-19 00:46:14+00:00
“We fixed the glitch.”

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12742762/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003193842...

https://time.com/7340807/history-debate-insurance-glp-1s/

https://recursiveadaptation.com/p/the-growing-scientific-cas...
by 201984 | 2026-02-19 00:48:41+00:00
>You have given the latencies of the instructions, not their throughput. When you use AES in such a way that you are limited by latency, that is normally wrong.

I did that because TFA is talking about encrypting 32 bit IDs, which is 1/4th of an AES block. There aren't multiple blocks to do at once in this scenario, and throughput numbers do not apply because each instruction depends on the result of the one before.

You mention doing multiple IDs at once, but the overhead of pulling multiple IDs into a single batch from something akin to URLs in web requests is likely gonna be worse than any gains.

>Instead of this, you should use as identifier an unpredictable random number. Such identifiers can be generated with AES in batches, at maximum throughput, and stored until they are needed for assignment to a record.

Now you lose the ability to sort the records in a database, and I fail to see what AES gives you here over any other random number generator.
by mtneglZ | 2026-02-19 00:48:45+00:00
I have worked with automation robots for over 15 years in manufacturing. Robust robots have only one degree of freedom, robust robots aren't very useful. Useful robots have two or three degrees of freedom, useful robots breakdown all the time from use and need a pit crew to repair them. I'm sure the use of robotic automation is about to explode, but robotics are limited.
by gh2k | 2026-02-19 00:48:51+00:00
uno.uk have a policy of not censoring things unless they absolutely have to. they're supporters of the Open Rights Group, and they're the only residential isp I've found that give me a /29 ipv4 block on the standard order form.

they're a small outfit, been with them for years and on first name terms with the main support guy. great for the kind of nerds who prefer you to skip the flow chart if you and then the logs from your router and hint that you know what you're doing.

not affiliated, just satisfied.
by iLemming | 2026-02-19 00:50:19+00:00
> Swift never felt truly open source either.

Apple has been always 'transactional' when it comes to OSS - they open source things only when it serves a strategic purpose. They open-sourced Swift only because they needed the community to build an ecosystem around their platform.

Yeah, well, sure they've done some work around LLVM/Clang, WebKit, CUPS, but it's really not proportional to the size and the influence they still have.

Compare them to Google, with - TensorFlow, k8s, Android (nominally), Golang, Chrome, and a long tail of other shit. Or Meta - PyTorch and the Llama model series. Or even Microsoft, which has dramatically reversed course from its "open source is a cancer" era (yeah, they were openly saying that, can you believe it?) to becoming one of the largest contributors on GitHub.

Apple I've heard even have harshest restrictions about it - some teams are just not permitted to contribute to OSS in any way. Obsessively secretive and for what price? No wonder that Apple's software products are just horrendously bad, if not all the time - well, too often. And on their own hardware too.

I wouldn't mind if Swift dies, I'm glad Objective-C is no longer relevant. In fact, I can't wait for Swift to die sooner.
Ask HN: Do you build your own X?
by henryhale | 2026-02-19 00:50:24+00:00
I have developed software for many years now and this hit me today...let me use web development as an example:

When starting out, developing a todo list app is so interesting. After doing it, there comes an expense tracker, digital clock, quotes generator app, invoice generator...the craft & understanding becomes clearer from time to time.

Fast forward to a time where building a React+Vite+Tailwind+Redux is so easy. Then going fullstack with Next.js+Express.js+MySQL/MongoDB and beyond.

In my experience, there has come a time(on many counts) when i just look at the app, 1-2 clicks and figure out how it works. Dashing to the devtools>source & network tabs to verify my instincts...90% right all the time. Another thing is suddenly realizing that I could use X with Y to help users do A, B and C.

QUESTION:
Do you build or try to develop those app ideas? Throttle or ignore them? Validate the idea but never publish the result? Build for fun? Do you move on since you have already figured it out? What do you do in this case? Do you build your own X?

Personally, I have failed to resist trying. Seeing it work out gives me joy.
by tzs | 2026-02-19 00:51:44+00:00
> My impression is that almost no one denies the warming itself, just the link to greenhouse gasses. That link is unfortunately much harder to prove than rising temperatures by itself.

The link to greenhouse gases is not hard to prove. We've got satellites that can measure global radiation inflow and outflow and see what the difference is. We can also measure this at various levels within the atmosphere, and at the surface of the land and oceans. We can see where outgoing radiation is getting caught and we can see what frequency bands of outgoing radiation is getting caught.

We know the frequency bands that get reflected, absorbed, or pass through for all the gases in the atmosphere and can see that the gases causing the problem are the greenhouse gases.

We can also see that the increase in greenhouse gases is mostly from burning fossil fuels. We can see this by looking at the isotope ratios in the C in greenhouse gases.

Cosmic ray bombardment in the upper atmosphere produces carbon 14, which is radioactive with a half live of 5730 years. It disperses throughout the atmosphere and becomes part of anything that regularly incorporates atmospheric carbon or exchanges its carbon with atmospheric carbon, including all living things.

Everything humans do in significant amounts that puts greenhouse gases in the atmosphere other than burning fossil fuels has carbon with about the same isotope ratio as that of the carbon in living things. Even when we burn a dead forest to clear it out the isotope ratio is close to that of living things, because of that 5730 year half life for carbon 14.

It is only when we burn fossil fuels that we put carbon into the atmosphere with almost no carbon 14. They came from living things but have been dead long enough for hundreds of half lives to pass.

The isotope ratios in the excess greenhouse gases show that it is mostly carbon 14 free. There are natural processes that can dump carbon 14 free carbon into the atmosphere such as volcanoes and other geological processes. However, (1) the increases in carbon 14 free greenhouse gases matches very closely with the amount of carbon we've been emitting from fossil fuels, and (2) and monitoring of volcanoes and other natural sources doesn't find nearly enough to account for more than a small amount of the increase.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-19 00:52:58+00:00
> It's awfully convenient ...

Not at all. It's simply setting realistic expectations based on past performance. People aren't required to be suckers in order to uphold some perceived ideal.

The reality we live in is rife with regulatory capture, lobbying, religious zealots, power hungry authoritarians, and moral panics (among many other things).
by slashdev | 2026-02-19 00:53:00+00:00
It also works for people willing to take time off (PTO or otherwise). We do lose some people who aren't willing to do the trial, but that's considered acceptable. People who do the work trial and accept an offer are much more likely to stick around (much lower rate of mistakes on their part and our part.)

I'm laughing a bit at Germany, but Europe in general has lost the plot when it comes to innovation.