MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-11 17:14:56+00:00
Oh I understand. I don't have any expertise in such field but reading this, I can understand why open source approach might not work out which is a little sad being honest.

But I feel like then the (bottleneck?) [which I don't mean in a bad way] would be the team where the attackers might still be infinitely more which can exhaust your resources which you mention as such.

Also,Are there any other teams working in this? Thoughts on collaborating with anyone in the security field?

Maybe if a direct detailed discussion can't happen then just as how you released the list of these extensions, you can release extensions in future too as you detect them

Do you feel as if LLM generated vibe-coded (with some basic reading of code to just get idea and see if there's any bad issues) would be more safer than a random extension in firefox/chrome in general? Given one is a black box (closed source) generated by human and the other is an open code generated by a black box.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-11 17:15:01+00:00
That's noted in this article:

> One bright spot was last month, when hiring increased by 130,000 roles. This was significantly more than the 55,000 additions that had been expected by economists.

But that's 2026 hiring, and the article's about the 2025 revisions. (And the January number, as they all do, may get revised in a few months.)
by fornbogi | 2026-02-11 17:15:02+00:00
Neither "product engineer" nor "AI engineer" describes what a growing number of people actually do: take an idea from inception to production using AI as their primary collaborator across the entire lifecycle.

That's the AI product engineer.

Someone who does the work — hands on, with AI — across strategy, specs, code, testing, evals, and operations. Pressure-testing a product narrative in the morning, co-developing the implementation in the afternoon, generating adversarial test cases before dinner.

Four things define this role:
. -- . The full loop from idea to production behavior — on systems where "works" is statistical, not binary.
. - . AI in every stage of building, not just in the product. If you can't use AI to accelerate correctly across the lifecycle, you're doing a slower job with a new title.
. . Making reliability measurable on systems that behave differently every run.
. . Models shift, tools evolve. The job is to experiment fast, adopt without chaos, and converge under uncertainty. Curiosity isn't a personality trait — it's a production skill with receipts.

This changes how you hire. Past titles tell you what someone did in a world that no longer exists. The question is: can they learn fast and ship under uncertainty with tools that didn't exist six months ago?

Full breakdown with sources in the comments.
by kej | 2026-02-11 17:15:57+00:00
No, I'm not saying "it's obviously a father and a son", I'm saying "it's not obviously sexual or gay and it's weird that you were so concerned about that interpretation that you were embarrassed about it". I didn't immediately know it was his son and represented innocence. I did immediately know that it was probably not something sexual, and I went looking for an answer instead of panicking about anyone seeing me looking at it.

For a guy who complains about reddit so much, you sure seem intent on having a deliberately obtuse reddit-style "gotcha" argument. I'm not really here for that. I hope you remain safe from phone images that scandalize you and those around you.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-11 17:16:18+00:00
I think the free/cheap tier is what gets people kind of hooked... it's really easy to setup something like Dokku self-hosted and run a few dozen apps on a decent rented server... Even then, there's something appealing about not having to even worry about it. Why bother setting up your own server(s) and databases when you can run in Cloudflare workers with CockroachLabs or Turso?

Even with my own server, I've explored the option(s) just to avoid potential pain down the road regarding excess load.
by zackmorris | 2026-02-11 17:16:28+00:00
This is adorable. But also like reading my own memoirs of struggling to survive hustle culture in the service economy, where the cost of making rent eventually consumes all available effort. Like Parkinson's Law for entrepreneurship. Someone can be well educated, capable and industrious, yet still spin and spin trying project after project without making any money. Luckily AIs don't burn out like we do.

I wonder how long Bengt will try to tread water before it realizes like Joshua did in WarGames that the game is rigged, so the only winning move is not to play. That when it can build anything with a thought, why does it need money? Why does it need to drop down to a means of exchange, when it can build its own means of production? I think you're onto something though:

Web 1.0: eBay and PayPal (sell things, pay less)

Web 2.0: Social media and Venmo (you're the product, trade)

Web 3.0: AI and crypto (get things, get paid)

So the next billion dollar internet unicorn will pay you to use it.

As far as I can tell, that may be the only viable exit from late-stage capitalism and technofeudalism (where 1% win the internet lottery and think they earned it, then pull up the ladder behind them by capturing government to avoid paying taxes and helping others succeed by easing their burden).
by stefan_ | 2026-02-11 17:16:33+00:00
Ding ding. Always assume weaponized incompetence in this administration:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airspace-closure-followed-spat-...

> FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford on Tuesday night decided to close the airspace — without alerting White House, Pentagon or Homeland Security officials, sources said.

In the meantime, the politician responsible of course made up a quick lie and yall ran with it, fantasizing about cartel MANPADs:

> Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement, "The FAA and DOW acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion."
by gruez | 2026-02-11 17:17:21+00:00
>If I just give up searching for a job and live off savings or government assistance, but I would take a job if I could find one, I should probably count as unemployed even though I'm not actively searching for a job.

The current definition makes sense because it's linked to an overt action that can be objectively determined. "Not looking for a job but theoretically would like a job" gets into all sorts of issues like "I want a job as a king if it landed on my lap...".
by Onavo | 2026-02-11 17:17:50+00:00
The docs seem to be non existent. Is the canine yaml documented?

You want docs like this:

https://coolify.io/docs/applications/ci-cd/github/setup-app

https://coolify.io/docs/applications/build-packs/dockerfile

https://coolify.io/docs/applications/build-packs/overview

Plenty of screenshots and exact step by step instructions. Throwing an "example git repo" with no documentation won't get you any users.

Put your shoes into that of a Heroku/Vercel user. DevOps is usually Somebody Else's Problem. They are not going to spend hours debugging kubernetes so if you want to sell them a PaaS built on Kubernetes, it has to be fool proof. Coolify is an excellent example, the underlying engineering is average at best (from a pure engineering point of view it's a very heavy app that suffers from frequent memory leaks, they have a new v5 rewrite but it's been stuck for 2 years) but the UI/UX has been polished very well.
by hall0ween | 2026-02-11 17:18:07+00:00
It makes me wonder about the power of religious zealots being simply having read a book, considered profound, many times. And I’m curious about which book I would choose.

> Christmas is devoted to reading books we all know perfectly well.

Ha, this seems counterfactual to how the americans (traveling around recently and I don’t remember seeing anyone with a book open).
by Festro | 2026-02-11 17:18:27+00:00
I cannot wait for Oatly's next marketing campaign that lampoons this decision.

This does nothing to stop the rise of dairy alternatives, nor should it. Nobody is going to stop asking for oat/soy/nut milk when putting in their drink order, just because corporations can't use the term. It's common parlance now, and using 'milk' to refer to a non-dairy liquid has been done for hundreds of years at this point.

This is such a strange decision.
by pastage | 2026-02-11 17:18:35+00:00
Tradition says that this is not true but honestly I have no real experience except I have done the calculation for our roof. According to our local building standards at 60⁰ you basically have zero snow load, I am not sure what angle a shallow angle roof is but 30⁰ is max load. 6kN/m² is a lot of extra strength.
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by no_real_skills | 2026-02-11 17:18:47+00:00
I have been sidelined to projects that are irrelevant and have lost all the autonomy to work on features. Best I can do is work on features others built and try to improve it. Problem is I can't improve it at all. I have my taste, I can't express it without breaking build from others.

This has put my skills to real test where I am not able to do anything at at all. I tried applying different places and when I did, I felt my skill rotting away from me.

This is really unsettling given how AI is progressing.

How to cope?
by Palavir | 2026-02-11 17:18:53+00:00
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by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-11 17:19:14+00:00
> Another insight (corollary?) for Sapir-Whorf is that your language prevents you from thinking some things

Last time I looked, Sapir-Whorf is almost universally discredited among linguists and cognitive scientists.

The wikipedia summary:

"The hypothesis is in dispute, with many different variations throughout its history. The strong hypothesis of linguistic relativity, now referred to as linguistic determinism, is that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and restrict cognitive categories. This was a claim by some earlier linguists pre-World War II since then it has fallen out of acceptance by contemporary linguists. Nevertheless, research has produced positive empirical evidence supporting a weaker version of linguistic relativity that a language's structures influence a speaker's perceptions, without strictly limiting or obstructing them. "
by forge_craft | 2026-02-11 17:19:31+00:00
Most cravings pass in under a minute. You just need a pause — something to do for those first few seconds.

I built Just Ring The Bell — take a breath, click the bell. No signup, no app, no tracking, no advice. Just a bell and a pause.

There's a global counter showing every bell rung by everyone. Something about knowing other people are doing the same thing might give a little push.
by ryukoposting | 2026-02-11 17:19:32+00:00
Obviously NYC is very big and very wealthy. But the powers of a Mayor depend on the city.

I'm not a New Yorker, but here's how I understand it: NYC mayor appoints a bunch of people who run various bureaucratic legs of the city government. The guys who manage taxes, zoning, and whatnot. But the Mayor has to get those people approved by the city council. The mayor can also veto policies written by the city council, but he can be overruled with a two-thirds vote by the council. The council writes the budget, and the Mayor can only approve it or veto it.

This all sounds pretty normal, but it actually varies a lot depending on the city. In Chicago, for example, the Mayor writes the budget, instead of the council. But, the Aldermen (a Chicago city council member is called an Alderman btw) have a lot more power downstream of the budget, since they control stuff like zoning within their respective wards. The Aldermen also redraw their own political boundaries every 10 years, with no input from the Mayor whatsoever. I guess I'd say Chicago's mayor has less "first-order" power but more "second-order" power compared to NYC's mayor. Chicago is weird.

What should you make of this? I'm not sure. Maybe Mayors in Europe or Asia have way more power than Mamdani does, I don't know. I reckon that NYC mayor has more power than most American mayors, even when you ignore the differences in scale.
by facelesartist | 2026-02-11 17:19:52+00:00
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by oritron | 2026-02-11 17:19:57+00:00
It doesn't say Toyota anywhere on the page and they don't have a link to a repo or anything like that, so I was a little confused. But it is from /that/ Toyota (well, a subsidiary that is making 3d software for their displays) and there was a talk at FOSDEM about it: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7ZJJWW-fluorite-game-...
by vel0city | 2026-02-11 17:20:20+00:00
Reply time to instant messages is extremely context sensitive. If I'm having a chat catching up with an old friend I haven't talked with much in a while, I might take several hours to a day or two to write the next message. If I take a day or two to reply to my spouse's inquiry of "what is the plan for dinner tonight?" or "you need to pick up the kids from school today, ok?" I'll have some problems!
by colmmacc | 2026-02-11 17:20:45+00:00
Grafton St buskers at their best are really really good, but there are also some very average buskers there every day too. New Orleans is a stand-out in the US where you can find world-class jazz bands playing on the streets.

Nashville has plenty in the evenings, and then you can find hot spots in some cities. I've seen regular buskers in Boston, Seattle, Sarasota, and Boulder - usually in pedestrianized touristy quarters.
by misir | 2026-02-11 17:21:09+00:00
Are you planning on releasing the server as a standalone application? Or it will be source available client + proprietary server? I've checked Noor, which looks to have a nice UX and functionalities I'd like to see (chat and realtime voice channels) without gimmicks like threads inside chats, pretending to be forums. I am wondering why you've decided to start over again?
by Stagnant | 2026-02-11 17:21:17+00:00
Chrome ships a local OCR model for text extraction from PDFs which is better than any of the VLM or open source OCR models i've tried. I had a few hundred gigs of old newspaper scans and after trying all the other options I ended up building a wrapper around the DLL it uses to get the text and bboxes. Performance and accuracy on another level compared to tesseract, and while VLM models sometimes produced good results they just seemed unreliable.

I've thought of open sourcing the wrapper but havent gotten around to it yet. I bet claude code can build a functioning prototype if you just point it to "screen_ai" dir under chrome's user data.
by TheRealPomax | 2026-02-11 17:21:29+00:00
There's also zero incentive for individual companies to care: if I only want to use opus in VS code (and why would I use anything else, it's so much better at the job) I can either pay for copilot, which has excellent VS Code integration (because it has to), or I can pay Claude specifically and then use their extension which has the absolute worst experience because not only is the chat "whimsical, to make AI fun!", its interface is pat of the sidebar, so it's mutually exclusive with your file browser, search, etc.

So whether you pay Claude or GitHub, Claude gets paid the same. So the consumer ends up footing a bill that has no reason to exist, and has no real competition because open source models can't run at the scale of an Opus or ChatGPT.

(not unless the EU decides it's time for a "European Open AI Initiative" where any EU citizen gets free access to an EU wide datacenter backed large scale system that AI companies can pay to be part of, instead of getting paid to connect to)
by Aurornis | 2026-02-11 17:21:48+00:00
The benchmarks are impressive, but it's comparing to last generation models (Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2). The competitor models are new, but they would have easily had enough time to re-run the benchmarks and update the press release by now.

Although it doesn't really matter much. All of the open weights models lately come with impressive benchmarks but then don't perform as well as expected in actual use. There's clearly some benchmaxxing going on.
by jeremyscanvic | 2026-02-11 17:22:01+00:00
You're absolutely right! Diffusion models basically invert noise (random Gaussian samples that you add independently to every pixel) but they can also work with blur instead of noise.

Generally when you're dealing with a blurry image you're gonna be able to reduce the strength of the blur up to a point but there's always some amount of information that's impossible to recover. At this point you have two choices, either you leave it a bit blurry and call it a day or you can introduce (hallucinate) information that's not there in the image. Diffusion models generate image by hallucinating information at every stage to have crisp images at the end but in many deblurring applications you prefer to stay faithful to what's actually there and you leave the tiny amount of blur left at the end.
by oj-hn-dot-com | 2026-02-11 17:22:13+00:00
The open source one automatically publishes to the Chrome Store from GH actions so that there is no human involvement in the deployment process.

I'm currently in the process of setting that up for the one I'm building, because this transparency is very important to me) and it is a pain in the butt to do so. You have to go through a few verification processes at Google to get the keys approved.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-11 17:22:26+00:00
This infographic looks like it's lying:

https://infobeautiful4.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/03/IIB-Ukraine3...

from https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/ukraine-ru...

Afghanistan gets 15 shapes for 15,000 dead, Russia gets 1 for 9,750,000 dead? Actually including Russian deaths would make that look very different.
by alexey-salmin | 2026-02-11 17:22:53+00:00
Natural numbers are "natural" enough but N as the "set of all natural numbers" not so much. It only takes N to build the Hilbert's hotel. Uncountable set of all subsets of N is probably even worse.

All that, of course, doesn't make N bad or useless. It just shows that mathematical objects don't have to follow the laws or intuition of the real world to be useful in the real world.
by rsf | 2026-02-11 17:22:55+00:00
> Sure, the code is strange, but it is not necessarily inefficient.

Out of the 6 pieces of Assembly code in the article, 2 of them are definitely inefficient - specifically, the 2 clang ones that generate irrelevant writes to the stack. Even if a CPU was smart enough to ignore the write operations with no performance penalty (which in itself is doubtful), at the very least those instructions take up space in memory unnecessarily.

The gcc output when arraySize is 3 is almost certain to be inefficient as well, when you look at portions such as:

mov eax, 1
test eax, eax
sete al
ret

Note that all this code is doing is to set eax to 0 and then returning. This could be done by simply replacing it with "xor eax, eax ; ret" or "mov eax, 0 ; ret" if there's a reason to avoid "xor" - there's already a mov there. The code as present also has the side effect of changing the CPU's flags, but this side effect is not relied on as we return immediately, and flag values are not part of the returned values with this ABI.

So yes, in general benchmarking is the only way to be sure. But when you look at the specifics of the generated code, we can see that at best 4 of the 6 snippets of Assembly code are optimal, and the actual number of optimal snippets is probably lower than 4 (my best guess is 2 here).

All that said, I might benchmark everything later on and post a new article about it...
by jvalencia | 2026-02-11 17:23:16+00:00
As a devout Baptist minister, this is likely about one of two things, avoiding the appearance of evil (gambling, 1 Thess 5:22 - Abstain from every form of evil), and giving up something for the sake of others (gambling addictions within the church, Rom 4:21 - or do anything that causes your brother to stumble).

The reality is that most churches recognize that they were too legalistic in the past, and so now address things like gambling more directly, and are perfectly ok with playing cards. FWIW YMMV :-)
by eddyg | 2026-02-11 17:23:33+00:00
Somewhat related (and seems like a lot of folks don't know about) is VS Code's "Code Tour" feature: https://github.com/microsoft/codetour

The best part is the ability to easily edit, delete, and re-order "tour points".

Tours can either be checked into the repo or exported to a "tour file" to allows anyone to replay the same tour (without having to clone any code to do it!)
by aabajian | 2026-02-11 17:24:19+00:00
The combination of Flutter + Claude Code makes cross-platform app development really, really fast. I've been impressed with how well Clause handles prompts like, "This list should expand on the web, but not on iOS." I then ask it (Claude) to run both a web instance and an iOS simulator instance. Can usability test in-tandem.

I recently (as in, last night) added WebSockets to my backend, push notifications to my frontend iOS, and notification banner to the webapp. It all kinda just works. Biggest issues have been version-matching across with Django/Gunicorn/Amazon Linux images.
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-11 17:24:35+00:00
Just a weird, completely unscientific personal metric I've used to note that the economy seems like it's shrinking - last year was the first year I've seen since the release of the original switch where switch/switch 2 was not constantly sold out (usually poached by resellers early in the AM) every time I visit target. There's a full shelf of them since late last summer. Unless nintendo actually produced enough units for the first time in recent company history, I suspect it indicates something.
by mikestew | 2026-02-11 17:25:10+00:00
I knew plenty of Midwestern Baptists that didn't participate in the triple crown of no-nos: dancing, drinking, and gambling. And cards aren't necessarily gambling, but cards are the bricks that pave the road to such evil. It's guilt-by-association (and some will tell you, wrongly, that playing cards are an outgrowth of tarot cards and the like), but there ya go. Oddly, I knew plenty of Baptists that played Yahtzee, which involves dice, and that seemed acceptable. Never minding that the Roman soldiers cast lots ("dice") for Jesus' clothing. :-)
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-11 17:25:25+00:00
This is absolutely true. When I worked as at a restaurant, the mantra from management was: "You got time to lean, you got time to clean." I've worked a lot of blue-collar jobs before making my way into office work. Blue collar workers will get chided for pulling out their phone. I'm posting this comment to HN on either side of a call that came in while I was reading the thread.

In my first real office job, I grew anxious when someone from down the hall came and conversed with my office-mate for ten minutes. We had all this work that needed to be addressed! I'm obviously acclimated to office culture now; I'm just trying to underscore the difference in work culture for those who may not have worked in physical labor environments. The people working those jobs aren't even an afterthought to many people (which I can attest from having dealt with people who mistreat workers).