MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cma256 | 2026-02-10 20:42:12+00:00
I can tell you precisely why foreign Toyotas (especially certain models) are more reliable that whats typically sold in the US. No electronics and parts which operate based on physics (pressure, gravity, etc). Both of these decisions lend themselves to a simple engine compartment and repairability.

In the US, you can buy a five-speed 4runner which is about the simplest engine available on the market. Has all the benefits enumerated above and its trivially repairable by DIYers. However, even the 4runner has annoying garbage which can fail.

Compare the newest 70 series Land Crusier in Japan to the US Land Cruiser (Prado). Difference is a v8 with no electronics and a 4 cylinder hybrid filled with electronics and a rats nest of tubes running across the top of the engine. Try working on that... Of course its get +20mpg compared to the Japanese version. I'm pretty sure the 70 series is 4 wheel drive always whereas the prado runs in 2 wheel drive but has a 4 wheel switch (more complexity -- better gas mileage).

Anyway, intangibles such as availability of parts and lower pricing makes scavenging more economical and increases life span.

Also, stability of the platform means there's lots of expertise that has developed over the past +30 years. Same design, same repairs, same parts. Makes things easy.
by vharuck | 2026-02-10 20:42:15+00:00
>I think he unfairly places the blame on the immigrants themselves, when the true culprits are the employers and system of black market employment.

The same thought formed in my head listening to that the other day. He even talked about how, as an independent contractor with his own business, he couldn't hire help. He refuses to pay undocumented immigrants under the table (kudos to him), and recognizes that hiring people legitimately would raise his costs too high above the competition. But then he latches onto the idea of deporting the immigrants instead of punishing businesses violating labor laws.

It's not that he apologized for the shady business owners. He didn't seem to ever consider it an option.
by nosianu | 2026-02-10 20:42:46+00:00
GrapheneOS in Spain?

https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pix...

> Police in Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying Google Pixel devices. Law enforcement officials in Catalonia say they associate Pixels with crime because drug traffickers are increasingly turning to these phones. But it’s not Google’s secure Titan M2 chip that has criminals favoring the Pixel — instead, it’s GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused alternative to the default Pixel OS.

EDIT: Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44473694
by tim333 | 2026-02-10 20:43:17+00:00
That's a slightly odd way of looking at it. I'm guessing the people developing airplanes or whatever thought of a number of things including - hey this would be cool to do - and - maybe we can make some money - and - maybe this will help people travel - and - maybe it'll impress the girls - and probably some other things too. At least that's roughly how I've thought when I make stuff, never this will give a small group an advantage.
by downut | 2026-02-10 20:43:18+00:00
So is mine (2001TRD bought new). Searched all over AZ looking for manual everything and I got it, except for the trans. It replaced an fj60 Landcruiser. Beautiful machine I worked on a lot (5spd trans, lift, exhaust, gas tank) but it needed more power. The FJ-60 replaced an absolutely bottom basic 4cyl 4wd 5spd manual Toy "Pickup", better than a jeep 'cause you could carry shit off road, that the child outgrew sitting in the middle behind the stick.

The only thing I dislike about the Tundra is the gas mileage. I thought I would hate the auto trans but then I did some largish sandy-ish steps uphill and fuck me that was easy. Ah, there is another annoying thing: anti-lock brakes make sandy steep downhills with exposure much more interesting than they should be.

When I die I want to be buried in it.

God the new gigantic Tundras look awful. I think I'm seeing a lot more newish Tacomas these days, and they still look decent. They definitely look easier to park.
by beart | 2026-02-10 20:44:09+00:00
I've tried debian variants many times over the years. However, my actual experience has been one of struggles with outdated software, knowing that the fix I need is just out of reach. Trying to pull in some of these fixes from a PPA often leads to a dependency mess. I'm sure I could deal with it better if I took the time, but I just want to do the thing I want to do. The other "reason" to use Debian is the supposed large user base and community support. But I've found more often than not that many of the solutions to my problems are outdated or don't work for whatever reason.

Ironically, my best experience so far in that regard is an arch variant (CachyOS).

That said, people shouldn't be afraid of experimenting to find the best software for their purposes, and something like Linux Mint is still a great option to recommend to people who are new to Linux.
by vlad-r | 2026-02-10 20:44:26+00:00
I recently finetuned an LLM (gemma-3-270M) to extract recipes from blog posts.

My thoughts are that this is a perfect model for running locally on an iPhone in a recipe-management app.

Wrote a blog about what I learned while finetuning it https://vladr.com/blog/posts/finetuning-gemma3-to-extract-re...

And published the model on HF https://huggingface.co/v-rusu/recipe-extractor
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-10 20:44:36+00:00
>it seems as if government mandated privacy intrusion is OK

Once you give people an outside boogieman(Putin, Trump, Covids, etc) or a self inflicted false flag crisis(surge in crime rates) to shake them up to their core and put the fear in them, you can then easily sell your intrusion of privacy in their lives as the necessary solution that protects them.
by HunOL | 2026-02-10 20:44:38+00:00
Very European approach: the winner is chosen by law. Is Wero really a success? According to this article, in 2024 it processed over €7.5 billion.

Polish BLIK, which is not even mentioned in the article and which has joined the EuroPA Alliance, processed €83 billion in 2024, with a 30% y/y increase in H1 2025. I understand that BLIK is much older, but it invested significant effort and money in marketing and promotions while delivering a good user experience. BLIK is now trying to expand to Romania and Slovakia, yet Wero is getting all the hype on Hacker News. Maybe this is a case of East, South, and West Europe being treated differently. Is the only “European” solution one that comes from Western Europe?
by Dedime | 2026-02-10 20:45:23+00:00
Hot take alert! As an avid self-hoster, I'd like to hear why.

Personally, I self host because the benefits I receive simply aren't available anywhere else at the level of quality I've come to expect - Jellyfin is a great media player, it's free, and I don't want to switch. Pihole provides ad protection and privacy for my whole home network. It's also free. Homeassistant is amazing, and free. Etc etc.
by Tade0 | 2026-02-10 20:45:30+00:00
There's a similar thing currently going on in some parts of Europe, but the imported cars are for the Chinese market.

In one high-profile case a Berlin-based VW dealership was importing the VW ID.6, which is a model exclusive to China:

https://www.shop4ev.com/en/blogs/news/verkaufsverbot-id-6-bl...
Show HN: AI Flag Bot: Community-driven tool to detect and block AI accounts on X
by lifesaverluke | 2026-02-10 20:45:35+00:00
Hi HN,

I built AI Flag Bot to tackle the growing problem of AI-generated accounts flooding X (Twitter).

How it works:
- Spot a suspicious post? Reply with @AIFlagBot flag to report it
- The community votes on whether it's AI-generated
- Votes are weighted by voter reputation, which goes up or down based on accuracy
- Once consensus is reached, the account gets added to a shared blocklist
- Paid subscribers get automatic blocking synced to their X account ($5/m to cover API costs)

The reputation system is the core idea — voters who consistently identify AI accounts correctly gain more influence, while bad actors lose it. Think of it as a community immune system.

Stack: Rails 8.1, SQLite (Solid Stack), Solid Queue for background jobs, Kamal for deployment. The X API integration handles mention polling, OAuth, and block syncing with careful rate limit management.

It's early but the model is working. Would love feedback on the approach — especially whether community consensus can scale as a detection method.
by barryzest181 | 2026-02-10 20:45:35+00:00
Location: South Africa
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Specializing in broken project rescue and code optimization. Recent win: Fixed an AI chatbot that had been broken for 3 months (3 other developers failed) — found the bug in 2 hours. Rate: $50-75/hr or project-based.
by warmreed | 2026-02-10 20:45:47+00:00
Cool concept. The focus on real friendship and creativity over engagement metrics resonates. I have been thinking about the same problem from a different angle: what if you could have an AI friend that genuinely remembers your conversations and grows with you? Built something like that on Telegram (https://t.me/adola2048_bot) and the interesting finding is that people open up way more to an AI with memory than to a stateless chatbot. The persistent context makes all the difference.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-10 20:45:48+00:00
>important for national security

Indeed, but people rarely stop to consider... "security for whom?"

Have a wonderful day =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL22URoMZjo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAcwtV_bFp4

Spaceballs (1987)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPkWZdluoUg
by otherme123 | 2026-02-10 20:46:23+00:00
>So I wanted to get 7zip but there was no linux version.

Maybe Cachy don't have 7z, I don't know. But Arch (its base) has it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/7-Zip , and I never had any trouble opening 7zips in any Linux either from console or any graphical tool.
by TrnsltLife | 2026-02-10 20:46:29+00:00
Incest laws weren't given to Israel until Moses and the Exodus.

As for meaning:

Lot was date raped by his daughters. It shows the moral corruption of Sodom had affected his family.

It's also a historical and genealogical account of how the nations of Moab and Ammon began. Abraham's nephew Lot, and his daughters, though originally close family to Abraham, became the progenitors of nations that later oppressed the nation of Israel.

36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi; he is the father of the Ammonites of today.
by ogogmad | 2026-02-10 20:47:08+00:00
I've been thinking about this myself.

First, let's try differential equations, which are also the point of calculus:

Idea 1: The general study of PDEs uses Newton(-Kantorovich)'s method, which leads to solving only the linear PDEs,
which can be held to have constant coefficients over small regions, which can be made into homogeneous PDEs,
which are often of order 2, which are either equivalent to Laplace's equation, the heat equation,
or the wave equation. Solutions to Laplace's equation in 2D are the same as holomorphic functions.
So complex numbers again.

Now algebraic closure, but better:

Idea 2: Infinitary algebraic closure. Algebraic closure can be interpeted as saying that any rational functions can be factorised into monomials.
We can think of the Mittag-Leffler Theorem and Weierstrass Factorisation Theorem as asserting that this is true also for meromorphic functions,
which behave like rational functions in some infinitary sense. So the algebraic closure property of C holds in an infinitary sense as well.
This makes sense since C has a natural metric and a nice topology.

Next, general theory of fields:

Idea 5: Fields of characteristic 0. Every algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 is isomorphic to R[√-1] for some real-closed field.
Then the Tarski-Seidenberg Theorem says that every FOL statement featuring only the functions {+, -, ×, ÷} which is true over the reals is
also true over every real-closed field.

I think maybe differential geometry can provide some help here.

Idea 2: Conformal geometry in 2D. A conformal manifold in 2D is locally biholomorphic to the unit disk in the complex numbers.

Idea 3: This one I'm not 100% sure about. Take a smooth manifold M with a smoothly varying bilinear form B \in T\*M ⊗ T\*M.
When B is broken into its symmetric part and skew-symmetric part, if we assume that both parts are never zero, B can then be seen as an almost
complex structure, which in turn naturally identifies the manifold M as one over C.
by xhevahir | 2026-02-10 20:47:12+00:00
Your attitude is Panglossian, and even your concession that these changes are "going to impact the job market quite a bit" massively underestimates the danger we could be facing. As opposed to what happened in any previous era, we're talking about the replacement of workers across practically all white-collar career fields, all happening over the course of a few years. There will be nowhere for these workers to go but down, into low-paid and precarious service work—assuming they can still find work even in these industries, which will have become more crowded with workers of all sorts; the skilled trades are likely to face a frightful race to the bottom as well. How many years of such creative destruction do you think our economic and political systems can weather before something truly disastrous happens?
by robocat | 2026-02-10 20:47:20+00:00
> we've allowed millions of foreigners to come in and raise said healthcare and housing costs

They also raise your GDP by a lot more than they cost.

Australia and New Zealand have about 30% foreign born population, and we do fine.

Maybe add 100 million more people into the US before you would have problems that get difficult.

The biggest cost of healthcare is staff, and a lot of the staff here come from overseas so it's kinda self-sustaining (in the short term). The biggest cost of housing is people whinging and whining about it. NZ and AU does build plenty of housing (land isn't a constraint). Many people in the building industry were born overseas.

It isn't all rainbows, but it mostly works for us.

The US has about 290 million native-born citizens and 25 million naturalized citizens. It has maybe 15 million unauthorized immigrants (of which approx 80% are of working age).

One should always compare population densities, rather than absolute numbers.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-10 20:47:55+00:00
I don’t think you’re rational. Part of being able to be unbiased is to see it in yourself.

First of all. Nobody knows how LLMs work. Whether the singularity comes or not cannot be rationalized from what we know about LLMs because we simply don’t understand LLMs. This is unequivocal. I am not saying I don’t understand LLMs. I’m saying humanity doesn’t understand LLMs in much the same way we don’t understand the human brain.

So saying whether the singularity is imminent or not imminent based off of that reasoning alone is irrational.

The only thing we have is the black box output and input of AI. That input and output is steadily improving every month. It forms a trendline, and the trendline is sloped towards singularity. Whether the line actually gets there is up for question but you have to be borderline delusional if you think the whole thing can be explained away because you understand LLMs and transformer architecture. You don’t understand LLMs period. No one does.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-10 20:48:07+00:00
Imagine how much nicer driving around in the suburbs would be if the majority of vehicles were town cars like Honda Fits, mini-mini-vans like Honda Freed, pre-2003 Tacomas, and kei trucks/vans instead of the usual mix of unreasonably tall and boxy crossovers/SUVs and brodozer trucks.
by abainbridge | 2026-02-10 20:48:09+00:00
Yep, I think it is. The point is there's almost no history of oral peptides, other than stomachs destroying them.

FTA: "So to summarize the state of the art in oral peptide delivery: there are exactly two FDA-approved products that use permeation enhancers to get peptides into your bloodstream through your GI tract. Both achieve sub-1% bioavailability. Both required over a decade of development, thousands of clinical trial participants, and hundreds of millions of dollars."
by lysace | 2026-02-10 20:48:13+00:00
List of Github CEOs:

1. Tom Preston-Werner (Co-founder). 2008 – 2014 (Out for, eh... look it up)

2. Chris Wanstrath (Co-founder). 2014 – 2018

(2018: Acquisition by Microsoft: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17227286)

3. Nat Friedman (Gnome/Ximian/Microsoft). 2018 – 2021

4. Thomas Dohmke (Founder of HockeyApp, some A/B testing thing, acquired by Microsoft in 2014). 2021-2025

There is no CEO now, it's just a team/org in Microsoft. (https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/)
by marttt | 2026-02-10 20:48:24+00:00
DOS is very much alive these days, though [0]. Text-mode internet is there (should you want online in the first place), and, thanks to some amazing devs, soundcard support has made a huge leap [1].

I use it every day lately (for text-related work and hobbyst-level assembly learning -- my intent is to write a small application to do paid work which involves chopping audio files). And -- I say a single-tasking system is a complete, true bliss in our days. Paired with a 4:3 Thinkpad screen, that DOS environment gives me instant focus for a long time -- which, to me, has been almost impossible to accomplish on a multi-tasking, contemporary-web-browser-equipped system recently.

Apparently, though, there seems to be AI for DOS, too [2]. :) I prefer my DOS machine to be completely offline, though. Peace and harmony for the soul!

0: https://freedos.org/ | http://svardos.org/ | https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/minidos-2026-relea... | https://bttr-software.de/forum/board.php

1: https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/VSBHDA

2: https://github.com/lanmeibuxie/AI-for-DOS
by tamimio | 2026-02-10 20:48:36+00:00
What’s better than Hilux is the Land Cruiser 70 or 75 series, more reliable and bigger payload. That being said, you can never go wrong with Toyota, reliable yet simple, if you open the Hilux engine hood you can literally see your feet through the engine area because only few components are in there, compare this to say a german car, and you need a manual on just where to find the engine oil stick.
by tasuki | 2026-02-10 20:48:53+00:00
> My take on it is: you have to make your country/society a place where people will want to have children and feel/know that their children's lives will be good ones.

I think this is not the right explanation.

If you look say 500 years in the past, people definitely could not guarantee their children's lives would be good ones. In many (most?) cases, it was almost certain the children's lives would not be very good. Yet people had lots of kids.

Perhaps people just have better things to do these days than incessantly change the nappies, suffer from lack of sleep and time for basic self-care, constantly argue about how the cheese was cut the wrong way and whether we're watching another episode of paw patrol?
by barryzest181 | 2026-02-10 20:50:06+00:00
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by matickocijancic | 2026-02-10 20:50:19+00:00
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Software engineer with 3+ years of experience building scalable, real-time systems and full-stack applications.

Most recently: Founding engineer at Aurora, a real-time platform for natural language queries and visualizations of Kafka streams with AI, ClickHouse, and Grafana: https://auroraplatform.github.io/

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by akdev1l | 2026-02-10 20:50:27+00:00
Disagree entirely.

If you state “in 6 months AI will not require that much knowledge to be effective” every year and it hasn’t happened yet then every time it has been stated has been false up to this point.

In 6 months we can come back to this thread and determine the truth value for the premise. I would guess it will be false as it has been historically so far.
by autoexec | 2026-02-10 20:50:31+00:00
I only provided examples in case there was any doubt that failure to disclose ties to the pharmaceutical industry was a known and large scale problem after the suggestion that it was some kind of conspiracy theory. Skepticism in the case of these drug companies is warranted.

As for the variety of the things I've commented on, I can only blame procrastination and the contents of the front page. I got a lot more work done monday afternoon, I promise.
by cvhc | 2026-02-10 20:50:33+00:00
See the other comment.

> did you fight it?

I talked to university lawyers (and LLMs) regarding another issue with DHS. For the sake of national security, they have the legal authority. There isn't much I can do. Unless I can prove they discriminated against me due to my race, national origin, etc. -- which may be the case but how can I prove that. I requested FOIA from DOS/DHS. What I got was basically no more than the original applications I submitted.