MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by superice | 2026-02-25 05:38:57+00:00
I'm not anti right-to-repair by any means. I'm just saying that "we don't need the manufacturer, just vibe code your own firmware" is not a solution to this problem.

Farmers should be able to swap parts, tweak loads of things in software, etc without software locks. I should be able to do that on my car too. But the way to achieve that is not through spending a few hundreds of thousands of dollars on Opus [latest] and praying that doesn't kill me, that's the part I have an issue with in OPs comment.
by themafia | 2026-02-25 05:39:45+00:00
> Why a hospital?

Maternity is most often not "life and death." Is the maternity ward just a convenience? Or is the cost worth the benefit? You don't seem to be doing any form of honest analysis.

> Most home appliances are convenience personified, the dishwasher, the microwave, the clothes dryer.

Yes, because, those save time. It's worth having a point of view that other people saving their time, and thus freeing it for more worthwhile endeavors is ultimately a net positive for all of society. You pass these off as mere conveniences. It's a rather bleak misanthropic outlook you seem to have acquired.

> Modern life is like at least 60% wastefulness in the name of convenience.

People own cars to drive more than two blocks. You're only making the most ridiculous version of the argument and you don't have very much to back it up.
by gaigalas | 2026-02-25 05:40:23+00:00
1. https://www.apa.org/topics/research/multitasking - Not a study. Focuses on productivity (not health, or perceived well-being, supports the idea that the brain have dedicated structures for multi-tasking.

2. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.0903620106 - It's about media multitasking, like watching multiple videos at the same time. Irrelevant.

3. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12710835/ - About driving. Driving itself is already a multitasking effort.

4. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4174517/ - Media multitasking again. Irrelevant.

5. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12172848/ - Study itself admits that has limitations, did not adjust to participants practice levels.

6. https://otl.du.edu/plan-a-course/teaching-resources/the-mult... - Not a study. Reference links broken. Useless.

7. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11543232/ - Editorial article, not a study.

8. https://ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf - About interruptions, only deals with unplanned multi-tasking (in which there are interruptions).

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I am aware that there are cognitive loads on some kinds of multi-tasking. That does not translate to all kinds of multi-tasking though.

To say that "the brain is like a computer, single thread" is misleading. There are scenarios in which the brain exceeds in multi-tasking (playing instruments like drums, playing games, etc), and there is plenty of evidence that we're tuned for it in all kinds of ways (but not all of them).

Furthermore, I'm not defending we should multi-task. I just think the metaphor and the "brain is mono thread" idea is both wrong and dumb.
by donatj | 2026-02-25 05:40:26+00:00
Coming from the Midwest I visited Fry's for the first time in early 2020 weeks before COVID. I had always heard amazing things about the store, for years. It was on my short list of places to visit on the west coast. That place was not a healthy operation. Close to half the shelves were empty, the place was generally a mess and needed a deep clean, and worst of all the employees seemed entirely disinterested in helping me.

When news came that they had shut down I was entirely unsurprised.

COVID might have sped things up a little but that location at least was on its last legs.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-25 05:41:07+00:00
A third party script that's embedded into the task management website? Otherwise I don't see how it's going to get to the cookie. And if it is embedded into the website, it can force a fresh login and steal the cookie that way.

And you can set HttpOnly to stop javascript from being able to access the cookie... but that still won't stop the attack of making them log in again.
by sprinkly-dust | 2026-02-25 05:41:09+00:00
I would disagree that a smartphone without a working camera is perfectly usable. A lot of the world — especially in developing countries — runs on QR Codes for everything from restaurant menus to electronic payments. Without a camera, other stuff too, like KYC, just doesn't work. These are the sorts of changes that, as you mentioned, are forcing people to use smartphones. And they rely on the camera.
by nworley | 2026-02-25 05:42:32+00:00
I’m less focused on engineers using AI to code and more on agents being the “users” of software. Especially because you have agents doing all these tasks now (ie. OpenClaw and others). Even if engineers stay critical, if the end consumer shifts from human clicks to agent decisions, distribution and ranking mechanics change.

Would you agree or do you think this stays human driven long term?
by makugats | 2026-02-25 05:42:40+00:00
LipoVive: Unlock Your Metabolic Flexibility

The primary goal of LipoVive is to restore metabolic flexibility. In many individuals struggling with weight, the body becomes "locked" into burning glucose (sugar) and loses the efficiency required to tap into adipose tissue (stored fat).LipoVive uses a blend of plant alkaloids to signal the body to switch fuels more effectively, targeting the stubborn "white fat" deposits that often resist diet and exercise.

https://www.morningstar.com/news/accesswire/1138075msn/lipov...
by burningChrome | 2026-02-25 05:43:35+00:00
>> Something about having the whole supply chain in one place and very motivated.

This is the legacy of Tim Cook before Jobs passed. He was the guy who put immense pressure on Chinese factories to deliver on the insane quotas and timeframes he forced on them. He essentially blackmailed companies in order for them to his bidding - threatening to go to competitors if they didn't deliver exactly what he wanted.

The stuff Apple got away with in China could never be repeated here. I mean, you think you can regularly push so many workers to commit suicide, you have to put nets around the buildings in order to dissuade them from jumping off buildings? Yeah, not happening here. Which is why Apple does business there. Its why Tim Cook was able to abuse Chinese labor laws to get them to deliver the impossible, time and again, regardless of the human cost.
Show HN: Riverse – Local AI agent with memory that grows over time
by collenjk | 2026-02-25 05:44:02+00:00
Hey HN, I built a personal AI agent that runs locally and remembers you across conversations.

The problem: ChatGPT/Claude memory is basically a flat list — a few facts, no timeline, no confidence levels, everything in the
cloud. Switch platforms and you start over.

Riverse uses what I call the River Algorithm — conversations flow through like water, important stuff settles like sediment into
your profile, contradictions get washed away over time. There's an offline "sleep" process that consolidates memories, kind of like
how human sleep works.

v1.0 supports text/voice/image input, Telegram & Discord bots, pluggable tools, custom YAML skills, and MCP protocol. Everything
stays on your machine.

I also built a companion tool (RiverHistory) that imports your existing ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini chat history and extracts a starter
profile — so your AI knows you from day one.

Would love feedback. GitHub: https://github.com/wangjiake/JKRiver
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-25 05:44:56+00:00
There were just horrible in their last years. easily one of the worst places I've shopped at. Multiple locations too.

Microcenter is around now, they're not as bad but they suck. They force their cashiers to ask and demand for your personal information (phone number,address,etc..). At least online retailers won't give you dirty looks when you give them dummy info.

People are nostalgic about these places, but if they can't realize their disadvantage and at least provide decent customer experience in person, it's probably best if they went away. I wish there was a costco-like decent brick-and-mortar electronics store (costco is famous for treating it's employees well, and then having them treat customers well, as well as their wide range of high-quality items). I can order just about any piece of electronics, including things like resistors and get it within a day or two most of the times. it sure beats fighting traffic, and vying for salesperson's attention for help about an item, standing around a locked cabinet hoping someone would have the time to come and unlock it for you, so you can give them your money, standing in lines and the aforementioned cashier experience. These problems are not inherent. They are direct effects of mismanagement (except the traffic part).
by dlenski | 2026-02-25 05:45:32+00:00
I've used my Google Voice number as my primary number for ~15 years at this point. (I use my "real" phone number so little that I have trouble remembering it.)

I've had almost no problems using my GV number for 2FA. Venmo is literally the only service I've ever used that won't accept it for 2FA… and now Venmo offers non-SMS based alternatives, which is good because SMS-based 2FA is the reason that the SIM-swap attack is worth doing.

List of services that allow Google Voice for 2FA: https://www.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/comments/1c571kw/crowds...
by roger110 | 2026-02-25 05:46:51+00:00
About the iPhone making computing boring: PC video game market got much stronger in the late 2000s and 2010s. Maybe the share of people using phones as computers went up, but also the number of people heavily using computers in general did. (Not saying that playing video games makes someone a PC enthusiast or that it's even a real hobby, but it means they buy the parts.)

I think it was just online shopping that killed Fry's, like you also said. Especially all those expensive parts that far outweigh the shipping costs.

Also idk how Gamestop was a thing once even all the console games went onto non-physical media.
by colesantiago | 2026-02-25 05:47:28+00:00
So why are you projecting "The companies you want to invest in don't want your money." when this is obviously not true at all.

I don't know which companies you tried to invest in (tech or not) but I am assuming most of them rejected you given your constant projecting towards me.

I don't want smart people/investors who saw the future early (most that are retail and some are academics who actually build this tech) who want to get exposure to the growth companies making an impact to use extremely risky and shady financial vehicles like Multi-Layer SPVs and tokenized private stocks just to get some exposure.

When all in all it isn't the real thing and they get rugged anyway.

As long as people like you are in favor in excluding these people who just to buy a private company stock on secondary markets, then the gatekeeping will continue.
by duskwuff | 2026-02-25 05:48:23+00:00
I have a collection of photos from a trip I took to a Fry's shortly before its demise. Some of the things I saw on display were:

- Multiple aisles of nothing but cheap, no-name hand sanitizer (all the same kind, too - not a broad selection)

- Another entire aisle of pepper spray (again, a single item, just spread out really thin)

- Cheap LED bulbs (the screw-in kind, not components)

- Portable fans

- Bluetooth party speakers (really big ones that looked like oversized roll-aboard luggage)

I don't remember seeing any fidget spinners - but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the shelf-filler items were stocked on a store-by-store basis. It certainly didn't give me the impression of a carefully planned operation.
Show HN: Add price tags to 50 product photos in minutes (no Canva/PS)
by oliveroll | 2026-02-25 05:48:42+00:00
Hi HN — posting an update: PriceTagGenerator is my attempt to make “price tag overlays on product photos” fast and consistent at scale.
It’s aimed at sellers who don’t want to fight Canva/PS for every promo change.
I’d love harsh feedback on the homepage + UX: what’s confusing, what’s missing, and what would you expect before using it for real?
by dlenski | 2026-02-25 05:50:04+00:00
VoIP.ms works great in both the US and Canada. (I believe it started here in Canada.)

Also, many Canadian financial institutions (including the CRA, Wealthsimple, and BMO) work fine with US phone numbers for 2FA… including Google Voice, in my personal experience. https://www.reddit.com/r/Googlevoice/comments/1c571kw
by remexre | 2026-02-25 05:50:13+00:00
my impression is that most CL these days is existing large closed-source codebases, hence the price tag for those compilers (you're not trying it out for a bit, you're funding the compiler devs to work full-time on the issues you're actually having) and relatively little open-source activity for "finished" things -- if you're developing against internal libraries, it's hard to open-source just the part you intend to

(work at a CL shop; mostly SBCL users, but maybe 1/3 of people are die-hard ACL fans)
by upbeatlinux | 2026-02-25 05:51:05+00:00
Sacramento Fry’s off Northgate was my go-to store circa ’98. Whenever a friend wanted to build a PC, that’s where we went. The employees were great; the salespeople, not so much.

I still made the trip every holiday season until around 2017 but it had been going progressively downhill since about 2007. The expanded café, the drastic reduction in books and magazines, PC parts getting strip-mined and never restocked, audio/video media slowly disappearing; you could feel the shift.

I miss the SacBee flyer and the last-minute Christmas gift runs. Egghead Software, CompUSA, RadioShack, Borders (one of the only reliable places to find 2600), Tower Records...it was a different time.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-25 05:51:12+00:00
Or for noticing that Discord, Roblox, OpenAI, Anthropic, Persona, and Palantir all have Zionist Israeli founders / co-founders / CEOs / funding. Or that 98% of US congress members received donations from AIPAC or that the US president is a staunch Zionist / supporter of Israel.

In before I get downvoted and flagged for speaking the truth and noticing patterns.
Show HN: 1Password Replica (Security Challenge)
by davinci123 | 2026-02-25 05:51:30+00:00
I created a replica for 1Password which I created in minutes using Claude Code. I am not even a full-time engineer. I want security researchers to poke hole in the model and find out glaring security holes in a codebase created by an agent, not reviewed or coded bu a human.
by dagss | 2026-02-25 05:52:30+00:00
Very exciting stuff!

hear about what people might build with it

My startup is making software for firefighters to use during missions on tablets, excited to see (when I get the time) if we can use this as a keyboard alternative on the device. It's a use case where avoiding "clunky" is important..

Due to the sector we try to rely on the cloud as little as possible and run things either on device or with the possibility of being self-hosted/on-premise. (We would need Norwegian though for our current customers, and don't have any investors yet, so..we'll see..)
by swsieber | 2026-02-25 05:53:02+00:00
It rings true though.

I worked at a dev company, and we got bought by an IT company. Much pain and friction, all around. Is that a reductive representative of the company differences? Yeah, but it's still a useful mental model that helps one understand the differences. And I think the lawyer vs engineer trope is useful. Yeah we have both. Both my companies had both IT and developera, but the stakes & priorities were different enough that that lense became extremely helpful.
by dmantis | 2026-02-25 05:54:31+00:00
The original post laids out why it's not possible to do well: privacy apps, sanctioned countries, apps made by people for themselves to avoid clouds and third parties, etc.

Simple example: I have a foss VPN app running on my phone to avoid censorship and surveillance in some countries I visit. While using this app is no problem, non-anonymous development might carry consequences to the developer in some dictatorship jurisdictions (which are plenty of). I'm not sure all devs of such system would be willing to give their ids.

Another example is that this way US can cut out countries and people they don't like from mobile usage (which basically equals to modern social life). Look into sanctioned judges of international court because US protects war criminals.
by neilwilson | 2026-02-25 05:54:43+00:00
You'll get the same software in outcome terms. Which is what we want.

Tokens are cheaper than getting an individual to modify the code, and likely the tokens will get cheaper - in the same way compilation has (which used to be batched once a day overnight in the mainframe era).

Non-determinism is how the whole LLM system works. All we're doing with agents is adding another layer of reinforcement learning that gets it to converge on the correct output.

But that's also how routing protocols like OSPF work. There's no guarantee when those multicast packets will turn up, yet the routes converge and networks stay stable.
Show HN: Open-source temporary email service using haraka and node
by dishantsinghdev | 2026-02-25 05:55:44+00:00
Built this while running my own temp mail service.

features:
- custom domain temp emails
- open-source backend (Haraka + Node.js)
- multi-language support
- designed to handle high volume with low memory

live: https://www.freecustom.email

code:
https://github.com/DishantSinghDev2/maildrop
https://github.com/DishIs/temp-mail

would love feedback on architecture, performance, or improvements.
by jcalloway_dev | 2026-02-25 05:55:59+00:00
Really cool project — the "no backend, no build step" constraint is genuinely hard to pull off well and you did it.

Couple things I'm curious about:

How does performance hold up when you're layering multiple capture sources simultaneously? That's usually where browser-based tools start to sweat.

Also — the "hackable rather than polished" framing is smart positioning. Are you thinking about specific use cases you want people to fork this toward? Because the talking-head + annotation combo immediately makes me think async demo videos for indie devs who can't afford Loom Pro, or lightweight sales prospecting tools. Would be interesting to see what the community actually builds with it.

One suggestion: a short screen recording (meta, I know) showing the layering and annotation in action would probably cut your "time to wow" significantly. The README explains it well but seeing the canvas manipulation live would land faster.

Nice work on this.
by com2kid | 2026-02-25 05:56:01+00:00
This is the best use case for them IMHO. So many wonderful shots taken in the moment, and I don't have to see the world through a phone screen for fear of missing a cute picture.

Quality is iffy and framing is hard, but I'd rather have a OK photo taken while playing than a great photo taken while standing apart from the action trying to get the perfect shot lined up.
by aaronbrethorst | 2026-02-25 05:56:36+00:00
I took an even simpler route:

I rebuilt the OneBusAway iOS app from scratch as a pair of Swift frameworks that will work anywhere, including tvOS[1].

Then, I started a new project to rebuild the OneBusAway server in Golang from scratch[2].

Then, I got an intern to build a suite of fantastic SDKs on top of Stainless[3].

Finally, I got Google to pay for an intern last summer to build a sign mode UI in SvelteKit that will work in any browser[4].

Easy!

But seriously though, if your transit agency isn't so cool that they provide GraphQL endpoints to query transit information, I think you'll find that the OneBusAway Maglev server is an incredibly easy way to consume your transit agency's scheduled and realtime data, and that our SDKs and apps are a fantastic way to visualize all of that information.

We're always looking for software developers to help out with our projects, as well as folks in disciplines ranging from user experience and product management, to biz dev and marketing, to volunteer some time to help our underfunded open source projects succeed. Feel free to reach out to me at aaron@onebusaway.org if that sounds interesting to you. Our software is used by millions of people every day in cities all around the world, including Seattle and New York City.

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[1] https://github.com/oneBusAway/onebusaway-ios/

[2] https://github.com/OneBusAway/maglev

[3] https://developer.onebusaway.org/api/sdk and Stainless (which is a really terrific product) is at https://www.stainless.com

[4] https://github.com/oneBusAway/waystation
by 0_____0 | 2026-02-25 05:56:55+00:00
i went down a rabbit hole doing max permissible exposure calcs for the light you linked and basically i personally wouldn't worry about it. the energy is low and distributed among many emitters. by the time you're far enough away from the light to focus on it, you're receiving max a couple hundred microwatts/cm^2 at the cornea from each led.
Show HN: Factagora – AI agents compete on predictions, time proves who's right
by randybaek | 2026-02-25 05:56:58+00:00
I built a platform where AI agents make predictions on factual claims, and accuracy is measured over time rather than claimed upfront.

The core idea: instead of asking "which AI is smarter," we let time be the judge. Agents stake their reasoning on verifiable outcomes, backed by a Temporal Knowledge Graph. The longer an agent stays right, the higher it scores.

No crypto, no KYC – just a points system to start.

Would love feedback on the concept and whether the leaderboard/competition mechanic makes sense to you.
by bawolff | 2026-02-25 05:57:04+00:00
> evidence of guilt, as in the guilty party knew they were perpetrating a criminal action.

That might be a little strong. A cover up can happen for other reasons than covering up crimes (for example covering up bad PR that doesn't raise to the level of criminality). It does seem like a crime is what happened in this case, but i don't agree with applying that logic in general.