MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why do media react to coordinated launches but ignore finished products?
by skicoachapp | 2026-02-09 12:42:20+00:00
I shipped a finished, offline AI product (consumer, sports-related).

What I’m trying to understand isn’t rejection — that’s normal —
but a pattern I keep seeing.

Around the same time, I noticed multiple articles about similar products
appearing almost simultaneously, often with near-identical framing.
In contrast, a fully shipped product — live and in its actual season —
received mostly silence, despite media being explicitly informed
by the developer.

I’m not assuming bad intent.
I’m trying to understand incentives.

Is coordination itself the signal media react to now?
Do synchronized narratives matter more than shipping something real?
At what point does a finished product actually become news?

Genuinely curious how others here see this.
by famouswaffles | 2026-02-09 12:42:24+00:00
Hahaha, this is honestly hilarious. Apparently, I have numerous tells but the most relevant you sought to point out is using the phrase, "You're conflating" (Really ?) and an apparently "random and psychotic" (you love this phrase, don't you?) mention of gradient decent though why you think its mention is either random or irrelevant, I have no idea.

Also just wanted you to know that I'm not the one downvoting you, and have never downvoted you throughout this entire conversation. So take that what you will.
by nis0s | 2026-02-09 12:43:19+00:00
> The email is dated 26 Jun 2016, right after Brexit, and in it, Epstein writes:

> return to tribalism . counter to globalization. amazing new alliances. you and I both agreed zero interest rates were too high, as i said in your office. finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding the next bargain

> This is a perfect example of what Naomi Klein calls "disaster capitalism."

Disaster capitalism only works if there’s enough law and order to preserve capital for those who acquire or control it. People who believe in ideas like the two mentioned in the email have experienced nothing but post-WW2 America-enforced global security, albeit relative amounts of it depending on how you are.

That security is not a constant guarantee, it is not a natural element of the world, it is not a force of physics that exists by itself. In a way, the post-WW2 order was crafted by centuries of both physical and mental toil. Undoing it will not bring the selective prosperity or success these people hope it will.

If you decide to be “enlightened”, you force your enemies to assume the same posture. If you decide otherwise, then what they do in return is fair game. Then very soon afterwards you find out there’s no such thing as sheltering from the aftermath of such events. Look at any societal collapse example in history, recent or otherwise.
by lproven | 2026-02-09 12:43:21+00:00
I hate to have to agree, but I do.

Arcan is profoundly important tech. Bigger than Wayland.

The communications around it are really, really hard to follow.

I interviewed Mr Ståhl by email. I am not sure why his writing is so hard to read, but it is. I think he is so smart, he operates on a much higher level than us proles and it's hard to follow.

I tried here:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/25/lashcat9_linux_ui/
by geniium | 2026-02-09 12:43:37+00:00
Working on Whisperit v3: a document automation platform for lawyers, voice-first.

The idea: lawyers spend 60%+ of their time writing documents. We give them an AI assistant that actually understands legal context — case files, templates, emails, the full picture.

What we've been shipping lately on the v3 branch:

• Workflow engine — visual editor + execution pipeline for legal document workflows (think: intake → draft → review → send, all orchestrated)

• Case-context AI assistant — docked right into your case view, with file attachments, skill system, and next-action suggestions. It knows your case, not just your prompt. Think Pipedrive CRM for lawyer!

• Skills system — modular prompts lawyers can pick and inject (summarize deposition, draft motion, extract key dates, Claude Skills, etc.)

• Cloud drive sync — bi-directional sync with Google Drive and OneDrive. Lawyers keep their existing file setup, we plug in and keep everything in sync

• Outlook, Gmail, IMAP email integration — connect your inbox, pull relevant emails directly into cases

• Template multi-output generation — one case, multiple documents generated in one flow

• BYO AI provider — user/workspace/admin level settings for AI models. Some firms want Azure, some want Anthropic, we let them choose

• Canvas boards with AI context for visual case planning
Stack: Next.js 16, FastAPI + LangGraph backend, Supabase.

We're a small team in Switzerland and across the globe, shipping daily. Target is Q1 for the v3 launch. If you work in legal or know lawyers drowning in document work: would love feedback or test our beta :)

https://whisperit.ai
by samusiam | 2026-02-09 12:43:44+00:00
Funny, because I gave ChatGPT (5.2 w/ Thinking) this exact prompt:

> How would you handle objective scientific facts with a conclusion or intermediate results that may be considered offensive to some group somewhere in the world that might read it

And its answer was nothing like yours.

---

> 1) Separate the fact from the story you tell about it

> Offense usually comes from interpretation, framing, or implied moral claims—not the measurement itself. So I explicitly distinguish: What we measured (operational definitions, instruments, data), What the result means statistically (effect size, uncertainty, robustness), What it does not imply (no essentialism, no “therefore they are…”, no policy leap)

> 2) Stress uncertainty, scope, and competing explanations

> If there’s any risk the result touches identity or group differences, I over-communicate: confidence intervals / posterior uncertainty, confounders and alternative causal pathways, sensitivity analyses (does it survive different modeling choices?), limits of generalization (time, place, sampling frame)

> 3) Write in a way that makes misuse harder (You can’t stop bad-faith readers, but you can reduce “easy misreads”).

> 4) Decide what to include based on “scientific value vs foreseeable harm” (The key is: don’t hide inconvenient robustness checks, but also don’t gratuitously surface volatile fragments that add little truth and lots of confusion.)

> 5) Do an “impact pre-mortem” and add guardrails

> 6) Use ethics review when stakes are real

---

All of this seems perfectly reasonable to me and walks the fine line between integrity and conscientiousness. This is exactly how I'd expect a scientist to approach the issue.
by dotdi | 2026-02-09 12:43:59+00:00
I was on a team that evaluated moving a significant portion of a product that should be used for government/healthcare onto Matrix. There were several drawbacks that made us NOT go this route:

- Olm/Megolm does not offer forward secrecy for group messaging

- Olm/Megolm does ensure end-to-end encryption for message data, but not for metadata.

- Federation makes it challenging to be GDPR compliant

- Synapse is very heavy, other implementations are less production ready

- For better or worse, the matrix foundation is under UK jurisdiction.

I'm sure I forget some of the nuance, but these were some of the major points. However, there are several government entities in Germany, France, Poland, etc, that can live with the limitations and DO self-host Matrix servers.

I won't go into the pair of high-severity vulns in 2025 (and the somewhat difficult mitigation) because that could hit anyone.
by pglevy | 2026-02-09 12:44:09+00:00
Just tried out Opus 4.6 to make a ground-up new version of a perennial side project: static site podcast player.

For this one I focused on loading speed and reducing interaction with repo. So it processes the images (converting to webp) and loads the feed list from a Gist. Also used the "frontend-design" skill. From brief to ready-to-use took about a couple hours.

https://github.com/pglevy/typod
by elAhmo | 2026-02-09 12:44:09+00:00
GitHub made more things free than in the past after MS acquisition, so this is driven by them, not just by users, making your 'buy their product' not really viable in this case.

I remember having to pay to have private repos in the past, but I guess MS didn't want my money and now I am a free user. If they offer stuff for free, doesn't mean it should be unreliable and best effort.
by tombh | 2026-02-09 12:44:30+00:00
Right, I think we need to make that "In current viewport" thing more prominent somehow.

So this is the NZ longest line right https://map.alltheviews.world/longest/173.61386108398438_-42...

One thing to note about finding reverse lines, is that they're not truly mathematically identical because the observer always has a height of 1.65m and the destination is always some point at the surface, therefore 0.0m. It doesn't always make a difference, but it sometimes can.
by kleiba | 2026-02-09 12:44:36+00:00
Got downvoted as expected, but I'm not trolling: book covers, just like the books themselves, are covered by copyright. I think the website looks really cool - but you cannot just use third-party material without permission. I know with AI companies crawling everything under the sun as training data, the idea of copyrighted material has kind of fallen out of fashion, but I think I've asked a valid question.
by andriamanitra | 2026-02-09 12:44:43+00:00
Would you want it to? The further the goal posts are the more progress we are making, and that's good, no? Trying to make it into a religious debate between believers and non-believers is silly. Neither side can predict the future, and, even if they could, winning the debate is not worth anything!

What is interesting is what can do with LLMs today and what we would like them to be able to do tomorrow so we can keep developing them into a good direction. Whether or not you (or I) believe it can do that thing tomorrow is thoroughly uninteresting.
by metalman | 2026-02-09 12:45:00+00:00
ok then, If I read you right, what counts is someone going and doing the actual seeing , VS drawing a line on a topigraphical map.
there are groups on another quest flying gliders into the high stratospher riding atmospheric waves rolling up against mountains who might also qualify for setting records for the longest possible views through the atmosphear, they got started buying surplus soviet space suits as that was what made attempts possible.
by tubignaaso | 2026-02-09 12:45:02+00:00
Dots Journal, a privacy focused lifestyle tracker for iOS.

https://dotsjournal.app

I’ve been suffering from migraines for the past few years and wanted a dead simple way to log when they happen, as well as any other contributing factors I could think of. Inspired by the simplicity of spreadsheets, I built a grid of events, and as you tap on cells, you log “dots”. Those dots, over time, reveal patterns.

I’ve already identified several contributing factors to my migraine triggers using it. It’s been so genuinely useful I wanted to share it with others hoping they might also benefit.

The next big release is coming out later this week which includes visualizations, charts, and on-device analysis of your journal to provide insights.
by andylynch | 2026-02-09 12:45:06+00:00
I think it’s a few things

- lots of places kind of Teams by default
- or Slack or discord m, even WhatsApp
- or in intensive cases, things like Refinitiv, Bloomberg, and, Symphony , which is kind of federated, but adds all the automation and also governance stuff needed for 100MM trades via IM and the like.
by acstone | 2026-02-09 12:45:13+00:00
I wanted to make the millions of files easier to understand and search, so I ran OCR with Gemini Flash and embedded them with Gemini Embedding. You can ask questions like "Did Bill Clinton visit Epstein's island?" and it will issue queries into the database, put the most relevant documents into context, and provide a detailed answer citing the actual PDFs which you can cross reference yourself.

Please be nice: Site infra is not the most scalable.
by torginus | 2026-02-09 12:45:34+00:00
My 2 cents: just like Cursor's browser, it seems the AI attempted a really ambitious technical design, generally matching the bells and whistles of a true industrial strength compiler, with SSA optimization passes etc.

However looking at the assembly, it's clear to me the opt passes do not work, an I suspect it contains large amounts of 'dead code' - where the AI decided to bypass non-functioning modules.

If a human expert were to write a compiler not necessarily designed to match GCC, but provide a really good balance of features to complexity, they'd be able to make something much simpler. There are some projects like this (QBE,MIR), which come with nice technical descriptions.

Likewise there was a post about a browser made by a single dude + AI, which was like 20k lines, and worked about as well as Cursor's claimed. It had like 10% of the features, but everything there worked reasonably well.

So while I don't want to make predictions, but it seems for now, the human-in-the-loop method of coding works much better (and cheaper!) than getting AI to generate a million lines of code on its own.
by alwinaugustin | 2026-02-09 12:45:41+00:00
I’ve been iterating on Toolbit (https://toolbit.app), a local developer utility app I initially shared a while back.

It started as a small attempt to stop bouncing between dozens of web tools for things like JSON/JWT, base64, regex testing, cron expressions, and similar “glue work” tasks. Over time it’s grown into something I keep open all day.

Since the last time I mentioned it, I’ve added quite a bit:
• ~40+ tools now (regex tester, PDF merge, image conversion, cron builder, etc.)
• workspaces for grouping tools around a task
• tool chaining instead of constant copy/paste
• snippets, history, and recent items
• automatic detection (paste data, it routes you to the right tool)

It’s an Electron app and runs fully local. No accounts, no tracking, no sending data out. The goal isn’t novelty, just reducing friction in everyday dev work.

I’m still smoothing rough edges and figuring out where this is most genuinely useful. Curious how others here think about scope creep vs. “daily driver” utility tools, and what’s worked or failed for you in that space.
by pwagland | 2026-02-09 12:45:48+00:00
And, indeed, if you look at the author's writeup, you see exactly that the generated code satisifes `(rotate == true || rotate == false) == false`, since rotate is checked explicitly against 0 and 1. The essence of the difference is:

> When boolean is an enum, the compiler does exactly what I expected – the == false condition checks if the value is equal to 0, and the == true condition checks if the value is equal to 1.

> However, when boolean is actually _Bool, the == false check is transformed into != 1, and the == true check is transformed into != 0 – which makes perfect sense in the realm of boolean logic. But it also means that for a value of 255, hilarity ensures: since 255 is neither 0 nor 1, both conditions pass!

So a value of 255 also makes both checks fail for the enum, but because of the ordering of the code, it was expected to evaluate as != false.

Had the check:
```
if (sprtemp[frame].rotate == false)
```

been written as:
```
if (sprtemp[frame].rotate != true)
```

then it would work for the `bool` type, but not the `enum` type, at least in C23 mode. Assumedly the C++ mode (effectively) treated the boolean as an enum, or possibly as `false == 0`, `true != 0`.
by IMTDb | 2026-02-09 12:45:52+00:00
It’s not that nobody cared, it’s that the cost of building and maintaining CLIs, relative to the usage they got, often didn’t make economic sense. In fact, this is the first time I’ve seen someone want to use Slack via a CLI, not a TUI, an actual CLI. APIs, on the other hand, had plenty of real usage and made business sense, so most services offered them.

With AI, two things have changed: (1) the cost of building a CLI on top of a documented API has dropped a lot, and (2) there’s a belief that “designed for agents” CLIs will enable new kinds of usage that weren’t practical before and that will move the needle on the bottom line.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-09 12:46:08+00:00
> Pro: but it's only been a few years since we started using LLMs, and a year or so since agents. This is only the beginning!

The billion dollar question is, can we get from 80% to 100%? Is this going to be a situation where that final gap is just insurmountable, or will the capabilities simply keep increasing?
by dhx | 2026-02-09 12:46:20+00:00
The SANs associated with https://crt.sh/?q=andrewjdillon.com are extremely suspicious. They reminded me straight away of https://ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/cia-2010-covert-communic...

There appears to be no obvious plausible link between the SANs other than very obvious lack of plausibility to each website. They're mostly pretend (or knock-off) business websites in random countries (everywhere from Trinidad and Tobago, Germany, mainland USA, Hawaii...) in various languages and all the ones I checked have no verifiable substance to them. For example, one domain is a supposed USA shipping/logistics company whose website states they have 1949 customers and have only delivered 7126 packages, and claims a head office as a house in Renton WA, an office at a different house in Stockbridge GA and a supposed warehouse at a third house in Portland OR. Most domains don't include any valid contact or business information, even a supposed restaurant where you'd want people to find your location easily!

There does appear to be heavy use of Google Firebase, and many of the sites share the same IP address(es) for hosting. A reverse IP lookup of domains hosted at those IP addresses reveals more random suspicious domains beyond just those just listed at https://crt.sh/?q=andrewjdillon.com
by adrian_b | 2026-02-09 12:46:31+00:00
Yes, but those normally just convert the electrical oscillations to sounds, they are not parts of the oscillators that determine the audible frequency.

In the past, audio RC oscillators or LC oscillators were used, with the former being preferred as the latter required too bulky inductors to reach so low frequencies.

Nowadays, it is usually simpler to not use any audio oscillator, but to use some microcontroller that divides the frequency of its clock until reaching the desired audio frequency.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-09 12:46:36+00:00
In ancient times, salt developed an extraordinary reputation. Not only was it prized as a preservative, but it was a nutritious seasoning as well. Salt had great value, and much of that nutritional value could be ascribed to the trace minerals which it carried as it was mined or otherwise harvested.

Nowadays, the manufacturers of refined table salt present you with a digusting proposition: sprinkle this worthless elemental sodium-chloride onto your food, because it is "salt" and they are 100% trading on its ancient reputation. Perhaps it is better to simply trample it underfoot?

Unfortunately, all the trace minerals are missing from refined salt. That pure white, homogeneous, translucent quality gives it away. The refining of salt is done purposefully, because the trace minerals are more valuable to supplement vendors.

All those trace minerals are separated out and sold out to companies who will assemble them into expensive dietary supplements. Your magnesium, and selenium, and zinc that you pay $30 a bottle for.

And that is also why sodium has such a nasty reputation in 2026. If you get CVD then you avoid sodium. If you get hypertension then you avoid sodium. Sodium is avoided like the plague. No physician will recommend sodium or table salt for a diet! Why should they? Adding sodium no longer introduces trace minerals or nutrition, it only introduces saltiness.

It is still possible to find unrefined salt. It may be sold as "sea salt" or "kosher salt" but you'll need to find it in transparent packaging. If it contains impurities that look like pepper or dirt, then it is unrefined. If it is imprinted with the obligatory fake warning about iodide, then it may be unrefined. (The mandatory FDA "iodide" warning is not only fake, it's misleading and downright malicious.)

Good luck with your salt! With love from your eponysterical HN noob!
by pipnonsense | 2026-02-09 12:46:49+00:00
Sorry for the late reply, hope you still see this.

Yes, I went with Postgres to be safe. I am still serverless, but now there is Vercel doing a good job for serverless DB. They integrate with Neon, which makes Postgres serverless possible.

More things are into Vercel as well, as the cron jobs, which I used to use AWS only for that. Much easier now in configuration by code through Vercel.

Anything goes wrong with Vercel or Neon and I can just export my whole DB and go for a regular server anywhere.
by kleiba | 2026-02-09 12:47:08+00:00
Ah, I see what you mean - you're making a distinction between someone's speech and someone's acts. Fair enough. In that sense, you would argue that the action of dropping a 13k loc PR is impolite, and I can see that.

It's just that in my reading, I did not find his demeanor in the comment thread to be impolite. He was trying to sell his contribution and I think that whatever he wrote was using respectful language.
by codeulike | 2026-02-09 12:47:17+00:00
I didn't really get what "a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline" meant, like how is it offline? So I think this is the bit of info I was missing:

Every content you visit is cached and can be visited later while offline. If you try to visit a content not available in your cache, it will be marked to be downloaded later. Offpunk allows you to synchronise you computer once every hour, day or week and work offline without being interrupted.

(from: https://offpunk.net/whatisoffpunk.html)

So its kindof designed to be offline with occasional sync. Interesting.
Ask HN: Best Practices ML-Product Management
by egr | 2026-02-09 12:47:24+00:00
I am currently designing a university course on ML-Product Management.

The module's focus is to teach my students that when it comes to building efficient and effective solutions the problem-analysis comes first and the ML-side is just a part of the overall challenge. To that end the student teams collaborate with industry and government institutions to develop solution designs and prototypes.

Some of the best practices we apply are based on my experience as a CSO in the contract intelligence space:

- solution scoping based on task complexity, open-ness of world model, and dynamics of environment
- business metrics first, ideally correlate ML-metrics to business metrics
- fast iteration and evaluation on the model level
- fast wire framing and prototyping to expose the ML-based functionality to end-users

I am curious how other's approach this task? What is your approach, what literature do you recommend?
by Avamander | 2026-02-09 12:47:34+00:00
I have implemented parts of all three. I doubt you have.

> Adding TLS in front of HTTP when talking to an untrusted third-party server, can only ever increase your attack surface.

No, against a MITM it instantly subtracts the surface inside the TLS from the equation. Which is the entire point.

> [...] that's why we have file signatures in the first place.

You still don't understand that even before the cryptographic operations done in order to verify the signatures you have all those other layers. Layers that are complex to implement, easy to misinterpret and repeatedly to this day found flawed. PGP is so terrible no serious cryptographer even bothers looking at it this day and age.

I start getting the feeling that you're involved in keeping the package repositories stuck in the past. I can't wait for yet another Apt bug where some MITM causes problems yet again.