MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Programmable Watches with WiFi?
by dakiol | 2026-02-21 21:39:55+00:00
Hi. I'm looking for a programmable watch with wifi. Ideally I should be able to write custom programs/apps for the watch to display whatever I want to on them (e.g., make the watch make an https call to a server, receive json and render accordingly; allow the watch to receive "notifications" from the server)

Also, ideally, no requirement of a smartphone to send-receive data (it's ok to need a smartphone for the initial setup of the watch, though). I know about Pebble, but it doesn't have wifi. I know about some Garmins with wifi but for the kind of apps I want to write, the communication between the watch and the server has to be mediated by a phone. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want to pay $100/year just to be able to use my custom app in apple watches. I usually don't trust Google either (e.g., they discontinue everything in a blink of an eye).

So, what are my options?
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-21 21:40:27+00:00
Except the standard of living of working class Americans has been on a steady decline since Reagan by the hand of US administrations, not by the hand of CHina.

This isn't defending anyone's standard of living, it's defending profits of domestic monopolies like Micron, who indulge in state subsidies from US taxpayers and then fuck then over on prices.
by danhor | 2026-02-21 21:40:29+00:00
Certainly not with hydrogen directly. It might be involved in the production chain, but it's such a pain. If it's at all possible to electrify, that'll very likely win.

For flights, a combination of batteries for smaller, regional planes starting with "islands hoppers" now and SAF from either Biofuel or produced from Electricity (with Hydrogen as an intermediate step). Although I think that we might first see moves to reduce the 2x non CO2 Climate Impacts which can be much cheaper to tackle (such as Contrails).

For maritime applications, batteries when regularly near ports, probably hybrids with methanol for cross-ocean passage far away from coasts.
by skybrian | 2026-02-21 21:40:47+00:00
Not a farmer, but I believe they use weather derivatives to hedge and weather forecasts for predictions? Going through markets for weather forecasts is adding a level of indirection that generates a noisier signal.

The idea when hedging isn't to win on expected value. It's to reduce risk. You're paying the market to provide insurance.

As a side effect, insurance does sometimes generate interesting data. The insurance industry generates good data about life expectancy. But it doesn't tell you when you're going to die.
by empathy_m | 2026-02-21 21:41:44+00:00
At one point recently the Mirai came with a fuel incentive program: when you buy the car, Toyota gives you a gift card worth $15,000 towards fuel at hydrogen stations.

An interesting second part of the program was that if you live near a hydrogen station but it's broken, Toyota will instead reimburse a rental car and gas for the rental, one week at a time but presumably for as long the hydrogen fuel station remains broken.
by max_cm | 2026-02-21 21:41:51+00:00
I’ve been building a personal side-project called Linkits, and I’d love feedback from people who think a lot about information structure, bookmarking, webrings, and discovery systems.

The idea is simple:
Instead of having bookmarks, notes, and saved links scattered across YouTube, Twitter, newsletters, blogs, etc., I wanted a way to group links into meaningful collections that feel more like lightweight and discoverable knowledge hubs than traditional folders.

A collection can represent:

- a podcast “universe” (hosts, episodes, resources)
- a theme (AI, dev tools, indie hacking)
- a project workspace
- a personal reading list
- or a public topic you want to curate
Collections can be public, private, or unlisted.

Current features:
- sections inside a collection
- filters based on link origin (YouTube, Twitter, blogs…)
- list layout
- sharing
- optional public discoverability
- SEO indexing (so a collection can act as a backlink)
- custom slugs

Think: Notion pages, but optimized for links.

Why I built it
Most bookmarking tools feel either too rigid (folders) or too flat (endless saved lists). I wanted something that:

- lets you structure a bunch of links quickly
- looks clean when shared
- works well for “topic spaces”
- stays lightweight and simple
- lets you share is quickly with others.

What I’d love feedback on:

- Does this solve a real problem for you?
- Which features matter most in a link-collection tool?
- What would make it useful for teams or communities?
- Any concerns about UX, scaling, or positioning?

I am iterating really fast so every feedback will really be appreciated.

Happy to share more details if anyone wants to dig deeper.
by aidos | 2026-02-21 21:42:08+00:00
Maybe a slight misinterpretation of what I meant. The commit that goes with a PR is definitely useful context, but I’ve found more granular than that is seldom useful. Even big ones like “move from angular to react” - the details of someone getting something wrong in there don’t matter, it’s the scale of it that just makes me go “oh yeah, this is bound to be a mistake”.

Maybe different in other places, but after 15 years in my codebase, I’m still happy with a simple linear history.
by n1b0m | 2026-02-21 21:42:55+00:00
No it doesn’t. Several European and Canadian tourists were detained by ICE for weeks rather than being immediately deported. These individuals were often held in detention centres, sometimes in inhumane or prison-like conditions.

Here are specific cases of tourists detained by ICE:

Rebecca Burke: A 28-year-old Welsh backpacker was held for 19 days in a Washington state ICE processing center. She was attempting to cross into Canada, but was sent back to the U.S. She described being shackled and wearing an orange jumpsuit.

Jessica Brösche: A German tourist was stopped at the San Diego border crossing and held for 45 days, including eight days in solitary confinement.

Lucas Sielaff: A German citizen was detained for 16 days in an immigration detention center after being accused of violating his 90-day U.S. tourist permit.

Fabian Schmidt: A German national was detained upon entering the U.S. from Luxembourg.

Jasmine Mooney: A Canadian actor was held for nearly two weeks in an ICE detention center after being stopped at the San Ysidro border crossing.

Sarah Shaw: A New Zealand tourist and her six-year-old son were detained for three weeks.
by apical_dendrite | 2026-02-21 21:43:24+00:00
There's an old interview on C-SPAN's BookTV with a CIA polygrapher. He seems to genuinely believe in the validity of the polygraph, but watching the interview, I was convinced that the only value comes from intimidation and stress.

(all-caps bad transcription)

> THE ESSENCE OF A POLYGRAPH TEST IS IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO LOSE BY FAILING A POLYGRAPH TEST IF YOU WILL, OR SOMETHING TO GAIN BY PASSING IT, THAT IS WHAT MAKES THE POLYGRAPH EFFECTIVE. WITHOUT THE FEAR OF DETECTION IT IN A SIMPLE WAY AS I CAN PUT IT THAT IS WHAT MAKES IT WORK. YOU HAVE TO BE AFRAID. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BY TAKING THE POLYGRAPH TEST THAN THE PRESSURE IS NOT ON YOU. BUT AS I SAID THAT IS WHAT MAKES YOU WORK. IT HAS TO BE PROTECTION MORE THAN GILTS. NOW YOU MAY FEEL GUILTY, BUT FEAR OF DETECTION IS THE OVERRIDING CONCERN IN IN A POLYGRAPH TEST

https://www.c-span.org/program/book-tv/gatekeeper/180053
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-21 21:43:52+00:00
We've had data storage that lasts for millennia for several thousand years already. The invention of millennia-long storage more or less coincided with the invention of writing.

There isn't really a benefit. Our durably-stored several-thousand-year-old records suffer from various problems:

- They're hard to understand.

- They tend not to be relevant to much.

- Most of them have gotten lost. They're not gone, but it would be extremely expensive to find them.

Interestingly, these are the same problems that occur with stored data of much more recent vintage. But they get worse and worse over time, and the fact that the storage medium itself doesn't degrade does nothing to help. It tends to make those usability problems worse by giving people a false sense of security that the data is still there, until the cost of recovering it becomes too great and for practical purposes it isn't there anymore.

If something matters, it will be stored on ephemeral media and recopied over time onto more ephemeral media.
by register | 2026-02-21 21:43:57+00:00
Sure, in fact it's USA that is well behind Europe in happines (World Happiness Ranking) , life expectancy , infant mortality rate, general literacy ( PISA scores ), homicide rate, mass shootings frequency, violent crimes, inequality, democracy ( as reported by the Democracy Index) , press freedom ( World Press Freedom Index), just to name the first indexes that came to my mind.
by weli | 2026-02-21 21:44:19+00:00
The script doesn’t self-update unless you actually want it to via an explicit flag.

It doesn’t have any features other than installing the latest release from the codex GitHub repo and updating it, and I don’t want it to have more features than that. This is not meant to replace any codex installation via a package manager, if you have a package manager where codex is available then by all means install it through that.
by albertplaya | 2026-02-21 21:44:54+00:00
We’ve been reading almost every day that tech jobs, but also mkt, sales, etc. are over. SaaS, CRMs and big tech players like Salesforce, Jira, and so on..

Is that really true? Are we gonna be replaced by 1-5 big companies owning the best models? I’m not so sure.

The passion of many engineers and most used software is open source. A successful example is OpenClaws from Peter Steinberger (https://x.com/steipete) or many engineers and corporations from China release open source models competing hand in hand with the major players brings a lot of uncertainty.

Imagine an open source model that is just ‘good’ enough for 80% of the tasks to be automated AND it’s so efficient that you can run it on your laptop (like Opencode or Ollama) + open source/paid SaaS to make and run to manage the current product and areas like OpenClaws as I mentioned before.

so.. are we gonna need Anthropic and OpenAI? Are they gonna evolve or everything will crash?

Am I gonna continue using OpenAI to review and check the grammar for this post or I’m gonna use an open source model in a few months?

Lets see!
by gruez | 2026-02-21 21:45:05+00:00
>Would you say the same about a block list that blocks anything else? I don't care how obvious an ad is, I don't want to see it. Same with social widgets or cookie consent banners, or newsletter sign-ups.

He's not complaining that widgets for his favorite social network site is getting blocked, he's complaining that anything vaguely related to social networks are getting banned. Some of the sites on that list are stuff like chatgpt.com, which might be AI related, but clearly doesn't fit the criteria of "AI generated content, for the purposes of cleaning image search engines".
by tptacek | 2026-02-21 21:45:13+00:00
What do the people writing these kinds of comments think the CIA is? There are mustache-twirling villains there, in greater proportion than in other government organizations, but the median CIA employee sits at a desk and translates cables from Farsi to English and back again, or keeps track of the rainfall in Azerbaijan. A very small fraction of the agency does anything more "interesting" than that, and the majority of people there perform functions that every government in the world also performs.
by ecto | 2026-02-21 21:45:19+00:00
good questions

1. effects are tracked in the type system as row types, so they compose with HM inference pretty naturally. the tricky part is effect polymorphism. Loon handles that similarly to how koka does it, with row polymorphism. no ambiguity issues so far but idk

2. yes, macros are hygienic! documenting some binding situations would make a great first PR :)

3. easier to type!
by xantronix | 2026-02-21 21:45:33+00:00
Fuck. Yeah. Bud. I have a userland AX.25 stack I wrote as my pandemic project, and pairing that with MeshTNC will be a dream come true for me. My stack has a few utilities for bridging KISS interfaces together, and exposing APRS-IS as a KISS interface itself, so I can definitely see a lot of cool things coming from this. (If I were feeling extra spicy, I could bind, say, /bin/login to a specific SSID and get a shell into my home machine from across town!)
by trinsic2 | 2026-02-21 21:46:14+00:00
You sound like someone that wants to normalize bad behavior. Good luck with that. I would never use a social networking site to find people or jobs. I'm not going to put support behind a entity that doesn't respect privacy and the fact that they are people who don't care, like you, are the problem and why we are in the situation we are in as a country at this point.
by FrasiertheLion | 2026-02-21 21:46:17+00:00
When the enclave boots, two things happen:

1. An HPKE (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9180.html ) key is generated. This is the key that encrypts communication to the model.

2. The enclave is provisioned a certificate

The certificate is embedded with the HPKE key accessible only inside the enclave. The code for all this is open source and part of the measurement that is being checked against by the client.

So if the provider attempts to send a different attestation or even route to a different enclave, this client side check would fail.
by BoorishBears | 2026-02-21 21:46:58+00:00
But usually when prediction markets have shown interesting predictions, it's by odds taking large swings then collapsing to the correct outcome relatively shortly before the event right?

I assume because even if you know the future perfectly, putting up large lump sums early could cap your upside if people take your large sum as a signal (like OP is doing)

As a viewer you can take your own short-term "actions" (gambles) outside the market using the brief advanced notice I guess, but I'm not sure planning works like that.

In other words, what happens to the accuracy of prediction markets if we're including the discrete odds that occured along the way to the final odds? It's not better than random chance or public sentiment for large events is it?
by colordrops | 2026-02-21 21:46:59+00:00
Once again, never heard of this. It must be a rare exception because ticketmaster allows you to print them. Back to my 98% argument.

Can you cite a venue that won't take printed tickets?

Edit: it looks like NFL doesn't take them, BUT you can go to the box office with an order number and still get in, so same thing.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-21 21:47:11+00:00
Build and fly. It’s interesting because it attracts a lot of engineers. So you have groups who are experts in propulsion that make their own solid (and now liquid bi-prop) motors. You also have groups that focus on electronics and make flight controllers, gps trackers etc. then you have software people who make build/fly simulators and things like OpenRocket. There’s regional and national events that are sort of like festivals. Some have FAA waivers to fly to around 50k ft. There’s one at Blackrock Nevada where you can fly to space if you want. A handful of amateurs have made it to the karman line too.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-21 21:47:26+00:00
>Now if you mean for own much one is willing to sell themselves to late stage capitalism

The government is the one selling you out to late stage capitalism through fiscalisation, business regulations and deregulations, offshoring, rampant inflation and various nefarious policies on housing and labor migration.

People just adapt to survive since voting clearly doesn't help them.

Don't tell me you're not developing SW for the highest bidder and would take the salary of a fast food worker out of class empathy just to stick it to the evil capitalist.
by mgraczyk | 2026-02-21 21:47:40+00:00
Fair and sorry about that

Specifically what happened, and I think this is all public now is that prior to 2016 journalists and news organizations argued that Facebook was demoting news for various reasons. In reality it wasn't very engaging so it was automatically demoted. They promised to boost news more in early 2016, but largely as a result of worse engagement and negative experiences (arguing in comments) Facebook started ranking news worse than other content. This all happened in 2016, months before the general election

And while Russia did run ads, it was mostly not political and the political content they ran had very little engagement. Russia mostly focuses on conspiracy theories and undermining American institutions. Facebook was aware of this in 2016 and certainly did not contribute to it intentionally, and I don't believe even by accident of some kind of misguided A/B testing

The reason Facebook got worse for younger people is because younger people stopped posting.
by pseudalopex | 2026-02-21 21:48:00+00:00
> There’s nothing even punitive being discussed.

The article said Carr has repeatedly threatened to punish broadcast stations for violating the public interest standard.

> They’re free to meet their public interest obligations the normal way as well and not participate in this.

Carr's view of public interest included suspending Jimmy Kimmel for his criticism of Trump and other MAGA figures after Charlie Kirk was killed.[1]

> They could also participate in this in a rebellious way if they so pleased. “While we don’t agree with the FCC…. We do think this is an important milestone in our nation worth celebrating… not because the FCC told us to but because…”

There would be no reason to state disagreement unless they thought it was a threat. And it would have the effects of a child saying they will go to sleep but not because their parent told them to.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/after-jimmy-kimmels-sh...
by fsh | 2026-02-21 21:48:13+00:00
These problems are grossly exaggerated in popular discussions. Hydrogen has been routinely transported and stored in standard steel cylinders for over a century. Most cities originally used coal gas (50% hydrogen by volume) for heating and illumination before switching to natural gas after World War II. What kills the idea is the abysmal efficiency of electrolysis and hydrogen fuel cells. Standard high-voltage DC power lines would be much better suited for getting solar power from Arizona to Alaska.
by julesdrean | 2026-02-21 21:48:25+00:00
Apple does something very similar with Apple Private Cloud Compute. It's interesting cause their isolation argument is different. For instance, memory is not encrypted (so weaker protection against physical attacks), but they measure and guarantee integrity (and need to trust) all code running on the machine, not just inside the secure enclave.

Good question is how many lines of code do you need to trust at the end of the day between these different designs.
by Geobond | 2026-02-21 21:48:39+00:00
Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle has been waiting for Book 3 for 14 years. I spent 8 months building a system to finish it. The result is 113 chapters, 301,000 words, free at thethirdsilence.com
Here's how:
Story Bible (56,000 words)
Before generating any fiction, I treated both novels as a codebase. Every character, location, lore element, and unresolved thread got extracted into structured reference docs. Every Chekhov's gun catalogued. Both timelines (the inner narrative and the frame story) mapped with convergence constraints.
Drafting
Used Claude primarily. Per-chapter workflow: feed the relevant story bible entries, previous chapters for continuity, the chapter outline, and 3-5 representative passages from the original books for voice matching. Generate. Read. Write revision notes. Regenerate. Repeat 3-8 times per chapter.
Raw output was never usable as-is. The specific failure modes I kept hitting:

Flattened voice. LLMs default to generic literary prose. Rothfuss has an extremely specific cadence — short declarative sentences, metaphors that feel inevitable, silence as punctuation. Required extensive examples in-prompt and aggressive post-editing.
Conflict avoidance. Models resolve tension prematurely. Characters reconcile too fast. I had to explicitly instruct "leave this unresolved and painful."
Referential drift. By chapter 80, the model has forgotten chapter 12. The story bible helped but I still caught contradictions every pass.
The em-dash problem. First draft: ~40% of paragraphs had em-dashes. Final: under 10%.
Emotional genericism. "She felt a wave of sadness" vs. making the reader feel it through concrete detail without naming it. Hardest thing to fix.

Continuity Checking
Built a system that cross-referenced every chapter against the story bible and all preceding chapters. Flagged character inconsistencies, timeline errors, lore contradictions, repeated phrases, and LLM prose tells. This caught hundreds of errors. It later became its own product (galleys.ai).
Voice Editing
Three full passes just for voice. Stripped hedging language, overexplained motivations, stacked metaphors, wrong-rhythm sentences. Cut 80,000 words total.
The Split
Roughly 30% of final prose originated from LLM output that survived editing. 70% is rewriting, restructuring, and original bridging material. Plot, structure, and creative decisions are entirely mine.
The book is free: thethirdsilence.com (browser, EPUB, PDF)
The editorial pipeline became Galleys: galleys.ai
Happy to answer questions about any part of the process.
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-02-21 21:49:04+00:00
That one was modified some 75 years ago. Nowadays it's worse:

> I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The flag is no longer yours. The Christian god, despite supposedly being a secular nation of differing religions, is the leading principle.
by randycupertino | 2026-02-21 21:50:20+00:00
> For years, Gerold has been a regular at some of the city’s most high-profile members-only clubs, including the Battery, the Modernist, and the Amador. The clubs market themselves as places for the influential and the elite — social playgrounds for brushing shoulders with investors, CEOs, and politicians, all behind closed doors.

> Gerold appeared to belong in these spaces. He said he brokers real estate transactions. He name-dropped a group of friends he called “the Warrior Kings,” which includes prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalists, investors, CEOs, and surgeons.

> Gerold has been connected to at least six instances in which police were called or reports were filed with law enforcement over the last three years. He has reportedly been banned, suspended, or had his membership ended by at least three public and private venues in San Francisco in the last year.
by hinkley | 2026-02-21 21:50:57+00:00
When gift buying for minimalist friends it's common to offer gifts of perishable items or experiences like tickets. So that a week from now the gift has been cleared from their domicile.

It also seems like a fairly smart way to do graft. If you're bribing someone and they drink up or smoke all the evidence then they can't prove how much or how often you bribed them. Which would make alcoholics a good target especially if you can get your hands on fancy liquor.