MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dangus | 2026-02-14 22:54:02+00:00
Don’t bother with trying to use a player on a computer. Use MakeMKV and a blu-ray drive. Use modified firmware to rip 4K titles. Details can be found on MakeMKV forums.

After you rip them you can re-encode them to save storage space using Handbrake.

Either that or buy a 4K player designed for a TV, like a PS5 or the two most popular Sony and Panasonic players on the market.
by aussieguy1234 | 2026-02-14 22:55:07+00:00
I realized the AI replacing developers hype was all hype after watching this.

Why Replacing Developers with AI is Going Horribly Wrong https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjGZCuxl-U&pp=ygUvV2h5IHJlcGx...

A bunch of big companies took big bets on this hype and got burned badly.
by samename | 2026-02-14 22:55:21+00:00
The addiction aspect of this is real. I was skeptical at first, but this past week I built three apps and experienced issues with stepping away or getting enough sleep. Eventually my discipline kicked in to make this a more healthy habit, but I was surprised by how compelling it is to turn ideas into working prototypes instantly. Ironically, the rate limits on my Claude and Codex subscriptions helped me to pace myself.
by alexjplant | 2026-02-14 22:55:25+00:00
People make these mistakes too. Several times in my high school shop class kids shorted out 9V batteries trying to build circuits because they didn't understand how electronics work. At no point did our teacher stop them from doing so - on at least one occasion I unplugged one from a breadboard before it got too toasty to handle (and I was/am an electronics nublet). Similarly there was also a lot of hand-wringing about the Gemini pizza glue in a world where people do wacky stuff like cook fish in a dishwasher or put cooked meat on the same plate it was on when it was raw just a few minutes prior.

LLMs are just surfacing the fact that assessing and managing risk is an acquired, difficult-to-learn skill. Most people don't know what they don't know and fail to think about what might happen if they do something (correctly or otherwise) before they do it, let alone what they'd do if something goes wrong.
by yxhuvud | 2026-02-14 22:56:08+00:00
No. If you don't want to maintain it, don't package it, or for that matter programs written in it. Yes, there are valid reasons not to use zig from a stability perspective, but just ignore it if it isn't good enough for your standards.

Personally I'm glad that there are more people trying to break out of the C tar pit. Even if I'd never chose to use the language.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-14 22:56:13+00:00
>you can't just flip flop on these things once you open the can of worms

You sort of can when one is done illegally to begin with. While I don't like the Snowden overreach it was done through proper legal channels.

The discussion there should be focused on a judge giving too much leeway in their subpeona, not that this is the same was what's happening now.
by 47thpresident | 2026-02-14 22:56:49+00:00
I had a similar experience when I was looking for YouTube videos on the Intel i7-4790T, it's a relatively obscure CPU that was only found on small-form factor pre-builds during the Haswell era. The only recent videos I found were slop videos [1] narrating a script clearly generated by an LLM, with a link to their Amazon affiliate in the description. The CPU has never been put on retail sale! These channels upload a dozen times a day on random products just to get an affiliate commission.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpHUBC681iU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w5a33Jeen0
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-14 22:57:33+00:00
You posted this on HN and automatically put new users into a group chat with you as the leader matching the name on your HN profile.

The call never connected and only attempted to ping the web browsers media interface, but it never actually did anything. The first "call" was it requesting permission to access a device.

I would say you're not ready for attention from a larger audience at this time in your product and relation management.
by softwaredoug | 2026-02-14 22:57:38+00:00
Even within AI coding how people use this varies wildly from one people trying to one shot apps to people being barely above tab completers.

When people talk about this stuff they usually mean very different techniques. And last months way of doing it goes away in favor of a new technique.

I think the best you can do now is try lots of different new ways of working keep an open mind
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-14 22:57:56+00:00
that's literally meaningless. also ahistorical, both in that this is not what happened hours after it was first posted to HN (which was months after it was originated), and also in that "things become shittier" was and is still a perfectly common expression, the source of Doctorow's neologism and much closer to what the loose use of it is trying to get at.
by RickJWagner | 2026-02-14 22:58:09+00:00
The perp:

Was using an SUV to intentionally impede federal agents

Disregarded repeated warnings to get out of the SUV

Moved from reverse to drive when there was a person in front of her

Struck the ICE agent with her car

None of these can be disputed, they are facts. The points you list are also true. The agent seems to have placed himself intentionally in front of the car, in violation of ICE policies.

I think they both contributed to the tragedy.

Note that the only people that get harmed are those that act unlawfully and violently. Peaceful protesters don’t get hurt.

There is blood on the hands of the people encouraging unlawful behavior. Nobody protesting peacefully gets shot.
Show HN: Macabolic v3.0 – Native macOS video downloader with Menu Bar support
by macabolicapp | 2026-02-14 22:58:16+00:00
After the positive feedback on my initial release, I’ve just shipped v3.0.0 of Macabolic.

The biggest changes are the addition of a Menu Bar only mode (to keep the dock clean) and Browser Extensions for Chrome and Firefox to start downloads with one click.

It's still 100% native SwiftUI and open-source. Would love to know if the new workflow improves your experience!

Repo: https://github.com/alinuxpengui/Macabolic
by evanelias | 2026-02-14 22:58:42+00:00
> foreign key cascades where not in the binlogs.

True, but that's finally solved now.

> I also think that some changes in the database layout could lead to strange things on the replicas.

I've been using MySQL for 23 years and have no idea what you're referring to here, sorry. But it's not like other DBs have quirk-free replication either. Postgres logical replication doesn't handle DDL at all, for example.
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-14 22:58:44+00:00
Rome during Trajan's rule had over 500k and maybe even 1M people, and ruled half of Europe.

But I would still say that it was a less advanced civilization than Europe in 1500 AD. Trajan's Romans weren't able to sail the oceans, print books, didn't know what gunpowder was and could not use positional numeric system to actually calculate things in abstract; their way of counting stuff was the abacus, which sorta works for everyday tasks, but you cannot develop any higher maths with it. Even steel was non-trivially worse in Roman times than in 1500 AD.

All of that was meaningful progress. Sure, some knowledge was lost (Roman concrete, Greek fire). But much more has been acquired.
by antonymoose | 2026-02-14 22:58:53+00:00
> residential proxy node and sells your IP address to third parties for fraud, scraping, and ad abuse.

I know the potential for bad actors here, but there is legitimate use of these services.

I used to work in the “brand protection” space. Our entire business model was SOC-aaS, scraping, verifying, and ending lookalike sites among other threats. If you’ve banked at Wells Fargo or had an iCloud account, our job was to try and make that a little bit safer.

Fact is the enemy gets a vote and quite many so-called threat actors are buying very capable kits that know what the fingerprint of a clean room virtual instance or VPN looks like.
by nkmnz | 2026-02-14 22:58:56+00:00
> A study from METR found that when developers used AI tools, they estimated that they were working 20% faster, yet in reality they worked 19% slower. That is nearly a 40% difference between perceived and actual times!

It’s not. It’s either 33% slower than perceived or perception overestimates speed by 50%. I don’t know how to trust the author if stuff like this is wrong.
by surfaceofthesun | 2026-02-14 22:59:13+00:00
I’m in a similar boat. The USB to SATA adapter has kept my 5.25” drive going for quite a few years.

Some of my discs are hitting a decade and I am about to create a new set of backups. The market is smaller but the portable blu ray drives are becoming the default now.

So far I’ve just kept extra discs on hand plus a backup portable drive. Hopefully blu ray discs will manage to stick around as long as writable dvds.
by testing22321 | 2026-02-14 23:00:25+00:00
Humans are no different than other mammals.

Look at overweight house cats and dogs. How did they get overweight? How do they lose weight?

Calories in / Calories out is the definition of survival or not for wild mammals.

Calories out is also exceedingly easy to calculate- on any given week if you gain weight the out is less than the in. If you maintain its ahout equal. If you lose weight out is higher than in.

Nothing else matters.
by swiftlysingh | 2026-02-14 23:00:47+00:00
Location: Sacramento, CA
Remote: Yes (Remote / Hybrid / On-Site)
Technologies: iOS (Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit), Flutter, React Native, CI/CD, RevenueCat, Core Data, async/await, Combine
Résumé/CV: https://swiftlysingh.github.io/Automated-Tex-Resume/Pushpind...
GitHub - https://github.com/swiftlysingh
Email: singh.pushpinderp@gmail.com

About Me

3+ years iOS at Gojek (SE Asia super-app). GSoC alum. 6 apps shipped. Looking for iOS/mobile roles, open to relocation.
by folmar | 2026-02-14 23:01:31+00:00
> The main problem now is that it works fine

Except from:

* notifications for channels

* search

* using more than one org (needs app restart!) although
screen sharing between 'classic' and 'web' editions works only if sender's and receiver's graphic cards share a hw-accelerated video format blessed by teams. Not, it's not easy to check what edition you are running and you can't change it without poking js variables by hand

* inconsistent read statuses between devices

* 'incoming call not shown at all' bug (but you get a missed call notification)

* can't join two video calls even in two separate windows

* random audio device switching on every morning (even if you don't close the app and computer for the night)
by tl2do | 2026-02-14 23:01:46+00:00
The issue of digital decay and publishers blocking archiving efforts is indeed concerning. It's especially striking given that news publishers, perhaps more than any other entity, have profoundly benefited from the vast accumulation of human language and cultural heritage throughout history. Their very existence and influence are built upon this foundation. To then, in an age where information preservation is more critical than ever (and their content is frequently used for AI training), actively resist archiving or demand compensation for their contributions to the collective digital record feels disingenuous, if not outright shameless. This stance ultimately harms the public good and undermines the long-term accessibility of our shared knowledge and historical narrative.
by strawhatguy | 2026-02-14 23:02:48+00:00
Speaking just for myself, AI has allowed me to start doing projects that seemed daunting at first, as it automates much of the tedious act of actually typing code from the keyboard, and keeps me at a higher level.

But yes, I usually constrain my plans to one function, or one feature. Too much and it goes haywire.

I think a side benefit is that I think more about the problem itself, rather than the mechanisms of coding.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-14 23:03:51+00:00
You know it’s literally in the constitution - the idea of a free press. If the money to keep the press in business, who keeps the government accountable?

And to pretend like the US is a democracy where the popular vote matters completely ignores reality. Every state gets two Senators so South Dakota has the same voting power in the Senate as California. The house districts are so gerrymandered that the sum total of Democratic votes will always be less than their share of the house since it is so easy to dilute Democrats voting power since they live in major cities.

So if you want to push for a more (small d) democratic government, you’re going to first have to overall the entire constitution so the largest states population’s aren’t diluted.

And I posted a link earlier that the government has literally been trying to defund PBS since the 1960a and Mr. Rogers himself had to beg Congress not to defund it.

Right now today the federal government is erasing any signs of anything in museums and national parks that doesn’t make the US look good or admit that gay people exist. This is the government you want controlling the press?
I structured Dario Amodei's philosophy into an open-source book
by leading-AI | 2026-02-14 23:03:56+00:00
I analyzed Dario Amodei's texts (Machines of Loving Grace, etc.) and reverse-engineered his thoughts into this repository to bridge the gap between engineering and philosophy.

It covers:
- The exponential curve of Scaling Laws
- The marginal cost of intelligence dropping to zero
- The biological/societal implications

Repo: https://github.com/Leading-AI-IO/the-silence-of-intelligence
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-14 23:04:23+00:00
I'm American. I'm not against national ID.

The issue is with the US is that ID is not free. I just had to pay 50 bucks to renew my driver's license. renewing a passport was 150 dollars the last time I checked (which was 2021). So any more costs just to function in society is a major impact to quite a few rights. The most hot topic being voter eligibility.

this is foreign to EU because, to my knowledge, getting an ID is free.
by nkmnz | 2026-02-14 23:05:23+00:00
tl;dr - author cites a study from early 2025 which measured developer speed of “experienced open source developers” to be ~20% slower when supported by AI, while they’ve estimated to be ~20% faster.

Note: the study used sonnet-3.5 and sonnet-3.7; there weren’t any agents, deep research or similar tools available. I’d like to see this study done again with:

1. juniors ans mid-level engineers

2. opus-4.6 high and codex-5.2 xhigh

3. Tasks that require upfront research

4. Tasks that require stakeholder communication, which can be facilitated by AI
by logicprog | 2026-02-14 23:05:29+00:00
I'm doing a similar thing. Recently, I got $100 to spend on books. The first two books I got were A Philosophy of Software Design, and Designing Data-Intensive Applications, because I asked myself, out of all the technical and software engineering related books that I might get, given agentic coding works quite well now, what are the most high impact ones?

And it seemed pretty clear to me that they would have to do with the sort of evergreen, software engineering and architecture concepts that you still need a human to design and think through carefully today, because LLMs don't have the judgment and a high-level view for that, not the specific API surface area or syntax, etc., of particular frameworks, libraries, or languages, which LLMs, IDE completion, and online documentation mostly handle.

Especially since well-designed software systems, with deep and narrow module interface, maintainable and scalable architectures, well chosen underlying technologies, clear data flow, and so on, are all things that can vastly increase the effectiveness of an AI coding agent, because they mean that it needs less context to understand things, can reason more locally, etc.

To be clear, this is not about not understanding the paradigms, capabilities, or affordances of the tech stack you choose, either! The next books I plan to get are things like Modern Operating Systems, Data-Oriented Design, Communicating Sequential Processes, and The Go Programming Language, because low level concepts, too, are things you can direct an LLM to optimize, if you give it the algorithm, but which they won't do themselves very well, and are generally also evergreen and not subsumed in the "platform minutea" described above.

Likewise, stretching your brain with new paradigms — actor oriented, Smalltalk OOP, Haskell FP, Clojure FP, Lisp, etc — gives you new ways to conceptualize and express your algorithms and architectures, and to judge and refine the code your LLM produces, and ideas like BDD, PBT, lightweight formal methods (like model checking), etc, all provide direct tools for modeling your domain, specifying behavior, and testing it far better, which then allow you to use agentic coding tools with more safety or confidence (and a better feedback loop for them) — at the limit almost creating a way to program declaratively in executible specifications, and then convert those to code via LLM, and then test the latter against the former!
by leading-AI | 2026-02-14 23:05:32+00:00
Author here.

While everyone focuses on "using" Claude, I wanted to understand the "destiny" defined by its creator. I analyzed Dario Amodei's texts (Machines of Loving Grace, etc.) and reverse-engineered his thoughts into this repository.

It covers:
- The exponential curve of Scaling Laws
- The marginal cost of intelligence dropping to zero
- The biological/societal implications

I wrote this to bridge the gap between US vision and the business context here in Japan, but I think the core logic is universal.
Hope this helps the community.
by jamesbelchamber | 2026-02-14 23:05:37+00:00
It does, doesn't it! This is basically the reason scepticism in screening has risen (amongst scientists and medics, not the general population) - research seems to show that screening catches much more cancer but doesn't save many more people.

Rohin Francis does a good video on it, which you don't have to watch because it has references underneath you can click straight through to (the video is good though): https://youtu.be/yNzQ_sLGIuA

I am frustrated by this because it seems obvious to me that "more data == better" but I guess it makes sense if you think of the scans as having high amounts of noise, and us having a poor understanding of the system we're monitoring (this never happens in tech, of course :)).
by folmar | 2026-02-14 23:05:51+00:00
> It drains my laptop's and iphone's battery like no tomorrow

Use Teams in Firefox with ublock for battery issues, somehow it consumes much less.

> It's the only software I use that, for some reason, has an effect on my typing accuracy.

That's because the typed letters appear with a large (often even ~1 s) delay. Close your eyes while typing and you'll be back on you track.
by secbear | 2026-02-14 23:05:54+00:00
Agreed, my experience and code quality with claude code and agentic workflows has dramatically increased since investing in learning how to properly use these tools. Ralph Wiggum based approaches and HumanLayer's agents/commands (in their .claude/) have boosted my productivity the most. https://github.com/snwfdhmp/awesome-ralph https://github.com/humanlayer
by tylerdane | 2026-02-14 23:06:30+00:00
It's a fair point. I think loss-aversion over React (Native) is to blame.

Their current client stack is:
Web: React
Desktop: React + Electron
Mobile: React Native + Native

Their commitment to React on so many platforms makes it easy to accumulate bloat. Their need to support lower-level features means they can't avoid native code altogether.

I wonder why they stick with it.

My guess is they don't want to add more hires just for this problem

Their 2018 commitment to RN: https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-sticking-with-react-...

Their 2025 complications with it: https://discord.com/blog/supercharging-discord-mobile-our-jo...
by dlenski | 2026-02-14 23:06:37+00:00
Yes. An excerpt from my initial email to Mysa's security contact…

> I stumbled upon these vulnerabilities on one of the coldest days of this winter in Vancouver. An attacker using them could have disabled all Mysa-connected heaters in the America/Vancouver timezone in the middle of the night. That would include the heat in the room where my 7-month-old son sleeps.
Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API
by mprast | 2026-02-14 23:07:41+00:00
Hi HN!
Nerve is a solo project I've been working on for the last few years. It's a developer tool that stitches together data from multiple sources in real-time.

A lot of high-leverage projects (AI or otherwise) involve tying data together from multiple systems of record. This is easy enough when the data is simple and the sources are few, but if you have highly nested data and lots of sources (or you need things like federated pagination and filtering), you have to write a lot of gnarly boilerplate that's brittle and easy to get wrong.

One solution is to import all your data into a central warehouse and just pull it from there. This works, but 1) you need a warehouse, 2) you have an extra copy of the data that can get stale or inconsistent, 3) you need to write and manage pipelines/connectors (or outsource them to a vendor), and 4) you're adding an extra point of failure.

Nerve lets you write GraphQL-style queries that span multiple sources; then it goes out and pulls from whatever source APIs it needs to at query-time - all your source data stays where it is. Nerve has pre-built bindings to external SAAS services, and it's straightforward to hook it into your internal sources as well.

Nerve is made for individual developers or two-pizza teams who:

-Are building agents/internal tools

-Need to deal with messy data strewn across different systems

-Don't have a data team/warehouse at their disposal, (or do, but can't get a slice of their bandwidth)

-Want to get to production as quickly as possible

Everything you see in the demo is shipped and usable, but I'm adding a little polish before I officially launch. In the meantime, if you have a project you'd like to use Nerve on and you want to be a beta user, just drop me a line at mprast@get-nerve.com (it's free! I'll just pop in from time to time to ask you how it's going and what I can improve :) )

If you want to get an email when Nerve is ready from prime-time, you can sign up for the waitlist at get-nerve.com.

Thanks for reading!

(edit: formatting)
by rconti | 2026-02-14 23:08:07+00:00
It's amazing that the algorithms are so universal rather than personalized.
You'd think they'd want to notice that I _absolutely never_ watch shorts, and stop showing them to me, instead recommending something else.

I understand why FB/IG do it; I _occasionally_ give in and get sucked into a couple. But that NEVER happens to me with YT.
by NoahZuniga | 2026-02-14 23:09:23+00:00
This is not true. You can in fact block specific channels. From YouTube support[1]:
> On certain pages, such as your Home and Watch Next pages, find a video from a channel that you don’t want recommended to you.

> Click More next to the video title.

> Select Don't recommend channel .

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839?hl=en
by skydhash | 2026-02-14 23:11:46+00:00
DDD is quite nice as a philosophy. Like concatenate state based on behavioral similarity and keep mutation and query function close, model data structures from domain concepts and not the inverse, pay attention to domain boundary (an entity may be read only in some domain and have fewer state transition than in another).

But it should be a philosophy, not a directive. There are always tradeoffs to be made, and DDD may be the one to be sacrificed in order to get things done.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-14 23:11:56+00:00
>I was more interested in finding something less personal and more community-ish. where the power to add or reject submissions does not lie with one individual. Wouldn't that be nice?

So, Hacker News?

Otherwise, be the change you want to see. if you haven't hit critical mass, the "community" will likely be 1-2 people getting he community off the ground anyway. How and if you want to scale from there will vary based on the ones managing the site.