MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-15 17:02:31+00:00
I don't think people grasp the gravity of the situation.

I see everyone talking about how to stop using products. I even thought about legislation that could help. But that's just it, none of that is possible. You can't even employ a "torches and pitchforks" approach. For any of this to be possible, people would have to coordinate. The means by which people communicate and coordinate are under the influence and control of the very entities that the people are trying to bring under control.

The only way to win this war is by means of economic warfare. And I don't mean "vote with your wallet". If I could spell out what I mean here, then the previous paragraph would have been invalid.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-15 17:02:39+00:00
Every places have echos of echo-chambers, but some are worse than others. At least on HN you can choose to see stuff heavily downvoted, in many other places moderators just remove posts as they see fit. You'll get more different point of views here than on many other places, but I'd be happy to hear what places you consider less of an echo-chamber than HN.
by donkeybeer | 2026-02-15 17:03:06+00:00
Its the opposite of quality of life. Immigrants are irrelevant to it. Higher housing costs benefit nobody, local or immigrant. In no place in earth are housing costs coming down, so no matter immigrant or not we need to build housing at a mass scale just to have a fighting chance against rising prices. Making this about immigrants is bullshit. Refusing to build houses is utter bullshit, its the opposite of quality of life. It leads to crap quality of life and then people whine and cry and ask for more self destructive crap further spiraling into crap. Making houses cheap benefits everyone, keeping houses expensive harms everyone.
by infinitewars | 2026-02-15 17:03:23+00:00
If your river often freezes over (e.g. Rock), you're not in the right place. The Mississippi River almost never does where the Pecans grow.

"The tree can only survive in areas with warm winter nights, which severely restricts its distribution.

To ensure your pecan tree grows at the expected rate (1-3 feet per year for non-bearing and 5-12 inches for existing bearing trees) and produces nuts, the two most critical parts of pecan tree care are consistent watering and fertilizing.

A pecan tree purchased from a nursery will reach its full height of four to six feet in 8 to 10 years if planted in the right spot. Pecan trees are considered fast-growing for a nut tree, when in suitable conditions."
by fzaninotto | 2026-02-15 17:03:38+00:00
I don't agree with the premise that we pay a subscription because there is no better and cheaper alternative. We pay Slack subscriptions but we could get IRC for free. We pay Google Drive subscription but we could get rsync for free.

The reason we pay a subscription is because the company that built the software knows our business, knows how to get in touch with the decision maker, and knows how to market their product as something desirable. The actual software has little influence in that decision.

On the contrary, I think the price of SaaS subscriptions will go up as a result of AI. Because the only customers who will switch to a cheaper (or home made) alternative are the ones for whom the software is a commodity. These customers used to form the long tail of subscriptions, usually on the lower tier. When the entry pricer disappears, and the software editor has to generate a high return for their investors, the only way to keep profitability is to increase the price for the other tiers.
by monitron | 2026-02-15 17:03:57+00:00
If you want to appreciate his work today, consider reading these lovely articles about the systems he helped design:

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/master-system/

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/mega-drive-genesis...

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/sega-saturn/

https://www.copetti.org/writings/consoles/dreamcast/
by hinkley | 2026-02-15 17:05:01+00:00
Hmm. That’s fair, though I’d probably use set operations instead. What you find though is that for most other problems besides diffing, ID order is not chronological order, so you need to sort by a date stamp instead. But I’m typically letting the database do that, so I’m a consumer of sorted numbers, but not an implementor. Because what I sort is nearly always compound sorts. By field A, then field B and field C if those two still don’t cut it.
by noduerme | 2026-02-15 17:05:11+00:00
As right as this may be, it elides the crucial difference between asking LLMs and all the other methods of asking questions you enumerated. The difference is not between the quality of information you might get from a friend or a blog versus an LLM. The difference is the centralization and feeding of the same poor quality information to massive numbers of people at scale. At least whatever bonkers theory someone "researches" on their own is going to be a heterodox set of ideas, with a limited blast radius. Even a major search engine up-ranking a site devoted to, like, how horse dewormers can cure covid, doesn't present it as if that link is the answer to how to cure covid, right? LLMs have a pernicious combination of sounding authoritative while speaking gibberish. Their real skill is not in surfacing the truth from a mass of data, it's in presenting a set of assertions as truth in a way that might satisfy the maximum number of people with limited curiosity, and in establishing an artificial sense of trust. That's why LLMs are likely the most demonic thing ever made by man. They are machines built to lie, tell half-truths, obfuscate and flatter at the same time. Doesn't that sound enough like every religion's warning about the devil?
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-15 17:05:37+00:00
What’s the use of any press that’s funded by the government? Would you trust them to do accurate reporting on vaccines when the government is run by RFK? Would you trust them to tell the truth about what was going on in Minnesota? Venezuela?

Any government funded press would either be a tool of propaganda or be constantly worried about getting defunded - like what just happened to NPR and PBS.

The government just required the press to get pre approval before they could publish anything - even non classified info.

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2025/09/pentagon...

This idea was so abhorrent that not even Fox News would sign on.

https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-reporting-rules-hegseth-...

Now the part of the press corps that has direct access to talk to Pentagon officials is literally made up of right wing social media influencers.
by simonw | 2026-02-15 17:06:04+00:00
That "full quarter" included the Christmas holidays for many people, during which not a lot of work gets done.

I think it's a bit early to expect to see huge visible output from these new tools. A lot of people are still spinning up on them - learning to use a coding agent effectively takes months.

And for people who are spun up, there's a lot more to shipping new features and products that writing the code. I expect we'll start to see companies ship features to customers that benefited from Opus 4.5/4.6 and Codex 5.2/5.3 over the next few months, but I'm not surprised there hasn't been a huge swell in stuff-that-shipped in just the ~10 weeks since those models become available.

There is one notable example that's captured the zeitgeist: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw had its first commit on November 25th 2025, 3 months later it's had more than 10,000 commits from 600 contributors, attracted 196,000 stars and (kind-of) been featured in a Superbowl commercial (apparently that's what the AI.com thing was, if anyone could get the page to load - https://x.com/kris/status/2020663711015514399 )
by stevekemp | 2026-02-15 17:06:24+00:00
I got a Pikachu tattoo a few years ago, and after agreeing the design/placement the artist held up a series of coloured inks and made me do a binary-search, saying "This one, or that one?" and I think there were about six to choose from.

To me it was obvious there was one correct colour for Pikachu to be, she approved of my choice and said "Ahh yes the original design" which puzzled me at the time, but I guess there a nuances to the shades and versions of characters like this, which evolve over time (pun intended).

As for me? Tattoos fade over time so the colour is different than it used to be, but everyone who looks at it knows exactly what it should be so that's fine.
by rzerowan | 2026-02-15 17:06:42+00:00
Agressive interoperability at the protpcol and exchange format - its why email mostly works even forcing Google to back off when they tried to change email to be rendered by their cdn (i forget the name of the offering - but was similar to what news pages were being pushed for speedup).
Bad actors will always abound - like Microsoft spiking the documnt standards by pushing through ooxml when odt/odf was gaining traction.
Or basically just coercing the decision makers like in Berlin(?) where they moved their offices into hte city to get them to drop Linux/Openoffice.
by gzaal | 2026-02-15 17:06:53+00:00
MetaScope is a macOS metadata editor for photographers that treats metadata as a first class workflow, not an afterthought. It adds controlled IPTC vocabularies, autocomplete keyword rules, editable camera EXIF fields, GPS date repair tools, and a fast scoped search with an inspector panel so you can actually find and fix images in large archives.

The goal is simple: stop manually typing keywords, stop broken timestamps and missing camera info, and make decades of photos searchable and consistent across Finder, Lightroom, and other apps. This release focuses on professional metadata standards, batch repair operations, and search that explains why a file matched, not just that it did.
by gedy | 2026-02-15 17:06:56+00:00
When I was doing my graduate work about 20 years ago, I focused on algorithmic art and visualizations (from code perspective), and even then I was making stuff that was at par with the digital media artists in the program (meaning people couldn't tell or realize I was making this all with scripts).

I was then and still now strongly of the opinion that copying a trend or leaning on "style" is not really "art". You have to say something more than that, or be so unique in your style that you are the first to go down a path.

Not defending job losses by any means, more just that this has been going on a long time and folks need to be careful. Derivative style movies and animation are probably going to be largely automated (by the movie industry)
by djkurlander | 2026-02-15 17:06:59+00:00
OP here.

site: https://knock-knock.net

Every server with port 22 open gets hammered by bots trying to brute-force SSH. I built a honeypot that accepts every connection, records the credentials they try, and displays it all on a live dashboard with a 3D globe.

Some fun things you'll notice:

- Bots try the same passwords everywhere — "admin", "123456", "password" are the classics. Yes, you'll see the Spaceballs password in the top 10.

- Certain countries and ISPs dominate the leaderboards

- Attacks come in waves — sometimes nothing for a minute, then a burst of 50 from one IP cycling through a wordlist

- There's a knock-knock joke panel because I couldn't resist

Originally inspired by my kids asking "who keeps trying to log into your computer?" when they saw me tailing SSH logs.

The stack is Python (FastAPI + paramiko for the honeypot), Redis pub/sub for real-time updates, SQLite for stats, and globe.gl for the visualization. WebSocket pushes every knock to your browser as it happens.

The whole thing runs on a $6.75/year VPS. The domain costs more than the server.

Source: https://github.com/djkurlander/knock-knock
by prmoustache | 2026-02-15 17:08:10+00:00
Yes I would prefer having to be able to not rely on specific background noise. And it looks to me like most of sleep issues are the consequence of unhealthy habits (too mich screen time, too much blue light in the last hours of the day, too heavy dinners, or too close to bed time, not enough physical activities during the day, not enough sexual activities...) so I would rather treat the problem before the symptoms.

It also seems kind of potentially antisocial/annoying behavior if you share yoir bed with someone.
by donkeybeer | 2026-02-15 17:09:04+00:00
Then they should make death chambers for people if they think they are full. At 9 million people, they could choose to live nicely with 4000 sq m lots per person or they can keep crying about housing prices while not doing the one tried and tested solution capitalism offers to high prices. Even if we take out untenable mountain land, how much does that leave us? There is no place on earth that is lacking land for housing. Its a self created problem.
by hinkley | 2026-02-15 17:09:06+00:00
Starflight is the great grandfather of No Man’s Sky, and the first game I availed myself of using Internet databases to find obscure facts about the game. There was no website. It was some group of people curating a text document that was reposted to Usenet periodically with additions and corrections.

I don’t know when I started the game, but I finished it the summer after my freshman year, which is where I first got Internet access.
by gizmo686 | 2026-02-15 17:09:07+00:00
Also, chromosome count is not as stable as you might intuitively think. There are hominidaes alive today with 48 chromosomes.

There are human men alive today without any Y chromosomes that present with standard male phenotypes without needing any medical intervention. Currently, the biggest symptom of this condition is infertility (which is often the point where most people learn they have it). However, on evilutionary timescales, it doesn't seem that far off for the remaining needed genes to migrate over as well. On a human timescale, it doesn't seem that far off for us to medically solve the infertility issue; although I imagine the ethics rules would prohibit such treatment if it leads to xx-male offspring.

Having said that, while chromosomal sex determination is not omnipresent, it does seem to be much more preserved than chromosome count.
by epistasis | 2026-02-15 17:09:57+00:00
It is an interesting choice to use an LLM to generate generic links that do not support the core contentions of the Fox News article. The FoxNews article talks about the DTC as if it were a nefarious invention of the 1970s, yet you link to the DTC itself.

There's something not quite connecting fully in your mind here.

Getting financial news from a click bait site, right or left, is a dangerous maneuver. There is a different axis other than left/right that is far more important: true/false.
by EarlKing | 2026-02-15 17:10:07+00:00
I'm not sure what you're referring to since the files T.C. Lee posted on that geocities site are the only design documents he (or anyone else) ever released, and those are preserved in the SFFiles.zip found at the oocities mirror linked from the github there. That zip contained only a partial dump of some source code, while that sonic.net page contains a more complete copy (but lacks any kind of design documents whatsoever). Was there something else you were referring to?
by lern_too_spel | 2026-02-15 17:10:23+00:00
Greenwald demonstrating his technological illiteracy once again. This time, he doesn't say that PRISM is mass surveillance, though he writes about it right next to where he talks about mass surveillance and has never admitted his mistake.

Now he's complaining that Nest had video footage without a subscription as if the user wouldn't know this. Nest still processes video for motion detection alerts for people without a subscription. It just deletes the video after processing unless you have a subscription to pay for the storage. Even though I am not a user myself, I'd be surprised if this isn't clear to the people who use the product. I am not at all surprised that Greenwald doesn't understand it though.
by solarexplorer | 2026-02-15 17:10:34+00:00
What you describe sounds counter-intuitive. And the paper you cite seems to suggest an ISA extension to increase the number architected (!) registers. That is something very different. It makes most sense in VLIW architectures, like the ones described in the paper. Architectures like x86 do hardware register renaming (or similar techniques, there are several) to be able to exploit as much instruction level parallelism as possible. That is why I find you claim hard to believe. VLIW architectures traditionally provide huge register sets and make less use of transparent register renaming etc, that part is either explicit in the ISA or completely left to the compiler. These are very different animals than our good old x86...
by bikenaga | 2026-02-15 17:10:50+00:00
Original article: "Pan-Arctic Peatlands Have Expanded During Recent Warming" - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.70684

Abstract: "The fate of carbon stored in Arctic peatlands remains uncertain because of the complex nature of the effects of climate change on permafrost and peatland carbon cycling. Expansion and/or shrinkage of Arctic peatlands under climate change also remain unknown due to lack of ground data and difficulties detecting changes in the extent of these ecosystems, meaning that land surface model predictions currently inadequately quantify Arctic terrestrial carbon storage changes. Pan-Arctic shifts in peatland extent would profoundly change the fate of carbon in the terrestrial Arctic. Here, we tackle this knowledge gap by answering three main questions: (a) has lateral expansion occurred in Arctic peatlands as a response to recent warming? (b) if so, how fast has this occurred? (c) how does the response vary regionally? To answer these, we collected a dataset (12 peatland sites, 91 peat cores) combining peat cores collected across two latitudinal (north–south) transects: one in the European Arctic and one in the Canadian Arctic. In each region, we selected three peatland sites, with cores collected from transects spanning the peat-edge to the peat-centre. Our large-scale dataset shows that peatlands have expanded, often rapidly, with some rates exceeding ~1 m per year since 1950 AD. This rapid expansion has occurred during a period of widespread Arctic warming and is still ongoing: two thirds (8/12) of our peatland sites evidence new peat formation after ~1990 AD based on age-depth models constrained by 14C and 210Pb dating. Given that our sites comprise a broad range of Arctic conditions, we expect peatland expansion to be a pan-Arctic phenomenon. Within specific regions, there are constraints on peat expansion including topographical limits, but we present the basis for future work to estimate pan-Arctic peatland expansion, plus the associated carbon cycle implications under future climate change."
by mindslight | 2026-02-15 17:11:16+00:00
CCTV is a different market that requires a bunch of setup rather than merely being plug and play consumer electronics. The compatibility there is good for that market. The compatibility there in the context of Ring/Nest is irrelevant.

Compatibility in terms of the Ring/Nest ecosystem would be the separation out as separate product categories, and prohibition against anti-competitive bundling of these four aspects: hardware device, backend storage service, app that interacts with both, any background "app" functionality (image recognition, sharing with neighbors/police, etc).

If Google or Amazon released a product in each of these categories that's fine, as long as they were only built with documentation publicly available to every other company. The point is if Amazon storage + Amazon social features were still wildly popular-by-default leading to this type of commercial, people could easily switch to alternatives that respected privacy.
by api | 2026-02-15 17:11:24+00:00
Greenwald supports both Putin and Trump, for starters.

He's either insanely clueless, a propagandist who is being dishonest about his goals, or an accelerationist who thinks making things worse will make them better after (magic happens here).

The magic never happens. Any political program that boils down to (1) break everything, (2) magic, (3) things are better, really goes (1) break everything, (2) either things stay broken and you end up a failed state or someone worse takes over.
by FabHK | 2026-02-15 17:11:39+00:00
My point is that it's ok to use unencrypted plain text if you don't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret"), AND furthermore you don't care if it's modified.

If you don't care that it's read ("it's nothing secret"), but you do care that it's not modified, you should not use unencrypted plain text. That's why I explained that if you don't care if it's read that is not a sufficient justification to use unencrypted plain text, because then it might be modified, and you might care about that.

You then said that it "literally" is: if you don't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret") that is a sufficient justification to use unencrypted plain text.

But then you proceed to give an example where it is, indeed, ok to use unencrypted plain text, but only because you don't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret"), AND you don't care if it's modified. That is what I have been saying all along. If you were to care that the wind speed from the sensor on your roof is not faked, then you should not use unencrypted plain text.

So again: If you don't care that it's read, AND you don't care if it's modified, then, sure, use unencrypted plain text.

If you don't care that it's read ("it's nothing secret"), but you do care that it's not modified, that is not sufficient justification to use unencrypted plain text. Rather, in addition, you also have to not care if it's modified.

Let me give you an example. Air pressure varies, and airplanes use air pressure to measure altitude, so they need to set their altimeter to the correct air pressure. Now, the air pressure is not secret at all. Anyone could trivially measure it. So, one doesn't care if it's read ("it's nothing secret").

According to your faulty thinking, one could thus use unencrypted plain text to transmit it. However, someone could modify it, giving wrong numbers to the airplane, putting the airplane and the crew in danger. That is not good. No-one cares that the data is read ("it's nothing secret"), but we do care that it is not modified. Thus, do not use unencrypted plain text. Because if you don't care if it is read ("it's nothing secret"), that is not sufficient justification to use unencrypted plain text. You have to, in addition, not care if it is modified.

In your case, you don't care if it is read ("it's nothing secret"), AND you don't care if it modified. But someone else might not care if it is read, but DO care if it is modified.

Do you understand this now, or should I make a full 2x2 matrix with all possibilities and carefully explain each case with examples?
by jamamp | 2026-02-15 17:12:37+00:00
I think it's valiant to try to do all of this with semantic HTML elements to achieve the right effects, and try to go for a "classless CSS" paradigm to get a nice looking and functional web app (as a fan of classless CSS myself). But scrolling through the component catalog, it unfortunately feels like it's all over the place and inconsistent with semantic vs basic elements, data tags vs aria attributes, and sprinkling some css classes over some of it.

I do very much like that by introducing aria attributes, the CSS reacts to it and styles it appropriately. As opposed to a full-blown react component library which does all of that for you. It would be a good exercise for developers to think aria-first and let the library just help with styling.

Lastly, I think the best part is that this component library has a native sidebar. So many of these I see and they have a nice web page which showcases all the components and I want to replicate their layout and nav/sidebars but they only focus on smaller re-usable components and not the layout. So that's a nice touch, I think. And, as someone who keeps an eye on but doesn't do a lot of frontend, the fact that a sidebar is an aside > nav > ul next to a main just makes so much sense and doesn't have a lot of cruft around it.