MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Free AI video transcription online tool
by Katherine603 | 2026-02-05 06:23:46+00:00
I've developed a simple AI-powered video-to-text converter.
Upload your video, and within minutes, its content will be converted into clear, searchable text. Our AI accurately captures spoken language, identifies different speakers and accents, reviews the generated transcript, and exports it in your preferred format—including TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, or VTT. You can then edit it, use it for subtitles, or share it anywhere.
Everything runs directly in your browser. I'm primarily interested in feedback on output quality, user experience, and any technical improvements worth exploring.
by polynomial | 2026-02-05 06:23:52+00:00
Depending on what your usage requirements are, Mac Minis running UMA over RDMA is becoming a feasible option. At roughly 1/10 of the cost you're getting much much more than 1/10 the performance. (YMMV)

https://buildai.substack.com/i/181542049/the-mac-mini-moment
by scrubs | 2026-02-05 06:24:04+00:00
Omg! Who the hell cares if the "boss" got a heads up. When I'm in engineering or you're in engineering with me, we party the same way: better is better.

The bosses - hell management's job leading into organizational culture - is to stop politics from derailing good engineering and customer satisfaction.

It's not too tough for me. Now that you know where I stand the other side better get it's act together.

Drowning in politics helps nobody including the boss. It's a net loser.

Now I'm practical and empathetic: a surprise can bring heat. But then you breath and get a grip. Cool. But thereafter the right things better get done. Politics for a day - np - politics sapping know how making cynical SE'S think twice? Never.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-05 06:24:11+00:00
This simplistic explanation seems to elide the very point it makes ... a gold backed currency becoming a non-gold backed currency was done via a political decision making process, just as any decision to default on US national debt would be.

You seem to suggest that people should worry about a default claiming if we had still had a gold backed currency the risk would go away ... "if you hold your money it cannot be made worthless by a third party" ... but it can be made worthless by a government any time that government chooses.

The government (having defaulted on gold-backed debt) could simply refuse to convert the paper of the debt to gold (sure, that would be bad, but hey, they've already chosen to default, so not much worse ...)
by TZubiri | 2026-02-05 06:24:15+00:00
>Hope you didn't name it anything sensitive, like "mycorp-and-othercorp-planned-merger-storage", or something.

So, no one competent is going to do this, domains are not encrypted by HTTPS, any sensitive info is pushed to the URL Path.

I think being controlling of domain names is a sign of a good sysadmin, it's also a bit schizophrenic, but you gotta be a little schizophrenic to be the type of sysadmin that never gets hacked.

That said, domains not leaking is one of those "clean sheet" features that you go for no reason at all, and it feels nice, but if you don't get it, it's not consequential at all. It's like driving at exactly 50mph, like having a green streak on github. You are never going to rely on that secrecy if only because some ISP might see that, but it's 100% achievable that no one will start pinging your internal host and start polluting your hosts (if you do domain name filtering).

So what I'm saying is, I appreciate this type of effort, but it's a bit dramatic. Definitely uninstall whatever junk leaked your domain though, but it's really nothing.
by momoschili | 2026-02-05 06:24:18+00:00
Nobody that mattered went to jail. A few lackeys might have been thrown to the wolves, though it seems only 1 spent significant time in jail. Meanwhile the board members, C-suite of Lehmann, Bear Stearns, WaMu, etc didn't spend a second in jail. What's really shocking is you burying the lede.
by stephantul | 2026-02-05 06:25:10+00:00
Well I guess I mean the pubic in general. I also don’t necessarily mean willfully creating technology that can be abused.

For example, we all stood by when we let Twitter and other US-based social media become the main way politicians communicate with the public. This has, in my opinion, had disastrous consequences on how they communicate and actively blocks politicians from achieving consensus.

This is to say that you don’t need to have actively worked on something.
by hsbauauvhabzb | 2026-02-05 06:25:14+00:00
@anoym - There isn’t something inherently bad about working for law enforcement or national security agencies as long as what you’re doing cannot be used now or in the future unethically. But too be honest I think this is a ‘don’t hate the player’ type things, if palantir didn’t exist, another company would take its place - privacy legislation is the only thing that prevents it, not relying on ethics of the masses.
by defrost | 2026-02-05 06:25:33+00:00
(2021)

Largely geared toward gaming for prominent front page exposure; since authored five years of adaption to ever evolving gaming strategies has occurred.

Could use a tomhow paragraph, The "Squeaky Beach" of HN moderators perhaps?

* https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/news/squeaky-beach-in-wils...
by onion2k | 2026-02-05 06:26:56+00:00
That only good if you're doing measurably more with the time you save. I feel like I'm significantly faster in parts of my job using Copilot, but when I try to get data on what I'm doing now that I wasn't doing before I had it I don't come up with anything. I know I'm working faster, but the time seems to have just gone.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-05 06:27:54+00:00
> The only money that has ever lasted is actual coins/bars of metal, precious or otherwise.

1. most physical paper has a relatively short life, so one would not expect it to last as long as metal tokens

2. paper was only available in much of the world several thousand years after the first currencies began, so it's not suprising that we have little record of paper money from very old civilizations.

3. the idea that there was no cheating by fudging numbers before paper currency is completely ahistorical. The nature and ease of the fudging may have changed, but the fudging itself existed long, long before paper currencies became common.
by tglobs | 2026-02-05 06:28:52+00:00
I had my ebike stolen today a few hours after seeing this, and immediately made an account to watch Craigslist for bike thieves trying to sell it.

If you had asked for $60/month to run it, I would've paid it.

6 attempts later, it's failed every time. I love that it's so easy to throw together things like this, but we need better ways of testing vibe-coded apps.
by dmichulke | 2026-02-05 06:30:20+00:00
Great article with lots of practical ways to implement it. In my view this is a superpower and I find I can usually do it if I'm not stressed or tired.

As follow-up thoughts:

- It's important whom you listen to. Consider it a gift you're giving and give it only to those who you think deserve and not abuse it or make you consistently feel bad about something.

- Those listeners are also very healthy in/for a group,e.g., at work.

- Listening is a big part of managing a team. People's thoughts are often all over the place and it's your job (partly) to structure these, within a person and a across a team. People that feel heard are much more inclined to listen.

- For starters: Just make an effort to ask five open-ended questions in every conversation you have. You will see how people open up after some time. This also works for family, dates, colleagues, ...
by BatteryMountain | 2026-02-05 06:30:22+00:00
Combination of partitioning + sharding perhaps? Often times its is only a handful of tables that grows large, so even less so for a single large customer, thus sharding that customer out and then partitioning the data by a common/natural boundary should get you 90% there. Majority of data can be partitioned, and it doesn't have to be by date - it pays dividends to go sit with the data and reflect what is being stored, its read/write pattern and its overall shape, to determine where to slice the partitions best. Sometimes splitting a wide table into two or three smaller tables can work if your joins aren't too frequent or complex. Can also help if you can determine which of the rows can be considered hot or cold, so you move the colder/hotter data to a separate tables to speed up read/writes. There are always opportunities for storage optimization large datasets but it does take time & careful attention to get it right.
by AmbroseBierce | 2026-02-05 06:30:33+00:00
"How did that make you feel"

It made me feel like I'm talking with someone role-playing a therapist; it's just my worldview but if I want to talk about how something made feel I will talk about it but dislike to be directly inquired, is evident that this is way of thinking is more common in men than women of course.
by bilekas | 2026-02-05 06:31:26+00:00
> Against that backdrop, ICE’s assertion that it is considering privacy expectations appears designed to reassure both policymakers and potential vendors that the agency is aware of the controversy surrounding commercial surveillance data.

We can't seriously believe that this agency has any sense of respect for privacy right? They literally are going around thinking they don't need judicial warrants. I mean nobody's going to stop them using the purchased data however they want, but don't lie and say you'll be good with the privacy and care of the data.

https://apnews.com/article/ice-arrests-warrants-minneapolis-...
by jukkan | 2026-02-05 06:32:36+00:00
Using the paid M365 Copilot ($30/mo) Chat and Researcher agent, I recently discovered an interesting limit: Copilot is technically unable to retrieve more than 24 email messages. Ever.

We can't know if the answers I got from it are reliable but it seems like the Microsoft Graph API calls it makes and the tools Copilot has are missing the option to call the next page. So, a paginated response is missing all data beyond the first page.

I vibe coded this page as "documentation" since obviously no official MS docs exist for anything like this:
https://vibes.jukkan.com/copilot-search-gotchas.html
by w4yai | 2026-02-05 06:33:08+00:00
You must try GLM4.7 and KimiK2.5 !

I also highly suggest OpenCode. You'll get the same Claude Code vibe.

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by vidarh | 2026-02-05 06:33:38+00:00
> And by socialist system with a free market do you mean one where private ownership of the modes of production remains legal, but simply isn't chosen, or do you consider banning private ownership compatible with free markets?

I would consider public ownership but not state ownership compatible with free markets. The only essential element for free markets is competition with sufficiently low regulation. Some socialist ideologies are inherently incompatible with markets, some are not. E.g. libertarian Marxism and other form of libterian socialism are, because they reject centralised government entirely.
Show HN: SwiftFiles – 100% private, browser-based file tools (WASM)
by deusrazen | 2026-02-05 06:33:42+00:00
I built SwiftFiles because I was tired of uploading sensitive documents to random servers just to merge a PDF or convert an image. The idea was simple - unify all these utility tools that process different types of files into one web-based solution.

Everything here runs 100% client-side in your browser using WebAssembly (FFmpeg.wasm, PDF-lib, etc.). No files are ever uploaded to a server. It's fast, free, and private by design.

I’m looking for technical feedback on the performance and any tools you’d like to see added next!
by redbell | 2026-02-05 06:33:54+00:00
> After leaning on its partnership with OpenAI, Microsoft is playing catch-up in the chatbot race. But data shows that it is losing ground with users.

This explains perfectly the annoying behavior when you search for ChatGPT using Edge. The top thing that appear to you is, well, Copilot and not ChatGPT! Tagged as "Promoted by Microsoft" and labeled as "Your Copilot is here", is clearly a weak move from MS to push Copilot as possible as it can despite its limitations in what it can do compared to its competitors.

At this current time, I think MS situation in the AI arena is not very far from Apple.
by thomassmith65 | 2026-02-05 06:35:10+00:00
I understand my comment might give one the impression that I am confusing the chicken (the financial crisis) and the egg (the Occupy movement).

Since Occupy could not have existed without the Crisis, certainly some blame goes to the Crisis.

That said, Occupy shaped perception of the Crisis. Occupy trained the public to view the Crisis in terms of bad people, instead of systemic problems like incentives.

The Occupy movement, with its permanent smoke-pit adolescents like Tim Pool, Matt Taibbi, Max Keiser, and so on, has influenced public discourse ever since.

I cannot prove that Occupy, rather than the Financial Crisis alone, made possible our current dysfunctional politics (with its focus on scapegoating, conspiracy theories, magical thinking), but I notice echos of its 'memes' (in the original sense of the word), and its attitudes - not to mention I notice some of the actual participants.
by noduerme | 2026-02-05 06:35:21+00:00
Hahaha. I'm not above that kind of work. Sometimes having a consistent codebase for both things comes in pretty handy if you need to tie em together or just need to spruce up the CSS every few years.

I don't intentionally make my work hard for anyone else to maintain. I comment and write tests pretty thoroughly in case someone else comes along. Or in case I get woken up at 6am with a bad hangover.
by muyuu | 2026-02-05 06:36:27+00:00
Well, if you're using it like it's supposed to be used, all of it is accessible by a third party and its availability depends on them. It will all be potentially scrapped (meaning it will be). You are essentially outsourcing the hosting as well, with its pros and cons. I'm heavily biased against that, so it's not only a github thing but a "cloud computing culture" thing. I only use other people's computer when using my own is a real problem or it's just not feasible.
by goku12 | 2026-02-05 06:36:48+00:00
If this is what you make of the current atmosphere, I'd say that you're severely underestimating it. In fact, the entire US seems to be in denial and sleep walking into a disaster. Everything that has happened so far was predictable at least six months in advance. But people seem to miss it because of the 'that won't happen to us' attitude. I'm not going post alarming warnings anymore. Just study history in detail. Everything happening today is eerily similar to several dark chapters in history - except with the added precision lethality of modern information warfare.

One more thing. Trump isn't your biggest problem. He's just a very visible symptom of a much deeper festering issue. The people who surround him actually far exceed his penchant for preplanned retribution. They follow the same playbook that many foreign leaders employ with him to get their wishes - satisfy his craving for validation.
by IhateAI | 2026-02-05 06:36:54+00:00
All Law enforcement and Nat Sec of the United States is inherently unethical, or at minimum tied to ethically questionabke tactics. We have the highest incarceration rates in the world, death penalties ect. Our Military isnt exactly ethical in its missions, pretty much since WW2

You're basically saying "There isnt anything inherently wrong about working for the 4th Reich"
by anonym29 | 2026-02-05 06:37:08+00:00
Don't forget - Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon, Oracle, etc are all proud partners of the US intelligence community, which includes DHS and ICE. When the NSA asked these companies to participate in an unconstitutional and unlawful program (as ruled by a federal judge) called PRISM, they didn't fight, they eagerly complied. They kept their compliance secret. They lied about it to citizens, to their users, to their customers, and even to congress. These are fundamentally untrustworthy entities, and there's no reason to believe they've changed and won't comply with secret DHS and ICE requests just like they did with secret NSA requests.

Every dollar spent on AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, iPhones, Macbooks, Windows, Office, etc supports the widespread violation of rights committed against the innocent of all political and demographic backgrounds in the name of "national security".

Know what doesn't? Open source operating systems, open source software, and self-hosting. Do the right thing, ditch the modern day equivalents of IBM collaborating with the enemies of freedom, human dignity, and human prosperity.
by londons_explore | 2026-02-05 06:39:12+00:00
A company I worked for had a 'when the police raid the office' policy, which was to require they smash down the first door, but then open all other doors for them.

That was so that later in court it could be demonstrated the data hadn't been handed over voluntarily.

They also disconnected and blocked all overseas VPN's in the process, so local law enforcement only would get access to local data.
Show HN: Mirror private work contributions to your GitHub profile
by yuvrajangads | 2026-02-05 06:39:13+00:00
I work on private repos all day but my GitHub profile showed empty squares. Built a tool to fix it.

Mirrors commit timestamps (not code) to a public repo. Also tracks PRs, reviews, issues via GitHub API.

5 min setup, runs daily via cron/launchd.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-05 06:40:50+00:00
It is common to remote mount JBOD over initrd drop-bear ssh using sector level strip signature checking, predicted s.m.a.r.t power-cycle-count/hours/serial, proc structure, and an ephemeral key. SElinux is also quite robust in access permission handling.

TPM collocates a physical key on the same host, incurs its own set of trade-offs with failures or physical access in dormancy, and requires trusting yet another vendor supply chain. There are always better options, but since the Intel Management Engine can access TPM... such solutions incur new problems. Privilege escalation through TPM Sniffing is also rather trivial these days.

Have a great day. =3
by jesterson | 2026-02-05 06:42:21+00:00
> Sometimes the new guy can make a better version themselves over the weekend, not because they’re a supergenius, but because they’re not hampered by 47 teams all trying to get their stamp on the project.

In 99.9% of cases what seems to be "the better" version is better only for the "new guy" or rather his ego.

Those 47 teams hampering doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing, and more often than not actually well justified "stamps".

You only understand those things when you turn from the "supergenius" into an owner who have to take care not only of numbers on screen, but also security, interfacing, management and so on.

Or you don't turn into.
by sschueller | 2026-02-05 06:43:52+00:00
I am in the same boat but I recently found I could also use these tool so reverse engineer stuff as well. For example I purchased this label printer from china and was unsatisfied with the printing quality under Linux. So I "coded" a go script to print via BLE instead of CUPS [1]. To do this I de-compiled the android app that comes with the printer and instead of spending hours going through it I just told an Agentic AI to do this for me.

I am now so deep into the rabbit hole that I have made a version that runs entirely in the browser and an ESP32 version. I have now also taken the printer apart to find that the built in BLE is an external module and I could interface directly with the printer by replacing it with my own custom PCB...

[1] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/making-a-label-printer-wo...
by D-Machine | 2026-02-05 06:43:56+00:00
People that think "reading books" generically is anything to be impressed about have been woefully out of touch for well over a decade.

After you've done about 50 or so major classics, selected broadly from different thinkers and authors, it is clear the vast majority of most books have negligible additional value. This can all be done quickly in your late teens to early twenties, after that, there is no real need to read more than a book or two in a year, and even then, it is not usually worth reading those one or two in entirety.

Digital textual sources like the ones you mention have far more continued and sustained value at this point.
by coreflow | 2026-02-05 06:44:00+00:00
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by 9x39 | 2026-02-05 06:44:53+00:00
>need an enormous car,

.gov requires cars to have so many features that the incentives push them further and further towards higher margin vehicles.

> gigabit internet

Why should this be a guilty pleasure when gigabit internet approaches a basic commodity that's broadly available in developed countries that built internet infra out after us and aren't captured by ancient telcos? Gig, multigig, 10G is going to start being available in places like South Korea. US lags behind on Speedtest charts: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index

>Give me child care, healthcare, great education and more leisure time

If you stop working and maybe are in the right demographic, this can all be yours and have more provided if you just apply for it. Work with other families doing the same thing and you can get very creative with it.
by ianbutler | 2026-02-05 06:45:41+00:00
I think that expecting the public to reason through the myriad n-order effects that were going to happen from the whiplash of technology in the last 30 years is a little much.

However, I think a lot of people in tech could and did see those consequences coming and were pretty vocal about it. So, I don't think we all did stand by, we exercised what limited power we had. I don't want to seem accusatory here and I don't mean it harshly, but maybe you just didn't see the folks who have talked about problems like this.

We also as individuals [without billions] have fairly limited capacity to directly act against these things. I donate a fair bit to the EFF for instance and I've sent outreach to representatives multiple times over the years for specific bills and when its possible I vote against surveillance.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-05 06:46:06+00:00
Not a full team adoption story, but relevant data point: I run a small engineering org (~40 engineers across teams) and we've been tracking AI coding tool adoption informally.

The split is roughly: 30% all-in (Claude Code or Cursor for everything), 50% selective users (use it for boilerplate, tests, docs but still hand-write core logic), 20% holdouts.

What I've noticed on PR velocity: it went up initially, then plateaued. The PRs got bigger, which means reviews take longer. We actually had to introduce a "max diff size" policy because AI-assisted PRs were becoming 800+ line monsters that nobody could review meaningfully.

The quality concern that keeps coming up: security. AI-generated code tends to take shortcuts on auth, input validation, error handling. We've started running dedicated security scans specifically tuned for patterns that AI likes to produce. That's been the biggest process change.

Net effect: probably 20-30% faster on feature delivery, but we're spending more time on review and security validation than before.