MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-02-20 18:48:01+00:00
My FB feed is filled with slag that's got nothing to do with anything I'm interested in, my friends or family. I have wade through 85-90% of that crap just to see a post from a friend inviting everybody to a BBQ they are having which is already 2 weeks past the event. Oh, and every time I log in I have 10+ unread notifications that again are more desperate attempts at getting me to engage with the platform and not actually something that should have ever been sent as a notification.

FUCK THAT.

So I don't use Facebook. I cannot wait for this house of cards to collapse in on itself.
by boredtofears | 2026-02-20 18:48:16+00:00
I'm on FB primarily because my local buy-nothing group is on it, so I am logging in multiple times a day. I'm so used to this slop it's pretty funny at this point, but as is the case with all social media, you tune your algorithm as you engage. At this point it pushes things like cooking videos and hockey clips more than the AI slop for me.

Sometimes I'll go down a rabbit hole of clicking AI generated videos just because my curiosity is piqued, and then I'll be stuck getting that slop fed to me for the next week. I have to make a mental note to actively disengage with it as quickly as possible to tip the algo in the other direction.
by cduzz | 2026-02-20 18:48:20+00:00
On windows and linux, yes, without any added anything holding the shift (or windows or control or alt) key on one keyboard will modify the behavior of any key with any other keyboard (I have a vague memory of getting 3 keyboards and hitting ctl-alt-del across the three keyboards, on windows, and it behaving "normally").

You need some added tools to make it work with macos, as someone else pointed out

These days I just use a single keyboard (the IBM M4-1 keyboard) and get up frequently.
by throw4847285 | 2026-02-20 18:48:23+00:00
I'm addicted to HN comments in a way that's almost certainly bad for me. I skim the articles (if that) and then hop into the comments section to pontificate about whatever topic is marginally related to the article I didn't read. Maybe my attention span has entirely eroded, or maybe I lack an outlet for the never-ending torrent of racing thoughts that keeps me up at night. But either way, here we are.
by thisislife2 | 2026-02-20 18:48:30+00:00
I am still pissed at PayPal for stealing some money from me (this was probably a decade ago) - I opened a new PayPal account in India, and PayPal required me to add a Debit Card (Mastercard or Visa) to it. It also said that to verify the card, it would debit a dollar or two from it, and then refund it back. Bastards stole around Rs. 100 from me and never refunded it! (I was a broke student back then, so it hurt! :). In the midst of all that, India tightened its regulations on non-banking online transfers, and I don't remember exactly, but I think PayPal chose to partially exit the Indian market (because it couldn't compete and / or because it didn't want to abide by the regulations). Ebay also shut down in India around that time, if I remember right.
by rekabis | 2026-02-20 18:48:56+00:00
> defining the user experience, to designing a comfortable interface, to keeping things simple and understandable, to making sure you're building something that's actually usable by the people you're designing it for.

I have always seen this as Step № 1, even when doing work like refactoring a mature product.

But it’s nice to have this called out explicitly as a discrete thing. It’s become so natural for me that I frequently don’t even see a threshold between it and coding.
by themafia | 2026-02-20 18:49:09+00:00
Does git use "slave?"

Then does simply performing a search on bitkeepers documents for "slave" then automatically imply any particular terminology "came from bitkeeper?"

Did they take it from bitkeeper because they prefer antiquated chattel slavery terminology? Is there any actual documents that show this /intention/?

Or did they take it because "master" without slave is easily recognizable as described above which accurately describes how it's _actually_ implemented in git.

Further git is distributed. Bitkeeper was not.

This is just time wasting silliness.
by win311fwg | 2026-02-20 18:49:25+00:00
Maybe, but why would one introduce coupling between the worker queue and the work being done? That is a poor design.

Now we know why it was painful. What is interesting here is that the pain wasn't noticed as a signal that the design was off. I wonder why?

We should dive into that topic. I suspect at the heart of it lies why there is so much dislike for Go as a language, with it being far less forgiving to poor choices than a lot of other popular languages.
by moffkalast | 2026-02-20 18:49:34+00:00
Haha, well do you have a point there. I guess I had the P!=NP kind of verification in my head, where it's easy to check if something is right, but not as easy to compute the result. If one could make these verifiers on some kind of checksum basis or something it might still make sense, but I'm not sure if that's possible.
by ruszki | 2026-02-20 18:50:19+00:00
I think there is a huge gap between people who has a good CLAUDE.md (or similar), or those who doesn’t.

When I first tried, the created code was garbage. Now that I slowly built my memory, several thousands of manually written examples and guidance, it can generate quite reliably, when it doesn’t need literally anything outside of those…

That being said, most of the vibe coded codebases (in reality every single one which I saw) use garbage memory, and consequently have garbage output.

So the same thing is terrible and great at the same time. People who give time, and people who is fine producing garbage (huge majority) says it’s great. People who just tried it out, and don’t have the luxury to potentially waste days and weeks, say that it’s bad. All of these are true at once.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-20 18:50:35+00:00
I include legislative anti-liberties as corruption. If you can be jailed for reposting a meme on twitter, for example... If you post a picture of your dog with a paw up, and make a nazi joke about it and risk winding up in prison as a more specific example.

There are clearly delegated responsibilities to the states... the 10th amendment specifies as much... that the govt has grown beyond this wouldn't have been stopped by a parliament any more than the current system.
by laurex | 2026-02-20 18:50:55+00:00
This is such a misunderstanding of what "community" means through the lens of technology. These tools are not designed to help people have relationships, and the Google vs. Facebook distinction is quite apt in that both are scale-oriented and relationships are in service of the ends of the business. We're using the word "community" to obfuscate the weird way the technology and its owners attempt to mediate relationships.
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-20 18:50:58+00:00
Can't speak for OP but my spouse has set up a private GroupMe for posting events for a group, but otherwise everyone shares pictures using text messages. We don't post any pictures of our kid where strangers can easily get access to them and we've read the privacy policy of every service we've ever used.

I was considering self-hosting something for a while but she found it more sensible to do it this way.

Every once in a while she logs into Facebook to post something on Marketplace and immediately gets completely sidetracked by their algorithm and design. Then she gets frustrated and we just put the thing she wanted to sell on the corner instead.
by artemonster | 2026-02-20 18:51:05+00:00
I read a RARE friend-made post, close tab, decide to react/support/comment/like on it, reopen FB and this post is buried forever in the feed, findable only if you search this person again. fuck them for fucking with my feed.
Forget if this was a post from some group, since they can be shown to you out of order, good luck finding it
by wcfrobert | 2026-02-20 18:51:53+00:00
Ad duopoly with Google.

Half of all humans on Earth uses Meta products (Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Threads). These products are free for you to use. But for Meta, your attention is the product which they sell to advertisers.

99% of their revenue comes from ads, and 1% comes from VR stuff.
by 5upplied_demand | 2026-02-20 18:51:58+00:00
The Bakke decision in 1978 upheld that race could be used as a factor in admissions. Your counter-example is precedent from 50 years ago. Does that same precedent exist in this tariff case?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regents_of_the_University_of_C...
by elcritch | 2026-02-20 18:52:05+00:00
> Getting macOS code signing and notarization working in CI was honestly the hardest part of this project. If anyone is distributing a macOS app outside the App Store via GitHub Actions, I'm happy to answer questions — the workflow is fully open source.

You're not kidding! That's actually the first thing I looked at in your Github Repo. It's annoying as I made a neovim gui and downloaded it from GH and couldn't run my own app until I dug into some hidden place in the Settings App. Definitely super helpful to see how it's done.

I'm digging the app too! As another commenter said it'd be cool to see the comments as native SwiftUI elements as well. :)
by nadis | 2026-02-20 18:53:10+00:00
> "Rather than scanning for known patterns, Claude Code Security reads and reasons about your code the way a human security researcher would: understanding how components interact, tracing how data moves through your application, and catching complex vulnerabilities that rule-based tools miss."

Fascinating! Our team has been blending static code analysis and AI for a while and think it's a clever approach for the security use case the Anthropic team's targeting here.
by dathinab | 2026-02-20 18:53:10+00:00
> (I dunno, maybe those are all bots too.)

I wish,

but from personal experience I'm afraid quite a bunch of them are creepy old guys which have no idea how creepy they have become(1), because they are in a bubble with mostly only other creepy old guys

(1): Like I don't mean people which always have been creepy or "secret/hidden" creepy. But people which through increasingly more "not caring" and echo champers/ad bubbles and similar twisting their world perception/social feedback loop have become increasingly more creepy in the last 10-20 years.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-20 18:53:11+00:00
Federal Reserve (Fed): While created by Congress to be independent, critics argue its regulatory powers and management of money are inherently executive functions that should be under Presidential control.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): As an independent regulatory commission, it oversees markets, yet some proponents of a unitary executive argue it should be subject to White House control.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): A regulatory agency that, along with the Fed, has been subject to executive orders aiming to tighten oversight.

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC): An independent agency that issues regulations and recalls, often cited in discussions regarding the scope of executive authority.
by themafia | 2026-02-20 18:53:35+00:00
I wouldn't know. I use DynamoDB almost exclusively. These simply aren't considerations that occur with that product.

It is true that it can be hard to size workloads into lambdas rather unusual CPU configuration; however, the real beauty of lambda is, you can just fork several parallel copies of your function. We can sometimes fork up to 250 instances just for a single "job."

If you're in the same boat we are where your workloads parallelize easily then Lambda has been incredibly cost effective for this use case.
by npilk | 2026-02-20 18:53:36+00:00
Well, I haven't really used any Meta platforms for at least 5 years, so I don't think that's how they're deciding what to serve me.

I could definitely believe that I used to click on more pictures of girls back in high school and college when I actually used Facebook. But they would have been real pictures of people I was friends with.

To your point, I'm sure if I used the product more, the algorithm would get "better" according to what I engaged with.
by epsilonic | 2026-02-20 18:53:43+00:00
At least Plato did the work in attempting to describe the qualities (of the soul) and structure necessary to erect a just society; the problem is that we have not cultivated the frame of mind to produce people with "philosopher king" traits. As we advance further in our technological development, we will need to think carefully about how we form societies that cultivate responsible stewards of technology. After all, not everyone is equal in their capacity to manage certain technologies responsibly. Plato made a serious attempt at addressing this problem. If we have failed in realizing his vision, it is because we forgot how to attend to our soul.
by jmyeet | 2026-02-20 18:54:00+00:00
Facebook in particular, and social media in general, is an excellent example of making short-term decisions ultimately leading to your doom.

FB of course started as a way for college kids to follow each other and see what's going on. Then rather than a chronological feed we got the newsfeed. This was hugely controversial, actually. Apparently ~10% of the user base threatened to quit over it [1].

But why did they do it? Because it increased engagement. And every social media platform since has followed the newsfeed model.

But the big thing (IMHO) that led to FB's destruction was sharing links. I bet this too increased engagement but it ultimately leads to your feed being flooded with your weird uncle posting conspiracy theories.

All social media platforms have moved away from this idea of following your friends and family. They're all now a way of disseminating "news" and following celebrities. How social groups keep in touch now is group chats.

I firmly believe this recommendation model is headed for a reckoning with governments around the world. We have the Meta trial going on now, the EU investigating platforms for addictive practices (where is this same smoke for sports betting and crypto gambling I wonder?) and so on.

In the US, this comes back to Section 230, a law established in the 1990s that created legal cover for user generated content because it shielded platforms from legal liability as long as they met certain requirements (eg moderation, legal takedowns). The alternative is to be a publisher (eg a newspaper) who are responsible for their content.

I believe that the algorithmic newsfeed has created a way to let social media platforms act as publishers but enjoy thei protections of being a platform.

Let me put it this way: if, for example, you as a publisher make endless posts about the evils of Cuba, how is that different from having user-generated content where you promote anti-Cuba content and suppress pro-Cuba content? In my opinion, it isn't, functionally. This will ultimately come to a head.

Anyway, back to Facebook, I know some still use groups but really who uses FB anymore? For awhile, Meta had the golden goose with IG but even that seems to be in decline. Twitter has declined way from its peak and was never mainstream. Snapchat enjoyed a very young audience for ephemeral messaging. I have no idea what the current state is. It seems like Tiktok is the only platform still enjoying growth.

[1]: https://www.fastcompany.com/4018352/facebooks-news-feed-just...
by nickla | 2026-02-20 18:54:09+00:00
I deleted my account in 2005 when I noticed that it wasn't just for getting to know local groups. Before I deleted it I was contacted by a pretty woman who had 100 friends who were all the same last name as me. That's all she wanted to do is contact people who were "related". I had the suspicion she was a bot. People call me stupid for doing so, but now it is just bots?
by criddell | 2026-02-20 18:54:25+00:00
> The algorithm has no idea what to show you.

If you run into somebody you don't know, your first instinct shouldn't be to start showing them porn.

I don't use Facebook but I do use YouTube and their recommendations are horrendously bad for me. So many AI videos.

For some reason last night it thought I wanted to see bogus videos of porch pirates stealing a package that's actually a glitter bomb. I clicked through to the comments and the top comment was something like "Who are these AI videos for?" and the response was something like "Me. I know they are fake but I like seeing thieves get what's coming to them."

Mike Judge is a prophet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfOMeLk6m0
by palmotea | 2026-02-20 18:55:22+00:00
>> I'm not clear on what Tesla is doing these days.

> Ask the CEO? Based on recent incentives and acquisitions, are they planning to remain a car company?

I believe Musk wants to hype humanoid robots, because he can't get away with irrationally hyping electric cars or self-driving technology like you used to.

Tesla was never a car company, their real product is sci-fi dreams.
by bmurphy1976 | 2026-02-20 18:55:27+00:00
It's nonsensical rage/click baiting garbage. You are the product, not the user.

Anybody who hasn't used FB in a long time almost certainly has 100s if not 1000s of posts from friends and family that they missed. Instead of this garbage it should be "Hey, we haven't seen you in awhile! Here's all the fun and important stuff you missed out on."

That might actually get me to engage with the platform because that would be putting my needs first and foremost. But that's not what FB does and not what FB ever did. Zuck never had our best interests in mind, so why would it put our interests first?
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-20 18:55:31+00:00
>Is there a problem with my name being green?

Not as such, no. However, new accounts (which show up as green) tend to get less attention and more downvotes. When I first joined that annoyed and confused me, but after a while (when my name was no longer green), folks seemed more accepting of my comments and submissions.

As the eminent philosopher opined, "It Ain't Easy Being Green"[0]. Although I believe their ruminations predate HN.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZ-IxZ46ng
Show HN: Nix It – Eliminate work instead of organizing it
by badarsebard | 2026-02-20 18:55:36+00:00
Hi HN. I built Nix It because I was tired of switching back and forth between my email client and task tracker and wanted a way to manage both uniformly. It gave me the tool I always wanted, and the process forced me to sharpen the system I use personally.

The core idea behind the system is that elimination is the highest-leverage action in any work system. Before you organize, prioritize, or schedule something, ask whether it should exist at all. My experience has shown me that important things come back naturally.

Nix It is an email client (Outlook available, Gmail planned) combined with a task management canvas. Emails and tasks live side by side as cards on a Kanban-style board. Conceptually, everything flows through three stages: filter what enters, distill what remains by controlling visibility with states and time-based triggers, and eliminate aggressively. The goal is to keep your system as close to empty as possible.

Try the sandbox without signing up: https://sandbox.nixit.app

Main site: https://www.nixit.app

Full methodology: https://www.nixit.app/system

I built it using SvelteKit and Convex. Happy to talk about the build, the philosophy, or why I think most productivity tools make the problem worse.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-02-20 18:55:49+00:00
There's legit dashcam video showing Autopilot preventing severe crashes. Go on YouTube instead of balking. Here's a few to get your algorithm working:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3K410O_9Nc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6SplEn4hQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcfgIltPyOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2N8f3nEYc
by ianbutler | 2026-02-20 18:56:11+00:00
Among other places sure, I pivoted off the Show HN strictly, but it's fair for you to raise this given your thread was inspiration.

Posting something to SHOW people without considering how people may want or need what you're showing is just bad etiquette anywhere frankly. If you're building for yourself that's great, maybe qualify it in your post because otherwise it's free game to judge poorly. Spam is inherently unwanted content, you don't get to decide what is wanted content the collective community does.

It's something we've all inherently learned building software for years that all the new people building are going to figure out for themselves. Just because you can build it doesn't mean anyone will care if you're trying to show it off and with the flood of new apps, it's fair game to discuss.
by palmotea | 2026-02-20 18:57:01+00:00
> If I read the article it says autopilot, not FSD.

What's the difference? And does it matter?

Both are misleadingly named, per the OP:

> In December 2025, a California judge ruled that Tesla’s use of “Autopilot” in its marketing was misleading and violated state law, calling “Full Self-Driving” a name that is “actually, unambiguously false.”

> Just this week, Tesla avoided a 30-day California sales suspension only by agreeing to drop the “Autopilot” branding entirely. Tesla has since discontinued Autopilot as a standalone product in the U.S. and Canada.

> This lands weight to one of the main arguments used in lawsuits since the landmark case: Tesla has been misleading customers into thinking that its driver assist features (Autopilot and FSD) are more capable than they are – leading drivers to pay less attention.
by FloorEgg | 2026-02-20 18:57:06+00:00
Mayb in some extreme cases, but I wouldn't go so far as using the "con" word most of the time.

The hardest part of startups is probably the making good decisions part. To be a good VC you need to be better at founders at judging startup decisions, AND you need to be good at LP deal flow AND you need to be good at startup deal flow. LP deal flow has to come first (otherwise there is no fund), and because of zirp a lot of VCs got funds up without good startup deal flow or the ability to judge startups well.

In other words it's hard to be good a VC too, but for a while it was artificially easy to be a bad VC.
by runarberg | 2026-02-20 18:57:09+00:00
Replying in a split thread to clearly separate where I was wrong.

If Gemini is so good at chess because of a non-LLM feature of the model, then it is kind of disingenuous to rate it as an LLM and claim that LLMs are approaching 2000 ELO. But the fact it still plays illegal moves sometimes, is biased towards popular moves, etc. makes me think that chess is still handled by an LLM, and makes me suspect benchmaxxing.

But even if no foul play, and Gemini is truly a capable chess player with nothing but an LLM underneath it, then all we can conclude is that Gemini can play chess well, and we cannot generalize to other LLMs who play about the level of random bot. My fourth point above was my strongest point. There are only 4 anchor engines, one beats all LLMs, second beats all except Gemini, the third beats all LLMs except Gemini and Survival bot (what is Survival bot even doing there?) and the forth is random bot.
by franga2000 | 2026-02-20 18:57:10+00:00
People buy high-end Android phones like crazy, I don't know what bubble you live in. Samsung Folds and Flips are the luxury phones, not the iPhone Pro Max S eXtreme Edition 32 GB that looks exactly like the base model but has a slightly better camera. People show off their S Pen and perfectly stabilised 100x zoom lens, not their liquid ass. Multi-window and DeX are features for professionals who need to Get Shit Done^TM, iPhones are the toys kids use to send memojis to each other.

And yes, I can also click one button and go into phone calls only mode. I can even set it on a schedule or based on my calendar. I don't know where you're getting your half-baked Android, mine Just Works.

You might not agree with every one of those points, but you can't seriously think everyone thinks like you. Go outside your bubble some time.