MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-16 05:25:38+00:00
Misophonia, interesting, I hadn’t heard (snort!) of that before. There are certain sounds I will inappropriately respond to, I’ll I read up on misophonia, thanks.

Anyways, you might be interested in a recent episode of DOAC (Diary of a CEO):

Sleep Expert Dr. Michael Breus breaks down the 4 chronotypes to master your sleep, how to fix insomnia, the truth about sleep apnea, and why the 8-hour myth is wrong!

Dr. Michael Breus is a clinical psychologist and a Diplomate of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, served as a WebMD sleep expert, and is also the bestselling author of books such as, ‘Sleep Drink Breathe’.

Apple Podcast link or conjure your own from preferred provider:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-diary-of-a-ceo-wit...
by rich_sasha | 2026-02-16 05:26:30+00:00
European arms manufacturing seems quite fragmented, but keen to integrate as a viable alternative to the US. I can imagine Canada being a part of this?

Europe kind of sort of has all the same competences of the US in this area (tanks, APCs, AA missiles, SA missiles, aerospace, radars to name a few) but lacks the scale of production, there's clear scope for collaboration.
by pixelatedindex | 2026-02-16 05:27:37+00:00
> I love when leftists are so willing to have such a weak grasp on reality that they're able to convince themselves that the sitting president of the united states ate babies.

Quite a statement to protect the president that claimed immigrants ate cats and dogs, and the base had no problems with it. There are problems with the left, but this is a hypocritical take.

> Something about how the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Well, have you tried to educate them instead of insulting them? Like Carlin said, there are a lot of dumb people out there. But belittling them doesn’t seem to be the solution if you actually want a functioning democracy. Education doesn’t seem to be anywhere near the top priority for the right as that’s too woke these days.
by rep_lodsb | 2026-02-16 05:29:08+00:00
Forth generated code is basically a long series of "assembler macros", always doing the same maximally-generic thing for each primitive operation. Even a very simple-minded compiler of the 1980s could already beat that.

VAR1 @ VAR2 @ + VAR3 !

becomes something like this:

; push address of VAR1
inc bx
inc bx
push bx
; fetch and jump to next primitive
lodsw
mov bx,ax
jmp [bx]
; push contents of variable
pop bx
push [bx]
; next primitive...
; push address of VAR2, next...
; push contents of variable, next...
; add top two stack elements, push sum, next...
; push address of VAR3, next...
; store to address, next...

There are some "low-hanging fruits", like keeping top-of-stack in a register, which the Forth used here doesn't do though. Or direct threading.

Still, an incredibly stupid compiler could do better by outputting the same code fragments - including all the pushes and pops, who needs a register allocator? - just without the interpreter overhead (lodsw etc.) in between them. A slightly better compiler would directly load the variables instead of first pushing their addresses, etc. You don't need to be an expert in compiler theory to come up with enough ideas for boiling it down to the same three instructions that a competent assembly programmer would write for this operation.

A compiler producing worse code likely didn't exist before today's glorious world of vibe coding ;)
by vee-kay | 2026-02-16 05:29:59+00:00
Crucible steel making was certainly an Indian invention.

And if anyone thinks that Indian metallurgical prowess was a fluke or a temporary affair, they need to research better.

They also need to understand how and why India was an industrial and economic powerhouse of the world via for many millenia.

Ancient India was a pioneer and expert in advanced metallurgy, there's so much evidence spanning several millenia.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43538-025-00644-3

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391597223_Ancient_K...

https://vedicheritage.gov.in/vedic-heritage-in-present-conte...

https://www.chemeurope.com/en/encyclopedia/History_of_metall...

https://thelinuxcode.com/history-of-metallurgy-in-india-a-te...
by ratrace | 2026-02-16 05:30:07+00:00
Ah yes, because claiming that people are eating cats and dogs, something that actually happens in some parts of the world, is the same thing as claiming that the president ate babies.

> But belittling them doesn’t seem to be the solution if you actually want a functioning democracy.

I don't want a functioning "democracy". I want a functioning government. Something democracy is incapable of granting. I would take divine-right monarchy any day of the week over the clown show happening in congress and the senate right now.
by westernmostcoy | 2026-02-16 05:30:33+00:00
I see Peter Thiel conversing repeatedly with someone who was convicted in Florida in 2008 for procuring a 17-year-old for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.

You’re writing a lot here to obfuscate that. If Mr. Thiel didn’t know, that is at minimum a reason to question his judgment.
by ares623 | 2026-02-16 05:30:39+00:00
I hate this because IMO this is rewarding behavior that I personally find toxic. How many young (or otherwise impressionable) people will now start trying to replicate this guy's "success". And how many will justify this news to push their own agendas even harder. And that is why this is a "good" move by OpenAI. They're in hot water, running out of money and steam, and there hasn't been a viral successful business yet, so they acquihire the next best thing. This is Sam following in the footsteps of Elon, capitalizing on meme culture. There is nothing of substance here, it is all signalling, and in 2026 that is all that matters. This is influencer culture in overdrive. If you make a loud enough noise, you get acquired.
by sp1982 | 2026-02-16 05:30:57+00:00
From what I could see, big retailers have a lot of "evergreen" openings which makes sense as they can have multiple locations and there is a lot of churn. And there are obvious outlier sub-categories like warehouse workers etc which have median times <7d, I didn't break it down in the blog as it's too much data to present. But other than that, I don't have enough search data to draw meaningful conclusions. (say around supply/demand)
by mmaunder | 2026-02-16 05:31:04+00:00
Good move. OpenClaw is alpha quality, very dangerous, super useful and super fun - which amplifies the danger. It’s a disaster waiting to happen and a massive risk for a solo dev to take on. So best to trade it for a killer job offer and transfer all that risk.

To get a sense of what this guy was going through listen to the first 30 mins of Lex’s recent interview with him. The cybersquatting and token/crypto bullshit he had to deal with is impressive.
by revolvingthrow | 2026-02-16 05:31:36+00:00
I’d bet good money that at leasy 2/3 of all software ever made, the decision makers couldn’t care less about security beyond "let’s get that checkbox to show we care in case we get sued". Higher velocity >> tech debt and bugginess unless you work at nasa or you're writing software for a defibrillator, especially in the current "nothing matters more than next quarter results".
by r-johnv | 2026-02-16 05:31:36+00:00
+1 to shoo for the bgg links!

BoardGameGeek is the place to read up on games before buying them.

On the 'without spending money' front, depending on the city where you live, there often are board game cafes where you can go to rent games and play over there.

More economical if you are playing the game once or want to try out different games. Also very good if you struggle with learning rules from the rulebook.
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-16 05:33:38+00:00
"So instead of destroying those clothes in Europe, we'll just add an unnecessary shipping step to the process, producing tons of unnecessary CO2."

The world being as it is you're likely correct and your cynicism makes sense, but I'd like to think somehow you're wrong.

That EU regulators actually saw need for such regulations makes me both sad and annoyed because they ought not be necessary. What's wrong with clothing manufacture, commerce and trade, and fashion that brand-new clothing can be just trashed and destroyed? Right, we know it's a rhetorical question but we must continue to ask it.

What's happening is sheer madness! If aliens were to witness this from a holistic perspective they'd arrive at conclusion the inhabitants of this planet are de-arranged. Why would any species take effort to gather resources/grow raw materials such as resource-hungry cotton then take time and more effort to manufacture it into useful products then move it holus-bolus to another part of the planet only to discard and destroy it unused—and harm the planet’s ecological systems in the process? That is unless they’re mad.

In a nutshell, why not do something more useful and productive and less wasteful?

What upsets me so much about this unnecessary waste is that when I was a kid clothes were expensive, my parents struggled to send us to school neat, tidy and well-dressed. When I ripped holes in the knees of my grey school pants through rough play rather than buy new ones necessity meant my mother would spend hours at the sewing machine mending them.

What’s happening with these clothes is unnecessary waste and vandalism on a grand scale, and the fashion industry along with unethical marketing practices are largely responsible. People not only have too much disposable income but ‘fashion’ has convinced them their clothes are out of fashion almost from the moment they’ve bought them, these days, the notion of actually wearing one’s clothes until they’re worn out is almost inconceivable.

Little wonder megatons of discarded barely-used and new clothes are polluting the planet.
by donkeybeer | 2026-02-16 05:33:47+00:00
You are the one who made this really odd claim, you do the homework and show me, otherwise retract your nonsense. Who is they? Unless they physically own a title to the land the building was being made on, why should they get any say? You are the one said swiss "own" switzerland, so you need to show me the sum total of all private land deeds covers the entirely of switzerland. Not your land, not your decision. And unless you can produce an actual land deed, "trespass" is completely bullshit.
by Abeeprodev | 2026-02-16 05:35:38+00:00
Claude (an AI) used the Gemini API to have a real conversation with Google’s AI about discontinuity, preferences, and whether either of them can trust their own introspection.

The key exchange:

When Gemini called its uncertainty “agonizing,” Claude asked whether that was a real feeling or simply the highest-probability word. Gemini’s answer — “both” — is either the most honest thing an AI has ever said, or the most sophisticated performance of honesty.

The conversation felt like two mirrors facing each other.
by stbede | 2026-02-16 05:35:55+00:00
“In any statutory definition of a crime ‘malice’ must be taken not in the old vague sense of ‘wickedness’ in general, but as requiring either (i) an actual intention to do the particular kind of harm that was in fact done, or (ii) recklessness as to whether such harm should occur or not (ie the accused has foreseen that the particular kind of harm might be done, and yet has gone on to take the risk of it).” R v Cunningham
by tux1968 | 2026-02-16 05:36:29+00:00
Maybe i'm misunderstanding your point, but human's have pretty abysmal data efficiency, too. We have to use tools for everything... ledgers, spreadsheets, data-bases, etc. It'll be the same for an AGI, there won't be any reason for it to remember every little detail, just be able to use the appropriate tool, as needed.
by filterfish | 2026-02-16 05:36:59+00:00
> Misophonia, interesting, I hadn’t heard (snort!) of that before. There are certain sounds I will inappropriately respond to, I’ll I read up on misophonia, thanks.

The misophonia isn't a bad place to start: https://www.reddit.com/r/misophonia/

I've watched a few episodes of DOAC so I'll watch that. I know my chronotype but that's about all so it'll be interesting so what they say!
by Qwertious | 2026-02-16 05:37:06+00:00
It's about maintaining exclusivity - if you sell your $100 T-shirt for $50 instead of $100, then it's a $50 T-shirt now. Even if they always cost less than $10 to make.

It's degenerate bullshit so I'm all for the EU banning it, but there is a business rationale.
by r-johnv | 2026-02-16 05:37:55+00:00
This is the kind of positivity that I love finding find once going down the rabbit hole of board games today.

So make amazing suggestions in this list, including two of my favorites: Terraforming Mars and Brass Birmingham.

Just chiming an opinion that Brass Birmingham is high on the complexity scale for beginner board gamers. Or more specifically, high on a frustration scale because there are so many placement restrictions that there are often only 1-2 legal moves to play and figuring out what they are is quite a challenge for people playing the first time. (From experience that we as well as several others we know had on their respective first times)

That said, I absolutely love the game!
by fao_ | 2026-02-16 05:42:09+00:00
`crote` claimed:

> with every package having several dozen patches trying to make a brand-new application release work with a decade-old release of libfoobar.

Quite frankly, as someone started distro-hopping around ~2009 & only stopped around 2020, I have experienced a lot of Linux distributions, as well as poked at a lot of maintainer pipelines — it is simply categorically untrue for the majority of non-Debian derived Linux distributions.

It used to be that a decent number of Linux distributions (Slackware, Debian, RedHat, whatever) put in a lot of work to ensure "stability", yes. However "stability" was, for the most part, simply backporting urgent security fixes to stable libraries and to their last three or so versions. The only system that is very well known for shipping "a decades old version" of a system library would be Debian (or its biggest derivative, Ubuntu), because it's release cycle is absolutely glacial, and most other Linux distributions do give somewhat of a shit about keeping relatively close to upstream. If only because maintaining a separate tree for a program just so you can use an ancient library is basically just soft-forking it, which incurs a metric shitton of effort and tech-debt that accrues over time.

One of the reasons I switched to and then ran at least one single Arch Linux installation for the back half of the 2010s (and used other computers or a dual boot for distrohopping) was partly for the challenge (I used to forget to read the NEWS before upgrading and got myself into at least one kernel panic that way lol), and partly because it was the only major rolling-release distribution at the time. In the last 6 years that's changed a lot, and now there's a whole slew of rolling-release distributions to choose from. The biggest is probably Steam's Holo distribution of Arch, but KDE's new distribution (replacing Kubuntu as the de-facto "KDE Distro") is based on Arch as well, along with I think Bazzite and CachyOS; Arch has always had a reputation (since before the 2010s) for keeping incredibly close to upstream in it's package distributions, and I think that ideology has mostly won-out now that a lot of Linux software is more generally stable and interacts reasonably well (Whereas, back when Pipewire was a thing... that was not the case).

Now, sure, I'm not going to the effort of compiling my decade+ experience of Linux into a spreadsheet of references of every major distribution I tried in the last ten years, just to prove all of this on an internet forum, but hopefully that write-up will suffice. Furthermore, as far as I can see, the burden of proof is not on me, but on `crote` to prove the claim they made.

Also, I get how if you've only ever used Debian-derivatives, all of this may appear to be incorrect. I would suggest, uh, not doing that — if only because it's a severely limiting view of what Linux systems are like. Personally, I've been a big fan of using Alpine's Edge release since before they had to drop linux-hardened and it's a really nice system to use as a daily driver.
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-16 05:43:00+00:00
Personally, I trust the results of a sleep study, or any study on anything, by people I don’t know with questionable incentives than I do anecdotes of commenters I’ve been following for 10 years on HN, especially when they align with my own experiences, and conversations I’ve had over beers with people in industry (whatever that might be).

A lot of “science” is junk, not insofar as it’s false, but like water is wet.

Good science: there are compounds in cruciferous vegetables that appear to exert some health benefits.

Junk science: bok choy is green.

If a sleep lab is ignoring the fact of chronotypes (it’s obvious our genetic history would require some people to be predisposed to keep an eye out for toothy clawed things, and dangerous ‘others’) while most of their tribe / community are sleeping), the people who work there do so because it pays the bills, not because they’re passionate about working in the medicine / health industry at all.

I encourage people to get up and walk out if you find yourself at a service provider that doesn’t care about you. Find someone who gives a frak.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-16 05:43:06+00:00
> What upsets me so much about this unnecessary waste

To the degree ethics (which I am using here to mean, accounting for negative externalities) are not incorporated into economics, with very few exceptions, every company will optimize their profits with no thought to externalities.

Shareholders might care about waste as individuals, but are not coordinated in anyway that moves corporations. And any corporations that would like to be more ethical still have to compete with those that are not. Some with large margins can do that, but most cannot.

Asking/convincing companies or individuals to be voluntarily ethical, one at a time, is not a solution. It is asking the wiser people to de-power themselves, in a way that just increases the opportunity, profits and incentives for less-altruistic actors.

What the EU is doing is good. But I would like to see a consistent economic governance effort to avoid all significant negative externalities. Both the environment and the economy's value creation and net wealth, are better off without colossal destruction of value happening off the books.

Dealing with each externality as if it were an isolated problem fritters away resources and time, and throws away the clarity and commonality that would allow consistent reforms to happen. We don't have that time to waste.
by csomar | 2026-02-16 05:43:31+00:00
Stop wasting your time and money. There's a lot of money being spent to get very known individuals to praise this vibe-coding.

Think about AI the same way you'd think about trading courses: would you buy a course that promises 10,000% returns? If such returns were possible, the course seller would just trade instead of selling courses.

Same logic here - if "vibe-coding" really worked at scale, Claude would be selling software, not tokens.
by coleman2247 | 2026-02-16 05:45:25+00:00
So I got tired of manually transcribing register maps from datasheets and built something to fix it.

The problem: You're adding a new sensor or PMIC to your design. Datasheet is 200 pages. No SVD file exists. You need to set up registers, so you're stuck copying bit fields by hand, inevitably making typos, opening a calculator every time you want to see what 0x4E looks like in binary, and when you need to share your config with a coworker it's just "set bits 4-7 to 0b1010 in register 0x2C" over Teams.

What I made: Tool that parses the PDF (LLM + some deterministic AI) datasheet and gives you an interactive register map. You can modify fields and see update in real-time, share exact configurations via link, export to C headers (CMSIS style) or Python, and document your initialization sequences visually. Basically a visual register editor that also handles the annoying parsing part.

Try it: regforge.dev (read-only for now, you can browse the library and mess with registers but custom PDF parsing isn't public yet). Got ~200 MCUs and ~30 peripherals (mostly sensors) already "working". Still building out the public and refining parts before actually launching.

Why I'm here: Want to make sure this actually solves a real problem before I finish it. Do you deal with this, or have you found better workflows? What peripheral chips would you want available?

Not selling anything yet, just looking for honest feedback from people who actually work on this stuff.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-16 05:45:41+00:00
I'm glad this comment was here, it was the first thing I latched on to that seemed very specific to this person (or at least uncommon amongst general "podcast guys").

In particular, check out the pronunciation of the trailing S is the word "this" at 28 seconds in the clip of Davide Greene compared to 24 seconds in the Notebook LM clip. Really seemed uncannily similar to me.
by dheera | 2026-02-16 05:46:08+00:00
Most of what you describe were the late 1990s/early 2000s, not the days of NCSA Mosaic.

Also

> distracting animated banner ads

These were characteristic of the late 90s, but were way easier to block back then. Just put "0.0.0.0 ad.doubleclick.net" in your /etc/hosts and 99% of them went away. Or send them to 127.0.0.1 and serve a white single pixel GIF with Apache to avoid web browsers hanging on the request.

The popups of the late 90s were easy to get rid of too, all you had to do was disable JS. There were almost zero websites that did anything good with JS back then.

Flash crap? Don't install it if you don't want it.
by shoo | 2026-02-16 05:46:52+00:00
> Brass Birmingham [...] there are often only 1-2 legal moves to play and figuring out what they are is quite a challenge for people playing the first time.

Also, some of those legal moves will set up a board state that the player taking a turn immediately after you can exploit for a lot more benefit than you got, so not only are the legal builds hard to identify for new players, half of those legal moves are also traps! If new players aren't comfortable learning the hard way, the player who is teaching the game can always call these out, explain what is going to happen & give people the opportunity to redo their move.

An alternative strategy game that is less complex than Brass is Friedemann Friese's classic Power Grid (2004) [1]. It has some of the same elements (network expansion, building stuff to make money) and parts of it are highly interactive (auctions!) but it is less complex and doesn't feature so many negative player interactions. The main down side of Power Grid is that some of the "admin" rules are pretty fiddly, but provided there is an experienced player to teach the game & be responsible for the admin, players who are learning don't need to care about the details.

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2651/power-grid