MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sheept | 2026-02-23 16:43:25+00:00
I think to figure out if it's a cultural difference or unwillingness for technological change, it'd be interesting to compare Korean or better yet Chinese apps, which were designed more recently.

In my brief experience,

- Promotional websites (e.g. https://ant.design/index-cn, https://seed.bytedance.com/zh/seedream4_0) seem to be designed similarly to Western websites

- Chinese mobile apps do seem to be more colorful in general (as observed with Japanese websites in the article), and some are more information dense, like Douyin Shop and Live. Bullet comments also add to the density

- I briefly worked at TikTok US, where the company uses Lark Suite. The desktop and mobile interfaces look pretty similar to Notion/Slack, but it has more vibrant colors and slightly more features (being an everything app for the workspace)
by alt227 | 2026-02-23 16:43:40+00:00
> I was exposed to pornography online at age 9....allowing kids first sexual experiences to be pornography

I was initially exposed to pornography at 8 years old, by finding a disgarded magazine in a hedge. However this was pretty soft.

I was exposed to serious pornography at 10 years by finding a hidden VHS tape in the back of a drawer at a friends house and getting curious. This was hardcore German stuff with explicit violence. This has caused me to have therapy in my lifetime.

This was all in the 80s by the way.

Therefore anything you are mentioning happened long before the internet, and is totally possible in a completely offline world as well. So how do these new digital laws 'protect children' again?
by ben_w | 2026-02-23 16:44:15+00:00
3/4-agree; LLM advice is only one step up from an Agony Aunt column in a newspaper.

And I'd expect "Target stock scheduling system does for target employees for restocking shelves" to be an A* or similar.

But also, Google maps has directed people to their deaths: https://gizmodo.com/three-men-die-after-google-maps-reported... isn't even what I was originally looking for, which was: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-sued-negligence-maps-dri...
by numbsafari | 2026-02-23 16:44:30+00:00
Except companies provide wholly inadequate safeguards and tools. They are buggy, inconsistent, easily circumvented, and even at time malicious. Consumers should be better able to hold providers accountable, before we start going after parents.

The only real solution is to keep children off of the internet and any internet connected device until they are older. The problem there is that everything is done on-line now and it is practically impossible to avoid it without penalizing your child.

If social media and its astroturfers want to avoid outright age bans, they need to stop actively exploiting children and accept other forms of regulation, and it needs to come with teeth.
by jaredklewis | 2026-02-23 16:44:38+00:00
A government bailout of OpenAI would be a regressive redistribution of wealth, which is a horrendously poor use of government funds. But that has no bearing on the fact that calling high DRAM prices induced by high demand a “tax” stretches the meaning of the word beyond all recognition.

There are many horrible things in the world and we don’t need to label them all as a “tax.” Words have meanings and if we use them in an imprecise way, it obfuscates the truth.
by cheschire | 2026-02-23 16:44:48+00:00
It's just written Brutal Legend if you can't type the ü. The dots you see in the name are not equivalent to an umlauted u, but instead it's just röck döts.

Since rock dots don't affect the pronunciation of the name, you wouldn't expand to add a letter (which would affect the pronunciation) if you can't type the decorative dots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 16:45:10+00:00
> And with 320GB RAM, 10TB of NVMe SSD storage and 10 GBit/s of "unlimited" bandwidth

I think you’re talking about something else. The comment above was about a machine that didn’t have 10TB of storage, 320GB RAM, or unlimited bandwidth.

If you find 320GB of RAM and unlimited bandwidth for 40 Euro monthly then send it over!
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-23 16:45:26+00:00
That was my experience as well. My understanding is that the simulation will be bottlenecked by the slowest PC. All of my friends had pretty powerful PCs, but someone among us had a slightly weaker one in terms of single core performance, which means we all have that CPU basically then.

The huge battle toward the end of the game dropping or making the game unplayable was what killed it for us. We didn't want to spend all that time making our army and strategy only to be disappointed. At the time we went back to playing Age of Empires 2 DE.
by 2duct | 2026-02-23 16:46:10+00:00
I'm just going to state outright that at one point I was one of the young people this kind of legislation is meaning to protect. I was exposed to pornography at too young an age and it became my only coping mechanism to the point where as an adult it cost me multiple jobs and at one point my love life.

I don't think this legislation would have helped me. I found the material I did outside of social media and Facebook was not yet ubiquitous. I did not have a smartphone at the time, only a PC. I stayed off social media entirely in college. Even with nobody at all in my social sphere, it was still addicting. There are too many sites out there that won't comply and I was too technically savvy to not attempt to bypass any guardrails.

The issue in my case was not one of "watching this material hurt me" in and of itself. It was having nobody to talk to about the issues causing my addiction. My parents were conservative and narcissistic and did not respect my privacy so I never talked about my addiction to them. They already punished me severely for mundane things and I did not want to be willingly subjected to more. To this day they don't realize what happened to me. The unending mental abuse caused me to turn back to pornography over and over. And I carried a level of shame and disgust so I never felt comfortable disclosing my addiction to any school counselors or therapists for decades. The stigma around sexual issues preventing people from talking about them has only grown worse in the ensuing years, unfortunately.

At most this kind of policy will force teenagers off platforms like Discord which might help with being matched with strangers, but there are still other avenues for this. You cannot prevent children from viewing porn online. You cannot lock down the entire Internet. You can only be honest with your children and not blame or reproach them for the issues they have to deal with like mine did.

In my opinion, given that my parents were fundamentally unsafe people to talk to, causing me to think that all people were unsafe, then the issue of pornography exposure became an issue. In my case, I do not believe there was any hope for me that additional legislation or restrictions could provide, outside of waking up to my abuse and my sex addiction as an adult decades later. Simply put, I was put into an impossible situation, I didn't have any way to deal with it as a child, and I was ultimately forsaken. In life, things like those just happen sometimes. All I can say was that those who forsook me were not the platforms, not the politicians, but the people who I needed to trust the most.

I believe many parents who need to think about this issue simply won't. The debate we're having here on this tech-focused site is going to pass by them unnoticed. They're not going to seriously consider these issues and the status quo will continue. They won't talk with their children to see if everything's okay. I don't have many suggestions to offer except "find your best family," even if they aren't blood related.
by dymk | 2026-02-23 16:46:22+00:00
Yeah, imagine having, say, two of these LIDAR sensors, each pointed towards the car's blind spots. Comma already does well with the car's built-in radar + vision on straight freeway runs, but can't reliably change lanes on its own. The built in blind spot detectors on most cars are a binary "there is/not a car present", which doesn't reliably determine if it's safe to actually do a lane change.
by akersten | 2026-02-23 16:46:48+00:00
We are arguing different things. I have never stated "psychological effects of the Internet aren't real and therefore this discussion is moot." My argument is "psychological effects or not (and personally I think they are overplayed), the privacy tradeoff of trying to fix them is not worth it (and I doubt any vague gestures in the direction of age assurance would help)." You are focusing on the first parenthetical but the important part is outside it.

We also have no way to actually measure this even if we wanted to do an experiment. So comparing this very soft science to climate change is a bit out of pocket.
by jmclnx | 2026-02-23 16:46:51+00:00
Yes I say you are right, but that only proves these companies only want to hire very cheap labor.

There is talent in the US, all it takes is training. Decades ago companies would train new hires out out college, but that trend ended in the 90s.

Wall Street started forcing these companies to chase fast market growth and high stock prices. In many cases profit has no meaning for these startups, the only metric is stock price growing. Then once the investors can sell the stock, they bail leaving the company to figure out how to survive by itself.
by topspin | 2026-02-23 16:47:24+00:00
There is an incentive to use higher power. Push the edge of safety limits to achieve higher performance from lower cost devices, for example.

It occurs to me there is an opportunity here. Lidar sensors sampling fleets of vehicles in the real world, measuring compliance and detecting outliers, would be interesting. Patterns will emerge among manufacturers. Failure modes will be seen.

Cursory queries on this reveal nothing. Apparently, no one is doing this. We're all relying on front end certification and compliance. No thought given to the real world of design flaws, neglect, repairs, unanticipated failure modes, etc.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-23 16:47:34+00:00
It's very context-dependent and I can't detail all of them in this post but I'll give a couple examples.

In many cases, for mobile versions of sites hamburger menus can be easily replaced with an app-style bottom-aligned tab bar and on occasion even a linear horizontal navbar. You wouldn't believe how many mobile hamburger menus I've seen on sites that have a grand total of 2-5 destinations.

In the case of list views, three-dot menus can be replaced by a mini-toolbar of buttons that appears within a list item when hovering or selecting a row (depending on if it's desktop or mobile), and on desktop if your audience has a bit of a technical leaning a right-click context menu can do the trick.

The main thing to avoid is to use either as thoughtless catch-all "junk drawers". Usually if one sits and thinks about it a little bit a better pattern will become obvious.
by m4rtink | 2026-02-23 16:47:39+00:00
Put a solar powered MeshCore repeater on top of your house & give a MeshCore companions/clients to your family members.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeshCore

https://meshcore.co.uk/

https://meshcore.co.uk/map.html

Your family memebers should be able to send you encrypted text messages using the MeshCore network only, with no dependence on cellular network or the Internet.

They just need to be in range of your repeater or in areas covered by other nodes that can transitively reach yours. If you are too far from other repeaters to connect, you might need to arrange for some intermediate repeaters being installed. But due to their solar nature (with solar charged battery for night operation), only a secure mounting is needed - this makes gaining permission of their installation a lot easier. With good placement a repeater has a range in dozens of kilometers.

Some example hardware currently recommended for use:

client/companion: Meshtastic Nordic nRF52840 SX1262 LoRaWAN LoRa Arduino Positioning Devboard Low Power TFT Display BLE WiFi Mesh node T114 V2.0" - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007593391057.html

solar repeater: SenseCAP Solar Node P1-Pro for Meshtastic - https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Solar-Node-P1-Pro-for-M...
by armchairhacker | 2026-02-23 16:47:58+00:00
You should be able to choose what's age-appropriate for your kids. Giving them access to e.g. "PG-13" media when they're 9 isn't the problem. Giving mature kids unrestricted access isn't a problem. The problem is culture:

- Many parents don't think about restricting their kids' online exposure at all. And I think a larger issue than NSFW is the amount of time kids are spending: 5 hours according to this survey from 2 years ago https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/04/teen-social-use-mental-h.... Educating parents may be all that is needed to fix this, since most parents care about their kids and restrict them in other ways like junk food

- Parents that want to restrict their kids struggle with ineffective parental controls: https://beasthacker.com/til/parental-controls-arent-for-pare.... Optional parental controls would fix this
by MarkusWandel | 2026-02-23 16:48:13+00:00
Fabrics? I'm old enough to remember my mom making clothes from scratch, because buying fabric by the yard and sewing from patterns was cheaper than buying ready made clothes. That no longer being the case, how many people less than 50 years old do you know that can even operate a sewing machine? Totally different product category than tech gadgets.
by Daishiman | 2026-02-23 16:48:24+00:00
Well yeah. I went to a world-class research university in Latam. The brightest kids were making using of internships to Google, Microsoft and Meta a couple years before graduating and by then they already had a career path laid out for them in the Bay Area.

I'm sure a bunch of companies took advantage of the H1-B program, but without a doubt it took most of the best talent too.
by Roark66 | 2026-02-23 16:48:25+00:00
This excuse "we need to raise prices because we have more demand" is BS. They should be truthful and say "we can increase prices and people will pay it because they want to be EU based"

To be honest for anything more serious than a personal Minecraft server hetzner has been beaten by ovh for ages (on bandwidth - you get all you can eat data limited by speed from ovh - for example 500mbit, instead of 20tb from hetzner).

For this reason hetzner is always a "backup DC" in my eyes and never the primary.

Also I heard they are extremely sensitive regarding abuse allegations so don't even think of hosting something someone may not like seeing...

They get a lot of hype, but there are many competitors worth looking at.
by selridge | 2026-02-23 16:48:53+00:00
Here is what I said:

“ This shift is an analogous to how we took having to do computer arithmetic out of the hands of programmers in the 80s. There used to be a substantial part of programming that was just a computer arithmetic. Now, almost nobody does that. Nobody in this thread could build a full adder if their life depended on it or produce an accurate sin function.”

It is truly not my fault that you proceeded to lecture me for multiple posts just to reach the conclusion that I SET OUT FOR YOU: standardization of computer arithmetic is good and makes it so that someone doing math on a computer doesn’t need to become an expert on how the computer does math.

As I said when you first insinuated yourself: I don’t need your help to be an engineer or a developer, thank you. You persisted anyway and embarrassed yourself.
by wizzwizz4 | 2026-02-23 16:49:04+00:00
Well, yes. If your friends can all go 'round to David's house, where David's parents hand each child a case of beer and send them on their way, any attempt by the other parents to prohibit underage drinking is going to be ineffective.

But most parents don't do that. (I've actually never heard of it.) So social solutions involving parent consensus clearly do work here.

"But it's behavioural!" I hear you cry. "What's stopping children from going out, buying a cheap unlocked smartphone / visiting their public library / hacking the parental control system, and going on the internet anyway?" And that's an excellent objection! What's stopping children from playing in traffic?
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-23 16:49:14+00:00
> If ID checks are fully anonymous (as many here propose when the topic comes up) then every kid will just have their friends’ older sibling ID verify their account one afternoon.

Exactly the same way that kids used in former days to get cigarettes or alcohol: simply ask a friend or a sibling.

By the way: the owners of the "well-known" beverage shops made their own rules, which were in some sense more strict, but in other ways less strict than the laws:

For example some small shop in Germany sold beverages with little alcohol to basically everybody who did not look suspicious, but was insanely strict on selling cigarettes: even if the buyer was sufficiently old (which was in doubt strictly checked), the owner made serious attempts to refuse selling cigarettes if he had the slightest suspicion that the cigarettes were actually bought for some younger person. In other words: if you attempted to buy cigarettes, you were treated like a suspect if the owner knew that you had younger friends (and the owner knew this very well).
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-23 16:49:17+00:00
I don't think it "arises naturally" -- Our country is still something to be proud of, despite its flaws, and patriotism is a dirty word these days. The current administration is mainly seen as unusually divisive because of a relentless smear campaign against Trump conducted over a period of about 10 years. He's no saint, but if you look at it objectively then this breathless hysteria is unwarranted and downright harmful.
by hvb2 | 2026-02-23 16:49:41+00:00
Commodities used to be proper free markets. Many suppliers and many buyers of a product that was the same regardless of the supplier.

This lead to low prices and/or differentiation with new products.

Most of these markets were too good, so in general we now have a few big companies buying up the lion share of the supply so they can set the price regardless. For example soy, just to name one
by dymk | 2026-02-23 16:49:56+00:00
Humans aren't using only fixed vision for driving. This is such a tiresome thing to see repeated in every discussion about self driving.

You're listening to the road and car sounds around you. You're feeling vibration on the road. You're feeling feedback on the steering wheel. You're using a combination of monocular and binocular depth perception - plus, your eyes are not a fixed focal length "cameras". You're moving your head to change the perspective you see the road at. Your inner ear is telling you about your acceleration and orientation.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 16:49:59+00:00
Hedge funds don’t have as high of institutional ownership as you assume. It’s actually pretty small.

That said, nothing about the situation you described is at odds with “free market”. You’re describing the operation of a free market.

I think a lot of people want “free market” to mean the opposite: A highly restricted market where they are protected from any supply and demand inputs from anyone else. They just want cheap things and don’t want to compete with anyone.

There are two sides to a free market, though. In your example where a hedge fund comes in and buys your entire neighborhood, they would have to do so by outbidding everyone. This drives up the price. If it’s an economically irrational move you’d be smart to sell your house to them at an inflated rate, too! Then move back in when the prices crash down.
by palmotea | 2026-02-23 16:50:07+00:00
> If tech talent can’t come to the U.S., American companies will go where the talent is.

LOL! They're going to send the jobs where the wages are cheaper, and that's exactly what they're doing.

IIRC, my employer stopped offering new H1-B sponsorships in most cases, after they opened an office in India (10+ years ago). They didn't open the office because they had a hard time hiring in the US. They opened it because they wanted to pay developers $10k/year instead of $100k a year.
by born-jre | 2026-02-23 16:50:09+00:00
Thanks cap'n-py. Yeah, I love Sandstorm. My goal is to be more portable, lighter, and a 'download binary and run' kind of tool. There are also other attempts around what I call the 'packaging with Docker' approach (Coolify, etc.), which are more attempts at packaging existing apps. But my approach—the platform—gives a bunch of stuff you can use to make apps faster, but you have to bend to its idiosyncrasies. In turn, you do not need a beefy home lab to run it (not everyone is a tinkerer). It's more focused, so it will be easier for the end user running it than for the developer.
by conradfr | 2026-02-23 16:50:36+00:00
I almost didn't see their email because it's sent by "notification" (notification@hetzner.com, no name set). Title is "Update on our pricing".

Anyway my increase is:
EX44 (HEL1) € 44.76 -> € 50.76

Not pleased especially as the reason for the increase for existing customers is a nebulous "The costs to operate our infrastructure has increased dramatically."

Why?
by toast0 | 2026-02-23 16:50:43+00:00
> For one, people actually need to trust your brand to survive for at least five to ten years - cars are an investment, and a car that I can't trust to get safety-relevant spare parts (brake rotors, brake pads, axle bearings) all of a sudden is essentially an oversized paperweight.

Those bits should be easy, unless the OEM was tragically stupid. Where you'll get into trouble is when you need replacement computer bits; those are often tricky for mainstream brands, but if your niche brand ECUs all fail around the same time (wouldn't be the first time for a Google product), and the OEM isn't around to make new ones or make it right, off to the junkyard with all of them. If it's just normal failure rates, you can probably scavenge from totaled vehicles at junkyards even after new parts become unobtainium.

OEM style lighting will also probably get hard to find. Ideally a niche maker would lean towards standard parts there, but that's not the fashion of the times.
Show HN: Sunder – A 15MB Rust/Tauri music player for YouTube without the bloat
by FrogSnot | 2026-02-23 16:50:48+00:00
I built Sunder because I was tired of heavy, telemetry-bloated music clients that take 500MB of RAM just to play a song. Sunder runs with a 15MB binary and a tiny memory footprint.
The Tech Stack:
• Tauri v2 + Svelte 5.
• Dedicated Rust audio thread (rodio/symphonia) to prevent UI-stutter.
• 16ms state-sync between Rust and the UI for a 60fps feel.
• Local SQLite FTS5 cache for instant search.
I'm a 17-year-old developer. I’m obsessed with 'Speed as a Luxury'. My other project, HardBore, achieves 709k items/sec directory crawls because I believe desktop software should be instant.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on the audio sync implementation or how I can push the binary size even lower!
https://github.com/FrogSnot/Sunder
by abdullahkhalids | 2026-02-23 16:51:16+00:00
> I must admit that when I send a really important email, I check the mail server log if it went off without errors, but this does not bother me as checking logs manually once in a while is a good thing anyway.

I also self-host my email. It would be very nice if there was some sort of notification system that alerted you if your email got bounced by the receiving server. A notification that fed through into Thunderbird would be marvelous.
Ask HN: Are we good using nested CSS?
by soperj | 2026-02-23 16:51:40+00:00
I've moved away from sass, to nested CSS because that seems to be the way that things are moving, and it's been 3 years since there was major browser support, but it ended up looking horrible on my friends iphone, and an old ipad of mine. Turns out Safari only updates when you update the OS, so doesn't support nested css. How much of an issue is this going to be? Should I really be adding something as a failsafe?