MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 627467 | 2026-02-10 14:12:17+00:00
> danger of mixing politics, ideology and architecture.

Like there's architecture that doesn't mix politics and/ideology? I sense conservatism in your comment which is a perspective/ideology (which i share btw). Ultimately I feel that taste drives a lot of these takes, not ideology or politics.

I've enjoyed the public areas of the barbican many many times - my only complain (its been many years I haven't been) is it doesn't have a lot of people sharing that space. You'll see that as argument that many people dont share my taste or the actual ideology/politics that led to that style is rejected by the public. I say: the barbican sits in the middle of one of the most depopulated (as in residents not office workers) of London. The areas around it are among the most expensive real estate in London. We all know how many European capitals and London in particular have become a piggy bank for the wealthy so I'd argue most people just cant afford to experience the barbican as well and as often for being pushed out
by hwillis | 2026-02-10 14:12:53+00:00
Molicel's P60 (INR-21700-P60C) weighs 75 grams and can produce almost a horsepower. A 500 horsepower battery weighs less than 42 kg. It stores 12 kWh.

Batteries are not heavy, range is heavy. Range is the sacrifice and sports cars don't need range.

> See how they brag about a simpler new steering wheel that is 400g lighter?

As if ferrari -as if all sportscar manufacturers- have not done the same always. Replacing door handles with straps is not new.
by dzaima | 2026-02-10 14:13:02+00:00
It's beneficial for the average user to know that other clients exist at the very least; it's rather common in the matrix space I'm in that someone asks "how do I do X" without clarifying which client they use, and as such the question is unanswerable (or, worse, someone may answer with info about a different client; or they use some client that noone else does and as such noone can help them).

As some specific example, it's happened a couple times that someone's using a client that doesn't support rendering spoilers as spoilered, and as such they made unspoilered replies of something that should've been spoilered (and of course many clients (incl. the Elements) don't even have a sane way to type spoilers).
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-10 14:13:33+00:00
Worth remembering that many felt the same about male friends saying "I love you" between each other was seen the same way just like 2-3 decades ago, that it'll never be socially acceptable. We had a transition period where it was "required" to add ", no homo" at the end, but today seems like most men are comfortable saying it to each other as friends without adding that disclaimer.

Big progress in just 2-3 decades, so never say never :)
Show HN: GeoGuessr, but for Buildings
by willmaclean | 2026-02-10 14:14:34+00:00
I spend ~10hrs a day staring at floorplans. I realised that recognising them is quite a skill, so I thought it would be fun to make a game out of it.

There are two modes: multiple choice (surprisingly tricky once you get past the most iconic ones) and an expert mode where you get dropped onto a map and have to locate the building with no options. Expert mode is a bit lol.

Feedback is v much appreciated. The leaderboard is live but a bit janky.
Would also love suggestions for buildings to add, ideally ones where the floor plan is distinctive enough to be guessable but not immediately obvious.
by opan | 2026-02-10 14:14:49+00:00
Waaaaaaay better clients (this is the big one), chat logs that are easier to search through with standard unix tools, avoids issues with OMEMO breaking (which stops people chatting at all, breaking the main usage of the program). Saying this as a regular user of both. I spend way more time on IRC and I enjoy irssi much more than Gajim, Dino, or Conversations. I do think XMPP has potential, though.
by Sesse__ | 2026-02-10 14:15:11+00:00
And also, to add to the actual GBA discussion: If you think the resulting sound is too muffled, as many here do, you can simply substitute a filter with a higher cutoff (or less steep slope). E.g., you could use a fixed 12 kHz lowpass filter (or something like cutoff=min(rate/2, 12000)), instead of always setting the cutoff exactly at the estimated input sample rate. (In a practical implementation, the coefficients would still depend on the input rate.)
by puntofisso | 2026-02-10 14:15:46+00:00
Thanks, that's a good shout!

Two thoughts:

1) I'm not 100% sure what to do when the ratio can't be complied with because the original photo has a certain shape, but I'm definitely thinking about it; in general, how to get as much as a consistent crop is the main reason for FaceCrop;

2) trying to keep the UX as simple as possible, so I assume (in this MVP) that the user wants to crop pictures at the same size/quality of the original, and do any further edits elsewhere... but it does make sense and it's probably something not that difficult to achieve with a sensible interface (it also reminds me of https://squoosh.app/)
by exDM69 | 2026-02-10 14:16:10+00:00
You can use descriptor heaps with existing bindless shaders if you configure the optional "root signature".

However it looks like it's simpler to change your shaders (if you can) to use the new GLSL/SPIR-V functionality (or Slang) and don't specify the root signature at all (it's complex and verbose).

Descriptor heaps really reduce the amount of setup code needed, with pipeline layouts gone you can drop like third of the code needed to get started.

Similar in magnitude to dynamic rendering.
by virgil_disgr4ce | 2026-02-10 14:17:07+00:00
Now I'm imagining an app that automatically back-engineers a 'golden ratio' analysis or similar bullshit explanation for you to save you the time and trouble of making it up yourself. Being able to give fussy clients an instant graphic design placebo would be super useful.

In a way it's anthropologically (and linguistically) interesting that such a bigram can gain this kind of status as a result of marketing, essentially. Probably having 'gold' in there helps. Maybe the app could have optional modes for completely new magic numbers:

- The Platinum Proportion
- The Gilded Fraction
- The Silver Symmetry
- The Coveted Correspondence
by prophesi | 2026-02-10 14:17:13+00:00
Yeah, we've seen time and time again that the network effect of social media makes it next to impossible to actually move to a different service. The Discord feature set is great and all, but it's the fact that your communities are there that keeps everyone on it. I'm hoping they get enough backlash / canceled Nitro from this because I don't want to lose the communities I'm in. Already did that with Facebook/Instagram/etc and it sucks.
by randerson | 2026-02-10 14:17:17+00:00
Even the ridiculous 1019 hp Taycan Turbo GT Weissach edition (a 4-door car with no rear seats, such are the compromises made for the track) at best achieved 7:07.55 around the Nurburgring.

A gas 911 GT3 RS with less than half the horsepower laps it in 6:49.3.

The 911 by most measures is the slower car (10.9s 1/4 mile vs 9.2s for the Taycan, 184mph top speed vs 190 etc). The difference is the 911s superior handling and braking and that mostly comes down to the difference in weight.
by arghwhat | 2026-02-10 14:17:35+00:00
You don't call it "cherry-picking" when a person lists fundamental flaws in your argument.

Constantly ignoring all the flaws outlined and just reiterating your initial opinion with no basis whatsoever is at best ignorance, at worst trolling.

HTTP with signed packages is by definition a protocol with authenticated payloads, and encryption exclusively provides privacy. And no, we're not singeling out the least likely attack vector for the convenience of your argument - we're looking at the whole stack.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-10 14:17:36+00:00
> All other browser I've tried (firefox, vivaldi, edge, safari, atlas, many others) and all other programs with a tab-based UI I use (zed, vs code, sqlitebrowser) look worse.

Both you and the poster could both be correct.

Looking good and being a poor interface are unrelated.

IOW, something could look absolutely beautiful and still have a nightmarish UI.

"Looking pretty" is subjective. Being a good UI is objective.
by opan | 2026-02-10 14:18:30+00:00
Something I noticed recently is that explaining Matrix to someone is offputting, but I got my dad to just use it and it seems fine for him. Maybe they don't need to know how it works. You start talking federation and stuff and people's eyes glaze over. Simple instructions to sign up and get a desktop and mobile client are probably a better idea. Bury the technical info for those who really care.
Show HN: ToolBake – Build custom tools run in the browser by AI asstent or code
by WonderfulSoap | 2026-02-10 14:18:35+00:00
I known there are already plenty of toolbox websites for things like devtools, video, audio, and image processing.

But almost none of them let you create tools tailored to your own workflows — most are fixed, one-size-fits-all utilities.

On top of that, many of these sites require uploading your files to their servers, which raised privacy concerns for me.

So I built ToolBake: a platform where you can create your own tools and run them locally in your browser.

Initially, ToolBake allowed users to define their own UI and handler logic manually. But I quickly realized that asking people to write code and design UIs for every small tool is still too much friction.

One of the original design goals was therefore to combine this customization model with good prompt engineering, so users can describe what they want and let an LLM generate the UI widgets and handler code as a starting point — which they can then inspect, tweak, and extend.

With ToolBake, you can:

- Define your own tool UI and logic directly in the browser

- Run tools locally (no server processing, no data upload)

- Use real capabilities like ffmpeg, ffprobe, ImageMagick, and extend with npm packages

- Optionally use AI assistance to generate UI widgets and handler code

The goal is to combine:

- the flexibility of scripting

- the convenience of a UI

- and the privacy of local execution

ToolBake can be used directly on the hosted site, or self-hosted by running a single Go binary (no runtime dependencies).

All official tools on the demo site are built using the same tool customization mechanism available to users. They are not hardcoded features.

You can inspect these tools to see what the system is capable of, and you can build tools just as powerful by defining your own UI and handlers.

Live demo: https://toolbake.com

GitHub: https://github.com/WonderfulSoap/ToolBake

I’d love feedback on:

- the execution model
- security assumptions
- and what kinds of tools you’d want to build with this
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-10 14:19:11+00:00
The F# ecosystem probably would not survive abandonment by Microsoft. F# the language would probably be fine, but without the .NET runtime and tooling, it probably wouldn't be compelling. It is not widely adopted in industry, so I think finding corporate sponsorship sufficient to keep it up at the level of the other languages is slim. I don't imagine a world where there is enough community support to keep it relevant.

F# has been a first-class language in .NET for at least 15 years and has lived on under Ballmer and Satya. It seems to serve as a useful R&D program for both the runtime's capabilities and for features that may go into C#, which will be the premiere language barring a cataclysm. I don't think it's quite as precarious as it might seem on the surface.
by gilrain | 2026-02-10 14:19:40+00:00
> Your comment is rather incoherent; I recommend prompting an LLM to generate comments with impeccable grammar and coherent lines of reasoning.

It seems your reading comprehension has fallen below average. I recommend challenging your skills regularly by reading from a greater variety of sources. If you only eat junk food, even nutritious meals begin to taste bad, hm?

You’re welcome for the unsolicited advice! :)
by zigzag312 | 2026-02-10 14:20:00+00:00
Brains are great at pattern recognition (lots of studies). This includes ratios. Your shade of color is not a good example, because it's just a single value, not relative to anything on its own. But if you have multiple colors, there will be various relationships/ratios between physical properties of the colors (wavelength, intensity etc.). Similar in music, 1:2 frequency ratio is recognized as an octave. Strongest ratios (i.e. strong pattern) are usually the simple ratios like 1:2, 1:3 & 2:3, etc. However, science hasn't been able to find out, if we can recognize Golden ratio because of the Fibonacci sequence pattern that is often found in nature or if it's to us just a ratio that is close to a simpler ratio like 5:3.
by hwillis | 2026-02-10 14:20:11+00:00
> From what I've heard from auto engineers I know, using the battery as part of the structure is not really done. Transfering mechanical stresses to the battery is something you just do not do.

This is technically true, but structural batteries are not the same as stressed engines like on a motorcycle. In the latter, the engine fully replaces a frame member with essentially just the engine block. With structural batteries the cells themselves are not taking on any stress (they could, but yeah its not a very safe idea) but the outside containment is stil doing double duty. Its a pretty minor weight savings because the battery case does not need to be as strong as the frame does, but its not fair to say that structural batteries are not done. Even when they are just bolting on to a subframe, they're still usually doing things for frame stiffness.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-10 14:20:46+00:00
The problem is people are conditioned so hard on the "drive till empty then fill up" method of car ownership, that it's totally incomprehensible to imagine not being able to put 300 miles in your car in 5 minutes.

Topping off everyday at home just doesn't register. Driving 7 hours with only one 30 minute charge doesn't register.

It either needs to function like a gas car, or it's not even worth considering.
by ses1984 | 2026-02-10 14:20:55+00:00
I am not sure I understand what you’re saying.

If meta can read those messages, then they’re most definitely not e2e encrypted.

Given the historical record, you would be a fool to assume that any service run by a public company isn’t fully tapped by US intelligence agencies. They’ve been tapping anything and everything they can get their hands on, why stop at whatsapp?

Let me flip it around: what proof do you actually have that it is e2e encrypted? Zuckerberg pinky promised?
by spike021 | 2026-02-10 14:21:05+00:00
Discord for sure has way more features and use than IRC.

On the other hand, IRC lets me /ignore a user and my client renders channels without ever showing a hint of that user's existence.

Meanwhile, in Discord both ignoring and blocking a user still shows a "3 ignored messages" or "1 blocked message", etc.

There are always going to be pros and cons to one or the other.
by amarble | 2026-02-10 14:21:09+00:00
This weekend I tried what I'd call a medium scale agentic coding project, following what Anthropic demonstrated last week autonomously building a C-compiler [1]. Bottom line is, it's possible to make demos that look good, but it really doesn't work well enough to build software you would actually use. This naturally lends itself to the "everybody is taking about how great it is but nobody is building anything real with it" construct we're in right now. It is great, but also not really useful.

https://www.marble.onl/posts/this_cost_170.html
by duwip | 2026-02-10 14:21:14+00:00
> The ~2,500 MCP servers out there become composable CLI tools you can script and run in CI without an LLM in the loop

That's pretty cool.

The harder part is getting the various coding agents to run !mtpcli by default + getting cli tool maintainers to add --mtp-describe. Creating a standard is hard, I guess.
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-10 14:21:18+00:00
>> Yes, but we had hopes that it would lead to more. And had lead to more, something only known to be false in hindsight, who knows where that would have ended us up? What if it upended the standard model instead of reinforcing it?

>Sure, but it didn't. Which is knowledge that really should factor into the decision to build the next, bigger one.

Not this week, no. And if, next week (or next year or next decade) we resolve some of the most significant problems in modern physics, any expenditures in those fields were a waste?

You've repeatedly bashed particle physics based on your perception of a lack of progress vis-a-vis the costs, and claimed that other fields should be prioritized. Which fields? What would you hope to gain from those fields?

Is there no room for basic research that attempts to validate the bases (Standard Model, Quantum Field Theory, the marriage of the former with General Relativity, etc.) of modern physics? If not why not? Our models are definitely wrong, but they're measurably less wrong than previous models.

Should we not continue to hone/probe those models to find the cracks in the theories underpinning those models? If we don't, how will we solve these extant issues?
by komali2 | 2026-02-10 14:21:50+00:00
Brinkmanship with the Philippines and Taiwan, and direct threats of imperialist takeover against the latter (Xi has reaffirmed this recently).

Exploitative labor in Xinjiang is imperialism and led to genocide.

African "investments" is imperialist, it's focused on resource extraction, debt traps and the like. Or was Japan not imperialist when it took over Taiwan, because they built our trains?

Not just westerners can correctly identify PRC imperialism.
by SharavFounder | 2026-02-10 14:22:05+00:00
Sharav Arora, founder of TechForges Technologies, In recent days in Ghaziabad a 10 year old founder got viral because of his YC tips video, A debate sparked on internet, he owns a tech startup called TechForges Technologies that makes SaaS, overall his company made 6-8L rupeees in fy25, still got rejected from YC and Founders Inc, He's now partnered with IBM and NVIDIA, he also owns hackathon company and a hedge fund, he's a hero.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-10 14:22:22+00:00
>Yeah, and they fell for it. Handed over all their intellectual "property" to the Chinese on a silver platter. Moved all their production to China

"Fell for it" looks a lot like "basically compelled by the economic impacts of public policy and political winds" so far as I can tell.

Some man in a C-suite in 2002 who was wrestling with a decision to refresh domestic factories with capital investments that would pay off over the next 15yr and be competitive for 30 or build new in China could only make that decision one way without being ousted by his own board. Even if the economics barely penciled out positively after compliance costs the political winds made it too risky.

I mean, yeah, someone fell for it. The public, the politicians, etc. etc. But it's not like anyone who didn't have to grapple with the numbers didn't know what they were doing was suspect at best, though many of course deluded themselves into believing in it.

How many decades and dollars did we spend shipping trash plastic overseas because they provided us with receipts saying they were recycling it when they were landfilling, burning or dumping it? Everyone who knew the chemistry and energy prices knew it didn't really work but still, it happened.
by kcplate | 2026-02-10 14:22:34+00:00
In the US it’s easier. Certain states will issue you a drivers license even with a questionable immigration status. Once you get that, maintaining it is easy for long periods of time….basically obey the traffic laws and don’t drink and drive take an eye test and written test every 5-7 years and you are golden and keep it.

With a DL check cashing is a snap and it looked like this guy was a building sub-contractor which can and often operate in cash. Cash secured credit cards give you access to plastic. Healthcare doesn’t require an ID and hospitals are compelled by law to treat you if you are in a life threatening situation. Urgent care clinics will gladly accept cash to fix your sniffles.

I think the biggest issue that allows it is just inconsistent enforcement of our immigration laws from administration to administration and the general bureaucratic reset that happens every 4 to 8 years.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-02-10 14:22:38+00:00
I think a reasonable and sensible goal is for us to not mix the accidental and the essential. If we let AI handle what's accidental (as in not central to the solution of the essential problem) developers can focus on the essential only. The current threat is that both types become intertwingled in a code-base, sometimes irreparably.

Fortran made that distinction clear. The compiler handled the accidental complexity of converting instructions to code, but never really obscured the boundary.

Take VB as an example from wayback. For the purposes of presenting a simple data-entry dialog, it removed the accidental complexity of dealing with Windows' message loop and resource files etc., which was painful. The essential complexity was in what the system did with the data. I suppose that the AI steering that needs to happen is to direct the essential down the essential path, and the accidental down the accidental path, and let a dev handle the former and the agent handle the latter (after all, it's accidental).

But, that'll take judgement - deciding in which camp each artifact exists and how it's managed. It might be a whole field of study, but it won't be new.
by GaggiX | 2026-02-10 14:23:03+00:00
>In your example, z-image and Nano Banana Pro look basically equally photorealistic to me

I disagree, nano banana pro result is on a completely different league compare to flux.2 and z-image.

>But anyway, realistic environments like a street cafe are not suited to test for photorealism

Why? It's the perfect settings in my opinion.

Btw I don't think you are using nano banana pro, probably standard nano banana, I'm getting this from your prompt: https://i.ibb.co/wZHx0jS9/unnamed-1.jpg

>Nano Banana Pro is a Gemini scaffold which uses Imagen to generate an initial image, then Gemini 3 Pro writes prompts to edit the image for much better prompt alignment.

First of all how should you know the architecture details of gemini-3-pro-image, second of all how the model can modify the image if gemini itself is just rewriting the prompt (like old chatgpt+dalle), imagen 4 is just a text-to-image model, not an editing one, it doesn't make sense, nano banana pro can edit images (like the ones you can provide).
by seamossfet | 2026-02-10 14:23:29+00:00
The Drug App - a CAD for drug design.

It's focused on structural analysis right now, but the goal is to allow for biologists, crystallographers, chemists, etc to quickly analyze large samples of structural data for patterns and find where those patterns break down.

Our goal is to make it a platform to analyze the output of various papers, tools, and structures to build a single unified biological model of your druggable target. For example, what if your alphafold output disagrees with pre-existing literature? If Diffdock says your candidate can bind to a pocket on a protein that hasn't been validated yet, what's the implications of that on the underlying biological mechanism?

Biology is extremely complicated, so scientists create simplified lenses of the world to make sense of things. Biologists are looking at different things than crystallographers, crystallographers are looking at different things than computational chemists, etc, etc.

Finding disagreements in these simplified lenses early can save a lot of money before things move to lab experiments.