MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by edent | 2026-02-23 11:18:51+00:00
OP here. As the meme goes, I am one of literally dozens of people who live outside the USA.

"Immigration" is the commonly used term in the UK. See https://www.parallelparliament.co.uk/question/99775/eurostar... and https://www.heathrow.com/arrivals/immigration-and-passports

Similarly, Australia uses the term if you want to apply for a visitor's visa - https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/

You'll also notice that the original report was written by an EU group.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-23 11:18:57+00:00
They absolutely do design trucks for aerodynamics. Fuel economy is a huge avenue of competition for semi trucks.

The reality is just that with the drive cycles and costs and tradeoffs of implementing all this it's not worth it to go this far.

Second, this sort of "round the whole thing" approach has mostly been replaced with "the simulation says we can do a 90/10 if we just do X, someone print up a block and toss it in the wind tunnel and see how it does" type approach so the result tends to be more surgical modifications and use of dead air and less "smooth out the whole thing with fairings".
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-23 11:18:57+00:00
amd64 definitely beats any aarch64 when it comes to performance, but the trick Apple (and if proper Linux driver support ever lands, Qualcomm) pull is that they get 80% of amd64 performance at 25% of the battery cost.

Not a lot of people are running intensive calculations all day. My day-to-day usage is 90% thinking/planning/writing/reviewing code and maybe 10% of time spent on running that software.

There are two factors that blow up Apple's aarch64 chips above the competition: false comparisons ($1000 cobbled-togerher PCs versus $3000 Macbooks) and Enterprise Hardware vendors like Dell and Lenovo raising their prices to match Apple's without the hardware or software to match (i.e. $2000 Thinkpad workstation laptops that are slow, overheat, and draw huge amounts of power, but are priced as "workstations" because they have a GPU with fp64 support).

For the people who spend a lot of money on a computer for the first time, Apple's aarch64 chips are more likely to be a good deal than the treacherous landscape of high-end laptops and prebuilts. Even in Apple's price, competing range vendors still dare sell 1080p60 displays. Buying desktop/workstation units, 10gbps ports seem to be made of solid gold and actual, full-speed Thunderbolt/USB4 support is restricted to one specific port, often placed at an inconvenient location.

You can exceed Apple's performance in general and their performance-per-dollar as well, but it requires time and attention to look through marketing bullshits and hidden-away spec sheets. That's especially the case now that every store page has four popups about "AI" and "NPU" and "Copilot" for some absurd reason.
by graemep | 2026-02-23 11:20:25+00:00
I was thinking of Christianity as I was responding to a comment that used the word "church".

However, besides that, subsidies from general taxation are not the same as payments for a service received (i.e. going back to it being a "subscription service"), whereas something like the German system where the payment is linked to entitlement to services (if other comments here are accurate) can be reasonably characterised as a subscription service.
by rfv6723 | 2026-02-23 11:20:29+00:00
The 19th century was the true cradle of mass surveillance. Civil registration, property tracking, and institutionalized police forces provided the systemic oversight required to manage dense urban life. These administrative tools served as the analogue version of digital monitoring to ensure every citizen remained known and categorized. Cities thrived as centers of culture only because these new forms of visibility prevented the Hobbesian collapse that anonymity would have otherwise triggered.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 11:20:35+00:00
Kind of feel like saying that HN didn't/did love those projects is a bit too black and white. Many of those submissions do have a lot of dismissive comments, but lots of them also have a lot of comments praising the project one or another way, explicitly or implicitly. Some of the highlighted comments also aren't even the top 3 comments, yet they're used as indicative of what the HN community loves or not.

But I guess that isn't as interesting to people today, nuance seems to be something people try to avoid, rather than seek out.
by asmor | 2026-02-23 11:20:53+00:00
This website makes the error of assuming that being criticized on HN automatically implies your idea is not marketable.

Every point about ChatGPT and Claude Code is true. Not only is their material value detached from reality (as tends to be the case in hype cycles), but a few of the criticisms, especially the first about ChatGPT are about the social impact and not how much money the idea can make.

Feels dishonest to me.
by galangalalgol | 2026-02-23 11:21:17+00:00
The reasoning is cynical but sound. If the system uses only the sensing modes people have, it will make the mistakes people do. If a jury thinks "well I could have done that either!" You win. It doesn't matter if your system has fewer accidents if some of the failure modes are different than human ones, because the jury will think "how could it not figure that out?"
by saberience | 2026-02-23 11:21:17+00:00
If you have enough comments on literally ANY project, you will be able to say Reddit didn't love it, or Twitter didn't love it, or Hackernews didn't love it.

By that metric, X didn't love any project either, neither did Reddit.

You could also just as easily say Reddit loved all these projects and Hackernews loved all these projects.

That is, you can cherry pick positive comments about OpenClaw just as easily as you can cherry pick negative comments. Guess what, that's just how people work.
by sharperguy | 2026-02-23 11:22:27+00:00
I've been hearing talk for years about a "web of trust" system, that could filter spam simply by having users vouch for eachother and filtering out anyone not vouched for. However, I haven't seen a function system based on this model yet.

Personally I'd love to add in something like the old slashdot comment model, where people would mark content as "helpful", "funny", "insightful", "controversial" etc, and based on how much you trust the people labeling it, you could have things filtered out, or brought forward.
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-23 11:22:33+00:00
& 1: First they ignore you
> 2: then they laugh at you
3: then they fight you
4; then you win

I don't know about the winning part but thus far they've followed the usual script. I´d consider Wikipedia getting rid of its clear and present 'progressive' bias by some means winning as I don´t want to see Grokipedia or whaterverpedia take over. Let them co-exist just like Wikipedia has co-existed with Britannica and others.
by ahartmetz | 2026-02-23 11:22:41+00:00
I wonder why microwaves can't work like modern radio transmitters. Magnetrons generate ~2.4 GHz radio waves using resonance and a strong magnetic field acting on free electron orbits. That was necessary in the 1940s for radar transmitters. But today, solid state electronics generate 2.4 GHz (and higher) waves without any trouble - cf. WiFi and Bluetooth hardware. I'm not the first to have this question, and it looks like there is some ongoing work. https://www.digikey.com/en/blog/will-the-microwave-ovens-mag...
by andrew_lettuce | 2026-02-23 11:22:57+00:00
This isn't typically an area where laws and regulations can work effectively because who knows until after the fact? Taxation laws do deal with this from a different perspective, for example most jurisdictions won't let a company take losses every year forever, as they judge the intent of a corporation. Even this is incredibly complex so I'm not sure how your idea would work, even the term "break even" doesn't have a clear definition, ex: do Capital assets still depreciate the same in the AI world? When did Amazon start to break even? What if they didn't deliver shopping on top of aws? Was that an unfair subsidization?
Show HN: In Browser, Serverless Quake 3 Arena
by jwally | 2026-02-23 11:23:06+00:00
I wanted to play an FPS with my kids. Every option required creating accounts, installing launchers, granting permissions, downloading companion apps — a 20-minute ordeal before anyone fires a shot. Per person. I just wanted something that works.

So I (lets be honest, Claude) compiled Quake 3 to WebAssembly. One link, no installs, no accounts. Click Host, share the 4-letter code, and you're fragging. Game traffic goes peer-to-peer over WebRTC, signaling is a single Lambda function. The whole thing costs about $1/day under heavy load.

Notes: There's probably a ton here that could be better, faster, cooler. Please fork and DIY if you're into this sort of thing :-)
https://github.com/JWally/web-quaker
by tonyedgecombe | 2026-02-23 11:23:19+00:00
>I dunno, maybe it differs by country/location but my perception is that school was never capable to educate beyond some basic mediocrity level.

You just need to look at educational league tables between countries to see there is a spectrum of results and some places are much better than others.

Personally I think the problems are rooted in inequality. If the elite all send their children to private schools then why would they care about the poor state of public schools. The country that regularly comes out at the top of the league table for educational attainment has almost no private schools.
by nitin_flanker | 2026-02-23 11:24:04+00:00
Glad to be of help here. Let me answer the questions one by one.

- You're right about the confidence coming from investor expectations than actual enforcement experience. Startups avoid falling into patent litigation cycles as at early stages their primary goal is survival and gather funding. Health-tech requires heavy funding similar to industries like energy, or pharma. Having a patent secured innovation gives a positive signals to both potential partners and investors - that this startup has invented something new, and that their innovation is protected from being infringed. Whether a startup will actually enforce the patent in future highly depends on specific situation of their market. I have seen many startups (specifically the ones working on drug development platforms) more open to license their technology. Patents make that a little easy as it is a well known industry practice.

- It's mostly attorney driven as most founders who are working on their first or second ventures are not familiar with patent laws that well (unless they come from that background). This strategy is also only applicable in specific scenarios where it makes sense to keep the innovation hidden from competition (where you have lots of competing companies or where your work is catching lots of media attention).

- I haven't specifically seen this being discussed or got a chance to talk about it with a founder but I can share my experience here. AI/software patents are still surviving and only obvious patents are facing difficulties. You might have heard about Zoom vs Apollo dispute recently where court dismissed Apollo's motion against Zoom patents being invalid under Alice (My team is working on a story on that case separately). The patent has explained the inventiveness of the innovation being covered in a way that it is not abstract and actually showcase the improvement over prior art. If an innovation's inventiveness and improvement can be described in a non-obvious way (avoiding 'intelligent parser' and writing '0-5 point scoring system based on 5 parameters'), the patents can work.

Final thought about the last point: A patent's worth and cost is directly proportional to how important that innovation is for the industry (not for the startup patenting it). If a solution has multi-industry applications, it is not an incremental innovation but actually goes beyond SOTA, then a startup should opt for multi step protection, not just patent. Copyright the code, maintain trade secrets wherever possible, and patent the processes (if they solve the technical problems).

Feel free to share more questions or contact me on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/b2b-marketer/
by rolfus | 2026-02-23 11:24:24+00:00
Yes, I think so. Electronics prototyping is so accessible now, and there's such a deluge of inspirational projects out there to learn from. YouTube is a gold mine, and I'll leave links to a few channels I follow, below.

If you get an Arduino or Esp32 microcontroller (maybe in one of those starter-kits with various sensors), some breadboards, assorted jumper-cables and some a kit with electronic components (resistors, caps) you'll be good to go. A device like a wall clock most likely won't require soldering, since it won't be jostled or moved around much.

Ben Eater: https://www.youtube.com/@BenEater/videos

Paul McWhorter: https://www.youtube.com/@paulmcwhorter/videos

Huy Vector: https://www.youtube.com/@huyvector/videos
by numpad0 | 2026-02-23 11:26:29+00:00
People saying LIDARs can't recognize colors or LIDARs can't take pictures don't know what they are talking about.

They're just fancy cameras with synced flashes. Not Star Trek material-informational converting transporters. Sometimes they rotate, sometimes not. Often monochrome, but that's where Bayer color filters come in. There's nothing fundamentally privacy preserving or anything about LIDARs.
Show HN: GitShow – Replace github.com with gitshow.dev in any profile URL
by ofershap | 2026-02-23 11:26:33+00:00
I built GitShow - a tool that generates a developer portfolio page from any
public GitHub profile. Swap github.com for gitshow.dev and you get:

- npm download stats across all your packages
- Repos auto-categorized (MCP Servers, CLI Tools, React & UI, etc.)
- Tech stack breakdown, topic cloud, project timeline
- OG social card for sharing on Twitter/LinkedIn
- A README badge you can embed in any repo (dynamic PNG with live stats)

No signup, no config, no deploy. Works with any public GitHub profile.

Try it: gitshow.dev/sindresorhus, gitshow.dev/torvalds, gitshow.dev/tj

Stack: Next.js 16, React 19 (zero client JS on portfolio pages), Tailwind 4,
Vercel OG (Satori). MIT licensed.

GitHub: https://github.com/ofershap/gitshow
by nindalf | 2026-02-23 11:26:54+00:00
> it cannot even host its own tools

You say this like this is the basic requirement for a language. But languages make tradeoffs that make them more appropriate for some domains and not others. There's no shade if a language isn't ideal for developer tools, just like there's no shade if a language isn't perfect for web frontends, web backends, embedded development, safety critical code (think pacemakers), mobile development, neural networks and on and on.

Seriously, go to https://astral.sh and scroll down to "Linting the CPython code base from scratch". It would be easy to look at that and conclude that Python's best days are behind it because it's so slow. In reality Python is an even better language at its core domains now that its developer tools have been rewritten in Rust. It's the same excellent language, but now developers can iterate faster.

It's the same with JavaScript. Just because it's not the best language for linters and formatters doesn't mean it's broken.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-23 11:26:55+00:00
Performance per watt isn't the same as performance. On the high end (think Threadripper), amd64 still wins most performance tests by having many high-performance cores working all at once (at the cost of single-core performance).

I disagree with "any high-end Ryzen" blowing an ARM64 chip out of the water, though, it takes quite a beefy CPU to beat an M4 Max.
by bilekas | 2026-02-23 11:27:05+00:00
> Spanish citizens have control over eh Spanish government.

The fact is LaLiga has more.. It's been that way for years. There was a case where they would (may still do) use the microphone on your phone via the laLiga app to hear if you were watching a match and correlate that with licensed venues.

They're the most aggressive I've ever seen, and their influence in the government is unmatched.
Show HN: WinClaw – An AI agent for Windows that anyone can use
by allwefantasy | 2026-02-23 11:27:32+00:00
Hey HN,
The Claw ecosystem is incredible — OpenClaw alone has 180K GitHub stars. But I noticed something: every Claw variant requires npm, Docker, Python, Rust, or at minimum a terminal. The official Windows guide for OpenClaw literally says "Use via WSL2."
That's fine for us. But 75% of desktop users run Windows, and most of them have never opened a terminal in their lives.
So we built WinClaw — an AI agent designed specifically for Windows, with zero technical barrier:
Double-click installer, 3 minutes to get running
Voice control from your phone — talk to your PC from the couch, the subway, anywhere
Built-in tools: Office doc generation (PPT/Word/Excel), browser automation (operates your real browser with your cookies/logins), file management, screenshots, and 26+ more
Private knowledge base with RAG over your local documents
Completely free, local deployment, privacy-first
Supports DeepSeek, Doubao, and any OpenAI-compatible model
We're not trying to compete with OpenClaw — it's a Swiss Army knife for power users and we love it. WinClaw is more like a universal remote: same arena, different audience. The people we're building for are office admins processing Excel files, college students making PPTs, small business owners, and parents who find computers complicated enough already.
The blog post explains our thinking in detail: https://docs.winclaw.cc/blog/windows-use-winclaw
Website: https://winclaw.cc
Docs: https://docs.winclaw.cc
Would love to hear your thoughts, especially from Windows users who've tried other Claw variants.
by Hetzner_OL | 2026-02-23 11:27:35+00:00
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by chainbuilder | 2026-02-23 11:27:53+00:00
I built BidsABillion.com, a provably scarce 10×10 digital ad grid where each placement becomes a permanent on-chain artifact. There are only 100 slots, and positioning is determined by a transparent bidding mechanism — higher bids secure more prominent coordinates. When a slot is claimed, the ad’s metadata (image/video reference, URL, timestamp, wallet, and bid value) is committed to the blockchain, creating an immutable record of ownership and placement history.

The system separates media hosting from settlement: heavy assets are stored off-chain, while cryptographic proofs and placement state are anchored on-chain to keep costs predictable. The backend is Python/Flask with PostgreSQL, the frontend is React, and settlement supports major chains for flexibility. The core idea is to merge digital advertising with verifiable scarcity and ownership — effectively turning ad space into a tradable, time-stamped digital asset rather than a revocable banner slot.

Feedback welcome, especially on auction mechanics and on-chain data design.
by grumbelbart2 | 2026-02-23 11:27:58+00:00
It's true that hire and tenure decisions are under the institution's control. But a lot of funding comes from external sources, and most public funding uses some sort of publication-based metric. There are exceptions, but that's the game.
The CV of your PhD's is often judged by the publication list and the corresponding citations. That's research institutes where they might go, other universities, large companies etc. will look at this. It's difficult to change this system as isolated player, and coordinates efforts so far failed on the "what else" question.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 11:28:49+00:00
> They absolutely do design trucks for aerodynamics

I know next to nothing about trucks, and vehicles in general, but something I've noticed, and probably everyone else, is that trucks in the US looks very different from trucks in Europe, it's very easy to identify which one is a US-like truck vs a Europe-like one, because of the shape of the "cab" or whatever that part is called.

So one design has to be clearly better than the alternative, given that aerodynamics works the same all around the world, but still the designs are uniquely... unique.

But why is it like this? If trucks were designed for aerodynamics, shouldn't one of the designs have "won" by now, or are they truly equal in terms of aerodynamics?
by generuso | 2026-02-23 11:29:30+00:00
Neato from San Diego has developed a $30 (indoor, parallax based) LIDAR about 20 years ago, for their vacuum cleaners [1].

Later, improved units based on the same principle became ubiquitous in Chinese robot vacuums [2]. Such LIDARs, and similarly looking more conventional time-of-flight units are sold for anywhere between $20-$200, depending on the details of the design.

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22A+Low-Cost+Laser+Dis...
[2] https://github.com/kaiaai/awesome-2d-lidars/blob/main/README...
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-23 11:29:38+00:00
I just looked into that for this thread, but the highest-end Apple chips (M4 Max/M5) outperform the fastest normal Ryzens in both single core and multi core tests.

They're awful for gaming, which most benchmarks online are run for, but it takes a Threadripper to dethrone Apple's impressive CPU performance.

Of course, this also has to do with their integrated memory architecture, which isn't very popular with high-end PC customers who like the ability to upgrade their RAM.
by MrJohz | 2026-02-23 11:30:25+00:00
I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, though. JavaScript isn't performant enough for its own tooling, but that's just one class of program that can be written. There are plenty of other classes of program where JavaScript is perfectly fast enough, and the ease of e.g. writing plugins or having a fast feedback loop outweighs the benefits of other languages.

I quite like Roc's philosophy here: https://www.roc-lang.org/faq#self-hosted-compiler. The developers of the language want to build a language that has a high performance compiler, but they don't want to build a language that one would use to build a high performance compiler (because that imposes a whole bunch of constraints when it comes to things like handling memory). In my head, JavaScript is very similar. If you need a high performance compiler, maybe look elsewhere? If you need the sort of fast development loop you can get by having a high performance compiler, then JS is just the right thing.
by servo_sausage | 2026-02-23 11:30:36+00:00
I work with programs approaching L3+ from L2, with the requirement that the system works for 99% of roads (not tesla before people start fixating on that).

We find that the cases where lidar really helps are in gathering training data, parking, and if focused enough some long distance precision.

None of these have been instrumental in a final product; personally I suspect that many of the cars including lidar use it for data collection and edge cases more than as part of the driving perception model.