MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solomonb | 2026-02-23 08:09:27+00:00
> Residents -> Pixies is certainly an odd recommendation. Having said that, where _can_ you go from The Residents? Daniel Johnston?

I would be truly impressed if a recommendation engine took me from The Residents to Balinese Gamelan. My aunt plays in a Gamelan orchestra with one member of the Residents and learning that somehow made so much sense to me. This are the kind of out of pocket recommendation that an engine will never capture.
by szmarczak | 2026-02-23 08:09:37+00:00
How does your question relate to "I so want to run my os"? You're assuming that people who want to run custom OS do only so to increase the lifespan.

On Android that's definitely the case (more people do so to increase the lifespan than to hack apps), but the desktop market progresses slower than mobile in terms of software. I was running my Xiaomi Mi 6 for 7 years thanks to LineageOS, and it would've been longer if I hadn't dropped it the second time (the screen cracked, battery was 60% and repair wasn't worth it). Now I'm running Nothing Phone 2 am switching to LineageOS once the support goes out. Now try to do the same with Samsung. You can't. The bootloader is locked down since OneUI 8.0 and you can't do a thing about it, gotta buy a new one after security updates are gone.

Phones are very cheap now (can get more expensive soon tho). For $200 you can get a very decent Android (Snapdragon 7s gen2, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage + other very nice stuff such as OIS, 144Hz etc.), buy a wireless display or cast to TV and use it as a workstation (obviously you need a wireless keyboard and a mouse). Office work? Web coding? Sure. Did that myself.

Since we are focusing on MacBooks now...

> People are still buying new MacBooks instead of using them indefinitely.

I'm not hearing anyone with M1 or above switching to a new Mac yearly. People who switched to M-series were using their MacBooks for years.

It seems Apple is happy with having Linux as an unofficial alternative on Macs.

> How did installing windows increase the lifespan of a MacBook?

Via Windows Updates? And Windows software doesn't usually require you to upgrade to the newest version possible (however many games started to require W11)? Try to install new Xcode on an older version of macOS, good luck.
by dsr_ | 2026-02-23 08:10:18+00:00
Inbound anecdote.

Dad worked for Corning; when they hired him, he bought a house one town over. It came with a Corning electric range in the kitchen. This was effectively four electrical resistance grids embedded in a giant sheet of pyroceram.

Like an induction cooktop, there is no visible indication that the "burners" are "lit", unless you looked at the control panel off to the side.

Somewhat like an induction cooktop, only certain cookware was compatible with it. Luckily, the primary requirement was "the bottom needs to be flat". You might be surprised at the number of pots which have concave bottoms... or develop them over time.

UNlike an induction cooktop, it does get up to arbitrarily high blackbody temperatures.

Pretty much every accident you can think of synthesizing from these conditions occurred. Nobody in my family would ever buy one. (I love lots of other Corning products.)

Oh, and as for the easy-to-clean surface? Very true... as long as you ignore the case of scorched proteins. Anything else, you wait for everything to cool and then wipe it with a slightly soapy sponge, then mop with a damp cloth. I don't remember the night the grey scorchmark appeared, but it lasted about fifteen years. Then Dad sold the house.
Show HN: AI Timeline Maker – turn text and documents into visual timelines
by ethanplanva | 2026-02-23 08:10:27+00:00
Hi HN,

I’ve been working on a tool called AI Timeline Maker (https://timeline-maker.org) to solve a workflow problem I kept running into.

Creating timelines for project roadmaps, research, or historical topics is usually very manual. Most tools require adding events one by one, which becomes slow when working with long documents or structured content.

The idea behind this tool is simple:
Instead of starting from a blank canvas, you start with content. You can input text or upload a document, and the AI generates a structured timeline draft automatically. After that, everything is fully editable in a visual editor.

I’m especially interested in feedback on:
- Whether AI-generated timelines are actually useful in real workflows
- The balance between automation and manual control
- Potential use cases I may be overlooking

Built as a browser-based tool with a focus on speed and usability.

Happy to answer any technical or product questions.
by anthk | 2026-02-23 08:11:01+00:00
Also, look at 8086tiny, or PCulator/XTulator. These could be ported with ease to EMSCripten and run everywhere, not just in Chrome.

Chrome almost became the new IE and Google, despite it's motto, the new Microsoft. Ok, the desktop? Android rules the smartphone sales in the world, and its online services are used by millions, with far more metadata grabbing than w9x/wxp on its day and with the same propietary OSes.
by rain_iwakura | 2026-02-23 08:12:10+00:00
you posted an opinion piece by "Director of National Maritime Intelligence Integration Office (NMIO) and Commander, Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)" (i.e. State Department mouthpiece) and the other source is from 2022, with airport still operating, (no evidence that it belongs to china), directly refuting your own point.

> America certainly isn't innocent either when it comes to IP theft, but China takes that on yet another level

there you go with your bias.
https://reason.com/2024/06/02/the-mirage-of-chinas-i-p-theft...

America itself was built on IP theft by the way. https://apnews.com/general-news-b40414d22f2248428ce11ff36b88...

>Nope. They are just as vile loan sharks as the IMF, some say they go even further [2].

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246822762...

Chinese have actually been investing into infrastructure and helping build Africa out. What are you smoking? Do you need a reminder who ran Transatlantic Slave Trade and what IMF represents? There are no good guys in the lending world. Are you assigning a moral value to loans and repayments now? If someone gives you money they expect interest. Doesn't matter if they're Chinese or American.

P.S. judging from your other comments, you're European, not American, and so at this point of Trump presidency (and listening to Carney's speech), you should realize that "The West" isn't about moral hegemony. This isn't America good, China bad. It's a calculus of power. Trump just laid that bare by showing that might makes right, which is why he's renegotiating our already dominant position, and showing how this hegemony and loan structure was built. The liberal veneer was there as a pretty varnish. The fact that you're still out here pretending like we're the good guys is strange to me, unless you're one of those NAFO guys that are kind of going extinct because US is screwing itself over by hurting its allies.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-23 08:12:18+00:00
Some of us, already have all the speed we need with Java and .NET tooling, don't waste our time rewriting stuff, nor need to bother with borrow checker, even if it isn't a big deal to write affine types compliant code.

And we can always reach out to Scala or F# if feeling creating to play with type systems.
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-23 08:13:04+00:00
same as you, I tried all sorts of apps. Todoist, habitica, fantastical, wunderlist, karakeep and more and more for all sorts of things. All are OK for most users, but none was GREAT for me. That's why I thought to give LLM's a proper spin. Get all the features I want, in the way I want. And anything I can come up with/see on the web over time, I can add myself within minutes instead of waiting for months for some 3rd party to perhaps add it. + No subscription fee.

You can see my app in action here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47119434

While I can share the code and it might make a good foundation for forks, creating one from scratch with claude's $100 subscription will take ~2-3 weeks to get it into the state you see in the video. And that is me prompting the LLM for ~30-60 minutes most days of those 2-3 weeks.
by Dansvidania | 2026-02-23 08:14:18+00:00
I think you are grossly missing the point.

That AI can do it better - by what dimension? - than the priests is arguable, but the reason for a priest to write one is reflection, connection..

Have you ever considered that possibly performing something is not only a mean to some output but that the process is the thing?

That may or may not translate to your coding analogy, but for the article comment you pose, I think you are way off.
by card_zero | 2026-02-23 08:14:21+00:00
Two thousand years ago they'd barely have maps, I don't see why units need pathfinding anyway. In the Age of Empires series it had bizarre effects, like you could steer an enemy army around by building a wall across a forest path, forcing them to take a different path to their target (your base), since they apparently saw the wall with their psychic powers.

Realistically soldiers should head in the right compass direction and hope for the best. But then you (the player) shouldn't have a proper map of your own, either.
by cedws | 2026-02-23 08:14:31+00:00
It reminds me of the net neutrality debate from a decade ago. I'm not American but I remember the discord and online hate towards Ajit Pai when they were repealing it.

On one side you had the argument that repealing net neutrality would mean you can save money on your internet bill by only paying for access to what you use. On the other, you had the argument that it would just enable companies to milk you for even more profit and throttle your connection as they see fit.

IMO we need 'net neutrality' for LLM clients. I feel like AI companies are hypocrites for talking about safety all the time, but want us to only use their LLMs in the way they intend. They're saying we're all going to be replaced by AI in 12 months, and we have to use their tools to survive, right?

Yann LeCun recently warned that the AI coming out of China is trending towards being more open than the American alternative. If it continues like this, I can see programmers being pushed towards Chinese models. Is that what the US government wants?
by dataflow | 2026-02-23 08:15:52+00:00
> The problem is not the budget. It is the lack of real teachers, as well as a perpetually experimental curriculum.

Taking this at face value: how are you teasing apart "lack of real teachers" from the budget? You don't think you'd get real teachers if there was a higher budget to pay them well?

> The quality of education my kids are getting is pure trash compared to what I received.

How are you doing this comparison? Have you adjusted for cost of living and the alternative opportunities available to good teachers and such? I ask because usually people compare absolute amounts of money, which distorts the picture.
by Operative-001 | 2026-02-23 08:16:13+00:00
I don't particularly agree with this.

It's true that agents don't, by nature, write good skills,
but it's also true that creating an agent that scours for research papers and then feeds them to another agent instructed on how to perfectly extract skills from research in an applicable and high density manner, works.

I have in just a few hours extracted and created over 200 reverse engineering and exploit research skills that were immediately used for research.
by anthk | 2026-02-23 08:16:16+00:00
Sadly, Excel and the dumbness of the environment generated disasters on Genomics (and tons of other research areas too) causing millions if not billions of losses. Hint: skewed experiments/data and so on, making years of effort worthless.

That woudn't happen under BioPython/BioPer/Rl and a custom dedicated interface with no data mangling at all.

Poeple in the 90's joked about how MS turned the whole IT industry 20 years back. Now, literally, and not just IT.

And that's sad, because you have Turbo Pascal, Windows NT, the VB6 IDE against C/C++ libraries... good products on MS where data correctned was granted with low level libraries called from VB. For sure BLAS/Lapack would exist in the 90's as products for Visual C/C++.

Reusing MS Office for advanced tasks was the key of the shitty computing we were suffering on tons of places. Such as the idiots using Excel tables for Covid patients instead of having a proper SQL database. Even SQlite (IDK about the constraints, maybe it fits) could have been a better choice.

People said with Unix "Worse it's beter". He, nowadays even NDB 'databases' would grant you correctness on scientific data (it's plain text with tuples) that these rotten binary, propietary, office bound pseudo databases and spreadsheets. Or even AWK with CSV's/TSV's.
by Someone | 2026-02-23 08:16:30+00:00
> That doesn't mean there's a problem with the code, only with the documentation.

I disagree. If the obvious way to use an API is the incorrect way, there is a problem with the code.

If you must call A each time before calling B, drop A and have B do both things.

If you must call A once before calling B, make A return a token that you then must pass to B to show you called A.

As another example, look at https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/18/carelessness-versus-... (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060334):

“Two popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of downstream projects.”

Would you call that “poor code style that could theoretically lead to a bug in the future”, too?
by arch1e | 2026-02-23 08:16:36+00:00
Author here: I get where you’re coming from and long term, I agree. I don’t want FreeBSD to slowly turn into "Linux but different."

For me though, the Linuxulator is about practicality today, not philosophy. It lets me use one or two tools (like the VS Code server) without changing how I actually run my system. Everything else stays native FreeBSD.

It's optional, isolated, and doesn't pollute the base system. If native ports exist and work well, I'll always prefer those. But when something critical doesn't, the compatibility layer keeps FreeBSD usable in modern workflows instead of becoming limiting.

So yeah.. I see it more as a bridge, not a direction.
by xnx | 2026-02-23 08:17:14+00:00
Additional information from Google employee https://x.com/_mohansolo/status/2025766889205739899 :

"We’ve been seeing a massive increase in malicious usage of the Anitgravity backend that has tremendously degraded the quality of service for our users. We needed to find a path to quickly shut off access to these users that are not using the product as intended. We understand that a subset of these users were not aware that this was against our ToS and will get a path for them to come back on but we have limited capacity and want to be fair to our actual users."
by eloisius | 2026-02-23 08:17:34+00:00
I genuinely don’t understand AI people anymore. Like the cognitive gap is so huge that I feel like I’m from another planet now. Im not religious, but automating religion is so absolutely meaningless that it boggles my mind. You could have a machine emit million of prayers up to heaven per second, but why would you?

And despite what you think, most of us can tell apart AI generated content from the genuine thing. I am, however, starting to believe AI bros are being sincere when they tell us that they can’t. Every time someone gives me that tired “well how do you know we’re not just stochastic parrots too!” crap, I’m getting a little closer to taking their word for it. Maybe they are just that.
by rediguanayum | 2026-02-23 08:17:45+00:00
I took the Waymo from San Jose airport to home on the peninsula. It took the 101 highway back for the most part, driving very conservatively at 65-55 mph, and in the right most lane. It still has a few quirks though. When there aren't any cars around it will speed up to 65 mph, but at on-ramps, it will slow down to 55 and then speed up once past. It will get stuck behind slow drivers being in the right most lane and patiently follow them a few car length behind them. On the plus side, the lidar stack field of view as shown on the internal display seems to see pretty far down the highway.
by raphman | 2026-02-23 08:18:22+00:00
To the best of my knowledge, traditional confessions have always been processed locally, not sent upstream¹.

AFAICT, it is much harder to get a priest to reveal your confession than it is to get a log of your ChatGPT sessions.

¹) I first wrote "not sent to the cloud", but if God is all-knowing, records of all sins are already in the cloud, just not accessible by support staff.
by IshKebab | 2026-02-23 08:18:47+00:00
At least there's a good reason there - they're easier to clean. That's not much of a concern with microwave controls.

But I disagree with the idea that we don't need precise times on a microwave. The article / book disagrees with that, and the think I most regularly microwave (milk for my kids) needs 1 minute 50 seconds. 2 minutes and they'll reliably complain it's too hot.

The real problem with microwave UX is that the interfaces are often simply bad. People think the power/time dial interface is good but that's because it's difficult to mess it up (though they usually manage anyway by having them go up to 30 minutes or whatever).

It's really easy to mess up a button interface but you can also do it well. My microwave is close to doing it really well. You press a high/med/low button, then 1s/10s/1m/10m buttons to the desired time, then start. The only things they got wrong are that it requires pressing the power when 99% of the time you want high, and you could probably get a more useful distribution of time increments (I'm literally never going to use the 10m button).

But apart from that it's nicer than dials, which are often very cheap and imprecise.
by BenoitP | 2026-02-23 08:18:47+00:00
> laser pulses

> phased-array

I'm not well versed into RF physics. I had the feeling that light-wave coherency in lasers had to be created at a single source (or amplified as it passes by). That's the first time I hear about phased-array lasers.

Can someone knowledgeable chime in on this?
Show HN: Cerebrun – A unified memory for AI assistants (MCP and pgvector)
by niyoseris | 2026-02-23 08:19:19+00:00
Every AI conversation starts from scratch. I've been using OpenClaw, Windsurf, and Gemini interchangeably for months—but none of them aware what we discussed from each other. I have to tell them everything from beginning.

So I built Cerebrun, an MCP server that acts as a persistent memory layer across all of them.

What Cerebrun does:

• Cross-conversation retrieval - Automatically finds relevant snippets from past threads and injects them into current context, even across different LLMs

• 4-layer data model - Not all memories are equal. Layer 0 holds public preferences (coding style, favorite tools, language preference etc.). Layer 3 is an encrypted vault for sensitive data (API keys, credentials). Each layer has its own permission scope.

• Semantic search – pgvector under the hood.
Knowledge entries are auto-embedded, so "I prefer functional programming" surfaces when you ask about error handling—no exact keyword match needed.

• Multi-LLM gateway - Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama Cloud, OpenClaw or anything has agentic skills. Bring your own keys, no vendor lock-in.

Why this matters:

Most memory solutions are either platform-specific (ChatGPT's memory) or require you to manually paste context every time. Cerebrun sits in the middle—your AI tools query it via MCP, and it returns only what's relevant for the current conversation.

Privacy angle:

Built with Rust/Axum. Sensitive data in the vault layer is AES-256-GCM encrypted. Your credentials aren't sitting in plaintext in a database, and the memory layer runs locally—you control the data.

Current state:

MVP is functional
Web Dashboard is active

Roadmap:

Chrome extension to collect data and send it to MCP server from non agentic web pages.

Site: https://cereb.run
Repo: https://github.com/niyoseris/Cerebrun
by tromp | 2026-02-23 08:19:21+00:00
I did just that for the first 37 BB numbers at https://oeis.org/A333479

I could write a few more given enough time, but writing later ones will take
someone more omnipotent than me.

You may be confusing the true statement "for each n, BB(n) is computable"
with the false statement "\n -> BB(n) is computable".
by Operative-001 | 2026-02-23 08:19:37+00:00
Terrible take unfortunately in my opinion, anyone that has ever used an AI browser agent knows that the technology is not only extremely dangerous but highly unreliable to the point that almost no task over a hundred different attempts, succeeds. UI / Html and orchestration is just too complex not only at the moment but I expect in the future too, other than being extremely expensive and protection bound by captcha that requires vision which is slow, clunky, difficult to bypass (for most high quality captchas where you have to slide and move things).

What's written is in theory correct, but in practicality where agents are terrible with UI's and Browsers, this is so far fetched that is, for now, science fiction
by deaux | 2026-02-23 08:20:23+00:00
> I've lived a life of watching teachers and schools get blamed for not dealing better with society's issues. "Just teach kids how to use technology", "just ban phones", and "lock down irrelevant websites" is a pretty big ask when the entire industry is focused on getting kids to use these devices, apps, and sites as much as they possibly can.

Hey, you only have a >$13 _trillion_ dollar modern tobacco industry behemoth up against you, including 90% of this very message board. Just, you know, stand up to it, duh.

The $13 trillion is only Meta/Apple/Google/Microsoft, so it doesn't even include all the gambling, crypto, gacha games and so on whose sole aim is to enslave the kids you're teaching.

Good luck!
by solatic | 2026-02-23 08:21:29+00:00
Perhaps, but the larger question is whether the price of hydrogen itself can be sufficiently reduced. $36/kg is not justifiable for distance trucking or planes. If the price of hydrogen dropped sufficiently, then there's more demand to build hydrogen infrastructure, which increases demand for hydrogen in smaller vehicles, etc. in a positive feedback loop.

That theory didn't play out, mostly because the price of electrics kept dropping year after year, undercutting any appeal in early investment in hydrogen.
by silversmith | 2026-02-23 08:22:32+00:00
My solution was to buy a used Samsung tablet with OLED screen, and control the display on with motion sensors. It sits in the hallway, above the keys drawer. The screen is on only when someone's walking nearby, and around eye level when you go pick up the keys. Designed the dashboard based around muted colours on black background, with brights reserved for "hey pay attention to this" data. And most importantly, the screen is not visible from any spot you're likely to stay at for a longer time. As for mounting, I used calipers, 3d printer and some double sided tape. It's not completely seamless, but damn close for ~10% of the effort.
by wolvesechoes | 2026-02-23 08:22:52+00:00
How much better?

Every honest description of Catholic Church, as any institution of this size and history, needs to be very nuanced. One of such nuances is a fact that it was one of the main, and sometimes strictly main, supporters and drivers of education and scientific progress. Other such nuance is that it very often punished and persecuted attempts to bring education and scientific progress.

Both views of the Church are true. That's what nuance is.