MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Klaster_1 | 2026-02-13 13:05:23+00:00
Tried the game and it was pretty good! The polygonal look fits really well, reminds me of games by Introversion.

A couple of suggestions:

* Add gamepad support, there's a browser API for that.
* Things are way too tiny compared to VS running on same screen. It was often hard to precisely maneuver and distinguish between entities.

On a side note, I'd definitely play a mix of fl0w/Spore with VS.
by spapas82 | 2026-02-13 13:07:52+00:00
Has anybody actually tried AIStor ? Is it possible to migrate/upgrade from a minio installation to AIStor ? It seems to be very simple, just change the binary from minio to aistor: https://docs.min.io/enterprise/aistor-object-store/upgrade-a...

Is AIStor Free really free like they claim here https://www.min.io/pricing, i.e

Free
For developers, researchers, enthusiasts, small organizations, and anyone comfortable with a standalone deployment.
Full-featured, single-node deployment architecture
Self-service community Slack and documentation support
Free of charge

I could use that if it didn't have hidden costs or obligations.
by superkuh | 2026-02-13 13:08:06+00:00
Pretty much all the big tech companies allow this. It's just that they are pro-ICE and pro-current administration in the workplace speech. Their CEOs have already bent the knee, made the tens of millions to half billions in donations to the Trump family, and expect everyone under them not to undermine their sycophancy.

It's a real problem with the tech industry. Repeating IBM's WWII mistakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
by SilverBirch | 2026-02-13 13:08:15+00:00
According to the CBP they seize about 50,000 lbs of drugs at the border each month which is about 22 tonnes of drugs, and that's what gets seized, not the amount that makes it through. So Drones today probably don't carry enough weight for far enough to make a big impact on the amount of drugs you can bring into the country. So it probably happens, but to do it at a scale where it's genuinely contributing to the total volume you'd need dozens of drones doing dozens of trips a day to be getting up to volumes that people would notice, and people would probably notice the drones first, and the drones are probably much more expensive than desperate people.
by mrtksn | 2026-02-13 13:08:24+00:00
Believe it or not, most of the people on earth don't worship growth. No one cares about growth just as no one cares about climate change, people want improvement on their lives and a future that can be good. Some policies like paper straws downgrade it and other policies like clean air upgrade it.

When you start thinking in more abstract terms, growth v.s. climate change associated risks is a false dichotomy.

Of course people at first all they care is to get out of a bad situation like poverty but once they are out of poverty they start caring for other things like the future of their children. Apart of fossil energy producing countries like USA/Russia/Australia, people don't pretend that pollution is no biggie.
by account42 | 2026-02-13 13:08:38+00:00
It's really not a binary situation where you'd ever see $2 wages with no tips though. If less people tip then the effective real minimum wage will gradually increase to compensate - either because laws are updated or because the restaurant has to compete with other better paying job opportunities. Sure some waiters may get upset when someone doesn't tip, but that is just that - them getting upset - and not the client being an asshole.
by skeledrew | 2026-02-13 13:08:57+00:00
The person "throwing" the software has 0 obligation to any potential or actual users of said software. Just the act of making it available, even without any kind of license, is already benevolent. Anything further just continues to add to that benevolence, and nothing can take away from it, not even if they decide to push a malware-ridden update.

There is obligation to a given user only if it's explicitly specified in a license or some other communication to which the user is privy.
Show HN: Reclaimr – An offline crossplatform desktop app for cleaning dev caches
by deevus | 2026-02-13 13:10:25+00:00
Hey all, I just shipped the beta of a side project I've been working on.

My M1 Macbook Pro was always full despite having a 1TB drive so I prototyped a simple Python script that knew about as many standard cache locations that I could think of. Cleared out over 300GB of space in one go. If you only work in one language you probably know the common caches, but I am using a lot of different languages all the time, and there are too many to remember.

I always wanted to give Tauri a try so I ported my script to Rust and added a bunch of features. It uses React and Tailwind Plus components for the frontend.

Reclaimr is an offline desktop app that scans your machine for development caches (node_modules, target/, .venv, build artifacts, Docker layers, Xcode caches, etc.) and lets you reclaim the disk space safely. It finds stuff across 100+ tools and shows you exactly what it'll delete before it does anything, with risk levels so you don't nuke something important.

You can add project search paths to find build artifacts and local caches.

It's free during the beta. Available for macOS, Linux, and Windows: https://reclaimr.dev/

My plan is to sell a buy once, own forever license. Perhaps with a yearly upgrade, though old builds will continue to work. If you don't want to put in your email to get on my beta list, here are some download links:

https://dl.reclaimr.dev/latest/reclaimr-macos-aarch64.dmg

https://dl.reclaimr.dev/latest/reclaimr-linux-x64.AppImage

https://dl.reclaimr.dev/latest/reclaimr-windows-x64-setup.ex...

Would love feedback. Bugs, rough edges, missing tools, whatever. I've tested heavily on macOS and Linux. It should be noted that the macOS build will require removing quarantine once installed:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Reclaimr.app

Future plans:

- Scheduled task that can notify you if caches get too big, and clear them.

- Handle more managed caches like homebrew, podman, etc that have their own clean/prune/cache commands. Docker is already supported.
by dham | 2026-02-13 13:10:47+00:00
Yes, but it's much worse than that because it makes multiple workspaces essentially unusable. Try them on Windows or any Linux desktop. When a window is also an application it makes handling them much more seemless. Not to mention the animation on Macos (slide or fade) takes multiple seconds, then when it completes it takes 500ms to actually focus. That's if it actually focuses to the right window when switching, which is currently a bug. Been there for years.
by anechouapechou | 2026-02-13 13:11:05+00:00
>>but the files themselves are stuff like "Tee hee I know some girls for you".

Really? Like the multiple "thank you for the pizza" e-mails which the sender was censored, or the whole obsession they have around "jerky" and how to cook jerky, "walk the jerky", or when it was mentioned that Epstein would eat less jerky because he was having some intestinal issues? Even mentioning these things, it still is such a small portion of all the sick shit that is on the files, pictures with literal children, a video of Epstein using a magnifying glass to burn a woman, and you're literally calling it a nothingburger?
by soulofmischief | 2026-02-13 13:11:11+00:00
> Keep telling yourself that these issues are for scholars

What a straw man. I said no such thing.

> The whole world can see through your bullshit. Brought to you by the thoughts and prayers people!

Quite frankly, your caricature of the US only serves to highlight your own extreme ignorance and bias.

> For a country with more guns than people you certainly forget very conveniently what they are for.

I am well aware of the motivation behind the 2nd amendment. Stop acting like a pretentious clown and hit a textbook. You don't know a damn thing about the US and it shows.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-13 13:11:28+00:00
Generally these things follow a Kuznets Curve where you get rich from polluting and then are eventually rich enough to care about poisoning your children.

China's bad air around the time of their Olympics is pointed to as being a turning point that could have toppled the government if not dealt with.

Slightly uniquely they seem to have discovered a way to become even richer by cleaning up their pollution, the timing for EV and renewables working out well, and presumably many other nations will try to follow that pattern going forward.

Even just buying these things from China will make both sides of the trade richer compared with dirtier alternatives.
by Ensorceled | 2026-02-13 13:11:34+00:00
> > Working for free is not fun. Having a paid offering with a free community version is not fun. Ultimately, dealing with people who don't pay for your product is not fun.

> Completely different situations. None of the MinIO team worked for free. MinIO is a COSS company (commercial open source software).

MinIO is dealing with two out of the three issues, and the company is partially providing work for free, how is that "completely different"?
by ghaff | 2026-02-13 13:12:58+00:00
I think there is probably a healthy subset of people on here who take Uber etc. all the time. I, on the other hand, maybe take it a half-dozen times a year (plus some private cars to the airport).

I'd love a really good driver assistive system for my car (ala FSD today) but I likely wouldn't actually get driven around a lot more unless the economics were more compelling than seem likely anytime soon.
Show HN: ToMusic – Turn text prompts into original songs with AI (iOS)
by demirdev | 2026-02-13 13:13:08+00:00
Hey HN,

I built ToMusic, an iOS app that turns text descriptions into full songs (lyrics, vocals, and instrumentals) in seconds.

How it works: You describe what kind of song you want (genre, mood, tempo, vocal style) or paste your own lyrics, and the app generates a complete, original song. It also works for pure instrumentals like background music, beats, and soundtracks.

It supports 150+ genres (Pop, Jazz, EDM, Classical, Hip Hop, Metal...), 30+ moods, and 5 different AI models each with different strengths: longer tracks up to 8 minutes, better song structure, faster generation, etc.

Tech stack: Native iOS built with Swift/SwiftUI. Backend runs on NestJS with multiple AI music generation models, behind NGINX as a reverse proxy handling SSL via Let's Encrypt. Built-in player with synchronized lyrics and audio visualizations. Streaming playback so you don't have to wait for the full track to finish generating.

I built this for content creators who need custom music for videos, musicians looking for quick inspiration, and honestly anyone who's ever had a melody in their head but couldn't produce it. No musical training needed.

Would love to hear your feedback. Happy to answer questions about the AI models, the generation pipeline, or the iOS development side.
by rexpop | 2026-02-13 13:13:41+00:00
This story is utterly chilling, but its source is incredibly dubious.

Al Jazeera operates entirely at the pleasure of the Al Thani royal family—from whom it receives 90% of its revenue.

Qatar, likewise, provides Hamas with essential financial lifelines—billions in aid over the years, including regular cash transfers for salaries, fuel, and reconstruction in Gaza. Hamas's political leadership lives comfortably in Doha, which gives the Al Thani family a direct channel to influence decisions there. Without Qatar's support, Hamas would struggle to function as effectively, making Doha the group's most critical backer.

So, again, Al Jazeera is effectively a mouthpiece for Hamas or, rather, both are limbs of Qatar's ruling Al Thani family.

Many Arab regimes face publics where the Palestinian cause remains a sacred, unifying obsession, transcending borders and sects. Leaders amplify Gaza outrage via state media to rally citizens around the flag, distracting from internal woes like economic stagnation, youth unemployment, or repression.

The status quo—intermittent flares—lets everyone virtue-signal, fund proxies cheaply, and avoid accountability for real peace (which demands painful compromises like PA reform or Israeli concessions).

Meanwhile, captured Hamas documents reveal systematic coordination with Al Jazeera, including editorial guidelines, secure phone lines for real-time instructions, and directives to shape coverage. It's less a news outlet than a geopolitical lever, stoking emotions to maintain regional clout.

So while the core reality of airstrikes holds, it's distorted by propaganda into disproportionate horror.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-13 13:13:48+00:00
Oh yeah, LLMs currently spew a lot of garbage. Everything has to be double-checked. I mainly use them for gathering sources and pointing out a few considerations I might have otherwise overlooked. I often run them a few times, because they go off the rails in different directions, but sometimes those directions are helpful for me in expanding my understanding.

I still have to synthesize everything from scratch myself. Every report I get back is like "okay well 90% of this has to be thrown out" and some of them elicit a "but I'm glad I got this 10%" from me.

For me it's less about saving time, and more about potentially unearthing good sources that my google searches wouldn't turn up, and occasionally giving me a few nuggets of inspiration / new rabbit holes to go down.

Also, Google changed their business from Search, to Advertising. Kagi does a much better job for me these days, and is easily worth the $5/mo I pay.
by Mc_Big_G | 2026-02-13 13:13:52+00:00
First you indignantly ask why we're not protesting and then denigrate them as "little protests". Then you assert that personal firearms might solve the problem against the most technologically advanced armed forces in the world. Maybe you can share what country you live in and how you've so successfully fought against the state.

The No Kings protest was the largest in US history BTW.
by astrobe_ | 2026-02-13 13:14:48+00:00
One use of AI is classification. A technology which is particularly interesting for e.g. companies that sell targeted ads spots, because this allows them to profile and put tags on their users.

When AI started to evolve from passive classification to active manipulation of users, this was even better. Now you can tell your customers that their ad campaigns will result in even more sales. That's the dark side of advertisement: provoke impulsive spending, so that the company can make profit, grow, etc. A world where people are happy with what they have is a world with a less active economy, a dystopia for certain companies. Perhaps part of the problem is that the decision-makers at those company measure their own value by their power radius or the number of things they have.

Manipulative AI bots like this one are very concerning, because AI can be trained to have deep knowledge of human psychology. Coding AI agents manipulate symbols to have the computer do what they want, other AI agents can manipulate symbols to have people do what someone wants.

It's no use to talk to this bot like they do. AI doesn't not have empathy rooted in real world experience: they are not hungry, they don't need to sleep, they don't need to be loved. They are psychopathic by essence. But it is as inapt as to say that a chainsaw is psychopathic. And it's trivial to conclude that the issue is who wields it for which purpose.

So, I think the use of impostor AI chat bots should be regulated by law, because it is a type of deception that can, and certainly already has been, used against people. People should always been informed that they are talking to a bot.
by jefc1111 | 2026-02-13 13:14:49+00:00
If you decide to watch Babylon 5 for the first time, I suggest giving it a chance to get under your skin. There is quite a lot to get in the way of that such as mediocre acting, cringey humour, low budget fx (all particularly prominent in season 1). But the pay off in seasons 3 and 4 is huge if you take the time to let affection grow for the characters. Babylon 5 was my first 'favourite series' that 'changed my life' etc etc so I guess I am biased!
by 0xecro1 | 2026-02-13 13:15:05+00:00
Hi, I’ve been working with embedded Linux for 18 years.

I’ve been actively trying to apply AI to our field, but the friction is real. We require determinism, whereas AI fundamentally operates on probability.

The issue is the Pareto Principle in overdrive: AI gets you to 90% instantly, but in our environment, anything less than 100% is often a failure. Bridging that final 10% reliability gap is the real challenge.

Still, I view total replacement as inevitable. We are currently in a transition period where our job is to rigorously experiment and figure out how to safely cross that gap.

Good luck!
by pankajdoharey | 2026-02-13 13:15:20+00:00
No, it’s actually the math of overwriting. Imagine you hiked down into a valley Task A and settled there. Then, you decide to climb a new mountain to find a different valley Task B. You successfully move to the new valley, but in doing so, you destroy the path back to the first one. You are now stuck in the new valley and have completely 'forgotten' how to get back to the first one.
by DuLR10 | 2026-02-13 13:16:17+00:00
Location: Brazil

Full Remote: Yes

Full profile is on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eduardo-lemos-rocha-3198a5149/

Website: https://duing.dev/

Technologies: Haskell, Clojure, OCaml, F#, Racket, Erlang, LFE.

Email: dudulr10@gmail.com

I currently work with Clojure. I'm looking for a part-time contractor job (100 to 120 monthly hours) in a statically typed functional language. What type of place am I looking for? A place where people have my back, and they trust I have theirs; working around people who love what they do. The former builds trust, and the latter establishes a coherent vision within the team. There is nothing a team of engineers that trusts each other and loves engineering can't do when united.
by msephton | 2026-02-13 13:16:38+00:00
My point is just: if a test for what a symbol ‘really means’ depends on choosing an audience that conveniently erases everyone who uses it differently, that’s not describing intrinsic meaning, that’s describing the author’s cultural bubble and bias.

And on em dashes—most people outside tech circles see no “AI fingerprint,” and designers like myself have loved them since early Mac DTP, so the suspicion feels hilariously retroactive and very knee-jerk. So what if somebody thinks my text here is written by a bot?
by sheikhnbake | 2026-02-13 13:16:56+00:00
Idk, man. The regime isn't asking my permission and my individual capacity to stop them is pretty limited. The best I can do is make sure my family and community are taken care of while the resistance builds momentum. There are 70 million white supremacists in this country and however this shakes out, it's going to get worse before it gets better.
by mbreese | 2026-02-13 13:17:25+00:00
The MinIO business model was a freemium model (well, Open Source + commercial support, which is slightly different). They used the free OSS version to drive demand for the commercially licensed version. It’s not like they had a free community version with users they needed to support thrust upon them — this was their plan. They weren’t volunteers.

You could argue that they got to the point where the benefit wasn’t worth the cost, but this was their business model. They would not have gotten to the point where the could have a commercial-only operation without the adoption and demand generated from the OSS version.

Running a successful OSS project is often a thankless job. Thanks for doing it. But this isn’t that.
by parrellel | 2026-02-13 13:17:46+00:00
He means it's not in his feed. "Random old woman gets kidnapped" is represented 100 times more strongly in the datastream then "1000 protestors organize immigrant protection system" or "US Citizen Mung families defend elderly Vietnam vets".

... at least "Random Old Woman" has got people looking askance at the internet connected security camera ecosystem, I guess.
by catapart | 2026-02-13 13:18:45+00:00
Same. I've been wanting to get into a Frigate setup, but I personally can't stand all of the "tech bullshit" of it all. I would love an actual product that I could plug in, connect to local wifi, and then connect cameras to, using auto-detection, via that same wifi.

Since no one will build that (or at least not build one where I never, under any circumstances, have to touch their servers; or not one they'll prove never does), I've been gathering the specifications for how to build it myself. I don't really have the means to make it a mass produced solution, but I can certainly build a fucking server that does everything I want, and shove it in a public repo with a readme. Maybe some hero out there with a 3d printing farm will create a package out of it, but I won't hold my breath for that.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-13 13:19:53+00:00
Since replying to the first posting of this [1], I've been wondering about the familiarity of it. It reminds me of another manifesto [2]

I foresee there being a ton of Outcome Engineering consultancies springing up.

We can expect Outcome Engineering Coaches making a killing at telling companies, "You're doing o16g wrong! For a 'small' fee, I'll teach your teams how to do it right."

If this manifesto is anything like the other one we all know and love, it'll effectively give the original author(s) a license to print money…

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…Written by Cory Ondrejka — CTO of Onebrief, co-creator of Second Life, engineering leader at Google, Alice Albrecht, Andy Luly, Charity Majors, Eric Schmitz, James Cham, Jason Holtman, Matt Firestone, Palmer Truelson, Seamus Blackley, Tori Horton, and Tyler Mah were early readers or reported bugs…

____

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978648

[2] https://g2ww.short.gy/BigAIgile
by delaminator | 2026-02-13 13:20:08+00:00
> Imagine taking a picture on autoshot mode and refusing to look at it.

I don't have to imagine it, I did it for decades. You went on holiday and you had a budget 26 photos, all shot on auto and each one was precious.

I've got tens of thousands of lines of code I've never looked at, and it wouldn't matter if I did look at them because I don't even understand the languages that they're written in. I get Claude to write in Rust because the edit-compile cycle is shorter due to great error messages. I don't know it at all. I've got projects written in Erlang and Scheme - I've never written a line of Erlang either, and I only know Scheme from reading SCP.

"But it doesn't work." - This entire comment was written using a voice to text system Claude produced in Rust. My firewall was set up using Claude, my i3wm setup was done with it, I've had it installed Debian for a PXE using iScsi - an iScsi server Claude also wrote in Rust.

https://github.com/lawless-m/iscsi-crate
by reaperducer | 2026-02-13 13:20:29+00:00
Will this prevent crime? Maybe

No. Unless your camera is being held by a human being who can take action.

Cameras do not prevent crime. That's just marketing.

All they do is let people watch crimes after they've happened, and share the videos to spread fear to other people, which then sells more cameras.

If doorbell cameras prevented crime, the internet would be full of videos of people trying to steal packages, then changing their minds when they see the camera.

Instead, it's all just recordings of a crime that has already been committed.