MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-11 21:32:21+00:00
Yeah, you said that, but I didn't got that, because my default assumption is the opposite. This is because first the purchasing power parity is much lower, and second because tons of electronic devices are shipped to "developing countries", due to ecologic regulations in the West. So I would expect the market to be flooded with old slightly-broken devices, same as they are flooded with "old" slightly-imperfect chickens. But I don't have numbers for that, it is just extrapolation out of other behaviour.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-11 21:32:38+00:00
> Nope. Some aminoacids and compounds are only present in meat.

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

Notice that many of the plants high in some of these aren't that common, e.g. what percentage of people regularly eat pumpkin seeds or spirulina?

> So, not every person is the same, and assuming that every human being works the same is a big mistake made by modern medicine.

It's not that you need the same diet as every other person, it's that you have to eat the specific things you need, which a random selection of plants may or may not contain in the right amounts.

> For example, my brain chemistry is also different and I consume B12 much more than a typical human, so I need to use B-complex supplements more.

B12 in particular is a pain because it's only produced by bacteria (commonly found in soil) so the options are unwashed vegetables, meat from animals that eat unwashed vegetables, or supplements. And on top of that because of the way it's absorbed, a B12 pill either has to be taken multiple times a day several hours apart or has to be 100x as much to make up for the absorption rate falling off a cliff after a threshold amount which is below the RDA.
by toephu2 | 2026-02-11 21:32:39+00:00
Every technology has pros and cons. Are you insuating Flock is bad and evil (with your reference to 1984?)

I don't think Flock is this Big EviL coMpaNy you are making them out to be.

SFPD reported a 125% homicide clearance rate in 2025 (solving more cases than occurred that year), citing license plate readers (read: Flock) and drones as key factors in providing digital evidence.
by jihadjihad | 2026-02-11 21:32:55+00:00
Given the title and the content, I'm very surprised that there is no mention of Dostoevsky's wife Anna [0]. She was hired as a stenographer on his novel The Gambler to help him to finish it on time, since if he failed to do so, the copyright of any future work of his for the next several years would be in jeopardy. It took a while to find a rhythm (Dostoevsky was hard to keep up with), but once they did, they managed to meet the deadline, and a relationship between them was born.

From her Memoirs:

Anna describes how Dostoevsky began his marriage proposal by outlining the plot of an imaginary new novel, as if he needed her advice on female psychology. In the story an old painter makes a proposal to a young girl whose name is Anya. Dostoevsky asked if it was possible for a girl so young and different in personality to fall in love with the painter. Anna answered that it was quite possible. Then he told Anna: "Put yourself in her place for a moment. Imagine I am the painter, I confessed to you and asked you to be my wife. What would you answer?" Anna said: "I would answer that I love you and I will love you forever."

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Dostoevskaya
by bayindirh | 2026-02-11 21:33:31+00:00
In the series Person of Interest, there's a scene where you can see racks of servers which allows to track everyone in a city (New York?).

When I first saw the scene I said: "This amount of servers is not remotely enough to pull something like this".

When I think of the scene now: "These amount of servers can do much more than the scene portrays".

I mean, most of the tech presented in the series is almost standard operations procedure via mundane equipment now.

Scary.
by lucidhss | 2026-02-11 21:33:46+00:00
What’s always been painful about invoicing for me isn’t generating the PDF. It’s everything around it. Keeping a clean record, knowing what’s been sent, what’s been paid, what’s overdue, and remembering to follow up or handle renewals. A one off invoice creator is fine, but the real value is in the repetitive workflow and the boring bookkeeping that never goes away.

There are a bunch of solid options here depending on what you want:
https://invoicely.com/
https://invoicematic.com/
https://www.invoicesimple.com/
by htx80nerd | 2026-02-11 21:33:57+00:00
every year (month?) that passes people are saying the end of the world is right around the corner due to climate change. then 10 yrs passes, nothing happens, and they keep saying the same stuff.

the system warning you the world is in big trouble dont remind you 'their side' has been saying the sky is falling for ~40+ yrs.
by mekod | 2026-02-11 21:34:15+00:00
Predefined or human-borrowed tactics will eventually run out.
What really fascinates me is this: when both sides are AIs trained to predict the opponent’s next move — and they know the opponent is also an AI doing the same — what emerges then?
At that point it’s not human vs machine anymore. It’s Sherlock vs Sherlock.
by Mordisquitos | 2026-02-11 21:34:20+00:00
And yet, we're not completely stuck. It is absolutely clear that not enough has been done to reduce our carbon emissions, and we're on a bad path on track to ~2.5°C warming in the next century. However, something has been done, and if nothing had been done we could easily be on track to >4°C global warming. That would be much worse.

So, how did we achieve what little we have? Well, because many people have cared, and have made the right decisions. Not enough people, or maybe not good-enough decisions, but some people, and somewhat good decisions.

So, what were the decisions which brought us down from an apocalyptic +4°C to a very bad 2.5°C path? Was it enough consumers making environmentally conscious choices, even if they were less convenient or more expensive. No. It was enough voters wanting their leaders to do something, even if it wasn't quite enough, but it was something. And something isn't nothing.

We will never have enough people voting with their wallet to fight climate change, because our rational understanding of the big-picture cannot overpower our intuitive day-to-day choices. However, we may have enough people voting with their ballot to fight climate change, because the rational big-picture can, sometimes, decide whom we vote for.
by mandevil | 2026-02-11 21:34:38+00:00
The Cosmic Microwave Background Explorer was a satellite back in the 1990s that measured the Cosmic Microwave Background of the universe. This CMB is the afterimage of the Big Bang, about 400,000 years after the Big Bang when the universe suddenly became transparent to photons- the earliest images of the universe we can possibly capture in light.

And it found that everything was the same no matter where you looked, to about 10 parts per million. So that is the level of variation in the density of the universe about a half-million years after the Big Bang, the differences are measured at the level of parts per million.

And then back in the 1990s the Hubble Space Telesecope took pictures of the previously most luminous galaxy ever recorded, and it was really far back in time, within half a billion years of the Big Bang. And these luminous galaxies were something that we expected to mean that they were built around gigantic supermassive Black Holes. Which means that in a very short amount of time we must have gone from "everything is the same to parts per million" to "here is a gigantic accumulation of mass concentrated in this one spot so densely that all of our models of physics don't work any more."

And so the Webb Space Telescope was built specifically to look for things in between what the Hubble had seen (in Visual Light) and what the COBE had seen (in Microwave), that is Infrared. It is designed to look for these supermassive galaxies that had Red Shifted (1) so far they had left the visual spectrum and gone into Infrared. Figuring out how all of these super luminous galaxies formed is the main question that the whole thing was designed around.

1: As things move away from us, the photons shift to the red end of the spectrum. According to Hubble's Law, things the faster something is moving away from us the earlier it is in time, and the further its photons are shifted to the right: this is why the Cosmic Microwave Background is in microwave, because it has been red shifted so far it has gone into the Microwave part of the spectrum.
by bmitch3020 | 2026-02-11 21:35:33+00:00
Two lessons for driving in snow/ice:

1. In a parking lot, clear behind the car, and just enough to get inside. Then back the car out of the space, clear the car off, clear the parking space out, put the car back in the parking space and clear everything you knocked off. If tried without pulling the car out of the space, you'd be trying not to ding up your neighbor's car, clearing in tight spaces under the car, and then doing it all again when you clear off the top of the car into that narrow gap.

2. Don't drive unless you absolutely need to. You may know what you're doing, but others almost certainly don't. But do make sure to clear out at least one car, just in case there's an emergency.
by ChicagoDave | 2026-02-11 21:35:39+00:00
Yes. None of this early stuff should be monetized and that Entire business model is all about monetizing something that doesn't need it.

I have hooks in Claude to auto-generate the work summary and read the last work summary on start. Now if I could only get Claude to quit/restart on its own or have it thoroughly flush its resources (even Anthropic says restarting is better), we'd be getting somewhere. I do wish there were automatic hooks that fire all the time (like a heart monitor) where I could query "if context is below 15%" do this: stop all work, write work summary, commit and push all changes, release all resources, read last work summary, continue the work.

That would be awesome.
by derefr | 2026-02-11 21:35:45+00:00
AFAICT, the steady-state Liquid Glass effects (think: the address bar in Safari, staying static itself while you scroll the page under it) cost nothing. That's what I meant above.

Animating the Liquid Glass widgets (i.e. changing their position or shape), on the other hand, does seem to cost a lot / produce lag.

I get the impression that this is down to the UI toolkit not being optimized for whatever Liquid Glass is doing in terms of recalculating constraints during animations. (When the GPU overruns its time budget while computing shaders for the compositor, the visual effect is of [double-buffered] texture buffers dropping/repeating frames, not slowdown. Actual "lag" in a GPU-composited UI is either from CPU work, or from one-shot CUDA-type GPU "prerender jobs".)

I get the sense that Apple rushed out some shitty code that has some of these components re-evaluating a bunch of their placement and sizing constraints on every non-static animation frame (rather than just giving the Liquid Glass shaders the ability to do declarative tweens.)

Or maybe the shaders already do declarative tweens, but Apple are doing tons of redundant on-CPU per-frame recalculations, to re-do any constraint-based layout for everything around the component during the animation, that might be impacted by the component's current tweened state. I dunno.

Either way, it's definitely silly, and could be re-engineered to work a lot better.

But it's also not really "Liquid Glass's fault" (i.e. something inherent to the visual design); it's just (AFAICT) bad implementation engineering, rushed to give Apple something to talk about besides its failure to launch Apple Intelligence.
by culi | 2026-02-11 21:35:48+00:00
I strongly suggest people read the ACLU's report, "Resistance, Retaliation, Repression: Two Years in California Immigration Detention". It was published in 2024 but no doubt the issues raised in here have only gotten worse as CoreCivic has expanded its contracts dramatically

https://www.aclunorcal.org/publications/resistance-retaliati...

Some of those issues:

- forced labor in order to afford to eat. The $1/day "Voluntary Work Program" is necessary to afford enough food and there is retaliation if you refuse (including solitary confinement). CoreCivic sells this labor to companies

- dozens of documented deaths from forced labor and medical neglect

- extensive use of solitary confinement often for "minor disciplinary infractions or as a form of retaliation for participating in hunger strikes or for submitting complaints"
by seanw444 | 2026-02-11 21:35:59+00:00
I am attempting to revive my once fairly large Minecraft server, and not being present there means suicide. What I can do is signal to them that not only am I not giving them my ID, I am no longer giving them my monthly payments ever again. Which is the metric investors want to see increase, not decrease. I have given them hundreds of dollars in monthly payments. That will now cease as a result of this decision.

You don't have to go pedal to the metal to signal disapproval in a way that hurts.
by reactordev | 2026-02-11 21:36:25+00:00
Dismissing their violence is rude. They are capable and willing to do whatever. As evidenced here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_San_Fernando_massacre

It's a much bigger problem that you all realize. Right now they have authorized attacks on border patrol agents...

I'm not saying that the US wouldn't retaliate, I'm saying our enemies are getting bolder under this administration's pressure. Turns out the closure was because of drones... But it's still a real issue in Mexico that Mexico would love the eradicate.
by qwytw | 2026-02-11 21:36:45+00:00
Some snippets from Kimi's 2.5 answer:

""
[...] Since you need to get your car washed, you have to bring the car to the car wash—walking there without the vehicle won't accomplish your goal [...]
If it's a self-service wash, you could theoretically push the car 50 meters if it's safe and flat (unusual, but possible) [..]
Consider whether you really need that specific car wash, or if a mobile detailing service might come to you
[...]
"""

Which seems slightly (unintentionally) funny.

But to be fair all the Gemini (including flash) and GPT models I tried did understand the quesiton.
by willio58 | 2026-02-11 21:36:46+00:00
> do you ever wonder some of the people you manage might be thinking of you in the same way?

I'm almost certain some of those I manage do think of me in this way. I try to explain my thought process and decision making to those I manage, and I am always looking for genuine critical feedback. I also own up to it when I've made a bad call. Overall, my anonymous ratings are pretty high, and my teams have seen exceedingly low turnover so I take those as good signs.
by dylan604 | 2026-02-11 21:37:09+00:00
> Problem is that we if we all stand in a circle and point fingers at the next guy who is to blame, that doesn't really move us toward any sort of solutions.

Because of the power of lobbyists and their war chests full of cash, even if we made that circle surrounding our congress critter so everyone was pointing at them, we'd still have no effect. Our shame circle would only be uncomfortable for a short time which would quickly be assuaged by the soothing feeling of another large donation from a lobbyist.
by laurencerowe | 2026-02-11 21:37:15+00:00
It's true that non-coastal Utah, Colorado, and Minnesota have good life expectancy for the US but they lag behind California, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Hawaii.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data-visualization/state-life-expec...

Utah is 1.7 years behind the EU average. Even Hawaii with the highest life expectancy in the US is behind all but the former Eastern Block EU countries.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240324032202/https://www.ined....

(Archive link to get comparable 2022 data.)
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-11 21:37:20+00:00
Can you elaborate?

Do you mean that drug dependence has become more visible? That petty crime has increased?

One fun thing about harm reduction policies is that, as a result of fewer people dying, more people are on the street. So while you don’t see people in the morgue on your daily commute, you do see them down the alleyway. This side effect may be more unpleasant for you, but that’s only because you’re not personally inconvenienced by the corpse sitting in the freezer at the coroner.
by cestith | 2026-02-11 21:38:02+00:00
2110 is certainly popular in the industry. There’s no one way to get video out of a sports venue and across the network to takers, though. Where I work different workflows have SDI, NDI, SRT, RIST, and our own internal stuff uses MPEG TS over UDP and gets routed by a distributed system that determines next-hop routing through our network at each hop. The encoding might be H.264, HVEC, or even JPEG2000.
Show HN: DevProof – Verified developer portfolios using Code Complexity and AI
by dhruv0206 | 2026-02-11 21:38:12+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm Dhruv. I built DevProof because I was tired of guessing which "Senior Engineer" actually understood distributed (or complex) systems versus who just pasted code from tutorials. GitHub activity charts (green squares) measure effort, not engineering depth.

What it is: DevProof is a portfolio generator that audits your actual code. It follows a "Proof of Work" model: it pulls your source code, runs it through a 2-step verification pipeline (AI + Static Analysis), and builds a verified profile.

How it works (The Ranking Algo):

Ingestion: We pull your top repos (filtering out forks/docs).
Reasoning (Gemini 3.0 Pro): An AI agent classifies your code into 3 Tiers (Tier 1: UI, Tier 2: Logic, Tier 3: Complex Algos).
Verification (Static Analysis): We run McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity (using lizard) on the flagged files. If the AI claims a file is "Tier 3" (Complex) but the complexity is < 15, we automatically downgrade it. (This prevents the "hallucination" problem where AI thinks a long file is complex when it's just verbose).
The Hiring Engine (Coming Soon): Portfolios are step one. We are building a hiring engine where you search for experience, not keywords.

Example Query: "Find a dev who has extensive experience building Voice AI pipelines."

Instead of sending you to GitHub to dig through repos, we surface the evidence directly:

The Tier: (e.g., Tier 3 - Real-time Audio Processing)
The Project: (e.g., VoxArena)
The Evidence: Direct links to the specific lines of code and complexity analytics that prove the skill.
Future Roadmap: We are also building an AI Detection System to verify human authorship and an Intent Analysis Engine to understand why a developer made specific architectural choices, moving beyond just "what" they wrote.

The Ask: I’d love for you to try it on your own public repos.

Does the "Complexity Score" feel fair?
Did it correctly identify your "hardest" code vs. your "boilerplate"?
I am tuning the thresholds for the Tier downgrades right now, so any examples of false positives/negatives would be super helpful.

Dhruv
by Animats | 2026-02-11 21:38:38+00:00
The CO2 graph over decades is painfully clear.[1] From 321ppm in 1970 to 428ppm in mid-2005, measured in Hawaii atop Mauna Loa, far from any major CO2 sources. Everything else is noisy and statistical, but the CO2 measurement increases very steadily.

[1] https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/
by geboss | 2026-02-11 21:38:47+00:00
I've been building Vehique for the past year – basically an AI operating system for car shopping and research. Users describe what they want in natural language, we search live inventory and curate results, they can compare 2-4 cars side by side, and a scout agent runs hourly and daily to find new listings that match their preferences.

Here's the thing, I don't have savings, will be graduating in may, and building solo. users keep visiting the product (3k monthly now) but scaling is tough on my own. been considering applying for yc and other accelerators but also job hunting as backup.

For those who've built marketplace or consumer products or worked on similar problems – am i chasing something real here or should i take a swe job and shelve this? not looking for encouragement, just honest takes on whether this problem is worth the next year of my life.

The tech stack is a multi-agent system with llms. happy to share more details if useful.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-11 21:39:07+00:00
Thinking this is "bothsidesing" is you contributing to the problem. The Democrats and Republicans have both abandoned scientific rigor on this topic. When either talks about it, it is almost purely an excuse to smuggle in unrelated policy objectives.

A group of politicians can have strong disagreements where none has a grasp on reality. That is where we are with climate change. It is one of the reasons I stopped working on it at a policy level.
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-11 21:39:13+00:00
For Linux folks: Notepad is the Windows equivalent of a console editor such as Pico or Vi.

Its job is to be robust, simple, and always available.

It's supposed to show you the symbols in markdown, not render them.

It is useful for opening potentially dangerous content in a 100% safe way, because "txt" should always be safe to inspect!

It is regularly used to open gigabyte-sized log files and the like, which it has to handle on machines with less free memory than that! Markdown rendering and similar features are fundamentally incompatible with this requirement because they require serialised parsing of the entire file instead of opening just tens of kilobytes at a time using memory mapping or whatever.

Notepad is also used to open files without taking a lock, allowing users to read files that are actively being written to. Again, incompatible with practically all parsing strategies.

The "new Notepad" is some dumbass executives pet project that overlaps with Visual Studio Code and is a shitty alternative to WordPad, which another dumbass executive axed for no good reason.
by mystraline | 2026-02-11 21:39:13+00:00
Pinkertons. And the US national guard.

Its happened before, over labor disputes and unionization.

A LOT of people died, both in anti-union and union sides.

And thats why we have, well, had, the National Labor Relations Board. It was to make a peaceful way to negotiate worker rights.

Maybe if it did go away completely, and the violence comes back, that people in power would be reminded WHY we had union structure and law in the federal government to begin with. It wasn't for the warm fuzzies.
by useragent42 | 2026-02-11 21:39:14+00:00
If you read their full paper, they do technical analysis confirming findings in many cases. Many other researchers have done the same in the recent past.

Full paper also says that the unique URLs were later requested by crawlers, which confirms server-side collection.

What happens server-side is also confirmed by the palant.info article that shows a graphic provided by a major data broker that shows exactly how they mis-use data collected by extensions under false pretenses.

It's far from speculation when there's both technical evidence collected by researchers and direct evidence provided by the bad actors themselves.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-11 21:39:16+00:00
> 2. Regulatory constraints

I didn't see any suggestion on the web site that you're regulated.

> If we ever front-ran even one customer, word would spread

Not if you were clever.

As I see it your business model is so well suited to scamming, and this is so obvious, that anyone operating it legitimately will need to do better to distinguish themselves than "Trust us". But I could be wrong. I mean hey, online poker!

Good luck!