MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by altairprime | 2026-02-19 19:30:02+00:00
> there's plenty of incentive for them to order the right amount.

If the incentives to avoid waste were effective in the market, the EU wouldn’t need to introduce regulations to halt it — but their industry is destroying a bit over ten kilos of finished products per person there each year, so the market carrot isn’t working and manufacturers have more than earned the regulatory stick (and can afford the share of profits compliance will cost them).

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/newsroom/news/many-returned-and... is a good start if you’re unfamiliar with the issue as a whole.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-19 19:30:08+00:00
The Qualcomm laptops have various problems with Linux that have not been solved yet.

You have much better Linux support for an older Snapdragon from 2021 (with quadruple Cortex-A78 cores) which has been rebranded as "Dragonwing QCM6490" and which is sold by Qualcomm for use in embedded computers. Thus Qualcomm promises at least 10 years of support for it.

There are a few cheap single-board computers with it, e.g. Particle Tachyon 5G and Radxa Dragon Q6A.

Unfortunately, "cheap" means something very different today than last summer, due to the huge increase in the price of DRAM. Nevertheless, the SBCs with soldered LPDDR memory have been affected less by the price increase than the computers for which you have to buy SODIMM or DIMM memory modules, which may cost now more than a mini-PC in which you would want to install them.
by refulgentis | 2026-02-19 19:30:21+00:00
> Imagine being allowed to have a beer outside, or after 2 am, oh the humanity.

Where do you live that this is not possible?

(I know you’re speaking loosely, I.e. you mean “where I live bars have to stop serving alcohol at 2
Am” but it’s so loose that there’s 0 argument made here, figured I’d touch on another aspect leading to that, other replies cover the others. Ex. The 2 AM law isn’t about you it’s about neighborhoods with bars)
by forshaper | 2026-02-19 19:30:24+00:00
We do?

Where, like Totila and Belisarius?

Richard the Lionheart and Saladin?

The death of Taira no Atsumori?

Byrhtnoth and the Vikings?

The Black Prince and King John II?

The Song dynasty's opinion of the Mongols?

David Hackworth saying that the US Army had to out-G the G?

GWOT instructors telling you that when you're out partying, the Muj is sharpening his knife?
by cfiggers | 2026-02-19 19:30:41+00:00
I am an S-exp enjoyer, and more for practical reasons than aesthetic ones—I really like the editor tooling that's possible with S-expressions. So I will absolutely choose a Lisp or a lisp if given the option, even at some level of inconvenience when it comes to the maturity of the language itself. I will always write Hy[0] rather than Python, for example.

[0] https://hylang.org

(I am aware of Combobulate[1] for Emacs folks, of which I'm sadly not one.)

[1] https://GitHub.com/mickeynp/combobulate
by matthewfcarlson | 2026-02-19 19:31:12+00:00
I built something somewhat similar to this that's web app based (honeydew) but it's much more focused on DIY and doesn't include any of the quote/contractor stuff. It's absolutely focused on powering through a huge pile of todos from a home inspection with dependency tracking as well as remembering stuff (when was the last time you empty the washing machine filter).

It practice it alternates between annoying thing I dismiss the notifications from or use obsessively. Doesn't seem to be much in between
by imiric | 2026-02-19 19:31:26+00:00
> It's quite sad but I think it will result in a more personable internet as people try to distinguish themselves from the bots.

I applaud your optimism, but I think the internet is a lost cause. Humans who value communicating with other humans will need to retreat into niche communities with zero tolerance for bots. Filtering out bot content will likely continue to be impossible, but we'll eventually settle on a good way to determine if someone is human. I just hope we won't have to give up our privacy and anonymity for it.
by redwood | 2026-02-19 19:31:34+00:00
AI is group think. Group think makes you boring. But then the same can be said about mass culture. Why do we all know Elvis, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, the Beatles, etc? when there were countless others who came before them and after them? Because they happened to emerge at the right time in our mass culture.

Imagine how dynamic the world was before radio, before tv, before movies, before the internet, before AI? I mean imagine a small town theater, musician, comedian, or anything else before we had all homogenized to mass culture? It's hard to know what it was like but I think it's what makes the great appeal of things like Burning Man or other contexts that encourage you to tune out the background and be in the moment.

Maybe the world wasn't so dynamic and maybe the gaps were filled by other cultural memes like religion. But I don't know that we'll ever really know what we've lost either.

How do we avoid group think in the AI age? The same way as in every other age. By making room for people to think and act different.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-19 19:31:35+00:00
> Their lawyers recommendation, and Colbert's response and behavior, aligns with the case if they did refuse guests

Colbert's response and behavior also happen to align with his desire to remain contracted with CBS; the lawyers' recommendation aligns with CBS's desire to cater to the whims of the current US administration.

> Is there some reference you're going off of related to this, that makes it clear they didn't [refuse any guests]?

Colbert would say yes without hesitation. He has no reason to refuse the guest because he would take the opportunity to skewer them. I daresay he would revel in it. This equal airtime requirement does not also require equal consideration of opinion. It seems more prudent to look for evidence that this actually occurred; for example, has anybody come forward to complain about being refused as a guest on Colbert's show? One would think someone concerned about publicity would be very interested to do exactly that (unless it would be defamatory, of course).

> Call me a crazy conspiracy theorist but, a strongly left leaning show, with a strong left leaning audience, whose whole routine is making fun of republicans, refusing republican guests does NOT seem all that crazy.

For the reasons I describe in the previous paragraph, that would be illogical for him to refuse, additionally for the reasons as noted in this case: it could be considered illegal to do so. On this topic of conspiracy theories, it appears a more likely one is that this current US administration, known for its bullshit, is just offering more bullshit.
by skizm | 2026-02-19 19:31:40+00:00
> The plaintiff is a 20-year-old California woman identified as K.G.M. because she was a minor at the time of her alleged personal injury.

I didn't realize this was literally a single person claiming they were personally injured by literally every major social media company. How does that even work? What laws are purported to have been broken here? I wholeheartedly support some sort of regulatory framework around social media, but this specific case seems like a cash grab. It was already successful too, since Snap and TikTok have settled.
by gary_0 | 2026-02-19 19:31:41+00:00
I would argue the term "gatekeeping" is being twisted around when it comes to AI. I see genuine gatekeeping when people with a certain skill or qualification try to discourage newcomers by making their field seem mysterious and only able to be done by super special people, and intimidating or making fun of newbies who come along and ask naive questions.

"Gatekeeping" is NOT when you require someone to be willing learn a skill in order to join a community of people with that skill.

And in fact, saying "you are too stupid to learn that on your own, use an AI instead" is kind of gatekeeping on its own, because it implicitly creates a shrinking elite who actually have the knowledge (that is fed to the AI so it can be regurgitated for everyone else), shutting out the majority who are stuck in the "LLM slum".
by rubslopes | 2026-02-19 19:31:47+00:00
I agree with your sentiment, and it touches on one of the reasons I left academia for IT. Scientific research is preoccupied with finding the truth, which is beautiful but very stressful. If you're a perfectionist, you're always questioning yourself: "Did I actually find something meaningful, or is it just noise? Did I gaslight myself into thinking I was just exploring the data when I was actually p-hacking the results?" This took a real toll on my mental health.

Although I love science, I'm much happier building programs. "Does the program do what the client expects with reasonable performance and safety? Yes? Ship it."
by cranberryturkey | 2026-02-19 19:32:12+00:00
This is an underappreciated point. I work across a lot of codebases and the difference in how well AI coding tools handle Rust vs JavaScript vs Python is striking — and syntax ambiguity is a big part of it.

The `type name` vs `let name: type` distinction matters more than it seems. When the grammar is unambiguous, the LLM can parse intent from a partial file without needing the full compilation context that a human expert carries in their head. Rust and Go are notably easier for LLMs to work with than C or C++ partly because the syntax encodes more structure.

The flip side: syntax that is too terse becomes opaque to LLMs for the same reason it becomes opaque to humans. Point-free Haskell, APL-family languages, heavy operator overloading — these rely on the reader holding a lot of context that does not exist in the immediate token window.

I wonder if we will see new languages designed with LLM-parseability as an explicit goal, the way some languages were designed for easy compilation.
by cranberryturkey | 2026-02-19 19:32:12+00:00
The kernel metaphor is interesting but I think the hard questions are in the gaps between the metaphor and reality.

Real kernels have well-defined failure modes. Process crashes, OOM kills, filesystem corruption — there are decades of battle-tested recovery patterns. When your "kernel" is a language model, failure is probabilistic and often silent. The healer agent can fix a broken file, but can it detect when a sub-agent made a subtly wrong architectural decision that will cascade later?

The 5 sub-agent model maps loosely to microservices, but coordination is the part that kills you. How do you handle conflicting state when two sub-agents modify overlapping resources? File-based IPC is simple but gives you no atomicity guarantees.

Genuine question: what does the failure rate look like in practice? When you say "self-healing," is that recovering from syntax errors in generated code, or recovering from semantic failures where the agent did something technically valid but wrong?
by hnlmorg | 2026-02-19 19:32:23+00:00
I’m not suggesting things are as bad as a full on insurrection. But it’s not a great leap of imagination to compare the two either.

> He declared martial law

Trump has sent federal troops into states that voted against him.

He’s also frequently talked about “the enemy from within” to describe American citizens.

And then there’s ICE…

> suspended and prevented their Congress equivalent from meeting

Trump has shut down the government twice already.

The press just like to blame Democrats despite the fact that it’s the Republicans who are refusing to negotiate.

> ordered the immediate arrest of numerous high level politicians with a goal of arresting hundreds,

To be fair, Trump hasn’t gone that far (yet). But he has fired lots of people from government roles that should have been non-partisan and filled them with his own loyal supporters. Even when those people are clearly not qualified to be doing their new found appointments.

He’s also freed lots of criminals because they either supported him, or paid him.

> issued a declaration that all media and publications had to be approved before publication

Trump has been removing press from the White House and replacing them with publications that support him.

> ordered the power+water for a news broadcaster be cut

Trump hasn’t done that either. But he has sent the FCC to shutdown shows he dislikes. And sued the others into compliance.
by derbOac | 2026-02-19 19:32:38+00:00
My guess is this will garner attention for use of AI — that's where my attention went as well initially. But there's another layer to this, which is whether a grant should be terminated just because it pertains to DEI, regardless of AI being involved or not.

My guess is you couldn't get a roomful of experts to agree on what "DEI" means; I doubt AI could do better, and even if it could, I'm not sure I'd want that to be the determining factor about whether it would get funded. To the extent it was, I'm not sure it would be a bad thing.
by tstrimple | 2026-02-19 19:32:44+00:00
I've really struggled with CC's "direction sense". I had a problem that was analogous to this. I had a picture of a PCB I wanted to figure out. So I instructed CC to create an overlay over each component and we would work through them to identify what they were to build an overall picture of what the device was doing. Any and all attempts to get CC to accurately place bounding boxes around components completely failed. What I ended up having to do was have CC create an interface where I could draw my own boxes around components, and it had no problem categorizing them and following along after that.

I've not tried to do any "pixel perfect" designs with CC outside of that. Generally I'm fine with the default UI it generates which tends to be some vague "modernish" sort of look.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-02-19 19:33:21+00:00
> The cool part about pre-AI show HN is you got to talk to someone who had thought about a problem for way longer than you had. It was a real opportunity to learn something new, to get an entirely different perspective.

But you could learn these new perspectives from AI too. It already has all the thoughts and perspectives from all humans ever written down.

At work, I still find people who try to put together a solution to a problem, without ever asking the AI if it's a good idea. One prompt could show them all the errors they're making and why they should choose something else. For some reason they don't think to ask this godlike brain for advice.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-19 19:33:29+00:00
(Note: mouse model)

Original article: "Red blood cells serve as a primary glucose sink to improve glucose tolerance at altitude" - https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(26)...

Summary: "High-altitude conditions improve glucose tolerance and reduce diabetes risk, but the physiological mechanism is not well understood. Using mouse models, we found that hypoxia alone robustly improved glucose tolerance and that the effect persisted for weeks after returning to normal oxygen levels. PET/CT imaging suggested a significant, unknown glucose sink beyond major internal organs. We hypothesized that hypoxia-induced red blood cells (RBCs) serve as this sink. Manipulating RBC numbers through phlebotomy or transfusion directly altered blood glucose, establishing RBCs as necessary and sufficient for this effect. In chronic hypoxia, RBCs showed a sustained ∼3-fold increase in glucose uptake and ∼2-fold increase in GLUT1 protein abundance, specifically in newly synthesized RBCs, which ultimately contributes to increased glycolytic flux toward 2,3-diphosphoglycerate (2,3-DPG). Mechanistically, acute hypoxia displaces GAPDH from inhibitory band 3 binding through competitive interactions with deoxyhemoglobin, thereby boosting glycolytic flux and driving 2,3-DPG production. We also found that hypoxia or our small-molecule hypoxia mimetic, HypoxyStat, rescued hyperglycemia in mouse models of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Our findings identify RBCs as key regulators of systemic glucose metabolism, highlighting a novel therapeutic approach for hyperglycemic disorders."
by lazide | 2026-02-19 19:33:34+00:00
The reality is that presidents (in almost every system), like MPs, are representatives of some faction of entrenched interests somewhere or another, or they wouldn’t get to be president.

It’s the same for dictators, and well pretty much any singular leader.

The factions may fight back and forth, and counting coup by imprisoning the figurehead for one of them certainly has some attraction - but the pendulum swings, and nobody wants to end up really getting punished at the end of the day when it swings away from them.

That’s how you get murderous resistance instead of (relatively) sane transfers of power.
by notahacker | 2026-02-19 19:33:44+00:00
Some of the orders weren't carried out, others were carried out loosely so armed forces were occupying their Congress but they didn't actually stop members from being in the building and voting down the martial law. If we're doing the Trump comparison, an obvious difference is that Trump already knew the military wouldn't intervene to take sides on who got certified as the winner (they'd actually taken the unprecedented step of issuing a statement to that effect) and had reason to believe some of his supporters would give it a go...
by nasretdinov | 2026-02-19 19:33:54+00:00
I think that over time people will start looking at AI-assisted coding the same way we now look at loosely typed code, or at (heavy) frameworks: it saves time in the short term, but may cause significant problems down the line. Whether or not this tradeoff makes sense in a specific situation is a matter of debate, and there's usually no obviously right or wrong answer.
by linesofcode | 2026-02-19 19:34:19+00:00
built a pokedex, open-source'd it too, cause wynaut?

- every pokemon and regional variants

- items, moves, abilities, locations

- team builder, comparison and type coverage tool

- bunch of other features...and it's a PWA!

Get the code - https://github.com/TimMikeladze/nationaldex
by netbioserror | 2026-02-19 19:35:03+00:00
Major syntactic structures definitely have an influence on my language choices. Outside of compilation and runtime model, modeling the domain (both data and procedures) changes drastically between paradigms. Syntax is what enables or hamstrings different modeling paradigms.

My two biggest considerations when picking a language are:

- How well does it support value semantics? (Can I pass data around as data and know that it is owned by the declaring scope, or am I chained to references, potential nulls, and mutable handles with lifetimes I must consider? Can I write expression-oriented code?)

- How well does it support linear pipelining for immutable values? (If I want to take advantage of value semantics, there needs to be a way to express a series of computations on a piece of data in-order, with no strange exceptions because one procedure or another is a compiler-magic symbol that can't be mapped, reduced, filtered, etc. In other words, piping operators or Universal Function Call Syntax.)

I lean on value semantics, expression-oriented code, and pipelining to express lots of complex computations in a readable and maintainable manner, and if a language shoots me in the foot there, it's demoralizing.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-19 19:36:05+00:00
> At some point Claude Code will become an ecosystem with preferred cloud and database vendors, observability, code review agents, etc.

i've been wondering how anthropic is going to survive long term. If they could build out an infrastructure and services to complete with the hyperscalers but surfaced as a tool for claude to use then maybe. You pay Anthropic $20/user/month for ClaudeCode but also $100k/month to run your applications.
by justapassenger | 2026-02-19 19:36:15+00:00
Watches are now roughly in the same spot as phones - form factory is largely complete and each new version is a small iteration over previous generation, with changes that most people don’t care about.

That being said - feature I LOVE added recently-ish that made really happy I’ve upgraded my many years old garmin was a flashlight (proper one, not screen brightness). It seemed like a gimmick but it’s now one of most used features on my watch - walking dog at night, looking for kids toys under the bed, fixing things around the house, looking for things in the bag, etc.
by s_tec | 2026-02-19 19:36:22+00:00
Nifty! I recently bought a RISC-V VisionFive 2 Lite SBC, which required a lot of mucking with firmware and talking to the U-Boot serial console before it would boot Linux for the first time. A tool like this would have been super-handy during that time.

On the other hand, I'm a low-budget hobby user. I like things that are cheap, easy, and hackable. It sounds like your product might be for more-advanced users? Or do all these fancy features stay tucked away until you need them? If you make your product cheaply, that might hurt profit margins, but it might also open up the low-end market. I have so many questions about the business side of this.

But really, I am most curious about the user experience. It's not super-helpful if learning the tool becomes its own project, so I'm hoping it's simple.

Edit: Oh, it's a software project. I thought it was a hardware project. My bad.
by rolph | 2026-02-19 19:36:26+00:00
the goal is you cant sell a 3D printer without attestation that it is anti firearm compliant.

now they have to do 80% printers, kits composed of not a printer subunits, to be assembled on site.

then DIY sources must be dealt with:

https://pea3d.com/en/how-to-build-your-own-3d-printer/

it looks like mole whackings, all the way down.
by eesmith | 2026-02-19 19:36:52+00:00
From the article:

> For example, the AI searches [purportedly related to DEI] flagged .... a film examining how the game of baseball was “instrumental in healing wounds caused by World War I and the 1980s economic standoff between the US and Japan,”

How at all is that DEI? (Surely that should be WWII, yes? The complaint also says "I".)

And, is this also DEI?

> another charting “the rise and reforms of the Native Americans boarding school systems in the U.S. between 1819 and 1934,”

American football would be impoverished without the contributions of Native Americans from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an experimental Native American boarding school.

Pratt, who founded the school, wrote "If all men are created equal, then why were blacks segregated in separate regiments and Indians segregated on separate tribal reservations? Why weren't all men given equal opportunities and allowed to assume their rightful place in society? Race became a meaningless abstraction in his mind." Is that also DEI?

Would you care to summarize what DEI means in reality?
by 9rx | 2026-02-19 19:37:36+00:00
Just as you are welcome to come up with other definitions. Although last time you tried they ended up being quite inconsistent, so one does need to be careful if you want them to be useful.

These definitions are not at odds with the discussion at hand at all. It was clearly stated that Swift has better OO support. Which is obviously true because it tries to be compatible with Objective-C, and therefore needs to have some level of OO support. That is something that Rust has no interest in doing, and rightfully so.

Your redefinition violates the claim, and therefore we can logically determine that it is not what was being used in the rest of the thread. That is, aside from the confused Rust guy that set this tangent in motion, but the remainder of this thread was merely clarifying to him what was originally intended. "He has a different definition for OOP" doesn't really help his understanding. That is what this thread branch has always been about, so it is not clear where you are trying to go with that.