MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NiloCK | 2026-02-08 20:35:02+00:00
Cat's out of the bag now, and it seems they'll probably patch it, but:

Use other flows under standard billing to do iterative planning, spec building, and resource loading for a substantive change set. EG, something 5k+ loc, 10+ file.

Then throw that spec document as your single prompt to the copilot per-request-billed agent. Include in the prompt a caveat that We are being billed per user request. Try to go as far as possible given the prompt. If you encounter difficult underspecified decision points, as far as possible, implement multiple options and indicate in the completion document where selections must be made by the user. Implement specified test structures, and run against your implementation until full passing.

Most of my major chunks of code are written this way, and I never manage to use up the 100 available prompts.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-08 20:36:04+00:00
>It's possible to work a lot less if you accept quality of life from an older era

I can throw away all my worldly possessions and post up in a cardboard box. My old bosses would still probably expect me to respond at 8pm to a message. Giving me a company phone if necessary.

It's very well supported that efficiencies have gone up in the workforce over the decades, but hours worked have also increased. We're being squeezed.
by orsorna | 2026-02-08 20:36:18+00:00
I've never seen qu+x, except in the title of that Gundam installment released last year, Gundam gquuuuuux. I found this speculation on myanimelist sufficient, but there's no real confirmation afaik. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?goto=post&topicid=2209708&id=...
by jingkai_he | 2026-02-08 20:36:54+00:00
Creator of matchlock here. You can directly use Docker/OCI compatible images (e.g. ubuntu:24.04) as the rootfs with the `--image` flag.

You can also build image with `matchlock build -f Dockerfile -t foo:bar .` - Under the hood it builds the image using buildkit inside the microvm.
by digiown | 2026-02-08 20:36:59+00:00
Passkey/webauthn is a cool tech, and I'd really like to use it everywhere, but I find the anti-user attitudes of the spec authors concerning. The spec contains provisions about "user verification" (the software must force user interaction) and not allowing the user to access the plaintext keys. It appears that the spec authors do not consider the keys to be owned by the user at all.

KeepassXC implements passkey support, but they do not implement these anti-user features. As a result, they are being threatened with being banned via attestation:

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407

Screw these "You'll own nothing and be happy" people. I'll own all my keys no matter what. The software I run on my device should never betray me to signal things like "this passkey is allowed to be backed up!".
by breakfinder | 2026-02-08 20:37:03+00:00
I built BreakFinder because I was tired of driving to flat waves.

It personalizes forecasts to your skill level + integrates with 100+ Garmin watch models.

2 months, solo dev, 5k downloads (Garmin IQ Store with including all apps), now adding a B2B marketplace for
local guides.

Garmin IQ Store link: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/6127de13-7f60-4360-9d45-7fa057d...
Website: https://breakfinder.surf
Happy to answer questions about the Garmin APIs, forecasting, or building
as a solo dev.
by lebuffon | 2026-02-08 20:37:05+00:00
People who need to hit their revenue numbers make allocations decisions.
That's not a conspiracy. It's what people have to do to keep their jobs in industry. And those decisions affect what gets the resources.

And yes I know that outcomes after detection have improved, but the HPV vaccine shows an alternative that to me deserves more resources.

I am simply frustrated by 60 years of research and lots of dead friends and family. If that's a crime get the tar and feathers while I strip down to my shorts.
by krackers | 2026-02-08 20:37:17+00:00
>with dozens of errors happening in unrecognizable daemons doing thrice-delegated work.

It seems like a perfect example of Jevons paradox (or andy/bill law): unified logging makes logging rich and cheap and free, but that causes everyone to throw it everywhere willy nilly. It's so noisy in there that I'm not sure who the logs are for anymore, it's useless for the user of the computer and even as a developer it seems impossible to debug things just by passively watching logs unless you already know the precise filter predicate.

In fact they must realize it's hopeless because the new Console doesn't even give you a mechanism to read past logs (I have to download eclecticlight's Ulbow for that).
by dagmx | 2026-02-08 20:37:54+00:00
Again, the Panther Lake devices here are the top end of Panther lake comparing against the base level M5.

They consume more power at the chip level. You can see this in Intels spec sheets. The base recommended power envelope of the PTL is the maximum power envelope of the M5. They’re completely different tiers. You’re comparing a 25-85W tier chip to a 5W-25W chip.

They also only win when it comes to multi core whether that’s CPU or GPU. If they were fairly compared to the correct SoC (an M4 Pro) they’d come out behind.

This was all mentioned in my comment addressing the article.
by port11 | 2026-02-08 20:38:04+00:00
As if. I’ve had Gemini stuck on AG because it couldn’t figure out how to use only one version of React. I managed to detect that the build failed because 2 versions of React were being used, but it kept saying “I’ll remove React version N”, and then proceeding to add a new dependency of the latest version. Loops and loops of this. On a similar note AG really wants to parse code with weird grep commands that don’t make any sense given the directory context.
by gambiting | 2026-02-08 20:38:10+00:00
Cool, I guess when I did 700 miles on a single tank of fuel driving Switzerland to Italy and then again driving Italy to Austria and then again Austria to Netherlands this summer I just imagined it. My total for the 3000 miles was 38mpg(imperial).

Also you are quoting a value for the B5, which is not what I have, mine is a T8(and before you ask - no, I didn't have any opportunity to charge it anywhere on the way).
by femto113 | 2026-02-08 20:38:11+00:00
Users already proven to be trustworthy in one project can automatically be assumed trustworthy in another project, and so on.

I get the spirit of this project is to increase safety, but if the above social contract actually becomes prevalent this seems like a net loss. It establishes an exploitable path for supply-chain attacks: attacker "proves" themselves trustworthy on any project by behaving in an entirely helpful and innocuous manner, then leverages that to gain trust in target project (possibly through multiple intermediary projects). If this sort of cross project trust ever becomes automated then any account that was ever trusted anywhere suddenly becomes an attractive target for account takeover attacks. I think a pure distrust list would be a much safer place to start.
Show HN: ObsidianLinkBot – Telegram bot that saves articles as Obsidian notes
by paul0112 | 2026-02-08 20:38:33+00:00
I built a Telegram bot that takes any article link and saves it as a markdown note in my Obsidian vault for later read.

How it works: paste a URL → trafilatura extracts the article content → saves a .md file with YAML frontmatter (source, date) and the article body.

Built with Python, python-telegram-bot, trafilatura, and pydantic. Can be run locally or with Docker.

Looking for feedback on the approach and any features that would be useful.
by potsandpans | 2026-02-08 20:38:51+00:00
It's raining outside and you're looking out the window asking for an expert to give you the context for how damp it is.

The FBI says, it's no more damp than it always is. A third party says, this is uncharacteristically damp.

A neutral credentialed source gives you uncertainty: we see dampness of varying rates throughout history and you should consider the climate you're in in order to understand how damp it really is.

Great. Now what do you do with that? Go outside and determine whether you need a coat.

No one will be able to tell you what this means without more evidence.
by gruez | 2026-02-08 20:39:03+00:00
>IMO systems should be shipped in "Setup Mode" by default with no keys preinstalled. On first boot which ever OS you decide to install should be able to enroll its keys.

Sounds like browserchoice.eu but even more pointless. For the normies who don't care about what keys they want installed, it doesn't make a difference. For people who want to switch to linux, it also doesn't make a difference because unless they're setting up their computer for the first time, because the windows key would already be installed. The only thing it does is make setting up a new computer marginally easier for one specific case (ie. you want to install a non-windows operating system AND you don't want to dualboot), and ticks off a box for being "vendor agnostic" or whatever.
by rawgabbit | 2026-02-08 20:39:19+00:00
Are integrations a recurring maintenance burden for your team?. Yes

What types of integration failures cause the most business impact? These involve money. Paying vendors or asking to be paid. It is usually an upstream system sent a code or format that was not agreed upon.

How do you currently test or monitor integration correctness Manually. Business teams run reports daily. When they can’t fix or it is more than a few they escalate to IT.

Would you consider outsourcing integration reliability if it worked well?. No, because it involves money.
by ifwinterco | 2026-02-08 20:39:23+00:00
Fatty fish (salmon, mackerel, herring) has quite large amounts.

Some people aim for huge amounts of EPA/DHA but I don't think there's really much evidence that you need 3g/day or whatever the latest broscience is.

Mackerel is particularly high although it doesn't taste great to me compared to salmon, 100g of mackerel has ~4g of EPA/DHA so eating that a couple of times a week is probably more than enough.

Also there is some (although much less) in white fish, there can be significant amounts in shellfish, and tinned tuna has a surprisingly high amount. So all of that adds up if you eat those as well
by nmstoker | 2026-02-08 20:39:42+00:00
Interesting idea.

It spreads the effort for maintaining the list of trusted people, which is helpful. However I still see a potential firehose of randoms requesting to be vouched for. Various ways one might manage that, perhaps even some modest effort preceding step that would demonstrate understanding of the project / willingness to help, such as A/B triaging of several pairs of issues, kind of like a directed, project relevant CAPTCHA?
by NekkoDroid | 2026-02-08 20:40:15+00:00
It really doesn't. UEFI are still not by default locked behind a password (can't be locked since you couldn't change settings in the UEFI if that were the case), so anyone that has access to change a drive can also disable secure boot or enroll their own keys if they want to do an actual supply chain attack.

If your threat model is "has access to the system before first boot" you are fucked on anything that isn't locked down to only the manufacturer.
by Neywiny | 2026-02-08 20:40:32+00:00
In re your first point, it's tricky because the advice is to call them back on the publicly available number. Problem is, I know somebody who fell for a SEO hijack and called a fake number. Not everybody knows how to spot a scam. The guy here did though, and he used my techniques (ask questions they'd know the answer to). He knew he was getting scammed. I think it was just an emotional override with weighing the risks. This one is very different than a call saying the IRS wants Google Play gift cards or whatever. Especially with the scammers having the woman actually show up. That's next level in all the wrong ways
Show HN: Free Contact Form Forwarder
by maxibenner | 2026-02-08 20:40:44+00:00
I've seen various versions of this around, but this one is inspired by a model a la goatcounter; free to use with a plea to self host for high usage requirements.

SES is cheap and since this tool just forwards to an email inbox, I would imagine that excessive usage would be rare.

Curious to hear what you all think.
by TheCraiggers | 2026-02-08 20:41:12+00:00
It's also a different country with a different culture, etc. Norwegians drive roughly 50% less than people in the US. There's probably a bunch of contributing factors, but the point is that reduced range is less of a problem if you drive less.

I'll be the first to say we need less range anxiety, and Norway is awesome. But we need to be careful comparing the US to Norway here.
by overfeed | 2026-02-08 20:41:36+00:00
>To prevent the violence towards them.

"This morning at 8:00 am Pacific, there were 5 simultaneously assassination attempts on tech executives across the Bay Area. The victims, who are all tech executives known to us have suffered serious injuries . It is reported that Securibot 5000s were involved. Securibot inc declined to comment. This is a developing story"
by amluto | 2026-02-08 20:41:46+00:00
They could have shipped both HALs. Or made it easy to switch which one was in use without reinstalling.

CDs were around and hard drives weren’t that small at the time. (Or maybe the really early SMP versions predated widespread availability of CD-ROMs, but I remember dealing with this nonsense and reinstalling from an MSDN CD set.)
by epsilonsalts | 2026-02-08 20:41:50+00:00
Not that far off from all the tech CEOs who have projected they're one step away from giving us Star Trek TNG, they just need all the money and privilege with no accountability to make it happen

DevOps engineers who acted like the memes changed everything! The cloud will save us!

Until recently the US was quite religious; 80%+ around 2000 down to 60%s now. Longtermism dogma of one kind or another rules those brains; endless growth in economics, longtermism. Those ideal are baked into biochemical loops regardless of the semantics the body may express them in.

Unfortunately for all the disciples time is not linear. No center to the universe means no single epoch to measure from. Humans have different birthdays and are influenced by information along different timelines.

A whole lot of brains are struggling with the realization they were bought into a meme and physics never really cared about their goals. The next generation isn't going to just pick up the meme-baton validate the elders dogma.
by BojanTomic | 2026-02-08 20:41:54+00:00
My AI tools directory had a 0.3% CTR in Google search results. I asked Claude to rewrite all my meta titles using this prompt: "Analyze these search queries and rewrite titles to match search intent. Max 60 characters. Include primary keyword in first 5 words."

Three weeks later: 0.6% CTR. Same content, same rankings (position 17-25). Just better titles.

The key wasn't the AI—it was having Claude analyze actual search queries from Search Console and matching titles to what people were actually searching for. Most of my titles were generic ("Tool Name - Review") when people were searching "tool name pricing" or "tool name vs competitor."

Example fix:

* Before: "Phind - AI Search Engine Review"
* After: "Phind Shutdown: What Happened and Best Alternatives"
* CTR: 0.4% → 1.4%

The work involved analyzing which titles were leaking traffic (deep impressions, low clicks) and systematically rewriting them. Claude made it take 2 hours instead of 2 days.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-08 20:42:52+00:00
Tech is one of the most important tools in propping up a fascist state, through digital share cropping, surveillance, and propaganda. The right is currently, and has been, on a descent into fascism. The left understandably does not want that.

Ergo, they have an anti-fascist position, which currently also means they have an anti-tech position. And yes, I work in tech as a developer.
by estearum | 2026-02-08 20:43:01+00:00
Your point being that you don't trust the words of a pharma CEO?

Fine! Why is that relevant to me?

Just because you're starting from the prior of "pharma CEOs are liars" doesn't mean everyone else is. Some people find it quite helpful to hear from the most powerful and most informed people on issues they want to learn about, even if you have to discount them due to conflicted interests (spoiler alert: nearly everyone who's well-informed on an issue will have some type of conflict to be discounted).

Evidently you are fine writing the words of Pfizer's CEO down to zero value, which is fine!

That's why I provided an alternative path by which applying your own critical thinking skills would get you to the same conclusion.

"Applying basic logic gets me to a similar conclusion as Pfizer's CEO, but Pfizer's CEO is a liar and conflicted and can't be trusted, therefore... [ ??? ]"

Edit in response to your edit: Don't act as if I introduced revenue/investment/R&D/etc after you raised the issue about Bourla's quote. That was the entire basis of the conversation from the start. Profoundly low-quality contribution to just chime in with "pharma CEO is conflicted." Yeah, everyone is aware of that. That's why there's an entire comment around the quote.
by XorNot | 2026-02-08 20:43:18+00:00
No it is not, this is reddit tier "I am very smart" conspiracy junk.

There is no master plan, there's a hype cycle, environment and the market.

Humanoid robots became possible and so people are racing to be first to market assuming that might be a giant market (it's cheap labor potentially so of course it might be huge - the microcomputer was).
by D-Machine | 2026-02-08 20:43:19+00:00
Not sure about that, I'd more say the Western reductionism here is the assumption that all thinking / modeling is primarily linguistic and conscious. This article is NOT clearly falling into this trap.

A more "Eastern" perspective might recognize that much deep knowledge cannot be encoded linguistically ("The Tao that can be spoken is not the eternal Tao", etc.), and there is more broad recognition of the importance of unconscious processes and change (or at least more skepticism of the conscious mind). Freud was the first real major challenge to some of this stuff in the West, but nowadays it is more common than not for people to dismiss the idea that unconscious stuff might be far more important than the small amount of things we happen to notice in the conscious mind.

The (obviously false) assumptions about the importance of conscious linguistic modeling are what lead to people say (obviously false) things like "How do you know your thinking isn't actually just like LLM reasoning?".
by port11 | 2026-02-08 20:43:40+00:00
I agree with sibling that Kurosawa does this very well.

My take: Marvel movies have a loooot going on. That might just be draining after a while, since the human brain isn’t wired for constant arousal. Old school action movies are still quite fun to watch and don’t felt that long, perhaps because were given time to ‘rest and digest’ the action.

Marvel has no clue, just keeps pumping and pumping. I especially liked the animated Spider-Man movies, but am super tired of a 2.5h smorgasbord of nonstop action. Even John Wick has a cadence.
by djoldman | 2026-02-08 20:43:45+00:00
> New vehicle prices are higher than they have ever been for vehicles with repair costs so high they are going to be an insurance rate nightmare later in their lifecycle.

Just a shout out for this one. Possibly the most "irrational" purchases made right now by US consumers are new cars. 5 year old cars are 60% cheaper than new!

https://www.carfax.com/buying/car-depreciation
by bjt | 2026-02-08 20:44:31+00:00
Maybe? I could see that happening.

I could also see them being compared with companies still using venture capital to give stuff away for free. In that case, I'm OK with that tradeoff. I'm not really excited about changing my infrastructure every few years to keep getting a free lunch.

The Digital Ocean app platform I recently migrated to is a lot newer than the "rent a VPS" model that they've had forever. Yes, it's not free like the Vercel and Cloudflare Workers I've also used recently. But it also doesn't force my app into a weird shape or to use their preferred language.

On a continuum where AWS sits at one boring+expensive end of the spectrum, and all the subsidized-pricing "we might not be here tomorrow" PaaSes sit at the other, I like the in-between spot where DO sits.
Show HN: RoundsKeeper score tracking app for games (Swift, no ads/tracking)
by justbustr | 2026-02-08 20:44:57+00:00
I'm an indie iOS developer launching RoundsKeeper, a score tracking app for board and card games. Looking for feedback before the App Store release in a few weeks.

Tech stack:
- Swift/SwiftUI (iOS 18+)
- Built in Xcode with Claude Code assistance for development velocity
- SwiftData for local persistence
- Native calculator-style input with custom keyboard
- Table view with inline editing for score adjustments

What it does:
The app solves a simple problem: tracking scores during game nights without paper or fumbling with Notes. Two input modes (calculator and table), game history with analytics, and a dice roller.

Privacy/monetization:
- No ads, no analytics, no data collection
- Free with optional IAP for premium features (additional themes, advanced stats)
- No account required, no network requests

Development notes:
- This is my second shipped iOS app (first was Mathintosh, a calculator app)
- Using Claude Code significantly accelerated development – particularly for UI refinements and SwiftUI layout debugging
- Biggest challenge was iCloud syncing setup, configuration, and testing

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/SEBHWwxZ

Interested in any feedback on UX, feature requests, or technical critiques. What would you want from a scorekeeper app?
by KempyKolibri | 2026-02-08 20:44:57+00:00
There’s a good pod on this exact subject with nutrition scientists: https://sigmanutrition.com/episode538/

The TL;DR (IIRC) is that we tend to only see this in trials where atrial fib is a tertiary endpoint so there’s not really compelling data to suggest AF is a risk.

But give it a listen and see what you think, it was a while ago I listened to it and I’m not qualified to give actual advice!
by phil21 | 2026-02-08 20:45:20+00:00
From my lived experience you are an outlier. Potentially an extreme one at that.

Where I grew up the people who didn’t work almost universally turned into consumers of everything and creators of basically nothing. The exceptions were retirees who had a lifetime if work experience prior to their idle years. For those folks it was gardening and other similar hobbies that provided meaning but not much output for society as a whole.

I think if you offered the entire population the ability to do no work other than what they felt like doing, exceedingly few people would be motivated to do the needful. A few more would be motivated to do things like create art and otherwise contribute back to other people but I am thinking along the lines of the 80/20 rule here.

I think our future if we ever figured out automation and UBI looks a lot like Wall-E vs some sort of utopia. In fact I believe that sort of setup is as close to a utopian society as I can imagine being realistic.

I did apartment maintenance for a place where about half the recipients had paid for rent, utilities, and bare necessities provided by the government. It was easy to play the odds and know which apartment was which the moment you stepped foot into one. It’s not a perfect correlation to what UBI would look like for many reasons, but it’s closer than the average upper middle class suburbanite imagines people will act like if given the opportunity.
by array_key_first | 2026-02-08 20:45:50+00:00
This reads like a lack of conviction. If you're willing to be friends with people who do deplorable things, that's your business. That's not a sign of maturity. That's cowardice, weakness, and an almost pathetically pathologic need to be liked. As an alternative to simply throwing your beliefs away in the pursuit of image, consider therapy. It worked for me.