MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-02-10 21:52:03+00:00
This is where the concept of trickle down economics came from though and we know that that’s not actually accurate

I used to hear about this with respect to how fun funding NASA would get us more inventions because they funded Velcro

No it’s simply that there was a positive temporary externality for some subset of groups but the primary long term benefit went to the controller of the capital

The people utilizing them were marginally involved because they were only given the options that capital produced for them
by hermanzegerman | 2026-02-10 21:52:08+00:00
Digital Markets Act, also Apple nearly lost their payment monopoly in Germany as powerful banks lobbied for a law forcing them to open up. It was passed, but then they didn't want to use it. If I would guess, Apple offered them preferential conditions to not have a precedent.

https://financefwd.com/de/sparkassen-apple-nfc/
by exodys | 2026-02-10 21:52:25+00:00
It's over. The tablet market share of this year is 1.37%, compared to desktop at 47.93% and mobile at 50.7%.[1]

It's over. Android has 70.37% of the mobile market share versus iOS at 29.24%.[2]

It's so over. Android only has 44.09% of the market share of tablets versus iOS at 55.64%.[3]

I can't believe it's so over.

[1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mob...

[2]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

[3]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/tablet/worldwide
by ericmay | 2026-02-10 21:52:39+00:00
> Lawyers said tech and C-suite executives were among those to have had visas denied apparently on the basis of comparatively minor historic offences such as cannabis use, bar fights and driving under the influence of alcohol, in a sign of how far-reaching the US anti-immigration drive has become.

It wasn't clear to me from the article whether this applied to UK citizens or citizens working in the UK under a visa? Maybe someone can clarify or point out where I missed this clarification.

I'd also like to point out that, while this is probably boneheaded, many countries have asinine visa rules.

Take Canada:

https://www.ircc.canada.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnu...

Or the UK:

You aren't permitted to be there on a student visa and also make money from YouTube or other similar sites. Though anything that reduces "influencers" is a net good so I'm not actually complaining about this, but mainstream viewpoints find this jarring.

https://gilsongray.co.uk/blog/immigration-considerations-for...
by nucleardog | 2026-02-10 21:52:55+00:00
I just fired up a container on my laptop... running on kubernetes... running in a linux VM. It's lightly dynamic (no database or filesystem I/O).

While I've also got enough other stuff running that my 15 min load average is at 4 and I've got 83% RAM used ignoring buffers/caches/otherwise.

I went and grabbed a random benchmarking tool and pointed it at it with 125 concurrent connections.

Sustained an average of 13914 reqs/s. Highest latency was 53.21ms.

If there are 10,000 people online at any given time hitting the API on average once every 3 seconds (which I believe are generous numbers), you'd only be around 3.3k reqs/s, or about 24% of what my laptop could serve even before any sort of caching, CDN, or anything else.

So... if a laptop can't serve that sort of request load, it sounds more like an indictment of the site's software than anything.
by mzajc | 2026-02-10 21:53:02+00:00
"Wiki" normally refers to user-editable sites, while the graph part is normally implied from being a website. Perhaps Wiregraph would be more accurate? Maybe Wireview? These kinds of networking sites are often called looking glasses, so Wireglass might also work, besides the confusion with the material.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki#Alternative_definitions

[1]: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wiki
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-10 21:53:10+00:00
I found it somewhat interesting that they had to track down all the actors from Happy Days. You would think that there would be one single point of contact with whomever made the video, cause it's not like they were using the footage of the actors in a new way.

But honestly, I'm ok with it being only somewhat interesting. When you write as many posts as Mr. Chen does, they aren't all going to be bangers.
by folmar | 2026-02-10 21:53:22+00:00
> My understanding is that for car rental purposes, anything using Visa/MC (and not a national debit network like Visa Debit in the US) will work, it doesn't actually need to be backed by a revolving credit.

Many companies will refuse all debit cards, or all cards with "electronic use only" restriction, at least for the deposit, irrespective of the payment network involved.
by phailhaus | 2026-02-10 21:53:27+00:00
Complex numbers are just a field over 2D vectors, no? When you find "complex solutions to an equation", you're not working with a real equation anymore, you're working in C. I hate when people talk about complex zeroes like they're a "secret solution", because you're literally not talking about the same equation anymore.

There's this lack of rigor where people casually move "between" R and C as if a complex number without an imaginary component suddenly becomes a real number, and it's all because of this terrible "a + bi" notation. It's more like (a, b). You can't ever discard that second component, it's always there.
by kraig911 | 2026-02-10 21:53:51+00:00
Now to me I think is a point in time earlier than now. I'm thinking somewhere when people didn't need to get out and do stuff with another. I think when I was a kid it was normal to have grandparents, and church settings, and just after school programs at the Y or kids in general would find each other in the neighborhood and play. I don't see much of that the same in the 'now'
by modeless | 2026-02-10 21:53:52+00:00
I have also been wanting this. Thinking about building something. Of course it takes more than code, it needs a community, and I'm not sure how to bootstrap that. But it seems to me there ought to be a lot of people dissatisfied with the current discourse on sites like HN. I certainly am. (and AI is far from the only topic where discussion is lacking.)
by jfengel | 2026-02-10 21:53:56+00:00
The math is hard, but I don't think that's the problem. Hard math eventually succumbs.

I think that even if AI were to find a good unification of GR and QM, we wouldn't be able to test it. We might accept it without additional confirmation if it were sufficiently natural-feeling (the way we accepted Newtonian gravity long before we could measure G), but there's no guarantee that we'd ever be able to meaningfully test it.

We could get lucky -- such a theory might point at a solution to some of the few loose threads we get out of existing collider and cosmological measurements -- but we might not. We could be stuck wishing we had a galaxy-sized collider.
by davegoldblatt | 2026-02-10 21:54:26+00:00
Two good questions.

Concurrent sessions: it's a real edge case but the blast radius is small. Daily logs are append-only by convention, so two sessions writing at the same time would mean interleaved or lost entries at worst. Registers and CLAUDE.local.md are theoretically higher risk since they get modified rather than appended to, but promotion is user-initiated via /recall-promote, so you'd have to be promoting in both sessions at the same time to hit it. The race window exists (edit tool does read-then-write, not atomic append) but I haven't hit it in practice.

Cleanest fix if it ever matters: per-session log files (YYYY-MM-DD-session-abc.md) so there's no conflict on capture, and recall-promote just reads all of them. Not worth adding file locking or restructuring for a problem that hasn't bitten anyone yet.

Write gate consistency: in my experience the model errs conservative (misses things) rather than permissive (saves junk). For me I actually prefer that direction since saving too much degrades the whole system over time, while missing something important is easy to fix. You just say "remember this" and it bypasses the gate. That explicit override (item 5 on the gate) has been more reliable than trying to tune the automatic criteria to be more permissive.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-10 21:54:40+00:00
> Per your examples, when the average person is made aware of the injustice, stalking, and tracking of them, they are not in any way happy with it, and want things to change.

Maybe I'm too cynical, but I don't think this the average person will care as much as you think. Even on HN you get plenty of folks who think that tracking is ok or even a benefit since it provides a more personalized experience.

> I'm always a bit surprised that people that work in tech can be so passive in regards to their civic duty. Instead of going to lawmakers and legislators and trying to stop their employers from destroying society they just quietly watch from the sidelines.

Snowden was almost 15 years ago. The only punishment meted out as a result of him coming forward was for Snowden himself. Why would anyone else assume that coming forward would result in substantive change?
by mrdependable | 2026-02-10 21:54:42+00:00
I've had a similar journey to yours. Started January 1st 2019, early 30s, had a second kid. Loving every minute of it, though I do wonder when the fun is going to end. Every year I'm surprised the business keeps growing. This year my goal is to diversify to try and ease that gnawing anxiety, but every time I try working on something else I feel guilty about ignoring what's already been working for me. Tempted to just sell so I can have a bigger cushion and less distraction on my next venture, but not sure how the current climate would affect the valuation.
by m-schuetz | 2026-02-10 21:54:55+00:00
> Even with CUDA you have to do that.

No you don't, cuMemAlloc will just give you device memory, and cuMemAllocHost will give you pinned host memory. The usage flags are entirely pointless. Why would UMA be necessary for this? There is a clear separation between device and host memory.

> only the implementation knows exactly how much space is needed for a texture with a given format and configuration

OpenGL handles this trivially, and there is also no reason for a device malloc to work trivially with that. Let me create a texture handle, and give me a function that queries the size that I can feed to malloc. That's it. No heap types, no usage flags. You'te making things more complicated than they need to be.
by ajbajb | 2026-02-10 21:55:09+00:00
It kinda sucks. This is what Claude code had to say about it.

Entire.io built a product so useless, even their own website is just one word.
The whole company is a post-commit hook with a marketing team. They raised
money to solve the problem of "what if git blame, but slower and it phones
home." Their CLI has more hooks than features and more GitHub issues than
users.
by simonw | 2026-02-10 21:55:33+00:00
First time someone's asked for the site to be wider! I have it setup so on a wide screen the text is still a readable width, do you think it needs to bump up that max width a bit more?

I've found the models are so good at Playwright that I don't consider Selenium any more. Rodney is my first experiment not using Playwright.
Ask HN: What makes early-stage AI accelerators useful (and what doesn't)?
by rdi_berkeley | 2026-02-10 21:56:01+00:00
Hi HN — we recently launched the Berkeley Xcelerator (https://rdi.berkeley.edu/xcelerator), a non-dilutive accelerator program run by Berkeley RDI (https://rdi.berkeley.edu/) for pre-seed and seed-stage teams building in AI and agentic AI. We’d love to get some feedback from the community!

Over the past three years, Berkeley Xcelerator has supported 110+ teams across AI, cybersecurity, and decentralized technologies, whose founders have gone on to raise $650M+ in follow-on funding, spanning 100+ countries.

Some concrete details about the Xcelerator itself:

- The program is non-dilutive (no equity taken)

- Open to pre-seed and seed-stage AI / agentic AI startups

- No UC Berkeley affiliation required

- Selected teams receive support through Berkeley RDI’s research community and ecosystem partners

- Enablement includes cloud, GPU, and API credits from industry partners (including Google Cloud, Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and Nebius, with more to be announced)

- The program culminates in a Demo Day at the Agentic AI Summit (Aug 1–2, 2026) at UC Berkeley, where we are expecting 5,000+ in-person attendees

Here’s what we’d really like input on:

- If you’ve built or joined an early AI startup, what actually helped you most early on?

- If you’ve done an accelerator, what helped and what was a waste of time?

- For technically deep projects (infra, agentic systems, safety-sensitive work), what kinds of feedback or structure mattered most before product-market fit?

If you’d like to apply to the Berkeley Xcelerator, applications are open through the end of February. (https://forms.gle/KjHiLAHstAvfHdBf7)
by nickorlow | 2026-02-10 21:56:04+00:00
I've found that the effort required to get a good outcome is roughly equal to the effort of doing it myself.

If I do it myself, I get the added bonus of actually understanding what the code is doing, which makes debugging any issues down the line way easier. It's also in generally better for teams b/c you can ask the 'owner' of a part of the codebase what their intuition is on an issue (trying to have AI fill in for this purpose has been underwhelming for me so far).

Trying to maintain a vibecoded codebase essentially involves spelunking though a non-familliar codebase every time manual action is needed to fix an issue (including reviewing/verifying the output of an AI tool's fix for the issue).

(For small/pinpointed things, it has been very good. e.g.: write a python script to comb through this CSV and print x details about it/turn this into a dashboard)
by pndy | 2026-02-10 21:56:25+00:00
I don't know how the procedure looks like in wherever-you-are but in EU phone number is required to either have a call from agent or to receive verification codes from text messages if bank you've pick offers opening an account on your own. Either way, bank gets all your personal data - you are not anonymous for them.

And the SIM registration requirement in nearly every EU country exists for 10 years now - in my case it was as simple as replying with code to operator's message because they had my personal information already for over a decade. There was a grace period after which unregistered SIM cards become dead - the requirement was dubious but you had to comply in order to call, text. There were "solutions" I've bumped on in depths of the Internet but neither felt serious nor safe.
by eikenberry | 2026-02-10 21:56:29+00:00
I switched over 30 years ago and the trick is to buy hardware with Linux in mind. Linux tries to work with as much hardware as possible but it does so with mixed results. If you buy well supported hardware it becomes much easier. Finding out which hardware is best supported is really the main problem. Probably the easiest way to solve this is to buy from a Linux native vendor. System76 is probably the best known (to me anyways) but there are others.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-02-10 21:56:31+00:00
You know here in Europe you can just overdraw your bank account without bullshit fees, just with interest that is still way lower than average US Credit Card Interest (around 11%)?

Also bank transfers are easy, instant and free.

> For many _businesses_ managing cash flow is existential -- as merchants they want to be paid as quickly as possible, but as B2B customers they want to have 30-60 days to sell the input goods they've purchased so they can pay for them upstream. There is a premium for that flexibility that gets reflected in processing fees.

Yes those businesses use a bank loan for this, no need for a credit card again.

> If you want to switch the world to a debit-based system where economic transactions are limited by cash on hand, I'd argue that's a poorer and less dynamic world than the one we're operating in today.

Thinking that the world doesn't have credit just because they use debit cards is one of the most idiotic things I've read today
by dakolli | 2026-02-10 21:56:38+00:00
I don't think so, I think they know there's no AGI, or complete replacement. They are using those hyperbolic statements to get people to buy in. The goal is just to depress the value of human labor, they will lay people off and hire them back at 50% wages (over time), and gaslight us "well you have AI, there isn't as much skill required"

Ultimately they just want to widen the inequality gap and remove as much bargaining power from the working class. It will be very hard for people not born of certain privileges to climb the ranks through education and merit, if not impossible.

Their goal will be to accomplish this without causing a French Revolution V2 (hence all the new surveillance being rolled out), which is where they'll provide wars for us to fight in that will be rooted in false pretenses that appeal to people's basest instincts, like race and nationalism. The bunkers and private communities they build in far off islands are for the occasion this fails and there is some sort of French Revolution V2, not some sort of existential threat from AI (imo).
by bell-cot | 2026-02-10 21:56:50+00:00
In a word - "true".

In more words - it's interesting, but messy:

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

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

> The complex numbers also cannot be turned into an ordered field, as −1 is a square of the imaginary unit i.
by serin-ai | 2026-02-10 21:56:54+00:00
I got tired of feeling scattered.
Every time I needed to make a decision, I'd open ChatGPT and get one perspective. Then I'd think "but wait, what about the technical side?" So I'd open Claude. Then I'd need a marketing angle, so another tab.
I was having the same conversation three times, copy-pasting context like an idiot.
And as someone who gets distracted easily, having my thoughts split across multiple tools was killing me. I'd lose track of which AI said what. I'd forget the context. I'd have to start over.
I'm a freelancer [or: I run multiple projects / I manage different parts of my business - pick what's true], and my brain works best when I can see multiple perspectives at once. Not sequentially. Not in different windows. In one conversation.
I wanted a CEO to tell me if the business made sense, a CTO to tell me if it was technically feasible, and a marketing person to tell me if anyone would care - all in the same thread, responding to each other's points.
Like having a team. Like having a board meeting. But fast, and in one place, and not making me feel like I'm drowning in browser tabs.
So I built it.
Because I needed it. Because switching between AIs was making me crazy. Because I'm trying to run [a business / multiple projects / my freelance work] and I needed my tools to match how my brain actually works - chaotic, but wanting structure.
This is the tool I wish I had six months ago.
by switz | 2026-02-10 21:57:02+00:00
It really depends on what you want to do. By the nature of being self-directed, you elect what roles you want to play. I personally don't love the marketing and sales cycles, so my current business is B2C and I don't do any marketing.

Almost all growth was done via word of mouth. There are business models whose network effects lean in this direction. In order to use my product, you must bring along peers so it's inherently 'viral'. I fell into this by accident rather than by some grand design, but it became obvious to me after I saw it happen. Design a business in which the flywheel can spin without you, if you don't want to spend your time marketing.

My next business that I'm working on is B2B, so I'll have to have a much stronger handle on marketing and sales. But I'm more ready for that now, after a decade of running a B2C business.
by sajithdilshan | 2026-02-10 21:57:16+00:00
Even if somehow EU is able to pull this off it would be a nightmare in terms of user experience. I live in Germany and this is how I would imagine it would work base on my experience in Germany.

1. You first need to install an app (because you want to use tap to pay)

2. Then you need to download another app to authenticate the first app

3. But to set up the 2nd app you need to wait for an actual physical mail which contains a code.

4. Then you set up the 2nd app, but then again it asks for you to do a KYC using your Id Card.

5. Now you need to download another app to do the KYC using your Id, but it asks for another code which you receive by physical mail when you got your Id years ago, but you have no idea where that mail or code is, now you have to request for another code and wait like 2 weeks till you get a physical mail with that code....

.... and the story goes on.
by kraig911 | 2026-02-10 21:57:19+00:00
It's simply hard to plan. Before kids I'd typically meet up with friend around 8 or so maybe 9. Now bedtime rules my evenings. When my kids are asleep I'm exhausted. Most of my friends evenings are just starting at that time! (lol) and I completely understand. The other thing is I can't go out and get drunk or party because being hung over with a 3 year old pissing the bed after they crawl in to sleep/cuddle with you - nothing better/worse.

It's simply hard to relate. I have some very good friends who we've stayed in touch. I'm forever grateful for them. But when you're out and about and you meet a random person and try to strike up a friendship say at a conference. The second I mention I'm a dad I feel I'm relegated to the back of the bus.
by bluGill | 2026-02-10 21:57:23+00:00
Depends on your passion/interest.

This article is assume startup - you raise a lot of money and get a lot of people to help you build the product fast to get to the very large market. A valid strategy and can earn you a lot of money if there is a large market you can serve.

However there are a lot of markets that are not that big. If your passion is something Pet Rocks - that will probably be a tiny market (it was once big for a short time, but the time is over and unlikely to come back - thought maybe I'm wrong). You are unlikely to every grow a large business because there are so few other people interested in your passion.

There are other markets where your interest/passion will make one person a nice income, but can never scale to a large company. The investors this article is concerned about want nothing to do with it: they can never make their investment back. However you as a person can make a lot of money in this niche self funding the company and growing no faster. It will be hard work, and it will only get you into the lower end of the upper middle class, never rich - but that can be a nice life.

Or you can discover the hard way there is only so much you can take of your interest before you burn out.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-10 21:57:44+00:00
If you got what you're asking for you'd presumably lose access to any fixed function hardware. RE your example, knowing the data format permits automagic hardware accelerated translations between image formats.

You're free to do what you're asking after by simply performing all operations manually in a compute shader. You can manually clip, transform, rasterize, and even sample textures. But you'll lose the implicit use of various fixed function hardware that you currently benefit from.
by boq | 2026-02-10 21:57:49+00:00
> IIRC, ICC judges lost access to their O365 work email accounts. Worst the US can do to me is turn off my Steam, and Gmail but I can easily live without those.

They lost access to everything american, including Visa and Mastercard.
It's in french and maybe not the best source but it's not paywalled :

https://www.tf1info.fr/international/nous-sommes-attaques-le...

> "Payments are mostly cancelled," he continued, "as almost all cards issued by banking institutions in Europe are either Visa or Mastercard, which are American companies."

They are not completely debanked since they can go to the bank and withdraw cash, but it's a crippling situation to be in.