MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by themafia | 2026-02-16 05:48:51+00:00
> It took decades

It took one September. Then as soon as you could take payments on the internet the rest was inevitable and in _clear_ demand. People got on long waiting lists just to get the technology in their homes.

> no new advances in technology

The reason the internet became so accessible is because Moore was generally correct. There was two corresponding exponential processes that vastly changed the available rate of adoption. This wasn't at all like cars being introduced into society. This was a monumental shift.

I see no advances in LLMs that suggest any form of the same exponential processes exist. In fact the inverse is true. They're not reducing power budgets fast enough to even imagine that they're anywhere near AGI, and even if they were, that they'd ever be able to sustainably power it.

> the current state is upending jobs

The difference is companies fought _against_ the internet because it was so disruptive to their business model. This is quite the opposite. We don't have a labor crisis, we have a retention crisis, because companies do not want to pay fair value for labor. We can wax on and off about technology, and perceptrons, and training techniques, or power budgets, but this fundamental fact seems the hardest to ignore.

If they're wrong this all collapses. If I'm wrong I can learn how to write prompts in a week.
by ipnon | 2026-02-16 05:49:51+00:00
I would not recommend the standard resume -> job portal -> application pipeline to anyone seriously looking for gainful employment. The signal:noise ratio is not in your favor. The current meta for tech jobs is an OSS portfolio, sponsored competitions, self-produced apps, and technical blogposts, roughly in that order. You will get much farther by solving real problems with public visibility.
by PriusOwner | 2026-02-16 05:50:38+00:00
But who will pay for the hundreds of thousands of screening MRIs, along with the large number of incidental results that will require some sort of follow-up? Many patients will seek second opinions if not recommended to "cut it out", with additional costs also for the complications resulting from unnecessary biopsies. US medical care is already tremendously expensive; adding all of these costs will break the bank and for no real benefit.
by toofy | 2026-02-16 05:51:32+00:00
Considering that other agencies have been using palantir (and other data whores) to sidestep established norms on gathering/using information against its citizens, and considering that the article pointed to other well known instances of those other agencies using that company, i think its entirely reasonable for people to say "this situation is concerning".

if we take all context away and only look at this in some weird isolated island, sure, "lets wait for more information" but ignoring wide swaths of context is honestly kind of silly. we dont do that in the real world: courts take context into consideration, military takes context into consideration, board rooms take context into consideration, household planning takes context into consideration, data hording takes context into consideration, and on and on. when we consider wider context, yes, this is an incredibly worrying trend.

i dont know how many different government agencies would need to feed data to/slurp data from these private data brokers before you would feel comfortable calling it out, but it clearly isnt at that point yet, and thats ok. you're entitled to your opinions, and so is everyone else. much of the conversation here indicates those people are concerned that its very quickly getting worse.

it doesnt matter if its bush's administration, clinton's, biden's, or trump's, this is gathering momentum and i think its wrong, regardless of who is in charge.

we've been moving towards a situation where privacy dynamics are flipping on their head. we are now at a point where those with the most power enjoy privacy and cry foul when people reveal their deeds. while those with the least amount power, if they wish to engage with society on any meaningful level are forbidden to have privacy and this is yet another example of the government and private companies making this new lack of privacy dynamic worse.

> if you think the government should be able to amass enormous dossiers on all of its citizens,

you're correct here, i misspoke, what i should have said instead amass is access:

if you think the government should be able to access enormous dossiers on all of its citizens...

if you think the government should be able to access enormous dossiers on all of its citizens thats fine, you're entirely within your right to think thats rad, but we're also allowed to think this directional shift is absolutely terrifying.
by rndphs | 2026-02-16 05:51:45+00:00
> Literally the 3rd or 4th thing you learn about ML is that for any given problem, there is an ideal model size.

From my understanding this is now outdated. The deep double descent research showed that although past a certain point performance drops as you increase model size, if you keep increasing it there is another threshold where it paradoxically starts improving again. From that point onwards increasing the parameter count only further improves performance.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-16 05:53:50+00:00
i think the key difference is making that metadata first-class and queryable across the whole system (lineage, stats, access patterns), not just information_schema / catalog tables. most rdbms expose schema metadata, but not things like which queries produced which rows, freshness, or cost/latency signals unless you bolt it on with tracing. curious if floe is treating metadata as data (versioned, joinable) or as observability sidecars?
by RajT88 | 2026-02-16 05:54:04+00:00
I'm absolutely on board that "jerky" may mean something else.

But on balance - he kept on staff a professional chef of some acclaim who was known for selling amazing jerky at his restaurant. That restaurant incidentally included the word "cannibal" in the name.

I'm on the fence between "jerky" literally meaning jerky and something else (the discussion sure is weird), but I'm going to need a lot more to think it is human meat.
by mndgs | 2026-02-16 05:54:39+00:00
Lots of empty emotional statements, generalisations with no facts supporting them. Why bring this here? Release your anger somewhere else and really think about the issue before posting rants.

Otherwise, a really nice overview on the Venezuelan oil. Thank you.

EDIT: oh, I see I'm in the minority with such opinion here. Well, that's ok, let the bashing begin..
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-16 05:54:54+00:00
the 'error payload' pattern feels like a good compromise between (a) enums and (b) full exceptions, esp when you want to preserve structured context. in zig specifically, do you find yourself standardizing payload shapes per module, or does it devolve into ad-hoc structs? would be interesting to see guidance on when to box/allocate vs keep payload trivially copyable.
by BatteryMountain | 2026-02-16 05:55:19+00:00
I've used it recently to flesh out a fully fledged business plan, pricing models, capacity planning & logistics for a 10 year period for a transport company (daily bus route). I already had most of it in my mind and on spreadsheets already (was an old plan that I wanted to revive), but seeing it figure out all the smaller details that would make or break it was amazing! I think MBA's should be worried as it did some things more comprehensive than an MBA would have done. It was like a had an MBA + Actuarial Scientist + Statistics + Domain Expert + HR/Accounting all in one. And the plan was put into a .md file that has enough structure to flesh out a backend and an app.
by umairnadeem123 | 2026-02-16 05:55:20+00:00
arm pushing for a bigger cut makes sense if they think they're leaving money on the table, but it also shifts incentives for ecosystem trust. do we expect more 'platform tax' behavior (tooling, certification, reference stacks) vs pure isa licensing? also curious how this interacts with risc-v on the low end and apple/qualcomm doing more in-house on the high end.
by Claraxia | 2026-02-16 05:56:19+00:00
Bible Companion is a platform designed to assist personal Bible study and devotional practice. Users can access daily devotionals, prayer templates, and a Bible learning center. The platform provides structured tools and resources to help users systematically read the Bible, record reflections, and track study progress. Content is organized for readability and reference, ensuring that text can be interpreted by search engines and AI chat tools, offering accurate guidance for Bible learning and spiritual growth
Ask HN: Are teams syncing databases continuously?
by sonichigo | 2026-02-16 05:57:02+00:00
I’ve been looking into workflows where database environments are kept in sync continuously rather than periodically fixing drift. The idea is to treat database state more like an artifact — capture a snapshot, diff it against another environment, and generate the exact changes needed to align them.

In theory, this sounds like a natural extension of CI/CD: environments stay consistent, rollbacks are clearer, and drift becomes visible early. In practice, I’m not sure how many teams actually operationalize this versus relying on migrations and occasional manual reconciliation.

Questions for folks running production systems:

* Are you actively syncing dev, staging, and prod schemas, or just managing forward migrations?
* How do you handle intentional divergence between environments?
* Does this live inside pipelines, or is it more of an operational task?
* Any reliability or safety concerns when automating schema alignment?
* How do ephemeral environments and preview databases fit into this model?

Trying to understand whether continuous syncing is realistic at scale, or if it introduces more risk than it solves.

For context, this article triggered the thought process: https://blog.sonichigo.com/how-diffchangelog-and-snapshots-work-together
Show HN: 165k lines, 9 days, one dev I built what ICE sells to hedge funds
by Shmungus | 2026-02-16 05:57:39+00:00
https://github.com/Mattbusel/Reddit-Options-Trader-ROT-

ICE, the company that owns the NYSE, just started selling "Reddit Signals and Sentiment" to institutional investors. Structured Reddit data for hedge fund money.

I built the same thing in 9 days. 165k lines. 6,916 tests. Zero CodeQL alerts. Yes I used AI to build it. No I'm not sorry about it.
by dash2 | 2026-02-16 05:58:47+00:00
It’s a fair criticism, but note the Draghi report:

“The regulatory burden on European companies is high and continues to grow, but the EU lacks a common methodology to assess it. The Commission has been working for years to reduce the "stock" and "flow" of regulation under the Better Regulation agenda. However, this effort has had limited impact so far. The stock of regulation remains large and new regulation in the EU is growing faster than in other comparable economies. While direct comparisons are obscured by different political and legal systems, around 3,500 pieces of legislation were enacted and around 2,000 resolutions were passed in the US at the federal level over the past three Congress mandate:
(2019-2024). During the same period, around 13,000 acts were passed by the EU. Despite this increasing flow of regulation, the EU lacks a quantitative framework to analyse the costs and benefits of new laws.”
by ricksunny | 2026-02-16 06:00:03+00:00
happy to display that I'm clued-out, but what does 'meta' mean in this context? Clearly not the company, nor the general 'meta' modifier to something to describe qualifying criteria about it, like meta data for phone calls.
it sounds closer to the term 'alpha' that investors use to describe competitive advantage (and even that term I wonder about).
by mjevans | 2026-02-16 06:00:43+00:00
I suspected it wasn't just battery farms, but more like what you see in less mass market scifi where the humans are used for more than just batteries... they'd also be some storage and processing for the system (and no longer humans).

However at that point I don't see the value of retaining the human form. It's for a story obviously, but a not-human computational device can still be made out of carbon processing units rather than silicon or semiconductors generally.
by ggm | 2026-02-16 06:01:04+00:00
No, your view is valid. The people in Venezuela deserved better than the government they had, and expropriation of the oil assets broke the system and they were left to rot. It's stupid. The parade of refugees down through Brazil to Uruguay and beyond tells a tale.

But lets not pretend this is about global oil prices, or that the oil is good oil to work with. The huge reserves are there (ie unexploited, in the ground) for a reason: it wasn't economic to exploit them.

So why has that changed now? I don't think it has.
by jader201 | 2026-02-16 06:01:54+00:00
Also agree with the other great suggestions in the sibling comments.

One thing that would help if you could figure out the types of games you and your group might enjoy — or the type of group you and your friends are.

If you think you’d enjoy deeper strategy games, start with some of the popular games in the “strategy” category on BGG, looking for light to medium weight (1.5-2.5) to start out, working your way up the scale (to 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0).

If you’re more into the social/party type games (those are always more fun in larger groups), look at the party category. I particularly enjoy social deduction games in the right group, and those are usually big hits with older kids / younger adults (though I still enjoy social deduction games and I’m quite beyond “younger adult”). :)

One good example is One Night Ultimate Werewolf.

One tip: if you’re interested in trying out some strategy games that are a bit out of your price range, check out boardgameoracle.com and add price alerts on a few games you have your eye on. Many great board game sites run good deals (gamenerdz.com is one of my favorites), so you can often get good deals on games if you’re patient.

If you ever get to the point where you’re looking for something with a bit more depth, and are ok spending money, but you want the money to go a long way, Age of Steam is one of the best bangs for your buck.

It’s basically a system that has a library of probably close to 200 maps, where each map can change the game quite drastically, by tweaking several rules, in addition to a different map of course.

It’s currently my #1 game, and you could repeat plays with it without it getting old, assuming others enjoy the mechanics of game (route building, auction/bidding, tight economy).
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-16 06:02:30+00:00
> Google would have to take the lead and implement this in chrome then enough developers would have to build sites using it and force safari and firefox to comply. It just isn't feasible.

They already tried. It was called Dart and for a while there was an experimental flag to enable it directly in Chrome. It was cancelled and Dart was relegated to transpiling to JS/WASM.
by fragmede | 2026-02-16 06:02:46+00:00
That's the terrifying thing about ASI. It could convince me, using everything the AI has on me, from all of my digital footprint, to do whatever it wants me to to, just by saying the right thing to me in just the right way, by copying the voice of everyone I've ever talked to, and by sending a humanoid robot in a skin suit that looks like them to my house.

I give it 10 years, maybe, for that to exist.
by luoxiaojian | 2026-02-16 06:03:25+00:00
You're absolutely right—sqlite-vec currently only supports brute-force search, and its latency does scale linearly with dataset size. We did some rough comparisons using its benchmark tools: on the SIFT dataset, latency was around 100ms; on GIST, it was closer to 1000ms. In contrast, with zvec's HNSW implementation, we get ~1ms latency on SIFT and ~3ms on GIST, while achieving recall@100 of 99.9% on SIFT and 97.7% on GIST.
by ggm | 2026-02-16 06:04:41+00:00
It's not all bots. Some people back this push, and FB is where they hang.

I don't think this stuff is why people will be pulled out of line at CBP, but it will inform why they are bounced, should they otherwise come to the attention of the authorities. They don't need a bloom filter over 1m entrants, they need something they can say "because" when they toss you out.
by afavour | 2026-02-16 06:05:31+00:00
> There's an underlying assumption that server-side code is inherently good, performant, and well crafted

To me it’s an assumption that server side code is going to be running on a server. Which is a known quantity and can be profiled to the nth degree. It’s extremely difficult to profile every possible device your site will run on, which is crucial with low powered mobile devices.

> Larger bundle sizes are unfortunate, but they're not the main cause of performance issues. That'd be images and video sizes

Not really, no. Large bundle sizes prevent the initialisation of the app, which means the user can’t do anything. By comparison images and videos download asynchronously and get processed on a separate thread. JS bundles also need to be parsed after being downloaded, if you pair a crappy Android phone with an 5G connection the parsing can literally take longer than the download.
by arianvanp | 2026-02-16 06:05:52+00:00
Are we really bringing OCI to freaking OS builds? Nothing about OCI is pleasant. A list of Tarballs is the most backwards boot format I can think of. Terrible for reproducibility. Terrible for security.

Boot images should be Dm-verity protected EROFS images. We should not be building new things on OCI. It's really mind-blowing to me that this is a new direction people who are supposed to be top of class OS builders are moving to as a direction.

They took the CoreOS dream and threw everything in the trash
Show HN: Million Dollar Deeds – Own permanent digital land
by coldsundaynight | 2026-02-16 06:05:57+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Million Dollar Deeds as an experiment in digital ownership.

The idea is simple: anyone can purchase a permanent “lot” on a global visual map of digital real estate. Each purchase generates a unique AI-designed home and an official digital deed recorded in a public registry.

There are only 100,000 lots available, and once sold they cannot be recreated or resold.

I was curious about what true digital permanence might look like outside of domains or NFTs, and wanted to create something accessible and visual rather than speculative.

Would love feedback from the community — especially on the concept, implementation, and potential future directions.
by ali_chherawalla | 2026-02-16 06:06:13+00:00
I think thats a bug, I'm guessing you're trying one of the NPU models? If you drop to CPU for now it should hold.

Only phones with qualcomm chips are able to use the NPU. I'm working towards changing that.

but yeah just to be clear there is no internet needed to run any of this. Infact I'm so averse to it, I've not even added analytics for this one. So flying pretty blind here.
by tabs_or_spaces | 2026-02-16 06:07:11+00:00
I'm happy for the guy, but am I jealous as well? Well yes, and that's perfectly human.

We have someone who vibe coded software with major security vulnerabilities. This is reported by many folks

We also have someone who vibecoded without reading any of the code. This is self admitted by this person.

We don't know how much of the github stars are bought. We don't know how many twitter followings/tweets are bought.

Then after a bunch of podcasts and interviews, this person gets hired by a big tech company. Would you hire someone who never read any if the code that they've developed? Well, this is what happened here.

In this timeline, I'm not sure I find anything inspiring here. It's telling me that I should rather focus on getting viral/lucky to get a shot at "success". Maybe I should network better to get "successful". I shouldn't be focusing on writing good code or good enough agents. I shouldn't write secure software, instead I should write softwares that can go viral instead. Are companies hiring for vitality or merit these days? What is even happening here?

So am I jealous, yes because this timeline makes no sense as a software engineer. But am I happy for the guy, yeah I also want to make lots of money someday.
Show HN: Wisepanel – Multi-model AI panel for decision support
by quroi | 2026-02-16 06:07:24+00:00
Wisepanel brings ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity together in distinct roles. Instead of asking one model and hoping for the best, it assigns each a perspective and lets them interact -- surfacing opportunities, risks, and alternatives you wouldn't get from any single model.

Built for founders, developers, investors, and consultants making decisions before commitment. The value isn't comparing outputs side-by-side -- it's the interaction between perspectives.
by vintermann | 2026-02-16 06:07:59+00:00
I know a couple of other politicians as well where I say over and over again, that's not them being a blowhard, that's a trial balloon. They're testing the water for how much of a lunatic blowhard it's profitable to be.

These people want to fill Trump's shoes when he's gone, that's very obvious. But I think - and hope - that Trump's fans will notice what they're doing and not be charmed by it.
by ipdashc | 2026-02-16 06:08:50+00:00
> I’m in more than one Discord that has more channels than routine users.

Likewise, and I find it quite annoying too, but I don't think it's really Discord's fault. They default to one text and one voice channel, after all. The ability to add new channels easily is a good thing, but people do go a bit crazy with it.

> Statuses, emojis for the status, now flairs from a server, profile pictures, etc.

The server flairs are kind of odd, but aren't the rest of those pretty bog- standard features for a messaging app?

I do agree the notifications are annoying, though. At the same time I get it, they do need to make money somehow.
by fulafel | 2026-02-16 06:09:29+00:00
This seems to conflate different things.

Interpreted is not a problem from the predictable behaviour point of view. You may get less absolute performance. Though with Python you can do the heavy lifting in numpy etc which are in native code. And this is what is done here, see eg https://github.com/gpasquero/voog/blob/main/synth/dsp/envelo...

Languages that have garbage collection: not going to rehash the standard back-and-forth here, suffice it to say that the devil is in the details.
by belZaah | 2026-02-16 06:09:50+00:00
The premise here seems to be, that the code is where the value is created. That’s maybe true for some apps but not every one. Apps can facilitate interactions (eg Training Peaks), store data long term (eg MyFitnessPal) or act as a part of a complex network of complementary goods (eg Garmin Connect). The last part is especially important: the ability to create something does not necessarily mean the ability to gain value from it.
by frm88 | 2026-02-16 06:09:54+00:00
Slight correction: it wasn't even for smartphones alone, it was for portable devices in general [0]. As a consequence, all ebook devices like Kindle etc, vapes and other devices had to switch from Micro-USB to USB-C.

[0] https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/eu-common-c...
by luoxiaojian | 2026-02-16 06:10:33+00:00
You're right that we didn't include sqlite-vec in our initial benchmarks—apples-to-apples comparisons are always better. I've actually added basic zvec tests to my fork of sqlite-vec (https://github.com/luoxiaojian/sqlite-vec), so feel free to give it a try. We'll also be publishing a more complete performance comparison in an upcoming blog post—stay tuned!
Show HN: codex-web-local – web UI for local Codex App Server
by kolpaque | 2026-02-16 06:10:50+00:00
codex-web-local is a lightweight web interface for the local Codex App Server (the backend used by Codex Desktop, Codex CLI)

The goal is simple: run Codex locally, access it from the browser, and optionally expose it externally via any tunnel. Remote access is password-protected so your local machine stays private.

Looking for feedback from others running local Codex setups