MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by buovjaga | 2026-02-19 10:30:00+00:00
There are existing sites like https://www.goeuropean.org/

Based on the creator of EU Tech Map having an AI-powered advertising company and the mistakes in the entries, I assume the site was populated using LLMs. For example, LibreOffice is incorrectly listed as being closed source, SaaS and paid: https://eutechmap.com/company/libreoffice
by lionkor | 2026-02-19 10:30:40+00:00
> The real concern I have is how the large majority of westerners are overweight or obese

This doesn't tell the whole story either. In Europe, for example, plenty of women are within the "healthy" BMI range, for example, but their muscle- and fat-distribution is such that various clothes made for normal weight do not fit.

For example, for some women, finding pants which are both large enough at the hips, and thin enough at the waist, is a nightmare. You can be well into the bottom range of healthy weight, like closer to underweight, and still have clothes for normal weights be WAY too tight, because of fat and muscle distribution and build.
by streetfighter64 | 2026-02-19 10:31:46+00:00
Well, I'm glad you at least seem to agree that taking information without permission is stealing. As in, hacking into a company's servers and copying their customer data, would be stealing, yes?

Now, if you're instead an employee of that company, and have access to their customer data (you're holding it), would you then agree that making a copy and selling it to somebody else, would be stealing? Or would you argue that because you as an employee got permission to hold the data, you thus own it and are allowed to sell it as you want? Or consider if you rent a VHS tape, does that give you ownership of the movie, and let you copy it as you want? If you store your code on a git server hosted by Microsoft, does that mean MS owns your code? If you hand in your laptop for repair, does that give the repair shop carte blance to make a copy of your hard drive?

Is the postal service allowed to read all your letters? After all, they're holding the letters, which would mean they own the data inside, and with modern tech it's easily possible to scan the contents of an envelope without opening or damaging it.

The crux of my position is that simply holding something, does not mean you own it. You seem to agree that physical items can be held by somebody who's not the owner, so why can data not?

To continue on with the bike example, what if I know you're out of town for a week. Then, by using your bike I'm certainly not depriving you of it. You might argue that I'm lowering its value by using it, but would you not then agree that piracy lowers the value of intellectual property?
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by domysee | 2026-02-19 10:32:06+00:00
Hi!

Blogrolls are a cool way to share interesting feeds, be it the ones you follow personally or topic-specific collections. The existing editors I found were really basic, basically just textboxes.

I attempted to create one that's easier to use and includes more features.

If that contributes to blogrolls being more used in the future I'm happy to have done something. That's something I'd love to see.
Anyway, would love to hear what you think.

The features this thing has are:

* OPML import and export
* Edit and share links (no account necessary for editing, can share readonly version)
* Create copy and edit (to start from a readonly version)
* Adding different link types: feed, website newsletter
* Automatic feed finding (just add website and click on 'Check feed')
* Showing feed metadata: publishing frequency, last post date, language
* Inline email to feed creation: add a newsletter item, click 'Generate email', and subscribe to the newsletter with the email
* Tagging of items
* Reordering (that's a bit hidden, need to grab the icon on the top left to drag and drop)

If you're looking for an example, this is the latest I created: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/blogroll-editor/view/8n46XIeS...
It includes AI labs, and for the ones that don't provide a feed I added their website.
Show HN: I ported PicoClaw to a 32-bit Windows laptop (vibe-coded)
by venkatram-s | 2026-02-19 10:32:53+00:00
Fair warning up front: this was vibe-coded with Claude, Copilot, and ChatGPT.

I don't fully understand every change I made. Use accordingly.

The target machine is a low-end laptop — 32-bit Windows 10 Build 1803, 2 GB RAM, 32 GB storage.

Compiling on it directly was too slow, so I did the heavy lifting on a faster computer and moved the binary over.

Stack: PicoClaw v0.1.2, Go 1.26.0 (x86), gcc-15.2.0-mingw-w64ucrt-13.0.0-r5 from winlibs.org.

It runs. I haven't tested it extensively and I'm not making any promises about stability.
by Meekro | 2026-02-19 10:33:20+00:00
Banning something just for kids is an easy win for any politician, since that's one of the few groups that can't punish you in the next election. For that reason alone, I assume we'll get some law within 5-15 years mandating that Facebook ban kids. I assume the kids will trivially bypass it the block, or switch to foreign social media, and we'll go back to business as usual.
by 4gotunameagain | 2026-02-19 10:33:46+00:00
There is a big difference between a potentially unhealthy product, and intentionally making a product as unhealthy as possible by data driven engagement maximising.

Remember the proto social media ? They were a huge time sink, sure, but they were not this hyper optimised slot machine that they are now.

Additionally if the product is inherently unhealthy, we should protect underdeveloped frontal cortices from it, as we do with every similar thing (drugs, gambling etc).
by adrian_b | 2026-02-19 10:36:49+00:00
They were also full of lies when they have started their GPGPU adventure (like also today).

For a few years they have repeated continuously how GPGPU can provide about 100 times more speed than CPUs.

This has always been false. GPUs are really much faster, but their performance per watt has oscillated during most of the time around 3 times and sometimes up to 4 times greater in comparison with CPUs. This is impressive, but very far from the "100" factor originally claimed by NVIDIA.

Far more annoying than the exaggerated performance claims, is how the NVIDIA CEO was talking during the first GPGPU years about how their GPUs will cause a democratization of computing, giving access for everyone to high-throughput computing.

After a few years, these optimistic prophecies have stopped and NVIDIA has promptly removed FP64 support from their price-acceptable GPUs.

A few years later, AMD has followed the NVIDIA example.

Now, only Intel has made an attempt to revive GPUs as "GPGPUs", but there seems to be little conviction behind this attempt, as they do not even advertise the capabilities of their GPUs. If Intel will also abandon this market, than the "general-purpose" in GPGPUs will really become dead.
by maxxmini | 2026-02-19 10:37:01+00:00
Really cool to see a 3B model running fully client-side via WebGPU. The claim about beating Qwen3-32B on Arena-Hard at 10x smaller is interesting - do you know if those benchmarks hold up for more practical tasks like summarization or instruction following? Also curious about inference speed - what kind of tokens/sec are you seeing on a typical laptop GPU?
by maxxmini | 2026-02-19 10:37:07+00:00
Nice work! The Cloudflare Containers DX gap is real - setting up Wrangler + Durable Objects + Container bindings just to run a Docker image is way too much ceremony. Having a simple `deploy` command that handles all that plumbing is exactly what the ecosystem needs.

Question: how does cold start compare to Fly.io? Since these are Firecracker VMs under the hood, I'd expect similar performance, but curious if the Cloudflare routing layer adds overhead.
by maxxmini | 2026-02-19 10:37:15+00:00
This is one of those tools where the value is in the simplicity - select, hotkey, done. No context switching.

Have you considered adding a way to define multiple rewrite profiles (e.g., "make formal", "simplify", "fix grammar only") that you can cycle through or pick from a quick menu? That would make it way more useful for different writing contexts without needing to change the system prompt each time.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-19 10:37:15+00:00
The sensitivity of S cones is also simply much lower than that of the M cones. It's clear that pure (0, 0, 1) blue is perceived as vastly darker than pure (0, 1, 0) green. Blue light must be about 10x brighter (in linear intensity) than green light to be perceived as equally bright; the brightest full-saturation blue in sRGB looks about as bright as the very dark green (0, 0.1, 0). The contrast on black background is incredibly poor.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-19 10:37:18+00:00
> Recreating all the applications you would use day-to-day to fit the design language specified by Aqua is another.

This is (maybe tangentially) something I don't understand about the software market today; how come only Microsoft and Apple seem to be in the market for building a suite of native deskop applications, while other companies make one-off applications? Why isn't there a successful company building and maintaining a suite of common alternative desktop applications?

I can make some guesses of course.
by vikarti | 2026-02-19 10:38:55+00:00
Problem is that A LOT of companies abuse copyright.
Examples with known services:
- Several years ago I can only buy a lot of ebooks via Kindle Store (they weren't in other places).Actually reading them in Bookfusion (which is my preferred tool) required breaking DRM.
- Spotify/Netflix - several years ago they required using their apps/sites only. Now I have to ALSO work around their geoblocks and they don't like this (so...they think I should try very hard to give them more money because they don't want them).
There are a lot other services with those problems.

But:Torrent trackers still work same as before. Paid pirate equivalents of Netflix (!) also still work same as before.

Counter example:iTunes Music store/Apple Music and Steam - still works, it looks like Apple and Valme still want my money so they get it.
by ben_w | 2026-02-19 10:39:02+00:00
Mmm.

Way back in the early days, I attended an in-person Facebook developer event in London. This was just as they'd realised they'd gotten as many users as they were likely to be able to get, and were now talking about maximising time spent on the site.

Immediately changed my opinion of them from "cool tech company" to "slimy digital crack dealers".
by pjc50 | 2026-02-19 10:39:19+00:00
I'm not normally given to "conspiracy theory", but .. this feels coordinated, right? Quite possibly by the age verification vendors, or some shadier intelligence service sockpuppeting them?

It's just so rare for so many governments to simultaneously, suddenly, after so many years of social media agree that it's a problem on the scale of chloroflurocarbons.
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-19 10:39:40+00:00
> Basic web search has become so horrible

It is not horrible, it reached the point of absolute excellence. Not for you, the user - but for making money for the creator. Remember, no one paid for web search, so you are the product. If you are the provider of the web search engine, the point of having web search is not deliver the best search result to the user, but maximize the amount of money you can make from the sum of the world population. And google did very good in maximizing their profits, without users turning away from them.
by pu_pe | 2026-02-19 10:41:31+00:00
> SaaS also covers all kind of legal requirements (accessibility, auditing, security, payment handling, and so on), and has someone to support, blame, and come and fix it when things go sour.

I hear this argument constantly about SaaS. In my experience, it's hard to get support without paying through your ass, and the fixes are slow if they come at all. Also, based on statements from Salesforce and others, SaaS will also become some thing Claude churned out.
Show HN: Shipfast.so – Next.js boilerplate with auth, payments, email, database
by mahdijafaridev | 2026-02-19 10:41:45+00:00
I kept losing the first few weeks of every project setting up the same things — Auth0, Stripe, Supabase, Resend. So I packaged it all into a production-ready Next.js boilerplate you can clone and start building on immediately.
Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Auth0, Stripe, Supabase, Resend. Includes SEO setup, a blog system (MDX), AI integration (AGENTS.md for Cursor/Copilot), and legal page templates.
One-time payment, you own the code, unlimited projects.
Would love feedback — especially if something is missing or the stack choices don't make sense to you.
by fxwin | 2026-02-19 10:42:20+00:00
> The elephant in the room is that we’re all using AI to write but none of us wants to feel like we’re reading AI generated content.

My initial reaction to the first half of this sentence was "Uhh, no?", but then i realized it's on substack, so probably on par for that particular type of writer (writing to post, not writing to be read). I don't even let it write documentation or other technical things anymore because it kept getting small details wrong or injecting meaning in subtle ways that isn't there.

The main problem for me aren't even the eye-roll inducing phrases from the article (though they don't help), it's that LMs tend to subtly but meaningfully alter content, causing the effect of the text to be (at best slightly) misaligned with the effect I intended. It's sort of an uncanny valley for text
by littlecranky67 | 2026-02-19 10:42:29+00:00
I don't think that will ever happen. All you need is a trivial browser extension with a locally run, very primite LLM, that takes the output of the commercial LLM, and removes all advertisement. And adBlocker AI, so to speak.

Yes, there will be people not using adblockers just as there are people today. But no adblocker ever was able to remove SEO spam from googles website, all they did was hiding obvious adds. They didn't improve the search experience.
by sajithdilshan | 2026-02-19 10:42:51+00:00
As someone working in a fintec startup in Berlin, engineers in the company had to fight and complain to get the tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) in the beginning. This was mostly due to second line pushing back because of data protection, data privacy and all other regulatory requirement and bureaucratic paperwork they had to fill out.

If that's the state of a startup, then I cannot imagine the hurdles and hoops the engineers have to jump through to get the tools they need in a big corporation. I wouldn't be surprised if procurement keeps on dragging for month and by the time they finally get an approval, the tools are already outdated and they would be behind the American counterparts.
by zvr | 2026-02-19 10:43:06+00:00
Just a comment pointing people to https://www.librarything.com/ which I find so much better than goodreads.

Regarding the taxonomy of WEMI (work, expression, manifestation, and item), all of them are useful since we are talking about books at different levels. From "I have read Don Quixote", which is about the work (translations are the same), to "My Don Quixote has coffee stains", which is about the item.
by Drup | 2026-02-19 10:43:17+00:00
HM is not complex type inference. In fact, among all the approaches you cite, it leads to the simplest type system and the simplest implementation. Moreover, there are lot's of courses, reference implementations, and reasonable extensions for a wide array of features (structural subtyping, qualified types, etc). There are even type-system libraries to make it easy to implement (like Inferno).

When new programmer discover ML-family language, they are often stunned by how lightweight it feels, because you don't have to annotate anything. If your types are not structurally too complicated and you want something really easy to use, HM is still the nicest experience.

Naturally, it's all a tradeoff, and if you want specific features (chiefly: borrows, high-order types, overloading, or Typescript-like features), you will need to abandon complete inference (and use something like bidirectional, most likely).
by well_ackshually | 2026-02-19 10:43:40+00:00
No, you're fundamentally wrong. There's the regular wear & tear of GPUs that all have varying levels of quality, you'll have blown capacitors (just as you do with any piece of hardware), but running in a datacenter does not damage them more. If anything, they're better taken care of and will last longer. However, since instead of having one 5090 in a computer somewhere, you have a million of them. A 1% failure rate quickly makes a big number. My example included mining bitcoin because, just like datacenters, they were running in massive farms of thousands of devices. We have the proof and the numbers, running at full load with proper cooling and no over voltage does not damage hardware.

The only reason they're "perishable" is because of the GPU arms race, where renewing them every 5 years is likely to be worth the investment for the gains you make in power efficiency.

Do you think Google has a pile of millions of older TPUs they threw out because they all failed, when chips are basically impossible to recycle ? No, they keep using them, they're serving your nanobanana prompts.
by narrator | 2026-02-19 10:43:45+00:00
I think what most people don't realize is running an agent 24/7 fully automated is burning a huge hole in their profitability. Who even knows how big it is. It could be getting it on the 8/9 figures a day for all we know.

There's this pervasive idea left over from the pre-llm days that compute is free. You want to rent your own H200x8 to run your Claude model, that's literally going to cost $24/hour. People are just not thinking like that. I have my home PC, it does this stuff I can run it 24/7 for free.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-19 10:44:05+00:00
Read the ToS, you are paying to use their products. If you want to use other products that integrate with the Anthropic LLMs they offer a product which is the API. You can use Opencode by connecting your API and being charged per token.

Doesn't that make sense? If you use it more you get charged more, if you use it less you get charged less.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-19 10:44:43+00:00
They did a mild segmentation with that one, by reducing the throughput from 1:2 to 1:4 in the consumer variant, with the hope of forcing people to buy the "professional" version.

Even with the throughput reduction, Radeon VII had a performance somewhat better than the previous best FP64 product, AMD Hawaii, due to the large and fast memory. Most later consumer GPUs from NVIDIA and AMD have never approached again such a high memory interface throughput.

Radeon VII has remained for many years the champion of FP64 performance per dollar. I am still using one bought in 2019, 7 years ago.

Last year was the first time when a GPU with good FP64 performance per dollar has appeared again after Radeon VII: Intel Battlemage B580. Unfortunately it is a small GPU, but nonetheless the performance per dollar is excellent.
by lbeltrame | 2026-02-19 10:46:18+00:00
> I think there's something a bit funny in worrying about giving a copy of your IDs to companies who already know everything about you from your full social graph to your political leanings and interests.

I believe it's because the governments (which are far more powerful than any "corporation", because they have the de facto monopoly of violence: Microsoft can sue you, but the government can just jail you) can then pressure said companies if there's something that is not liked, with all consequences that come from there.

There's no need to bring conspiracy theories in, FTR. The power of the government must be always limited and bound by strong chains, and this goes in the opposite direction.
by Ikryanov | 2026-02-19 10:46:57+00:00
The business logic of your app is running in the Main process using Bun runtime. The website you load or the app's frontend is running in a separate sandboxed Renderer process. When I run Electrobun app on macOS, I see that it launches the following processes with the following RAM usage:

- views://mainview (33.7MB) <- your frontend is running here

- react-tailwind-vite-dev Networking (5.4MB)

- react-tail wind-vite-dev Graphics and Media (16.7MB)

- react-tailwind-vite-dev (60.7MB)
by tim333 | 2026-02-19 10:46:59+00:00
>There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate.

I agree it's warming but unequivocally at an unprecedented rate is iffy. For the article they cherry picked a stable period but if you look at the full temperature history as shown here https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2014/05/05/can-make-b...

there has been loads of instability and heating and cooling.

Also while CO2 levels are up from about 280 ppm in 1600 to about 430 now, for most of the history of life on earth they were more in the 500 to 5000 range https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_the_atmosphe...

I don't believe climate denial as in saying its not warming but I'm also skeptical of exaggerating the problem by ignoring most climate history.
by troupo | 2026-02-19 10:47:04+00:00
> in reality it's not much of a problem. Billions of women manage to buy and wear clothes just fine

No. Billions of women don't have any other choice. Take your wife (or even better, mom) shopping for clothes. You'll learn a lot about "manage just fine". Often its a multi-hour slog through all stores trying to find just one item that doesn't look like shit, and fits somewhat well.
by bmacho | 2026-02-19 10:47:31+00:00
> This is such great news, we have seen mental health decline a lot this decade while social media among teens have become a commodity.

Yes, and simple solution could be (or: could've been) making parents control their kids social media usage. It's only harmful in excessive amounts, several hours a day. (Unlike drugs, or alcohol that only needs secons to be harmful.) Parents can control that, and absolutely would if government told them so.

There is absolutely no reason to ban kids from social media.
by randomtoast | 2026-02-19 10:48:01+00:00
I’ve built fairly large OTP systems in the past, and I think the core claim is directionally right: long lived, stateful, failure prone "conversations" map very naturally to Erlang processes plus supervision trees. An agent session is basically a call session with worse latency and more nondeterminism.

That said, a lot of current agent workloads are I/O bound around external APIs. If 95% of the time is waiting on OpenAI or Anthropic, the scheduling model matters less than people think. The BEAM’s preemption and per process GC shine when you have real contention or CPU heavy work in the same runtime. Many teams quietly push embeddings, parsing, or model hosting to separate services anyway.

Hot code swapping is genuinely interesting in this context. Updating agent logic without dropping in flight sessions is non trivial on most mainstream stacks. In practice though, many startups are comfortable with draining connections behind a load balancer and calling it a day.

So my take is: if you actually need millions of concurrent, stateful, soft real time sessions with strong fault isolation, the BEAM is a very sane default. If you are mostly gluing API calls together for a few thousand users, the runtime differences are less decisive than the surrounding tooling and hiring pool.