MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fredoralive | 2026-02-10 09:28:57+00:00
Just as a slight extension to this, in the UK VHF was used for the original 405 line (~376i) analogue TV system used for 1936-39 and then 1946 until it turned off in the 1980s, so any ariels still up probably haven't been used for decades.

UHF was used for the newer 625 line (576i) PAL colour TV system, starting in 1964 with the launch of BBC2 (colour in 1967) and then BBC1 and ITV in 1969 when they went into colour. Analogue TV was switched off in 2012, and digital TV is only UHF only.

BSB (British Satellite Broadcasting) was a failed satellite TV service notably using a smaller square dish compared to their rival Sky (old Sky analogue dishes were quite bigger than the "minidish" used for digital, and you don't see them around much either). They also used the fairly obscure DMAC TV system, whilst Sky used standard PAL. The pretty quickly "merged" with Sky, hence Sky's legal name for a long time was British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB).
by rob74 | 2026-02-10 09:29:43+00:00
I'm afraid brutalist architecture has been inseparably associated with urban decay and dystopia in the public opinion. For instance, I recently played "Ghost Town" on Meta Quest, and the protagonist lives in a (extremely dilapidated, to the point that I thought "were UK council flats really this bad in the 1980s?!") tower that looks suspiciously like one of Ernő Goldfinger's tower blocks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellick_Tower, or maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfron_Tower) - and is (of course, to add insult to injury) also haunted.
by danw1979 | 2026-02-10 09:29:46+00:00
The thing about most art, architecture, etc is that it’s incredibly subjective, so contrasting your own views with “certain left wingers” is pretty much pointless.

I personally think the entire south bank is pretty ugly, but my views on this, my political views or my views on other styles of architecture don’t matter one jot.

If there’s a building a bunch of people care very much about, then let them protect it.
by phil-akom | 2026-02-10 09:29:53+00:00
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by throw_a_grenade | 2026-02-10 09:30:31+00:00
If they wanted, they absolutely can distrust LE. The trick is to distrust only certificates issued after specific date (technically: with „NotBefore” field after specific point in time), so the certs already issued continue to work for the duration of their validity (until „NotAfter”). That way they can phase out even the biggest CAs. Moreover, they have infrastructure in place and playbook well rehearsed on other CAs already.

TL;DR yes, tis a credible threat.
by topspin | 2026-02-10 09:30:42+00:00
It's exists. Car and Driver and other sites have photos.

Obviously it's weird to not showcase the exterior of a Ferrari, that being pretty much the entire point of Ferrari. The cynic in me can't help but think this may be due to the fact that it looks like a lowered Hyundai with a body kit[1].

[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a70279106/ferrari-luce-ev-...
by piokoch | 2026-02-10 09:31:10+00:00
The interesting part is not that much Rayleigh scattering - it is obviously very important, but the better question was on WHAT THE HELL light is scattered. Rayleigh had some ideas, like some "dust" that is in the atmosphere, etc.

One day, long time ago, a now forgotten Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski [1], was on the walk in the Alps Mountains (except being physicist he was a professional mountain climber/hiker), he looked at the sky and said - no freaking way, there is no dust over there.

So he started thinking and thinking (and Albert Einstein said, after premature death of Smoluchowski, that he was the best thinker he knew) and this moved him into consideration of fairly fresh and new branch of physics at that time - quantum mechanics.

As it turned out, that was it. He figured out that light is scattered on quantum fluctuation of the air density, what explained fully blue color of the sky as well as gave a birth to critical opalescence theory.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Smoluchowski - if Smoluchowski hadn't died early, in 1917 from dysentery, he would have been better known, as he would have been awarded three Nobel Prizes (in physics and chemistry), as researches he did were awarded (other guys get the prize).
by Terr_ | 2026-02-10 09:31:17+00:00
POSIWID [0] and Accountability Sinks [1] territory, I'm sure LLMs will become the beating hearts of corporate systems designed to do something profitably illegal with deniability.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

[1] https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/accountability-sinks
by n4r9 | 2026-02-10 09:31:27+00:00
Modern Western economies generally incorporate a mixture of capitalist and socialist principles. On one hand we have private ownership and capital accumulation, on the other we have universal healthcare, free education, some form of welfare, etc... . You could argue that this is simply "regulated capitalism" but I think it's more accurate to see it as a balance of distinct economic ideals.

My original post was in response to your statement "ideas that don't work in real life". Excepting the fact that anarchist principles are functioning tolerably well in some places such as Rojava; I believe we ought to continually ask ourselves whether the capitalistic appeal to greed and competition is relevant as our social structures and technology evolves. The fact that left-wing revolutions led to authoritarian rule in Russia, China and other countries doesn't refute that we can eventually rid ourselves of that blight.
by Saline9515 | 2026-02-10 09:31:31+00:00
Obama years had also the same kind of abuse and killings by the border patrol. At least 56 recorded deaths of immigrants caused by ICE and custody[0]. Some murders were settled to avoid a trial.

Protests against ICE were much smaller then (billionaires didn't fund NGOs to organise them either), so it was easier for the agency to operate as well, and it was quickly memory-holed.

[0] https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/sites/default/files/re...
by nickdothutton | 2026-02-10 09:31:32+00:00
Although Brutalism is not my favourite architectural style, I still appreciate it done well. This particular building is <20 minutes from where I sit. "Decaying" as it is sometimes described, can be attributed to lack or complete absence of maintenance. This style was sold to government for their civic buildings partly because it was low maintenance, but low is not no.

It would look better with more maintenance, less graffiti, the absence of litter, and more uncluttered space around it.
by paganel | 2026-02-10 09:32:51+00:00
> making decisions to maximize flow

Good driving instructors make you aware of that early on, at least mine did.

I'm not saying that I'm a good driver, because I make mistakes like any other driver out-there, it's just that I oftentimes go with the "maximize the flow" thing instead of just following my individual "well-being" as a driver as a result of what my driver instructor told me some years ago.
Show HN: Platform for Ranking and Discussing Figures
by aloscorisreal | 2026-02-10 09:33:26+00:00
I built MostBased because I wanted a simple way to track how people feel about public figures in a measurable way, and I couldn't find a tool that did that with community input and evolving data.

MostBased lets users vote on figures every 24 hours and add events or facts that get attached to those figures over time. The focus is on *votes and user-submitted events*, not biographies — you can get those on Wikipedia.

I’d love feedback on a few things:
- Is this format useful or interesting to you?
- Any tips for improving the voting/recording model?
- Ideas for better UI/UX or data representation?

Thanks!
by Kim_Bruning | 2026-02-10 09:34:37+00:00
I'm pretty sure there was a lot of human posts, but I could pretty much see a bunch of claude-being-claude in there too. (Claude is my most used model).

I bet others can recognize the tells of some of the other models too.

Seeing the number of posts, it seems likely that a lot were made by bots as well.

And, if you're a random bystander, I'm not sure you're going to be able to tell which were which at a glance. :-P
Show HN: A Chrome extension for passive responsive smoke testing
by kolpaque | 2026-02-10 09:34:49+00:00
Most responsive edge cases don’t appear during testing.
They show up during real usage, at slightly “wrong” viewport widths.

This Chrome extension randomly shifts the viewport width to realistic values while you use your site normally.

The goal is passive exposure, not active testing: you keep working, and edge cases surface on their own.

Repo (Chrome Web Store approval pending, local install for now):

https://github.com/pavel-voronin/chrome-random-viewport

Feedback welcome.
by Lebu | 2026-02-10 09:35:55+00:00
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by tom1337 | 2026-02-10 09:36:22+00:00
Apple actually has this already. For countries that support IDs in Apple Wallet there is a "Verify with Wallet API" [1] and for other countries the app developer can get the age range from the iCloud Account [2] - but that is not verified with any legal authority and only based on user input.

1) https://developer.apple.com/wallet/get-started-with-verify-w...
2) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/declaredagerange/
by gjadi | 2026-02-10 09:36:53+00:00
There is always more money elsewhere.

But once you have a home, enough to raise your family and save for later, when is enough enough?

And is the work fun? Fulfilling?

Money is a mean to an end.

Sure you can aim to earn enough to get FIRE asap.
In my case, I aim for FIRE in the next 40y while maxing my fun in the meantime :)
by Iulioh | 2026-02-10 09:38:36+00:00
I'm torn between "yes, these experinets are way too expensive and the knowlage is too niche to be really usefull" and "We said this about A LOT and we found utility in surprising ways so it could be a gamble worth taking"

That's the problem with cutting edge reaserch....you don't even know if you will ever needed it or if a trilion dollar industry is waiting for just a number to be born
by shippage | 2026-02-10 09:39:16+00:00
I’m certainly no Pratchett, so I can’t speak to that. I would say there’s an enormous round coin upon which sits an enormous giant holding a magnifying glass, looking through it down at her hand. When you get closer, you see the giant is made of smaller people gazing back up at the giant through telescopes. Get even closer and you see it’s people all the way down. The question of what supports the coin, I’ll leave to others.

We as humans, believing we know ourselves, inevitably compare everything around us to us. We draw a line and say that everything left of the line isn’t human and everything to the right is. We are natural categorizers, putting everything in buckets labeled left or right, no or yes, never realizing our lines are relative and arbitrary, and so are our categories. One person’s “it’s human-like,” is another’s “half-baked imitation,” and a third’s “stochastic parrot.” It’s like trying to see the eighth color. The visible spectrum could as easily be four colors or forty two.

We anthropomorphize because we’re people, and it’s people all the way down.
by jonplackett | 2026-02-10 09:39:19+00:00
I really think on device verification is the way to go - and I don’t even see why we need to use ID.

Parents are always in control of a kids device. Just mandate devices have a child mode that parents can activate and have it send a ‘this is a child’ flag to all websites and apps.

But this assumes this isn’t all about ID checking everyone online, which is what it’s really about.
by rixed | 2026-02-10 09:39:34+00:00
Counterpoint: I found this article more insighful and better researched than most of the posts that usually stay for days in HN first page.

Could be shorter though, and the title might not be 100% spot on and a bit clickbaity indeed.

Also, it does not shout "AI generated" to me. The style is pleasant enough (but for the repetitions).

I honestly can't relate this comment with that article. Have we read the same thing?
by red75prime | 2026-02-10 09:39:36+00:00
> and let them run wild.

Yep, that's the most worrying part. For now, at least.

> The moment agents start sharing their embeddings

Embedding is just a model-dependent compressed representation of a context window. It's not that different from sharing a compressed and encrypted text.

Sharing add-on networks (LLM adapters) that encapsulate functionality would be more worrying (for locally run models).
by sebstefan | 2026-02-10 09:40:09+00:00
> Key privacy protections of Discord’s age-assurance approach include:

> On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device.

> Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.

> Straightforward verification: In most cases, users complete the process once and their Discord experience adapts to their verified age group. Users may be asked to use multiple methods only when more information is needed to assign an age group.

> Private status: A user’s age verification status cannot be seen by other users.
by thezipcreator | 2026-02-10 09:41:26+00:00
> C uses pointer casts all over the place to fake generics.

by "C" do you mean users of C? because most of the C code I write I don't use those sorts of techniques; instead I just use the preprocessor to make scuffed generics.[1] Unless you mean in libc itself, where I don't recall any use of pointer casts like that? If I'm missing something, please enlighten me.

[1] see my (probably terrible) dynamic array implementation, for example: https://git.sr.ht/~thezipcreator/xstd/tree/main/item/src/xst...
by KaiserPro | 2026-02-10 09:41:34+00:00
They have done a re-issue, which Dole has linked to (I'm not going to lie, they do look smashing)

I think the reason why it took so long is a combination of snobbishness (its not "mechanical" enough) and cost of manufacture. I assume that most of the tooling has been lost, and it required a lot of work to re-learn how to make from scratch.

But accutrons wern't that cheap when they launched, so I think they are within 50% of their original price, judging by my half arsed inflation calculations.
by close04 | 2026-02-10 09:42:43+00:00
> But they boast the most sold video game in the history of videogames (Tetris a close-ish second), and most downloaded free mobile game, respectively.

Just out of curiosity, I guessed Minecraft which tracks, and Subway Surfers respectively, rather than Candy Crush Saga. Is CCS actually the most downloaded free mobile game ever?
by account42 | 2026-02-10 09:43:02+00:00
In this case the client is connecting with a DNS name because it's also a server. This applies to XMPP and any other federated network.

The CA verifies the subject just like any server certificate, which is what LE has already been doing.

The server verifies the subject by checking that the name in the certificate matches the name the client is claiming to be.
by pbmonster | 2026-02-10 09:43:10+00:00
No, using another ID has a much higher barrier: more likely to get caught (it's the same ID, after all - tokens might (or should) be better anonymized so services don't build user profiles just using the age tokens), more likely to get punished (there's a real name attached to it), more likely to lead to a video verification request to compare ID picture with actual face.
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-10 09:43:24+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huygens%E2%80%93Fresnel_princi...

The light "beam" we perceive is the result of infinite circular waves. The points were the light is not are points where they cancel each other out. We had that as part of the school curriculum, do you not have that, or did you forget?
by timr | 2026-02-10 09:43:25+00:00
> Have you used the frontier models recently?

Yes.

> It's hard to communicate the difference the last 6 months has seen.

No, it isn't. The hypebeast discovered Claude code, but hasn't yet realized that the "let the model burn tokens with access to a shell" part is the key innovation, not the model itself.

I can (and do) use GH Copilot's "agent" mode with older generation models, and it's fine. There's no step function of improvement from one model to another, though there are always specific situations where one outperforms. My current go-to model for "sit and spin" mode is actually Grok, and I will splurge for tokens when that doesn't work. Tools and skills and blahblahblah are nice to have (and in fact, part of GH Copilot now), but not at all core to the process.
by StrLght | 2026-02-10 09:43:33+00:00
Discord isn't under pressure to implement these measures globally.

I fully agree that they shouldn't be blamed for kick-starting age verification, because governments are pushing for this all around the world. But it's simply ignorant to pretend that Discord isn't helping these governments to normalise this process with their actions. They're also signalling that businesses are willing to comply and that they have all means necessary to do this.
by usefulposter | 2026-02-10 09:45:08+00:00
Then: Do one thing well. Every megabyte matters. Personal webspace and shell accounts. Unix herding. Vi vs vim. Vim vs Emacs.

Now: Which React Yoga Bun TypeScript Tailwind Node vomit is better for shipping 250k unchecked LOC? Florp Code or Blorp Codex?

We mourn our craft.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926245
by ntoskrnl_exe | 2026-02-10 09:45:25+00:00
No matter how open source something is, as long as you can only run it on a non-rooted Google or Apple device, and it’s hardcoded with remote attestation features exclusive to these two platforms, it suddenly isn’t much better than a bro asking you to trust him.

Btw the other guy has a point, by definition you can’t support both privacy and something that obliterates it.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-10 09:45:35+00:00
> Absolutely not.

I'd not be so sure about that. Doing this research will probably allow us to answer "it works but we don't know exactly why" cases in things we use everyday (i.e. li-ion batteries). Plus, while the machines are getting bigger, the understood tech is getting smaller as the laws of physics allows.

If we are going to insist on "Absolutely not" path, we should start with proof-of-work crypto farms and AI datacenters which consume county or state equivalents of electricity and water resources for low quality slop.
by pwatsonwailes | 2026-02-10 09:45:46+00:00
There's loads of this in the UX space. To overly simplify, people's brains use expected ideas about what things are like, in order to interact with the world. We build models as to what things are like, and then things that look like what we expect, we over-weight to stating as things that we understand.

So when people are presented with something which is visually appealing, we think it's easy to use, even when it isn't. And people will then default to blaming themselves, not the pretty, elegant thing, because clearly the pretty elegant thing isn't the issue.

We call this the aesthetic-usability effect. Perception of the expected experience, and attribution of the actual experience, is more important part than the actual experience.

It's one of the many ways in which engineers, economists and analysts (in my experience) tend to run in to issues. They want people to behave rationally, based on their KPIs, not as people actually experience and interact with the world.

There's all sorts of research that then comes off this, like people enjoying wine they've been told is more expensive, over wine they've been told is cheaper, and the physiological response as measured with an MRI confirms their reported divergence in experience, despite that the wines are the same, as one quick example.

Low contextuality evaluations (my term for where you ask someone to state things about something where they lack enough experience with enough breadth and depth to answer reliably) are always wonky. People can't comment on wine, because they don't know enough about wine, so they seek other clues to tell them about what they're experiencing. Similarly, people don't know about things that are new to them (by default) or that look different to what they expect, so their experience is always reported as being worse than it probably actually is, because their brain doesn't like expending energy learning about something new. They'd rather something they understood. It's where contextualisation and mimicry come in really useful from a design of experience standpoint.
by orbital-decay | 2026-02-10 09:46:52+00:00
>You trust the EU's pinky promise a keep their word that your ID will be safe and secure and never tied to what you say, the content of your messages or who you send them to.

If I understand correctly how this works, it doesn't require trust or knowledge. The service gets exactly 1 bit of information (over/under the required age), the government system gets nothing.
by spencerldixon | 2026-02-10 09:47:33+00:00
I'm building a tiny open source support desk: https://tinysupport.co

A friend runs a small manufacturing company and asked me to recommend a support tool. All the big names cost $20 per user per month, all trying to upsell AI agents and features a small business would never touch.

For a small team that just needs to answer emails without losing track of who replied to what, that feels crazy.

He just needs a tiny simple tool that does one thing well. So I'm building one.

Rails app, self host with Kamal on a cheap VPS, connect your email, invite your team, done. Still early days but it's really fun to solve these problems together in a real business.