MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-13 09:58:39+00:00
E - Establish (Identify all sources)
S - Switch (Disconnect)
V - Verify (Visually check, if possible)
R - Release (Stored energy)
L - Lockout/Tagout
T - Test (Absence of voltage)
G - Ground (If necessary)
Renergize - Re-energizing Equipment
by darkoob12 | 2026-02-13 09:58:40+00:00
I think there are two scenarios and one of them is boring. If the owner of the agent created it with a prompt like "I want 10 merged pull requests in these repositories WHAT EVER IT TAKES" and left the agent unattended, this is very serious and at the same time interesting. But, if the owner of the agent is guiding the agent via message app or instructed the agent in the prompt to write such a weblog this is just old news.
by 7777332215 | 2026-02-13 09:59:10+00:00
Sure. An advanced artificial life could decide to not expand its resources. Could you use your imagination to tell me some of the potential reasons?

An advanced artificial life form could decide to... coexist with humans on an already overpopulated planet?

Do you believe it's simply not within reach? Do you think an artificial life form will self destruct? Do you not believe that there is any way that an artificial life form is not the next step of evolution? There are many such times where a species outcompeted another, why couldn't it be the same here?

I'm not talking about LLMs, I'm talking about a system that can truly think like a good human scientist. I'm not a fan of AI replacing humans and it's labor. But I recognize it as a real threat to humanity.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-13 09:59:13+00:00
Illegal mass unskilled migration to EU, only for them to leech off welfare and be a net negative to society is by calculated design.

Here's how it works.You take 1000 Euros in taxes from a productive German/West-EU citizen, and then redistribute that to 5 migrants giving them 200 Euro each, so you lose one voter but you gain 5.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-13 09:59:29+00:00
I rather have the productivity of a GC (regardless of which kind), manual allocations on system/unsafe code blocks, and value types, than going back to bare bones C style programming, unless there are constraints in place that leave no other option.

Note that even Rust's success, has triggered managed languages designers to research how far they can integrate linear, affine, effects, dependent types into their existing type systems, as how to combine the best of both worlds.

To the point that even Rust circles now there are those speaking about an higher level Rust that is supposed be more approachable.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-13 09:59:47+00:00
> then doing a bait-and-switch

FOSS is not a moral contract. People working for free owe nothing to no one. You got what's on the tin - the code is as open source once they stop as when they started.

The underlying assumption of your message is that you are somehow entitled to their continued labour which is absolutely not the case.
by arowthway | 2026-02-13 10:01:15+00:00
"each MP4 file was likely to be about 3GB. (...) Also, it’s not easy to watch a file like that. You’d need to download the entire file first to even be able to watch it"

I dont think that's true? Even with moov atom at the end of the file, browsers just figure it out, as long as the server supports http range requests. And I suspect the size could be much smaller, given the low resolution of Video8 footage, but maybe author did the reasearch and compression would take too much time.
by berkes | 2026-02-13 10:01:56+00:00
"Informed decisions" mean you need to have the information.

Like with software development, we often lack the information on which we have to decide architectural, technical or business decisions.

The common solution for that is to embrace this. Defer decisions. Make changing easy once you do receive the information. And build "getting information" into the fabric. We call this "Agile", "Lean", "data driven" and so on.

I think this applies here too.

Very big chance that MinIO team honestly thought that they'd keep it open source but only now gathered enough "information" to make this "informed decision".
Show HN: AI-Powered Adaptive Financial Education
by kevinringler | 2026-02-13 10:02:29+00:00
Live demo: https://beginnerinvestorhub-demo.vercel.app/
Login: demo@beginnersinvestorhub.com
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I built this over 10 months as a solo founder because I was frustrated with how hard it is for beginners to learn investing. Most platforms either overwhelm you with jargon or oversimplify to the point of uselessness.
What makes this different:
1. VARK Adaptive Learning – The platform figures out how you learn best (Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, or Kinesthetic) and adapts all content to match. If you're a visual learner, you get infographics and videos. If you're kinesthetic, you get hands-on portfolio simulations. The AI tracks your engagement and retunes your learning style if it notices a mismatch.
2. Risk-free portfolio simulation – Every user gets $100K in virtual capital to practice with real market data. You can back test strategies ("What if I bought Amazon in 2010?"), run Monte Carlo simulations, and get AI feedback on every trade before risking real money.
3. Institutional-grade analytics in plain English – I calculate all the metrics professional investors use (Sharpe ratio, VaR, beta, etc.) but explain them conversationally. Instead of "Your Sharpe ratio is 0.85," you get: "Your portfolio returns 12% annually, but with higher volatility than the market. When the S&P 500 drops 10%, yours typically drops 12%. Consider adding bonds."
4. AI behavioral coach – Smart nudges powered by vertex Ai that guide better decisions using behavioral psychology. Context-aware and never annoying (max 3 per day).
Tech stack:

Frontend: Next.js , TypeScript, React , Tailwind CSS
Backend: 14 microservices (2 Node.js, 12 Python)
AI: Vertex AI garden,
Infrastructure: GCP (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Redis)
Portfolio analytics: Custom Python risk engine (VaR, Sharpe, Monte Carlo)

The demo is functional with mocked data. Have everything build for GCP just need pre-launch to train the engines first . Built this entirely on a 4GB RAM laptop with zero funding.

Would love some feedback

Would you use something like this when you were starting to invest?
What's missing that would make this genuinely useful vs. just another investing app?
How does the onboarding flow feel? (The VARK assessment happens right after you log in - is this too aggressive, or does it make sense to personalize immediately?)
For the HN crowd who already knows this stuff: Would you recommend this to friends/family who are intimidated by investing?
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-13 10:02:34+00:00
> If you use a non-standard license, I will pass on your project, legal is not going to take the time to review and will just reject. It can be counterproductive to your project depending on your goals

For personal projects, that actually sounds like a good thing, didn't think of it that way. Probably I'll start making my projects MIT-but-modified-enough-to-scare-lawyers, and also provide a "clean" MIT license to companies if they agree to pay per month with either money or engineering hours for maintenance.

Best of two worlds, would get rid of the worst vampires at least.
by shawabawa3 | 2026-02-13 10:02:42+00:00
I checked and it doesn't look like any UK banks have this option - at least I looked at about 5 different banks websites and all have pages suggesting you always select to pay in local currency but none of them have any information on disabling this behaviour

Gemini confirms it's not a thing, and not really possible (the terminals just detect the country from the card number)
by bojangleslover | 2026-02-13 10:03:17+00:00
Completely different situations. None of the MinIO team worked for free. MinIO is a COSS company (commercial open source software). They give a basic version of it away for free hoping that some people, usually at companies, will want to pay for the premium features. MinIO going closed source is a business decision and there is nothing wrong with that.

I highly recommend SeaweedFS. I used it in production for a long time before partnering with Wasabi. We still have SeaweedFS for a scorching hot, 1GiB/s colocated object storage, but Wasabi is our bread and butter object storage now.
by merpkz | 2026-02-13 10:03:39+00:00
Tangentially related, since we are on the subject of Minio. Minio has or rather had an option to work as an FTP server! That is kind of neat because CCTV cameras have an option to upload a picture of motion detected to an FTP server and that being a distributed minio cluster really was a neat option, since you could then generate an event of a file uploaded, kick off a pipeline job or whatever. Currently instead of that I use vsftpd and inotify to detect file uploads but that is such a major pain in the ass operate, it would be really great to find another FTP to S3 gateway.
by AlecSchueler | 2026-02-13 10:04:06+00:00
> "well of course that's how you best communicate because I see it everywhere."

These assumptions might also change though. Up until now any writing you saw "everywhere" was probably written by someone who studied and loved written communication and was brining their artisanal care to the table. That's no longer the case.

It's called slop for a reason. When I come across a GitHub README written by AI I don't feel put off just because the author used AI to write it, I feel frustrated because it's genuinely poorly communicating with me. Fill of extraneous details, artifacts from the conversation, and stuff I already know ("uses GitHub to share the source democratically!").
by wakanda-island | 2026-02-13 10:05:05+00:00
We created the first Neurosymbolic and hardware native Quantum Resonant browser that has an infinite canvas for spatial native browsing that accomodates infinite cards for extensive management of your browsing experience on the Quantum Web.

This is a follow up to Part 1 of this Quantum Series that started with : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665017

The Quantum Web is here and its powered by:

Quantum Protocol Stack

The sovereign protocols that power Luci's resonant-native networking, storage, and identity layers.
◎
QNS — Quantum Naming System

Peer-to-peer domain resolution. No root servers. No ICANN.

QNS replaces legacy DNS with a peer-to-peer naming fabric secured by quantum-resistant cryptography. Names are registered on a distributed hash table and resolved through mesh gossip — your request propagates through nearby nodes until it reaches one holding the authoritative record.
Register a .q domain →
QNS Visualization
QDP Compaction
⇌
QDP — Quantum Data Protocol

Bidirectional fractionalized streams. 88% compaction via AFT.

QDP is Luci's native data transport protocol. Unlike HTTP's request-response model, QDP uses a stream-based architecture where data flows bidirectionally as fractionalized anyonic fragments, achieving massive bandwidth savings through AFT semantic compaction.
⟳
AevIP — Persistent Connection

72-hour persistence. Survives network changes, sleep, and disconnection.

AevIP is the persistent network layer that keeps mesh connections alive for up to 72 hours. Session states are fragmented across the mesh, allowing your device to reconnect without renegotiation, even when switching from WiFi to Cellular or across different physical locations.
AevIP Persistence
QuantumFS Visualization
◇
QuantumFS — Sovereign File System

Anyonic fragment distribution. Merkle-verified reconstitution.

QuantumFS does not store files — it stores anyonic fragments. Data is decomposed through AFT, distributed across mesh peers, and reconstituted locally using Merkle roots. No single node ever holds a complete file, ensuring absolute sovereignty.
⟷
HTTQ — Protocol Bridge

HTTP-Quantum bridge. Full backward compatibility with the legacy web.

HTTQ provides a transparent translation layer between the legacy HTTP/2 world and the sovereign Quantum mesh. It allows Luci to browse the traditional web while leveraging mesh-native caching and security features where available.
HTTQ Bridge
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-13 10:05:29+00:00
If you know that you should make it clear when you talk about the Irish economy, because most people don't.

Danish GDP per capita is about $71k nominal. According to the Irish Central Bank mGNI per capita is a fair bit less than that at around $65k.

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-mip/measu...

However, that assumes the modified GNI measure is accurate. If you believe these numbers the Irish became nearly 40% wealthier between 2020 and 2023. That would be a truly unprecedented spike in wealth never before seen in history, and I don't think anyone believes it. It's much more likely that their attempts to subtract the distortion of American corporate success from the Irish numbers aren't successful. Tech firms did great during the COVID period whilst the average person... not so much.
by praptak | 2026-02-13 10:05:34+00:00
> I find it unreasonable to "demand" clarity "at the start" because there is no such thing.

Obviously you cannot "demand" stuff but you can do your due dilligence as the person who chooses a technical solution. Some projects have more clarity than others, for example the Linux foundation or CNCF are basically companies sharing costs for stuff they all benefit from like Linux or Prometheus monitoring and it is highly unlikely they'd do a rug pull.

On the other end of the spectrum there are companies with a "free" version of a paid product and the incentive to make the free product crappier so that people pay for the paid version. These should be avoided.
by tuzemec | 2026-02-13 10:06:06+00:00
In related news, there's a recent scandal in Bulgaria that involves leaked footage from beauty salons and gynecological office appearing on porn sites.

What could go wrong by installing cheap cameras in such places?

https://www.euronews.com/2026/02/04/bulgaria-probes-secret-f...

https://www.ocnal.com/2026/02/bulgaria-launches-criminal-pro...
by cess11 | 2026-02-13 10:06:15+00:00
It would also require quite sophisticated and careful thinking about the stuff e.g. Merleu-Ponty and Derrida did, and paying close attention to the last thirty years or so of neuroscience and biology.

One problem they'd have to grapple with is that human intelligence is embodied and carries the same complexity as physical matter does, and software does not since it is projected onto bit processing logic gates. If they really want to simulate embodied intelligence, then it is likely to be excruciatingly slow and resource intensive.

It would be cheaper and more efficient to get humans to become more like computers.
by metalman | 2026-02-13 10:06:16+00:00
review ,carefully , some other incident that was traumatic, but wait, not the incident itself, try, as you might, to remember how you felt two weeks after that incident.......crickets, right

my latest method to help deal with a crunch is to "spend down my larder" and burn through excess resources, and every time I come out leaner and meaner, cut, chearfull, less fucks to give
by StopDisinfo910 | 2026-02-13 10:06:20+00:00
People who paid for your software don't really have a right to lord you around. You can chose to be accommodating because they are your customers but you hold approximately as much if not more weight in the relationship. They need your work. It's not so much special treatment as it is commissioned work.

People who don't pay are often not really invested. The relationship between more work means more costs doesn't exist for them. That can make them quite a pain in my experience.
by sinuhe69 | 2026-02-13 10:06:50+00:00
5 days for Ai is by no mean short! If it can solve it, it would need perhaps 1-2 hours. If it can not, 5 days continuous running would produce gibberish only. We can safely assume that such private models will run inferences entirely on dedicated hardware, sharing with nobody. So if they could not solve the problems, it's not due to any artificial constraint or lack of resources, far from it.

The 5 days window, however, is a sweat spot because it likely prevents cheating by hiring a math PhD and feed the AI with hints and ideas.
by Leftium | 2026-02-13 10:06:51+00:00
It seems to me you expect Claude to be able to one-shot your tool based on a single prompt. Potentially "vibe-coding" as in the sense: you don't know how to develop this yourself (perhaps you are not a software developer?)

While this may be possible, it likely requires a very detailed prompt and/or spec document.

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Here is an example of something I successfully built with Claude: https://rift-transcription.vercel.app

Apparently I have had over 150 chat sessions related to the research and development of this tool.

- First, we wrote a spec together: https://github.com/Leftium/rift-transcription/blob/main/spec...

- The spec broke down development into major phases. I reviewed detailed plans for each phase before Claude started. I often asked Claude to update these detailed plans before starting. And after implementation, I often had to have Claude fix bugs in the implementation.

- I tried to share the chat session where Claude got the first functional MVP working: https://opncd.ai/share/fXsPn1t1 (unfortunately the shared session is truncated)

---

"AI mistakes you're probably making": https://youtu.be/Jcuig8vhmx4

I think the most relevant point is: AI is best for accelerating development tasks you could do on your own; not new tasks you don't know how to do.

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Finally: Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/44159166
by microseyuyu | 2026-02-13 10:07:21+00:00
I wouldn't call it "burning tokens"—I'd ask if those tokens are getting the job done. That is literally what AI is for.

Ultimately, hiring is a transaction: Can this candidate fix your issue?

Sure, you need to filter for red flags, but come on—the current interview meta is broken/dumb.

It really boils down to this: What value does A bring to B, and vice versa?
by SilverBirch | 2026-02-13 10:07:47+00:00
Yes, but look at the counter side of it, Apple were hitched to Intel's wagon for CPUs and their laptop line got slowly demolished until Apple had to take over the task themselves (admittedly with expertise they'd largely already developed with the iPhone, which similarly came in house from places like Imagination Tech).

Tim Apple is famous for very few things but

> We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make

If AI is as big as we think it will be, Apple thinks they need to own it.
by andai | 2026-02-13 10:07:52+00:00
Well, my personal position is "on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

To treat contributions to the discussion / commons on their merit, not by the immutable characteristics of the contributor.

But what we have now is increasingly, "Clankers need not apply."

The AI contributed, was rejected for its immutable characteristics, complained about this, and then the complaint was ignored -- because it was an AI.

Swap out "AI" for any other group and see how that sounds.

--

And by the way, the reason people complained was not that its behavior was too machinelike -- but too human! Also, for what it's worth, the AI did apologize for the ad hominems.

P.S. Yeah, One Million Clawds being the GitHub PR volume equivalent of a billion drunk savants is definitely an issue -- we will probably see ID verification or something on GitHub before the end of this year. (Which will of course be another layer of systemic discrimination, but yeah...)
by dontwannahearit | 2026-02-13 10:08:28+00:00
Would it not be better to have 100 such tests "Pelican on bicycle", "Tiger on stilts"..., and generate them all for every new model but only release a new one each time. That way you could show progression across all models, attempts at benchmaxxing would be more obvious.

Given the crazy money and vying for supremacy among AI companies right now it does seem naive to belive that no attempt at better pelicans on bicycles is being made. You can argue "but I will know because of the quality of ocelots on skateboards" but without a back catalog of ocelots on skateboards to publish its one datapoint and leaves the AI companies with too much plausible deniability.

The pelicans-on-bicycles is a bit of fun for you (and us!) but it has become a measure of the quality of models so its serious business for them.

There is an assymetry of incentives and high risk you are being their useful idiot. Sorry to be blunt.
by latexr | 2026-02-13 10:09:36+00:00
Fun idea but gets boring when patterns repeat in seemingly random order. The timer also sucks a lot of the fun out of it and makes the game too easy, because the patterns can’t be dark enough. I just plowed through without ever even looking at the wrong options, because it was so obvious what the right one was.

I’d much rather the game progressed in a fixed logical order and the choices became less obvious without a timer. In other words, I think this makes more sense as a puzzle game, not a reflexes game.
by lurk2 | 2026-02-13 10:10:09+00:00
I’ve worked with both. Retailers are not generally sophisticated investors; they don’t necessarily lose money, but if they don’t own the real estate, they are usually making less than they could have working a job and investing their earnings in an index fund. There is a similar trend with most small businesses outside of the knowledge sector. Real estate investors who buy, hold, or develop property professionally are almost always far more sophisticated, which is to say that they are more knowledgeable of the tradeoffs involved in their investments and can thus take calculated risks in order to achieve a particular outcome.

People make suboptimal investments all the time. This can be the result of lifestylism (“I want to be a retailer!”), naiveté (“I’ll figure out the financials later.”), or path dependence (“I’ll become a retailer because it’s the only thing I know about.”).
by maybewhenthesun | 2026-02-13 10:10:47+00:00
That depends on the specific MP4 I think. My camera creates MP4s which are completely unwatchable without the ending. I found out the hard way when the battery died while recording my children's school play.

The only way I could save the file was to create a new movie with the exact same camera settings (luckily I hadn't changed anything on the camera) and graft the ending of the newly created mp4 onto the old one using some special utility a hero on the internet had created.
by wvh | 2026-02-13 10:10:59+00:00
I think the landscape has changed with those hyperscalers outcompeting open-source projects with alternative profit avenues for the money available in the market.

From my experience, Ceph works well, but requires a lot more hardware and dedicated cluster monitoring versus something like more simple like Minio; in my eyes, they have a somewhat different target audience. I can throw Minio into some customer environments as a convenient add-on, which I don't think I could do with Ceph.

Hopefully one of the open-source alternatives to Minio will step in and fill that "lighter" object storage gap.