MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tombert | 2026-02-20 23:50:00+00:00
I dunno.

I really hate the expression "the new normal", because it sort of smuggles in the assumption that there exists such thing as "normal". It always felt like one of those truisms that people say to exploit emotions like "in these trying times" or "no one wants to work anymore".

But I really do think that vibe coding is the "new normal". These tools are already extremely useful, to a point where I don't really think we'll be able to go back. These tools are getting good enough that it's getting to a point where it's getting to where you have to use them. This might sound like I'm supportive of this, and I guess am to some extent, but I find it to be exceedingly disappointing because writing software isn't fun anymore.

One of my most upvoted comments on HN talks about how I don't enjoy programming, but instead I enjoy problem solving. This was written before I was aware of vibe coding stuff, and I think I was wrong. I guess I actually did enjoy the process of writing the code, instead of just delegating my work to a virtual intern while I just watch the AI do the fun stuff.

A very small part of me is kind of hoping that once AI has to be priced at "not losing money on every call" levels that I'll be forced to actually think about this stuff again.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-20 23:50:12+00:00
> Software and online things I've used that seem to be better than they were before ChatGPT was introduced: 0

I don't think you can really get any sort of a signal on this?

Nobody is all that sensitive to the amount of features that get shipped in any project, and nobody really perceives how many people or how much time was needed to ship anything. As a user, unless that means a 5x difference in price of some service, you don't really see or care about any of that - and even if there were savings on the part of any developer/company, they'd probably just pocket the difference. Similarly, if there's a product or service that exists thanks to vibe coding and wouldn't have existed otherwise, you probably don't know that particular detail.

Even when fuckups and bugs do happen, there's also no signal whether it's explicitly due to AI (or whether people are scapegoating it), or just management pushing features nobody wants and enshittifying products and entire industries for their own gain.

Well, maybe StackOverflow is a bit easier to host now: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/stack-overflow-is-almost-...
by fluoridation | 2026-02-20 23:50:15+00:00
For a very brief time, "doxing" (that is, dropping dox, that is, dropping docs, or documents) used to mean something useful. You gathered information that was not out in public, for example by talking to people or by stealing it, and put it out in the open.

It's very silly to talk about doxing when all someone has done is gather information anyone else can equally easily obtain, just given enough patience and time, especially when it's information the person in question put out there themselves. If it doesn't take any special skills or connections to obtain the information, but only the inclination to actually perform the research on publicly available data, I don't see what has been done that is unethical.
by com2kid | 2026-02-20 23:50:29+00:00
> Are you okay with private and intimate conversations and moments (including of underage family members) being saved for replaying later?

Typically not how these things work. Speech is processed using ASR (automatic speech recognition), and then ran through a prompt that checks for appropriate tools calls.

I've been meaning to basically make this myself but I've been too lazy lately to bother.

I actually want a lot more functionality from a local only AI machine, I believe the paradigm is absurdly powerful.

Imagine an AI reminding you that you've been on HN too long and offering to save off the comment your working on for later and then moving they browser window to a different tab.

Having idle thoughts in the car of things you need to do and being able to just say them out loud and know important topics won't be forgotten about.

I understand for people who aren't neurodiverse that the idea of just forgetting to do something that is incredibly critical to ones health and well-being isn't something that happens (often) but for plenty of other people a device that just helps people remember important things can be dramatically life changing.
by tamimio | 2026-02-20 23:50:58+00:00
It’s intentional and facebook is allowing it, for one, it brings traffic, second, how else can you distract the public from questioning what matters? Thirst traps!

Same issue in other social media btw, it’s probably too obvious in FB since it’s an old site with old audience, but if you go to instagram and the likes it’s all about thirst traps, which is a result of having a hypersexual society plus monetization.
by vardump | 2026-02-20 23:51:13+00:00
They are just different tools; both have their uses. I wouldn't really put either above the other by default.

> And it's like half the price on top of all that. It's not even close.

A reel of 3,400 RP2350 units costs $0.80 each, while a single unit is $1.10. The RP2040 is $0.70 each in a similar size reel. Are you sure about your figures, or are you perhaps comparing development boards rather than SoCs? If you’re certain, could I have a reference for ESP32s being sold at $0.35 each (or single quantities at $0.55)?

PIO units may be tricky to configure, but they're incredibly versatile. If you aren't comfortable writing PIO code yourself, you can always rely on third-party libraries. Driving HDMI? Check. Supporting an obscure, 40-year-old protocol that nothing else handles? Check. The possibilities are endless.

I find it hard to believe the RP2040 would have any issues driving WS2812s, provided everything is correctly designed and configured. Do you have any references for that?
by protimewaster | 2026-02-20 23:52:22+00:00
> As far as I understand the person behind archive.today might face jail time if they are found out. You shouldn't be surprised that people lash out when you threaten their life.

One of the really strange things about all of this is that there is a public forum post in which a guy claims to be the site owner. So this whole debacle is this weird mix of people who are angry and saying "clearly the owner doesn't want to be associated with the site" on the one hand, but then on the other hand there's literally a guy who says he's the one that owns the site, so it doesn't seem like that guy is very worried about being associated with it?

It also seems weird to me that it's viewed as inappropriate to report on the results of Googling the guy who said he owns the site, but maybe I'm just out of touch on that topic.
by com2kid | 2026-02-20 23:52:48+00:00
Heyas! Glad to see someone making this

I wrote a blog post about this exact product space a year ago. https://meanderingthoughts.hashnode.dev/lets-do-some-actual-...

I hope y'all succeed! The potential use cases for locally hosted AI dwarf what can be done with SaSS.

I hope the memory crisis isn't hurting you too badly.
by econ | 2026-02-20 23:53:00+00:00
I've often wondered, is there no metric for how popular a brand is?

After everyone makes an account it shouldn't be difficult to retain users. For years non of my friends saw any of my postings and I didn't see any of theirs. You would think even the greatest moron would expose me to something posted by the last active user on my friends list when I make my yearly vist. In stead I scroll down for 15 seconds, laugh and close the page.

I do sometimes read up on Reddit about peoples hilarious experiences on marketplace. FB is always the bad guy in every story. Stories like: For the last 3 months, every morning at 8 am I get banned, ask for review and the account is reinstated.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-20 23:53:00+00:00
> Do I think MS has given up on pure technical excellence?

I was there in the DOS days. I was there when Windows 3.1 came out (others too but I didn't use them). I was there when Windows 95 came out.

Microsoft has never been about "pure technical excellence". We had wonderful machines (Unx ones and then stuff like the Atari ST / Commodore Amiga / Archimedes) and amazing OSes (including Unx on workstations) and Microsoft nearly destroyed everything with the endless turds it produced that ran on cheap beige PCs. Not excellence. Mediocrity. Cheap, but mediocre.

At some point 95% of all machines sold with an OS had Windows and the times were incredibly dark. Thankfully things changed and now Windows is only present on something like 11% of all devices sold yearly that have an OS.

We dodged a big one and many of us shall never ever forget how slow, insecure, horrible and mediocre the products of that company were.
by mccr8 | 2026-02-20 23:53:21+00:00
I think the trick to making the "shorts" feature stop showing scantily clad women is to use it actively a bit, and only watch the videos that are decidedly something else. I did that for awhile and now my videos are like "let's see what happens when you pour lava on some soda bottles" which I'm not sure I care that much about but at least it isn't embarrassing.
by socketcluster | 2026-02-20 23:53:34+00:00
I found a vulnerability recently in a major online platform through HackerOne which could allow an attacker to cheaply DoS the service. I wrote up a detailed report (by hand) showing exactly how to reproduce and even explained exactly how a specially crafted request to a critical service took 10 seconds to get a response (just with a very simple, easy to reproduce example)... I then explained exactly how this vector could be scaled up to a DDoS...

They acknowledged it as a legitimate issue and marked my issue as 'useful info' but refused to pay me anything; they said that they would only pay if I physically demonstrate that it leads to a disruption of service; basically baiting me into doing something illegal! It was obvious from my description that this attack could easily be scaled up. I wasn't prepared to literally bring down the service to make my point. They didn't even offer the lowest tier of $200.

So bad. AI slop code is taking over the industry, vulnerabilities are popping up all over the place, so much so that companies are refusing to pay out bounties to humans. It's like neglect is being rewarded and diligence is being punished.

Then you read about how small the bug bounties are, even for established security researchers. It doesn't look good. HackerOne feels like a honeypot to waste hackers' time. They reward a tiny number of hackers with big payouts to create PR to waste hackers' time. Probably setting them up and collecting dirt on them behind the scenes to then arrest them or something...
by j45 | 2026-02-20 23:54:02+00:00
"If you don’t have something truly special.."

I'm not sure if this article deserves all that much attention if the standard is a subjective interpretation of what is truly special.. human made, human directed, or not.

Is there some sort of spectrum of not special, kind of special, pretty special, and truly special?

Does it have to be special for everyone or just some people?

Is it trying to say that people by default build and share things for external validation?

The argument about how people are using AI to solve a problem is akin to how people might feel about someone using a spreadsheet to solve a problem.

Sometimes projects are for learning. Sometimes projects are for solving a problem that's small to others, but okay to you to solve.

Insecurity about other people learning to build things for the first time and then continue to learn to build them better might be what this is about, period.

There's always been a great number of problems that never could could quite get the attention of software development.

I've genuinely met non-software folks who are interested in first solving a problem and then solving it better and better. And I think that type of self-directed learning in software is invaluable.

AI makes slop, but humans sure seem to like creating the same frameworks over and in every language and thinking it's progress in some way. But every so often, you get a positive shift forward, maybe a Ruby on Rails or something else.
by wahern | 2026-02-20 23:54:25+00:00
WorldWideWeb didn't originally support inline images, and while using a graphical toolkit rendered pages more like Lynx, albeit with the ability to vary fonts. Lynx wasn't the first WWW browser, but came along shortly after, a year or so after WorldWideWeb, and is the oldest browser still maintained. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser#Ear...
by hu3 | 2026-02-20 23:55:50+00:00
- learning: easier

- searching: better

- photo edit/enhance/filter: easier and acessible

- text summarization: better

- quick scripts/tools: faster

- brainstorming/iterating ideas: faster

- generating list of names: faster

- rephrasing text: better

- researching topics: faster

- stackoverflow: i'm finally free. won't be missed by me

- coding: debatable but for me LLMs made possible projects that weren't before due to scope or lack of expertise
by tombert | 2026-02-20 23:57:20+00:00
No idea, but this was an overwhelmingly conservative part of Florida (Niceville, probably most famous for being where Matt Gaetz is from), so it wouldn't surprise me if some of the Southern Baptists or Pentacostals in the area would get their children in trouble over that.

Even twenty-three years later, I'm still a little surprised that they sent me to the principal's office over it. It seems like it was a waste of everyone's time, considering it would have been considerably easier to just roll their eyes and let me sit in class.
by cyrusradfar | 2026-02-20 23:57:52+00:00
Warning Blatant Self Promotion

I created Intraview for VS Code, Cursor, etc., that makes it easy to create code tours with your Coding agent by simply saying, "Create a tour that helps me understand how to get started with this repository."

It has other features, but it was designed for the problem of getting in new code bases and it allows the tours to be saved in the repo as flat json files. You can re-open or share tours with new folks, and if the code changes the system notifies you how to ask your agent to update the tour.

Just a thought.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-20 23:58:06+00:00
By the time I started staying up late, it seemed that most United States-based stations didn't "sign off" much at all.

However, the "border blaster" stations in Mexico would sign off precisely on schedule, playing the Mexican National Anthem [audio] with men's chorus and brass band.

The radio stations were required to broadcast "The Mexican National Hour" in the Spanish language, which turned Sunday evenings into a series of special-programming blocks.
by robotnikman | 2026-02-20 23:58:14+00:00
My thought when it comes to self driving vehicles though, is how do you determine what is considered unsafe here. I'm not sure about Tesla's autopilot, but Waymo for example has an excellent safety record that is better than most drivers when you compare the statistics. And yet, they are still entirely unable to avoid accidents, as mistakes and unpredictable situations happen. Maybe we should be considering a self driving vehicle safe if it has been proven to drive more safely than the average driver? It is something I think that should be considered.

Should they compensate the victims of such accidents? Of course. Should they pay out the equivalent of winning the lottery? That seems a bit much.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-20 23:58:51+00:00
Thanks for correcting me.

I don't know if your comment was intentionally ambiguous or not but it makes sense to either extreme, plus anything in between.

Really one of the things that can (has) stimulate ideas from many directions.

Too bad when you end up as a punching bag from the fraction of partisans just because some of them are so extreme, usually it's only the ones that harbor a lot of hate more than anything else, where negative outlook emanates in all directions.

When the message stands alone as completely neutral and it ends up as a target of the "non-nattering nabobs of negativity" it is still kind of disappointing. So much better responses could be made. I still haven't found any reason to downvote anybody, ever.

Hope it wasn't my mischaracterizing your comment that dismayed anybody worse.

Now with more meat on the bone, infrastructure and real public utility are table stakes which somebody has to pay for, and I'm perfectly willing. Cheerful only if the rate is not exorbitant, which is the real problem.

I'd like to be more cheerful and the corruption sunk in so long ago that it's not pretty. One of the reasons that things dedicated to the public are always more expensive than they could be.
by chill_ai_guy | 2026-02-21 00:00:22+00:00
The Git command is whatever, pretty basic and stuff i have done forever but i am glad i clicked because ended up going down the rabbithole of the Wikileaks it was sourced from

Some unhinged stuff there. Like the CIA having a project called "Fine Dining" which was basically a catalog of apps that could be put on a USB drive to hide malicious code.

A case officer picks a cover app from a list of 24: VLC, Chrome, Notepad++, 2048, Breakout. Plug in the USB. Cover app opens. Exfiltration runs silently behind it. Target walks back in and the officer can just say "oh was just playing some games on this machine"
by tamimio | 2026-02-21 00:00:45+00:00
The whole idea of side projects is learning something while building something unique, authentic, and cool. Since AI hype, most side projects -that get published- now are solely built to grab your money one way or another, whoever built it thinks that a 3hrs vibe coded slop will make him millionaire by the end of the year, so you end up with so much garbage.

It’s why I only focus on hardware actual “hacking” projects, more fun to read and follow, and I know it wasn’t vibecoded too.
Show HN: Open a Linux Container (for Mac)
by dpweb | 2026-02-21 00:02:14+00:00
open http://localhost:7681 && container run -it -p 7681:7681 --entrypoint /usr/bin/ttyd tsl0922/ttyd -W bash

Been playing around with Apple containers. Fast!
(I like to keep all my work in browser tabs)
Show HN: Natural language search across Kalshi and Polymarket (API and MCP)
by helloiamvu | 2026-02-21 00:02:40+00:00
Hi HN, we built a better search for Kalshi and Polymarket. You can use it on the web, via API, or through MCP so AI agents can query it too.

There are about 80k active contracts across both platforms right now. Sports, weather, crypto, politics. Tonight's NBA games, BTC up or down in 5 mins. You name it. We trade prediction markets everyday and needed a smarter way to search across all of them.

We started by ingesting everything into Postgres and writing SQL to get insights. Then we plugged in Claude to query the DB for us. Type a question, get structured results. That actually worked and felt like what search should be. But the answers were only as good as the data, and the data was a mess.

The core problem: both platforms structure their data completely differently. One NBA game on Kalshi is dozens of separate contracts, each with its own ticker. Polymarket has the same game as a handful of contracts with different naming. One says "Cleveland," the other says "Cavaliers." You can't search across any of it without cleaning it up first.

So we built a pipeline to clean the data and classify it properly. Every market goes through it. Structured parsing for the predictable stuff, LLM for free-form titles/descriptions the rules can't handle. New markets get picked up and classified within minutes. Not glamorous work but it's what makes the search return the right results.

Some things you can try:

"NBA tonight" — games from both platforms resolving today

"Zelensky markets on Polymarket" — filtered to one platform

"Weather in Chicago today" — Kalshi has an entire weather derivatives market

"Kalshi trending" — sorted by volume

"pokemon" — you'd be surprised what people bet on

If you want to use it programmatically, there's a REST API (GET /api/search?q=...) and an MCP server at attena-api.fly.dev/mcp so AI agents can search prediction markets as a native tool. Docs at attena.xyz/docs/search.

Not everything works perfectly yet. But we built this for ourselves and figured others might find it useful too.

Try it here: https://www.attena.xyz/
by tialaramex | 2026-02-21 00:03:31+00:00
The October Revolution being in November is because of a different drift problem. The Calendar drifts because the Earth's orbit isn't a whole number of days, so any attempt to have fixed length years drifts noticeably over just a few decades, the initial fix ("Julian" calendars) had the compensation factor wrong, and countries adopted an improved calendar ("Gregorian" calendars) at different points leading to that offset between Old and New dates.

The leap second is because the Earth's spin varies. The orbit isn't varying significantly, it's just not a whole number of day-night cycles which is inconvenient for us, but the spin actually varies. To "fix" this variation we have leap seconds. But unlike the very noticeable October versus November difference, a century of missed leap seconds adds up to much less than a minute of difference between solar time and civil time, and that's not something you'll actually notice.
by iAMkenough | 2026-02-21 00:03:36+00:00
I think the Christian Nationalists have overplayed their hand and revealed that their belief is politics takes priority over religion. Going back to the pre-1954 pledge is feasible within our lifetime.

Hopefully as part of the upcoming rebuke of sacrificing our nation's values for a megalomaniac coopting religion for political gain (with very public examples of hypocrisy). Jesus preached feeding the hungry, healing the sick, caring for the poor, loving thy neighbor. Any politics that goes against those basic principles is anti-Christian. Any attack or hindrance on a neighbor with a different faith is anti-Christian.
by redohmy | 2026-02-21 00:04:06+00:00
TrendForce’s latest forecast signals a structural price shock across the memory and storage stack. Contract pricing for PC DRAM is projected to exceed 100% QoQ, while conventional DRAM, server DRAM, NAND, and enterprise SSDs are all seeing double-digit to near-triple-digit increases. The key driver is not traditional PC demand—it is the capacity reallocation toward HBM4 and AI infrastructure, which is tightening supply for mainstream memory.

For IT procurement teams, this marks a shift from cyclical pricing to allocation-driven pricing, where long-term supply agreements and OEM demand dictate availability. For organizations holding surplus DDR4/DDR5, server memory, or enterprise SSDs, the current environment represents a rare asset-recovery window as secondary market values track rising contract prices.
by willis936 | 2026-02-21 00:04:36+00:00
He oversaw a lot of good things. Recently he's been in "admit defeat and dissolve the brand" mode. To me this has smelled like a "my hands are tied and someone above me is making bad decisions" path, but I don't have anything to justify that other than it doesn't make sense to absolutely fold when it's your name on the line and it's the brand you've spent your life building.
by flir | 2026-02-21 00:04:52+00:00
My wife was complaining about far right knuckle draggers turning up in her feed. I assume the algorithm was shovelling more of them at her because she was rubbernecking. I told her to try a "block every time" approach. It took about two weeks until her feed was (mostly) free of them but it still throws one at her now and again.

I offer this as a data point about how hard it is to turn a polluted feed around. But I'm now wondering if "feed cleaning" is a service that could be automated, via LLM.