MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by edsfdfdfs | 2026-02-15 08:40:53+00:00
Never forget the system works because people believe in it. America has just given up the privileges they have enjoyed for many years now. Also, do not count on the USA credit rating to be set in stone. For me personally, I have moved my pension fund to a fund, which does not invest in US treasury and I have a feeling a lot of other people will be doing this too. Its going to be a slow painful heat death for the USA frogs.
by mjevans | 2026-02-15 08:41:16+00:00
The silly move from /bin to /usr/bin broke lots of distros. Probably would have worked out if they'd had cp --reflink=auto --update to help ease migrations from files in /bin to /usr/bin and then just symlinked /bin to /usr/bin . However then any setups where /usr is a distinct filesystem from / would hard-require initramfs to set that up before handoff.

The python (is python2) transition was even more silly though. Breaking changes to the API and they wanted (and did!) force re-pointing the command to python3? That's still actively breaking stuff today in places that are forsaken enough to have to support python2 legacy systems.
by slanterns | 2026-02-15 08:43:01+00:00
Please distinguish between "using LLMs to assist coding" and "vibe-coding entirely unusable software", abusing the latter accusation is just a form of witch-hunt. I've be using copilot since 2022 and I think it's totally fine. The only problem is large companies are trying to deceive inexperienced people into believing they can become experts by vibe-coding, but I don't think it's a problem for people knowing what they are doing.

In this article the problem seems to be you are trying to run a project under an unsupported environment and encounter some problem, which feels just... natural. However I think instead of writing an attack manifesto the more constructive thing you can do is to send a fix PR.
by aurareturn | 2026-02-15 08:44:23+00:00
They do not cover the same story with different views. If they did, they would publish 2 stories that contradict in message simultaneously. They don't do this.

They won't publish a story that says AI is about to crash and another that says AI is about to make everyone jobless at the same time. They spread it apart.

Therefore, they want readers to think that they have a united opinion.
by pierrekin | 2026-02-15 08:44:57+00:00
It’s hard to respond to a call for “everyone to agree” in an online forum but yes.

Even people who are self or outwardly destructive, do not deserve the outcome the author got.

I think a harder to answer question is, assuming there are not enough resources to help everyone in need (in a practical sense) should we prioritise the “more deserving” over the less.

Every human who is suffering deserves compassion, but should we deprioritise those who are suffering partially because of their own choices?
by ANJSmyth | 2026-02-15 08:45:12+00:00
I built WinOnly to see if a fully transparent, rule-based approach could produce reliable football match predictions. The engine analyses league standings, recent form, and defensive stats across 29 leagues to pick up to 10 match winners daily. Every rule is published on the site — you can see exactly why each pick was made, and results are tracked automatically. Built with React, TypeScript, Express, and PostgreSQL. Would love feedback from the HN community, especially on the methodology and data approach.
by undermineduser | 2026-02-15 08:45:41+00:00
Hi,
There are still some projects and community which requires external contributor to contribute to their open source projects to grow open source community and people who are beginner in open source.

these communities and projects are still vulnerable to the AI and spam PRs. for those kind of people how can this help.

My suggestion on this take you should add an option to maintainer to flag the user if they are doing spam and ai slop so if it exceed to a x number it will ban the user.

I know this is against the open source philosophy but still it will prevent the open source community from being polluted.
by ofalkaed | 2026-02-15 08:46:00+00:00
Slackware only does long term stable releases but Slackware current is a rolling release that does not really feel like a rolling release because of how Slackware provides a full and complete system as the base system. I avoided Slackware current for years because I did not want to deal with the hassle of rolling release, but it is almost identical in experience to using the release.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-15 08:47:01+00:00
>“I Can Hire Half the Working Class To Fight the Other Half“

Technically a satire quote criticizing the robber Baron it's credited for, but the sentiment is the same. Pay off a bourgeois and they'll fight against the the sympathetic bourgeois and proletariat happily. The elite don't even need to lift a finger.
by Abimelex | 2026-02-15 08:47:06+00:00
What I probably never get: When somebody is capable and reasonable but jobless, why stay homeless in a city with one of the highest rents? Why not move to a cheaper place, get any job, even a bad paid job will pay a nice flat in a small town.
It's always those large very expensive cities that have a huge amount of homelessness.

Don't get me wrong, I do not want to play clever here, it's just a honest question.
by ksec | 2026-02-15 08:49:10+00:00
This is a very strange take. Isn't every pre 1.0 software like that. Heck there are some that claims to be 1.0 but then takes another 50 iteration of 1.51 before it reaches what should have been 1.0 in the first place.

I am not understanding the point here, do people expect they ship 1.0 before they know it is good or ready?

No wonder why software quality have deteriorated rapidly in the past 20 years.
by gehsty | 2026-02-15 08:50:19+00:00
It sounds very un-archaeologist to not investigate the gap between artifact and tooling (like that’s their job?).

For me the ‘archaeology not accepting things’ has been fueled by Graham Hancock etc. Archaeology is a lot like science, it sits on a body of research, if there’s evidence of advanced tooling and it’s properly investigated and written up, verified, no archaeologist would deny it.
by wiz21c | 2026-02-15 08:50:58+00:00
I would be very happy to solve problems that "very few, if any, people have taken the time to work on them already."

My experience (as someone how works with a team of PhD's) is that code is about 30% of what we do but in these, 75% are "trivial things" (building charts, quickly designing apps to process information, etc). Out of these 75%, AI certainly helps us at least 50% of the time (and amazes me 10% of the time :-))

> I see no new "AI billionaires" suddenly rising out of the field and I see no "AI heavy" companies suddenly increasing their profits, productivity or quality in any way.

Exactly what I was telling myself yesterday. That's rather not in line with the media coverage.
by pajuhaan | 2026-02-15 08:51:35+00:00
It's the GPT for Relator Theory, you can ask anything about quantum physics and gravity and it will answer from all available papers. Maybe you discover something in foundational physics for the first time.

For example, I asked about the origin of electron mass and charge: https://chatgpt.com/share/699188c1-9838-800f-bdd3-2aea55dcf5...
by sinuhe69 | 2026-02-15 08:52:13+00:00
The article said they called for triple junior hire but cut 1000 jobs a month later, “so the number of jobs stay roughly the same”.

Certainly they didn’t mean 1000 junior positions were cut. So what they really want to say is that they cut senior positions as a way of saving cost/make profit in the age of AI? Totally contrary to what other companies believe? Sounds quite insane to me!
by chmod775 | 2026-02-15 08:52:18+00:00
> You need to create string.

People in that region processed flax for over 30k years. That's another thing that can be done with virtually no tools.

Even if you skip the retting and merely hand-strip the fibers you still get something usable enough for some use.

These people didn't sit inside looking at screens all day. If your region had a plant that can be trivially turned into usable string you'd know.
by amne | 2026-02-15 08:53:25+00:00
At this point it must be intentional that there's always something uncanny about these fake pages. That google logo is so old that if I see it I immediately know to get out of there.

So I find it fascinating how there's always the odd typo, the old logo, the impossible combination of iPhone needing an antivirus, etc and I refuse to believe is incompetence.
by imiric | 2026-02-15 08:53:30+00:00
He was given temporary shelter, and later a bed in a room with 20 people. Have you seen what these places look like? Would you sleep in such conditions?

Dignity and personal space is something the richest country in the world can afford for all of its citizens. Yet chooses not to.

People committing petty theft are largely forced to do so due to the circumstances they live in. Your judgment is better aimed at people committing white-collar crime with far worse consequences in the same city the author is located in.
Show HN: Scratchpad app that auto-saves notes as .txt files
by tom2948329494 | 2026-02-15 08:53:46+00:00
I know everybody has their own note-taking system and there are better ways to do this, but:

Whenever I need to make quick notes during a meeting, or paste some url / code / whatever to hold it, or paste formatted text to un-format it, I used to open TextEdit.

It's the equivalent of taking a scrap piece of paper and jotting something down.

These kinds of notes I don't want in any cloud, serious note-taking app or any code editor.

But the burden of having 1 extra click on open (new document), and deciding what to do with old notes when closing (delete? save?) was too much.

So I built my own notepad which behaves like a super simple textedit, but all notes are automatically saved to a predefined folder.

- Opens with a new note when launched, or re-opened.

- Notes can be auto-named by timestamp, numbered "Note N", custom prefix or by first line of text.

- Hideable sidebar shows all notes.

- Shortcuts can create, delete, switch between notes.

Bonus points for pointing claude code to that folder to organize or work with all notes.

Again: This is a custom app I made for myself, so probably it's not useful to anyone, but anyhow:

https://tomreinert.de/en/verygoodnotepad/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/very-good-notepad/id6758906859

PS: This was built with the new Claude Code integration in xcode 26.3, worked quite well.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-02-15 08:54:06+00:00
> Use Teams in Firefox with ublock for battery issues, somehow it consumes much less.

I've tried it multiple times in Firefox, since it's the browser I normally use for everything else, and it was somehow even wonkier than in Chromium. I didn't stick with it long enough to notice the difference in battery use, especially since I don't often run the laptop unplugged.

> That's because the typed letters appear with a large (often even ~1 s) delay. Close your eyes while typing and you'll be back on you track.

I do notice the delay, but I swear they sometimes come out in the wrong order. The most common occurrence is it registering the enter key and sending the message before the last 2-3 letters. Sometimes it doesn't register the enter at all and the message just sits there, while I wait for a reply, which obviously never comes.

I'm not saying I'm some kind of god of dactylography, I do make mistakes, but, somehow, I only have issues of this magnitude and frequency in Teams...
by noduerme | 2026-02-15 08:54:56+00:00
God bless the Ruffle project, but it's so frustrating that they've covered almost everything in AS3 except the NetConnection class (and the .connect() call).

Lots of wonderful single player games were made in Flash, and it's awesome that there's a way to play them again. But almost all of my work was multiplayer or relied on amfphp or other Flash versions of XHR to draw in data for levels, multiplayer, music or graphics after my engine loads. I still have all the server code... but all we can resurrect still are games that are entirely self-contained. That's still alright but it relegates Flash to a museum.
by halbgut | 2026-02-15 08:55:14+00:00
I'd agree if OpenAI seemed any good at building apps. They're a frontier AI lab and not operating like a product company. A lot of great and interesting things come from that, but not refined products.

Their MacOS app really sucks. For months now, it's been eating up 100% CPU with some zombie process occasionally, their helpful global shortcut layover often doesn't autofocus, and their UX has never felt like it gets a lot of attention.

They lack user obsession. Altman talks a lot about going above and beyond RLHFing to get the tone just right. But it's never felt right to me.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-15 08:55:21+00:00
I mean, I have dissociative identities, so I don't even have to hate the me of 10 years ago -- parts of me already hate other parts of me in the present, with a passion... but, I digress.

> I understand that it's difficult, but it's something that affects all other areas of your life, so you shouldn't just give up.

Yes, of course; I have some major executive dysfunction in pretty much all areas of my life, so this checks out... I don't "just give up" per se, I just don't know what to do, and then the habits keep happening in the background. I'm mostly autopilot these days, due to the constant overwhelm (even though I don't like it).
by IsTom | 2026-02-15 08:55:51+00:00
> the model of capitalism

They've got capital, but I'd argue that they're long way from model capitalism since some time. There's both over- (regulatory capture) and under regulation (consumer and environment protection) that goes against this and companies have enough sway to influence the law and consequently the market. Free market in the original sense of "free from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities" is not even a goal anymore.
by impactcheck | 2026-02-15 08:55:55+00:00
Hi HN,

I built ImpactCheck, a Windows CLI tool that analyzes JSON, XML and .config files and detects risky configuration changes before deployment.

It supports:
- Snapshot creation (--snapshot)
- Diff between versions (diff)
- Policy-based gating (--policy strict)
- JSON output for CI integration (--json)
- DLL analysis (maps loaded DLLs to processes and Windows services)

The idea is simple:
Configuration changes are one of the most common causes of production incidents.
ImpactCheck makes those changes measurable and enforceable.

Example:

impactcheck json appsettings.json --snapshot before.json
# modify file
impactcheck json appsettings.json --snapshot after.json
impactcheck diff before.json after.json --policy strict

If a sensitive value (like a token or connection string) changes, the exit code becomes 1 and can block CI.

It’s currently Windows-focused and distributed as a standalone executable with install script.

Would love feedback on:
- Risk patterns I might be missing
- CI/CD integration ideas
- Real-world config edge cases
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-15 08:55:59+00:00
> in the same way that some people have good "Google-fu"

or, perhaps, in the same way that google-fu over time became devalued as a skill as Google became less useful for power users in order to cater to the needs of the unskilled, it will not really be a portable skill at all, because it is in the end a transitory or perhaps easily attainable skill once the technology is evenly distributed.
by watwut | 2026-02-15 08:56:18+00:00
Lol. Cherry by the end:

> Trump “is putting America first, and the same goes in cyberspace,” Cairncross said. But, he added, “we don’t want it to be America alone. We want that partnership.”

Nah. Trump is literally threatening Europe wanting to steal the land openly insulting EU. His men are frequently pointificating about how EU is not fascist enough and sponsoring right wing parties. They all seek to ally themselves with Russia.

And they already locked access to international court judges. EU knows America will yank access and knows America seeks to abuse and dominate it, rather then partnership.
by svara | 2026-02-15 08:56:57+00:00
You're right, and I enjoy using coding agents too. I've built some things with them I wouldn't have otherwise.

However, it's been a full quarter now since November 2025.

Based on facts on the ground, i.e. the rate and quality of new software and features we observe, change has been nowhere as dramatic as your comment would suggest.

It seems to me that a possible explanation is that people get very excited about massive speedups in specific tasks, but the bottleneck of the system shifts somewhere else immediately (e.g, human capacity for learning, team coordination costs, communication delays).
by nkmnz | 2026-02-15 08:58:34+00:00
so if the numbers were “99% slower than without AI but they thought they would be 99% fast”, you’d call that “they were 529% slower”, even though it doesn’t make sense to be more than 100% slower? And you’d not only expect everyone to understand that, but you really think it’s more likely a random person on the internet used a logarithmic scale than they just did bad math?
by belZaah | 2026-02-15 08:58:35+00:00
These are objectively awful instruments. They were so bad (and hard to get), that it was a common practice to make your own. For these purposes, the public phone booths were frequently vandalized as the pnones contained mics, that could be turned into pickups. Yet, much of the punk and rock stuff of the former USSR has been and, in some cases, are still made with them. E.g. Villu Tamme, legendary Estonian punk still plays a Musima Lead Star and it’s a key part of his sound.
by matsemann | 2026-02-15 08:58:49+00:00
Just an aside, but I've recently taken up Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition. To a large extent it's the same game I played as a kid. But with lots of quality-of-life improvements. Like better queuing of actions. But also modernized with better graphics, animations, matchmaking where the original servers of course are gone etc. But under the hood, it's the same engine and game, not just a reimplementation that's similar.
by ruthlesssavage | 2026-02-15 09:01:29+00:00
Game-changer.Just downloaded it and wow—this is the future. It’s incredible to have this much power fully offline. No lag, no privacy concerns, just pure utility. I’ve been playing with the vision AI all morning and it hasn't crashed once. 10/10. I have also used other GitHub projects but this feels premium, faster and optimised. Thank you for this!
by vladvasiliu | 2026-02-15 09:02:21+00:00
What do you mean lately? I remember Office apps always looking and behaving a bit off ever since, like, Office 2000. For some reason, they seem to have never quite embraced the design language of the current Windows version, even though they're in-house apps.

Now, the latest version of whatever the suite is called this second is a web page in some weird browser window, which has some rather funny failure modes [0]. What makes this all the more ridiculous is that running them in actual full-blown browsers is a better experience.

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[0] I'm specifically thinking of New Outlook, which, sometimes, kinda hangs, but not completely. It will fail to either fetch new mail or update the view with the new mails (can't tell which it is), but the view isn't actually broken! You can click around, select different mails and it will show the contents, move around folders—everything looks fine! Except no new mail comes in. And then, you want to, say, maximize or minimize the window. But you can't! The window controls don't react at all to the mouse! You obviously need to "end task" and restart that crap to get it working again.
Ask HN: Should the ArchWiki be renamed to the LinuxWiki (or something similar)?
by rrvsh | 2026-02-15 09:02:40+00:00
rel: <https://k7r.eu/i-love-the-work-of-the-archwiki-maintainers/>

The ArchWiki is widely known as being the best documentation not only for the Arch Linux distribution, but for all GNU/Linux distributions and packages generally. Would granting it the honour of representing all of them, through some edict from the Linux Foundation or whoever owns the trademark, improve adoption from Windows and MacOS users switching over to it since they now have an excellent generalised resource?
by gilleain | 2026-02-15 09:03:19+00:00
I've had reasonable results from using AI to analyse code ("convert this code into a method call graph in graphml format" or similar). Apart from hallucinating one of the edges, this worked reasonably well to throw this into yED and give me a view on the code.

An alternative that occurred to me the other day is, could a PR be broken down into separate changes? As in, break it into a) a commit renaming a variable b) another commit making the functional change c) ...

Feel like there are PR analysis tools out there already for this :)
by Morromist | 2026-02-15 09:03:33+00:00
As Argento Dragone said in the Kotaku comments:

"Face scanning is used to do ID verification on your device and then deleted immediately."

"By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do."

"By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification."

"Persona clarified that by 'immediately' they mean 'after seven days.'"

"And given their ties to Palantir, it's probably fine. You trust us, right?"
by mettamage | 2026-02-15 09:03:36+00:00
It's addictive because of a hypothesis I have about addiction. I have no data to back it up other than knowing a lot of addicted people and I have studied neuroscience, yet I still think there's something to it. It's definitely not fully true though.

Addiction occurs because as humans we bond with people but we also bond with things. It could be an activity, a subject, anything. We get addicted because we're bonded to it. Usually this happens because we're not in fertile grounds to bond with what we need to bond with (usually a good group of friends).

When I look at addicted people a lot of them bond with people that have not so great values (big house, fast cars, designer clothing, etc.), adopt those values themselves and get addicted to drugs. This drugs is usually supplied by the people they bond with. However, they bond with those people in the first place because of being aimless and receiving little guidance in their upbringing.

I'm just saying all that to make it more concrete with what I mean about "good people".

Back to LLMs. A lot of us are bonding with it, even if we still perceive it as an AI. We're bonding with it because when it comes to certain emotional needs, they're not being fulfilled. Enter a computer that will listen endlessly to you and is intellectually smarter than most humans, albeit it makes very very dumb mistakes at times (like ordering +1000 drinks when you ask for a few).

That's where we're at right now.

I've noticed I'm bonded with it.

Oh, and to some who feel this opinion is a bit strong, it is. But consider that we used to joke that "Google is your best friend" when it just came out and long thereafter. I think there's something to this take but it's not fully in the right direction I think.
by pibaker | 2026-02-15 09:03:39+00:00
San Francisco also has a climate you won't freeze to death in February, a government that won't bulldoze your tent, charities that give you free stuff. For better or worse. In this man's case, it is probably also the only place where he has a slimmer of personal connections left that may still lend a helping hand.

Also, by the time he is already homeless homeless, he is likely no longer able to afford the fixed costs of a move. He is not getting an apartment even in small town USA if he can't put down a deposit. He is not even getting there without money to pay for the trip. He'll also likely need a car to hold any job which is another major cost.

And by the way, you said he should get a job, "any job." Now put yourself in the position of a small town mcdonalds franchise owner. Someone just moved to the town from California cough all in a sudden. He has no local connection, no experience in food service (or whatever other low skill job you are offering), probably not even an address. Why would you hire him instead of literally anyone else?