MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by conartist6 | 2026-02-10 15:33:29+00:00
You're right that it was just other employees who decided what to print there. But I don't think that absolves the company (Facebook) really... Everything a company does is just things that its people do! Nothing about the flyer was outside the parameters of the job of its maker. Their job was to make the company money by helping advertisers maximize ad revenue, and that's exactly what they were doing.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2026-02-10 15:34:02+00:00
> Possible! But a little hyperbolic, perhaps. I think we're more likely to be talking past one another.

Direct, certainly. More than would be typically expected socially. But I don't think it's hyperbolic — I think there is genuine fundamental misunderstanding here.

The best source which I believe dispels your misunderstanding is this one: https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2020/01/19/no-dynamic-typ...
by vessenes | 2026-02-10 15:34:07+00:00
Interesting background! Prompts like this also test the latent space of the image generator - it’s usually the other way round, so if you see a man on top of a horse, you’ve got a less sophisticated embedding feeding the model. In this case, though, that’s quite an image to put out to the interwebs. I looked to see what gender the horse was.

EDIT: After reading the prompt translation, this was more just like a “year of the horse is going to nail white engineers in glorious rendered detail” sort of prompt. I don’t know how SD1.5 would have rendered it, and I think I’ll skip finding out
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-10 15:34:08+00:00
So if you're going to build a massive application say, YouTube, Facebook or Instagram you're going to sit down, and write out every template, db model, controller, view model, etc in one single sitting for the entire application? No bathroom breaks, no lunch, no "I'll finish that part tomorrow" you do it ALL in one sitting? Because you will miss something, and that's my point, nobody gets their first crack at a greenfield project 100% in one sitting, you build it up to what it is. The AI is used the same way.
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2026-02-10 15:34:11+00:00
Microsoft and Nutanix have had a hyperconverged architecture for over a decade. Oxide is mostly an alternative to Nutanix or other soup-to-nuts private clouds.

Oxide is a really nice platform. I keep trying to manipulate things at work to justify the buy in (I really want to play wiht their stuff), but they aren't going for it.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-10 15:34:29+00:00
Yeah, the more I think about it the more futile this effort starts to look. The industry is investing tons of resources into building and maintaining an open, highly secure PKI ecosystem which allows any server on the public internet to cryptographically prove its identity, and Google wants to try to prevent anyone who's not a web browser from relying on that ecosystem? Seems impossible. The incentives are far too strong.

Google is hoping that after this change other TLS clients will go off and build their own PKI entirely separate from the web PKI, but in reality that would take way too much redundant effort when the web PKI already does 99% of what they want. What will actually happen is clients that want to use web certs for client authentication will just start ignoring the value of the extendedKeyUsage extension. The OP says Prosody already does. I don't see how that's an improvement to the status quo.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-10 15:34:35+00:00
I can imagine harms like that, absolutely. If I ran Youtube I'd work much harder to evict Nazi sympathizers and avoid ideological rabbitholes. But it's legal to broadcast things that will convince people of terrible ideas.

What I don't find plausible is the specific kind of harm alleged in the case discussed in the source article, where having videos attuned to your interests constantly fed to you causes you to become depressed and suicidal.
by myrmidon | 2026-02-10 15:34:35+00:00
I think the "cost of living" explanation for low birthrates is just wrong, and not even plausible (anecdote: my grandmother had 17 siblings, and they could not even afford proper sunday shoes for all of them, much less current living standards).

I think the biggest impact is from kids being obsolete/net negative as both workforce (when young) and retirement scheme (when the parents are old). But there is no reverting that development.

Easy access to contraceptives probably makes a significant difference too, though.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-10 15:34:43+00:00
Well, I'm not sure I believe that "hierarchy problems" in HEP are real, but I do think the nature of the neutrino mass is interesting (we know it has a mass so it is a something and not a nothing) as is the nature of dark matter, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the non-observation of proton decay. That article has nothing to say about non-accelerator "big science" in HEP such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-Kamiokande

which targets many of those questions.

As for the "hacker community" I think AI is really controversial. I think other people find the endless spam of slop articles about AI more offensive than I do. It's obvious that these are struggling to make it off the "new/" page. The ones that offend me are the wanna-be celebrity software managers [1] who think we care what they think about delivering software that almost works.

[1] sorry, I liked DHH's industry-changing vision behind Ruby-on-Rails, but his pronunciations about software management were always trash. You might make the case that Graham worked with a lot of startups so his essays might have had some transferable experience but they didn't. Atwood and Spolsky, likewise. Carmack is the one exception, he's a genius
by seec | 2026-02-10 15:35:14+00:00
Couldn't agree more.

I always laugh my ass off when people cry about Microsoft and Office.
Well, the thing is that there are no real competitors, and we can't blame them if everyone else is more incompetent than they are.

Apple has been pretending to work on an alternative for years, and it is still nowhere near as powerful/good.

But we live in a feminized world, where it is profitable to virtue signal by siding with the pretend victims even though they are not any better than the winners and, in fact, just as bad, as Apple routinely demonstrates.
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-10 15:35:24+00:00
Good. As the working population stagnates perhaps employers will attach some value to workers. Of course, without an underclass of immigrant labor, prices will rise and the US will have to import more food. And temporary heathcare workers can be brought in to help the aging population. It's good that America's cordial relationships with key trading partners will facilitate the free movement of goods and labor ...

#1 story on BBC news: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw052pkvl0o
by joncrane | 2026-02-10 15:35:41+00:00
As I mentioned in another comment, Waze does this. There's a stretch of the Capital Beltway that, if it was on a race track and compressed, would be called "esses." It's totally fine to navigate at 80 MPH with no drama in any mechanically sound, post-1980 car, but it catches mediocre drivers by surprise. Waze throws up a "history of accidents" message whenever I drive through it.
by xyst | 2026-02-10 15:35:51+00:00
Even before the Vercel CEO supporting a genocidal maniac. Vercel as a platform has been silently giving open source projects a "fuck you, pay me" when it comes to renewing benefits.

Have seen it happen to smaller projects and even pointed it out when Vercel took static sites down.

So they have always had a bad rep in my opinion.
Show HN: OpenClaw Guide – multilingual docs and skills leaderboard
by vansxxx | 2026-02-10 15:35:51+00:00
I built OpenClaw Guide, an independent documentation and learning site for OpenClaw users:

https://open-claw.online

What it includes:
- step-by-step setup guides (Windows + VPS)
- channel integration docs (Telegram / WhatsApp / Feishu)
- troubleshooting playbooks
- a skills leaderboard with regular data refresh

The goal is to make onboarding and operations easier, especially for non-native English users (EN + ZH supported now).

I’d really appreciate feedback on:
- what’s unclear or missing in the docs
- which real-world use cases should be covered next
- how to improve navigation/search for faster troubleshooting

Note: this is an independent guide, not the official OpenClaw project.
by delecti | 2026-02-10 15:36:01+00:00
The comment I replied to was proposing the opposite equivalent, that fake CSAM (written fiction, AI generated images not trained on real CSAM) could increase risk of action.

I don't think violent video games should be banned, whether they increase or decrease IRL violence (I personally suspect they don't have a significant effect either way). And I don't think "simulated CSAM" (where no actual minors were involved in any part of the creation) should be banned on that basis either (though I don't know enough to guess whether it would tend to increase or decrease actual violations).
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-10 15:36:01+00:00
So let me get this straight, you get instructed to build an Instagram clone, and you sit down and one shot code every single feature for the project? My point is about in one sitting, doing EVERYTHING all at once, without pausing, without standing up, without breaks. I don't know about you but people who tend to rush code out make just as many if not worse mistakes than AI does.

I've worked with many competent engineers and have built things people couldn't even google help for before AI existed, and that surpassed mine and my teams expectations both solo and in a team setting, none of them were done in one sitting, which is what you're suggesting. Everything is planned out, and done piecemeal.

For the record, I can one shot an AI model to do all of those things, with all the detail they need and get similar output as if I gave a human all those tasks, I know because I've built the exact tooling to loop AI around the same processes competent developers use, and it still can do all of it in record time.
by drbig | 2026-02-10 15:36:02+00:00
I do a lot of free-standing "holders" from industrial (5 ply) cardboard and hot glue. Surprisingly sturdy! Made a video about this too: https://youtu.be/s-aNW3h15K0 - all of these are still in use and I made more & more complex ones too.

Seems the calculator is designed for a "collection of boxes", which I guess is a start, but when I hear "organizer" a collection of separate boxes ain't what I want. The most significant factor of making one's own is that it's 105% customized to the need, no more no less. That means usually a lot of thought between "target place bounding box" vs "bounding boxes of things the holder shall hold".

For "organize a drawer, quickly!" I got myself a couple of sets of "modular" boxes - they have little tabs on their sides so one can snap them together like lego.
by eddythompson80 | 2026-02-10 15:36:05+00:00
No it won't. This is static content we're talking about. The only thing limiting you is your network throughput and maybe disk IO (assuming it doesn't fit in a compressed RAM). Even for an "around the globe roundtrip" latency, we're still talking few hundred msec.

Some cloud products have distorted an entire generation of developers understanding of how services can scale.
by neom | 2026-02-10 15:36:18+00:00
Congrats Bryan and team! Rooting for you so hard! Hope the new funds help you maybe come down market a bit, seems lot of people chomping at the bit to trial your warez!! Good luck. (Sorry we never connected on working together, I dropped the ball there, think y'all are amazing and I'm championing you often). Highly recommend their podcast: https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/
by jcgrillo | 2026-02-10 15:36:48+00:00
They state:

> ...it's not uncommon for us to be asked directly: "How do I know you won’t be bought?"

Raising ~infinite runway from investors who are already known quantities signals that you can safely buy into their product knowing they're not getting snapped up by $megacorp anytime soon. That's where the faster growth comes from--customers who feel secure in the knowledge that the company isn't going anywhere.
by bombcar | 2026-02-10 15:37:08+00:00
There are many solutions to different aspects of the problem - if we define the problem something like "people get together older, and have kids older, and have fewer."

But even if everything was "easy and perfect" (arguably some other countries have this) - you still have something that is generally discouraging people from having kids.

The median Amish family income is about $65,000 and typically has six to eight children.
by graypegg | 2026-02-10 15:37:21+00:00
This is offtopic honestly, but I'm curious if I've been using this phrase wrong for my whole life. Doesn't "order of magnitude" refer to steps of powers of ten?

$50000 vs €30. (or €42066.30 vs €30 if I normalize the currency) 5x10^4 vs 3x10^1.
by rahulroy | 2026-02-10 15:37:32+00:00
I've been working on a Thai language learning application(https://thaicopilot.com/) for months now, so I would love to get some feedback from the community. I plan to expand to other languages, but the thought process for now is to get it right for one language and scale up the repeatable efforts for all the others.

If you want to see a video of the app without sign up https://thaicopilot.com/how-it-works
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-10 15:37:50+00:00
While I appreciate the mention and the flattery, I'm just a person, my thought are not special and I'm starting to feel like you might be better off not focusing on what specifically I am saying :) Again, I do appreciate it, can't deny it feels nice initially, but don't treat me like I'm special, I'm not, I'm just sharing stray thoughts sent out the ether like everyone else.
by pixelpoet | 2026-02-10 15:37:54+00:00
I would like to / am "supposed to" use Vulkan but it's a massive pain coming from OpenCL, with all kinds of issues that need safe handling which simply don't come from OpenCL workloads.

Everyone keeps telling me OpenCL is deprecated (which is true, although it's also true that it continues to work superbly in 2026) but there isn't a good / official OpenCL to Vulkan wrapper out there to justify it for what I do.
by kortex | 2026-02-10 15:38:08+00:00
Literally the second section:

> Here is the central claim: the unit of correctness in production is not the program. It is the set of deployments.

The thesis essentially boils down to: functional programing paradigm, type systems, strong interfaces, etc, are all fantastic tools for ensuring the correctness of a program, but the system is not a program, and so these tools are necessary but not sufficient to ensure the correctness of a distributed application.
by vel0city | 2026-02-10 15:38:44+00:00
People generally already have phone numbers. In the markets Signal is targeting its rare for people to not already have a phone number. It would be quite strange for someone to be paying for a phone number just to use Signal, and if you don't already have one then yes I'd suggest Signal isn't the choice for you.

Not only that, but its a unique identifier people generally have already had and generally have already shared and historically been OK with sharing with people they want to talk to. That's a part of the reason why Signal originally chose that way of finding contacts, people were already connected in that way. It makes on boarding people massively easier and greatly reduces the friction of people actually using it. A messaging platform is pretty useless if I can't easily find my friends on it.

> And is terrible UX, imagine having to add your contacts new numbers every other week

Practically nobody is getting a new phone number every other week. And once again, if you are the kind of person getting a new phone number every other week, I'd agree Signal probably isn't the platform for you.

If you don't have a phone number or your number changes all the time, I agree Signal isn't the choice for you. If you already have a phone number, are OK with what having a phone number means in terms of privacy, and that phone number is pretty stable, then Signal isn't a bad choice to use to message on.

It does mean theoretically some large organization (like a government with a warrant) can potentially see "John Doe has this phone number, this phone number is related to Signal, therefore John Doe possibly uses Signal", but personally I'm not too worried about that tiny bit of information leakage. Besides, with enough effort one could probably ID that looking at internet traffic patterns unless you're really that paranoid about controlling your network routing. Especially when that means I'm able to actually convince family to use the platform, as they're used to just looking up people by phone numbers and don't want to have to deal with managing yet another unique identifier on yet another platform. If they had to register another account and manage yet another identity, they wouldn't use it, and thus I'd be stuck just talking SMS with them which results in worse privacy outcomes for our conversations.
by Eisenstein | 2026-02-10 15:38:45+00:00
Koboldcpp has built in support for image models. Model search and download, one executable to run, UI, OpenAI API endpoint, llama.cpp endpoint, highly configurable. If you want to get up and running instantly, just pick a kcppt file and open that and it will download everything you need and load it for you.

Engine:

* https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases/latest/

Kcppt files:

* https://huggingface.co/koboldcpp/kcppt/tree/main
by tomjuggler | 2026-02-10 15:38:50+00:00
I got into embedded 10 years ago, there really is something about driving hardware directly that is just so rewarding.

For AI I've been using Cecli which is cli and can actually run the compile step then fix any errors it finds - in addition to using Context7 MCP for syntax.

Not quite 10x yet but productivity has improved for me many times over. It's just how you use the tools available
by gamma-interface | 2026-02-10 15:39:00+00:00
We don't even need formal regulation to start — just honest internal conversation. I work in tech and most teams I've been part of never once discussed the ethical implications of what we were building. Not because people are evil, but because the incentive structure doesn't reward asking "should we?" — only "can we ship it?"

The gap isn't education, it's accountability. Engineers building engagement loops know exactly what they're doing. They just don't have a professional body that can revoke their license for it.
by vansxxx | 2026-02-10 15:39:05+00:00
I started this guide after seeing many users in the community getting stuck on VPS configurations and the nuances of Telegram/WhatsApp bot APIs. My goal is to lower the friction for self-hosting, especially for those who might find the official technical docs a bit intimidating at first.

A few things I’m focusing on:

The Leaderboard: It’s built to give a real-time pulse on the project's capabilities. I’m curious if this kind of data visualization is helpful for you when evaluating an open-source tool.

Internationalization: Handling EN and ZH simultaneously was a deliberate choice to support the project's diverse user base.

I’d love your technical take on:

The documentation structure—is it "scannable" enough for a quick fix during deployment?

The tech stack of the guide itself (currently using Next.js).

I'll be here to answer any questions. Thanks for the feedback!
by gamma-interface | 2026-02-10 15:39:26+00:00
The pace of commoditization in image generation is wild. Every 3-4 months the SOTA shifts, and last quarter's breakthrough becomes a commodity API.

What's interesting is that the bottleneck is no longer the model — it's the person directing it. Knowing what to ask for and recognizing when the output is good enough matters more than which model you use. Same pattern we're seeing in code generation.
by salawat | 2026-02-10 15:39:28+00:00
Mine had one over a decade ago. After graduating, the industry decided that developing everything we just got done establishing was unethical, was the hot topic to innovate for the next decade. I never worked at any of those places and still got burned ethically in much more indirectly unethical product streams in the finance and insurance sectors. To be honest, if there is really good money to be made at this point, there is a safe bet that if you dig deep enough, there is an unethical core to it. Most of my peers assuaged themselves with some variant of "I'm a programmer, not an ethicist, and philosophy doesn't put food on my table. So sadly, the problem seems much more systemic and a priori to the capitalistic optimization function.
by whizzter | 2026-02-10 15:39:29+00:00
Good point, definetly better for debugging, iirc the reason for the array was that the shadow-stack array was part of my calling convention.

The GC-heap arguments to called functions with moveable pointers in the GC was indirected through the passed GC-chain ptr, ie you passed a pointer to the N:th element in the caller's shadow-stack that was then the 1:st heap based argument to the callee.

The benefit of that was the callee didn't need to copy over it's incoming arguments to a new shadow-stack (thus increasing a fixed costs of more arguments) but could just link the previous array and IFF there was any gc-action then pointers "visible" to both the caller(albeit expired) and callee would be correctly moved around.

I guess a "virtual" type as a head and members being an aliasing union could work well enough.

struct { StackVTab vtab; union { struct { TypeA *localA; TypeB *localB; ... }; void *rawPtrs[LOCALCOUNT]; }; } heapmembers;

As for closures that's trickier, locals visible to a nested function/closure needs to be moved to on-heap objects unless you do more or less recursive lifetime analysis (but that stuff quickly becomes expensive and/or indeterminate).
by estearum | 2026-02-10 15:39:44+00:00
DHS's own data proves that current enforcement priorities have changed.

So what's more probable in your mind?

( Hypothesis A ) -- Mobs trying to interfere with law enforcement has caused DHS to focus on arresting and deporting immigrants without criminal background

( Hypothesis B ) -- DHS's focus on arresting and deporting immigrants without criminal background has required significant scale-up of personnel with minimal training (validated by DHS's own data) and required tactics that a large number of Americans believe to strike an unacceptable cost-benefit balance

( Hypothesis C ) -- The two facts (enforcement approach and public response) are not causally related to each other at all
by throw_a_grenade | 2026-02-10 15:39:55+00:00
The point about antitrust lawsuits I concur, but LE is not the only free-as-in-beer ACME. For one, there's ZeroSSL, then Actalis, SSL.com. For some time BuyPass offered free certs, but it does no longer. Last but not least Google itself has Public CA that offers certs over ACME, a fact that I think would be a huge fulcrum for antitrust suit. I would also expect that all other CAs would deploy ACME endpoints to attract at least some part of the cake (note they're in business of being vultures already). So the message will be „go find another CA, here are three examples, sorted randomly like the European first boot UX, just change the URI in certbot config".
by colesantiago | 2026-02-10 15:40:11+00:00
> VCs do not try to "own companies" they try to exit businesses at a gain.

They do both as they need many multiples to return the fund.

And it also sounds very predatory to me and not aligning with any startup's mission other than for the VCs to pressure Oxide to get acquired for over $20BN+ or go to the public markets.

Not even Hetzner did this. DigitalOcean could have followed Hetzner, but I guess VC money is very attractive and now DigitalOcean is now the slave of Wall St.

Going into deals with VCs and IPO'ing to Wall St. always leads to enshittification.