MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crest | 2026-02-16 21:38:10+00:00
Big non-trivial functions generally profit from having more registers. They don't have to saved and restored by functions that don't use them. Not every computationally intense application has just a few numerical kernels that can be pushed on to GPUs and fit the GPU uarch well. Just have a look at the difference between optimized compiler generated ia32 and amd64 code how much difference more registers can make.

You could argue that 16 (integer) registers is a sweet spot, but you failed to state a proper argument.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-16 21:39:06+00:00
Also, ‘years’ tend to be a lot more hours for kids, and each hour yields more learning due to neuroplasticity. I learned so much faster at 15 than I do at 35. I know more now, which often more than makes up for slower learning, but I can’t learn difficult novel subjects in depth as fast as I once did.

I’m glad I learned OS in depth during high school via Gentoo linux. And engineering/physics/math in college. It’s very easy to assimilate any new knowledge which can be understood through those areas of first principles.

But learning more advanced math is quite a task now.
by calmbonsai | 2026-02-16 21:39:14+00:00
I don't think the author realizes the time*attention triage that happens when your sole corporate responsibility is to manage others. I've noticed a distinct personal trend in "email succinctness" the more people I need to manage.

That said, using good grammar is never a bad thing and depending on the subject matter and relationships between the respective communicators, short-hand can be both a deliberate obfuscation practice and social coding of the intimacy of the respective relationships.
by kypro | 2026-02-16 21:40:08+00:00
Imo, the base models are still kinda meh, but the tooling built around the models has matured significantly to the point that they're now decent enough for the average coder can no longer deny their utility.

By early summer 2025 models had gotten good enough at tool calling that agentic coding started to work really well. If you had a piece of code which you could write unit tests against then the results from agentic coding assistances like Devon or Cursor were fairly impressive.

They still struggled with context though. It also felt like they didn't do enough research before starting tasks and didn't plan well on their own. Typically if you asked them to do something they would hack something together making way too many assumptions and often it would require a lot of iteration if you didn't do the research and planning for them.

Claude Code has done a really good job at addressing this. You don't have to think that much anymore, Claude Code will just do a lot of the research and planning before writing code so given a relatively simple prompt it will do a fairly good job in most cases.

Of course, base models have improved a bit too, but not that significantly. People who work with the APIs closely know the model output is not a step change like the output of agentic coding tools.

Honestly I think most people were just unaware of how good things were getting... Then late last year the agenetic coding tools had got good enough that anyone using them immediately saw the benefit of them without having to learn how to use them, where as in the summer you really had to know how to use them to see the benefits.

I feel similar about the current hype as I did when ChatGPT launched... A lot of people were really blown away, but anyone actually following the progress being made were impressed, but much less so. It was less, "oh wow, my computer can now talk to me like a human" vs "oh wow, this is a really good implementation of a SOTA large language model".
by scuff3d | 2026-02-16 21:40:10+00:00
Right. A platform who makes money the more you have to use it is definitely optimizing to get you the right answer in as few tokens as possible.

There is absolutely no incentive to do that, for any of these companies. The incentive is to make the model just bad enough you keep coming back, but not so bad you go to a competitor.

We've already seen this play out. We know Google made their search results worse to drive up and revenue. Exact same incentives are at play here, only worse.
by moate | 2026-02-16 21:40:33+00:00
>>There's no communism that doesn't lead to authoritarianism

Unless you believe this because "there's no State that doesn't lead to authoritarianism (based, dope, great take)" saying "this thing is actually the exact same as a thing that is literally the opposite of it" is just whataboutism.

These takes are weak. Here's what I think fascism is (based on like, studying words and theory and philosophy and shit, and not just trying to stunt on my political opposites): It's a far-right, ultra-nationalist, violent, authoritarian world view that SEEKS centralized power and openly opposes liberal and communist parties where it is erected. By design and declaration it seeks to promote violence, masculinity, and a national rebirth to a bygone era lacking in modern decadence.

All this is to say, if you're an Anarchist (hi brother!) seeking to scold the commies for not being Left enough, save that for after the revolution. And if you just want everyone to equate commies with fascists because "then both bad" because you're Right of them, get better at rhetoric.
by zephen | 2026-02-16 21:40:42+00:00
Some people think texts are for quick one-off messages and emails are for longer more thoughtful missives.

But (a) most corporate communication isn't by text, and (b) the CEO is probably from a time when there weren't any texts, so emails themselves were often used casually, in lieu of sticky notes.

In any case, I'm with you. The trope of microaggressions is way overused, and applying it to someone who is usefully communicating with you is rubbish.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-16 21:41:12+00:00
Sure, I think it's pretty interesting that given the same(ish) unthinkably vast amount of input data and (more or less) random starting weights, you converge on similar results with different models.

The result is not interesting, of course. But I do find it a little fascinating when multiple chaotic paths converge to the same result.

These models clearly "think" and behave in different ways, and have different mechanisms under the hood. That they converge tells us something, though I'm not qualified (or interested) to speculate on what that might be.
by proofkit | 2026-02-16 21:41:25+00:00
We built NabavkiData to automatically analyze 15,000+ government tenders in North Macedonia using 50+ risk indicators based on World Bank,
OECD, and Ukraine's Dozorro methodology.

The system flags: single-bidder tenders (specs written for one company), repeat winners, price anomalies, bid clustering, connected companies,
and specification rigging.

Tech stack: Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Scrapy + Playwright for scraping, Gemini embeddings for semantic search, Python ML pipeline with
150+ features.

We scrape e-nabavki.gov.mk (the official procurement portal), extract PDFs with OCR, generate embeddings, and run risk scoring. Already used
by 4,500+ companies and citizens.

The corruption detection is the interesting part - we use materialized views to pre-compute risk scores across 8 flag types, then combine them
into an overall risk rating. Happy to answer any technical questions.
by turnsout | 2026-02-16 21:41:37+00:00
It seems intuitive that a naive self-generated Skill would be low-value, since the model already knows whatever it's telling itself.

However, I've found them to be useful for capturing instructions on how to use other tools (e.g. hints on how to use command-line tools or APIs). I treat them like mini CLAUDE.mds that are specific only to certain workflows.

When Claude isn't able to use a Skill well, I ask it to reflect on why, and update the Skill to clarify, adding or removing detail as necessary.

With these Skills in place, the agent is able to do things it would really struggle with otherwise, having to consume a lot of tokens failing to use the tools and looking up documentation, etc.
Show HN: Vocalinux // 100% offline voice typing for Linux
by jatinkrmalik | 2026-02-16 21:41:41+00:00
I built this because I wanted voice dictation without sending my voice
data to cloud services.

Vocalinux is a privacy-focused, open-source dictation tool that runs
entirely on your Linux machine:

- Local speech recognition (whisper.cpp, VOSK, or OpenAI Whisper)
- GPU acceleration via Vulkan (AMD/Intel/NVIDIA)
- Works offline, no network required
- Universal compatibility (X11/Wayland, any app)
- GTK system tray app

Installation: one-line curl command with auto-detection for GPU/CPU

GitHub: https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/vocalinux

Questions and feedback welcome!
by tl2do | 2026-02-16 21:41:56+00:00
The PyTorch3D section was genuinely useful for me. I've been doing 2D ML work for a while but hadn't explored 3D deep learning — didn't even know PyTorch3D existed until this tutorial.

What worked well was the progressive complexity. Starting with basic mesh rendering before jumping into differentiable rendering made the concepts click. The voxel-to-mesh conversion examples were particularly clear.

If anything, I'd love to see a follow-up covering point cloud handling, since that seems to be a major use case based on the docs I'm now digging through.

Thanks for writing this — triggered a weekend deep-dive I probably wouldn't have started otherwise.
by bpt3 | 2026-02-16 21:42:02+00:00
You realize bitcoin is mentioned numerous times on that site, which is really just an repository of scams and people learning the hard way why the real financial industry is highly regulated, not strictly limited to the debacle that was web 3.0.

Have any NFTs you're looking to sell? They'll be super useful if hyperinflation sets in or any of the other financial catastrophes that BTC assets supposedly will protect me from actually happen.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-16 21:43:01+00:00
> With the tech job market being rough and AI tools making it so frictionless to produce real output, the line between work time and personal time is basically disappearing.

This isn't generally true at all. The "all tech companies are going to 996" meme comes up a lot here but all of the links and anecdotes go back to the same few sources.

It is very true that the tech job market is competitive again after the post-COVID period where virtually nobody was getting fired and jobs were easy to find.

I do not think it's true that the median or even 90th percentile tech job is becoming so overbearing that personal time is disappearing. If you're at a job where they're trying to normalize overwork as something everyone is doing, they're just lying to you to extract more work.
by tptacek | 2026-02-16 21:43:16+00:00
The people arguing against routine MRI scans are the checklist people!

But, look: if you think routine prostate screening is a good idea, I don't have a counterargument. You're right: there's already an emerging discipline of watchful waiting with prostate pathologies.

The argument being made here is about full body MRI scans: doing a dragnet sweep looking for neoplasms anywhere and everywhere. Not the same thing! Similarly: my belief that the EBM people are right about full-body scans doesn't mean I oppose colon cancer screening!
by godelski | 2026-02-16 21:43:27+00:00
I'm a little confused by your question myself. Stainless steel rust should be that same brown color. Though it can get very dark when dried. Blue is weird but purple isn't an uncommon description, assuming everything is still dark and there's lots of sediment.

But what's the question? Are you trying to fix it? Just determine what's rusting?
by anonzzzies | 2026-02-16 21:43:34+00:00
It already happened mostly outside the AI slop; only if you have marketing money you will succeed and your clients usually cannot distinguish bad from good; if you have VC money and 1B$ valuation you must be doing something right no?

I walk into products being garbage and basically broken (upgrade bottom doesn't work, email always broken, support form goes to dev null etc) and most products I try are b2b and many are enterprise SaaS.

Only yesterday, I am in the EU, I wanted to try out some enterprise software of a company with VC money valuated at billions, so I signed up for a demo which needed me to validate my email. But that email didn't arrive. I tried with 4 different addresses (different providers including google and ms): nothing. So I forgot about it and went on with my day; hours later, 1 hour after the west coast US woke up, I got all 4 emails with expired links. So I guess while sleeping, their system was broken. No worries, things happen, but they happen all the time and it doesn't matter how much money they have. They also often just refuse to fix things because why would they.

I threw out Canva because they refuse to fix fundamental issues and keep blaming the customers or play dumb 'oh we never saw this happen!' while you can just do a search and find heaps of people having the same issues. etc. Quality does not matter, at all. Deep marketing pockets do.
by azangru | 2026-02-16 21:44:19+00:00
> but grammar privilege? That's certainly a first.

Here is what I don't understand, and what is not addressed in the post.

After you get a response from your boss that reads, "K let circle back nxt week bout it . thnks", doesn't this free you up to relax your style to your comfort level? If you see that your addressee doesn't seem to care for meticulous style, is there much point in stressing over it (and thus, in continuing with the privilege narrative)?
by closetohome | 2026-02-16 21:44:30+00:00
I really want to like Halide, and I've had it save a number of photos that the native app couldn't handle. But as a lifelong photographer, technologist, and occasional developer, I still somehow get really lost in the inscrutable icons and self-hiding what-have-you of the UI. I think I want it to be about 50% uglier.
by mapt | 2026-02-16 21:44:31+00:00
All of those can be mooted by the sort of dysfunction currently on offer.

Almost every bill for the past 15 years has been filibustered. More than half the Supreme Court is part of an organized partisan conspiracy, and a third has worked specifically fighting election laws to advantage their guy. The DHS stands as a rogue paramilitary that can be deployed when politically convenient as de facto martial law, the DOJ openly persecuting ethnically defined political opponents and daring Congress to do anything about it, when they're not trying to charge Congresspeople with crimes. People are being disappeared into concentration camps. We are unilaterally withdrawing from the military and economic empire that has served us since the 1940's, in the name of ethnic hatreds and Hitlerian brinksmanship. The economy now has more to do with the Fed chair than any pathetic exchange of goods and services we can string together.

This doesn't end well, and it's broken enough already that a return to Biden/Obama/Clinton type leadership couldn't possibly hope to fix it unless they can lock down leadership for the next couple generations; More damage can be done in a month than they can fix in four years. "Just win every election from now until the end of time" isn't a real strategy.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2026-02-16 21:44:37+00:00
Drug companies were held in much higher esteem when direct advertising was illegal. Direct advertising also encourages patients to request specific branded drugs, which may not be appropriate for their conditions; and it massively inflates drug costs, as the US pharmaceutical industry now spends more on marketing than on R&D.

Basically the answer is no & the experiment has been a disaster.
Show HN: LLMFeeder – Multi-tab web to Markdown for LLM context (v2.1.0)
by jatinkrmalik | 2026-02-16 21:44:49+00:00
Hi HN! I shared LLMFeeder here 8 months ago when it was a simple one-click webpage-to-markdown tool. Since then, it's grown into something much more powerful, so I wanted to share the major updates.

The original problem: copying documentation/articles to feed into ChatGPT, Claude, or coding assistants like Cursor meant dealing with ads, popups, and navigation clutter and using web mcp server usually bloats the context with irrelevant stuff.

v2.1.0 adds several features specifically for LLM power users:

- Multi-tab support: The #1 requested feature. Select multiple tabs with Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+Click, then convert all at once. Options: copy merged, download merged, or download as ZIP with separate files per tab. Great for research sessions where you need context from multiple sources!

- Right-click context menus: No need to open the popup. Just right-click anywhere on a page → "Copy to Markdown". When multiple tabs are selected, you get batch options in the menu.

- Token counter: Real-time estimation using the GPT-4/Claude tokenizer (cl100k_base). Shows a progress bar with configurable context limits (4K, 8K, 16K, 32K) so you don't accidentally overflow your context window.

- Include links toggle: Strip URLs when you don't need them to save tokens. `[link text](https://...)` becomes just `link text`.
Everything still runs 100% client-side with zero tracking. The extension has grown to 1,000+ Chrome users and 200+ Firefox users.

Tech stack: Mozilla Readability.js for content extraction, Turndown.js for Markdown conversion, and JSZip for multi-tab archives.

Links:

- GitHub: https://github.com/jatinkrmalik/LLMFeeder
- Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/llmfeeder/cjjfhhapa...
- Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/llmfeeder/

Would love feedback on what else would make the LLM context workflow smoother.
What's still painful about feeding content to AI assistants?
by Vexs | 2026-02-16 21:45:09+00:00
I don't think that modern boards are really repairable at all beyond component replacement- 4+ layer stackups being the big reason. If there's a way to do anything to those boards besides total replacement I'd be super interested to know.

The techniques here are also way beyond basics I think- like, you look at most guides for repair and it's "idk just solder some bodge wires on there, here's what a good joint should look like"
by roysting | 2026-02-16 21:45:29+00:00
This is a topic that I’ve always found rather curious, especially among this kind of tech/coding community that really should be more attuned to the necessity of specificity and accuracy. There seems to be a base set of assumptions that are intrinsic to and a component of ethnicities and cultures, the things one can assume one “wouldn’t never specify when talking to a human [of one’s own ethnicity and culture].”

It’s similar to the challenge that foreigners have with cultural references and idioms and figurative speech a culture has a mental model of.

In this case, I think what is missing are a set of assumptions based on logic, e.g., when stating that someone wants to do something, it assumes that all required necessary components will be available, accompany the subject, etc.

I see this example as really not all that different than a meme that was common among I think the 80s and 90s, that people would forget buying batteries for Christmas toys even though it was clear they would be needed for an electronic toy. People failed that basic test too, and those were humans.

It is odd how people are reacting to AI not being able to do these kinds of trick questions, while if you posted something similar about how you tricked some foreigners you’d be called racist, or people would laugh if it was some kind of new-guy hazing.

AI is from a different culture and has just arrived here. Maybe we’re should be more generous and humane… most people are not humane though, especially the ones who insist they are.

Frankly, I’m not sure it bodes well for if aliens ever arrive on Earth, how people would respond; and AI is arguably only marginally different than humans, something an alien life that could make it to Earth surely would not be.
by sunaookami | 2026-02-16 21:46:02+00:00
EPI are still EU bureaucrats ;) They are supported by the ECB and EU Commission and the ECB also pushes for the digital euro.

That's good to know that Wero for online shops is "just" iDEAL rebranded, that was news to me. There is an info page here: https://sowieso.wero-wallet.eu/nl-en/consumer
by belter | 2026-02-16 21:46:14+00:00
You are getting closer to realizing that becoming a billionaire demands a psychological detachment most people would find disturbing...

It is not always brilliance that drives the relentless accumulation of wealth, but a deep, unresolved hole...an inner void shaped by trauma, by the need for validation never received from a parent, a world, or a past self.

That constant dissatisfaction fuels an endless pursuit of wealth they imagine will finally provide meaning or peace, yet never does. The accumulation becomes the self justification. The proof of worth in a game that can never truly be won. And from that height grows the contempt... Not for ignorance, but for poverty itself. Not because the poor are seen as incapable, but because they serve as a reminder of everything these individuals fear becoming.
by mapt | 2026-02-16 21:46:21+00:00
We don't even get that far in the US. It has been largely verboten in "nonpartisan" life, either socially or by dint of an active purge in eg academia and Hollywood, to discuss anything beneficial coming out of Soviet, Chinese, or Cuban administrations.

A partisan Republican will reliably interrupt you to shout nonsense, as if admitting a single positive outcome is trying to deceive them. As if a cost-benefit analysis can just be cut in half. As if these were not just authoritarian/totalitarian, but completely lacking domestic support.

This outcome was achieved with a great deal of money and propaganda over more than a century.
by ivraatiems | 2026-02-16 21:46:23+00:00
Informality and bad grammar but otherwise sound decision making is fine, I think everyone's arguments for it here make sense.

But let's not pretend that, at least in the US, that's what it's limited to. Our current and immediate past president are both elderly men with potentially compromised mental states who regularly say crazy nonsense stuff.

Try watching this (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=455169079910588) or this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZsdlULgqvA) and then watch the literal crowds of people who are saying "you just don't understand! You're not parsing it right! You're not paying enough attention to their genius!"

It's wild that we make excuses like this for people. One has to ask where the line is.

This almost certainly happens in business, too - it's just not as obvious because those folks don't have to constantly do it in public.