MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by formerly_proven | 2026-02-25 13:07:24+00:00
Yeah, but if you had the tax credit that presumably almost all other buyers got, then the amount of depreciation would be completely normal or even relatively low, depending on how high the EV subsidy was in your state (I'm assuming something in the 5-10k range?).

Another example would be small EVs (Zoe, e-up etc.) - the list price on these was often really high, like 25+k (and they were technologically obsolete already 5-6 years ago). But then you got 5k+ in EV subsidy, with the OEM also matching the subsidy, and you would've ended up actually paying like 15k for them. Now, 3-4 years later, these go used for 12-13k. So in reality they lost barely any value (20% deprecation over 3 years), but the published deprecation figure would be 60+%.

This explains why despite these "EVs suffer huge deprecation" claims there are actually very few bargains on the used market to make.
by ignoramous | 2026-02-25 13:07:54+00:00
> Besides the fact that it's a very poor genocide that after the war has ended has 100,000 palestinians

You seem disappointed. Anywho...

A common misconception is that genocide must involve a very large number of deaths on the order of hundreds of thousands or millions. But this is false. The perpetrators of the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian War were found guilty of genocide despite the massacre’s death toll being less than 9,000. Hence the fact that “only” 70,000–100,000+ people have died in Gaza in no way refutes the charge of genocide.

> Gallant was speaking less than 48 hours after Oct 7 when feelings were very high

Genocidal feelings. Super normal.

> Even in Halavi's case, he might be a right-wing nutter

Nuts in highest military positions when warring with 4 or more states. Very normal, too.

> Bear in mind that Israel is a democracy with proportional representation resulting in a coalition government so you are essentially accusing a the majority of the population of supporting genocidal intent...

Perpetrating* a genocide, seems like.

Is the Gaza War a genocide? Two key features of the mortality data are consistent with that charge: first, unusually high mortality among women and children; second, the sudden and dramatic fall in life expectancy. In these respects, the war resembles the Rwandan and Cambodian genocides more closely than any other recent conflict involving the US or Israel.

https://original.antiwar.com/noah_carl/2026/01/07/is-the-gaz...
by latexr | 2026-02-25 13:07:56+00:00
> I mean, yes, that is actually how world works.

And soon enough, it won’t work at all because of it.

> Those who wont will be taken over by those who do.

And if you compromise on your core values because of money, they weren’t core values to begin with¹. “I want to be ethical but if I am I won’t get to be a billionaire” isn’t an excuse. We shouldn’t just shrug our shoulders at what we see as wrong because “everybody does it” or “that’s just business” or “that’s life”. Complacency and apologists are how a bad system remains bad.

https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

¹ I’m willing to give leeway to individuals. You can believe stealing is wrong but if you’re desperate and steal a loaf of bread to feed your kid, there’s nuance. A VC-backed company is something entirely different.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-25 13:08:15+00:00
You don't want a drop-in replacement for each service, you want one for the entire system.

Microsofts advantage is ActiveDirectory integration. Centrally managed users and machines, every user, every application, every service authentications through the AD.

Organizations opt for Teams all the time, because it's part of the package and fully integrated. There's no reason they couldn't pick something else, but why deal with it when Teams just work (sort of).
by david3289 | 2026-02-25 13:08:37+00:00
This is a really interesting direction. RTS games are a much better testbed for agent capability than most static benchmarks because they combine partial observability, long-term planning, resource management, and real-time adaptation.

It reminds me a bit of OpenAI Five — not just because it played a complex game, but because the real value wasn’t “AI plays Dota,” it was observing how coordination, strategy formation, and adaptation emerged under competitive pressure. A controlled RTS environment like this feels like a lightweight, reproducible version of that idea.

What I especially like here is that it lowers the barrier for experimentation. If researchers and hobbyists can plug different models into the same competitive sandbox, we might start seeing meaningful AI-vs-AI evaluations beyond static leaderboards. Competitive dynamics often expose weaknesses much faster than isolated benchmarks do.

Curious whether you’re planning to support self-play training loops or if the focus is primarily on inference-time agents?
by gib444 | 2026-02-25 13:08:56+00:00
> A month ago, I went on a performance quest trying to optimize a PHP script that took 5 days to run. Together with the help of many talented developers, I eventually got it to run in under 30 seconds

That's a huge improvement! How much was low hanging fruit unrelated to the PHP interpreter itself, out of curiosity? (E.g. parallelism, faster SQL queries etc)
by gangzhilian | 2026-02-25 13:09:41+00:00
Hey HN,

I occasionally need random names for RPG characters or pets, but I found that almost every name generator out there is heavily monetized, packed with ads, or requires an email signup.

I got frustrated and built a simple, static alternative over the weekend. It’s just plain HTML/CSS/JS. No ads, no tracking, no BS. I went with a slightly chaotic Brutalist UI and added a 1-click copy feature because highlighting text on mobile is annoying.

It's a tiny utility, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on the design or if you have suggestions for the word lists. Thanks!
by hsuduebc2 | 2026-02-25 13:10:09+00:00
When I see slogans like Google’s “Don’t be evil,” it always comes to mind that when it stopped being useful, they shifted to something like “Do the right thing.”

It’s important to remember that a company’s primary purpose is profit, especially when it’s accountable to shareholders. That isn’t inherently bad, but the occasional moral posturing used to serve that goal can be irritating.
by ryanmcl | 2026-02-25 13:11:01+00:00
I came at this from the opposite direction in that I had zero coding experience and started learning ~7-8 months ago. I picked Rails specifically because everyone kept saying "it's dead" but every actual builder I talked to said "it just works." They were right. Rails gave me sensible defaults for everything I needed; auth, background jobs, file storage, payments...without me having to evaluate 30 competing npm packages for each concern. I shipped a production app with real Stripe payments as a solo dev with no CS degree. I genuinely don't understand how someone starting from scratch today navigates the JS ecosystem without losing months just to decision fatigue on tooling.
by ceejayoz | 2026-02-25 13:11:09+00:00
Palestine is recognized as a state by most of the world, including recent changes of mind in the UK, France, Australia, etc. I also take that position.

“These would be war crimes… if we were a state! Muahahahaha!” is not a position I’d be comfy espousing as a positive thing.

I am glad Hamas leadership saw consequences for their war crimes. I wish I could say the same for Netanyahu and his Cabinet.
Show HN: Vettly – AI voice agent that conducts first-round interviews
by priest12345 | 2026-02-25 13:12:28+00:00
Solo founder here. Built Vettly after spending too many hours on repetitive phone screens.

How it works: paste a job description → AI generates a custom interview plan →
candidates self-schedule via a public link → AI voice agent conducts a structured
interview → you get a full transcript + scored report.

The hard parts:
- Getting the AI to ask exactly one question at a time (not dump 5 at once)
- Making the voice feel natural, not robotic
- Keeping scoring auditable and bias-free

Free tier live — would love brutal HN feedback on the approach.
by cope123 | 2026-02-25 13:13:00+00:00
I’ve been looking into how image metadata works recently, and I was surprised how many photos still contain GPS coordinates, timestamps, and device information — even after being shared across platforms.

A lot of people assume social networks automatically remove everything, but that’s not always consistent. And when images are shared via email, cloud storage, forums, or marketplaces, the metadata often stays intact.

It made me think about how invisible this problem is. You can’t see EXIF data when you look at a photo normally, yet it can reveal precise location details.

For people working remotely, selling items online, or just posting casually, this feels like an overlooked privacy issue.

Curious how others here handle this:
- Do you rely on platforms to strip metadata?
- Do you disable location services entirely?
- Or do you clean images manually before sharing?

Would love to hear how others approach this.
by kvemkon | 2026-02-25 13:13:00+00:00
This has been reported here but got not enough attention:

"Debian GNOME team announces intent to remove GTK 2 in Debian 14" (08.01.2026)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46548257

P.S. Still hope GNOME maintainers let other volunteers maintain GTK 2.
by animal531 | 2026-02-25 13:14:05+00:00
In the early 2000's I worked at a company where our IT section was in its own building with only about 18-24 or so people spread out over three mostly open plan areas between development, testing and infrastructure.

Even so we still had an incident where two guys walked in and just collected a few laptops before making their escape.

We like to think that we are hyper-vigilant and intelligent as human beings, but in general we tend to just focus on what is in front of us most of the time. We assume that when things are happening that they must be ordinary, or else why would they be happening?
by habinero | 2026-02-25 13:14:23+00:00
Sure, anyone with the knowledge and experience lol

"Knowledge worker" isn't a cutesy phrase, it means I don't get paid for my time, I get paid for what I know. Contrast that to, say, working retail where you are paid to staff the store from 8-6. It's not a value judgement (retail is hard work) it's a description.

We've already had years and years of predicting the death of software engineering to offshoring and that didn't happen for the same reason. India turns out plenty of fantastic engineers who can do my job. Those people also have better options than staffing some cut rate code factory, and you can't substitute the latter if you need the former. But nice try lol
by teekert | 2026-02-25 13:14:32+00:00
It's an incredibility hot topic here (in the EU) right now. It also provides a lot of (business) opportunities here. I get that this (HN) is not an EU platform, but a lot of us are on here.

Collectively we feel like we are going through an EU/US divorce that is rough and will take years to complete. All our tech is entangled with the US, everything would grind to a halt if Trump would pull some plugs at the moment. It's like everybody just woke up. We lost an ally that we really leaned on.

We even have news like "Dutch Defense dept considers jailbreaking F35s" [0]. Completely nuts of course! But gives a taste of the climate here.

I don't see what you mean with your remark about the balkanized internet, the problems is we've been building our systems in US walled gardens, and now we want our freedom back.

[0] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/244764/defensie-ziet-jailbreak-v...
by fasbiner | 2026-02-25 13:14:47+00:00
This is a not-unexpected result if you think of AI as what it actually is instead of what a multi-trillion dollar marketing campaign wants it to be.

At heart, the corpus for this going to be an aggregation of commentary from people in the undisputed most obese era in all of human history performatively denouncing and mocking an imagined other for using cars to go short distances and advocating for walking.

So you've got all "50 meters away? Of course you should walk!" vs a much, much smaller sliver of content about trick questions.

There is no reasoning here, there has never been any reasoning, there has been reasonable or less reasonable weighting for existing reasoning people already did that became part of training data.

If you take away the input corpus, you also take away the illusion of reasoning.

Whereas with other things that can reason like corvids, or ants or octopodes or slime molds, they can derive novel solutions and do a bit of math without any answer key. Mathematics is pure reasoning without any interference and AI can't do it at all unless you provide it with a corpus of already accurate formulas.

> People kept saying humans would fail this too, so I got a human baseline through Rapidata (10k people, same forced choice): 71.5% said drive. Most models perform below that.

This really is a grasping at straws ad hoc rationalization for the outcome that is never going to die, and you can see the top comments are efforts to salvage it or cast doubt on the outcome.

If you work for or own a lot of stock in an AI company, I understand you can't understand what you're being paid not to understand. But if you're anyone else...
by close04 | 2026-02-25 13:15:52+00:00
Someone yanked your chain with this one. Nobody gets a house or a job at Microsoft for buying Microsoft, these cases can't even register in the statistic of the total volume of orders. Every tech company would buy you a house if that worked, when a house is always a rounding error on the value of the contracts we're talking about.

They buy it because it's the "safe", "does everything" choice that "everyone else has". It's easier to deal with a single party than it is to get licenses and support from 20 other suppliers that then blame each other when there are issues at the border between 2 of the products. You can talk to anyone else who has Teams, your files are always fully compatible, all of the rest of your software integrates, single identity, etc. A lot of good it is that you have Google Meet and Libre Office when the partners you work closes to have Teams and MS Office.

Users are proficient with the products, you can find skilled admins everywhere. Incumbency has a lot of inertia.

So you have to pay millions in support contracts every year, it's the cost of doing business. So MS gets hacked every other day, what could you have done about it better when even MS (!!!) couldn't?
by retired | 2026-02-25 13:16:14+00:00
Is there a European alternative to Microsoft 365?

Most platforms like Nextcloud focus on file storage, email, documents and video conference but don't do anything similar to the identity management, provisioning, policies and SSO that Office 365 provides.

A national government is large enough to run their own Keycloak instance but a regional branch of government would be better off with having a SaaS for that.

It would be great if the EU would subsidize a full alternative to Microsoft 365 and give every government worker in every EU country an account to that. Just grab a random laptop from the shelf, install EUnionOS, log-in to EUnionCloud and have all the required apps for their work install themselves, set all the rights correctly, mail works automatically, automatic access to the correct files. Full disk encryption, theft protection etcetera.
by vidarh | 2026-02-25 13:16:36+00:00
If people assume it's "just a type of sausage" it suggests a dictionary entry is needed to explain otherwise.

It's a term referring to a small set of types of sausages served in a specific small set of ways. In some places, a hot dog can be used as a synonym for the predominant type of sausage most common in hot dogs in that place, but the term is still more commonly referring to the assembly of a wiener or frankfurter wrapped in a bread of some sort.
by ifwinterco | 2026-02-25 13:16:45+00:00
Even if US labs are currently in the lead (which they are), in the hypothetical scenario where we're close to AGI, it wouldn't take too long (years - decades at most) for other people to catch up, especially given a lot of the researchers etc. are not originally from the US.

So the stated concern of the west coast tech bros that we're close to some misaligned AGI apocalypse would be slightly delayed, but in the grand scheme of things it would make no difference
by freakynit | 2026-02-25 13:17:35+00:00
And we thought skynet was just a part of some fictional movie.

On a separate note, DoD is pressuring Anthropic to remove it's safety guards. OpenAI and Google seemingly have already agreed to it.

On yet another note, Anduril is pretty cool with all that flying tech equipped with fancy autonomous weapons.

Finally, how can we miss Palantir..
by xphung | 2026-02-25 13:17:42+00:00
Not all rules from English 1.0 carry over to 2.0.

In particular, the terminal E has lost it's role as Magic E.

1. 'nowe': English 2.0 distinguishes 'ow' (digraph, same Long O sound as in 'know') from 'owe' (trigaph, same the OW diphthong sound as in 'now'). The 4 letter combination 'owne' is also the 'OW' dipthong sound, but is used at end of words like towne, downe, browne, etc.

Technically, the 'E' in '-owe-' and '-owne' is not a guard or silent E, as it is part of the trigraph/tetragraph and serves to give a different phonetic sound to the '-ow-' digraph. (eg. In the same way that the 'sh' digraph is a different sound to the letter 's' not in such a digraph).

This is what the Specification says about the owe/owne trigraph/tetragraph:

'ow[n]e Internal & terminal OW diphthong (howe, towne, scowel, flower).'

2. 'proove': English 2.0 retains the 'guard' e after -ce/je/se/ve, -iyze & u-glide words - this is mainly to retain overall word shape, so that someone who knows nothing about English 2.0 can still read most words immediately & without effort.

In this case, E does not have any softening role, as all c's not associated with a 'k' are already soft, and likewise all s (when not the pluralisation or possessive 's') is always hissed & not buzzed like 'z'.

Also, all g's are always hard (any soft g's are converted to j). English 2.0 has phonetic plurity in that g's always sound like 'go', whereas English 1.0 allows two different sounds for the same letter.
by Parkado | 2026-02-25 13:17:49+00:00
I had need for light pentesting tooling whenever I noticed something worth looking into. I found couple of chrome devtools based solutions but they were all hardcoded into something not to my liking (costly, broken or full of unnecessary AI) so I decided to build my own. Published it for free (no strings) on Chrome Webstore - I have a feeling there might be couple of more people in need of something similar.
by kimixa | 2026-02-25 13:18:04+00:00
Humans have the ability to ignore and generally not remember things after a short scan, prioritize what's actually important etc. But to an LLM a token is a token.

There's attempts at effectively doing something similar with analysis passes of the context - kinda what things like auto-compaction is doing - but I'm sure anyone who has used the current generation of those tools will tell you they're very much imperfect.
Show HN: Rulibre – A lightweight TUI replacement for Calibre
by glydev | 2026-02-25 13:18:29+00:00
I got tired of Calibre's heavy interface when all I needed was browsing my library and sending books to my e-reader. So I built Rulibre, a terminal UI that works directly with your existing Calibre library structure, no migration needed.

Features:
- Browse books sorted by author/title with a detail panel (metadata parsed from Calibre's .opf files)
- Instant search/filter across author, title, and format
- Send books to Kindle/Kobo with automatic EPUB→KEPUB conversion for Kobo
- Convert between formats using kepubify or Calibre's ebook-convert
- Mouse and keyboard support

It's written in Rust with ratatui. Install with `cargo install rulibre`.
by ozmodiar | 2026-02-25 13:18:36+00:00
AI's approach:
* User has history of anti AI rhetoric, increasingly agitated and unstable.
* User has removed all phones and cellular connections from their car. Increase monitoring through surveillance cameras and monitoring of their social groups.
* User has been spotted making unusual travel choices moving towards key infrastructure - deploy interception measures.

We already have the tech to do all of that. A rifle isn't going to help against AI. Or for the linesman:

* Employee required for critical infrastructure has been identified to hold unaligned political beliefs. Replace with more pliable individual and move to low impact location.

No one who wants to bring down an AI like this would ever be able to get close to it, even if it lived in only one data center. You could try hiding all your communications, but then it will just consider you a likely agitator anyway. That's the risk of unaccountable mass surveillance (the only kind that's ever existed). Doesn't really matter if there's a person on top or not.
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-25 13:19:08+00:00
No, the post made its point pretty clearly:

> Consider further that most people in society are significantly less educated or trained in epistemological functions than [knowledge workers] are - a large portion of society is defenseless against a liar with a megaphone.

The only thing I'd add is polarization adding impetus to never seeing someone on my side as a liar, whatever they claim.

When democracy becomes a team sport, its collective intelligence lessens: perhaps the biggest hole in the US founder's future vision.

But then again, "voter" had a very different definition in their time. And I don't think you can fault them for not enshrining anti-party ranked choice et al.
by magic_hamster | 2026-02-25 13:19:13+00:00
You're detracting. You made a comparison between Israel and the nazis, which is wrong, and is extremely far reached.

Answering with "all people have the capacity for evil" is once again a subtle misdirection which seems like a recurring theme in your comments. This wasn't what you implied.

Put simply, Israel and nazis are night and day, you are villifying a country and its people with extreme and factually wrong accusations.
by sfn42 | 2026-02-25 13:19:20+00:00
No, I don't mind giving physical books as gifts to people who want them. In fact I don't mind physical books at all.

I just prefer ebooks because an ebook reader is 100 times better. It has backlight so I can read in the dark, it's compact so I can put it in my pocket, it's light and ergonomic so I can easily hold it and flip pages in one hand, and it can fit literally a whole library worth of books in my pocket. It's not even a competition, as far as I'm concerned physical books are furniture at this point.