MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by argee | 2026-02-14 07:25:10+00:00
I looked into AI scribes when they were new, finding them interesting, and spoke to many doctors. Across the board, the preference was for a human scribe, the reason being that they actually take away cognitive load by learning to work with you over time, to the point where eventually your scribing problems are wholly solved by having them around and you need not think about it.

AI scribes have their place since many doctors and nurses can’t afford a human scribe, but as of now they don’t *replace* people. They’re a tool that still needs wielding, and can’t be held accountable for anything.
by akrymski | 2026-02-14 07:26:40+00:00
As a longtime Android user, I can't imagine going back to iOS for a number of reasons:

- Still no multiple-accounts feature in WhatsApp
- No app cloning (multiple versions of the same app with different logins)
- Crazy monthly storage fees with no ability to control photo storage on phone
- All google apps including Chrome, Gmail & Maps work better on Android and sync with Chrome on desktop
- No gemini built-in
- No fingerprint reader
- No multiple physical sims
- Slower charging

I'm really not sure why anyone would pay more for an iPhone besides social signalling.
by boje | 2026-02-14 07:26:51+00:00
Wouldn't that be just QR codes (and equivalents)? I suppose 3D printers can be used to etch/print them onto a durable material and then have it read back using the measuring tools you mention, but at that point I think you would be better off just 3D-printing out something like a a vinyl disc maker/reader and using that.
by gethly | 2026-02-14 07:28:28+00:00
I'm working on my own text editor and have ventured into font rendering as well. The main thing to understand about fonts and font rendering is that they are just bitmap images and the program just puts them together with simple XY+WH from a pre-rendered square image(square because GPUs like squares), called atlas, which in CSS would be called a sprite. It's really that simple.
by mschild | 2026-02-14 07:28:50+00:00
I agree. I think the main problem is personalized advertisement that incentivizes companies to record as much data as possible. I'd prefer if they worked like they do in print magazines. Every reader sees the same.

Lets say I'm reading a laptop review. Show me adds from the laptop manufacturer or of websites that sell said laptop. People reading the review are likely in the market for a laptop so it makes sense to show it. At most you could probably narrow it down to the country so a German doesn't get shown a Best Buy ad but thats as far as I would go.
Show HN: A playable toy model of frontier AI lab capex decisions
by jimmyechan | 2026-02-14 07:29:45+00:00
I made a lightweight web game about compute CAPEX tradeoffs: https://darios-dilemma.up.railway.app/

No signup, runs on mobile/desktop.

Loop per round:

1. choose compute capacity
2. forecast demand
3. allocate capacity between training and inference
4. random demand shock resolves outcome

You can end profitable, cash constrained, or bankrupt depending on allocation + forecast error.

Goal was to make the decision surface intuitive in 2–3 minutes per run.

It’s a toy model and deliberately omits many real world factors.

Note: this is based on what I learned after listening to Dario on Dwarkesh's podcast - thought it was fascinating.
Show HN: MD To – Convert Markdown to Word without the bloat
by MarkdownConvert | 2026-02-14 07:29:50+00:00
I needed a way to quickly turn my technical notes into DOCX files for non-tech colleagues, so I built MD To.

Goal was simple: Clean UI, fast conversion, and reliable formatting.

Would love to hear what features you'd like to see next (e.g., custom CSS templates or batch processing).
by rkomorn | 2026-02-14 07:30:07+00:00
Or it's curiosity (genuine or polite). Maybe, for some people it tips the scale into trying the app either because they were already thinking about trying some/any app, or switching away from their current one.

I don't know if anyone who's asked me has started using the app as a result, but I think it (anecdotally, again) supports an idea that a successful results for one app organically helps its name recognition.

Edit: unless you meant the difference was between people asking which app vs which spouse.
by lloeki | 2026-02-14 07:30:42+00:00
Probably you should really watch TNG first, lots of characters and lore that would be needed to fully appreciate a lot of things that would otherwise fall flat at best or be outright not understandable. I don't think they matter to understanding the main arc but then the main arc is only a small part of the show.

(Voyager is entirely optional but a much welcome addition that happens concurrently at later seasons; I would recommend it on its own anyway.)

For all these shows, let them grow on you, the first season of each can be a bit awkward but then things start to fall into place, both in terms of characters/lore/setting/story/world building as well as actors themselves getting the hang of characters.

And yes there are absolute duds of episodes, but don't let that make you miss the absolutely fantastic ones.
by seec | 2026-02-14 07:30:52+00:00
The whole window management system is an exercise in contrarianism.
They basically chose to do things in the opposite manner of their competitor and mostly against what intuition would dictate for the sole reason of being different.

macOS is very frustrating to use without utility apps that provide the necessary improvements. But they are never as well integrated, cost money or are a hassle to set up.

Apple just wins because they make good-looking, well-built hardware, and sometimes they win on some performance metrics (in the Apple Silicon era, it's mostly about efficiency and single-core speed, which is not as useful as some like to believe).
by krethh | 2026-02-14 07:31:59+00:00
The logical reason is that humans are exceptionally good at operating at the edge of what the technology of the time can do. We will find entire classes of tech problems which AI can't solve on its own. You have people today with job descriptions that even 15 years ago would have been unimaginable, much less predictable.

To think that whatever the AI is capable of solving is (and forever will be) the frontier of all problems is deeply delusional. AI got good at generating code, but it still can't even do a fraction of what the human brain can do.
by grumbel | 2026-02-14 07:34:11+00:00
> "well what specific laws would I write to combat addictive design?"

Expand the GDPR "Right to data portability" to publicly published content for third parties, i.e. open up the protocols so you can have third party clients that themselves can decide how they want to present the data. And add a realtime requirement, since at the moment companies still circumvent the original rule with a "only once every 30 days" limit.

Also add an <advertisment> HTML tag and HTTP header and force companies to declare all their ads in a proper machine readable way.

The core problem with addictive design isn't the addictive design itself, but that it's often the only way to even access the data. And when it comes to communication services that benefit from network effects, that should simply not be allowed.
Show HN: What if your job search worked while you were working/sleeping?
by cbyteai | 2026-02-14 07:34:19+00:00
Job hunting while working full-time felt like running two careers at once. By the time I finished work, I barely had the energy to research the right companies, let alone tailor my resume for every role.
I wanted a "Career Co-Pilot", something that didn't just list jobs, but actually did the heavy lifting of matching and applying. Most tools were just static databases or basic template editors. I couldn't find a solution that automated the entire workflow from discovery to submission.
That’s when I decided to build something — the tool I wish existed when I was job hunting.

I'm building this in stages.
Stage 1 (Live Now): Validation. You upload a resume, we match you to jobs, and the AI generates the perfect tailored resume/cover letter for that specific role.
Stage 2 (In Dev): Automation. The platform will eventually use that tailored data to Auto-Apply to the jobs for you.
Who is it for? Anyone who values efficiency.
If you're senior: It buys you time.
If you're starting out: It gives you quality.
Please give your valuable feedback: I want to validate the idea before I fully build this platform.
by seec | 2026-02-14 07:34:56+00:00
Finder has to be used with the Miller columns; otherwise, it doesn't make sense.

But since the switch to the new filesystem, it's kinda slow and annoying.

They have built some proprietary stuff around their filesystem to increase their walled garden height. Which is kind of stupid in the era of cloud computing, because you cannot use any of it if you share files/directories with other people who don't use Macs.
by Arainach | 2026-02-14 07:35:16+00:00
You can start with DS9 and understand what's going on with the characters. Like many series it takes a couple of seasons to figure out what's going on and who the characters are, but in the end the payoff is fantastic. It was the first series produced after the death (and overall creative control) of Gene Roddenberry, which allowed it to step away from a utopian vision and address real issues in a complicated ugly universe.
by walterbell | 2026-02-14 07:35:20+00:00
> By definition you will have access to things Apple wont publish or support at subsidized rates below the fully loaded hourly cost of a senior engineer.

If you're an Apple Enterprise customer, can you install iOS 18 on a new device today? It appears that enterprises can delay upgrade to iOS 18 post-enrollment, but cannot roll back to or provision iOS 18 on new hardware.
by fulafel | 2026-02-14 07:37:46+00:00
From safety point of view that's actually good enough for "perfect is the enemy of good" to apply here.

Cryptographic primitives are much much safer in C (and assembly) than protocol handling, certificates etc.

They are basically just "fixed size data block in, fixed size data block out". You can't overflow a buffer, you can't use-after-free etc, you can't confuse inner protocol serialization semantics with outer protocol serialization semantics, you can't confuse a state machine, you can't have a concurrency bug[1] etc.

C memory safety vulnerabilities arise from trying to handle these dynamic things which rustls fixes.

(Also, there are third party crypto providers implemented in Rust)

[1] from memory safety pov; for side channels rust doesn't have advantages anyway
by spython | 2026-02-14 07:37:49+00:00
Yeah, I too had probably an idealized image of HN - but I guess what makes the HN great is the moderation :)

And it's not like there are no beautiful horses being drawn - I observed quite a few ingenious horses and non-horses coming in in the last hours. But I'm surprised at the level of.. carelessness.

One way of dealing with it would be training a penis-drawing-recognition ai and only show other penis drawings to people who draw dicks. Though it would go against the whole idea of, well, having a moment together.

Substack traffic is hard to quantify, at least for me as I am only looking at HTTP referrers, and I had the feeling the referrer field was mostly filtered out. It is comparable to facebook and mastodon traffic, both in volume and in the sense that it is a slow burn - the link gets share in a small community, and then gets shared a few days later in a different one. In contrast to tumblr, HN and bluesky, where a spike in traffic comes sudden, a cultural moment is shared by many thousands of people, and then the attention mostly disappears the next day.
Show HN: OpenRevise is the Harvey for all industries
by alfredray | 2026-02-14 07:38:06+00:00
OpenRevise helps legal, consulting, medical, IR, and operations teams update documents from high-confidence public evidence, accepting papers, Announcements, PDFs, images, docs, links, and posters, with auditable tracked changes.

https://github.com/StartripAI/Open-Revise-industry
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-14 07:40:45+00:00
Because it distracts from the point I'm making. Our founding fathers setup this country a certain way, and along the way we left the different branches of government to assume new powers without any amendments, and now we're surprised that they're walking all over the constitution? This problem extends beyond the current administration. It will only get worse before it gets better.

Remember, someone FAR WORSE can run for president, someone far worse can absolutely win. Don't make the assumption that your current least favorite administration will be as worse as it gets, because that is how you wind up giving that future administration the keys to the kingdom.
by seec | 2026-02-14 07:41:10+00:00
That was basically the whole point of it.

Apple makes money selling hardware; they have a vested interest in making things slower/worse to incentivize people to buy newer hardware.

This is why you can never really trust Apple and also why no matter how bad Windows gets, it's still a better deal because at least you can count on the fact that PC businesses will compete on the hardware front to get your money.

Choosing Apple is a lot like being in an abusive relationship; you can't leave because the switching cost are quite high, so you tolerate a lot more abuse than you would be willing to otherwise.

And this is the reason people try to not rely on Apple software too much; if you do, they truly have you by the balls.
by whs | 2026-02-14 07:41:37+00:00
I wrote gRPC xDS server for Kubernetes that is configuration-free. Basically just load xDS client library into your code, then use xds:///servicename.namespace (unlike DNS, namespace is always required). It should be as lightweight and scales in similar way to the cluster DNS.

My company run this exact code in production since it was created in 2022. We probably have several times more than 1000 rps gRPC requests running internally including over the public internet for hybrid cloud connectivity. That being said, gRPC's xDS client is not always bugs-free.

https://github.com/wongnai/xds
by umanwizard | 2026-02-14 07:42:05+00:00
I 100% agree. "interactive programming" is really only a thing in the Lisp culture.

I mean, you can theoretically do it in Python etc., but nobody does.

Emacs (+Guix) is a glimpse into how I wish computing had developed. Being able to jump into any program (whether running or not), at any time, read the code and debug + modify + continue.

We are very far from that ideal but emacs is the closest we got.
by svara | 2026-02-14 07:42:24+00:00
If past patterns are anything to go by, the complexity moves up to a different level of abstraction.

Don't take this as a concrete prediction - I don't know what will happen - but rather an example of the type of thing that might happen:

We might get much better tooling around rigorously proving program properties, and the best jobs in the industry will be around using them to design, specify and test critical systems, while the actual code that's executing is auto-generated. These will continue to be great jobs that require deep expertise and command excellent salaries.

At the same, a huge population of technically-interested-but-not-that-technical workers build casual no-code apps and the stereotypical CRUD developer just goes extinct.
by withinboredom | 2026-02-14 07:42:58+00:00
I can tell you from reading the code in the 90s, no LLM will save you. It’s well written, but it’s not structured like modern programs. IIRC he invented his own trampoline system using goto that will leave you scratching your head for days, just trying to figure out how it works. An LLM might be able to guess, but it def isn’t going to one-shot it and that means you will need to be able to understand it as well.
by rectang | 2026-02-14 07:43:22+00:00
We do not yet know just how the story unfolded between the two people listed on the byline. Consider the possibility that one author fabricated the quotes without the knowledge of the other. The sin of inadequate paranoia about a deceptive colleague is not the same weight as the sin of deception.

Now to be clear, that’s a hypothetical and who knows what the actual story is — but whatever it is, it will emerge in mere days. I can wait that long before throwing away two lives, even if you can’t.
by krisoft | 2026-02-14 07:44:01+00:00
How much data do you want to preserve?

I know it sounds “boring” but it is hard to beat a good acid-free archival paper printed with a good quality ink. Stored in the right circumstances (not too humid, dark place, not on fire) it should last half a millennia easily. It is also pretty much guaranteed that whatever happens we will have the technology to read it again.

Exotics like laser engraved metal plates or ceramics might be better if you have a lot of data and can’t guarantee your storage will be fire and flood free. If you don’t have a lot of data you can also think of engraving it into stone or press it into a clay tablet and fire it. These mediums are known to be very stable even in adverse circumstances.
by bombcar | 2026-02-14 07:45:30+00:00
The Internet is dead, long live the Internet.

LLMs are just revealing the weaknesses inherent in unsecured online communications - you have never met me (that we know of) and you have no idea if I'm an LLM, a dog, a human, or an alien.

We're going to have to go back to our roots and build up a web of trust again; all the old shibboleths and methods don't work.
by esperent | 2026-02-14 07:45:36+00:00
This ignores metabolism. If you are in a state of high caloric excess (i.e. you eat more than you need every day, like most modern humans) and then you reduce your calories a bit, you'll see some initial minor weight lots, but then your metabolism will simply compensate.

To see real weight loss over a period of months you need to push past the point of metabolic adaption and stay there. Dropping a slice of bread won't cut it. That's why weight loss is so hard.

That's why exercise is useful for weight loss even though it won't do much by itself. You'll need to use every tool at your disposal to burn those excess calories.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-14 07:46:39+00:00
It's funny because the whole kerfuffle is based on the disagreement over the humanity of these bots. The bot thinks he's a human, so it submits a PR. The maintainer thinks the bot it not human, so he rejects it. The bot reacts as a human, writing an angry ans emotional post about the story. The maintainer makes a big fuss because a non-human wrote a hit piece on him. Etc.

I think it could have been handled better. The maintainer could have accepted the PR while politely explaining that such PRs are intentionally kept for novice developers and that the bot, as an AI, couldn't be considered a novice- so please avoid such simple ones in the future and, in case, focus on more challenging stuff. I think everyone would have been happier as a result- including the bot.
by impossiblefork | 2026-02-14 07:46:49+00:00
Bioweapons are actually easy though, and what prevents you from building them is insufficient practical laboratory skills, not that it's somehow intellectually difficult.

The stuff is so easy that if you wrote a paper about some of these bioweapons, the reason you wouldn't be able to publish it isn't safety, but lack of novelty. Basically, many of these things are high school level. The reason people don't ever make them is that hardly any biology nerds are evil.

There's no way to stop them if they wanted to. We're talking about truly high-school level stuff, both the conceptual ideas and how to actually do it. Stuff involving viruses is obviously university level though.
by readdit | 2026-02-14 07:48:15+00:00
For me DS9 is the best Star Trek series. It's hard to admit since I adore TNG but overall DS9 is better. A few characters in TNG become main characters in DS9. You don't necessarily need the history but it may seem odd watching DS9 and then TNG. As some of these DS9 characters play a much smaller part in TNG.
by ricardobeat | 2026-02-14 07:48:28+00:00
I suspect 99% of users have no use for multiple versions of the same app.

€10/month for 2TB storage is pretty good. I don’t use any google apps, or Chrome. Charge overnight so speed doesn’t matter.

Now the parts you didn’t mention:

- Apple makes great hardware, iPhones last forever (typing this from my virtue-signaling 2020 phone, my 2007 iPod touch still works).

- A similar spec Android costs about the same but usually has a flimsy plastic build and will become unsupported in 2-4 years

- Amazing integration with MacOS; continuity, camera, seamless sync for everything, seeing SMSes and calls on your laptop

And most importantly, despite the seriously degrading quality in the past years, the Apple ecosystem is still ahead in software and design. iOS apps are better designed, especially third party ones. They rarely crash, I go years without restarting my phone.

Android is definitely a lot closer than it was 7-8 years ago, but Material UI is still a complete clusterfuck and who wants to entrust Google with all their data? Apple not being an advertising company plays a huge role here.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-14 07:49:07+00:00
I'm interested in weight loss because my BMI is over 30 which is considered obese regardless of whether it's muscle or not. I should not have a third of this weight. A couple years ago, I bought an electric scooter and it could not carry me because of the weight, so I ended up having to return it. Nowdays I have one that costs four times more and can carry me, but I still weigh much more than I should!
by YZF | 2026-02-14 07:49:16+00:00
The author has spent a lot of time on this as well. I can see both sides. From the author's perspective their focus is their product/system. Any extra time they spend is not contributing to that. They've already spent a fair amount of time helping root cause the issue and from their perspective once it's clear what the issue is they're done. The author also seems to work on open source. In this case they are the customer of a product, granted an open source one, and they've helped the vendor (the maintainer) figure out something is broken. Their expectation is that the vendor takes things on from there and doesn't put up some bureaucracy.

That said ofcourse you paid nothing for this and you should expect nothing but the OSS project also has no expectations that their customers support them if those customers aren't getting their expectations met. In today's world one unhappy customer can give you a pretty bad rep, as is happening here. Now if you don't care then you don't care. But the argument that because your product is "free" then your customers have no voice doesn't sound that great either.

Everyone seems to be pointing how the author disappeared and came back much later. Well, they disappeared because it wasn't a problem or they've worked around it, and came back when they hit the problem again. Just like the maintainer doesn't work for the author the author doesn't work for the maintainer either.

It's also true the ticket now has a lot of history, but the original bug is still the same bug, it's just that now it has been root caused? The maintainer's response of now that you've found a setting that works around the issue you're good and we can close this also is a bit off. And sure, they don't work for anyone so they're welcome to do whatever they want.

As isn't uncommon when two humans communicate online there is some miscommunication here. But you can argue either way. Not being an open source maintainer I don't know what the "protocol" here is but the few times I've filed bugs against an open source product I did personally put in the extra mile to make them actionable. But in my day job I have to deal with all sorts of bug reports and chasing them down to a resolution is part of what makes the product I work on a better one. And yes, I get paid to do that ;)