MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kalpitdixit | 2026-02-23 18:30:02+00:00
yes :)

this is exactly what we are aiming for - that you can apply your ideas and imagination, without having to be an expert in everything. most applications need expertise in multiple areas to work but you might have some great ideas in a specific part of it.

Paper Lantern enables you to get the best version of all other aspects and then you can iterate on your ideas for the aspect you care about - to boost a much more compelx application
Show HN: I vibe-coded a custom WebGPU engine for my MMO
by jverrecchia | 2026-02-23 18:30:18+00:00
It took me about a week to vibe code this 3D game engine with Opus 4.6 that I intend to use as a replacement for Three.js and React Three Fiber in my browser MMORPG, Mana Blade.

I was not expecting to be able to reach that point so easily, but pretty much every feature took somewhere between 30 minutes and 1 hour - 1 to 3 prompts on average. It is vibe-coded in the sense that I haven't looked at the code, but I am very careful with my prompts and constantly have Claude reviewing the codebase, looking for performance and code quality improvements.

It can reach 2000 draw calls on recent integrated GPUs, such as modern phones or MacBooks, where Three.js usually starts dropping frames at 300-600 draw calls. I love Three.js, but I wanted to build something more minimal that does exactly what I need with better performance.

I started with a C/WASM core but ended up sticking with JS because the performance difference wasn't significant enough for the number of entities in my game (never more than 500 entities).

All in all, it was a fascinating experience, and I learned a lot about engines, even without typing a single line of code. It's pretty wild that we can now quite easily build in-house engines alongside our games as solo developers.
by iFire | 2026-02-23 18:30:32+00:00
Most of the platforms were successfully petitioned to have rust sdk mandatory added so that rust code can be added to the platforms. The previously situation was rust was not allowed because the external dependency of the rust sdk was blocked.

Note that the rust having no stable api is not fixed, so I think there's a bunch of internal systems on each platform to hard lock the rust dependencies across multiple rust users.

There's some friction between platform packagers and the code that the author wrote exactly as it was written.
by munificent | 2026-02-23 18:31:02+00:00
100%. You don't even need to give people money. It's about attention and feedback.

People post photos on Instagram and status updates on Facebook because their friends will see it there and give it a thumbs up.

A couple of decades ago, I spent a lot of time laboriously building a website for scratch for my photography. It was objectively a really nice site. I had my own domain, hosted it on a VPS, and put a ton of work into the layout and design.

But none of my friends ever thought to go there. I could see by my web stats that every now and then a random stranger would find the site... but they had no easy way of connecting with me and acknowledging that they saw it. If they put a lot of effort in, they could find my email address and email, but that's a hell of a lot harder than just clicking a little thumbs up button next to a Facebook post or filling a comment in the comment box.

Uploading photos to my site was about as rewarding as printing them out and throwing them in the trash. I thought about adding support for that to my site, but then it opens the whole can of worms around user-generated content, abuse, moderation, etc.

Eventually, I moved to Flickr, which at the time was an actual community that gave me that connection. Then Flickr fizzled out. Now, on the rare times I bother to process a photo... I just upload it to Facebook because that's where (a dwindling subset of) my friends are.

It's not about the content. It's about the human connection. A CMS won't fix that.
by xorbax | 2026-02-23 18:31:06+00:00
So you went from know it "reduces appetite" to make a bunch of conjectures about why it affects other things

> But please, tell me how it's better than finally doing some exercise and eating right.

Because it actually works well?

Good ol' fashioned gumption doesn't work, no matter how crankily and haughtily you say it. GLP-1s do

Also, you don't mention why the things you listed are bad. Any weight loss will require a calorie deficit, which has the same "starvation" you're so aghast at.
by AquariuOS | 2026-02-23 18:31:15+00:00
Hard agree on Worldcoin — that's a single point of failure with a TED talk.

You're pragmatically correct that government IDs are the global trend. The structural tension I keep running into is conflict of interest: if the government controls the root credential, it also controls who is allowed to participate in verified reality.

This isn't hypothetical — it's the exact architecture of China's social credit system. The credential layer and the oversight layer are the same thing, owned by the same party. AquariuOS is designed for the fail case: what happens when the government issuing the credential is the very entity the system needs to hold accountable? If the root of trust and the subject of oversight share the same owner, the symmetry collapses.

I don't have a clean answer to the issuance problem — it's honestly the hardest problem in the document. But I'm wary of building truth infrastructure that can be unplugged by the entity it's supposed to watch.

How are you seeing other countries handle that tension between state identity and independent auditability?
by swiftcoder | 2026-02-23 18:31:20+00:00
You know what they say about the kind of services FAANG gives away for free...

And yes, I get the practicality of it. However, when people are actually doing shit like this[1] in the real world, writers of manifestos might consider practicing what they preach a tad more.

[1]: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
by julianeon | 2026-02-23 18:31:20+00:00
The intention of my comment (possibly unclear) was to say: I know we can do self-driving very well very expensively. But what can we do extremely cheaply?

Like the difference between "what can do we with an LLM on my maxxed-out laptop with an RTX 5090 card" vs. "what can we do with a mac mini." Self-driving car version.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-23 18:31:24+00:00
Things become a great deal more complicated when you consider the US is not the only country on earth, and the vast majority of countries do not have the well-being of their population at heart.

The extreme cases are well known. But let's just give the statistic: the average global wage is $24000 in PPP, according to the UN. In other words, such a global system will be on average a 75% pay cut for US workers.

By the way, that's a PPP paycut, in other words a paycut without anything getting 1 cent cheaper. Not your housing. Not your food. Not your playstation. Not your cost of living. We'll be back to deciding which day in the month we'll have a little bit of meat.

The scary thing if you've ever been there is that India actually cares more than most countries for it's people.

And the truly terrifying thing is that income is distributed along a power law. In other words, it'd be a 50% pay cut for Donald Trump and a 90% pay cut for you and me.
by dsr_ | 2026-02-23 18:31:43+00:00
Not until large-N research is done without sponsorship, support, or veiled threats from AI companies.

At which point, if the evidence turns out to be negative, it will be considered invalid because no model less recent than November 2027 is worth using for anything. If the evidence turns out to be slightly positive, it will be hailed as the next educational paradigm shift and AI training will be part of unemployment settlements.
by Dunedan | 2026-02-23 18:31:44+00:00
Fun fact: 0ad still doesn't support kerning. While I would've loved to see proper kerning support in r28, there is only so much a team of volunteers can do.

If you're interested in progress in this area, I suggest you keep an eye on https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/7945
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-23 18:31:53+00:00
>I had everything

I never had anything like that.

>I don’t remember the exact day. I remember the feeling. Waking up and realizing that everything I had built was hollow.

I do remember the exact day. I was awake the whole time, realizing that everything I had worked for and built over 25 years was ruined that day.

From just one little almost-hurricane.
by culi | 2026-02-23 18:31:58+00:00
The short-range stuff is already $150-300 per unit. If you're thinking indoor robots that's already technically feasible. Over 25% of all Chinese cars being produced today have LiDAR.

Even mid-range sensors used in ADAS systems only cost $600-750. The long-range stuff that's needed for trucking or robotaxis is $1,500–6,000
by crystal_revenge | 2026-02-23 18:32:01+00:00
> The new skill is mastering the craft of directing cheap inputs toward valuable outcomes.

Strongly agree with this. It took me awhile to realize that "agentic engineering" wasn't about writing software it was about being able to very quickly iterate on bespoke tools for solving a very specific problem you have.

However, as soon as you start unblocking yourself from the real problem you want to solve, the agentic engineering part is no longer interesting. It's great to be solving a problem and then realize you could improve it very quickly with a quick request to an agent, but you should largely be focused on solving the problem.

Yet I see so many people talking about running multiple agents and just building something without much effort spent using that thing, as though the agentic code itself is where the value lies. I suspect this is a hangover from decades where software was valuable (we still have plenty of highly valued, unprofitable software companies as a testament to this).

I'm reminded a bit of Alan Watts' famous quote in regards to psychedelics:

> If you get the message, hang up the phone.

If you're really leveraging AI to do something unique and potentially quite disruptive, very quickly the "AI" part should become fairly uninteresting and not the focus of your attention.
by estearum | 2026-02-23 18:32:15+00:00
> I am firmly against marijuana legalization. This is partially because of this insanity of the pro-legalization arguments.

this is also just motivated reasoning

The insanity of the fringe pro-legalization arguments has no bearing on whether legalization is a good idea or not.

> When I would see friends/family that started smoking regularly become noticeably less intelligent while pro-legalization proponents would argue there are no negative side-effects

This is also just ripe for cognitive bias which is why we should use science to understand these types of claims.
by nye2k | 2026-02-23 18:32:33+00:00
I worked for a decade in what I would consider the highest level of our kids' privacy ever designed, at PBS KIDS. This was coming off a startup that attempted to do the same for grownups, but failed because of dirty money.

Every security attempt becomes a facade or veil in time, unless it's nothing. Capture nothing, keep nothing, say nothing. Kids are smart AF and will outlearn you faster than you can think. Don't even try to capture PII ever. Watch the waves and follow their flow, make things for them to learn from but be extremely careful how you let the grownups in, and do it in pairs, never alone.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-23 18:32:42+00:00
I can't tell whether "destroying all your favorite toys" was a clear expectation the kids already had as a possible outcome of their choices.
__________

1. Teach children about consequences... by using clear expectations, timely feedback, and proportional responses.

2. Teach children about consequences... by allowing wrongdoing to become a festering mess until it "justifies" some big punishment that comes as deliberate emotional trauma and surprise.

Separately from asking which one is more "effective" at conditioning an immediate behavior, each choice also affects how those kids are going to behave when they are in any position to set and enforce rules.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-23 18:32:47+00:00
parents can be held liable for buying their kids cigarettes but, similarly, tobacco companies are (at least nominally) not supposed to target children in their advertising campaigns and in the design of their products.

It's obviously not a 1/1 comparison here, because providing ID to access the internet is not analogous to providing ID to purchase a pack of Cowboy Killers but we can extrapolate to a certain extent.

(inb4 DAE REGULATING FOR-PROFIT CORPORATIONS == NANNY STATE?!?!?!?!?)
by Sabrees | 2026-02-23 18:33:03+00:00
Good advice on farms. I do live on a farm, so somewhat familiar with mud! Many of the worst problems are caused by moving 20ton tractors around IMHO, one of the problems small scale ag robotics may help with.

Will check out your Bno055 currently using the upstream one in Lizard

https://github.com/zauberzeug/lizard/blob/main/main/modules/...
https://github.com/zauberzeug/lizard/blob/main/main/modules/...

Any review of that welcome too of course.
by interestpiqued | 2026-02-23 18:33:15+00:00
Yeah but it’s hard to even find a 5mg these days. Most are 10 or 20 by me. Edibles aren’t immune from the increase in dosage.

Edit: also these aren’t pharma companies. It may have gotten better but I think manufacturing consistency isn’t good either. Highest I’ve ever been was from a single “2.5 mg”
by BugsJustFindMe | 2026-02-23 18:33:27+00:00
> without people ragebaiting about Elon

Hmm. Is it ragebaiting to respond to a tired and wrong statement by saying that it's tired and wrong and that the situation is merely the product of piss poor management decisions? People get understandably frustrated seeing the same wrong talking point that people with domain knowledge in computer vision and robotics have repeatedly explained is wrong in extremely fundamental ways.

> I don't own a Tesla.

n.b. The shoe/foot comment was not about you. It was about Musk. It wouldn't make any idiomatic sense for the expression to be about you given what you said and what you were responding to. If they'd said "pot, meet kettle", then it would have been about you. In that context, saying that you don't own a Tesla feels like a weird thing for you to insert in your comment. It potentially comes across as suspiciously defensive.
by hathawsh | 2026-02-23 18:33:28+00:00
While Rust is excellent, you must acknowledge that Rust has issues with compilation time. It also has a steep learning curve (especially around lifetimes.) It's much too early to say Rust is the "final" language, especially since AI is driving a huge shift in thinking right now.

I used to think that I would never write C code again, but when I decided recently to build something that would run on ESP32 chips, I realized there wasn't any good reason for me to use Rust yet. ESP-IDF is built on C and I can write C code just fine. C compiles quickly, it's a very simple language on the surface, and as long as you minimize the use of dynamic memory allocation and other pitfalls, it's reliable.
by ux266478 | 2026-02-23 18:33:46+00:00
Owning things isn't free (and a VPS isn't owning things, either)

I absolutely agree with the concept, but people have to be ready to do their own work rather than delegating it to other parties. Consolidation has happened because these massive conglomerates absorb operational complexity on the cheap, and that's attractive. Moving away from them means we take on the responsibility of doing it ourselves.
by levkk | 2026-02-23 18:33:48+00:00
We have all kinds, it's not specific to any particular sector. That's kind of the beauty for building for Postgres - everyone uses it in some capacity!

My general advice is, once you see more than 100 connections on your database, you should consider adding a connection pooler. If your primary load exceeds 30% (CPU util), consider adding read replicas. This also applies if you want some kind of workload isolation between databases, e.g. slow/expensive analytics queries can be pushed to a replica. Vertically scaling primaries is also a fine choice, just keep that vertical limit in mind.

Once you're a couple instance types away from the largest machine your cloud provider has, start thinking about sharding.
by Wobbles42 | 2026-02-23 18:34:14+00:00
This.

The world is becoming increasingly more uncertain geopolitically. We have incipient (and actual) wars coming, and near term potential for societal disruption from technological unemployment. Meanwhile social media has all but completely undermined broadcast media as a means of social control.

This isn't about protecting children. It's about preventing a repeated of the Arab Spring in western countries later this decade.

"Think of the children" is the oldest trick in the book, and should always be met with skepticism.
by zug_zug | 2026-02-23 18:34:30+00:00
Right we have studies, and they are 30 page documents that only academics read, and so they get poorly summarized by articles that try to make them sound more noteworthy than they are. Usually by saying "X linked to Y" without establishing causality or even if that link is a significant risk (is it a .1% increase in risk?)

When it's a drug more than 10% of the US population uses, we can immediately say the risk increase can't really be that big or we'd have noticed it by now.

Edit: after looking at the paper, it looks like among the weed group the prevalence is roughly twice as high -- so instead of 1/100 having psychotic issue it'd be 2/100... and again for people who used when they were 13-17 year olds, which is underage in every state.

So you could frame that as doubling the risk OMG, or a 1 percentage point increase in risk, or it could all just be self-medicating, we really don't know much. Probably still safer than alcohol.
by mcswell | 2026-02-23 18:35:08+00:00
"Steam is liquid water droplets suspended in gas": You clearly did not work on steam-powered ships (or land-based steam power plants). I was Main Propulsion Assistant on a steam powered destroyer, and I can assure you that every effort is made to prevent droplets being suspended in the steam--because such droplets erode the blades on steam turbines. To that end, steam coming out of the stem drum (the upper part of the boiler) is run through superheaters, which raise the temperature of the incoming steam to evaporate any droplets. On our ship, the steam coming off the steam drum was a bit over 1200 psi and 600 some degrees Fahrenheit. After it goes through the superheaters, it's about the same pressure but 975 degrees.

And there's effectively no other gas in the steam, because dissolved air in the boiler's feedwater (particularly oxygen and carbon dioxide) has to be removed to prevent corrosion. To that end, water going into the boiler is first run through a deaerator, to remove any air that dissolved in the water as it came through the condensor.
by subscribed | 2026-02-23 18:35:36+00:00
The only thing this is going to achieve is to bar unverified users form the vaguely reputable and mainstream places into the small, completely unregulated spaces, sites and networks.

I presume you prefer hard requirement of IDs.

I'm saying this will make kids go to i2p, tor, to the obscure fora in countries not giving a f* about western laws.

As a parent to the teens and teens, THIS makes me concerned. The best vpns are very hard to detect (I know, I try it myself).
by adrianN | 2026-02-23 18:35:38+00:00
A terribly long winded article that ignores that we already have all the building blocks for carbon neutrality (for some time already), what we lack is not new ideas, we lack political will to spend a lot of money now to improve the world for our grandchildren. Inventing a better clothesline might feel like a nice game, but it is irrelevant compared to replacing fossil heating, transportation, and electricity.
by sagaro | 2026-02-23 18:35:55+00:00
But it is portable. It is essentially markdown files. You can download your repo, compile the Jekyll to static pages and publish them anywhere.

When you publish to Facebook, WordPress etc you can't easily get your stuff out. You will have to process them even if they allow you to download your content as a zip folder. The images will be broken. Links between pages won't work etc.
by tinfoilhatter | 2026-02-23 18:35:56+00:00
We should stop pretending these age-verification rollouts are about protecting children, because they aren't and never have been.

Even if the world was full of responsible parents, there are still people and groups that want to establish a surveillance state. These systems are focused on monitoring and tracking online activity / limiting access to those who are willing to sacrifice their own personal sovereignty for access to services.

There is most definitely a cult that is obsessed with the book of revelation and seeing Biblical prophecy fulfilled, and if that isn't readily obvious to folks at this juncture in time, I'm not sure what it will take. I guess they'll have to roll out the mark of the beast before people will be willing to admit it.
Show HN: I built a tool track cash flow without the "spreadsheet stress"
by wwxoxo | 2026-02-23 18:36:05+00:00
I’m a financial analyst, and for years I managed our family budget in a massive Excel sheet. I loved the control, but it eventually became an "unpaid second job" of fixing broken CSV formats and patching formulas.

The real problem: The spreadsheet was a barrier, not a bridge. It didn’t help me have better money conversations at home. Telling my wife “Dining is high” wasn't helpful; we needed to see where we were overspending (e.g., that one specific cafe vs. grocery runs) without me having to act as a "human pivot table" every Sunday night.

I didn't want an app that required our bank passwords, but I needed more automation than a manual sheet. I built OpBoard to bridge that gap.

How it changes the conversation:

Shared Visibility: Instead of navigating a complex file on my monitor, my wife can log in and see a clear, merchant-level breakdown of our cash flow instantly.

Intentional Review: We still do the CSV import—it's a deliberate "touchpoint" with our data that keeps us aware of our spending without the friction of manual entry.

Automatic Normalization: It handles the "CSV surgery" (Date formats, +/- signs) across different banks automatically, so the data is always clean.

Auto-Tagging Engine: You teach the app your own keyword rules (e.g., "Starbucks" = Food). It also uses AI to suggest rules for recurring merchants based on your history.

Duplicate Protection: It automatically skips transactions already in the system, so you don't have to be paranoid about the date ranges of your bank exports.

It’s currently in beta and has finally turned our budgeting from a technical chore into a productive family discussion. If you’re an "Excel refugee" looking for a better way to track cash flow with a partner, I’d love your feedback.

I’m especially looking for thoughts on:

What specific views or charts would help you and a partner make better spending decisions?

Are there any bank CSV formats that my normalization logic fails to handle?
The Era of AI human clone
by Metalcode | 2026-02-23 18:36:12+00:00
We are entering a new era.

Not just AI assistants.
Not just smarter chatbots.

But AI human clones digital versions of us that think, respond, and act in ways that mirror our cognitive patterns.

If you want early access to your own AI human clone one that thinks like you, works like you, and scales your presence join our waitlist.
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