MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DrScientist | 2026-02-23 10:12:29+00:00
> But instead, you are saying there is only way one of doing things,

Nope. I did not say there is only one way of doing things. I asked you whether you really thought people didn't want improved modularity, encapsulation, reusability, interop.

For example without standardised modules you either had to choose one of several community module systems or live with poor modularity and encapsulation. And by standardising modules interop improves.

> If you want to continue doing it the React way then just continue to use React,

Only one of us is appearing to want to stop the way the other only likes to develop. If I want to use custom elements why all the anger?
by PennRobotics | 2026-02-23 10:13:04+00:00
The entire site (including page margins) being a link to HN is an annoyance

edit: also, the autoscroll thing

The Tailwind CSS complaints aren't wrong even today; any time I want to apply a Stylus CSS to fix someone's janky site---particularly, weekly offers from area grocery stores, where I fix it once or twice and enjoy a much better UI for a year or two---and then all I see is class="rounded-lg shadow-primary-400 my-4 md:px-4 bg-white py-20 pt-8 dark:border-gray-600" for every single element... it gets me seriously aggravated! It's a hassle to modify and a hassle to parse. I imagine it's only convenient to write/maintain because you use a separate tool and compile it into the garbage it becomes.
by BrainBuzzer | 2026-02-23 10:14:24+00:00
I have never let openclaw touch my Google Account. I have used it only a few times using OpenCode and still my account was banned for violating ToS. Took me a while to figure it out because antigravity never shows you the specific error that occurred, just a simple "Something went wrong". They really should be more transparent about this, at least anthropic makes it clear upfront.
by hypercube33 | 2026-02-23 10:15:04+00:00
I guess I don't get why all of these don't target better user experience goals - one login / trust plane and full distribution for decentralization.

The way I'd look at it is more like Bitcoin where everyone can decide how much compute to give to the pool to verify people or posts and maybe everyone shares chunks of the whole pie with copies like freenet.

Maybe I'm (likely) too dumb to get why this isn't what things in the fediverse is but they all are an awful experience and having so many hosts makes critical mass non existent so I can't be bothered to participate.
by keyKeeper | 2026-02-23 10:16:09+00:00
There are laser measurers sold for a few buck on Temu. Robot vacuums sold for few hundred dollars have Lidars that map out the room in a seconds.

Is there any actual technical reason why automobile Lidar be expensive? Just combine visual processing with single point sampler that will feed points of interest and accurate model of the surroundings will be built.
by GreyZephyr | 2026-02-23 10:16:13+00:00
Battlezone and battlezone 2 [0] were great for this. Many hours lost, even if bz2 was a buggy mess on release. It was also one of the first faves to really have a missing community.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1998_video_game)
by lelanthran | 2026-02-23 10:16:20+00:00
> While many approaches to religion exclude nontheism by definition, some inclusive definitions of religion show how religious practice and belief do not depend on the presence of a god or gods.

Look, I didn't say there has to be a belief in a divine being, I said

>> Lack of a belief in one or more divine beings or divine actions.

You have not expressed any belief in divine actions, divine interventions or even a divine design, so I find it pretty hard to consider it a religion with the way religions are currently recognised, formally or informally.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-23 10:16:47+00:00
Read my comment again. I literally said that various parts had various levels of precedents - and that the more successful parts were those with stronger precedents.

> Literally nothing in Web Components was ever battle-tested before release.

So you don't thing the ideas of modules or templates had had multiple precedents?

Totally agree that some aspects had much less precedent - and that's why, in the end, they either didn't get implemented or haven't got much traction.
by zeeZ | 2026-02-23 10:16:56+00:00
https://www.hetzner.com/pressroom/statement-price-adjustment...

Text in full:

> There have been drastic price increases in various areas in the IT branch recently. That is why, unfortunately, we must also increase the prices of our products.

> The costs to operate our infrastructure and to buy new hardware have both increased dramatically. Therefore, our price changes will affect both existing products and new orders and will take effect starting on 1 April 2026.

> We have genuinely tried hard to optimize our costs and to prevent increasing our prices for as long as possible. But we can no longer compensate for the strain that it has placed on our operations. We want to continue to deliver quality products that meet both our standards and your expectations, so we must take this step.

> The price changes take effect on 1 April 2026 and are for both new orders and existing products. There is list of affected prices on Hetzner Docs at https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availabi....
by ivan_gammel | 2026-02-23 10:17:24+00:00
More expensive than what? How much equivalent low latency inference costs today?

I think you completely miss the UX point here. In 1997 CRT screens were mainstream, LCD was in the early stage, phones had antennas. In 2007 an iPhone with LCD touch screen changed the UX of computing forever. This tech that we see today is a precursor of technology that will dominate tomorrow. Today local inference is painful and expensive, it consumes a lot of energy. NPUs/GPUs solve nothing here, and they will always be less effective than hardwired models - by design. So only question is, when the consumer performance expectation for open-weight models will cross the price curve of specialized chips. It may happen earlier than for generic NPUs.
by hn_throw2025 | 2026-02-23 10:17:31+00:00
There is consensus on r/gemini that the window is a matter of hours now, not 24h.

I subscribe to the AI Pro plan. I knew of a published limit of 100 Pro prompts per day, but before this month it seemed they were relaxed about it. I have now started to be rate limited on Pro when nowhere near that quota, due to too many prompts within a short time window (probably due to short prompts and not aggregating my questions). So now I use the Thinking (basically Flash) model and bump up to Pro for certain queries only.

There will always be a minority who spoil it for the majority.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 10:17:37+00:00
You say that in USA there are no good teachers because any that are good will find better-paying professions?

This sounds plausible. Like the previous poster, I have grown in an Eastern European country where everybody was extremely poor by today's standards. Education was not perfect and there were many mediocre teachers and even bad teachers.

However, there were also a great number of very good teachers, so there were good chances that you would happen to have at least a few good teachers. There were also many opportunities for the best students to learn beyond the normal curriculum, either by self-study in good free libraries or by attending special extra-curricular classes held by the best teachers for various sciences.

I have a lot of friends who have migrated to USA many decades ago. All of them complain about how bad is the education that their children are receiving, in comparison with what we had when we were young, which matches what the previous poster was saying.

While in the schools that I attended as a young child the teachers would have been considered very poor in comparison with any US teacher of today, in comparison with most other professions available at that time they had decent salaries, so indeed there were not many non-illegal alternatives that would have been a better career choice.
Show HN: Runner-agnostic typed test fixtures inspired by Playwright
by mrded | 2026-02-23 10:18:42+00:00
I really like the fixture model in Vitest and Playwright - typed, composable, dependency-based setup with automatic ordering and teardown.

That pattern is powerful, but it’s tightly coupled to those runners. I wanted the same model in bun:test and across projects using different test frameworks.

So I built a small runner-agnostic fixture system in TypeScript inspired by that approach.

It lets you:

- define fixtures with explicit dependencies

- request only what a test needs

- resolve setup order automatically

- deduplicate shared fixtures

- run cleanup in reverse order

- detect circular dependencies

It’s intentionally small and framework-agnostic.

I’d really appreciate feedback on the API design and whether this pattern makes sense outside Vitest/Playwright.
by UltraSane | 2026-02-23 10:19:11+00:00
Your conclusion from a single incident is a bad inference. One vehicle getting confused by a puddle (likely a sensor fusion edge case or mapping artifact, not a fundamental LIDAR failure) doesn't indict the technology. Tesla's cameras have produces vastly more failures.

Waymo has driven tens of millions of autonomous miles with a serious injury/fatality rate dramatically lower than human drivers. The actual data shows the technology works. Tesla FSD still requires active driver supervision and is not legally or technically a robotaxi system. Comparing them as if they're at parity is wrong.

LIDAR gives direct metric depth with no inference required. Camera-only systems must infer depth from 2D images using neural networks, which introduces failure modes LIDAR doesn't have. Radar is very valuable when LIDAR and cameras give ambiguous data.

What metrics has Telsa overtaken Waymo? Deployed robotaxi revenue miles? No. Disengagement rates? No published comparable data. Safety per mile in driverless operation? No.
by tvbusy | 2026-02-23 10:19:55+00:00
If you already have Home Assistant running, I think it should be simple. Most of the time you can buy devices with pins already soldered and it's just the matter of connecting them together. AIs are pretty good with ESPHome configs. You can even take a picture so that they can help you identify the correct pins. Some coding may be required for drawing things on the display though.
by giveexamples | 2026-02-23 10:21:00+00:00
rectcut is a good API for layout if you have a fixed viewport (eg eink display)

the API is a very simple one where you slice parts off an initial Rect. the only feature it provides is that it tracks (x, y, h, w) for you.

it doesn't work well with intrinsic sizes - it's more of a top down, fixed size thing.
by rfv6723 | 2026-02-23 10:21:32+00:00
Humanity has never known a world without surveillance. Responsibility cannot exist without being watched. Primitive tribes lived under the constant eye of the group, and agricultural eras relied on the strict oversight of the clan. Modern states simply adopted new tools for an ancient necessity. A society without monitoring is a society without accountability, which only leads to the Hobbesian trap of endless conflict.
by palata | 2026-02-23 10:21:35+00:00
> In his mind, he thinks

If people have to analyse what "he probably meant" and how "he probably thinks" because what he says is completely stupid, to me it's not a good sign.

> Even if he is right

Well he is obviously not, his analogy is completely stupid. What you try to rationalise as being "probably what he meant" cannot exactly be right or wrong, it's a bit philosophical. If the goal is to get as productive (or "useful") as possible before we as a species completely collapse, then maybe training a new model is as productive as 3000 people on average.

Now if the goal in life is that most living things are better in the long run, being productive is the opposite of what works. Again we are living a measurable mass extinction right now, that is happening orders of magnitudes faster than the famous one of the dinosaurs. We are failing at surviving as a species, and we are so good at it that we are making most other species fail to survive.

If "his philosophy" (again, the one we have to interpret because he is incapable of articulating something that makes sense) is that "the goal of our species should be productivity and not survival", then I can confidently say I disagree. But that's already giving him a lot of credit from this analogy.
by krapp | 2026-02-23 10:22:18+00:00
> We want to allow people to earn the luxury of retirement at a young age, including healthcare costs (not included in the US), children's higher education, etc etc.

Do we want that only ever be available to a privileged few?The goal here is to eliminate privilege such that the inequities of capitalism apply fairly (or unfairly) to everyone. $1m, A level of income which the vast majority of people will never see in their lifetimes, is clearly sustainable.

If you consider that an unreasonable burden then perhaps we should restructure society to be less capitalist such that everyone has an opportunity for healthcare and education regardless of income, and can retire at a more reasonable age.
by plastic-enjoyer | 2026-02-23 10:22:21+00:00
I think Nick Land will suffer the same fate as Friedrich Nietzsche. People vibe with the aesthetics of his philosophy without having read or understood his works. People will take ideas and quotes out of context in order to better rationalize their own actions, which can be already observed in Silicion Valley celebrities like Andreessen.
Nick Lands works are nuanced and may be one of the most important thinkers of this century. I can highly recommend some of his interviews because they are less obfuscated than his written works.
by tomhow | 2026-02-23 10:22:45+00:00
Sure, but it's not just the wording, it's the topic. The validity of belief in religion, and its bearing on the believer's authority about other matters, is just not a good topic to bring up after how we've seen the topic play out countless times on internet message board over more than three decades. Everyone just says what they always believe about the topic, and nobody learns anything new.
by mentalgear | 2026-02-23 10:22:51+00:00
Spot on, and beyond the 'double-dipping' business model of "academic publishers" like Elsevier and Springer, there’s a massive systemic issue: taxpayers fund >90% of foundational research, only for private pharma/bio/tech firms to add a thin layer of additional research (or design) on top and then lock it behind patents for decades. Another example of how private interests are offloading the risk and costs to taxpayers while privatizing all the rewards.
by IanCal | 2026-02-23 10:23:39+00:00
I'm not arguing to spend lots of money, I'm saying that this is not an unhealthy tech setup. It's quite clear from this writeup that they either enjoy it or were thinking about selling it, or both, and money does not seem to be a particular concern for them. They even explicitly say it's too much for typical consumers, so they're not trying to sell you on the idea of spending this.

> You can set an alarm on your phone

I don't see "manually setup another bit of technology make an annoying noise" as a nicer or more healthy integration of technology in my life compared to a note written on the wall.

> The fact that people are complaining about the cognitive load and beeping sound when running a washing machine is utterly baffling to me

Perhaps you're reading it in some tone that suggests these are huge issues for people to deal with. I am reading them as just niceties in life. I have tried for some time to practice responding to being baffled with assuming I've not understood something, I think you might be baffled here because you have misinterpreted what people have been saying or not understood their personal issues or how easy it can be to setup some of these things.

Same as the timer on my oven is useful, but I don't need one - I could do it entirely manually right?

I have things setup to notify me if we haven't setup the dishwasher and/or the door has been left open when we head to bed. I'm not in dire need of this and my life was not falling apart at the load of remembering to do it, but it took me less time to add an automation for that than it did to either go and check the dishwasher a few times or clean up bowls in the morning for breakfast by hand. It's caught things a few times, and it's another thing I don't need to keep in my head. I'm not sure why deliberately choosing to increase cognitive load is somehow a good thing, and these things all do build up. I could remember all my appointments and schedules and tasks I need to complete, but calendars and reminders and todo-lists are useful.
by grumbelbart2 | 2026-02-23 10:24:09+00:00
This goes deeper than the institutions, actually. The KPI for many (non-industrial) researchers is the number of publications and citations. That's what careers and funding depends on.

Goodhart's law states "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure", and that's what we see here. There is a strong incentive to publish more instead of better. Ideas are spread into multiple papers, people push to be listed as authors, citations are fought for, and some become dishonest and start with citation cartels, "hidden" citations in papers (printed small in white-on-white, meaning it's indexed by citation crawlers but not visible to reviewers) and so forth.

This also destroys the peer review system upon which many venues depend. Peer reviews were never meant to catch cheaters. The huge number of low-to-medium quality papers in some fields (ML, CV) overworks reviewers, leading to things like CVPR forcing authors to be reviewers or face desk rejection. AI papers, AI reviews of dubious quality slice in even more.

Ultimately the only true fix for this is to remove the incentives. Funding and careers should no longer depend on the sheer number of papers and citations. The issue is that we have not really found anything better yet.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-23 10:24:26+00:00
AI bubble won't last forever when a lot of compute is burned at a loss just so people can generate AI videos of sharks driving cars for social media shorts. It will burst at some point, at which HW manufacturing will have to lower prices if they still want to have enough sales to stay in business, since most of their current sales boom comes from HW they haven't even made yet.

OpenAI can't keep losing investor money forever with nothing to show for, at some point the first domino will fall, then the rest of the industry will go too from investor panic.
by palata | 2026-02-23 10:25:28+00:00
> He’s clearly saying “lots of important things consume energy” not “let’s replace humans with GPUs” or “humans are wasteful too”.

When people have to interpret what you are saying, assuming that you are too intelligent and empathic to mean what you actually said, I think it says a lot.

"What he said is wrong, illogical and dangerous, but you have to forget it and consider that he probably meant this completely different thing that I will expose to you. Because he cannot be rich and powerful AND capable of expressing basic ideas on his own, what did you expect?"
by a-french-anon | 2026-02-23 10:25:54+00:00
Reading your comment and all its subtree made me realize there's another difficulty to the problem: what atomic unit do you use? Tracks, albums, artists?

One might argue that "artist" isn't granular enough, since lots of (most?) artists change sound during their career. For the two others, I think recommendations should be trained and given separately (segregated, if you will) between people who listen to albums and those who only care about tracks/singles.
Created a tool that helps create short form content with subtitles
by darkeve | 2026-02-23 10:26:01+00:00
https://github.com/n7z2/vod2verticalclips-converter-transcriber

This tool takes vods either it be from a stream or anything you want to turn into short form content i.e. reels, youtube shorts.

Based on user timestamps of the vod, it will first splice the vod, then transform into the 1080x1920 format, either with a facecam section on the top defined by the user and the gameplay section on the bottom, or the main gameplay section can cover the whole video. Finally, using the faster whisper library it will generate .srt files from the video which can be used to help add subtilties via tools like DaVinci resolve and premier.

Linux and windows binaries included, all can be used for free.
by erremerre | 2026-02-23 10:26:13+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/samsung-mobile-device...

We don't know also most of the software failures that cause death.

Pretending that bugs don't kill people is not the way forward to solve the issue of having bugs in absolutely everything we have to deal with, sometimes by force.
by qznc | 2026-02-23 10:26:27+00:00
I know that automotive parts of the standard requirement to withstand 80°C (or 120°C for military use). A robot vacuum working in a living room can probably be made cheaper because it does not have to face as harsh environments?

Also, range is probably a factor. In a living room, you probably need something like 20m max. You car should "see" farther.
by KAMSPioneer | 2026-02-23 10:26:27+00:00
Spanish ISPs comply because Spanish judges issue legal injunctions that obligate them to institute these blocks. Sure, Movistar/Telefónica would do it anyway (I understand that they're the rightsholder in this case), but other ISPs are forced to do this by the courts.

I'm a US immigrant here and since I couldn't give a shit about soccer it is extremely annoying to be blocked from websites for something I am barely aware of. The ultimate irony is that none of this bears fruit because I am capable of streaming these games with no VPN by just avoiding CF sites if I had any desire at all. The blocks are invasive and yet ineffective.
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-23 10:27:19+00:00
Webgl or webgpu, but for ui you can just draw to a canvas and copy that canvas into webgl/webgpu. That means you can easily iterate on the ui system in 2d with mouse input similar to what you’ve been doing in python

But, as an example of similar complexity. I hacked together the first Ui I needed. It was 6 buttons and a slider. Then I realized I needed two more Ui panels and started to write more real Ui classes to abstract stuff out and, it just starts getting more and more complicated.

A slider needs to “capture the pointer”, meaning as you drag it, if to drag past the end of the slider and the pointer is now over another widget the events should still go to the slider. It’s not hard to implement, it’s just frustrating for me that I don’t actually want to write it. I just want to make my panel and if I could just use html id be done. Instead I’m spending my limited free time making this ui system. I don’t have that much and would be much further along in my actual goals except for this road block
by piva00 | 2026-02-23 10:27:22+00:00
Knock-down effects from the RAM shortage, starting to see CPUs shortage (lead times for Intel at 6 months for server-class CPUs, AMD also notified enterprise customers about a crunch), GPUs shortage, storage prices are increasing a lot as well.

Everything is much more expensive on the hardware-side at this moment, I think we will see these price increases across any provider that requires hardware, I'm just waiting until Backblaze notifies they will also need to increase pricing due to this.

AI is sucking money from everything, not only financial markets, it includes all of us consumers of anything that requires hardware to run on.

Hopefully this craze dies down in the next 1-2 years because it will be untenable to be paying 2-3x prices for the same technology we had for quite cheap just a year ago...