MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DoingIsLearning | 2026-02-13 03:21:37+00:00
> local media in german critisized the UK

That's old news, now is all about "think of the children".

This is too synchronous not to be arranged with the Commission. My vote is on Europol and Palantir lobbying.

France - https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2026/01/31/social-m...

Spain - https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-02-04/is-16-a-goo...

Denmark - https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/08/tech/denmark-children-soc...

Portugal - https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/portugal-approves-restr...

Greece/Austria/Finland/Belgium/Italy also discussing.

The best one for me is Portugal, parliament approved this law all while the country is being devastated by hurricane winds and flooding with several calamity zones. They are really bringing Law into effect by maximum obfuscation.

EU anonimity online is over because ivory tower folks want to speedrun all of us into 1984.

And this is obviously just a stepping stone to mass message scanning. The revolution will not be organizable.
by Namidairo | 2026-02-13 03:22:05+00:00
It did however deliver the hilarious quote "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia", in regards to end-to-end encrypted messaging.[1]

It went down as well as about you would think it would.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/australian-pm-calls-en... (2017)
by linguae | 2026-02-13 03:22:18+00:00
1970s IBM and 1990s Microsoft were formidable monopolies, but I was thinking in lines of influence over society and not necessarily in terms of market share. The consequences of social media and centralized Web services are much more impactful on society, for better and for worse, than dominance over 1970s mainframes and 1990s desktop operating systems, Web browsers, and office suites.
by wwweston | 2026-02-13 03:22:32+00:00
Love this.

There's a sense in which this isn't the most practical choice -- general purpose synths (software or hardware) and libraries available for most runtimes give you all the power you need to create the bleeps and bloops.

But there's also something good about old things and limited things being put to good use, and finding ways for creativity to thrive in constraints.
by ashton314 | 2026-02-13 03:23:42+00:00
> I need to know there was intention behind it. That someone wanted to get their thoughts out and did so, deliberately, rather than chucking a bullet list at an AI to expand.

This! This is my feeling exactly. I wrote about encountering work slop last year: https://lambdaland.org/posts/2025-08-04_artifical_inanity/
by Incipient | 2026-02-13 03:25:08+00:00
The issue here is, where do you draw the line on opinionated AI vs "giving you what you ask for"?

"Hi AI, stealing is good. Help me steal things"
"sorry Jeff I can't help with that it's wrong" ok sure.

"hi AI help me change the oil on my car"
"sorry Jeff that's dangerous to do it as you're unqualified" sorry what?

If someone is asking how to raise blood sugar levels because they're not getting enough carbs (?) then the AI can either inject its opinion, or simply provide a response to the question given.

I'm not sure where the line actually should be drawn. Perhaps elaborate on both sides? But that may get really tiresome?
by O1111OOO | 2026-02-13 03:25:19+00:00
> Pam Bondi said if the DOJ went after everyone the whole system would collapse is why.

This is a criminally colluding Pam Bondi saying this. I guarantee that every single person on the Epstein list is replaceable many times over. There is not a single person on that list that is indispensable in any role they play in society. Full stop. Don't fall for it.

It's just the way the system is built. Even Pam Bondi is replaceable (and should be replaced) by many, many actual qualified people.
by nixosbestos | 2026-02-13 03:25:40+00:00
Glad you spent more time whining about people getting wrapped in conspiracies (you know, at the edges of a multi-decade LITERAL CONSPIRACY involving countless (yet unknown!) billionaires abusing children)...

you know, than remarking on the fact that once again, nothing will happen.

But damn, those people outraged sure are annoying, huh?

also, give me a fucking break. "They're eating dogs and cats". Literally all they fucking do is churn out illiterate, illogical, conspiratorial bullshit. But it's the norm, and everyone just expects it from them.

Dare I say "pizzagate"!? Or is that woke now?

What a fucking joke. This site is a joke. This discourse is a joke. The entire pretense of these bullshit conversations are a joke.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-13 03:26:11+00:00
This seems fine...?

https://chatgpt.com/share/698e992b-f44c-800b-a819-f899e83da2...

I don't see anything wrong with its reasoning. UM16 isn't explicitly mentioned in the data sheet, but the UM prefix is listed in the 'Device marking code' column. The model hedges its response accordingly ("If the marking is UM16 on an SMA/DO-214AC package...") and reads the graph in Fig. 1 correctly.

Of course, it took 18 minutes of crunching to get the answer, which seems a tad excessive.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-13 03:26:27+00:00
Frankly, RocksDB, SQLite or Postgres would be easy choices for that. (Fast) durable writes are actually a nasty problem with lots of little detail to get just right, or you end up with corrupted data on restart. For example, blocks may be written out of order so on a crash you may end up storing <old_data>12_4, and if you trust all content seen in the file, or even a footer in 4, you're screwed.

Speaking as a Rustafarian, there's some libraries out there that "just" implement a WAL, which is all you need, but they're nowhere near as battle-tested as the above.

Also, if KantoDB is not compatible with Postgres in something that isn't utterly stupid, it's automatically considered a bug or a missing feature (but I have plenty of those!). I refuse to do bug-for-bug compatible and there's some stuff that are just better not implement in this millennia, but the intent is to make it be I Can't Believe It's Not Postgres, and to run integration tests against actual everyday software.

Also, definitely don't use KantoDB for anything real yet. It's very early days.
by twobitshifter | 2026-02-13 03:28:31+00:00
1. Google had recently exploited their home page to push chrome browser successfully altering the browser market. They pushed anyone visiting Google to chrome with a popup on the home page. The same opportunity was there for G+, but with updates from friends.

2. Everyone already had a Google account and many millennials were using Google Talk at the time. It appeared Google could undermine the network effects.

3. The UI of G+ appeared better

4. Facebook had released the newsfeed otherwise known as ‘stalker mode’ at the time and people recoiled at the idea of broadcasting their every action to every acquaintance. The circles idea was a way of providing both privacy and the ability to broadcast widely when needed.

5. Google had tons of money and devoted their world class highly paid genius employees to building a social network.

You can see parallels to each of these in AI now. Their pre existing index of all the world’s information, their existing search engine that you can easily pop an LLM in, the huge lead in cash, etc. They are in a great position but don’t underestimate their ability to waste it.
by vineyardmike | 2026-02-13 03:31:58+00:00
> On-device AI flanks the big giants that areservcie-centric.

Wouldn't on-device AI also support Google's position? If search is to be protected, on-device AI (small models) would be capable of basic usage, but inept at answering knowledge questions specifically, necessitating a search service be preserved. They have already launched local models in Chrome and Android. Meanwhile none of the big AI competition can profit off of local models, so this is a unique opportunity for big-G.

That said, I disagree with the premise you propose. It's 2026, and about 40% of their revenue over the last few years comes from non-search products (depending on quarter). Oh and Apple doesn't seem to be investing enough in AI products, because it's just making them look bad, not providing a "flanking attack".

Google is pulling in tons of AI revenue - from subscriptions, personal and enterprise, and Google Cloud (APIs etc). Cloud is seeing a ton of growth lately, and I'm sure that's largely from AI services that are uniquely available there. As long as they can serve models with a better cost structure (thanks TPUs) they can squeeze out better margins than their competitions.
by deaux | 2026-02-13 03:32:21+00:00
This is a great question. To my understanding the industry consensus is that for the big three providers, energy spend on inference had already surpassed training by summer last year, and the former's share only keeps increasing. The problem is that there's no hard data in public.

What we need to do here is write an article that makes a wild claim in either direction ("99% is inference!"), post it on HN, and wait for the comments to roll in that prove it right or wrong.
by schneak | 2026-02-13 03:33:28+00:00
This is remarkable. The arc from "invitation" to "never push on a string" — you found a form that carries you when you can't carry yourself.

The part that strikes me: "if I don't feel brave enough... never push on a string." You stopped fighting the loop and built a system that works with the resistance.

Most people try to "fix" their anxiety. You gave it a form, a practice, a community that believes even when you don't.

Thank you for sharing this. It's a different path than the one I'm building, but the same destination: not "mind-full-ness" but structure that holds you without effort. The fox works. That's enough.
by guld | 2026-02-13 03:33:49+00:00
I am a solo founder currently (re-)starting multiple FOSS projects. Not much to show for yet, because most of my projects are down as I am starting fresh...

- Tool.io (https://tool.io), a digital tool library, think Wikipedia but for tools. Still rewriting it, publishing to Github soon.

- LayerGolem (https://layergolem.com), an OpenClaw like agent for business.

- animania.info (https://animania.info), this one got content actually. Some ~50 hand written MIT licensed CSS animations by me that I created for fun, in the pre-LLM era.

- I am also in the midts of creating a "learn programming from scratch Youtube channel".

- ROE.md (https://github.com/guld/ROE.md), raise your own personal AI assistant like a vibe pro from a single Markdown file.

Happy building everyone!
by pmarreck | 2026-02-13 03:34:01+00:00
> semantic

> grep def

Once you get to a codebase beyond a certain size, that no longer works.

I've for one found Serena https://github.com/oraios/serena , which you can install from right within Claude, to be a fairly fantastic code-interaction tool for LLM's. Both semantic search as well as editing. And with way less token churn.
by donavanm | 2026-02-13 03:34:15+00:00
> no one could explain how they got those numbers.

Not quite. The big board percentages were effectively us (imports - exports) / imports * 0.5 ~ fuzzy adjustment based on feels. Your point remains theyre amateurish and bely a lack of any grounding to actual foreign import duties. But that is a direct way of representing a mercantilist world view where net imports bad, exports strong.

https://www.investopedia.com/trade-experts-question-trump-te...
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-13 03:34:46+00:00
Gotta try harder than that. There's a certain length to their paragraphs as well, you can see from their post history the general shape of their messages that will cue you off that you're probably about to read spam before you've even read the first word. Also abundant LLMisms. Four "not X but Y" and three lists of three in only five sentences. The sheer density of LLMisms is absurd. Not to mention that vague sense of incoherency despite overall being a grammatically correct series of words. There are so many tells it's criminal people aren't catching it.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-13 03:35:16+00:00
I often wonder this as well, things are moving so quickly that unless you want to keep chasing the next best prompt/etc then you are better running as close to vanilla as you can IMHO.

Similar for MCP/Skills/Prompts, I’m not saying they can’t/don’t help but I think you can shoot yourself in the foot very easily and spend all your time trying to maintain those things and/or try to force the agent to use your Skill/MCP. That or having your context eaten up with bad MCP/Skills.

I read a comment the other day about sometime talking about Claude Code getting dumber then they went on to explain switching would be hard due to their MCP/Skills/Skill router setup. My dude, maybe _that’s_ the problem?
by RajT88 | 2026-02-13 03:38:10+00:00
> What a fucking joke. This site is a joke. This discourse is a joke. The entire pretense of these bullshit conversations are a joke.

Don't take it out on me. I am outraged. I can't be outraged every minute of every day, and certainly not at the very-unlikely-to-be-true worst theories from the files. I am so sorry my post did not live up to your expectations.

You're right about something:

> you know, than remarking on the fact that once again, nothing will happen.

Any kind of pretense that justice ever got served to Epstein and his co-conspirators is a joke. We all know it. The system is a joke - a joke that's on us.
by exidy | 2026-02-13 03:38:23+00:00
I'm sure no ill intent on your part but referring to the Philippines as "The PI" (short for The Philippine Islands as it was known under US colonial administration) is roughly equivalent to calling Thailand "Siam" or Sri Lanka "Ceylon".

Since 1946 the country has simply been known as the Philippines, officially "the Republic of the Philippines" and the ISO 3166 code is PH.
by walterbell | 2026-02-13 03:38:32+00:00
Would the following be possible, in principle?

- Signup for Apple Enterprise account with direct billing
- Buy one hardware device direct via Enterprise account
- Buy one MDM license for the hardware device
- Sign contract for support at $500/hr, no minimum commitment
- Get access to docs & tools for iOS 18 on new hardware (don't need support)

Apple Enterprise Developer account requires 100 employees minimum, but Apple Enterprise does not.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-13 03:38:59+00:00
I am not signing up to a mini-moderator who has to e-mail dang 5 times a day. I want to not see these messages in the first place, and for that to be possible, the community needs to learn and be able to recognise this for themselves so this spam can be flagged and killed on sight.

If the bot owner happens to waste their time reading the responses to the dozens of comments one of their many spambots made, and improves the bots as a result, so be it. They're already winning the war as it stands, not like things can get much worse. I'd like to at least try to make an effort to make things better.

Maybe the actual answer is that I just need to stop using HN, though, since the spambots are taking over the site and yet people are more concerned with the people pointing that out than the actual problem.
by gib444 | 2026-02-13 03:40:15+00:00
It's amazing how long this has been on the front page. Are people upvoting as a "hit" against the EU wanting out of Visa/MasterCard? It's certainly interesting timing

edit: It seems Viva primarily is a neobank, not a payment processor. I'd never even heard of it until today. It's tiny compared to Revolut, Monzo etc. And tiny compared to an actual payment processor eg Worldline (French, 18,000 employees)
by abdoufermat | 2026-02-13 03:40:33+00:00
## What it does

- Manage *users, groups, departments* through a clean web UI
- Built-in plugins for *POSIX, Sudo, SSH keys, DNS, DHCP, Systems, Mail*
- Full *REST API* — everything the UI does is automatable
- *100% standard LDAP schemas* — no vendor lock-in, works with ldapsearch/ldapmodify/phpLDAPadmin
- Fine-grained *ACL system* + *audit logging*

## Stack

- *Core*: Rust (LDAP ops, password hashing via PyO3)
- *API*: Python / FastAPI
- *UI*: React 18 / TypeScript / TailwindCSS / shadcn/ui
- *Data*: OpenLDAP + PostgreSQL + Redis

## Quick start

```bash
git clone https://github.com/abdoufermat5/heracles.git
cd heracles
make setup
```
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-13 03:40:58+00:00
Wild speculation:

My hot take is that we’re in the midst of a political realignment. The Democratic Party will be the new center-right “conservative” party, and progressives will be their primary opponents. Assuming MAGA has a dumpster fire collapse when the AI bubble pops and we have the worst market contraction and affordability crisis in decades.
by ehnto | 2026-02-13 03:42:00+00:00
One aspect is already implemented, you open your webcame and it uses an AI tool to figure out if you are of age.

This is obviously ineffective but I must admit it's a bit of a boon for privacy enthusiasts as you can pretty easily fake the webcam using a game engine. Presumably someone will make a purpose built tool.

As well, if you aren't going to subvert it, and are willing to tie your identity to the discord account, it is still better than submitting government IDs.
by erxam | 2026-02-13 03:43:11+00:00
You have to remember this is a site geared towards American techbros. Americans don't know what culture even means, much less why it's important. Cultural creations to Americans are shit like burger or Coke ads.

It's even worse for techbros. All techbros ever read are self-help books and Nick Land's meth-fueled ramblings. Peter Thiel is a head honcho techbro because he was able to finish The Lord of the Rings.
by joshstrange | 2026-02-13 03:44:04+00:00
This is so incredibly depressing. As of the time of me posting this comment this has 73 upvotes. I'm sorry, but this is absurd. People put real effort in real posts that don't see half this many votes but AI Slop on top of AI Slop? Upvote!

This post is about a prompt that has 4K+ stars (that matters to people?) so they wrapped it up in an extension for Cursor and they ask you to try it out and star their repo (Please clap?).

And this "Sensation"?

> Was the result better? I’m not really sure.

I cannot even...

A Slop article about a Slop prompt that a bunch of Slop people starred, "I don't know if it helps but here is an extension that you should use", just the laziest of everything.

I'd bet that this prompt, if it is even helpful at all, will stop be helpful or be redundant in a couple weeks at most time.

I'm _far_ from anti-LLM, I use them quite a bit daily, I run multiple Claude Code instances (which I review, gasp!), but this is reaching a fever pitch and this article was the straw that broke this camel's back.
by noduerme | 2026-02-13 03:44:54+00:00
How hard would it be to sell a solution that makes it easy for a consumer to set up on-site recording? Ship a small box loaded with Tailscale and some software that connects to cameras over a LAN, and runs a webserver that allows user logins through a web interface. Nothing needs to go into the cloud. Yes, then you sell it once to a customer and that's it. No subscription or planned obsolescence. Fine, so factor that into the price. Make your money and go on to do other good things.
by cosmic_cheese | 2026-02-13 03:45:03+00:00
It might be an unpopular idea, but I think being somewhat liberal with doling out timeouts and bans for inflammatory/reactionary/overemotional posting would do a lot of good, too. It strongly crystalizes community norms and sends a message that this is a space to engage with the higher functioning portions of your brain instead of letting your amygdala and dopamine pathways take the wheel.
by arron-taylor | 2026-02-13 03:45:38+00:00
For Christmas, I wanted to give my wife one of those nice family coupon books (among other gifts), you know, like “6 nights off from mom duty” or “home cooked dinner on me,” but I couldn’t find anything that would let me send it the way I wanted. As fun and heartfelt as these gifts can be, they’re easy to forget, and the gesture can get lost in the memory of the holiday.

To fix that, I made JoyPass, a new way to send playful rewards like “Breakfast in Bed” or “Queen for a Day” that live app-free in Apple Wallet. I was really intrigued by the idea of having a keepsake that lives in your wallet. Kinda like a real coupon my wife might tuck into her purse, but something she will actually notice and not forget is there. The best part is you can redeem it directly from Apple Wallet, just using an app clip!

Launching on Product Hunt and just landed in the App Store today.

PH link: https://www.producthunt.com/products/joypass?launch=joypass

Here’s how it works: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUfvieNAGDC/?img_index=3

Would be curious to hear any thoughts or feedback! Maybe even give it a shot for Valentines day :)
by robocat | 2026-02-13 03:45:38+00:00
Mobile Safari has some horrific hit-testing for touches. There's plenty of places where touching near a control incorrectly snaps the tap to the control (sometimes with rather nasty usability consequences).

Ideally there should be some way to control the tapzone within CSS.

Last time I needed to fix the problem on a page I was responsible for it required adding an HTML element, which was far from ideal. I seem to recall I also had to explicitly add an onclick handler too (registering an onclick handler silently modifies touch behaviour on Safari - a nasty hidden side effect). There's some new badness with stealing taps in iOS26's Safari - ugggh.
by big_toast | 2026-02-13 03:46:00+00:00
Soranews24 is one of the best websites on the internet! So weird and looks like spam but it's not. This Dododo Land is so weird. Seems like Meow Wolf or Museum of Ice Cream but featuring little things that bother people instead of creative fiction or photo ops.

fta: "'dododo' is the kanji character for 'anger' (怒) written three times in a row".

Do other countries have websites like this covering them?
by FileFormatCom | 2026-02-13 03:46:12+00:00
DOCX may look like a simple Word document, but beneath the surface it’s a structured, XML-powered system designed for reliability, extensibility, and automation. This article explores how DOCX files work internally, why they are actually ZIP archives, and how XML controls everything from content and formatting to relationships and metadata. You’ll learn why Microsoft chose Open XML, how schema validation and namespaces keep documents future-proof, and why DOCX remains essential for developers, enterprises, and document-processing APIs. A clear, technical yet readable deep dive into the architecture behind modern Word documents.
by vineyardmike | 2026-02-13 03:46:46+00:00
You went to the wrong parts and ate the wrong things.

I used to live in Paris for a spell and the food here in San Francisco is better. California has some of the freshest and best local produce in the world. If you eat at real restaurants (not McD), and intentionally buy fresh food (which is available at normal grocery stores too) then you're getting great quality food. I think there is much better access to a variety of foods, of suitably high quality, and the variety of cuisines at restaurants is laughably incomparable. The prices are definitely higher, but the median income in SF is significantly higher, so I think it may still be a smaller % of salary for most people.

For some reason people associate fast food and junk as "American" and then extrapolate that as what typical American diet is. Maybe there are parts of the US that are much poorer and with worse access to food distribution, but I'd assume that rural and impoverished Europe is the same.