MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by imurray | 2026-02-11 10:31:41+00:00
The Falkirk Wheel is cool and a fun trip, along with the nearby Kelpies, which were much more striking in person than I'd anticipated.

The wheel is a one-of-a-kind, but there are other ways of avoiding having a ladder of flood locks, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boat_lift

I really liked this one in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough_Lift_Lock
Built as a real working lift lock (originally 1904), rather than as a tourist attraction. Powered by a little bit of extra water in one of the buckets to tip the balance and drive the pistons.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-11 10:32:35+00:00
Some friends and I used to cycle to it from Kirkintilloch, after fuelling up in the Brexitspoons on the high street, and then a quick pitstop to take on another pint or so of fuel at Auchenstarry because it's a hell of a long run to the next town (Bonnybridge, Banknock being a bit out of the way).
by qingcharles | 2026-02-11 10:32:41+00:00
When did we all stop using telnet? I can't even remember. Most of my first 10-15 years was using telnet. One day I used telnet to connect to a shell for the last time and didn't know it. I had a ton of servers all with root telnet access Internet facing. Never hacked once, somehow. Those were the days.
by enraged_camel | 2026-02-11 10:32:43+00:00
>> 1. Copy-pasting existing working code with small variations. If the intended variation is bigger then it fails to bring productivity gains, because it's almost universally wrong.

This does not match my experience. At all. I can throw extremely large and complex things at it and it nails them with very high accuracy and precision in most cases.

Here's an example: when Opus 4.5 came out I used it extensively to migrate our database and codebase from a one-Postgres-schema-per-tenant architecture to a single schema architecture. We are talking about eight years worth of database operations over about two dozen interconnected and complex domains. The task spanned migrating data out of 150 database tables for each tenant schema, then validating the integrity at the destination tables, plus refactoring the entire backend codebase (about 250k lines of code), plus all of the test suite. On top of that, there were also API changes that necessitated lots of tweaks to the frontend.

This is a project that would have taken me 4-6 months easily and the extreme tediousness of it would probably have burned me out. With Opus 4.5 I got it done in a couple of weeks, mostly nights and weekends. Over many phases and iterations, it caught, debugged and fixed its own bugs related to the migration and data validation logic that it wrote, all of which I reviewed carefully. We did extensive user testing afterwards and found only one issue, and that was actually a typo that I had made while tweaking something in the API client after Opus was done. No bugs after go-live.

So yeah, when I hear people say things like "it can only handle copy paste with small variations, otherwise it's universally wrong" I'm always flabbergasted.
by taysco | 2026-02-11 10:33:48+00:00
You could be right, I am much older and much more jaded than I was in those bright-eyed years. I could just simply have different perspective now.

Although, you made me think of the last time I felt that feeling was the first iPhone release. Going from our Nokia's with snake to the iPhone was also quite the experience. I remember my uncle getting one very, very early, maybe even pre-release and we went out for a big family dinner and there was like 15 of us just crowded around my uncle watching him use random apps. No one had ever seen anything like that before.

The problem/challenge w/ LLM's is we've been building interactive chat bots since the IRC days, probably earlier so the interface doesn't feel new. And no one really understand what's going on behind the scenes other than "it does stuff" and "sometimes it get's it right and sometimes... not so much". It's a weird technology lol
by vidarh | 2026-02-11 10:33:57+00:00
I think you're both right. Post-Github, a lot of Git's adoption came from Github. But Github "worked" because a lot of people were already using Git and Github offered them amazing value, and that initial userbase created a viral effect: People increasingly came into contact with Github via projects hosted there, and those who did not already use Git picked it up as a result of that.
Show HN: Hacker News for Songs
by lorenzosch | 2026-02-11 10:34:12+00:00
I built Sonusly, a small experiment in structured music discussion.

The idea is simple: take the core mechanics of HN, apply them to songs.

Search for any track, submit it with a title and short description, and the community can upvote and discuss. Discovery happens through ranking and conversation. It’s intentionally minimal.

Curious whether this format actually improves music discovery, or if it only works for tech.

Feedback welcome!
by cbility | 2026-02-11 10:34:13+00:00
> Hyperbolic growth is what happens when the thing that's growing accelerates its own growth.

Quibble: when a growth rate of a metric is directly proportional to the metric's current value you will see exponential growth, not hyperbolic growth.

Hyperbolic growth is usually the result of a (more complex) second order feedback loop, as in, growth in A incites growth in B, which in turn incites growth in A.
by nuancebydefault | 2026-02-11 10:34:30+00:00
To be honest, the 'bush hid the facts' bug was funny and was not really a vulnerability that could be exploited, unless... you understood Chinese and the alternative text would manage to pursuade you to do something harmful.

In fact, those were the good days, when a mere affair with your secretary would be enough to jeopardize your career. The pendulum couldn't have swung more since.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-11 10:34:42+00:00
But don't do the thing that American tourists do where they say "Oh we're staying in Edinburgh and on Wednesday we're going to drive up to Skye to see Dun-vay-gin Castle because it's our ancestral seat because we're totally MacLeods you know"

You won't be able to drive from Edinburgh to even Kyle and back in a day, never mind up to Dunvegan. You just won't.

I could drive you from Edinburgh to Dunvegan and back in a day but I can absolutely guarantee you're going to hate every single terrifying mile of the journey and you won't get to see much.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-11 10:34:51+00:00
Small, efficient gasoline vehicles are prohibited by CAFE standards in the US, but EVs are exempt. Generally new EV manufacturers have been starting with high-end vehicles, and working their way into mid-range, with hopes on eventual low-range vehicles.

Because EVs are exempt from CAFE standards, it does open up a niche at the very low end, and Slate and Telo are starting up production in that market, so one of their vehicles might appeal to you.
by tarasyarema | 2026-02-11 10:35:32+00:00
Working on multiple things focused mainly on how to push the limit of validating changes in an automated way in the world of AI:

- https://github.com/desplega-ai/qa-use CLI to control browsers and tests locally, coding agent friendly
- https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm OSS agent swarm that can be deployed with docker compose using Claude
- https://desplega.ai platform that supports qa-use backend

Cheers!
by AdamN | 2026-02-11 10:35:38+00:00
Cards are really slow and expensive to distribute and (tech forward) people would also prefer to just use their phone or watch. This is the kind or project that will take years to work and almost everybody now has a smartphone on one of those two operating systems in their pocket every time they leave the house.

Cards will have a slow demise over the next 10 years but it's coming whether we like it or not.
by bigchorizo | 2026-02-11 10:36:03+00:00
Here's a lifehack my dad taught me.
If you have cold feet and no way to warm them - stuff some newspaper (or any kind of paper really) in your boots or socks. Most of the cold comes from moisture and paper is incredibly good at sucking it all up. The difference is huge and instant .

I feel like this trick has saved me from catching a cold on quite a few occassions.
by kristoff_it | 2026-02-11 10:36:25+00:00
This the strongest argument against building a community on top of proprietary services, especially if's a startup / VC money is involved. It's guaranteed to enshittify / sell out to a big company, and your community will crumble.

That being said, I am guilty of helping building Zig communities on Discord, but in my defense none (literally none) of the FOSS alternatives was good enough at the time. And I'm also not really happy with plenty of the newer ones.

I'm now working on my own take of what an open source Discord alternative should look like and I plan to move away from Discord by the end of the year. You can find it on codeberg, it's called awebo, I'm intentionally not posting a link since these are super early days.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-11 10:37:03+00:00
This has hurt me specifically. Since I work without IDEs, no VIM, no vs code. On linux I use nano, on windows I use Notepad. I like the minimalism and the fact that I have absolute control, and that I can work on any machine without needing to introduce an external install.

Last couple of years notepad started getting more features, but I'm very practical so I just ignored them, logged out of my account when necessary, opted out of features in settings, whatever.

But now this moment feels like I must change something, we need a traditional notepad.exe or just copy it from a previous version, I'll try adding NOTEPAD.exe to a thumb drive and having that. But it's a shame that it breaks the purity of "working with what's installed".
by kimos | 2026-02-11 10:37:33+00:00
If it’s legit you can ask your ISP if they sell use of your hardware. Or just don’t use the provided hardware and instead BYO router or modem or media converter or whatever.

But I think what OP is implying is insecure hardware being infected by malware and access to that hardware sold as a service to disreputable actors. For that buy a good quality router and keep it up to date.
by vidarh | 2026-02-11 10:37:53+00:00
I'm building an "improvement agent" that kinda embraces that. It starts out by running exploration across a codebase or set of documents and extract possible goals, and a vision from that. It then starts producing improvement plans (tickets, effectively). If it gets things wrong, I nudge it in the right direction, and it gets incorporated into revisions of the documents via a review stage. It's an experiment for now, but it is both doing semi-self-directed implementation and helping me identify where my thoughts haven't been crystallised enough by seeing where it fails to understand what I want.

I'm not just running it on code, but on my daily journal, and it produces actionable plans for building infrastructure to help me plan and execute better as a result.
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by srean | 2026-02-11 10:38:45+00:00
If you need to support zoom, scaling shows up very frequently.

I can give an example from real life. A piece of code one of my colleagues was working on required finding a point on the angular bisector. The code became a tangle of trigonometry calls both the forward and inverse functions. The code base was Python, so there was native support of complex numbers.

So you need angular bisector of two points p and q ? just take their geometric mean and you are done. At the Python code base level you only have a call to sqrt. That simplifies things.
by somat | 2026-02-11 10:38:49+00:00
I want to complain about the terminology used. It is probably just me, but RCE implies no user action required. It is a stupid, bad error yes, but because it requires the user to load a payload file and click on a link I would not really categorize it as a "remote" code execution type vulnerability.

But yeah, pedantic terminology aside, what a stupid stupid error. In notepad, of all things, reading text files should be safe. It reminds me of the WMF failure. "No you can't get a virus from playing a video" is what I would tell people. And then microsoft in their infinite wisdom said "Herp Derp, why don't we package the executable video decoder right in the video file. It will make searching for a codec a thing of the past" Sigh, smooth move microsoft, thanks for making a liar out of me.
by AdamN | 2026-02-11 10:39:00+00:00
PayPal was a counterparty so if one side didn't pay or there was a dispute then PayPal was stuck in the middle. Visa and MC are just payment networks and have minimal risk. The only risk I think would be criminal liability (handling drug money) or maybe if the bank goes bankrupt before the payment is due to the merchant (but even that might be borne by they merchant - not sure).
by otikik | 2026-02-11 10:39:47+00:00
I would argue that those bad investments (such an understatement!) were clearly lobbied for by the military-industrial complex. So yes, the state dropped the ball, big, on those. But that was because the private sector pushed for it, probably also in a big way. I would say that, even though the politicians were ultimately responsible for those calamities, the CEOs who greatly enritched themselves from them are absolutely to be blamed, too.
by matttproud | 2026-02-11 10:40:57+00:00
Piggdekk in Norway are equivalent to North American studded tires. When I lived in the northern parts of the U.S., I had a set of these for times around freezing rains.

Beyond the questions of winter weather properties, there are adjacent tradeoffs between the tire types (outside of studded):

1. Fuel economy

2. Noise

3. Degree of particulate pollution emission

I'm sure that the all-season tires probably have some negative tradeoffs in these regards to, which yields a choose the most optimal product for the time of year. All-season tires to me seem like a convenience food for places where the weather can be legitimately bad.

One other difference that is hard to articulate to North American drivers with respect to understanding Scandinavia and roads: there are places where snow and ice will literally not be removed (maybe not even removeable) from the road when plowed (I presume until spring melt). It just becomes a thick ice pack over the course of weeks. I never encountered any roads in my life (including Northern Minnesota) that were this inclement. North American roads tend to be cleared (plowing or melting) to asphalt or pavement.
by dxdm | 2026-02-11 10:40:58+00:00
To me, the current AI boom is more like when McDonald's became available in my neck of the woods after '89. Amazing at first, but then you realize it's mostly sloppy grease that has its uses.

The wild technology race of the 90s, on the other hand, felt like a magical new dimension opening up. Maybe just because it took much longer to get thoroughly turned into a vector for BS.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-11 10:41:26+00:00
The difference between two-wheel and all-wheel drive is night and day, compared to the difference between winter and summer tires. Even then, it all goes out the door when conditions get icy and the only option is studs or chains, to get any traction.

Chain controls, and really all winter regulations, like snow load factors in buildings and whatnot, are created locally, not by the state. Most politicians are from Southern California, and all the state cares about is air condition efficiency and water usage, as though everyone lives in the desert.
by Jilong121 | 2026-02-11 10:42:38+00:00
I’ve been trading on Polymarket for a while and got tired of manually scanning hundreds of markets for edges or arbitrage—there’s just too much noise.

So I built this simple Chrome extension that overlays on Polymarket pages and highlights:
- Potential fair value edges and low-risk opportunities (ranked by yield)
- Sudden odds changes, weird markets, contrarian signals
- Basic hedging ideas
- Custom alerts for markets I watch

It’s mostly calling Gemini for analysis (nothing fancy under the hood), freemium, no credit card to try.

Not expecting it to print money—just trying to save time for myself. Curious if anyone here trades prediction markets: does this seem useful, or am I missing obvious flaws? Happy to hear brutal feedback on the signals/UI.
by user34283 | 2026-02-11 10:42:47+00:00
Great for him, but when you mention research and fun, I have to say I'm not aware MJ published any research whatsoever.

And on the topic of fun, while it's certainly highly subjective, I remember that the moderation with the MJ tool was at one point so strict that you could not generate an image containing a "treasure chest" since they censored the word "chest".

I'm happy that state of the art models are now developed by actors who publish comprehensive technical reports and open-weights.
by ofalkaed | 2026-02-11 10:42:59+00:00
Some are placing their bets and hoping to win big, some are just having fun and exploring the new technology and most are probably like me and have found those few areas that the technology works for them and ignores everything else. It is a fairly amazing technology, as a humanities sort that has no clue when it comes to programming but also has some things I want to make, LLMs are invaluable and not in the sense that they can write them for me—I am not capable enough in programming to get them to do what I want—but in the sense they can present things in a way a humanities sort can understand so I can write those programs I want.

A recent prompt of mine:

>Write a dialogue where H.P. Lovecraft and David Foster Wallace are tasked with developing a DSL for audio synthesis and composition, they are trying to sell each other on their preferred language, Lovecraft wants rust, Wallace Zig. Their discussion should be deeper than just the talking points and include code examples. Thomas Pynchon is also there, he is a junior dev and enamored with C, he occasionally interjects into the discussion and generally fails to follow the discussion but somehow manages to make salient points; Lovecraft never address Pynchon or C but alludes to the horror, Wallace tries to include and encourage Pynchon but mostly ignores him.

I pretty much knew how ChatGPT would use each of them; Lovecraft would view everything other than rust as some lurking unnameable horror, Pynchon would seem random and nonsensical, and Wallace would vainly attempt to explore all options without weighing in, and that is exactly what happened. Being able to get this sort of information within contexts I understand is amazing, 15 or 20 minutes later I had more direction than I ever had before and it answered a dozen or so language agnostic questions I had regarding implementing such a DSL which is really what I was after. And it gave me some good laughs.

A year ago I thought these projects would never move beyond being ideas, when ever I tried to get help from people they just told me what I was doing wrong and tried to send me down the path of their ideals, how they think things should be done, which was probably more a failure on my part than theirs with my being a humanities sort and incompetent programmer. LLMs have infinite patience and time, those people who I sought help from in the past were not completely wrong but they did try to lead me down a wrong path for what ever reason, partially because they don't have infinite time and patience but also because they thought they were right.

Henry James has been walking me through the PureData source this past week.

Everyone is not hyping AI/LLM, that is just the bias of tech communities and the like, most of us see it about the same as we see a blender or toaster. Can't remember the last time AI/LLMs came up in general conversation for me.
by zh3 | 2026-02-11 10:43:14+00:00
In the UK we have in fact discovered an alarming weakness in the concrete used to build schools, hospitals and other public building (in one case, the roof of a primary school collapsed without warning). The response was basically "Everybody out now".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_Kingdom_reinforced...

https://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/raac-crisis...

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/aug/31/what-is-ra...
YwinCap: Technical deconstruction of SEO-driven authority fraud
by ReviewShield | 2026-02-11 10:43:22+00:00
ReviewShield Anti-Extortion Lab is tracking a specific pattern of "authority manufacturing" utilized by YwinCap. This entity is a prime case study in using AI-generated content clusters to manipulate SERPs and create a veneer of institutional legitimacy.

Technical Observations:

Content Collateral: YwinCap utilizes news wire services to push "thought leadership" pieces that are technically hollow but SEO-optimized.

Regulatory Nullity: Forensic search of MAS and SEC registries returns zero hits for YwinCap, contradicting the "global advisory" image they project.

Infrastructure Association: Cross-referencing digital identifiers has linked their promotional material to domains hosting grey-market services (e.g., selling verified Wise/Binance accounts).

Verdict: YwinCap exhibits the architectural signatures of a front-end operation for a larger fraudulent network.
by vidarh | 2026-02-11 10:43:34+00:00
> When you push your commit, Checkpoints also pushes this metadata to a separate branch (entire/checkpoints/v1)

For Claude Code, this is literally a JSONL file in .claude/projects/[path with - instead of /]/[uuid].jsonl... You can trivially have Claude Code write a commit hook to do this for you if you find it useful.

I'm sure their vision is wider than that, but they will need to iterate fast for this not to be made obsolete before they can even release something.

FWIW, I had an agent adding archiving of the JSONL for changesets linked to the work they're doing right as I started looking at this article, as when you start automating a non-interactive agent flow it's such an obviously necessary step to be able to retrospectively improve the workflows.
by thehamkercat | 2026-02-11 10:44:31+00:00
Also, one more ridiculous thing

Send this to opus 4.5 or opus 4.6:

"udp you joke about hear a like would ? to"

It says: Chat paused
Opus 4.6’s safety filters flagged this chat. Due to its advanced capabilities, Opus 4.6 has additional safety measures that occasionally pause normal, safe chats. We’re working to improve this. Continue your chat with Sonnet 4.

what???? "Due to its advanced capabilities" ???

Due to it's advanced capabilities it didn't get the joke?
by KronisLV | 2026-02-11 10:45:13+00:00
Support both?

Like to log into e-banking services over here we either have phone apps, or a code calculator device that can be used instead of those: https://www.seb.lv/en/private/daily-banking/tools-and-online...

Seems like common sense to me, the same how I have a wallet on my phone but still carry cards for payments just in case.
by HugoTea | 2026-02-11 10:45:15+00:00
I do a similar thing but use the start menu search, Ctrl-C, WIN, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X. You can do it all in one hand and can get really fast, assuming the start menu doesn't lag behind.
There's also the downside that it publishes all of your clipboard content to Bing search so maintain vigilance for confidential data...
by TZubiri | 2026-02-11 10:45:24+00:00
>No real sandboxing, a mountain of legacy…

You have:

- Windows Sandbox (consumer-level sandbox)
- Creating a separate User (User folders are permission locked to their user by default, system binaries cannot be modified without admin access)
- HyperV (VM hypervisor)
- Edge Browsers

Don't get me wrong MSFT quality is dropping steeply, but this is still a strong point. For comparision, on Ubuntu, user folder by default can be read by all users.