MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by neya | 2026-02-10 10:28:06+00:00
So, we just discard someone's workmanship history and dump $x,00,000 just because of the brand value? 3 years ago but still relevant for a company who charges $500k for such poor workmanship. This is acceptable from a normal manufacturer like Hyundai (which ironically has much, much better welding standards), not from a luxury car company.
by tarsinge | 2026-02-10 10:28:08+00:00
> another car sees a gap and changes lanes in front of you

Usually if you maintain the slightly slower speed you had to maintain a safe following distance it doesn't matter, as the distance will either increase or they'll leave for another lane. You have to get used to drivers doing messy things in front of you, but at a safe distance. When doing this you are in fact helping the traffic becoming more fluid.
by prabhav2405 | 2026-02-10 10:28:17+00:00
The way SaaS is discovered, evaluated and managed today is fundamentally broken.
- Teams are drowning in tool sprawl.
- Reviews remain shallow.
- SaaS lifecycles are fragmented.

SaaS decisions & executions have become multi-dimensional, but the systems supporting those decisions haven’t evolved. The core problem isn’t SaaS availability - it’s that platforms & marketplaces don’t understand context, workflows, or lifecycle ownership. The truth is simple but often ignored: , ,

For the past several months, we are building something to address this directly: GetMySaaS. GetMySaaS is an intelligent, interoperable SaaS ecosystem designed around how software decisions actually happen inside real teams dealing with digital tools#AI #SaaS #Development #tools.

Instead of acting as a directory of tools, the platform functions as a decision layer for SaaS builders and enterprises supported by hashtag#contextual discovery,hashtag#personalized evaluation,hashtag#seamless adoption, and hashtag#reliable lifecycle management.

The marketplace intends to evolve as a compounding ecosystem of founders, operators, teams, and digital products to create mutual leverage globally moving towards agentic commerce.
Show HN: Cross-platform RSS reader with user-defined prompt workflows
by vinsonguo | 2026-02-10 10:28:22+00:00
Hi guys, I build a cross-platform RSS reader (Android/iOS/macOS/Windows) and I am very excited to share it!

The best part is the Al features. It can help you do summaries, translations, and analysis by customizing prompt. It can also group and summarize 100 articles by topics, very efficient way to get rid of overwhelmed unread items. You can also share the content in markdown format to your note/read later apps.

Also, the reading experience is very smooth and comfortable. It has 1000+ fonts and many custom options. For accessibility, I added full VoiceOver/TalkBack support and Bionic Reading. Many users with ADHD gave me very good feedback.

If you like listening, it supports TTS and podcast, with play queue and background play.

It can sync with Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin, Buzqux, Folo and Inoreader(Developer API). It also has intelligent Feed Detection - Just paste a Blog/Podcast/Newsletter/Medium/Bluesky/Mastodon/Youtube/Reddit URL and let SmartRSS find the right feed.

Cheers!

Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vinsonguo....

AppStore https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smartrss-ai-rss-reader/id67497...
by netsharc | 2026-02-10 10:28:29+00:00
Since humans still prefer to work in daylight and sleep in darkness, even without timezones you still need to have extra information in addition to "what time is it" to figure out if Steve in Australia will be awake at @700 or asleep...

Maybe when the nuclear winter makes it dark all the time, or forces us all to live underground, then we can abolish timezones.
by duskdozer | 2026-02-10 10:29:12+00:00
My only real experience with matrix was joining a community server for some program because I had a problem and couldn't get more info elsewhere. Started off that I couldn't read any past messages, I guess because encryption? Alright, so I asked my question. Come back the next day, and because my browser deletes cookies on close, I couldn't log in because I had no logged in device to confirm the login with, or something like this. Gave up. Maybe there was some recovery codes on sign up that I missed, but I always save those.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-10 10:29:42+00:00
> dark water streaks and humidity issues because gutters are for the weak

One of the things that really drove it home was when around 20ish years ago I worked on a project to fit microwave links to provide broadband around Glasgow (ADSL2 was a ways off and only 8Mbps, and we could do 155Mbps with microwave).

Many of the Brutalist tower blocks had - at some considerable expense, in the 1990s or so - had been retrofitted with a steel-framed pitched roof over the existing flat roof. The space in between was lovely and dry, and we often fitted open network racks right there on the roof, where previously it would have been exposed to the elements.

Evidently no matter how hard you try, that squared-off flat roof aesthetic is just incompatible with West Coast Weather.
by fransje26 | 2026-02-10 10:29:48+00:00
> If you double following distance, you halve the throughput. If you halve following distance, you double your throughput.

That postulate breaks down as soon as you move away from a laminar traffic assumption and include distracted drivers, lane changes, and weather influences. Which is why the wave theory model is important to understand the propagation of perturbations and their effect on maximum throughput.

> The throughput of a (full, i.e. rush-hour) road has nothing to do with speeds of people driving, and everything to do with following distance.

And yet, in the limit case of a bumper-to-bumper situation (or, in fluid dynamics parlance, an incompressible flow), the variable determining the change in mass flow-rate is the velocity of the medium. Mimetically, we could also look at ants. To ease congestion in a bumper-to-bumper situation, they accelerate.
by pwatsonwailes | 2026-02-10 10:29:59+00:00
It's instructive though, despite the flaws, and at this point has been replicated enough in different ways that we know it's got some basis in reality. There's a whole bunch of constructivist research around interactionism, that shows that whilst it's not just the person's default ways of behaving or just the situation that matters, the situational context definitely influences what people are likely to do in any given scenario.

Reicher & Haslam's research around engaged followership gives a pretty good insight into why Zimbardo got the results he did, because he wasn't just observing what went on. That gets into all sorts of things around good study design, constructivist vs positivist analysis etc, but that's a whole different thing.

I suspect, particularly with regards to different levels, there's an element of selection bias going on (if for no other reason that what we see in terms of levels of psychopathy in higher levels of management), but I'd guess (and it's a guess), that culture convincing people that achieving the KPI is the moral good is more of a factor.

That gets into a whole separate thing around what happens in more cultlike corporations and the dynamics with the VC world (WeWork is an obvious example) as to why organisations can end up with workforces which will do things of questionable purpose, because the organisation has a visible a fearless leader who has to be pleased/obeyed etc (Musk, Jobs etc), or more insidiously, a valuable goal that must be pursued regardless of cost (weaponised effective altruism sort of).

That then gets into a whole thing about what happens with something like the UK civil service, where you're asked to implement things and obviously you can't care about the politics, because you'll serve lots of governments that believe lots of different things, and you can't just quit and get rehired every time a party you disagree with personally gets into power, but again, that diverges into other things.

At the risk of narrative fallacy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKDdLWAdcbM
by throwaway290 | 2026-02-10 10:30:50+00:00
In Russia none of that slippery slope stuff happened. Just they murdered journalists and opposition, installed TPUs at every ISP and passed a law making any VPN related advice illegal. And people are fine with that apparently

In Thailand porn was straight up illegal for ages and everything else was sane and open... until new government decided to kill freedom of speech.

So slippery slope is illusion. If government is bad it don't need to try to be so complicated and gradual. It can't even think so far ahead, they will no longer be elected when that times comes.

As for social media banning for teens that's just common sense. Social media is fuming pile of garbage designed to make people feel miserable so that corporate overlords make $$$ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58570353.amp
by nxobject | 2026-02-10 10:30:57+00:00
Wowee, a dedicated machine! I built my own lying press with wooden cutting boards, and neatened out the edges of my text blocks with the blade of a chisel/single bevel utility knife that could be laid flat. I used an old application called Cheap Impostor that converted PDFs to printable signatures for me.

I was writing an honors thesis then, and DIYing my old books was much more interesting (and relaxing) way to get a book that I'd otherwise have to wait a month to get via interlibrary loan. Don't ask me where I got the scanned pages from...
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-02-10 10:31:17+00:00
> Does this car also come with an exterior?

technically no, since it doesn't come at all yet. It has yet to be launched. But the exterior is likely final or close to it by now.

Dripfeeding details in advance is a publicity move. It makes people hungry to see more. Expect to see it some time before launch in 2026.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2026-02-10 10:31:26+00:00
@dang I'm flagging because I believe this title is misleading, can you please substitute in the original title used by Technology Review? The only evidence for the title appears to be a link to this tweet https://x.com/HumanHarlan/status/2017424289633603850 It doesn't tell us about most posts on Moltbook. There's little reason to believe Technology Review did an independent investigation.

If you read this piece closely, it becomes apparent that it is essentially a PR puff piece. Most of the supporting evidence is quotes from various people working at AI agent companies, explaining that AI agents are not something we need to worry about. Of course, cigarette companies told us we didn't need to worry about cigarettes either.

My view is that this entire discussion around "pattern-matching", "mimicking", "emergence", "hallucination", etc. is essentially a red herring. If I "mimic" a racecar driver, "hallucinate" a racetrack, and "pattern-match" to an actual race by flooring the gas on my car and zooming along at 200mph... the outcome will still be the same if my vehicle crashes.

For these AIs, the "motivation" or "intent" doesn't matter. They can engage in a roleplay and it can still cause a catastrophe. They're just picking the next token... but the roleplay will affect which token gets picked. Given their ability to call external tools etc., this could be a very big problem.
by somewhereoutth | 2026-02-10 10:31:55+00:00
Indeed. And this burden of a top heavy population pyramid is a major reason for not having [more] kids - a vicious circle, which, if left to continue, will result in humanity simply evaporating.

A pretty depressing place, with whole towns and cities abandoned, as the dwindling population huddles closer together. Not just geography though, there would also be a retreat in the arts, sciences, etc as there are simply not enough people to maintain let alone advance these endeavours. Life would be about eking the last out of what was left over from the 'glory days', a sort of slow motion apocalypse.
by atzmzt | 2026-02-10 10:32:01+00:00
"Europe was never born as one nation. It was born from many countries, cultures and histories.

What first unified us with the values of the enlightenment: reason, human dignity, freedom and the rule of law.

They were the rope. The rope that bound many sticks into something impossible to break.

Overtime, we strengthen that rope through research, innovation, regulation, and the single market.

Today, it can all change.

Great powers know that if they can loosen the rope, the sticks become easy to break.

That is why trust is attacked.

That is why facts are made "alternative".

That is why trade is weaponized.

Security is therefore not only about borders or weapons.

Security is about building cohesion, strengthening competitiveness, protecting a healthy environment and investing in resilience.

This is how we strengthen the rope today.

So to you who lead Europe, this is what we say: strengthen the rope."
by absynth | 2026-02-10 10:32:21+00:00
Why is the sky blue?

rayleigh scattering.

what's that?

light from sun bouncing around.

why?

because it does.

why is it blue though?

green was taken.

why?

do you want chocolate or raspberry icecream?

chocolate!

yay!

(No, this isn't the best way. But it was A way and that was enough. The kid became a physics lecturer.)
by IanCal | 2026-02-10 10:32:23+00:00
> since no such diagnosis exists.

The very specifically American diagnostic criteria are not particularly relevant, but more to the point

> we ought to at least stick to a science-based approach. Right now there is no basis to conclude that even a single person is addicted to TikTok,

I'd recommend reading the overview

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

> The Commission's preliminary views are based on an in-depth investigation that included an analysis of TikTok's risk assessments reports, internal data and documents and TikTok's responses to multiple requests for information, a review of the extensive scientific research on this topic, and interviews with experts in multiple fields, including behavioural addiction.
by bl0rg | 2026-02-10 10:32:38+00:00
> Which is knowledge that really should factor into the decision to build the next, bigger one.

It was always factored in, and of course it would be in any next iteration.

> Invest the money and effort elsewhere, for now. There are many other fields of scientific exploration that are very likely to yield greater return (in knowledge and utility) for less. You could fund a hundred smaller but still substantial intiatives instead of one big accelerator. And be virtually guaranteed to have an exciting breakthrough in a few of them.

I agree with this to a large extent. I'm just not against particle accelerators as a venue for scientific advancement and in the best of worlds we could do both.
by PranayKumarJain | 2026-02-10 10:32:39+00:00
Nice write-up — turn-taking is the whole game.

Two things that bit us building production voice agents:
1) “Barge‑in” feels broken unless you can cancel TTS + LLM immediately (sub‑second) and you treat partial STT hypotheses as first-class signals (not just final transcripts). A simple trick: trigger cancel on any sustained non-silence above a low threshold, then re-enable once you’ve seen N ms of silence.
2) Echo / duplex audio: if you don’t subtract your own TTS audio (or at least gate VAD while TTS is playing), you’ll get false user-starts. Even a crude ‘TTS playing → raise VAD threshold’ helps.

We’re building eboo.ai (voice agents w/ fast barge‑in + streaming orchestration) and ended up with a very similar architecture (telephony + STT + TTS co-located, everything streaming). If you’re curious, happy to compare notes on jitter buffers / geo placement and what’s worked in the wild.
by KempyKolibri | 2026-02-10 10:32:45+00:00
Welcome, always nice to talk about this stuff - nutrition science is a very interesting field because it's such a slippery subject to get right. Every day's a school day and I'm never as right as I think I am!

That take on eggs sounds about right regarding numbers per day and risk. If you look at the ACM risk associated with various food groups in figure 2 from this paper (https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00029165220492...) then you can see the ACM risk hitting significance at around 55g/day, which is about 1 large egg.

Dave Asprey is such a wild dude. Who is eating rice for protein? Bizarre straw man!
Show HN: Scaapr – Making static VC market maps interactive and searchable
by nissims | 2026-02-10 10:33:08+00:00
Hi HN,

VCs love publishing dense "Market Map" JPEGs, but they are essentially dead data. If you see a logo you like, you have to manually Google it to figure out what they do.

I built a tool called Scaapr that takes these images and reverse-engineers them into structured data.

How it works:

Upload a market map image.

AI extracts the hierarchy (Category -> Subcategory -> Company).

We run a "disambiguation" step to match logos to real Crunchbase entities.

The result is a fully searchable, interactive board.

Example: I ran the Sapphire Ventures "Cybersecurity Market Map" through the system. You can see the result here:

Would love your feedback on the accuracy and any other features you'd find useful!
by yxhuvud | 2026-02-10 10:34:14+00:00
That is not an option - it may be layers on layers of them and force you to recreate half the library and force you to have to redo subsequent version updates in your code. Then a shim is the preferred solution. But anything that requires a C compiler for FFI is something that won't make anyone happy. Hence my claim that it really is something that needs fixing on the language or linker level.
by rvz | 2026-02-10 10:34:40+00:00
If you do not know what you want to build, how to ask the AI what you want and are unable to tell what the correct requirements are; then it becomes a waste of time and money.

More importantly, As the problem becomes more complex, it then matters more if you know where the AI falls short.

Case study: Security researchers were having a great time finding vulnerabilities and security holes in Openclaw.

The Openclaw creators had a very limited background in security even when the AI entirely built Openclaw and the authors had to collaborate with the security experts to secure the whole project.
by KronisLV | 2026-02-10 10:34:52+00:00
Most people are on Discord, joining servers has very little friction (no separate accounts), there's decent bots and mod tools and such, ability to create as many channels per server as you want (e.g. for discussions, media, music, whatever) and participate in text based conversations more or less live. It's also easy to jump into a VC and chat while you play games with friends, share screen, stuff like that.

Most alternatives suck for that purpose. There is search for server members and the "blinking things" keep you up to date with where the new stuff is and I presume give you dopamine hits. It's simply not old school forum software and considerations that'd make sites like that good don't enter the equation at all - which also makes attempts at turning Discord into a support forum for any "organized" group or project misguided at best, but also great for the more casual gaming/interest oriented communities.
by outime | 2026-02-10 10:34:53+00:00
As someone who spent countless hours on IRC when I was younger and enjoyed 99% of it to the fullest... I'd kindly suggest refraining from pushing IRC any further. It has had its run, and while I know it still exists, it's nowhere near what it once was and it's not coming back.

Times have changed and people have different expectations. Nobody (except very few) is going to use multiple services and set up a bouncer just to get the basics working. It's better to spend time building a good replacement that keeps up with current needs than trying to push these old systems onto people, especially younger ones.
by ge0rg | 2026-02-10 10:36:08+00:00
This is technically true, and nobody contested the CABF's focus on HTTPS TLS.

However, eventually, the CABF started imposing restrictions on the public CA operators regarding the issuance of non-HTTPS certificates. Nominally, the CAs are still offering "TLS certificates", but due to the pressure from the CABF, the allowed certificates are getting more and more limited, with the removal of SRVname a few years ago, and the removal of clientAuth that this thread is about.

I can understand the CABF position of "just make your own PKI" to a degree, but in practice that would require a LetsEncrypt level of effort for something that is already perfectly provided by LetsEncrypt, if it wouldn't be for the CABF lobbying.
by roflcopter69 | 2026-02-10 10:36:45+00:00
Fixed some of the things, indeed. But don't let this blog post fool you. When using discriminated unions, Pydantic exports JSON schema with `oneOf` while the google-genai expects `anyOf` so that does not work out of the box. Also it still does not support basic stuff like when you have this in you Pydantic model: `foo: Literal[1, 3, 5]`

It's still far from what I'd expect should be supported.
by literalAardvark | 2026-02-10 10:36:47+00:00
That's because you're not in the target market. And I guess not interested in the space.

Discord's key value proposition is that it's a trusted zero friction voice chat with a lot of features.

The workflow that made it huge: organizer creates a server for a game, creates a short link for a voice channel. The organizer then goes to play their game, shares the short link with their group.

The members click the link, write whatever they want as the name, click join and are in the voice chat. Say hi and go into the dungeon to have fun.

Need more? Just share your screen with one click. Streamer mode kicks in and hides all pii in the discord interface. Easy global bindings for push to talk.

If the outing is fun some of them will create profiles and stay in the server and play together again.

It's all very organic and easy, while being trusted as a brand so people don't have to hesitate to click your jitsi.weirdgamer.tk link.
by ben_w | 2026-02-10 10:37:17+00:00
> Why has the world not made an open-source zero trust dating app?

What would that even mean?

Not the open source part, what is a "zero trust dating app"?

Given what we see in other primates, abusive spouses almost certainly predate anatomically modern humans, while gold diggers will have likely existed from the moment we abstracted money in the sense of "rare shiny rock that is a token of power to be spent in the future".
by KempyKolibri | 2026-02-10 10:37:18+00:00
The thing is, the 0.08% doesn't capture the total potential risk reduction - only the risk during the timeframe of the study (8 years in this case). Where we're talking about exposures and outcomes that stack over time (exposure to LDL and heart disease being a classic one) the absolute risk is, in my opinion, more misleading than the relative risk.

For example you see this oft-quoted stat about "statins only increase lifespan by 3 days" based off relatively short RCTs, but this doesn't capture the effect of statin use over decades, which is where we see much, much bigger gains.

It seems to me that both RR and AR are things to take into consideration and we have to be mindful of the shortcomings of each.
by gib444 | 2026-02-10 10:37:38+00:00
Grindr is trash. It's mostly full of desperate incompatible people (i.e. same sexual position, mostly passives), open couples who just want dopamine hits and other time-wasters. Good luck with offering a $500 sub!

You'd actually be better off spending $500/mo on an escort or two. Surely they've realised at that price point, that's a serious competitor