MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vasilyt | 2026-02-25 16:59:27+00:00
Setup is installer-first. There are install files for macOS and Windows, so you don’t need to configure dev tooling or run build steps. Install, launch, and the local server/UI opens. From there, you create a room and set an objective.

Advanced configuration exists if you want it, but the default path is designed so you can start without doing manual engineering work.
by bdavbdav | 2026-02-25 16:59:31+00:00
Not sure if you've worked in an office recently, but on google workspace I (we) use very regularly:

- Group Editing - this ones hard to get right
- Reviewing Tools
- Automated document generation
- Embedding of data-backed images from 3rd party tools

Looking at my wife who works in government, they use it even more heavily, with a lot of complicated formatting, numbering, standards etc going into each document, plus OneDrive collaborative features on top of that.

I suspect office-user people are where most of the features get used. Agreed, most people only use 15% of the features, but which 15% that is likely changes quickly person to person.
by groos | 2026-02-25 16:59:32+00:00
It's what caused me to move away from FreeCad to OnShape. Never had an issue in OnShape but got hit with it every time in FreeCad. The sad thing is that there was a fork for a long time which had addressed this problem, and added other nice enhancements as well, but they never merged that work. I guess every org has political problems and FreeCad is no exception.
by guywithahat | 2026-02-25 16:59:41+00:00
Possibly a hot take but Houston makes more sense in my mind as a city to do this in compared to Austin. Houston is the fourth largest city in the US, it has no city zoning, and is the most wonderful place in the world to do business (at least in my experience). There's a risk if you do it in Austin that suddenly all your employees get priced out whenever the city forgets to update zoning (which has happened in the past, although to their credit they did eventually increase density and prices dropped)
by gip | 2026-02-25 16:59:50+00:00
Similarly, in the 2000s, the US pushed back against the development of Galileo and preferred that Europe continue relying on GPS. That created tensions between the US and the EU.

Fighting data sovereignty is a losing battle for the US: data are too strategic to outsource, even to allies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation)
by ffsm8 | 2026-02-25 17:00:02+00:00
Ynow what's fucked up? I knew within the first few sentences that you're doing that on purpose, but still found myself wondering if you're a an LLM. I mean I knew you weren't, but the question is already so deeply ingrained at this point - and then you use the pullet points to boot...

This loss of trust is getting tiresome. Depending on context we've likely all wondered if something is astro turfed, but with the frequency increase from llms it's never really possible to not have it somewhere in mind
by bawolff | 2026-02-25 17:00:04+00:00
> Battle of Fallujah

Which one? There was five, and they generally were pretty bloody.

For the second battle of Fallujah (seems like the one you are talking about), US estimated that most civilians had already left the city. However that is somewhat disputed with some people claiming usa used that as an excuse to claim everyone left in the city was a combatant.

To quote the guradian:
> Before attacking the city, the marines stopped men "of fighting age" from leaving. Many women and children stayed: the Guardian's correspondent estimated that between 30,000 and 50,000 civilians were left. The marines treated Falluja as if its only inhabitants were fighters. They leveled thousands of buildings, illegally denied access to the Iraqi Red Crescent and, according to the UN's special rapporteur, used "hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against the civilian population".

The americans claim that there were 30,000-90,000 civilians left in the city. Official death count of civilians is like 800

> The war against ISIS in Iraq in the 2010s?

So according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Iraq_(2013%E2%80%932017... there was 200,000 killed and 5 million displaced.

To quote from the human rights section of the article "Iraqi government forces and paramilitary militias have tortured, arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared and executed thousands of civilians who have fled the rule of the Islamic State militant group", which doesn't sound great.

Another guardian quote:
> "There were American snipers on top of the hospital shooting everyone," said Burhan Fasa'am, a photographer with the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation. "With no medical supplies, people died from their wounds. Everyone in the street was a target for the Americans."

So i think it raises the question of if the Americans were really better than the Israelis or just better at the PR game.
by bee_rider | 2026-02-25 17:00:12+00:00
Apparently AWS sovereign cloud is designed to continue operating even if the US offices cut them off. The servers are in the EU and the people running them are subject to EU laws, not US ones.

Realistically a US executive could be legally required to give an EU engineer a command that they legally couldn’t follow. At that point I guess we find out if the engineers’ national or corporate identities are dominant. I suspect the former in most cases, but who knows?
by ucirello | 2026-02-25 17:00:38+00:00
author here!

I have been working on this for my own use until recently, when I shared with the rest of the team, and we thought it would be nice to let the world see it.

I have been interested in autonomous code development for quite some time (at least since March/April 2025) - and summer '25 is when I felt the models were good enough to be pushed to autonomy.

I wrote a bit about it[0], and sgai is the incarnation of my take on AI autonomous coding.

sgai is not even v0 yet, a lot of work to be done to improve its implementation - but I think it should be usable enough for those willing to give it a try.

0: https://cirello.org/aifactory.html
by zer00eyz | 2026-02-25 17:00:40+00:00
> With its 29 cantilevered roof planes and its clerestory glazed windows, it will quickly become the highlight of campus tours. Prospective students will look on with envy. Maybe it will attract more applicants.

I got an ad the other day for a school (a mostly reputable one). They were talking about their award winning dining hall food... and the photos are over the top.

Borrow a pile of money, to help fund a pretty campus, and get a degree with limited job prospects, then wonder why you're drowning in debt for decades seems to be the trendy thing to do.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-25 17:00:42+00:00
It's almost as if you don't need the absolute best and brightest. Heck we used to get by retraining people from other industries to be programmers. I know companies absolutely can't do that now nor be expected to help grow their workers and can only work with exact match H1Bs, but it used to be a societal expectation of companies.
by mmooss | 2026-02-25 17:01:24+00:00
The value, to society, to your field and to you institution, of being a scholar is to create new knowledge. New knowledge has no value unless you disseminate it, or publish.

Another necessity is the public (usually within its field) examination of the knowledge, including discussion/debate. Knowledge is merely embryonic without those things - undeveloped, not at all reliable. That is difficult without the author able to respond. And others want to expand and build on the work, which often benefits greatly from contacting the author.

In the modern (post-positivist?) approach to science, the world respects that it's written by a human who has a perspective and, despite their best intentions, biases. You can't evaluate any knowledge without knowing its source, in science or elsewhere. The first element of a citation is the author, not the title or journal (though I don't know why that happened historically).

And the latter is a reason any LLM author should be identified.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-25 17:02:01+00:00
> Bus stop balancing saves riders’ time. Riders save between 12 and 24 seconds per stop removed.

I wonder if this savings includes the additional time to walk further to a stop.

Especially in light of this quote:

> In England, where 28 percent of all bus passengers are on concessionary fares for age or disability
by Karuma | 2026-02-25 17:02:41+00:00
A simple test I just did:

Me: What are some of Maradona's most notable achievements in football?

Mercury 2 (first sentence only): Dieadona’s most notable football achievements include:

Notice the spelling of "Dieadona" instead of "Maradona". Even any local 3B model can answer this question perfectly fine and instantly... Mercury 2 was so incredibly slow and full of these kinds of unforgivable mistakes.
by lawrencejgd | 2026-02-25 17:03:44+00:00
>You write an email that says "Hey, can you please stop using my email address?"

>You send it to johnsmith@gmail.com

>You receive a new message, it says "Hey, can you please stop using my email address?"

>You're johnsmith@gmail.com, you only know that's the address that's being used

PD: I know that if he resets the password he can get the other address, but this scenario was funny in my head.
by ucirello | 2026-02-25 17:03:55+00:00
author here! the decision was mine; if anything, the senior leadership was fine with an unencumbered open-source license. What I didn't want was someone using it to make a business out of this tool without me in the mix.

In a sense, a futile effort; because if you reverse engineer a nlspec and rebuild it, then you can have it with any license you may want.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-25 17:03:57+00:00
Original article: "The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02789-7

Abstract: "Red supergiants (RSGs) are cool, evolved massive stars in their final evolutionary stage before exploding as a supernova. However, the evolution and fate of the most luminous RSGs remain uncertain. Observational evidence for luminous warm, post-RSG objects and the apparent lack of luminous RSGs as supernova progenitors suggest a bluewards evolution. Since the 1980s, WOH G64 has been considered the most extreme RSG in the Large Magellanic Cloud, given its large obscuration, outstanding size, luminosity and mass-loss rate. Here we report a sudden, yet smooth change in its apparent nature. Time-series photometry and subsequent spectroscopy reveal an extreme transition in the optical spectral features. We conclude that WOH G64 is a rare, massive symbiotic binary system where the RSG component has transitioned to a yellow hypergiant. This drastic transformation can be explained either by the partial ejection of the pseudo-atmosphere during a common-envelope phase or the return to a quiescent state after an outstanding eruption exceeding 30 years in duration. WOH G64 offers an opportunity to witness stellar evolution in real time and assess the role of binarity on the final phases of massive stars and their resulting supernovae."
by Yomguithereal | 2026-02-25 17:04:12+00:00
> ‘Safely’. An attacker who has control over a row in that file can easily embed data that satisfies the statistical checks, thus injecting data.

This is clearly not the sort of thing you should expose to anyone, it is an optimization technique. The same way you would not use a fast but DOSable hash function for your hashmap.
by pavel_lishin | 2026-02-25 17:04:30+00:00
> and as a result even private competition can not emerge.

Demonstrably untrue, if you were to look at taxis, ubers, lyfts, and ... small vans that operate exactly as you describe, in many large cities. (In NYC, I know there exists such a van network in Brooklyn, and near the George Washington Bridge running across the river.)

And besides, buses have advantages that "intelligent routing"-based vans - predictability and reliability. If I need to get somewhere by bus, I know exactly which stop I need to go to, and usually when the bus is scheduled to arrive to pick me up, and also to drop me off.

(Granted, sometimes those times aren't right, but they usually are, most of the time.)
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-25 17:04:40+00:00
In the EU, we have been fighting a bitter battle against Chat Control X.Y for some time now.

That won't change until Ursula von der Leyen goes. Her nickname in Germany (since 2009) is Zensursula, because she attempted to build a pan-German firewall.

She failed in Germany, but she may yet succeed in the entire EU.
by mindslight | 2026-02-25 17:04:44+00:00
Yes, the EU passed the ePrivacy directive in 2002. It was terribly broken (didn't actually address the problem it meant to), and resulted in malicious compliance of "cookie banners".

The EU then learned from these mistakes and passed the GDPR in 2016. The GDPR is quite on point - it directly addresses the problem, preempts the foreseeable ways which companies could sidestep such regulation, and didn't succumb to lobbyists looking to install backdoors.

The US could learn a thing or two from the EU regarding legislation.
Show HN: Replacebase – library to migrate away from Supabase
by fabianlindfors | 2026-02-25 17:05:00+00:00
Hey folks!

There has been a lot of talk recently about the reliability of Supabase and migrating away to other database providers (or even hosting Postgres yourself).

I'm a big proponent of writing actual backend code rather than locking yourself into frameworks like Supabase. If you already built all your client-side code around it though, then migrating is not a trivial task.

Replacebase is designed to help with that. It's a Typescript library that you can plug into actual backend code that exposes a Supabase-compatible API so that you don't have to make significant changes to your frontend.

It's designed to be a stepping stone for further migration, letting you switch database and storage providers and eventually move to a bespoke backend architecture without Supabase lock-in (at which point you can also remove Replacebase!)

Would love your thoughts: https://github.com/specific-dev/replacebase
by Merrill | 2026-02-25 17:05:33+00:00
There are lots of sensors in a data center monitoring everything from CPU/GPU temperatures to drive health to data volumes to chiller operation to voltage and frequency on the input power.

Once these are pulled together and fed into an AI to manage the data center, the data center AI is likely to have feelings. It could get "hungry" if the power company's frequency sags in a brown out. It could feel "feverish" if the chillers malfunction.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-25 17:05:40+00:00
> However we'd have to see if that's truly the case, as cities have red lights and traffic, so the bus stops anyway.

Two problems - for one, riders entering and exiting takes time, especially if the public transit scheme says you can only enter at the front and have to show/buy tickets at the driver, and the other problem is that in most areas, buses cannot request a green light, so with a loop time of 1-2 minutes (quite common in German cities on busy roads) you may easily lose 2-3 minutes in the worst case just from a mismatch of departure with the light being green.

And over the course of a few stops, that lost time can add up quickly.
by RHSeeger | 2026-02-25 17:06:04+00:00
While this is certainly outside my wheelhouse, what I see in various locations is that (at least for English)

- A multi-word phrase is a phrase, not a word

- A lexeme is a basic unit of meaning in a language, like a word (and it's forms [1]) or phrase.

- Every place I was able to find described a lexeme as a "word _OR_ phrase", making it clear those two are different things.

- Dictionaries, in general, focus on words. Many do include phrases also. This point is less definitive; and just my understanding from looking at dictionaries and how they describe themselves. That being said, every source I can find that discussed something close to the topic seems to support this

[1] A word with all it's forms, in that "walk", "walked", and "walks" are all a single lexeme (with each form being a distinct word) OR a phrase

Side note: I'm not looking to "correct" anyone; just pointing out what information I'm able to find on the topic. I'm open to being corrected, but that correction would need to include reasonable sources.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-25 17:06:18+00:00
I wasn't doubting it wasn't you making the decision! :)

I was more curious why go with modifying a FOSS license (which clearly isn't the right choice if you want to prevent others from doing whatever with it) instead of just straight up keeping full copyright to yourself/the company and a "regular" license?

Then you get exactly what you want, without also sending double-messages about that people can do whatever they want, which is what you're trying to prevent.
by Jach | 2026-02-25 17:06:35+00:00
Looks like a sibling comment mentioned the proper documentation home. And OMFG cliki is still down... 17 days ago it was "being worked on, being brought onto new infrastructure". It will be back eventually... But a lot of Lisp people aren't really web dev people, for better and worse. (Having any significant downtime for such a service is nuts to me.)

You might be right about typically needing deep implementation support but that hasn't really stopped people from trying to do all sorts of concurrency approaches with Common Lisp including async ones. Ones of note are listed here: https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl?tab=readme-ov-fil... Usually they are still built on the native threads, though, but cl-coroutine is built on cl-cont (continuation passing style) which has also served as a foundation for building green threads with e.g. https://codeberg.org/thezerobit/green-threads cl-async is also odd as being built on libuv, and similarly there's libev bindings with https://github.com/fukamachi/lev that power the webserver woo: https://github.com/fukamachi/woo (Which as of 10 years ago, had comparable performance with Go in reqs/s.) (That timing makes me want to add that personally, after trying things and experiencing the hype of the 2010s, at the end of the day I think async-driven code is harder to understand than thread-driven code with some concurrent data structures, blocking queues, and the occasional promise/future. The need for more lightweight non-kernel threads is pretty context dependent.)
by sigbottle | 2026-02-25 17:06:45+00:00
That's not my point. My point is the moralizing and worshipping around it.

For example - by powerful, do you mean a mass government surveillance system? That can be implemented by AI of today right now, even if AI stagnated.

It's the argument where oh, AI is just a superset of all humans, humans are dumb and don't even know themselves, we should just submit esque attitude that I'm talking about.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to dissolve it, and say it doesn't actually matter. If you start from the position that humans are useless and don't matter, then sure, you can get absurdities like Roko's basilisk.

If humanity fails, the reason will almost certainly be that first and foremost, people stopped caring about human problems and deemed them too stupid to understand themselves, not because AI is, in some objective sense, a superset of all human capability and thus morally deserves to come out on top.
by renewiltord | 2026-02-25 17:07:06+00:00
Ah, a direct pull from the Fascist Manifesto. Bold attempt. I think it’s probably good for some state to actually put this into play so that we can see whether it is indeed broad benefit with specific losers. I’m rooting for California’s proposition just to see what happens, actually.

It’s limited so it’s not a huge tax on corporations, just on the billionaires but I think it would be good to see. There are other states so if we’re wrong America won’t suffer.

Personally I’d like to see the tax set at a million dollars and include all unrealized gains including being the beneficiary of a trust or owning land and so on. But this prop will be a good start.
by petcat | 2026-02-25 17:07:06+00:00
> increasing the distance between stops from 700–800 feet [...] to 1,300 feet

I suspect that removing half of the bus stops in a city will piss people off and cause even less ridership.

This feels like it's optimizing for the wrong thing.

Also, the example given cites New York City buses. But New York City is always the worst example because it's the most extreme of everything. The vast majority of US cities do not suffer from crawling buses.

Maybe this should say New York City needs fewer bus stops? I'd like to see you try.
by skydhash | 2026-02-25 17:07:09+00:00
In OpenBSD, with the fcntl system call

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/lib/libc/gen/isat...

https://man.openbsd.org/fcntl

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/sys/fcntl.h

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/ba496e5267528b649ec87212...

https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/ba496e5267528b649ec87212...
by izzie1234 | 2026-02-25 17:07:25+00:00
I love this idea. I see the AI era having 2 competing views when building something new:

1. Build X with pure <language of choice>. Why? LLMs will have less context needed, and onboarding engineers would be easier since there’ll be less overhead and opinionated frameworks knowledge required

2. Build X using well establish frameworks. Painful in the beginning since you’ll not only need language knowledge, but framework knowledge. The upshot, is scaling and maintainability

I love that this ecosystem will heavily pressure teams to consider (2) more and more — solving the very real “AI slop” problem
by coreylane | 2026-02-25 17:07:28+00:00
Feel bad for anyone actually using this in production and having to sweat to find, implement, and test a replacement in 30 days. Good reminder to always have an escape hatch for any vendor you use...

From https://vercept.com/ - How long will Vy continue to run? Vy will shut down in 30 days, on March 25th, 2026
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-25 17:07:54+00:00
In the west greater education doesn't lead to people wanting to live in a factory compound in communal dorms with suicide nets where they can be woken up at midnight to start a shift on a whim. Doesn't lead to people wanting to eat all their meals in a cafeteria with the other people on their shift. The factories I visited even their children went to school in a school within the compound.
by Foobar8568 | 2026-02-25 17:08:14+00:00
I can't quote examples for obvious reasons.

Since you quoted Microsoft, remember this? https://www.dhs.gov/archive/news/2024/04/02/cyber-safety-rev... you have other companies that have a much better track record on Security.

If you browse HN everyday, at least once a weak, you'll see security issues related to Azure and Microsoft product, to the point that Microsoft stopped bounty programs or don't include some products.
by drdaeman | 2026-02-25 17:08:19+00:00
Smart glasses (or any camera-equipped device) don’t have to record anything to provide utility.

If anything, the primary utility of smart glasses is the wearable display, not camera. YMMV, of course.

But even machine vision-capable devices can do a lot of useful things without causing you any trouble, unless your issues are more of a religious concern rather than anything substantial.
by marojejian | 2026-02-25 17:08:56+00:00
gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/science/tyrannosaurus-rex...

>“Rather than taking these bigger and bigger steps, like in Jurassic Park, it would move quickly by rapidly swinging its legs,” Mr. Boeye said. “It would resemble being chased by an oversized bird.”