MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sakanakana00 | 2026-02-14 13:45:48+00:00
As the author, I’d like to add a bit more context.

My background is not in CS, but in the fish market. However, in the early days of the web, I managed the hosting for [Crimson Room](https://en.wikipedia.org), one of the original "Escape the Room" games. That experience taught me a simple truth: if the content is meaningful and engaging, the world will respond.

Today, I see young people in Japan and elsewhere giving up on social change because the "cost-performance" of traditional protest feels too low, or the risks too high. I want to change that.

The *Virtual Protest Protocol (VPP)* is my attempt to build a "digital town square" that is:

1. *Healing Social Division:* Modern discourse is broken by "For vs. Against" binaries. VPP introduces an *"Observe"* mode, allowing the silent majority to manifest their presence and concern without being forced into polarized camps. It visualizes the scale of the "unspoken" public will.
2. *Low-spec friendly:* So anyone with a $50 smartphone can participate.
3. *Resilient:* A protocol that can be hosted anywhere, making it harder to shut down.
4. *Visually powerful:* Thousands of avatars moving together creates a psychological impact that a simple "like" button cannot achieve.

I am 75. I don’t have 20 years to learn every modern web stack, but I have the vision and the initial specs. I am looking for "architects" who can help refine the cell-based grid system and "builders" who believe that digital activism needs a dedicated, open-source infrastructure.

I'll be here to answer any questions. Thank you for taking a look at a project from an old fishmonger.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-14 13:46:09+00:00
I think it's more insidious then this.

It's easy to fall into a negative mindset because the justification is real and what we see is just the beginning.

Obviously we are not at a point where developers aren't needed. But One developer can do more. And that is a legitimate reason to higher less developers.

The impending reality of the upward moving trendline is that AI becomes so capable that it can replace the majority of developers. That future is so horrifying that people need to scaffold logic to unjustifiy it.
by thinkingemote | 2026-02-14 13:46:11+00:00
yes, somewhat incorrectly as its the pilot / first movie, that came out before season 1 started

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_5#Pilot_film_(1993)

The numbering of the uploaded episodes seems to be off by one versus wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Babylon_5_episodes#Sea...
by currysausage | 2026-02-14 13:47:10+00:00
Posting this because Google IPs (2607:f8b0:4864:20::*) are the No. 1 source of spam on my mail server right now, and there appears to be no way to contact Google about this: Contacting network-abuse@google.com, which is listed as the abuse contact for these IPs, always results in an autoresponse pointing to a web form (https://support.google.com/code/contact/cloud_platform_repor...). Filling out that form results in an autoresponse stating that the IPs in question are "not hosted on Google Cloud". abuse@google.com appears to be an alias for /dev/null, and google-cloud-compliance@google.com gives the same autoresponse ("not hosted on Google Cloud").
by alirezarezvani | 2026-02-14 13:47:26+00:00
As a CTO running a healthcare startup in Berlin, I had a specific problem worth solving. My team of five and a half people was drowning in context-switching: code reviews, compliance documentation, architecture decisions, content production, and the thousand small tasks that eat a CTO’s week alive. I wasn’t looking for another chatbot. I was looking for leverage.
Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
by datavorous_ | 2026-02-14 13:47:44+00:00
I made a chess engine today, and made it fit within 2KB.
I used a variant of MinMax called Negamax, with alpha beta pruning. For the board representation I have used a 120-cell "mailbox". I managed to squeeze in checkmate/stalemate in there, after trimming out some edge cases.

I am a great fan of demoscene (computer art subculture) since middle school, and hence it was a ritual i had to perform.

For estimating the Elo, I measured 240 automated games against Stockfish Elo levels (1320 to 1600) under fixed depth-5 and some constrained rules, using equal color distribution.

Then converted pooled win/draw/loss scores to Elo through some standard logistic formula with binomial 95% confidence interval.
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-14 13:48:17+00:00
It's not just about writing imperative code that runs at compile time, the actual interesting comptime feature in Zig is that "types are comptime values", e.g. you can inspect types and build new types with regular (comptime) code. This is very different from the template/trait systems in C++ and Rust. What Zig's comptime system is missing is the ability to build functions bodies at comptime (e.g. some sort of comptime AST builder).
by chrisjj | 2026-02-14 13:48:26+00:00
> none of this is the site creator’s fault.

Of course it is the site creator's fault. Who else's could it be?

> But the arrival of these tools has - like all development tools that help get more done more easily - raised the security stakes.

Complete nonsense. The stakes are just as they were. The difference is only that the parrots have greatly and disproprtionately increased the creation and deployment of dangerously insecure programs.
Show HN: J-RAY – A privacy-first, client-side JSON visualizer
by MauryWebDev | 2026-02-14 13:48:31+00:00
I deal with massive JSON APIs daily and got tired of pasting sensitive payloads into random cloud formatters. So I built J-RAY. It runs 100% locally in your browser (0 trackers, data never leaves your machine) and transforms chaotic JSON into an interactive neural graph to make debugging easier. Built with React and ReactFlow. Would love your feedback!
by wartywhoa23 | 2026-02-14 13:48:41+00:00
Just wait, they'll soon demand that their favorite soap operas be AI-restarted to generate slop streams indefinitely, and will throw their hard-sat-on-a-sofa UBI credits at that.

- Hey, have you watched that Game of Thrones S1723E1122?

- Nope, I'm not paying until they upscale it to 64K!
by Telemakhos | 2026-02-14 13:49:19+00:00
There's more to this line of thought. The pilot movie isn't space opera so much as it is a murder mystery in space, and it's not the only episode like that. The security chief, Garibaldi, is a hard-bitten alcoholic detective from film noir (and there are plenty of film-noir-like visual elements: fans, shadows, run-down industrial sectors unimaginable in Star Trek), and he plays a much larger role solving crimes than do his counterparts in other science fiction shows. The writing style, a long arc that drops clues up front to pay off in revelations down the line, also leans heavily on mystery writing.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-14 13:49:25+00:00
I'm all for this. But it's the delusion and denialism of people not wanting to face reality.

Like I have compassion, but I can't healthily respect people who try so hard to rewrite reality so that the future isn't so horrifying. I'm a SWE and I'm affected too, but it's not like I'm going to lie to myself about what's happening.
by permo-w | 2026-02-14 13:49:50+00:00
The major loss would be Youtube. Youtube is possibly the greatest educational tool the world has ever seen. Yeah there's some bad stuff, but you want to know how to do almost anything from tying your shoelaces to building a mega laser first-hand from an expert, and watch it be done? It's on Youtube, for free. Remove advertising and it dies and all of that goes with it. Even if the EU, say, buy it off Google and take it into public ownership, which the US government very probably wouldn't allow and also isn't really part of the EU's philosophy, you're still going to have to continuously pay creators for their work and hosting costs, forever. Otherwise I think it's a great idea. Maybe just carve out an exception for educational content
by Waterluvian | 2026-02-14 13:50:12+00:00
I agree. The role of an editor is in part to do this train pointing.

I think it slips because the consequences of sloppy journalism aren’t immediately felt. But as we’re witnessing in the U.S., a long decay of journalistic integrity contributes to tremendous harm.

It used to be that to be a “journalist” was a sacred responsibility. A member of the Fourth Estate, who must endeavour to maintain the confidence of the people.
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-14 13:50:13+00:00
I watched all of TNG, Voyager and DS9. To me DS9 will always be behind the other ST series.

I felt like it was a bit too much of the social stuff, maybe because it plays mostly on a station instead of an exploration vessel, but I guess that is exactly what people like about it. The characters and their development and so on. I liked the Garak character for example, but disliked Zisko being some chosen one for the wormhole gods or something. I much prefer Data, or Picard or most of their crew, even if they don't develop as much.

Well, to each their own, they are all good series to watch.
by apothegm | 2026-02-14 13:50:59+00:00
Out of curiosity, I submitted this prompt to both ChatGPT and Claude. I have always kept history disabled on both.

ChatGPT jumped into analyzing my personality based on the system prompt, and when challenged about the behavior it should have access to being only the one line question, it prevaricated.

Claude looked for the directory of transcripts, found it empty, told me it couldn’t answer the prompt given current information, and offered a few ways forward if I wanted to get an answer to the prompt.
by keernan | 2026-02-14 13:51:07+00:00
Some further context:
NYT: https://archive.ph/W5FwO
ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants

A memo from a Department of Homeland Security official reviewed by CNN and sent to agents dispatched to Minneapolis last month asked them to “capture all images, license plates, identifications and general information” on “agitators, protesters, etc. so we can capture it all in one consolidated form.” And the official reportedly provided such a form, called “intel collection.”

Moreover, ICE officers have traveled to the homes of protesters. Not to arrest them, because they have done nothing illegal. Rather, ICE was trying to intimidate them by letting them know ICE knows who they are and where they live.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/minneapolis-ice-agents...
by rpdillon | 2026-02-14 13:51:09+00:00
The problem is that I spend hours explaining the actual technical nature of what we're doing to the legal team and I feel that there's often some kind of breakdown in communication because they don't understand the underlying technologies as well as the engineers do. And I haven't had this experience at one company, I've had it at multiple companies, several of which folks in this thread will have heard of.

To put a finer point on some of this, in one instance, I was writing an application that would allow our customers to deploy their own website with content that they had created through the tool that my company had provided. My company wasn't adding any tracking whatsoever to these pages. We were simply taking their content, rendering it properly, and hosting it for them. We ended up enforcing a cookie banner on these pages because the lawyers couldn't guarantee that there wouldn't be tracking content on that page that was added by the customers. But the end result is that every page, the vast majority of which don't have any tracking, still have cookie banners.

In essence, the law created a new legal hazard, and people aren't sure when they're going to run into it, so they end up putting up fences all over the place. Between this and malicious compliance, the end user experience has suffered greatly.
by retrac | 2026-02-14 13:51:32+00:00
It's a pile of rocks in the same way an apartment building is a pile of concrete blocks. It is a building. It could crumble in on itself. The interior rooms could be destroyed.

It's a tomb. The Pharoah was buried in the very middle of it. There's an ascending gallery [1] and a burial chamber, along with access shafts. The burial chamber [2] is a large structure in the approximate middle. [3]

It hasn't settled or shifted enough to deviate or crush this significantly. But such shifting was a recurring problem in early Pyramids though. The foundation work must have been an incredible undertaking.

> [The King's Chamber] is faced entirely with granite and measures 20 cubits (10.5 m; 34.4 ft) east-west by 10 cubits (5.2 m; 17.2 ft) north-south. Its flat ceiling is about 11 cubits and 5 digits (5.8 m;19.0 ft) above the floor, formed by nine slabs of stone weighing in total about 400 tons. All the roof beams show cracks due to the chamber having settled 2.5–5 cm (0.98–1.97 in).

One day it'll give way and it'll just be a pile of stones. But for now it is still an engineered structure working as designed.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Grande-g...

[2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/88/Kheops-c...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_shaft#/media/File:Great_P...
by hiimkeks | 2026-02-14 13:52:16+00:00
What I think you are saying is that computing the hash needs to process the entire string, and the length of that string roughly corresponds to log n, therefore it's O(log n). Not sure I am entirely convinced by that reasoning, but let's roll with it for now.

Because if you apply it to binary search, you need to compare the strings at every step, and by that logic, each of these operations is O(log n), which means your binary search is now O(log^2 n).

I guess the crux is that we are still comparing apples to oranges (or multiplication operations to comparison operations), and at the end what probably makes hashing faster is that we are not branching.

Still I don't think it makes sense to think of both hash tables and binary search as O(log n).
by skystarmen | 2026-02-14 13:52:29+00:00
There's no reason to be so nasty. The fact that it's currently on the top 5 posts on HN means you're dead wrong, he's not wasting anyone's time.

TBH I found it one of the most interesting and engaging articles I've seen on HN in a long time. The writing itself is not great, but the story is great.
by raddan | 2026-02-14 13:52:34+00:00
The switch to their newest forum software seems to discourage any kind of actual conversation. If I recall correctly, the last iteration was also unthreaded, but somehow it was easier for a back-and-forth to develop. Now it is basically just reactions-- like YouTube comments (which, ironically, is actually threaded).

Is HN really the last remaining forum for science and technology conversations? If so... very depressing.
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-14 13:52:52+00:00
Have you ever thought about the fact that 2 years ago AI wasn't even good enough to write code. Now it's good enough.

Right now you state the current problem is: "requiring my constant supervision and frequent intervention and always trying to sneak in subtle bugs or weird architectural decisions"

But in 2 years that could be gone too, given the objective and literal trendline. So I actually don't see how you can hold this opinion: "I'm not even freaking about my career, I'm freaking about how much today's "almost good" LLMs can empower incompetence and how much damage that could cause to systems that I either use or work on." when all logic points away from it.

We need to be worried, LLMs are only getting better.
by arduanika | 2026-02-14 13:53:14+00:00
I mean, I'm even more frustrated by this in Scott's original post:

> If you are the person who deployed this agent, please reach out. It’s important for us to understand this failure mode, and to that end we need to know what model this was running on and what was in the soul document. I’m not upset and you can contact me anonymously if you’d like.

I can see where he's coming from, and I suppose he's being the bigger man in the situation, but at some point one of these reckless moltbrain kiddies is going to have to pay. Libel and extortion should carry penalties no matter whether you do it directly, or via code that you wrote, or via code that you deployed without reading it.

The 'hit piece' on Scott was pretty minor, so if we want to wait around for a more serious injury that's fine, just as long as we're standing ready to prosecute when (not 'if') it happens.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-14 13:57:16+00:00
Good gosh. Some gems from his wikipedia page include:

- He has spoken about taking anabolic steroids over several years to become more muscular, which, according to him, made him infertile by 2025 due to his body no longer naturally producing testosterone.

- He has stated that he became interested in looksmaxxing—a term originating among incels online that describes the process of making oneself as physically attractive as possible—in high school, which he has attributed to wanting to influence others politically by becoming more attractive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavicular_(influencer)
by Anon1096 | 2026-02-14 13:58:04+00:00
As someone who uses it a lot 4chan is best differentiated by the ephemeral posts, bump system, encouraged/forced anonymity, flat non-threaded threads, anything-goes content (still categorized by board), and then of course the user base.

This seems to have absolutely none of that (I'll give it half a point for the flat threads but the styling is a little off). It honestly looks more like a reddit clone. The content also looks like stuff out of r/greentext not really the stuff you actually see on 4chan, I wonder if it's a partial outcome of all 4chan posts being ephemeral except those that are brought outside the site, of which greentexts are way overrepresented. And I don't think 4chan users know how to make posts longer than 3 sentences which every single post on 4claw looks to be lol
by zarzavat | 2026-02-14 13:58:47+00:00
Ultimately houses are built in the way that works for the region they're built in.

Europe has few trees and few earthquakes (outside of Romania, Italy, etc). Masonry houses make sense.

In California unreinforced masonry is illegal and trees are plentiful. Making houses out of sticks is rational even if it's unsightly.

Those asphalt roofs though...
by threethirtytwo | 2026-02-14 13:58:52+00:00
I tried watching this (I grew up with it remembering it's on TV) and while it's watchable, it's not that enjoyable in modern times because it hasn't aged very well at all in terms of the FX so it's hard to get immersed.

I know if I stick with it, it will probably get good (doctor who was like this for me) but it's a huge slog.

I feel Star Trek TNG lucked out with all the choices they made. The designs and effects generally hold up.
by raddan | 2026-02-14 13:58:58+00:00
There are still a few authors worth reading on Ars. Beth Mole has a loyal following for a reason-- her stories are interesting, engaging, and never fail to make me squirm with horror. Jonathan Gitlin has a tendency to drop into the forum to snipe at comments he does not like, and I have no interest in supercars, but by and large his automobile reporting is interesting. And if you like anything rocket related, Eric Berger is clearly passionate about the industry. There are a few other folks who are hit-or-miss like most journalists. I've found that Benj is mostly misses, and although I am always interested in what John Timmer writes about, I cannot seem to interpret his writing style. In general I skip the syndicated articles from Wired, etc, because they are either "nothings" or bad.
by rambambram | 2026-02-14 13:59:07+00:00
This exactly. The post you reply to implies they have discovered something very novel, which they did not. I don't remember which ancient king it was, but they already tried thousands of years ago to make codes of law with every situation described in it. They failed. Just leave the final interpretation to the judge, and let the politicians make broad laws (in good faith, I hope).

> as much as us stem-brained people want legal systems to work like code

I see this a lot on HN, and it makes sense to think like this if you're a programmer. It's also a sign these programmers should open up their world view a bit more.
by SigmundA | 2026-02-14 13:59:55+00:00
I wasn't talking about MFC or VB or any higher level abstraction, I specifically was talking about the base Win16/32 GDI gui system that windows started with.

You can take an immediate mode api and abstract it with a retained mode api. My question was is Win32 / GDI immediate.

There was plenty of pure C windows programs and C++ ones that just used Win32.

ImgGui actually uses a retained mode graphics interface so it only sends changes to the GPU while making it look "immediate" thing is its creating internal state and tracking it so its not smash and replace at the driver level.

Win32 / GDI is mostly smash and replace in WM_PAINT, common controls library will abstract it, but looks a lot like ImgGui in that is uses window handles as ID's for internal state while ImgGui has its ID stack which is just a primitive object state system.

The more I look at ImgGui the less immediate it seems, its just a function based api to a retained mode graphic system that tries to hide the state tracking from you by not always exposing the object handle, mostly.
by rustyhancock | 2026-02-14 14:00:21+00:00
The code is bad by virtue of it putting his wonderful game at risk because no one can port it.

This story is it's own litmus test. Your story is only as notable as bad as Michaels code is!

Don't get me wrong. It seems fantastic game and like others I'm most interested in playing the original DOS version.

But good programs, written by good programmers are not necessarily made with good code!
by Throaway1982 | 2026-02-14 14:00:30+00:00
"Also, speaking from experience, I'll often "comprehend a sentence 100% in another language". Then I'll really listen to it again and realize I'm not really sure about half of the words. I have a vague idea of most of them and in context my brain get's it and self-reports full comprehension.
I think "full comprehension" is a substantially higher bar than "fluency"."

I get it, and in my experience, when I find myself relistening and not being sure about "half the words," it means Im not fluent!
by begueradj | 2026-02-14 14:00:56+00:00
> Your performance review is solid, of course, your deliverables unimpeachable, but something begins to feel increasingly off. Your colleagues are in more meetings, but your task list only grows longer. Your progress on said project is appreciated by your boss and team, maybe even your boss' boss, but never really recognized.

Managers sabotage talented employees: https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/what-drives-ma...
by uxcolumbo | 2026-02-14 14:01:10+00:00
What's the evidence? Star Trek came out before B5 and in the ST universe there were several deep space stations. Do you mean they copied characters or story lines?

And how is DS9 a soap opera? I associate soap operas with sh!t acting and not really exploring deeper philosophical topics.

DS9 had amazing actors, character development and story lines. Take Garak for example, amazing character.
by mytailorisrich | 2026-02-14 14:01:39+00:00
This is all a very well crafted campaign of manufacturing consent of the people in Europe to give up more sovereignty yo the EU and make the EU involved in, and controlling, defence matters. Noticr how Von Der Leyen is speaking about defence and defence strategy as a matter of course without anyone questioning it although it is a major shift that is happening. The scale of manipulation is incredible and so is how the people are swallowing it all hook, line, and sinker without a noise (the silence of the lambs takes a new dimension).