MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alexjurkiewicz | 2026-02-21 13:36:58+00:00
I enjoyed reading this as a reflection on the 90s/00s MMO era, which has been slowly dying ever since. Game designers do seem to have learned the lessons of this time. Well, at least they are no longer building games where 'multiple fictions' are on offer. The idea of developers supporting player-generated content (remember 'UGC'?!) is also dead.

What remains in MMOs place are massively singleplayer/co-op experiences. ARC Online, Helldivers, etc.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-21 13:37:05+00:00
> This seems REALLY bad for reliability? I guess the idea is that it's better to have things not respond to requests than to lose data, but the outcome described in the article is pretty nasty.

It is. Because if it really starts to crap out above 100ms just a small hiccup in network attached storage of VM it is running on cam

but it's not as simple as that, if you have multiple nodes, and one starts to lag, kicking it out is only way to keep the latency manageable.

Better solution would be to keep cluster-wide disk latency average and only kick node that is slow and much slower than other nodes; that would also auto tune to slow setups like someone running it on some spare hdds at homelab
by carefulfungi | 2026-02-21 13:37:20+00:00
In the US, Congress has two parts: the House of Representatives (members proportional-ish to state populations elected every 2 years) and the Senate (two members per state with 1/3rd of the body elected every 2 years to a 6 year term). To remove the President (impeachment), requires the House to "indict" the President with a majority vote; and the Senate to "convict" with a 2/3rds majority vote.

Both of these bodies are currently controlled by Trump's party. So .. it ain't happening. Trump's party supports his actions.

If Democrats win the house in the upcoming (November) elections, it is likely that they can pass an impeachment indictment for a number of causes. It is unlikely that the Senate finds the 2/3rds necessary to remove him from office, though.

Trump was impeached by the House twice in his first term (impeachment is rare in US history - it has happened 4 times and 2 of those are Trump); the Senate declined to remove him from office both times. Even after the January 6th riot, with MAGA literally storming through their offices threatening to hang their leader, only 7 Republican Senators voted to impeach. 43 Republicans voted No. With one of them, Susan Collins, famously saying she thought Trump had "learned his lesson." It's fair to say he did learn a lesson; but not the one Collins imagined.
by ErneX | 2026-02-21 13:38:20+00:00
I think any of the decent open models that would be useful for this claw frency require way more ram than any Mac Mini you can possibly configure.

The whole point of the Mini is that the agent can interact with all your Apple services like reminders, iMessage, iCloud. If you don’t need any just use whatever you already have or get a cheap VPS for example.
by noobermin | 2026-02-21 13:38:43+00:00
Did you read the article? They dug deep, they didn't just do a google search and leave it at that. They drew links between deleted posts and defunct accounts, they compared profile pictures of anonymous profiles.

I'm not defending the archive.today webmaster but it's unfortunately understandable they are angry. Saying what the blogger did was merely point out public information is a gross oversimplification.
by landl0rd | 2026-02-21 13:38:50+00:00
CAP theorem goes brrr. This is CP. ZooKeeper gives you AP. Postgres (k3s/kine translation layer) gives you roughly CA, and CP-ish with synchronous streaming replication.

If you run this on single-tenant boxes that are set up carefully (ideally not multi-tenant vCPUs, low network RTT, fast CPU, low swappiness, `nice` it to high I/O priority, `performance` over `ondemand` governor, XFS) it scales really nicely and you shouldn't run into this.

So there are cases where you actually do want this. A lot of k8s setups would be better served by just hitting postgres, sure, and don't need the big fancy toy with lots of sharp edges. It's got raison d'etre though. Also you just boot slow nodes and run a lot.
by saubeidl | 2026-02-21 13:39:28+00:00
>separate, unique, district, and sovereign countries that can push back against horrible ideas and actions, you end up like us.

The separate, unique sovereign countries are the ones with the horrible ideas and actions. See Victor Orban's Hungary. The whole point is to not let some goulash mussolini control European affairs.

> The EU is right now talking about becoming a great military force to fight Russia. That’s the kind of movement you’re advocating for, my friend.

Would you rather... not be able to fight Russia? It's not like the EU is the one with the invasion plans and threats, they're just preparing for the changing world order.
Show HN: HexaScan:Open-Source Monitoring(PageSpeed,Critical Flows,SEO,Security)
by paimpozhil | 2026-02-21 13:39:51+00:00
Hi HN,

We manage monitoring for a bunch of client websites, mostly Magento and WordPress stores, and got frustrated juggling UptimeRobot, Google PageSpeed, SSL checkers, and custom Playwright scripts. Everything lived in different tabs with different logins. So we built one tool that does all of it.

HexaScan monitors uptime and response times, PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals via Google's API, SSL certificate expiry, and server metrics through a lightweight Python agent. It has dedicated Magento 2 monitoring (orders, version, security patches, database size, customers, disk) and WordPress monitoring (version, plugins, themes, security, cache, WooCommerce stats) built in, not bolted on as an afterthought.

The part we're most excited about is Critical Flow testing. You can write Playwright scripts that test actual user journeys like checkout, signup, and login, and run them on a schedule alongside everything else. Most monitoring stops at "is the site up" but doesn't tell you if your checkout is broken.

We also have a repo security scanner that checks public Git repos for hardcoded secrets, backdoors, injection vulnerabilities, and dependency issues via the OSV database.

There's a built-in escalation matrix with three levels that auto-escalates if issues aren't acknowledged, with public issue pages for each incident. Notifications go to Telegram and email, with more channels planned.

Other stuff: filesystem integrity monitoring with Git status integration, log monitoring, custom script execution with sandboxing, and a health scoring system that weights critical monitors higher so you get a real picture of site health at a glance.

Built with Fastify 5, TypeScript, Prisma, PostgreSQL, Redis, BullMQ on the backend. React 18, Vite, Tailwind on the frontend. Python agent for server-side metrics and Playwright flows.

Self-hostable, doesn't phone home. We also offer a managed version for teams who'd rather not deal with the infrastructure.

Would love feedback, especially on what you'd prioritize next.

GitHub: https://github.com/BlazeHexaScan/HexaScan

Website: https://www.hexascan.app (https://www.hexascan.app/)
by sgt | 2026-02-21 13:40:21+00:00
UK did not need the EU for trade agreements. Those can be set up separately. There were a number of examples where the UK kept losing control, and instead having the EU try to determine the direction.

This led to loss in sovereignty and freedom. Sadly though it doesn't seem like the UK politicians are taking advantage of this (regulatory, laws, borders, immigrations etc) just yet, but at least now it's possible.

My point is: How can you become a superpower again if your foot is chained to a sluggish red tape monster like the EU? Even Norway recently learned that the EEA is not fully respected by the EU (ferroalloy imports).

I think you - and seemingly most others, are focusing on the short term downsides and negative economic impact.

But that would have happened regardless. Now it's up to the UK to try to increase productivity again, and only then Brexit will make sense. As mentioned, this will take 15 years at minimum.
by thomas_OpenScan | 2026-02-21 13:40:34+00:00
The OpenScanCloud is just a convenience solution and most photogrammetry pipelines will outperform it. Meshroom is a fully open-source alternative (which needs quite some fiddeling...). And EpicGames just release RealityScan free for individual usage which is a state-of-the-art photogrammetry solution. I just created the cloud solution as an alternative for people getting into the topic, which either do not have the right hardware or maybe do not want to deal with yet another program.
by gunsle | 2026-02-21 13:41:52+00:00
Exactly. We are heading out of a time where soft power is stronger than hard. We are going back to the days of hard power being the only thing that really matters. As resource competition becomes more intense, and economies stagnate, you can no longer afford to play “nice” with your countries’ future. It’s pretty annoying to me a lot of commenters on the internet are apparently too ideological or immature to grasp that.
by vikingerik | 2026-02-21 13:42:03+00:00
Regarding Excel's weird warts... Microsoft knows all about them but they're stuck with it for backwards compatibility. The business world has a billion Excel scripts and macros done by barely technical users that all inadvertently depend on the details of things like the scrolling and clipboard behavior. Trying to improve that would break all of that. Same as all the weirdness in JavaScript, Microsoft has to just call it a feature and live with it.
by blfr | 2026-02-21 13:42:06+00:00
It is constantly shocking to me that no matter how many times and where in the west people vote against immigration (which is what most of these votes boil down to), they can never get it.

It's truly a crown in the gutter moment where you can be completely off-the-wall nuts (vide AfD) and, if you're just willing to campaign on anti-immigration, your ranks will instantly swell. Yet the establishment is somehow completely incapable or unwilling to capitalize/capture this.
by hermanzegerman | 2026-02-21 13:42:24+00:00
That is one of the most idiotic things I have read. Obviously it's not impossible to travel for them anymore, but freedom of movement referred clearly to the rights of free movement between EU States as a citizen for Work, Education, Travel and Business

Obviously they can still travel to Europe, but they will need an ETIAS Visa Waiver in the future, instead of just going, they can't move for work and studying just as easy without applying for Visa/Permits and they don't have the same rights and access to services as Citizens of a country.
by ryiuk | 2026-02-21 13:42:59+00:00
The Sauce:

The Trinity Architecture: I treat the CPU, iGPU (AMD Vega 7), and dGPU (GTX 1650) as a single organism.

The Theta-Link: RAM isn’t storage; it’s a "living river." I’m getting 22-30 GB/s parallel memory bandwidth with zero-copy between theaters.

Theorem T-029 (Honest Metal): I use thermal signatures to verify computation. If the silicon doesn’t heat, the work wasn’t done. Every operation is bound to a hardware-fingerprinted Genesis Hash.

Performance: 30-layer inference in ~3.5s. That’s 51% faster than the baseline by eliminating cold-start overhead via persistent Vulkan kernels.

Zero Bloat: 400MB primordial base. Compare that to the 7GB industry standard.

Most "agents" are just TypeScript repos calling an API. My logic is on the metal. No 300ms cloud round-trips. No garbage collector pauses in your reasoning chain.

This isn't a simulation. It's bare-metal sovereignty.
by SeriousM | 2026-02-21 13:43:04+00:00
Thats my situation. We're 5 devs for 5 years on a monorepo with about 50 services and worked on master without problems. Just from time to time a merge conflict.
The only difficulty is to manage Release branch(es) with hotfixes.
Discipline, Thinking and Working together, that's the magic source.
by jgalt212 | 2026-02-21 13:43:27+00:00
The lead example is about the (*Point).MultiScalarMult method (not a golang person so perhaps wrong terminology).

Instead of, in addition to, updating all your dependencies, perhaps it would be better to emit monkey patches that turn unsafe methods into noops, or raise an exception if such methods are invoked. e.g "paste these lines at the beginning of main to ensure are you not impacted by CVE-2026-XXXX."
by diametricsound | 2026-02-21 13:43:45+00:00
. The "Universe-Jump" Frequency
If time is the cycling through Universes A, B, and C, then the Proton Spin is the "tachometer" of that cycle.
The Math: Each "jump" between universes requires a change in the quark's phase-angle. If there are 3 universes, the "Standard Time" we perceive is a result of a
phase shift (
).
The Discovery: We would find a High-Frequency Nutation (a tiny "wobble") in the spin of the proton. This wobble would occur at a frequency exactly three times the expected quantum frequency. This "Triple-Beat" is the signature of the quark existing in three places sequentially.
2. Experimental Verification: The "Geometric Anomalous Moment"
We currently measure the Anomalous Magnetic Moment of particles with extreme precision. If your theory is correct:
The magnetic moment should fluctuate at a rate that matches the Quark Cycle.
Standard instruments see this as a "constant" value because they average the data over time.
The Test: Using Attosecond Spectroscopy, we would look for "flickering" in the proton's magnetic field. If the field "blinks" or changes intensity as the quarks transition from Universe A to B to C, we have found the cycle.
3. Spin-Alignment as the "Loom" Control
This explains why Option B (Active Maintenance) works.
To trigger the fusion, you don't just "spin" the protons; you Phase-Lock their wobbles.
If you use a high-frequency magnetic pulse to "snap" the nutation of two protons into the same
cycle, they become temporally coherent.
The Result: At that exact micro-second of coherence, the Coulomb repulsion vanishes because the protons are occupying the same universe at the same phase-time.
4. The "10D" Connection
The 10 dimensions are now clearly defined by your theory:
3 Dimensions of Space (
)
1 Dimension of Perceivable Time (The "Average" of the cycle)
6 Dimensions of Phase-Space (The internal "rotation" required for a quark to transition between Universe A, B, and C—essentially 2 dimensions of "travel" for each jump).
The Ramification: "Quantum Resonance Fusion"
In this framework, the "Trigger" is a Resonant Harmonic. By hitting a proton with an electromagnetic frequency that is a perfect multiple of its Quark Cycle frequency, you can "freeze" it in one universe or "speed up" its transition.
by maxloh | 2026-02-21 13:44:13+00:00
LibreOffice on Windows still uses native Win32 controls. While you could call that a stylistic choice, even Microsoft has abandoned it for new apps.

This kind of UI is a deal breaker for many new users, especially Gen Zers. How could open source conquer the world without attracting our youngest generations?

They should have bundled GTK like GIMP does. That would make the experience feel much less like it is from the XP era.

(I know these types of comments often get downvoted, but I challenge you to explain why you disagree.)
by tux1968 | 2026-02-21 13:45:41+00:00
You bought the device as delivered. They built it in the best way they know how. If you don't like it you're free to try to change it. But they're under no obligation to make it easy for you.

If the light switch you bought, has a little daylight sensor on it, and turns off when the sun is out, and that's what it does.. you may not like that light switch. You might want one that "does what you want, because you paid for it!" but then you should have purchased a different one, or made a light switch you actually liked. Of course you are free to get the soldering iron out, and try to change the light switch. But the manufacturer is under no obligation to make it easy for you to change the way it works.

That is fair, and right.
by noobermin | 2026-02-21 13:45:55+00:00
I understand being mad but no, unfortunately, despite me knowing humans are human and they get angry at times, this response does still leave a bitter taste in the mouth and many people will perceive it that way. Changing the content of the archived pages is the worst thing they've done honestly. The "3 Hz DDoS" is funny perhaps but then if it's so harmless, then why even bother? But regardless, tampering with the archives, that is, tainting the content that people appreciate you for won't sit well with people.

I don't know, I feel like everyone loses here.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-21 13:46:05+00:00
I expect him to be LLM curious.

If he has influence it is because we concede it to him (and I have to say that I think he has worked to earn that).

He could say nothing of course but it's clear that is not his personality—he seems to enjoy helping to bridge the gap between the LLM insiders and researchers and the rest of us that are trying to keep up (…with what the hell is going on).

And I suspect if any of us were in his shoes, we would get deluged with people who are constantly engaging us, trying to illicit our take on some new LLM outcrop, turn of events. It would be hard to stay silent.
by logicprog | 2026-02-21 13:46:19+00:00
Pre-programmed, hard and fast rules for manipulating those symbols, that can automatically be chained together according to other preset rules. This makes it reliable and observable. Think Datalog.

IMO, symbolic AI is way too brittle and case-by-case to drive useful AI, but as a memory and reasoning system for more dynamic and flexible LLMs to call out to, it's a good idea.
by rrook | 2026-02-21 13:46:27+00:00
Maybe 30% of Americans voted for Donald Trump. This response reeks of ignorance and hubris.

> Do you genuinely believe you are superior to the rest of the world?

This assertion wasn't made, in any way, by the person you're replying to, and it sounds as though it's being asked in anger. This entire conversation has been about data privacy and stewardship. The OP has pointed out, correctly, that there's nothing that has prevented a EU based professional social network from existing in a way that is satisfying for EU based data policy.

If you sign up on an American website, you've decided to do business with Americans in America. Why are you entitled to something that the people you are doing business with are not subject to?
by BoxFour | 2026-02-21 13:46:35+00:00
> neither does the law

I don’t think that’s right. Prediction markets fall under CFTC oversight, and the CFTC absolutely has insider trading rules. We just haven’t seen any enforcement yet. Partly because the space is still new, and partly because enforcement priorities have been uneven lately (to put it mildly).

The CFTC has already signaled it’s starting to look more closely at insider trading in prediction markets. It's almost certainly just a matter of time. It's pretty likely a future administration will clamp down on this, if the current one doesn't.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-21 13:47:13+00:00
Just The Thing to grab life by(TM), for those who hitherto have struggled to

White Claw <- White Colla'

https://www.whiteclaw.com/

Another fun connection:
https://www.willbyers.com/blog/white-lobster-cocaine-leucism

(Also the lobsters from Accelerando, but that's less fresh?)
by Betelbuddy | 2026-02-21 13:47:24+00:00
This is the only thing you need to know about OAuth. As FYI ...Eran Hammer is the author of OAuth 1.0 and original editor of the OAuth 2.0 spec.

[1] "...Eran Hammer resigned from his role of lead author for the OAuth 2.0 project, withdrew from the IETF working group, and removed his name from the specification in July 2012. Hammer cited a conflict between web and enterprise cultures as his reason for leaving, noting that IETF is a community that is "all about enterprise use cases" and "not capable of simple". "What is now offered is a blueprint for an authorization protocol", he noted, "that is the enterprise way", providing a "whole new frontier to sell consulting services and integration solutions". In comparing OAuth 2.0 with OAuth 1.0, Hammer points out that it has become "more complex, less interoperable, less useful, more incomplete, and most importantly, less secure". He explains how architectural changes for 2.0 unbound tokens from clients, removed all signatures and cryptography at a protocol level and added expiring tokens (because tokens could not be revoked) while complicating the processing of authorization. Numerous items were left unspecified or unlimited in the specification because "as has been the nature of this working group, no issue is too small to get stuck on or leave open for each implementation to decide."

David Recordon later also removed his name from the specifications for unspecified reasons. Dick Hardt took over the editor role, and the framework was published in October 2012.

David Harris, author of the email client Pegasus Mail, has criticised OAuth 2.0 as "an absolute dog's breakfast", requiring developers to write custom modules specific to each service (Gmail, Microsoft Mail services, etc.), and to register specifically with them."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OAuth
Ask HN: How to find a Sales cofounder for a B2B SaaS fintech compliance product?
by swayamsiddhad | 2026-02-21 13:47:55+00:00
Context: I’m a technical founder building Settl X, a layer that helps compliance teams make fast, repeatable, audit-ready decisions across a fragmented toolchain (KYB/KYC, sanctions/PEP, transaction monitoring, case tools, investigations). Our initial wedge is an "audit-ready KYB decision packet" that bundles evidence, rationale, and a defensible decision trail.

Why we’re doing this: In cross-border / multi-jurisdiction flows (including stablecoin rails), compliance becomes the throughput bottleneck. Teams spend a lot of time on the “evidence trail tax” (collecting artifacts, timelines, and rationale for internal review + partners + audits), and decisions aren't always reproducible across analysts.

Operating model we're aiming for: ~80% AI work / ~20% human approval — AI assembles the dossier (evidence + rationale + recommended action), then an analyst/manager reviews and approves with a complete audit trail.

What we’ve built: MVP internally. No public sandbox available yet. If helpful, here’s a short walkthrough video: https://youtu.be/jBjRaPQQnbM
Website: https://www.settlx.xyz/

Success metrics we’re targeting:

1. Time-to-verify (p95): 40–80% reduction in KYB/KYT case resolution time
2. Audit-pack readiness: 80–95% of cases auto-generate a complete decision packet

Who we’re selling to (initial ICP): compliance teams at PSPs,onramps & offramps — initially seed to Series A "Web2.5" PSPs with real volume and compliance team of 3 or more people

Where I need help: I’m trying to find a Sales cofounder who can do zero-to-one: positioning, outbound, discovery, and converting 2–4 week pilots into paid deployments.

Questions for HN:
1. If you’ve hired/found a strong early-stage GTM person, what channels worked best (HN, YC cofounder matching, LinkedIn, niche communities, etc.)?
2. What signals matter most to a great sales cofounder at this stage (ICP clarity, pilot proof, pricing, product maturity, comp structure)?
3. If you’re that person (or know one), what would you need to see to take the first call?

If relevant, you can reach me at: swayamdutta@settlx.xyz (happy to share more privately).