MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kouru225 | 2026-02-23 20:33:43+00:00
Choosing a different brush size (and pressing down harder or softer) means varying the range of locations that each bristle can land within, but no one cares about where each bristle lands as long as it's within the range that the artist chooses. The fact that you have to use a different tool than a brush in order to get perfect lines proves my point.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-23 20:33:44+00:00
Try 5 minutes in blackpill hell and see if you can take it.

I think there is a double standard here. I get several sexual harassing follow attempts a day on Instagram and other platforms from (seemingly) women who probably want me to watch their OnlyFans or something. As a guy I'm supposed to treat this as if it was just spam and not sexual harassment, which it is.

Men are culturally expected to be "ready all the time" and not have actual sexual autonomy either.
by guywithahat | 2026-02-23 20:34:00+00:00
It can also mean it's political. Famously (whether you think he's guilty or not) John Kiriakou pled guilty because he knew John Brennan was going to throw the entire might of the justice system at him. When he talks about the experience, his decisions are made with consideration to the fact the president's inner circle wanted him in jail and he wasn't fighting a fair battle.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-23 20:34:01+00:00
Relevant citations:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bounded_rationality

"We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be." - Maurice Allais
by servo_sausage | 2026-02-23 20:34:16+00:00
Sort of; accidents are the absolute core of the product. They are rare, but they are the focus of the design.

By edge cases I mean scenarios like the lights going out in an underground garage; low vision due to colourful smoke or dust, or things like optical illusions or occlusion that a human would just need to remember.

Lidar can help, but not really enough to be worth it.
by juleiie | 2026-02-23 20:34:19+00:00
I have seen so much engineering scams over the years and this is precisely the thing that they all do.

It reminds me of E-cat. Anyone remembers cold fusion? They had same modus operandi. Lots of revolutionary claims but testing was so contrived and limited and lots of conditions that in the end no one was allowed to truly confirm it. .

This repeats the exact steps of that purported miraculous energy device.
by AnIrishDuck | 2026-02-23 20:34:29+00:00
> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

- Charles Babbage, https://archive.org/details/passagesfromlife03char/page/67/m...

EDIT: This is a new iteration of an old problem. Even GIGO [1] arguably predates computers and describes a lot of systemic problems. It does seem a lot more difficult to distinguish between a "garbage" or "good" prompt though. Perhaps this problem is just going to keep getting harder.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-23 20:34:45+00:00
> Operation System ANDROID7

> Communication 4G Wifi BLUETOOTH

A world of no in so many ways. Nothing still running Android 7 should be connected to the Internet, and in any case I don't want a display that has a computer and networking in it (though I realize some people do want that). I'm specifically trying to find an E-ink touchscreen that's just a display, to be attached to a real computer whose software can be updated and customized.

Thank you for the pointer, though!
by yardie | 2026-02-23 20:34:57+00:00
You won't get to the kind of change you thought you would see until food runs low and the economy stalls. The American Revolution was rare in that it didn't need to happen. The Founders were just being giant assholes (j/k). While the French Revolution just a few decades later was more status quo. A lot of starvation and poverty just pushed the population over the edge.
by louky | 2026-02-23 20:35:01+00:00
My Grandfather was around in the early days, had a ham call sign from the early 1930s and was involved in the Manhattan Project as a senior non-scientific engineer.

He was also involved in the development of radar/microwave comms after the war.

He and colleagues did the same - warming their hands in front of microwave antennae.

He developed and later died of some unknown neurological issues related to nerve transmission in the early 1990s.
He had been exposed to so many different possible dangers that it's impossible to tell.

After he died I helped clean out and save/donate the double-garage full of ham equipment and home-built telescopes - one was ~.75metre diameter and ~3 metres long, just huge - I was just a teen and let most of it go as my grandmother didn't care by then.

There were also many containers of classified documents, related to WWII and after. Those were appropriately dealt with.

I've always HAD microwaves but have been aware of the issues.
I'm a ham as well and still occasionally use the morse key he gave me when I was 7. Still miss him, he taught me so much.

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by staticassertion | 2026-02-23 20:35:36+00:00
> Any tool that can plug into MLIR and use LLVM, can potentically produce fast code.

I guess that's sort of technically true, but not even really? Like, obviously you can compile Python to C and then compile that with clang, but it doesn't make it fast. But even if that were the case, there aren't that many languages that have Rust performance so who cares? "Potentially" is sort of saying we might have a future language that's better, but of course anyone would agree.

> Also there is the alternative path to execute code via agents workestration, just like low code tooling work.

I don't understand how this is relevant.

> I see you never had the fortune to review code provided by cheap offshoring teams.

I just don't understand why you're bringing it up tbh I don't understand the relevance.
by switchbak | 2026-02-23 20:35:47+00:00
I think this is the key. In theory - more information stream when fused together (properly) should reduce error. If their stumbling block is the "properly" part, than the rest of those justifications come off as a pretty weak way to sidestep their own inabilities to deliver this properly.

We have lots of evidence of similar strategies being used in other domains, this seems like an especially life-critical domain that ought to have high rigor and standards applied.
by ordu | 2026-02-23 20:35:53+00:00
Those boys were excellent target for trolling if we were at 2010 or so. I'd spend a lot of time pretending to be a 15 yo girl to aggravate them and to laugh. Probably I wouldn't even need to pretend or even do something, because the whole space would be filled with trolls pretending to be girls to make those boys angry, just pick a place and read what other trolls are doing. There would be even coordinated groups of trolls pretending to be as girls so boys, to fuel flame wars.

I wonder, are there any troll groups now? Or all this fight against anonymity made them impossible.
by kayo_20211030 | 2026-02-23 20:35:56+00:00
I don't get it, and I don't have a dog in the C/C++ vs. Rust race.
Ladybird has ~1200 contributors with a predominance of C++ contributions, followed by HTML, and with "other" lying at 0.5%.

That's a lot of people contributing.

How many of them will be less willing to contribute in the future, and less productive when they do if a sizable portion is in Rust?
Maybe there'll be more contributions and maybe there'll be less. I don't know.
If you've managed to develop a community of 1200 developers who are willing to advance the project why upset the applecart?
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-23 20:36:31+00:00
>Most likely we will not miss them

given that we've also lost the faculty to look at the past with anything other than contempt most people wouldn't even know what they miss. The little problem with losing the 'general cognition' department, just like broad social or cultural decline is that you lose the ability to even judge what you're losing, because the thing you just lost was doing the judging
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by mvpprojects | 2026-02-23 20:36:47+00:00
ArchivioMD + ArchivioID — Markdown file management, cryptographic post signing, and Git-anchored integrity for WordPress

In February 2023, a developer named James Tomasino wrote about signing blog posts with GPG keys and ended with one line:

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That sat unanswered for two years. I built the path forward — and the foundation it runs on.
Two GPL plugins.

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by yann-gael | 2026-02-23 20:37:31+00:00
Programmers sometimes refer to the toilet as the 'debug chair'. At first, it might sound funny, but there's some truth to it. Yes, it really is a debug room and a debug seat!

Sometimes, you may get stuck on bugs or problems, and even though they seem simple, you can't figure out how to solve them. You might feel confused about how to tackle those obstacles. And then, out of nowhere, you're forced to step away and visit the bathroom. In that moment, a solution magically pops into your mind, and you wonder, ‘How did that happen?' Well, there are scientific facts behind this, which we'll explore in this post.
by GolfPopper | 2026-02-23 20:37:39+00:00
>What other social issues should be solved with vigilante justice?

Everything you said is true, but I suspect, also irrelevant, because options short of vigilante justice aren't going to be seen by the public as viable for much longer (if they're even seen so now). America's social contract is breaking, and existing institutions make it clear, daily, that they will strengthen that trend rather than reverse it. And as JFK said, 'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.' That doesn't make the violence laudable, or even desirable. It is simply inevitable without seemingly impossible positive change from an establishment that is hostile to such.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-23 20:37:40+00:00
Obviously "useful" doesn't just involve making money. Code that will be used for education and all of these things is clearly not useless.

But let's be honest to ourselves, the sort of useless code the GP meant will never ever be used for any of that. The code will never leave their personal storage. In that sense it's about as valuable for the society at large as the combined exabytes of GenAI smut that people have been filling their drives with by running their 4090s 24/7.
by nvesp | 2026-02-23 20:37:42+00:00
Dude my car was literally jacked up and had the catalytic convertor chopped off in a parking with flock cameras at a hotel before, def never got caught, and according to the hotel security footage they parked right next to my car, got out and did everything real fast. Plus most people using cars to commit heinous crimes are usually stolen and ditched right after anyways, people who use their own car to commit crimes usually end up being lower level crimes like organized retail theft, drugs, etc, you know stuff id rather not trade privacy for security over.
by kosbay | 2026-02-23 20:37:47+00:00
I built this because I kept dealing with the same problem on dev teams. Someone finds a bug, writes "it doesn't work" in Slack, maybe attaches a screenshot. Then you spend 15 minutes asking what page they were on, what browser, any console errors, can they reproduce it.
VibeCheck is a Chrome extension that lets the reporter hit record, show the bug, and stop. While they're recording, it silently captures console logs, network requests, and browser metadata. Everything gets packaged into a report on a shared dashboard.
Stack is Next.js for the dashboard, Firebase for the backend, and Chrome DevTools APIs for capturing browser context during recording. Built it solo from Kazakhstan using Claude Code for a lot of the heavy lifting.
Happy to answer questions about the technical approach or the Chrome Web Store publishing process, which was its own adventure. Feedback on the extension itself is very welcome too.
by salleisha | 2026-02-23 20:37:57+00:00
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by Shooti | 2026-02-23 20:38:04+00:00
The difference is ChatGPT Pro/Plus plans have one shared pool of token limits shared across all use cases.

In contrast Google's AI plans give you at least three seperate pools of token usage limits: Gemini App + Antigravity/Other Code Assist tools like Android Studio + AI Studio free usage limits.

Google limit the context of where you can use their tokens but in exchange they give you substantially more.
by michaelsbradley | 2026-02-23 20:38:14+00:00
Sermon manuals were popular among Catholic priests from the time the printing press started to spread in Europe, and remained so into the middle of the 20th Century.

A parish priest might not deliver a “canned sermon” verbatim, but still rely on one/more sermon manuals heavily when preparing his words for Sunday.

The Roman Catechism (Catechism of the Council of Trent), published by the Vatican and ordered for use in seminaries for core formation of candidates for the priesthood, included a list of specific topics to address for each Sunday of the year. While not a sermon manual as such, those “bullet points” informed Catholic sermons around the world for 300+ years.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-23 20:38:24+00:00
I load and unload the dishwasher, so it’s a protocol by one person doing it. I do have to tell my wife to use more bowl like dishes and less bowels lest the top be too full and the bottom not full enough. I’ve purchased dishes that fit those dimensions (they can go on the bottom but are still bowel-like) especially to satisfy dishwasher loading constraints.
by gretch | 2026-02-23 20:38:49+00:00
I agree with you that parents should be responsible, but your argument is clearly flawed.

> you can get in trouble if you recklessly leave around or provide alcohol/guns/cigarettes for a minor to start using

In the example here, there are 3 things where age verification is required AND parents have responsibility.

It’s not just one or the other.

The same responsibilities are not “thrown out”, they are never acknowledged in the first place.
by igor47 | 2026-02-23 20:38:54+00:00
Man, I really emphasize with this, and that immediately raises my "motivated reasoning" hakles. There's a lot of people in America with deeply held views that I strongly disagree with, and I would be very worried if they began taking matters into their own hands; to pick a hopefully-uncontroversial example, bombing abortion clinics. They, too, would say "to take no action is also unethical". The purpose of society is to arbitrate these kinds of disputes...
by reify | 2026-02-23 20:38:56+00:00
more bollocks

https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/habitless-quit-bad-habits/id67...

spelled id wong: haitless: habitless

no links to the claimed "science-backed" papers or research;

I worked in substance misuse as a methadone dispender, care coordinator, NHS detox units and rehabs across the UK for over 15 years.

Strike alcohol off that list, there is no way in a million years that any app will assist or help anyone addicted to alcohol to detox and cut down on their drinking.

fucking fantasists
by bluescrn | 2026-02-23 20:39:03+00:00
> Attempting to manage this as a parent is hellish.

Doesn't matter what you do as a parent so long as kids are allowed smartphones at school.

You can set up perfect filtering for your own kids, but that won't help when some other kid brings in a device loaded up with the most shocking content they could find on some unfiltered home connection.
by kseudo | 2026-02-23 20:39:14+00:00
This post resonated with me. I have tried self hosting multiple times over the years and always gave up cause it is so hard to manage and there was always an online service that was good enough.

This weekend I vibe coded (dont shoot me) a homelab platform that hosts a bunch of useful services on a MacMini and lets me deploy my own apps on top of. Using tailscale I can access the apps from my phone. I have multiple users with their own SSO to control access. I even have a pi as part of the network that hosts public facing content. All done with Claude Code and OpenClaw (as a kind of devops tool)... hardly any code written by me. Its been a seriously fun experiment that I will try to progress some how.... if only because I love the dream "Digital sovereignty" even if the reality is its unlikely to happen again. It got me thinking though if I could get inference hardware and a good enough open LLM to work with my setup it might just be possible. The OP advocates a form of basic computing that is understandable but when we are able to host our own LLM's we could end up in a very different but more capable paradigm.

The repo for homelab anyone who has an interest:
https://github.com/briancunningham6/homelab
by EmbarrassedHelp | 2026-02-23 20:39:22+00:00
> This is not true, the law requires core apps to be opensource. Polish EUDI wallet has been even decompiled by a youtuber to compare it with sources and check if the rumors about spying are true. So you can check yourself if the app tracks you.

The "open source" apps connect to proprietary backends run by a third party that you have to blindly trust. If EUDI wallets were truly open source and free from blindly trusting any authority, then you could simply remove that requirement and issue your own tokens without the use of potentially malicious third party.
by JohnMakin | 2026-02-23 20:39:31+00:00
Huh? even if you knew and understood the scope of it before (I’d say a vast majority did not and thought they were just red light cameras), it is not very hard to understand that when you see the people in masks without badges snatching your neighbors haphazardly and with specious reasons that you might make a chunk of that majority look at the cameras more skeptically and maybe, just maybe wonder if that technology could be turned against you too.

Until recently very few people could articulate the real risk this tech posed, now you can literally see it play out (depending where you live)
by mentalgear | 2026-02-23 20:39:36+00:00
Indeed "Interoperability" is what would hurt social media giants the most - Cory Doctorow recently held an excellent talk where he stated that back in the early 00s Facebook (and others) used interoperability to offer services that allowed to interact, push and pull to mySpace (the big dog back then) to siphon off their users and content. But once Facebook became the dominant player, they moved to make the exact tactics they used (Interoperability and automation) illegal. Talking about regulatory capture ...
by wrs | 2026-02-23 20:39:53+00:00
Since the conclusion is that context is important, I expected you’d redo the experiment with context. Just add the sentence “The car I want to wash is here with me.” Or possibly change it to “should I walk or drive the dirty car”.

It’s interesting that all the humans critiquing this assume the car isn’t at the car to be washed already, but the problem doesn’t say that.
by Wingman4l7 | 2026-02-23 20:40:08+00:00
No, because this particular attack is (as far as I know) a new concept, but in general, China being a major state sponsor of all sorts of large cyberattacks is very well-known (in security circles, at least) and has been extensively documented. The current likely scenario is that attacks would be performed against the US in the event that they tried to help defend Taiwan against Chinese invasion.
by NoboruWataya | 2026-02-23 20:40:10+00:00
Why do you think Firefox users would be most likely to make the jump? The main reason I see people give for supporting Ladybird is challenging the dominance of the incumbents. That's not really a great reason to switch from Firefox because, as you note, it doesn't have any dominance. And there's also an argument that splitting the non-Chrome market into two only increases Chrome's dominance.

From what I can tell from HN, Brave seems to be popular with those users who hate Google but for whatever reason hate Mozilla even more, and I suspect those will be the most likely users to switch.