MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gchadwick | 2026-02-12 09:23:31+00:00
Only taken a quick skim but this looks like solid material!

RISC-V Vector is definitely tricky to get a handle on, especially if you just read the architecture documentation (which is to be expected really, good specification for an architecture isn't compatible with a useful beginners guide). I found I needed to look at some presentations given by various members of the vector working group to get a good grasp of the principles.

There's been precious little material beyond the specification and some now slightly old slide decks so this is a great contribution.
by shubhamjain | 2026-02-12 09:24:22+00:00
> The article does point out exactly this problem, but glosses over the fact that most artists don't want to change to popular art. Only a few can, and most don't want to.

I don't think author hides the fact. It's plain as day that to make a living, you need to sell art which resonates with people. You can still find room to be honest within that constraint, but you can't ignore the audience.

Artists should quit the illusion that they can create whatever they please and expect the income to automatically follow.
Show HN: A free online British accent generator for instant voice conversion
by Katherine603 | 2026-02-12 09:25:17+00:00
I've developed a simple AI-powered British accent generator. Enter or paste your text, select the voice that best fits your project's tone, and generate speech for free. It supports up to 500 characters and offers 8 distinct, lifelike voices. Everything runs entirely within your browser.
I'm primarily seeking feedback on output quality, user experience, and any technical improvements worth exploring.
by extraduder_ire | 2026-02-12 09:25:17+00:00
Worth noting when you open up the developer tools console in discord (facebook and some other sites do it too), you get a regular message printed with "If someone told you to copy/paste something here, there’s an 11/10 chance you’re being scammed." and then "Pasting anything in here could give attackers access to your Discord account." in bold+red text. It used to also mention "free nitro" as an example of a scam you may be falling for.

I've heard, but haven't confirmed, they also detect you opening developer tools using various methods and remove your auth keys from localstorage while you have it open to make account takeovers harder. (but not impossible)

Opening the browser console in a separate window mitigates some of that detection.
by orleyhuxwell | 2026-02-12 09:25:18+00:00
I'm confused after reading this thread; the Xen levels are long in original HF, or in Black Mesa?

> Unfortunately, by the end of the earth levels and certainly on Xen, the levels switch over to original designs

By original designs, do you mean HF1 version, or pre-HF1 designs that didn't get implemented in HF1?
by paganel | 2026-02-12 09:25:59+00:00
> and have my phone become a guide for the day,

Why would you ever want to do that? Why wont' you stop and live life for a moment?, stop delegating stuff to your phone, especially when it comes to personal trips. Really bleak, this "always optimizing stuff" thing, really, really bleak. Tech-bro culture has done a good one to mainstream culture, because I see the same mindset seeping through to mainstream life.
Show HN: Rawkit – Free, no-ads developer tools that run in the browser
by mohammedsunasra | 2026-02-12 09:26:35+00:00
Hey HN,

I built rawkit.dev, a collection of browser-based developer utilities. No ads, no signups, no tracking. Everything processes client-side — your data never touches a server.

The tools:

- JSONForge: JSON editor with tree/graph views, diff, transform, JQ-style queries, format conversion

- SQLSandbox: SQLite via WASM — import CSVs, write SQL, join across files

- Regexplorer: Regex builder with live matching, plain English mode,nmulti-language export

- SiftLog: Log file viewer with auto-detection, severity filtering, regex search, timeline

- Tabulate: CSV/TSV viewer with spreadsheet-style filtering and sorting

Tech: Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. No frameworks, no build step.

Each tool is essentially 3 files(index.html, css and .js file)

I built these because I was sick of ad-ridden, upload-your-data-to-our-server alternatives for tasks I do daily. The goal is to keep adding tools that developers actually need.

Curious what tools you'd want to see next
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-12 09:27:19+00:00
Actually there is, various age verification systems exist where the party asking for it does not need to process their ID, like the Dutch iDIN (https://www.idin.nl/en/) that works not unlike a digital payment - the bank knows your identity and age, just like they know your account balance, and can sign off on that kind of thing just like a payment.

I hope this becomes more widespread / standardized; the precursor for iDIN is iDEAL which is for payments, that's being expanded and rebranded as Wero across Europe at the moment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)), in part to reduce dependency on American payment processors.
by mingus88 | 2026-02-12 09:27:20+00:00
The “failing hilariously” bit is critical for this road-tripping use case.

It’s only going to take one bad suggestion that leaves someone in a dangerous situation to lose faith in simply handing over a whole day’s itinerary to an LLM. Honestly that can go so bad very easily.

We are decades into the GPS navigation era and I still don’t trust the route my vehicle suggests. I have been burned so many times that we literally still compare routes from different providers for a new trip.
by morpheuskafka | 2026-02-12 09:28:49+00:00
I don't mean that many people actively support them (in the US, my understand is in some areas they do have local support in Mexico, but anyway), but rather that this is not the forefront of most peoples minds, nor would people necessarily support any conceivable action against them. Moreover, many would criticize efforts against them as "failed war on drugs" and see it primarily in that lens absent any clear attack on US civilians not involved in the trade.
by rramadass | 2026-02-12 09:29:09+00:00
You are overthinking it.

See my comment here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986532

Also see a concrete example of an Engineering Notebook from a time when they were common, posted by user JetSetIlly here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46985832

On What and How to Write:

The book The Thinker's Toolkit: 14 Powerful Techniques for Problem Solving by Morgan Jones gives you a catalog of structured techniques for problem solving which you can use in your own writing.

Addendum to the above book's catalog would be "Decision Tables" (useful for all types of decision-making and not just software engineering); How to Use a Decision Table Methodology to Analyze Complex Conditional Actions Requirements in Software Development - https://www.methodsandtools.com/archive/archive.php?id=39
by wongarsu | 2026-02-12 09:30:26+00:00
The US copyright office has published a statement that they see AI output analogous to a human contracting the work out to a machine. The machine would hold the copyright, but can't, consequently there is none. Which is imho slightly surprising since your argument about choice of prompt and output seems analogous to the argument that lead to photographs being subject to copyright despite being made by a machine.

On the other hand in a way the opinion of the US copyright office doesn't matter, what matters is what the courts decide
by deng | 2026-02-12 09:30:39+00:00
> Are there technical reasons that Rust took off and D didn't?

As someone who considered it back then when it actually stood a chance to become the next big thing, from what I remember, the whole ecosystem was just too confusing and simply didn't look stable and reliable enough to build upon long-term. A few examples:

* The compiler situation: The official compiler was not yet FOSS and other compilers were not available or at least not usable. Switch to FOSS happened way too late and GCC support took too long to mature.

* This whole D version 1 vs version 2 thingy

* This whole Phobos vs Tango standard library thingy

* This whole GC vs no-GC thingy

This is not a judgement on D itself or its governance. I always thought it's a very nice language and the project simply lacked man-power and commercial backing to overcome the magical barrier of wide adoption. There was some excitement when Facebook picked it up, but unfortunately, it seems it didn't really stick.
Show HN: MCP-X – Single-file multi-client MCP gateway with per-tool access ctrl
by littleRound | 2026-02-12 09:31:09+00:00
We built a lightweight gateway (one Python file) that lets multiple AI clients share MCP tool servers with fine-grained, per-tool access control via fnmatch patterns. Config is a single TOML file with live reload.

It works like a file-based proxy - point your agent at the static gateway URL once, then dynamically connect and swap out actual MCP servers behind it at any time via changing config file / REST API. No need to reconfigure your agents when your tools change.

GitHub: https://github.com/camelop/mcp-x
by vidarh | 2026-02-12 09:31:31+00:00
Really, there are three parts to a judgement: facts, the law, and the application of them. There should be no leeway in determining what the law says about a given situation. If that is not decidable, it is a bug. However, what a fair judgement is given the facts and the law, is really a separate issue. You can introduce measures to give clear guidance what the law says, and still give judges flexibility. One of the upsides of "code is law" in that respect is being able to provide a clear statement of what the law says and require the judge to then explain in their judgement why that justifies or does not justify a given judgement.

A lot of bad judgement might be a lot more blatant (or not happen) if the judge had to justify outright ignoring the law.
by 999900000999 | 2026-02-12 09:31:35+00:00
What can D do other languages can't?

Say your starting a new Staff Engineer or Tech Lead job. What gets you to convince a CTO that we need to have a team learn D ?

On the flip side, where are the 200k base salary D positions.

Get me an interview in 2 months and I'll drop 10 hours a week into learning
by geokon | 2026-02-12 09:31:49+00:00
On a high level, do I understand correctly that SIMD is close to how the hardware works, while Vector Processor is more of an abstraction? The "Strip Mining" part looks like this translation to something SIMD-like. I seems like it's a good abstraction layers, but there is an implicit compilation step right? (making the "assembly" more easily run on different actual hardware)
by Aerroon | 2026-02-12 09:32:09+00:00
>I, like many others, believe the only way AI won't immediately get enshittified is by fighting tooth and nail for LLM output to never be copyrightable

If the person who prompted the AI tool to generate something isn't considered the author (and therefore doesn't deserve copyright), then does that mean they aren't liable for the output of the AI either?

Ie if the AI does something illegal, does the prompter get off scot-free?
by josefx | 2026-02-12 09:32:44+00:00
You leave out that they can keep it in a warehouse at the other side of the country for pickup and there is no law saying that it cannot be further away than the point of origin. Fun times.

Sadly I rarely see an option for "place it with a neon sign on my front porch" when I order things online, because the chance of having things stolen would often be preferable to a daytrip to the middle of nowhere.
by pjmlp | 2026-02-12 09:33:19+00:00
GCC usually drops frontends if there are no maintainers around, it already happened to gcj, and I am waiting for the same to happen to gccgo any time now, as it has hardly gotten any updates since Go 1.18.

The team is quite small and mostly volunteers, so there is the question how long can Walter Bright keep at it, and who will keep it going afterwards when he passes the torch.
by MrSkelter | 2026-02-12 09:33:47+00:00
Having children at greater than replacement rate isn’t smart if you aren’t poor. Replacement for a couple is 3 (you can’t have a fraction of a child), more is 4.

The demands 4 children place on housing, income and time are literally double that of 2 children - which is less than replacement. That’s before you consider transport and other factors.

I don’t see why on a finite planet people think we need ever more humans. A smaller population would be better in every regard. The only thing that would need to change is capitalism. That’s not hard.
by 3371 | 2026-02-12 09:33:58+00:00
You know, it's good old prompt/context engineering. To be fair, markdowns actually can be useful because of LLM's (Transformer's) gullible/susceptible nature... At least that's what I discovered developing a prompting framework.

Of course it's hilarious a single markdown got 4000 starts, but it looks like just another example of how people chase a buzzing x post in tech space.
by jjav | 2026-02-12 09:34:07+00:00
Found this educational & fun video on youtube comparing a 4x4 car on summer tires vs. a 2wd car on proper winter tires:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atayHQYqA3g

Moral of the story: 4x4 is useless in the snow without grip, and to get grip you need snow tires.

If you ever need to drive in the snow, watch the video. Then get snow tires.
by AIorNot | 2026-02-12 09:34:15+00:00
WTH is this? Why is this even allowed on HN

This company is a fraud - please
Remove this scam company hype from HN

Their “AI agent” website is just LLM slop and marketing hype!

They tried to hire folks in India to hype their repo and do fraudulent growth for some apparently crapped ai “agent” platform
https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/s/a1fQC5j0FM

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46764091
by zanthum | 2026-02-12 09:34:21+00:00
Looking past the writing style, which I intensely dislike, I am very disappointed in how the article identifies a real problem (Hari is not paid enough) and gives inane solutions (saree NFTs).

Why is Hari not paid enough?

1. "The visual language of the loom is deteriorating into digital gibberish"

2. "the chemical dyes are poisoning the very water the weavers drink"

3. "the market is flooded with fakes that have destroyed consumer trust"

You understand why 1 and 3 are problems to be solved when you consider the solutions proposed: AI and Blockchains. If Hari happens to ask an AI and Blockchain company to help him out, the outcome is clear: after they take a cut, his remaining salary reduces from 5000 to 500, and the consultants walk away to next solve manual scavenging using LLMs and room temperature superconductors.

Naturally, the Cyber Lime வெறியன்s in Paris care whether the yalis are the right way up. The goal is to sell the sarees in "Upper East Side in New York or London’s Jermyn Street or haute Paris" while touting them as culturally authentic. Wikipedia dumps of 5 different kinds of vision models reinforces the idea that AI is, of course, the solution. The only question is which kind.

Using CRISPR-Cas9 for better microbial dyes is interesting. Unfortunately the one link provided is about R&D for food dyes in the US, so I am not convinced (without checking it up myself later) that this is feasible in Kanchipuram yet.

"[LVMH's] Aura Blockchain acts as a digital notary for their diamonds, recording the specific mine of origin and cut history." You can already verify that your blood diamond has been mined by an exploited, underpaid worker. The only thing you need to save Kanchipuram sarees is authentic Proof-of-Exploitation so no one can doubt that your precious clothes are hand-woven by Hari who can't afford his groceries.

Indian luxury clothes made "with a solid bar of silver and gold", the process enhanced with AI and Blockchains, to be sold to a Met Gala market as the solution to underpaid weavers in Kanchipuram is... idk. The cherry on top is them admitting to using AI art in an article about underpaid artisans.

"Even while developing this piece, the irony of using AI was not lost on us." I wish I could pull this off with a straight face.
by nobody9999 | 2026-02-12 09:34:24+00:00
>No, they live somewhere with a working postal law like Germany. Hand it directly to the addressed or a person authorised by the addressed (in which case inform the recipient via card or sms) or deposit it in a postbox, post office. This way it is secure that you receive your stuff even if you are not at home: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Post/Regelung...

Sure. And that's great. But we're not talking about Deutsche Post, or even the US Postal Service.

We're talking about Amazon Logistics subcontractors who are so over-scheduled that they routinely need to urinate in bottles[0] rather than stop to use a restroom or they won't be able to fulfill their delivery quota for the day.

Those folks are assuredly not going to do anything more than the bare minimum (and not necessarily because they don't want to) because their delivery quotas don't allow for anything more than dumping a package on a porch (or in an unattended apartment building lobby) and maybe ringing the doorbell/intercom.

[0] https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/amazon-depot-s-huge-pi...
by wiether | 2026-02-12 09:35:33+00:00
So we reached a point where the quality of a `piece` of software is decided based on stars on GitHub.

The exact same thing happened with xClaw where people where going "look at this app that got thousands of stars on GitHub in only a few days!".

How is that different than the followers/likes counts on the usual social networks?

Given how much good it did to give power to strangers based on those counts, it's hard not to think that we're going in the completely wrong direction.
by venk12 | 2026-02-12 09:35:44+00:00
We've moved past asking where the energy comes from or how our planet will survive this critical phase.

These days, it's about framing - every country is scrambling to up their game just to stay in power. The companies that are riding this wave are spending millions in marketing, lobbying and billions on consuming energy so that they can make trillions in valuation.

I am also an ardent user of AI - but sometimes I do feel guilty when I use so many tokens - because I know I am burning energy, and feeding part of this mission. If there is a solution, I would like to be a part of it.
by Toutouxc | 2026-02-12 09:38:30+00:00
Yes, as the sibling post says, it's effectively the same in most cameras and it's exactly the same in certain cameras (not many). Unless you, of course, actively fuck up by shooting a very low-exposure (dark) shot with low ISO (then you lose precision, because your analog measurements get quantified into small integers, that are also close to the noise floor), or by shooting a very bright shot with high ISO (where your highlights get multiplied right out of the range of your output format). If you don't actively try and fuck up the shot (AND you shoot RAW), you can make pretty wild changes in post and the data will be there.

That's just one more reason not to be afraid of auto ISO. The camera will choose something sane and you'll have ample room on both sides to get the image you wanted.
by Nursie | 2026-02-12 09:38:34+00:00
'The law' is open to judicial and legal interpretation. There isn't always a single 'the law' to interpret in complex cases. While there are many, many rules, they are not as simple as code and they rely on deep layers of precedent. Common law is made up of case history more than statute.

> One of the upsides of "code is law" in that respect is being able to provide a clear statement of what the law says

No, "code is law" in fact always ignored what any actual law said, in favour of framing everything as a sort of contract, regardless of whether said contract was actually fair or legal, and it removed the human factor from the whole equation. It was a basic failure to understand law.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-12 09:38:51+00:00
I'd bet on some sort of dragon teenager. Dragons are hoarders and measure success by how much gold they are sitting on. They are insecure, obsessed with being perceived as powerful, and sometimes like to pretend to be aristocracy, without possessing the heritage. Often crass and tacky, they also burn what they can't own.

Old dragons probably would be wiser, and more aware of their character failings.
by miki123211 | 2026-02-12 09:38:58+00:00
Yes, Google does this, and it is infurriating.

Every time I open the dev tools on Safari (to reverse-engineer some random broken website that doesn't let me do what I need to and forces me to write yet another Python script using Beautifulsoup4), Google logs me out of all of my accounts.

To add insult to injury, Google's auth management is so broken that if I log in to the "wrong" account first by accident (E.G. when joining a work meeting from Calendar.app), that account now becomes primary for Google Search / Youtube, and there's no way to change that without logging back out from all accounts and then logging into them again.
by fjfaase | 2026-02-12 09:39:15+00:00
I remember seeing a sketch on a (Chinese) new years eve TV show in the mid nineteens, showing regional differences in language use between two partners during the night where one had to make use of the toilet. It started with one that used long sentences and ended with regional one where the whole coversation consisted of four sentences of one word: Who? Me. What? Pee.
by gorgoiler | 2026-02-12 09:39:29+00:00
This is an abhorrent threat to the safety of our children and just another example of how the [Red / Blue]* party are failing in online safety.

That is why we, the [Blue / Red] party are announcing today a manifesto pledge to outlaw all computers that allow unsigned booting of unauthorized platforms, to outlaw all browsers that do not participate in the chain of trust this provides, and to outlaw all websites that do not verify the code path from boot to browser.

Only with complete trust and authorization will we be able to sleep safe in the knowledge our children’s faces are being scanned by law abiding patriots and not subverted by evil hackers like xyzeva and Dziurwa.

— General Secretary gorgoiler

.. .. ..

*What do you do, btw, if you extend your political machine into another country by subsuming their party into yours, but when their colour is traditionally X and yours is traditionally Y? Mixed light: the White party? Mixed paint: the Brown party?
by sigmoid10 | 2026-02-12 09:40:01+00:00
I have lots of super high quality, clean audio recordings from her ripped from an old video game that she did voice work for. I've tried various TTS models over the years with it. Getting the pitch and tune is easy, but getting the impersonal detached robot-y feeling is kinda tricky. But I haven't tried in the past 6 months, so maybe it's time to give it another shot.
by fifticon | 2026-02-12 09:40:15+00:00
It is a bit sad that people have to be taught this;
I am presuming the product people are a kind of humans too.
But when I see their outputs, maybe this Christensen guy is right.

I tried to adjust the background image on microsoft Teams video calls this morning; the UI I had to use or rather figure out, to achieve that, was a major depression.
(1) the settings menus in teams are well hidden, for reasons unclear to me().
(2) but the _actual_ settings you need are hidden unless you START a meeting call.
(3) but, the _actual_ settings are a long chain of ".. but are you sure you REALLY want to see the ACTUAL settings?",
where you must continue to click 'more settings', 'advanced settings', 'full actual settings' (I am paraphrasing.)

() I suspect what they are though..
Something about dumbing the UI down to the level where
the people in charge of teams can understand them,
plus some kind of fear of UI designs where any given screen or view
contains more than 1 or 2 elements (the second element being "show further settings").

We are dumbing down UI to the level of people with no hands, no eyes, no brains,
which I presume is the target audience. I must have mah minimalism.