MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmyeet | 2026-02-11 05:51:08+00:00
I agree that the UX on Tiktok is cleaner and, like you say, in part part that's due to it being only short-form. It's worth noting that "short form" here means up to ~10 minutes long at this point, includes live videos and also includes photo galleries.

But it's more than that.

When I started using Tiktok, Charli D'Amelio was the biggest creator I believe and not once did I ever see one of her videos. I'm just not in that demographic. I've had repeated experiences on Tiktok where I'd see a new creator and see they have like 17M followers and I'd think "how have I never heard of them before?"

The way I describe this is that Tiktok's content is effectively segmented and isn't "global". By "global" I mean if someone is a top creator on IG or FB or Twitter, you'll see them. The platform will push them out to you and Tiktok is just more sophisticated than that.

The second big difference is the responsiveness. It takes other platforms longer to learn. Maybe they've gotten better now but, from what I know, historically other platforms had daily jobs that updated user recommendation preferences based on your activity. So if I started watching a lot of gaming videos, this wouldn't be reflected in my feed until the next day. Tiktok I think was the first to have a truly real-time updating feed.

Now this isn't a straight real-time vs overnight situation. It is/was more hybrid than that. So in FB's case, recommendations were more real-time but updating your preferences wasn't.
by baumy | 2026-02-11 05:52:18+00:00
Again, false. You can clearly hear when the combustion engine kicks in and it's indicated in the dash. I can floor it in electric mode and it still gets up to 60 in around 6 seconds, no gas involved. Hybrid mode is probably slightly faster but it's a very marginal difference.

I don't believe your last statement because you've been wrong about everything else, and it doesn't make sense. Plugging it in is exactly as easy as literally any electric car, and it simply doesn't have the limitations you claim it does.

I don't know what you've been reading, but you should evaluate the veracity of it as a source and talk to actual owners. I know several others who have one and we're all quite happy with them and don't get gas often
by Agentlien | 2026-02-11 05:52:48+00:00
I remember my father had installed Windows 3.10 (not 3.11) on our home pc (I must have been 6-7 at the time). I complained that it was just awkward to use compared to DOS and all games required you to reboot in DOS anyway. I didn't see the point with a graphical OS.

Then came Windows 95 and my mind was blown.
by dekhn | 2026-02-11 05:53:11+00:00
MUDs were my introduction to telnet- I grew up a university kid and had access to Wesleyan's minicomputer EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU running OpenVMS. I used it to telnet to CMU's TinyMUD and later other TinyMUDs around the country. I recall OpenVMS's telnet had a problem with newlines/carriage returns so all the text was staircased, so I ended up learning C and writing a MUD client. I still habitually use telnet today even if netcat and many other tools have replaced it.

All of that was foundational for my career and I still look back fondly on the technology of the time, which tended to be fairly "open" to exploration by curious-minded teenagers.
by meroes | 2026-02-11 05:53:51+00:00
Very similar arguments date back to at least Plato. Ancient Greek math was based in geometry and Plato argued one could never demonstrate incommensurable lengths of rope due to physical constraints. And yet incommensurable lengths exist in math. So he said the two realms are forever divided.

I think it’s modern science’s use of math that made people forget this.
by toastal | 2026-02-11 05:54:00+00:00
MS GitHub can not only render rST & AsciiDoc (albeit pretty poorly since they the CSS is bad), but it also is employing its own fork of Markdown that isn’t compatible with other forks. “Just Markdown”, like the base spec, is so feature poor that everyone has their own incompatible fork which don’t make it render properly.

console/shell-session/sh-session (parsers call them different names) are for shell sessions, terminal sessions. Bash syntax is for Bash scripts, & these aren’t scripts but something you run in your terminal session.
by anonnon | 2026-02-11 05:55:09+00:00
Your post is pure victim-blaming, as well as normalizing an exploitative state of affairs (being aggressively DDOSed by poorly-behaved scrapers run by Big Tech that only take and never give back, unlike pre-AI search engines, which previously, at least, would previously send you traffic) that was unheard of until just a few years ago.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-11 05:55:30+00:00
> In my experience, they know nothing, including how to program.

In my experience (Banking, Insurance, Fintech, etc) they were invaluable.

If, while developing, you hit some ambiguity in the spec, you could always go to the BA that wrote the spec and clarify, and I've never had the situation where they responded "Wait, let me ask the customer"; they knew what the business process should be, what the workflow should be, etc.

It worked for the customer as well - when they had trouble deciding "should or workflow do $FOO or $BAR?", a quick chat to our BA would be enough for them to make a decision.

Now, having worked in Agile shops (which I believe are the majority), there is no space for a BA - the ethos is "through something together, and if the customer doesn't want it, refine it until they do", so any BAs in this shop tend to be superfluous anyway because there is no place for them in the process anyway.

That's a failure of the process, not a failure of the role.
by djhn | 2026-02-11 05:55:41+00:00
I was curious enough to fact check this. The statue does look like two horses wrestling or even mounting two men, but here’s what the city’s tourism website says about it:

[the famous sculptor Toma Rosandić] named this composition of bronze horses and their tamers “Black horses at play, and with them great heroes”, saying that the horses represent strength, and men tame and control that strength.
by dalyons | 2026-02-11 05:55:49+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-...

“ The researchers attributed most of the gap to overestimates of the “utility factor” – the ratio of miles travelled in electric mode to the total miles travelled – finding that 27% of driving was done in electric mode even though official estimates assumed 84%. ”

Perhaps the rav4 prime @ 41ml max ev range is a better system than all the other low range PHEVs like it, and has better real world usage data than them. I doubt it though.
by revolvingthrow | 2026-02-11 05:56:58+00:00
What a convenient argument, you can make it fit anything

"This rerouting is related to our efforts to protect our profit margins. The $current_top_model is our most expensive model to date. It can be used as an effective tool to get semi-useful results, but it can also be exploited for using a lot of tokens which costs us money, and we take profitability seriously. When our systems detect potential excessive token generation, they reroute to a different, less-capable reasoning model. We’re continuing to tune these detection mechanisms.

In the meantime, please buy a second $200/mo subscription."
by _the_inflator | 2026-02-11 05:57:21+00:00
We will see how it works out.

I have a recent background as a member of the Senior Management of one of the largest banks in Europe (8 years stint).

I worked in IT - and build the only successful platform for financial services done in-house and to ever make it as a standard not because management tried to force people, no because it solved customer's problem (external and internal customers aka employees).

I don't buy any of these EU is going fully independently. EU's IT isn't capable of doing this. No way ever ever.

I will 100% of the time bet against it. I saw so many things, experienced so many things - and no way is there anyone out there in Europe who to this day simply can acknowledge and appreciate the marvelous work and evolution that for example Google took or any other startup to leading global business like Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and so on.

Even IBM's mainframe: if you do not understand the very problem they solve - don't talk about "independence from X".

There is no successful startup from Europe, that has any results like the mentioned. All have to do with IT, all went from idea to what they are now.

And Europe now wants to do what?

All my fellow European's here boasting around: I feel sorry for you. All the "Let's build our own Google" (Google search) folks that predated the other independence stories like this here simply disqualify themselves the moment the say out loud such sentences.

Read 5 books about Engineering at Google, read the HTML5 spec by searching for Ian Hickson, go to the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA - and tell me that EU is going well in IT independence in taking a totally different approach, ignoring every and any circumstance and context the mentioned companies had, using design by committee, state dictated orders, establishing standards by enforcing them by law instead of evolution and being the best there is.

Good luck, we will see how it went.

And no, building something that looks somewhat okish from the outside, but is utterly crap inside - we talk about, excuse me my corporate language I was penetrated with, "best in class world leading number one" apps that leave any comparable solutions in the dust - just as Google, Apple, Microsoft etc. did.

If you cannot win in free markets - you declare victory by misusing regulation. That's cheap and well, socialism.

All of you will beg that all the systems and providers will still do business with you after years of trashing them.

Are Mastercard etc. awesome? Are they objectionable? Of course - but trashing them, boasting you will easily beat them while having the double standard on relying on them freely is disgusting.

All EU patriots: Throw away your iPhones, deinstall all the US apps - use at least existing Open Source alternatives. Cancel your Netflix, Microsoft Office subscription - do it.

Good luck anyway. After all, you are doing a live experiment on the head of the people forced to live with a minorities decision.
by toastal | 2026-02-11 05:57:24+00:00
Documentation isn’t as simple document. There are tons of rich elements missing from the spec specifically for documentation… which is why so many resort to adopting one of the many incompatible forks of Markdown to try to get features that were missing (but are a part of reStructuredText & AsciiDoc for instance). That has a real tradeoff since these forks are not going to be compatible & they aren’t going to be as well defined as the specs for these richer lightweight markup syntax choices.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-11 05:57:45+00:00
> I always tried to take a Kent Beck inspired Smalltalk/TDD inspired approach to the code I wrote and took pride in my work, but ultimately you're working in a shitty corporate environment where none of your colleagues cares because they're burning at both ends, the management only does lip service to Quality, and Deadlines and the Bottom Line are Everything.

LLMs are a multiplier. If this depressed you, then there is no way I can see the following happening.

> If LLMs make this shit more bearable then bring 'em on, I say!

What LLMs are going to do is multiply the amount of "none of your colleagues care" and "Management only does lip-service to ..."
Show HN: Forrus – A Bridge for Forgejo and Cirrus CI
by chenghui | 2026-02-11 05:59:36+00:00
I use Forgejo for personal projects but wanted a managed CI with higher compute. Cirrus CI[0] only supports GitHub, so I built a small bridge that listens to Forgejo webhooks, triggers Cirrus builds, and syncs commit status back.

Repo: https://codeberg.org/chenghui-lee/forrus

Public instance: https://forrus.lchenghui.com/

It currently supports:

- push + PR builds based on .cirrus.yml file

- automatic polling for build status

- status reporting back to Forgejo/Gitea

Limitations:

- doesn't support Cirrus CI's `changes_include`

- Starlark is not supported (yet)

Happy to answer any questions!

[0] - https://cirrus-ci.org/
by halayli | 2026-02-11 05:59:37+00:00
My naive take is we discovered it as a math tool first but later on rediscovered it in nature when we discovered the electromagnetic field.

The electromagnetic field is naturally a single complex valued object(Riemann/Silberstein F = E + i cB), and of course Maxwell's equations collapse into a single equation for this complex field. The symmetry group of electromagnetism and more specifically, the duality rotation between E and B is U(1), which is also the unit circle in the complex plane.
by sp527 | 2026-02-11 05:59:54+00:00
I'm definitely making certain assumptions, such as: (1) democratic rule endures, (2) even absent true democratic rule, the populace can still resort to violent rebellion as a failsafe, (3) psychopathic tendencies amongst said elite are constrained enough such that mass genocide remains sufficiently psychologically unpalatable, (4) economic calamity substantially precedes the deployment of fully autonomous policing, etc.

How this all unfolds is absolutely path dependent.
by ashtom | 2026-02-11 05:59:57+00:00
I'd bet that less people had their source code on git in 2008 than the number of developers using the various coding agents today. And the open-source project that we published today hooks into the existing workflow for those developers, in Claude Code and in Gemini CLI. Time will tell the rest. We will publish regular updates and you can judge us on those results.
by reitzensteinm | 2026-02-11 06:00:11+00:00
Black Mesa is an almost exact copy of Half Life at the start, and where that's true it's incredibly well done. Feels very much like a remaster.

Unfortunately, by the end of the earth levels and certainly on Xen, the levels switch over to original designs. They become massive and sprawling, boring and confusing. They really should have stuck to doing a like for like reimplementation.

I grew up on Half Life, so playing the first half of Black Mesa a few years ago was one of my favorite adult gaming experiences. But I gave up who knows how close to finish line after Xen was insufferable.
by agnishom | 2026-02-11 06:00:21+00:00
Some people are (understandably) upset at the title of the video. I will summarize some of the main interesting beats in the video for those who don't want to watch this 3 hour masterpiece.

(1) The stories in "Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman" portray Feynman in a mean-spirited, sometimes sexist light.
(2) These books were not actually written by Mr. Feynman. They were actually written by Ralph Laden.
(3) Upon further reflection, almost all the stories are either made up or greatly exaggarated. Presumably, Feynman spent a lot of time telling and retelling these stories
(4) Also, Ralph Laden is Bob Laden's son. Supposedly, Bob Laden is also a famous physicist. But Ralph never really mentions him
by watermelon0 | 2026-02-11 06:00:31+00:00
Unless you manage to leak your private host/client SSH keys, this is close to being as secure as it gets.

I'd say that HTTPS (or TLS in general) is more problematic, since you need to trust numerous root CAs in machine/browser store. Sure, you can use certificate pinning, but that has the same issues as SSH host key verification.
by Sparyjerry | 2026-02-11 06:01:04+00:00
It's not that the FBI fabricated evidence, its that the article misrepresents evidence entirely. Just having your name mentioned in an e-mail means absolutely nothing, what matters is the content of the e-mails. The ring wing, including Elon, has always wanted Epstein files released for years, while the left wing has only wanted it for the last couple months since they realized they can just write lies to convince people that some how Trump being an informant on Epstein and helping the FBI somehow is a strong enough connection to also 'connect' him for being in it? That's like you calling the police on a robber and democrats saying you were 'connected' to the robbery.
by bestthrowaway | 2026-02-11 06:01:40+00:00
I play video games for fun. I also enjoy automation games where the point is to get the game to play itself. I like achievements, but I won't "cheat" to get them.

My company pays me to build software that helps make them money. They don't care how I write that software as long as I do it fast and correctly. If that's by hand, I'll do it by hand. If vibe coding can get the job done, then I'll do that.

"Vibe coding" isn't just writing specs. It's ensuring that the vibe coding process doesn't introduce regressions, new bugs, etc. My boss writes specs for me, which, if I were to naively plop them into cursor or Claude code, would generate stuff that kinda works but not in a way that could be considered production ready. I plan, adjust the plan, generate, regenerate, refine. Could it be done faster by hand? Maybe. But it's the tool I've chosen for the job and the bosses are happy with it.
by jwbron | 2026-02-11 06:01:56+00:00
I built a basic copy with about an hour with my own "platform for ai agents" that I built out over the last week: https://github.com/jwbron/egg/pull/504, and refined it here: https://github.com/jwbron/egg/pull/517 (though right after I merged this I blew through my weekly token quota for my second claude max 20x account so I haven't been able to test it out yet).

I think your point is valid and I've been having the same thoughts. My tooling is still in the experimental phase, but I can move so quickly that I'm having trouble grasping how products like this will survive. If I can build this out in a week and copy an idea like this one (which is a great one, mind you) in an hour, what's the value of paying someone for a product like this vs just building it myself?
by cuken | 2026-02-11 06:02:21+00:00
Gave this a go, really well done. There seems to be a bug in the first lesson already; for whatever reason it's telling me to type the response to the troll in french. If you follow the instructions, it throws syntax and typo errors as it wanted the solution in english. "Show the solution" button provides the output in english as well. Some weird language stuff going on.
by Traster | 2026-02-11 06:02:44+00:00
Running into traffic to pick a fight with them? Throwing your bike in front of their car to cause a collision? Jumping onto their bonnet to try and pretend you're being run over?

The guy is quite literally taking the law into his own hands and it's very clear that running around trying to cause car accidents is making people less safe, not more. In many cases the "accident" he claims to want to prevent is caused by his actions.
by olyjohn | 2026-02-11 06:02:47+00:00
I remember getting my hands on a rip of Titanic, burned onto 3 CD-ROMs in 1997/1998 before it was released to video. I used the CD burner at school to sell copies to other students, and got in trouble for it lol. Just having a copy of the movie before it was released was really something.

I just went through a bunch of old CDs that had DivX rips on them a couple of years ago. Binders with hundreds of CDs. I thought that they would still look decent and I was going to back them up... back to my hard drive. But no they were really terrible. I donated the binder to Goodwill, hoping that someone might find the surprise...

They were fine when you had a CRT TV to play them on, we even had a DVD player from LiteOn that would play DivX videos back then.
by Spivak | 2026-02-11 06:02:47+00:00
I mean a dev tool that's seemingly failing to resonate with developers as to why they would pay for this is a pretty good way to tell if it's going to fall in the 1%.

The Dropbox take was wrong because they didn't understand the market for the product. This time the people commenting are the target audience. You even get the secondary way this product will lose even if turns out to be a good idea, existing git forges won't want to lose users and so will standardize and support attaching metadata to commits.
by altmanaltman | 2026-02-11 06:03:23+00:00
Honestly, after checking out the link, seems like something I'll personally never use/want.

I'm okay with crawling through comments and taking in the various viewpoints instead of having an LLM summarize it for me.

It basically kills the entire tone/vibe of the place and makes everything seem like robot-written with no personality. Also it's kind of weird you're taking other people's words and then reframing it for them/others.

Also nowhere does that thread seem to be "overwhelming with information" like you originally claimed. Basically solving a non-problem.
by x______________ | 2026-02-11 06:03:23+00:00
Title is misleading.

I was thinking about learning about secret websocket features only to discover that this is an advert for The Vibe Companion, in what looks to be a reverse engineering attempt at getting better access to Anthropic resources..

> "Claude Code is powerful but stuck in a terminal. You can't easily run multiple sessions, there's no visual feedback on tool calls, and if the process dies your context is gone.

The Vibe Companion fixes that. It spawns Claude Code processes, streams their output to your browser in real-time, and lets you approve or deny tool calls from a proper UI."
by hilios | 2026-02-11 06:04:20+00:00
>Didn't really stop them passing whatever rules they wanted during Covid, did it?

>Or today with Russia and Ukraine situation. Sure is convenient that we keep having more and more crisis and boogiemen that governments can leverage to deflect accountability and bypass the wishes of the population, for our own good of course.

>Why do you think Germans supported to tie themselves to Russia's gas and destroy their nuclear power.

You see you might get called a bot, Russian troll, or MAGA a whole lot less, if you didn't pull out ALL the topics those groups are playing at once. There is plenty to criticize about the EU institutions, but man that is a very odd focus.
by klodolph | 2026-02-11 06:05:21+00:00
> but anyway it's not going to be like "physics NEEDS C", but rather, physics uses C because C models the algebra of the thing physics is describing.

Maybe it’s just my math background shouting at me about what “model” means, but if object X models object Y, then I’m going to say that X is Y. It doesn’t matter how you write it. You can write it as R^2 if you want, but there’s some additional mathematical structure here and we can recognize it as C.

Mathematicians love to come up with different ways to write the same thing. Objects like R and C are recognized as a single “thing” even though you can come up with all sorts of different ways to conceive of them. The basic approach:

1. You come up with a set of axioms which describe C,

2. You find an example of an object which follows those rules,

3. That object “is” C in almost any sense we care about, and so is any other object following the same rules.

You can pretend that the complex numbers used in quantum mechanics are just R^2 with circular symmetries. That’s fine—but in order to play that game of pretend, you have to forget some of the axioms of complex numbers in order to get there.

Likewise, we can “forget” that vectors exist and write Maxwell’s equations in terms of separate x, y, and z variables. You end up with a lot more equations—20 equations instead of 4. Or you can go in the opposite direction and discover a new formalism, geometric algebra, and rewrite Maxwell’s equation as a single equation over multivectors. (Fewer equations doesn’t mean better, I just want to describe the concept of forgetting structure in mathematics.)

You can play similar games with tensors. Does physics really use tensors, or just things that happen to transform like tensors? Well, it doesn’t matter. Anything that transforms like a tensor is actually a tensor. And anything that has the algebraic properties of C is, itself, C.