MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nereye | 2026-02-05 14:41:02+00:00
Over 30 years ago, was working on a presentation software that shipped with a bunch of (vector) clip art and remember using the (raster) graphics from the CIA World Factbook as a base to create vector (WMF) versions of the flags of various ‘new’ countries at the time (following the breakup of Yugoslavia) that were missing from the set that our art vendor provided to us.

The Croatia flag in particular took quite a while to trace/draw (by hand).
by RugnirViking | 2026-02-05 14:41:39+00:00
I did not expect the website to look the way it does based on your comment. I was expecting ad ridden bloatware but its basically damn near perfect the way it is.

I truly don't understand why people struggle with using widescreen formats. Why do margins in ux creep ever larger? Is there a reason?

I assume its some waffling about "comfort" and "readability" as though comic sans in 64pt font would be the ideal website.

but seriously though, its interesting. I've never felt text in the same format one might find in a book bothered me personally, but clearly it bothers other people. I don't doubt that user research or business models prove the ux designers right.
by christpetron | 2026-02-05 14:42:13+00:00
Nice work! This is a great solution for something fully private and self-hosted. I'm building something in this space too (hosted, not self-hosted) and it's encouraging to see a clean open-source option for people who want full control.

For anyone reading who wants this but doesn't want to manage Docker/infrastructure: I'm working on a hosted alternative at https://mailbridge.app. Different tradeoff: you're trusting a third party with read-only credentials instead of running your own server. For those with the chops (or who want to learn the technical side a bit more), Magpie is probably the better fit.

Question for OP: are you handling deduplication for POP3 accounts that don't support UIDL? That's been the trickiest part for me so far.
by zackmorris | 2026-02-05 14:42:27+00:00
Fair enough. I meant social network websites and social media apps like Facebook and TikTok that could have been made in a weekend using HyperCard, FileMaker, Microsoft Access, etc, if we had real reactive backends similar to Firebase, Airtable and Zapier, which come so close to almost working for normal people but miss the mark fundamentally somehow.

I know that programming has gone terribly wrong, but it's hard for me to articulate how, because it's all of it - the entire frontend web development ecosystem, mobile development languages and frameworks, steep learning curve languages like Rust that were supposed to make things easier but put the onus on the developer to get the busywork right, everything basically. It's like trying to explain screws to craftsmen only familiar with nails.

In the simplest terms, it's because corporations are driving the development of those tools and vacuuming up all profits on the backs of open sources maintainers working in their parents' basements, rather than universities working from first principles to solve hard problems and give solutions away to everyone for free for the good of society. We've moved from academia to slavery and call it progress.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-02-05 14:42:44+00:00
I agree! But I think bankruptcy is a foregone conclusion. Our financial situation over decades, facilitated by the rest of the world, has destroyed most industry in the US because nobody can afford to compete with foreigners while getting paid in "strong" fiat dollars. I expect it to end in disaster. The US needs to rebuild industry and eat its own dog food product-wise, but that will be difficult to get back to.
by fulafel | 2026-02-05 14:42:51+00:00
The set of possibly blocking operations for interactively using bash is big. Executable pages of the bash executable are far from the only thing that could be missing.

If the machine is swap trashing, all i/o goes to the same congested queue. .bash_history read or write access, memory allocation, stuff your terminal program does, stuff your wayland compositor or X11 stack does, bash accessing data in its memory that has been swapped out, etc etc. And each of those could be waiting for a while to issue their IO request since the IO system is flooded by swap IO.

There should be a tool that can show the interdependent graph of pending, blocking io operations.
by bosky101 | 2026-02-05 14:42:58+00:00
i've never had situations where i prompt and had to go out for coffee or a walk or drive. one shotting - your first prompt. perhaps.

but like a person - when the possibility of going off in the wron g direction is so high, i've always had 1 - 2 line prompts, small iterations much more appealing. The only times i've had to rollback would be when i run out of credits, and a new model cant deal with the half baked context, errors, refactoring.
Show HN: Kling 3.0 video generation with native audio synthesis
by howardV | 2026-02-05 14:42:59+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been testing Kling 3.0 (Kuaishou's latest video generation model) and wanted to share what makes it technically interesting.

**Key technical features:**

1. Native audio-visual synchronization - The model generates audio that syncs with video content during generation, not
post-processing. This is different from adding stock music after the fact.

2. Start-end frame interpolation (I2V mode) - You can provide both a starting and ending frame, and the model interpolates motion
between them. Useful for controlled transitions.

3. Flexible temporal control - 3-15 second generation with 13 granular duration options.

**Technical implementation on our platform (FreyaVideo):**

- Cost calculation based on duration + audio flag (duration_audio mode)
- Async job processing through FAL API
- Credit-based pricing to handle variable generation costs

**Limitations:**

- Generation time: 60-120 seconds
- 1080p max resolution
- Audio quality varies depending on prompt specificity
- Higher cost with audio enabled ($0.252/sec vs $0.168/sec from FAL)

The audio generation is genuinely novel - I haven't seen other models (Sora, Veo, Runway) do this natively. Happy to answer
technical questions about integration or model behavior.

---

**Tech stack:** Next.js, PostgreSQL, FAL API integration
**Pricing:** Credit-based, configurable via JSON config in database
by simianwords | 2026-02-05 14:43:01+00:00
I didn't quite grasp what this is trying to solve but I hope its doing this:

In our company we have a list of long tail "workflows" or "processes" that really just involves reading a document and filling a form.

For example, how do I even get access to a new DB? Or a new AWS account?

Can this tool help us create an agent that can automate this with some reasonable accuracy?

I see OpenAI frontier as quick way to automate these long tail processes.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-05 14:43:18+00:00
TLDR:

> In comma’s case I estimate we’ve spent ~5M on our data center, and we would have spent 25M+ had we done the same things in the cloud.

IMO, that's the biggie. It's enough to justify paying someone to run their datacenter. I wish there was a bit more detail to justify those assumptions, though.

That being said, if their needs grow by orders of magnitude, I'd anticipate that they would want to move their servers somewhere with cheaper electricity.
by standfest | 2026-02-05 14:43:28+00:00
Totally agree that for floor plans the bottleneck is usually label/geometry quality, not model architecture. We looked at CV early on, but real plan archives are a pretty adversarial input: ~100-year-old drawings mixed with modern exports, lots of drafting styles/implicit ontologies, low-res scans + distortion, and sometimes multiple conflicting “truths” for the same plan (revisions, partial updates, different sources). Even with decent models, you still pay heavily in expert cleanup.

So we optimized against the real baseline: manual CAD-style annotation. The “data-centric” work for us was making manual annotation cheap and auditable: limited ontology, a web editor that enforces structure (scale normalization, closed rooms, openings must attach to walls, etc.), plus hard QA gates against external numeric truth (client index / measured areas, room counts). Typical QA tolerance is ~3%; in Swiss Dwellings we report median area deviation <1.2% with a hard max of 5%. Once we could hit those bounds at <~1/10th the prevailing manual cost, CV stopped being a clear value add for this stage.

On ambiguity (doors vs windows, stairs vs ramps): we try not to “guess” — we push it into constraints + consistency checks (attachment to walls, adjacency, unit connectivity, cross-floor consistency) and flag conflicts for review. On generalization: I don’t think this is zero-shot across styles; the goal is bounded adaptation (stable primitives + QA gates, small mapping/rules layer changes). Trade-off is less expressiveness, but for geometry-sensitive downstream tasks small errors compound fast.
by Shank | 2026-02-05 14:43:31+00:00
Jason Meller was the former CEO of Kolide, which 1Password bought. I doubt he's beholden to anything like word count requirements. There is human written text in here, but it's not all human written -- and odds are since this is basically an ad for 1Password's enterprise security offerings that this is mostly intended as marketing, not as a substantive article.
by teunispeters | 2026-02-05 14:44:03+00:00
clang and ECL both seem interesting, as long as LGPL license is ok. They both are complex to embed though - neither are well tuned to be embedded in other applications. (I've been exploring on MacOS). Julia could be interesting too under same questions (and a better license for commercial products) but similarly has a fair bit of glue code needed - especially if you want to restrict (say) filesystem access.
by BirAdam | 2026-02-05 14:44:35+00:00
To me it sounds more like a return to vertical integration.

This is becoming increasingly common as far as I can tell.

There are benefits either direction, and I think that each company needs to evaluate the pros and cons themselves. Emotional pros/cons are something companies need to evaluate as employee morale can make or break a company. If the company is super technical in culture and they gain something intangible that is boosting the bottom line, having a datacenter as a "cool" factor is probably worth it.
Show HN: A macOS app for consistent work logs
by reflekto-app | 2026-02-05 14:44:35+00:00
Hi there,

I work in a medium-big public company, and one common source of frustrations in a lot of such companies is finding evidences twice a year for promo-pack or self-evaluations.

Last couple of months I worked on reflekto.app, that help with capturing work on daily basis.

Current set of features:

manual logging of work; filters, grouping by date, etc.; automatic sync of merged PRs from Github and Gitlab; MCP server, so you can talk through the MCP with your past slef :) or capture the work that you did in the current claude session. Image prompts like "Log the work of this session in reflekto" or "Make a summary of what i did yesterday for standup"; Everything stored locally, nothing leaves your macbook

I am planning to add more integrations, reports, export options, support in other platform (Currently only Mac with M chips). Also some MCP capabilities will become builtin features

I'll highly appreciate if you guys try it out. Currently it's free.

P.S.

I know there are tons of services that track our work day (# of PRs, coding time, jira tickets) that is used to evaluate us, but there is no a good way of self reflection. I've listened to to "pragmatic engineer"'s podcast and learned that experienced engineers have a habit of maintaining a worklog, usually in a simple google docs. I have started the same, and got some ideas about building something more than docs
by danielrothmann | 2026-02-05 14:44:38+00:00
Thanks for sharing!

I wrote this post some time ago, and more recently built a thing to do roughly this for my small business: https://github.com/42futures/firm

Had it in practice for about 4 months now and happy so far. It works for me, at my small scale. Hoping to share a follow-up with lessons learned soon.
by kjshsh123 | 2026-02-05 14:44:45+00:00
I don't think you would be using the general population as the control group.

You're not going to take elite chess kids and then random kids and compare in 10 years and see anything interesting. Elite chess kids will be better considering most people don't even play chess...

Anyway, I understand being skeptical, and I'm not a fan of pop economics stuff like this, but I still imagine the researchers thought of this.
by input_sh | 2026-02-05 14:44:47+00:00
That's the idea, yes. Kill all primary sources, wound all secondary sources (examples: WaPo or "Grokipedia"), convince everyone that they should use this tertiary source whose full control is in the hands of a very few.

It being a technology that inherently has plausible deniability when it for example starts referring to itself as Mecha-Hitler is a feature, not a bug!
by mikemarsh | 2026-02-05 14:44:56+00:00
Some people really do think of soft power, propaganda, shady covert operations, etc. as something "the other guys" do (China! KGB-Putin!), but assume the US is somehow above all that.

Basically a neoconservative-esque sentimental view of the USA as "the good guys" on "the global stage" (although many would rightly recoil at the comparison to neocons).
by Retric | 2026-02-05 14:45:25+00:00
Soft power includes positive perception. Every time someone learns that GPS is completely paid for by the American government and then freely available to the rest of the world, that shapes perception.

The Facebook being quoted by so many school kids worldwide was a cheap softening of how the world perceived the CIA and America. Now how valuable that is isn’t clear, but when something is that cheap it doesn’t take much to be a net gain.
by yesfitz | 2026-02-05 14:45:45+00:00
The ability to picture the scene in your mind is not why listening to an audiobook is different from reading.

Put another way, reading involves:

1. Parsing and interpreting the words on the page.

2. Synthesizing the information in our heads (scenes, arguments, etc.)

3. Interpreting the synthesis (Does it work? Is there subtle or implied information in the synthesis? What comes next?)

My argument is that audiobooks drastically alter step 1.

Let's not denigrate any forms of media though. They all have their unique benefits. You can use your mind or not during the consumption of any of them.
by simonw | 2026-02-05 14:46:32+00:00
I have that up and running now for the 2020 edition: https://simonw.github.io/cia-world-factbook-2020 - repo here: https://github.com/simonw/cia-world-factbook-2020/

That was the last year they published it all in one convenient zip file. Serving 2026 requires a longer running scrape of the Internet Archive.
Show HN: Emergencias.live – Ultra-lightweight emergency info for Spain
by cscazorla | 2026-02-05 14:47:16+00:00
Inspired by the recent safe-now.live post, I built this for Spain.

The site includes:

- All emergency phone numbers (112, police, fire, poison control, etc.)
- Real-time weather alerts from AEMET (Spanish meteorological agency)
- Recent earthquakes from IGN (magnitude ≥2.0, last 48h)
- Emergency guides for earthquakes, floods, fires, gas leaks, heat stroke, etc.

Design goals:

- No JavaScript, works on any device/connection
- ~7KB per page, ~90KB total site
- Static site rebuilt every 15 min for fresh alert data

Built with Node.js, deployed on Netlify. Source: https://github.com/cscazorla/emergencias.live

Feedback welcome, especially from Spanish users who can validate the emergency info accuracy.
by boringg | 2026-02-05 14:47:30+00:00
Thats an interesting take. You think that AI is making more people come to hackernews circa eternal september? I wager theres more people who are vibe coding but I'm not sure there is a direct correlation with increase in hackernews but there could be.

That said - AI in general has driven demand in hackernews and people migrating from the low quality of reddit have landed here (another channel of incoming new users to your eternal september comment).

To your apple commentary - absolutely imagine the legal jeopardy Apple would be launching this product? I couldn't agree more with you and push back on all these prognisticators who keep being like game over Apple. Pretty sure Apple will be around and in some dominant form in the next 20 years - unless they take the bait in implement a security nightmare across their hardware.
by terracatta | 2026-02-05 14:47:35+00:00
Author here, I did use AI to write this which is unusual for me. The reason was I organically discovered the malware myself while doing other research on OpenClaw. I used AI for primarily speed, I wanted to get the word out on this problem. The other challenge was I had a lot of specific information that was unsafe to share generally (links to the malware, URLs, how the payload worked) and I needed help generalizing it so it could be both safe and easily understood by others.

I very much enjoy writing, but this was a case where I felt that if my writing came off overly-AI it was worth it for the reasons I mentioned above.

I'll continue to explore how to integrate AI into my writing which is usually pretty substantive. All the info was primarily sourced from my investigation.
by thinkindie | 2026-02-05 14:48:52+00:00
My point was along this line: writing code is different than building a product as much as recording a video is different than telling a story with a movie (long and short that you want).

Do everyone has the capability to build a comprehensive set of features that we call a product to solve problems that people or business have in their life?

That’s why I’m always skeptical about measuring AI impact based solely on quantitative metrics.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-05 14:48:59+00:00
For classic engineering it's been a boon. This is in a pretty similar vein to the gains mathematicians have been making with AI.

These models can pretty reliably bang out what once was long mathematical solves for hypothetical systems in incredibly short periods of time. It also enables you to do second and third order approximations way easier. What was a first order approach that would take a day, is now a second order approach taking an hour.

And to top it off, they're also pretty damn competent in at least pointing you in the right direction (if nothing else) for getting information about adjacent areas you need to understand.

I've been doing an electro-optical project recently as an electronics guys, and LLMs have been infinitely useful in helping with the optics portion (on top of the mathing electronics speed up).

It's still "trust, but verify" for sure, but damn, it's powerful.
by schmuhblaster | 2026-02-05 14:49:14+00:00
I've been recently experimenting with using a Prolog-based DSL [0] as the missing layer: Start with a markdown document, "compile" it into the DSL, so that you obtain an "executable spec". Execution still involves LLMs, so it's not entirely deterministic, but it's probably more reliable than hoping your markdown instructions get interpreted in the right way.

[0] https://github.com/deepclause/deepclause-sdk
I made CSV viewing simple and fast
by anirudh_parmar | 2026-02-05 14:49:38+00:00
Whenever i wanted to view a csv file, i'd always come across these sites that offer free viewing.

sure, they get the work done but at the cost of
- bad ui/ux
- bloated with ads
- simple but lacks clarity

So, I built my own CSV app that is the best when it comes to CSV without compromises.

Solving my own problem with the already existing options out there.

My App has it all covered :

- no bloat
- clarity
- speed
- performance

What tools do you currently use to view or convert CSV files, and why those?
Show HN: Link in Bio for Online Boutiques
by elananandhan | 2026-02-05 14:49:54+00:00
Hi HN,

Instagram is the world’s largest mall, but for small boutiques in India, the "checkout" is broken. It usually involves a 20-minute DM conversation asking: "Is this in stock?", "What's the price?", and "Do you have my size?"

I built Trustd to give these sellers a structured Shop Page that works like a real e-commerce site but lives in their IG Bio.

The Problem:
Most IG sellers find Shopify too expensive or complex. They don't need a full CMS; they just need a way to show their catalog and build trust.

The Solution (Trustd Shop Page):

Trustd gives Instagram sellers a simple shop page to showcase their catalog and build trust, without the cost or complexity of a full ecommerce website.

Would love feedback, skepticism, or similar products you’ve seen.

Happy to answer questions.

Thanks,
Elan
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-02-05 14:50:12+00:00
I get we want a magical OS that reads minds and abstracts itself from users, but these days low mem situations are technical events for people trying to optimize resources use and balance uptime.

So not being able to mark apps processes as kill me first and leave others like ssh bash up is a missing feature.

Shouldn't the os have a bunch of auto hooks to invoke for machines under duress? Yes you might be able to do it in userspace but .. userspace will probably get unpredictability nuked in stress situations.

The WMs should have a "freeze all apps desktop except this one shell window" mode. Didn't NeXT have that?

Having some swap basically required has always seemed like a smell. A legacy from the 640k oops wasn't enough days. I can see emergency memory swap system as a feature, which it currently isn't...
by carlosjobim | 2026-02-05 14:50:14+00:00
It is better to zone out and not bother your mind and soul about completely unimportant tiny details, which you are doing with your Nespresso machine.

We live to dream. That's where the magic happens, the meditation, the relaxation, the pondering of deeper ideas and solutions to the more important aspects of life.

You're trading that for something unimportant.
by ossa-ma | 2026-02-05 14:50:15+00:00
I haven't seen any examples of that.

Over the past few months mentions of AI in job applications have gone from "Comfortable using AI assisted programming - Cursor, Windsurf" to "Proficient in agentic development" and even mentions of "Claude code" in the desired skills sections. Yet the salary range has remained the exact same.

Companies are literally expecting junior/mid level devs to have management skills (for those even hiring juniors). They expect you to come in and perform on the level of a lead architect - not just understand the codebase but the data, the integrations, build pipelines to ingest the entire companies documentation into your agentic platform of choice, then begin delegating to your subordinates (agents). Does this responsibility shift not warrant an immediate compensation shift?
by jampa | 2026-02-05 14:50:17+00:00
This article is so frustrating to read: not only is it entirely AI-generated, but it also has no details: "I'm not linking", "I'm not pasting".

And I don't doubt there is malware in Clawhub, but the 8/64 in VirusTotal hardly proves that. "The verdict was not ambiguous. It's malware." I had scripts I wrote flagged more than that!

I know 1Password is a "famous" company, but this article alone isn't trustworthy at all.
by toyetic | 2026-02-05 14:50:17+00:00
I'm only 25 and grew up in a post "don't be evil" world so maybe I'm jaded, but it always seems strange to me when companies try to make any moral stand about anything. Presumably if there was something a company could do to make more money they'd do it regardless of the ethical standing behind it b/c

1. The people running the company aren't stupid and want to make more money
2. The company is beholden to investors to make more money both practically and legally

IMO this means the only reason anthropic isn't adding ads is b/c they make more money posturing as the "good guys". As soon as that's no longer true not only are the people in charge going to do it, but there's probably some legal standing that would obligate/compel them to do so