MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orliesaurus | 2026-02-23 08:23:32+00:00
Interesting to see the cost curve drop ... this always changes the market.

I have been watching the sensor space for a while. Cheap LIDAR units could open up weird DIY uses and not just cars. ALSO regulatory and mapping integration will matter. I tried to work with public datasets and it's messy. The hardware is only one part! BUT it's exciting to see multiple vendors in the space. Competition might push vendors to refine the software stack as well as the hardware. HOWEVER I'm keeping an eye on how these systems handle edge cases in bad weather. I don't think we have seen enough data yet...
by Adiqq | 2026-02-23 08:23:42+00:00
> so I would encourage you to create the content or communities you want to see.

There are hidden reasons behind centralized solutions, that make decentralized solutions unpopular. If anyone suggests "just go out and make it better", it's missing the point. That's like saying: "don't participate in society, just start your own". In theory it makes sense, in practice it's just ignorance and lack of awareness on how difficult and complex task it is.

Centralized solutions are often just a business, they're not transparent, they're not cooperative, they're not ethical, they're there to conquer market and there's big money behind them, they're part of surveillance capitalism.

These are just examples, but there's lot more, so in context of social media, it's intertwined with the rest of simulation called "real world", so almost no one is going to know what you're talking about, when mention Loops/Mastodon/Bluesky, people know dominant platforms and stick to them and they may do so as part of social pressure and because they compete for status. In this society, you won't gain status by using Loops. People are buying iPhone for status, even though something like Samsung or Fairphone would be good as well. People are buying luxury frames for glasses, because they want to show brand, they don't care that it's more expensive and quality is basically they same.
by regularfry | 2026-02-23 08:23:52+00:00
I think it gets away with being more verbose because those two aren't spelled "#+BEGIN_SRC" and "DONE", they're "C-c , q" and "C-c t d" (from memory). I think unless you really commit to learning a decent subset of what org-mode provides the ergonomics are always going to seem a little clumsy. I've always found emacs shortcuts hard to learn, and because of that I've never quite got my use of org-mode over the activation hump to really stick for the long term. Every time I leave it and come back to it I have to relearn a lot of it from scratch because there doesn't seem to be any sort of intuitive framework I can hang it all off.
by fractallyte | 2026-02-23 08:24:45+00:00
Your last word brought to mind the science fiction short, "Come You Nigh: Kay Shuns" by Lawrence A. Perkins, which used exactly this technique as an encryption method!

Analog SF, April 1970 - available here: https://www.luminist.org/archives/SF/AN.htm

(BTW, that site is one of the hidden treasures of the Internet, on a par with Archive or Wikipedia...)
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-23 08:25:32+00:00
I give up. Privacy's hopeless as none care. When so many are prepared to chuck privacy to the wind and connect a roving camera in their homes to an internet server that's not under their contol there's no hope. The few who do care are swamped by the numbers.

Anyway, what's all the fuss about (those affected couldn't give a damn about their privacy)?
by vasco | 2026-02-23 08:25:37+00:00
The Vatican has really smart people in there, regardless of how you feel about the whole thing. I recommend anyone interested in the topic to give a read to: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

"ANTIQUA ET NOVA

Note on the Relationship Between
Artificial Intelligence and Human Intelligence"

I was quite impressed at how much they "get it".
by xomiachuna | 2026-02-23 08:25:53+00:00
I'm sorry, but the "it's not X it's Y" is making me flinch.

But otherwise I agree - its a denial of service toolkit, hard to imagine a more effective way to sabotage an engineering effort even if you tried.

One can even put a tinfoil hat and argue that this is actually done deliberately. My bet is on human stupidity, tho.
by scns | 2026-02-23 08:25:55+00:00
> the Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of education and health care in the world.

Hm. In germany Catholic day care is funded by the state ie taxes by over 90%. Military chaplains 100%. Would be surprised if the difference is bigger in schools and hospitals. I heard that in France there is an actual separation of church and state and as a result the church is rather poor.
by solatic | 2026-02-23 08:25:56+00:00
No priest will feed sufficient context about their community into the context window - even if they were skilled enough to do so, unless the model was locally hosted, doing so would be a violation of their vows of silence.

Good homilies are written with the particular community in mind. If it were more effective to write a homily for a generic public, the Vatican would have started publishing standard homilies long ago.
by OtomotO | 2026-02-23 08:26:06+00:00
No crusades for one populae example.

More advancements... No being opposed to actual enlightenment, because it doesn't sit well with the institution of power...

I am talking about a real man of science here of course, not some egoistic, smart person that needs to be constantly prove they are the smartest or else their frail ego will collapse... Which there are plenty of in academia and science.
by thorin | 2026-02-23 08:26:47+00:00
I'm not sure if you've done much of an investigation into these but:

1. Parcel deliveries - unless you work for the main carrier e.g. Royal Mail in the UK I don't think you can expect to make more than minimum wage and will effectively be on a zero hours contract with no benefits. I don't think this is going to be better that software.

2. Train driver (or bus driver, lorry driver), this might be ok and once you are in does pay well in the UK (but probably half what you get paid as a developer). It's definitely going to be a candidate for automation in the next 5-10 years though.

3. Electrician / plumber - you could add to this painter, builder, plasterer etc . This is decent if you have the skills, work hard and are physically up to doing it for an extended number of years. You'll likely have to manage your own work load though. May pay the same as software if you really work on it.

4. Mechanic - I don't think the pay will be amazing, what you say about cars not being repairable really isn't true especially for none EV. You still have brakes, oil change, servicing, tyre changes and alignments and lots of other things that people pay for throughout the lifespan of the car. Garages near me are always busy (as are cycle repair shops).
by schrijver | 2026-02-23 08:26:51+00:00
I watch through the window to see the current weather, except for the temperature, which I assume is more or less the same as yesterday. I know it’s colder at night, but that’s true every night. It’s all very approximative, but I just can’t be bothered to look up the weather. I like not thinking about it at the cost of sometimes being surprised.
by mister_mort | 2026-02-23 08:29:00+00:00
For a similar fun set of reviews of past predictions of future tech, I recommend looking through Youtube channel "KnowledgeHusk"

Selected videos:

"People in the 80s Making Fun of Predictions From the 60s" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-B6zeAKAEQ

"2002 Tried To Predict 2025" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMZ9odjhOnU

"Terrible Predictions About The Future From 2005" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH9kf9KLVVQ

(and many more can be found in their Retrofuturism playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZkkImzuw5q9Kk5KIq1yw... )
by jaeko44 | 2026-02-23 08:29:19+00:00
The integration of identity into consensus which is often discussed in the context of "Proof of Humanity", attempts to solve fundamental bottlenecks in decentralized networks. Below is an analysis of the proposed use cases, the security architecture, and an assessment of the project's execution feasibility.

Decentralized Physical Services (The Liability Problem)

The primary barrier to deploying decentralized physical services (such as a blockchain-based Uber or Airbnb) is not network throughput, but legal liability and physical safety. Smart contracts currently cannot enforce real-world accountability because interacting parties are pseudonymous.

Protocol-Level Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

The reliance on private keys remains a critical vulnerability in digital asset custody. If a seed phrase is compromised, the assets are irreversibly lost.

Direct Fiat Integration

Currently, transitioning between fiat currencies and digital assets requires centralized exchanges (CEXs) to comply with KYC/AML regulations. Anonymous validator nodes cannot legally process fiat transactions.

Storing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on a decentralized network presents severe privacy risks. The patent outlines a specific security model combining three mechanisms to mitigate this:

* Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs): PII (such as passports and biometric scans) is not stored on a public ledger. It is processed exclusively inside hardware TEEs (such as Intel SGX or AMD SEV). These secure enclaves ensure that even the physical owner of the node server cannot access or alter the data being processed. (Note: Claims by the inventor that this data remains "private for eternity" should be viewed critically. While TEEs are the current enterprise standard for confidential computing, hardware vulnerabilities and future quantum computing advancements present long-term risks. The data does get flushed out of TEE's once the processing is complete, so no long-term storage of high-risk PII data)

* Cryptoeconomic Staking (Slashing): Identity nodes are required to stake significant capital to participate in consensus. If the network detects malicious behavior, such as attempting to run verification software outside of the TEE to extract data; the node's staked tokens are immediately slashed (burned). This establishes a severe financial disincentive for bad actors.

* Decentralized Machine Learning Consensus: This is the core structural novelty. Instead of relying on a single centralized algorithm for verification, encrypted biometric data is processed simultaneously by multiple independent Identity Nodes inside their respective TEEs. These nodes run ML algorithms and must achieve mathematical consensus on the output (e.g., confirming a biometric match). To successfully fake an identity or compromise data, an attacker would need to simultaneously breach the hardware enclaves of multiple globally distributed validators, which is practically infeasible.
by nandomrumber | 2026-02-23 08:29:33+00:00
Every microwave I’ve ever looked at from a distance, or actually used, has the ability to set the power level, typically in 10% increments.

The typical workflow is: power button > number button 1-9

My daily driver is a bit more fancy, and has a single button to cycle through the available power settings.

For your milk oats I’d suggest a power setting around 30 to 40% and increasing the cooking time by a factor of 2.
by brna-2 | 2026-02-23 08:29:36+00:00
I am sorry if you read it as an attack on religion, it was an attack on big AI.
If religion sends or even needs to send data upstream is not part of my knowledge, but AI does. But church did have the best understanding of who is who in a local society and AI companies will use this data in a more concrete way. I just drew the parallel to get the gears spinning. I agree that the organized religion was crucial glue to society trough history.
by ksaj | 2026-02-23 08:29:41+00:00
This is interesting. But I've always thought including programming language as a feature is very weird. Unless its extensible in that language, but that's not the case here.

End user doesn't care, so long as it fulfills a need. And nobody "needs" a program to be coded in a specific language. It comes across like evangelizing.

It reminds me so much of the 90's arguments about whether C is as fast as Assembly (and whether any Lisp can keep up), so long as you know what you are doing as a coder.

In this case, size is the selling point. Not the language.
by fasbiner | 2026-02-23 08:30:23+00:00
This is why I am a bit judgy. Your "no big deal" best case case scenario is criminal fraud since they have no mechanism for processing a refund or reaching a human being unless they have enough existing social capital to go viral.

I think that's pretty vile, and I think people who defend that are at best, mentally ill, and at worst, engaging in sociopathic levels of compartmentalization.

You are actively participating in the destruction of cultural norms around rule of law and propriety. Why would you expect politeness in return?
by somenameforme | 2026-02-23 08:31:23+00:00
They often were. A lot of history has been retold more in a way to fit contemporary narrative than to maintain historical accuracy. For instance Galileo. The typical tale is something like Galileo dared claim the Earth is not the center of the universe, the Church freaked out at the violation of dogma, shunned him, and he was lucky to escape with his life. In reality the Pope was one of Galileo's biggest supporters and patrons. But they disagreed on heliocentrism vs geocentricism.

The Pope encouraged Galileo to write a book about the issue and cover both sides in neutrality. Galileo did write a book, but was rather on the Asperger's side of social behavior, and decided to frame the geocentric position (which aligned with the Pope) as idiotic, defended by an idiot - named Simplicio no less, and presented weak and easily dismantled arguments. The Pope took it as a personal insult, which it was, and the rest is history.

And notably Galileo's theory was, in general, weak. Amongst many other issues he continued to assume perfectly circular orbits which threw everything else off and required endless epicycles and the like. So his theory was still very much in the domain of philosophy rather than observable/provable science or even a clear improvement, so he was just generally acting like an antagonistic ass to a person who had supported him endlessly. And as it turns out even the Pope is quite human.
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-23 08:31:25+00:00
1. Parents whine and bitch every time their precious little baby is expected to do any actual work.

2. Governments dumb down education programs. Some do it to massage the statistics and make education look good, others do it because they honestly think that's how you help teachers give more attention to low-performing students.

The effect is the widening "education gap" - the difference between kids whose parents sign them up for extracurricular activities, and the ipad kids.
by scosman | 2026-02-23 08:32:19+00:00
This looks amazing. I’ve been wanting virtualization.framework micro VMs for months! Docker is fine, but the overhead isn’t ideal.

I like the defaults (ephemeral, network off). Any thoughts on adding host-mapped directories?

I have a MCP server for ephemeral sandboxes that supports various backends (Docker, E2B, Modal, even WASM). I’ll look at adding this. https://github.com/Kiln-AI/Kilntainers
by robocat | 2026-02-23 08:32:23+00:00
I tried to find a good article summarising Michel's language teaching method.

This references his tapes: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/learning-european-languages-m...

ChatGPT gave a reasonable looking answer to my prompt "Summarize what is special about how Michel Thomas teaches Language".

Maybe just another case of a highly intelligent person coming up with an "obvious" solution that is great: yet is not quite so obvious to others. He clearly was talented - but also he avoided explaining the rationale behind his method for years.
by mediaconsumer | 2026-02-23 08:32:34+00:00
alldebrid. their 4.0/4.1 api has all the stuff to decode magnets and browse their files. filter mkv,mp4,etc. i made a little database of imdb tt values to assist autosuggest for searching and a nsfw filter for the few friends and family using the app.

have thought about extending it to realdebrid/torbox/etc but it's just been kinda set and forget. every once in a while will add a feature... most recently i think was seeing if there was a matching srt file and feeding that along with the video file to vlc so you get subtitle support if it's not baked into the video file
by TeMPOraL | 2026-02-23 08:32:39+00:00
> I feel like a lot of this would go away if they made a different API for the “only for use with our client” subscriptions.

They literally did exactly that. That's what being cut off (Antigravity access, i.e. private "only for use with our client" subscription - not the whole account, btw.) for people who do "reverse engineer to use it in other tools".

Nothing here is new or surprising, the problem has been the same since Anthropic released Claude Code and the Max subscriptions - first thing people did then was trying to auth regular use with Claude Code tokens, so they don't have to pay the API prices they were supposed to.
by hgo | 2026-02-23 08:32:51+00:00
If I was an investor in an AI provider I would be quite worried.

1) Switching between LLM API:s is incredibly easy if you are not concerned with differences in personality. As the models get better, it is less important to pick the best one.

2) The products built to bundle the API with a user experience are difficult to build on a level that outclasses open source alternatives.

3) Building an understanding of the user to increase the product value over time and create stickiness is effective, but imho less effective over time as time passes and the user changes. For example, I suspect that these adaptations have a hard time to unlearn things that are no longer true. Learning about the user opaquely is less useful to the user and doing it overtly makes it easier to take the learnings and go. (Besides, it is probably not legal under the GDPR to not let the user export the learnings and take them to another provider.)

Taken together, the moat becomes quite shallow. I see why they aggressively ban any tools demonstrating when open alternatives are in fact better than their own walled gardens.

edit: readability.
by knuckleheads | 2026-02-23 08:33:40+00:00
The very first program I ever wrote that I was proud of was a CIA world factbook scraper and report generation script in High School. A hard ass of a teacher had people grab a random assortment of facts about random countries on there and put it all into word, under the guise that it taught you something about the countries. It was entirely formulaic and I remember the lightning realization I could use the Java I was learning in AP class. I made a bet with my roommate that I could write the program to do it faster than it took him to actually do it. I went over by a half hour, but I posted it to facebook and there was much rejoicing in the class.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-23 08:34:32+00:00
But users are not mindless drones. Even the least computer-savvy is aware that they're being asked to make a choice and is probably unpleasantly reminded of the dark patterns in user agreements etc., so they'll feel like they're being guided down a sales funnel immediately after installing the app/signing up on web.

What percentage bounce at that stage? It's probably large. I did so, and although I later relented and created a Mastodon account I've felt emotionally biased against it ever since and barely use it. When I have used it I don't experience any tangible benefit to overcome my reflexive dislike. The network effects aren't anything great, the timeline/feed mechanism and presentation are not fundamentally different from other social media offerings, the QoL improvements are marginal. If I cared about architecture and ideology above all else it would be great, but what I actually care about is being able to get news faster than any other source and being able to find more people there than anywhere else. I can only think of 1 or 2 people who I check in on periodically via Mastodon because there's no other place to find them.
by boriskourt | 2026-02-23 08:34:40+00:00
TikTok has ~1.59 billion global active users, if you go to Cambodia you will have a hard time not seeing it in the wild. It is painful that this is still seen as some teen trend.

People enjoy short form video, people should be able to enjoy things they like with dignity, which is in extremely short supply on algorithm and advert driven social media.

Loops is nice because it isn't algorithm oriented. You can follow folks and just see their things if you like, or see whats on the instance.

Loops doesn't need to 'slay tiktok' Loops just needs to grow organically and support the niches that feel like using it, and it can take the time to do that at any pace. Its success is not determined by user numbers or series rounds.

I don't like to produce short form video, but its been nice to now follow a few people on Loops from Mastodon. Its nice that the Fediverse allows multiple forms of expression.
Show HN: Sayiir – Durable, simple, workflow engine in Rust, no replay
by ybsoft | 2026-02-23 08:35:18+00:00
Hi HN! I built Sayiir, an open-source durable workflow engine with a Rust core and Python/Node.js bindings.

GitHub: https://github.com/sayiir/sayiir

The problem: most workflow engines (Temporal, Airflow, Prefect) require heavy infrastructure, custom DSLs, or replay-based execution that forces determinism constraints on your code. Replay means re-executing your entire workflow history on every recovery — and you can't freely call external APIs or use arbitrary libraries without careful wrapping.

Sayiir takes a different approach: continuation-based execution.

- On crash recovery, it resumes from the last checkpoint — not from the beginning. No replay overhead.
- No determinism constraints. Your tasks can call any API, use any library. No purity rules, no sandboxing.
- No DSL. Workflows are composed with native language constructs — a workflow! macro in Rust, a fluent builder in Python/TypeScript.
- Pluggable persistence. PostgreSQL backend is stable, codec layer supports JSON or zero-copy binary (rkyv).

Architecture: the core is a graph-based execution engine in pure Rust (hexagonal architecture). Python bindings via PyO3/maturin, Node.js via NAPI-RS. Everything is stable — core, Python, Node.js, and Postgres backend.

I chose continuation-driven over replay-driven because replay engines pay a growing cost as workflow history lengthens, and they push complexity onto developers (determinism rules, versioning). Continuations checkpoint state at each step boundary, so recovery is O(1) — just deserialize and go.

Try it live in the playground: https://docs.sayiir.dev/playground/

Docs: https://docs.sayiir.dev
crates.io: https://crates.io/crates/sayiir-runtime
Discord: https://discord.gg/A2jWBFZsNK

MIT licensed. Looking for contributors, early adopters, and feedback. Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or tradeoffs.
by Timon3 | 2026-02-23 08:35:52+00:00
No, it's a tool for converting money into influence. Musk already has a fairly direct way to disseminate his thoughts towards any Twitter users, but that leaves out many people. With Grokipedia he can automatically inject his biases and ideas into search results, ensuring that any AI query could be influenced towards his views.

This is literally already happening, Grokipedia can be a sourc returned by current AI tools.
by aanet | 2026-02-23 08:36:05+00:00
Thanks for the WEF video with Sherry Turkle. <3

Every word of hers is dripping with wisdom, and I feel not enough people are paying attention to her. She talks of "artificial intimacy" and "pretend empathy" and how people are addicted to ChatGPT and its ilk primarily because of the pretension / sycophancy, and choosing that over the real-life friction, disagreements and negotiation required and necessary for healthy relationships IRL. And how social media is a gateway drug to chatbots.

Recommended watch. (Thanks!)

Her book _Alone Together_ is also worth reading.