MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yunohn | 2026-02-23 16:38:36+00:00
> Yes, it does.

I find the way you operate - supporting and benefitting from Polymarket - to be equally disdainful from the same moralistic standpoint that gambling is banned from, but I guess even in orthodoxy one can bend the rules to their liking.

> Now you get basically the actual odds.

But that's the thing - insiders bet & trade at the very last minute, and thus are not supporting the /just cause/ of "information sharing", rather just plain, old front-running and racketeering. The odds you see when booking your flight are not the real odds - when the actual action happens just before event takes place.

https://ritchietorres.house.gov/posts/in-response-to-suspici...
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 16:39:08+00:00
> Age verification is very hard, because parents will give their children their unlocked account, and children will steal their parents' unlocked account

More simply: If ID checks are fully anonymous (as many here propose when the topic comes up) then every kid will just have their friends’ older sibling ID verify their account one afternoon. Or they’ll steal their parents’ ID when they’re not looking.

Discussions about kids and technology on HN are very weird to me these days because so many commenters have seemingly forgotten what it’s like to be a kid with technology. Before this current wave of ID check discussions it was common to proudly share stories of evading content controls or restrictions as a kid. Yet once the ID check topic comes up we’re supposed to imagine kids will just give up and go with the law? Yeah right.
by briandw | 2026-02-23 16:39:10+00:00
The brains (ai models) are more important than the sensors. Cameras are good enough. Lidar doesn’t keep Waymos from driving into an 18” deep puddle, or driving the wrong way down the street. Lidar doesn’t help predict when a pedestrian is going to try to cross the street. Lidar doesn’t give the car the common sense to slow down because a child just ran behind a parked car and will soon be coming out the other side.
by psygn89 | 2026-02-23 16:39:21+00:00
Having lived in Japan it feels they either they go all in on minimalist or maximalist. Some stores are quiet, others are obnoxiously loud and brightly lit to where you don't see your own shadow. Some magazines have a ridiculous amount of text on the cover, distorting the characters to fit with bold text stroking, others especially fashion might have one line if any at all alongside their logo. Game and book covers can be more on artistic/subtle side whereas in the west we often fight for your attention with character collages or action scenes.
Show HN: isometric.nyc/snow
by cannoneyed | 2026-02-23 16:39:39+00:00
Hey HN,

As NYC wakes up to the largest blizzard in years, I’d like to share [isometric.nyc/snow](http://isometric.nyc/snow) - a wintry mix of the original isometric pixel map of NYC .

This work builds on the original isometric.nyc ideas but aims to increasingly automate the process of generating the tiled images. I’ve written up a follow-up addendum at [cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc\#snow](http://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc#snow) that describes some of this work, but the tl;dr is:

* ensuring that training data and generations are color balanced / normalized goes a long way for consistency (duh)
* augmenting water with a crosshatch pattern allowed the model to learn what it was instead of hallucinating (interesting!)
* dramatically increasing inference throughput on [modal.com](http://modal.com) meant I could generate 10s of thousands of tiles in a few hours at very little cost, allowing me to experiment much more rapidly

This project continues to be a lot of fun, but I’m now mostly focusing on the agentic workflows that power this kind of ambitious generation at scale. Can’t wait to share more soon.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-23 16:39:40+00:00
> Most guardians would willingly do similar with locked devices.

Considering the echo chamber in which I was at school, my friends would have simply used some Raspberry Pi (or a similar device) to circumvent any restriction the parents imposed on the "normal" devices.

Oh yes: in my generation pupils

- were very knowledgeable in technology (much more than their parents and teachers) - at least the nerds who were actually interested in computers (if they hadn't been knowledgeable, they wouldn't have been capable of running DOS games),

- had a lot of time (no internet means lots of time and being very bored),

- were willing to invest this time into finding ways to circumvent technological restrictions imposed upon them (e.g. in the school network).
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-23 16:39:43+00:00
The thing is, what are the parents to do beyond restricting things? You find out some creep has been talking to Junior; do you talk to your local police department, state agency, or to the feds?

We've never properly acted upon reports of predators grooming children by investigating them, charging them, holding trials, and handing down sentences on any sort of large scale. There's a patchwork of LEOs that have to handle things and they have to do it right. Once the packets are sent over state lines, we have to involve the feds, and that's another layer.

Previously, I would have said it's up to platforms like Discord to organize internal resources to make sure that the proper authorities received reports, because it felt like there were instances of people being reported and nothing happening on the platform's side. Now, given recent developments, I'm not sure we can count upon authorities to actually do the job.
by gbalduzzi | 2026-02-23 16:39:48+00:00
Yes, but you need this information once, maybe twice a day, instead all smart devices tend to present it to you constantly.

I have a pixel device, and by default I have the weather on both lock screen and home screen. Every morning I receive a notification with the expected weather for the day, and it keeps suggesting me to enable the weather preview right after the morning alarm.

Garmin smartwatch? Same

Android car / Apple car? Same

MacOS has the weather as one of the most prominent widgets available, and I believe windows to be the same.

Do I really need to have weather info constantly available to me?
by beej71 | 2026-02-23 16:40:16+00:00
Right now the AI bros are shouting from the rooftops that we're going to have no income and we'll have plenty of time to grow our own food. So I guess we have to weigh the pros and cons of that against UBI.

And, further, if people aren't getting enough food, all bets are off.

I'm not a huge UBI fan, but if we keep concentrating wealth, it's an inevitability. So we better start trying to make life more fair.
by RebootStr | 2026-02-23 16:40:33+00:00
The german translation is also slightly off. E.g. instead of: "Poste ein Foto und lass die Community dir passende Angebote schicken" you would probably write: "Poste ein Foto und lasse dir passende Angebote von der Community schicken"

And you do not send an "Angebot" to a doorstep. A German would interpret this as the offer in written form send to the doorstep (not the part as probably intended)
by reactordev | 2026-02-23 16:40:36+00:00
I wish I was 20 years younger, and had 20 more years to play with all the amazing things that are going to come. That, or we blow ourselves up. Either way, we have room for improvement in the foundation of the house and this is fantastic. The more we push, the more we discover, the more we learn, the more we implement, the more we improve.

This will have downstream impacts for sure. Keep doing stuff like this.
by iamalexm | 2026-02-23 16:40:51+00:00
That option has a few problems -
1. It's not very cheap. The price of land is really high and if it is fertile land it is even that much more expensive. Not to mention the cost of raising animals and plants isn't free.
2. Specializing is much more efficient than trying to do everything yourself, requiring at least a basic economy.
3. Do you like healthcare? Trying to move to the countryside while affording healthcare(at least in the US) and actually having access to it are considerable hurdles.
4. Providing your own power isn't cheap and getting it from others certainly requires something.

And this is to just name a few - definitely not an exhaustive list.

We, as a society, have moved on from subsistence living with small groups of people and with the ratio to the number of people in the world to fertilel and it isn't a serious option for large numbers of the population. I love the dream of it and I do think we could make a big shift to move towards food independence, even through urban gardening, etc, but I don't really see it going there unless there are some pretty large societal/environmental/economic shifts that happen.

What really needs to happen, in my opinion, is a shift to the idea that we live in a time of abundance. We have the means to supply all of our needs to everyone, it is 100% a political choice to let people suffer in order for a few to thrive at levels that have never been seen. We should have food security, access to healthcare, and housing as a human right and we should do it in an efficient way (and we can!). Unfortunately we are in a time where power is once again being concentrated to the hands of the very few. There will always be work that needs to be done, but who determines what work is actually completed and who benefits from it can and has changed many times throughout our history.
by mapt | 2026-02-23 16:40:54+00:00
This is a private transaction, for the profit of the banks providing the money to perform the buyout.

The banks are betting that the company/brand, once stripped of any valuable assets and being stretched to painful profitability at the cost of its reputation, will last long enough, with enough assets left at bankruptcy, that their high-interest, high-priority debt will be more than repaid.

If the private equity buys a firm in a leveraged buyout, sells off all its assets in a week, and shuts down immediately, it's the banks that get stiffed; The banks aren't idiots.

If you for some reason prioritize long-term survival & good/service provision of the ailing business, you need to take a bite out of the banks funding private equity takeovers that hit chapter 11 ("reorganization bankruptcy") or deprioritize their debt in chapter 7 ("liquidation bankruptcy") to disincentivize them providing funds.

There are certain shenanigans with private equity related to valuation and compensation ("My company is worth $1000, so I'm awarding myself 50% shares as part of a tax exempt retirement plan") that should be not just outlawed, but which should cause the IRS to send a CPA to go back and slap them in the face with a wet trout for having the fucking gall.

The cycle of enshittification that private equity often participates in, is less a problem with the fact of private equity, and more a problem with the giant piles of money in the finance industry growing much larger and taller than the economy they are theoretically structurally resting on. A problem with financialization and wealth inequality itself, with the system designed for upwards wealth redistribution, trying to transfer the last 10% of the world's money (which the poor are using as their medium of exchange) into the same dragon's hoard that has the rest.
by ap99 | 2026-02-23 16:40:56+00:00
This type of economic philosophy is impossible.

There will always be people who are more motivated and capable of consolidating power. That cannot be stopped.

Capitalism and democracy (both with guardrails) are meant to harness and contain that energy such that it doesn't instantly destroy a society.

Religion goes in there somewhere too.

None of these systems of organization are perfect, and they don't seem ideal on the surface. When you see them in practice there are many flaws.

But they are feasible.

Your 'distributism' system doesn't pass the feasibility test.
by dataflow | 2026-02-23 16:40:58+00:00
> No, this has been proven many times that money is not a leading factor: Just one : https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED418160
The only clear indication of student performance is parent participation and involvement.

No, we're talking about teacher quality, not student performance. Obviously they are not the same thing. You even listed some factors that affect them differently.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-23 16:41:04+00:00
Though actually... I've recently become more sympathetic to the idea that software developers should be forced to take active steps to make software they distribute easy for users to modify, because software is both essential to modern life, and uniquely able to act against consumer interests in a way that's almost completely unprecedented for other goods in all human history.

A couple decades ago it would have been impractical if not impossible to make a TV, sell it to a bunch of people, and then remotely update it a few years later to start showing unkippable manufacturer-installed video ads every time you power it on. Or create a car that requires you to pay money to the manufacturer every month in order to use the seat heaters. Or build a tractor that detects if you repair it using parts not made by a specific manufacturer and shuts itself off if you do.

But now, in the age of software, all of these abuses are not only feasible to implement, but easy. And it all comes down to the fact that the software that controls these devices cannot be easily modified by the user who purchased them, or by anyone other than the company that originally manufactured them. It's a local monopoly. Were software developers required to distribute the source and build tools along with the compiled code, I suspect a vibrant modding community would spring up around any product of sufficient popularity which would make such abuses much more difficult to get away with. (Why pay a monthly subscription for my seat heaters when I can just buy a $5 software mod that permanently enables them? And why bother developing such an anti-feature in the first place if you know users will easily bypass it?)
by bm3719 | 2026-02-23 16:41:16+00:00
You won't eat, because you won't be.

Industrial economic systems (including capitalism, which is better at it, but also Soviet communism for another) will always reinvest some of its surplus back into itself. That form is either scale or efficiency, the latter of which is usually the replacement of labor with capital. It may not do this very well or as fast as it could, but that transition is always permanent, and therefore cumulative.

So, what happens when we do that? Well, for awhile, nothing. When labor is the bottleneck, then there's always more outlets for it. But eventually there comes an inflection point, where there is so much labor replacement and the bar has been raised so high, that the surplus is in labor itself. At lower tiers, its value approaches 0. Spoiler alert: this point has already been passed. Probably everyone here knows multiple surplus individuals, who have no place in the economy, and the bar for their entry or reentry into it is so high now, they can only produce negative value in current market conditions.

So, we have an ever-increasing surplus of unrealized labor. Our overlords may feel bad about that for awhile, decide to bear the burden of a mass multitude of dependents. We better hope they do, because this works fine until it doesn't. The zeitgeist only needs to shift once for it to all be over. This won't happen tomorrow, but they only need to look at the balance sheet from a certain angle once for the massive cost center to be seen as yet another inefficiency to be optimized for. On long enough time scales, the probability of any possible event approaches 1.
by ChesterHsu | 2026-02-23 16:41:25+00:00
I built this because I got tired of watching AI agents generate shell commands that almost work.

Stuff like wrong curl flags, made-up Python APIs, or the same task producing slightly different output every run. After a while, it felt like the obvious fix was: stop asking the LLM to write code.

So in flyto-ai, the LLM doesn’t write scripts. It just:
- finds the right module
- fills in params

Then the params are validated against the module schema before anything runs. If it’s wrong, it fails early instead of blowing up halfway through execution.

There are 412 prebuilt modules right now (browser, HTTP, files, DB, image, notifications, etc.), so the model is mostly doing selection + parameterization, not improvising code.

Every run also outputs a reusable YAML workflow.

The part I’m experimenting with now is “blueprints”:
successful runs get saved, and if a similar task comes in later, the agent can replay the blueprint directly (no LLM call), so you get the same result instantly and basically free.

Install is just:

pip install flyto-ai && flyto-ai

Works with OpenAI / Anthropic / Ollama (local models). Apache-2.0.

Curious if other people here have landed on a similar split:
LLM decides what to do, deterministic engine decides how it gets done.
by csunbird | 2026-02-23 16:41:31+00:00
and is it easier to implement id checks for each online account that people have, had, and will ever have in the future?

parents need to start parenting by taking responsibility on what their kids are doing, and government should start governing with regulations on ad tech, addictive social media platforms, instead of using easily hackable platforms for de anonymization, which in turn enable mass identity theft.
by christalingx | 2026-02-23 16:41:50+00:00
Hi!
You only need our API for the compression part — API keys and LLM usage are entirely managed by your own application. We don't have access to your SaaS, and we don't even know its name. We simply receive the text through our API, compress it, and return the response to your app. Your LLM — whether local, OpenAI, Claude, or any other — then processes it using your own API keys. Your data stays safe with you. And we NEVER ask for your LLM API keys. Let me know if you have any question :)
by barbazoo | 2026-02-23 16:42:00+00:00
I'm happy they don't because they don't know what they're doing. Hopefully countries prioritizing public health will implement a social media ban for the vulnerable population which gives them some time to grow up without all that garbage poisoning their brains. Then when they're 16 or whatever age, hopefully by that age we'll have realized that this is actually like cigarettes and everyone, all age groups treat it like that.

Better than muddying the waters trying to make it less addictive but then letting them on there when their brains aren't ready.
by blindriver | 2026-02-23 16:42:05+00:00
> Amazon is very good at bits but has repeatedly failed at atoms.

This idea of bits vs atoms was stolen straight from the CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick. During the infamous Silicon-Valley-TV-Show-esque Las Vegas company offsite, one of his big talks was about how Uber had to not only deal with bits, ie. the virtual world, but also atoms, ie. the real world. That made it a bigger challenge than all the other companies like Google, Facebook, etc where they could dictate their own rules since they controlled everything, but Uber didn't have that luxury.
by mothballed | 2026-02-23 16:42:10+00:00
There's 190,000 pages of CFR that are essentially bound as law, almost entirely written and maintained by unelected bureaucrats.

They've been deciding what "freedom" is for a long time (even deciding what constitutional rights are, on occasion, see ATF bureaucrats constantly publishing and changing rules re-deciding what constitutional restraints they think there are on the 2A).

Of course, these "scientist and lawyers" know they have this power, and are so seeped in it, they occasionally forget when they step out of the ivory tower that the plebs (and indeed, the foundational ideals USA was built on written by those such as Locke) usually either disagree with it or aren't aware that much of the USA functions under "credentialism/technocrat makes right" and the scientist and the lawyer as the arbiter of freedom.

This feels like one of those moments when the technocrats forget that they've shed the thin façade they hide behind.
by plastic-enjoyer | 2026-02-23 16:42:16+00:00
There is no indication that the surplus extracted by automated labour will be distributed to the advantage of the population. If we look at how things are going at the moment and in the present, there will be a further concentration of power and capital. And I don't see any reasons why the billionaire class should give this up. You could, of course, give an argument why things are will be different this time.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 16:42:39+00:00
10 years is where hardware failure rates start ramping quickly, in my experience.

Not necessarily obvious failures, but subtle errors, memory problems (like this case without an ECC capable CPU) and little instabilities.

With cloud instances I can migrate to a new instance with a couple clicks if I want.

Trying to save a couple hundred euros per month on hosting costs needs to be balanced against the risks and extra developer time.

For personal projects these old instances can be an excellent deal though.
by itishappy | 2026-02-23 16:42:42+00:00
For sure, I love my ReMarkable, but I think of it as an expensive toy. It functions slightly worse than a notebook and pen for over 100x the cost. I suppose it would enable students to save their notes digitally, but at no point have I ever felt the need to return to my earth science notes. In fact, I have fond memories of burning all my high school notebooks immediately after graduation.
by Ensorceled | 2026-02-23 16:42:44+00:00
There should be an alternative version of Poe's Law where the view being parodied is so common, so ludicrous and associated with bad faith actors that it wraps back around to the person deserves all the ridicule and an assumption that they are a bad actor.

Like, we get to assume it's a Motte and Bailey or Schrödinger’s Joke.
by cxr | 2026-02-23 16:42:50+00:00
There's a lot of stuff in #8, and I'm not sure which part caught your eye, but remember that `postMessage` exists for (serverless) communication between different tabs/windows, even across different origins. That's one way to make "Open in Data Studio" a single-click action:

1. User Alice opens her <file:///Users/Alice/report_from_bob.json.html> in her browser

2. Alice clicks the embedded CTA button that opens <https://local.dataspren.com/import/local> (or whatever) in a new window/tab

3. Data Studio sends a heartbeat to window.opener

4. Alice's .json.html squirts its own contents to Data Studio

You could consider taking it further from there:

5. Alice works on the copy now loaded in Data Studio

6. As she works, Data Studio squirts the modifications back to the original tab (unless she has closed it)

7. As the modifications flow in, the local copy of report_from_bob.json.html in the original tab shows a banner that the file has been modified in Data Studio (giving her the option to update her copy, save it as a different file name, etc.).

Please also be aware that the CSVW group at the W3C has done a ton of work picking up where the IETF left off with RFC 4180, and almost no one knows about it, but it's a treasure trove of info (recommendations, actionable specs, tooling, reference implementations, test suites, etc.) around dealing with CSV and/or data tables in JSON.
by christalingx | 2026-02-23 16:43:01+00:00
Hi! You only need our API for the compression part — API keys and LLM usage are entirely managed by your own application. We don't have access to your SaaS, and we don't even know its name. We simply receive the text through our API, compress it, and return the response to your app. Your LLM — whether local, OpenAI, Claude, or any other — then processes it using your own API keys. Your data stays safe with you. And we NEVER ask for your LLM API keys. Let me know if you have any question :)