MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zetanor | 2026-02-15 18:05:30+00:00
At the very least, WARC could have been used as the container ("tar") format after the preamble of Gwtar. But even there, given that this format doesn't work without a web server (unlike SingleFile, mentioned in the article), I feel like there's a lot to gain by separating the "viewer" (Gwtar's javascript) from the content, such that the viewer can be updated over time without changing the archives.

I certainly could be missing something (I've thought about this problem for all of a few minutes here), but surely you could host "warcviewer.html" and "warcviewer.js" next to "mycoolwarc.warc" "mycoolwrc.cdx" with little to no loss of convenience, and call it a day?
by doodlebugging | 2026-02-15 18:07:12+00:00
>A pecan tree purchased from a nursery will reach its full height of four to six feet in 8 to 10 years if planted in the right spot.

That has to be a dwarf variety. I have seen pecan trees that are more than 80' tall or about half as tall as an Olympic swimming pool is long, with a crown diameter of over 110' or about 2/3 as long as an Olympic swimming pool. The trunk at chest height was more than 3 grown men wide, or about 1/10 the width of an Olympic swimming pool.

These trees get large and if they were solid objects their volume could store nearly as much water as an Olympic sized swimming pool. That is just the part above ground that we can see. Remarkable trees.

Pecan is furniture grade wood like black walnut and commands a premium. It is also prizes for smoking meats as it lends a nutty flavor to the brisket. It's my favorite.

When a pecan nut sprouts it sends all of its initial energy burst into growing a tap root, looking for the best source of dependable water, before you see any top growth at all above ground. Typically if your pecan tree seedling is 1' tall the tap root will already be more than 3' long. This is why nursery pecans are sold in planters that are about 3X taller than they are wide, so that the root is less likely to be coiling inside the pot. You don't want to strangle the tree by letting it become pot-bound.

This is why pecans need relatively deep soil with near surface water. If they have a dependable water supply they can stab that root through any crack and you will eventually have a huge, very productive nut tree.

Pecans are awesome trees. Mine have fed a murder of crows for several crow generations. They show up on the pecans every year about 2 weeks before the nuts are ripe enough to harvest and they strip my trees from the bottom up so that over the years, I have been able to harvest less than 5 buckets of pecans from 5 trees. Very efficient. I think they start at the bottom specifically to deprive me of the ones that are easiest for me to harvest. I surrendered the pecans to the crows a long time ago since they had a much more efficient system of exploitation than any I could conjure. I know the man who planted the trees had fought the same battles with them as I found the rubber snakes and the sad remains of a plastic owl in the trees while climbing them to assess their health right after we bought the place.

I'm on pretty good terms with the crows now. One has learned to ask for peanuts and I'm accommodating enough to provide them, almost on demand.
by noduerme | 2026-02-15 18:07:29+00:00
As far as I've seen, Ruffle never even makes the call out to the server... so at this point I don't think it's a serialization issue although some of what's in that list could potentially cause problems. The Ruffle compatability docs still say that NetConnection has 90% coverage... except for the .connect() call itself, which kinda makes me wonder why bother covering it at all?

https://ruffle.rs/compatibility/avm2
by trzy | 2026-02-15 18:08:04+00:00
Cool articles :) I got into emulation in the late 90s and eventually wrote both an NES and Genesis emulator. I always appreciated how cleanly organized Sega’s systems were, at least superficially considering the memory and register layouts.

You should take a look at Sega’s arcade systems, which were very cool, especially the Model 1, 2, and 3. Supermodel, an open source Model 3 emulator I co-wrote, and MAME have good emulation of Model 3 and 2, respectively, these days. Absolutely fascinating rendering architecture. It was early modern 3D when things were still weird and custom, before the industry standardized on OpenGL and Direct3D.
by BoneShard | 2026-02-15 18:08:07+00:00
Facebook (if you don't use newsfeed) is a very useful product.

Local events - check

Local groups - check

Small time music bands/artist/performances/etc - check

Buy nothing groups where I can get rid of something I don't use - check

Groups for mom with kids to get organized for some kids event - check

A library having a read together event for a kids book author - check

I'm happy I don't have to use FB, but my wife uses it all the time, she just avoids newsfeeds and all the click/rage bait parts.
by dudewhocodes | 2026-02-15 18:08:53+00:00
The agents are good enough to get results when an experienced person is properly guiding these tools.

However, during the holidays there was a big marketing campaign, mainly on Twitter.
Everyone started posting the same talking points repeatedly and suddenly, and triggered a storm of fomo perfect for when everyone was not working.

There was no sudden huge jump, I've been using AI code tools since 2024 and was surprised to see this sudden hype when the tools worked ok before.
by jmech | 2026-02-15 18:09:36+00:00
I combined VIIRS annual nighttime light composites with WorldPop population grids and OSM city boundaries to estimate the share of residents living in high-brightness areas across selected cities.

The threshold (≥ 40 nW/cm²/sr) is used as an operational definition to isolate high-intensity urban radiance.

Happy to discuss dataset choices, aggregation logic, or potential improvements.
by orochimaaru | 2026-02-15 18:10:34+00:00
Slaves did not get paid and were involuntarily captured, transported, sold, raped, molested, etc. No employer is doing that to you. You have it pretty good compared to slaves.

No one chooses to be a slave. You chose to be in tech. You can choose to be a farmer if the current state of things doesn't work for you. A slave would never have that luxury.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-15 18:10:59+00:00
"Currently, however, the Internet Archive does not disallow any specific crawlers through its robots.txt file, including those of major AI companies. As of January 12, [2026,] the robots.txt file for archive.org read: "Welcome to the Archive! Please crawl our files. We appreciate it if you can crawl responsibly. Stay open!" Shortly after we inquired about this language, it was changed. The file now reads, simply, "Welcome to the Internet Archive!""
by kube-system | 2026-02-15 18:11:44+00:00
What they’re getting at is not hairsplitting. Your argument presumes that the purpose of clothing is utilitarian in nature. That it exists merely to cover our bodies efficiently.

Clothing also has an anthropological function as fashion. That might not be something that you are personally interested in, but it is factually something that provides value to society.

You are certainly entitled to the opinion that fast fashion is not a good thing. But it’s just an opinion.
by k3vinw | 2026-02-15 18:11:55+00:00
That’s an interesting thought. I don’t believe that Vim’s modal system will be to their taste, but makes me curious if anyone has put together a collection of useful text editing macros for Vim similar to what Notepad++ offers.

Typically, I just pipe the output of my buffer to external commands to apply similar transformations that Notepad++ offers out of the box, but I would think the same would be challenging to do on Windows without Cygwin to close the gap. So a Vim macro collection similar to Notepad++ implemented in Vim script or Lua would be pretty cool.
by codingdave | 2026-02-15 18:12:51+00:00
Or don't. It has been made fairly clear that AI-generated content isn't on-topic for HN.

Now, if you have written a product that is successful and want to share that success, and just happenned to vibe-code it, that is a different story. But "Hey, I vibe-coded this." is not particularly interesting.
by xp84 | 2026-02-15 18:13:49+00:00
Probably, but part of the point of outsourcing the recycling was that you wouldn't have to set up infrastructure, process and people for that. If they weren't crooked, you could even have customers ship the products directly to the recycler. To drill it first, then you are paying for shipping twice, on an item that is already worthless to you.
by garaetjjte | 2026-02-15 18:14:33+00:00
>In the latter case, even when the compiler chooses to inline the function, it also emits code for an independent instance of the function, because the function is public and it may be called from another file.

Not in standard C. "inline" function provides implementation for usage iff compiler decides to inline the call. If it does decide not to inline, it will emit call to external symbol that needs to be defined in different TU (otherwise you will get errors at link time).
by linsomniac | 2026-02-15 18:14:38+00:00
>What is there to learn, honestly?

With all due respect, that answer shows that you don't know enough about agentic coding to form an opinion on this.

Things to learn:

- What agent are you going to use?
- What skills are you going to use?
- What MCPs are you going to use?
- What artifacts are you going to provide beyond the prompt?
- How are you going to structure it so the tooling can succeed without human interaction?
- Are you going to use agent orchestration and if so which?
- Are you going to have it "ultrathink" or not?
- Are you going to use a PRD or a checklist or the toolings own planning?
- Which model or combination of models are you going to use today? (Yes, that changes)
- Do you have the basic English (or whatever) skills to communicate with the model, or do you need to develop them? (I'm seeing some correlations between people with poor communication skills and those struggling with AI)

Those are a few off the top of my head. "Plz no mistakes" is not even a thing.
by philistine | 2026-02-15 18:15:13+00:00
Hideki Sato made a fatal mistake that killed the Dreamcast. The use of an obfuscated and strange disc format should have protected the system from piracy, but they did not think it through. The discs were barely larger than CDs (700 MiB to 1000 GiB) which made it perfunctory to excise videos and music to fit the game on a traditional CD. Once that was possible, the only problem was to boot the system from a pirated CD, which was shockingly easy.

While a Playstation needed a special chip to run pirated discs, a vanilla Dreamcast could play any pirated CD you could throw at it. It was Game Over for Dreamcast 18 months after it was released, pirated discs had destroyed the market, and Hideki Sato was responsible.

Source: https://fabiensanglard.net/dreamcast_hacking/
by Aurornis | 2026-02-15 18:15:42+00:00
> so many manufacturers often have methods for marking items that are not covered by the warranty

With textiles this is usually a hole punch or something with the tag. With hardware we had the serial number recorded.

But consumers don’t care. If they buy something from a vendor they think is selling them something as new and the vendor tells them to go the manufacturer, the customer doesn’t care that you marked it as not eligible for warranty. They just want that coverage

We even had customers write ragebait Reddit posts claiming we were unfairly denying warranties, people sending stories to popular newsletters and journalists, and other attempts to make us look bad for not honoring warranties on products they bought through gray market channels.
by Doohickey-d | 2026-02-15 18:15:51+00:00
This does happen: for example in Macbook repair, it is common to buy defective motherboards, in order to salvage the chips off them (which are apple-specific, hence not purchasable elsewhere). Those boards often come from China, and often have holes drilled in them, I guess exactly to prevent them from being repaired.

It's a shame, because some of those boards could (and would, they are valuable enough) be fully repaired by a skilled repair person. Instead, the chips are picked off and the rest goes to waste.

I did buy a batch once that didn't have holes drilled, and they all turned out to have all sorts of strange, often random issues, so I suspect those were RMAs that somehow "fell off the back of a truck" and escaped the drilling.
by fractalnetworks | 2026-02-15 18:15:55+00:00
There's a place where people leave their mics on and figure it out together. Where someone shares their screen mid-struggle and five hands reach in to help. Where the person who installed the thing yesterday sits next to the person who's been hacking on it for months -- and they're peers.

No credentials. No gatekeeping. Just the sound of people thinking out loud, building in the open, and treating each other like they belong.

We the claw.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-15 18:16:25+00:00
The US recently sanctioned a number of ICC judges and prosecutors, acting as a pathetic supplicant state for Israel[1].

https://www.state.gov/icc-sanctions

Any company operating worldwide that has a base in the US is legally required to cut all ties with these people. Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Google, Microsoft, and on and on. The US launched a trade nuclear bomb about some minor disagreement with the ICC, desperately trying to defend the war criminal (and just general criminal -- but don't worry, felon Trump is working to make sure he's pardoned for that, just like all the child molesters, drug dealers and sex traffickers that Trump is personally pardoning by the hundreds) Netanyahu.

For this reason alone, every country not the United States or Israel needs to be full bore ahead on replacing every single American dependency. The fact that the US is trying to use this to punish people prosecuting literal war crimes is absolutely disgusting behaviour, and is utterly intolerable. Ignoring that the US government treats American tech companies as extensions of the government (as much or worse than China, it should be noted. Literally enlisted tech executives from a number of companies in the armed forces, as Chairman Trump demands ownership stakes of all of the firms and their business), and the US government is a friend of no one.

And, it's happening. Everything the current pedo cabal is doing is the sort of short-term political win that is going to destroy the future of the US. Americans are still largely blissfully unaware and thinking this cabal of child rapists and self-dealing criminals (I believe Trump just gave himself $10B of taxpayer dollars...not even a murmur in the busted US) are just trolling the world, when really the US will be the biggest victim by far. Enjoy this brief moment of being the shining star, because the collapse is upon you. It turns out that the idiocracy has an expiry date.

[1] - While it shouldn't need to be said, Israel != Jewishness. Further, it isn't an antisemitic slur to note how absolutely Israel has a stranglehold over the US, constantly seeing the latter punching itself in the face in the service of that rogue nation. Utterly bizarre behaviour. The US is Israel's El Salvador, with a clucking crew of simpletons desperately looking for the boss to give them some accolades.
by jwr | 2026-02-15 18:17:20+00:00
> companies who will claim to recycle your products or donate them to good causes in other countries, but actually they’ll just end up on eBay or even in some cases being injected back in to retail channels

Isn't that good though? Unless the defects make the product somehow dangerous, this means that it found its way to users who are OK with it, thus avoiding waste. And someone even made money in the process.

(all assuming the product is not sold as "new")
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-15 18:17:50+00:00
No, seed and temperature are separate parameters accepted by the inference engine. You can still get deterministic outputs with high temp if you're using the same seed, provided the inference engine itself operates in a deterministic manner, and the hardware is deterministic (in testing, we did observe small non-deterministic variations when running the same prompt on the same stack but a different model of GPU).
by arjie | 2026-02-15 18:18:08+00:00
My parents are doctors so I’m very used to giving them all the data and pushing decision making down to them. Almost all of the time there is no action to be taken. But this built a certain habit that I realized is not conducive to medical care in the US.

I once told my wife that it’s better if she just passes all information downstream and then lets the diagnostician do the diagnostics.

During her pregnancy, at antenatal monitoring, when asked the routine questions I encouraged her to mention everything and so she mentioned a slight twinge in her chest (“it’s probably nothing, maybe something I ate”). She was hooked up to the monitors and so on but this was a sudden moment of panic for everyone but us. The nurse called for a doctor, there was an EKG machine brought up, all sorts of honestly nonsensical reaction given the data.

I realized my mistake soon after. There’s the obvious legal consideration, of course, but the real magic lies in the fact that no one gives full information so if someone sends you a signal they assume it’s crossed some threshold to significance. My mistake was in being a non-normative participant here, akin to someone who drives straight on green in a land where a green light means you first let one person turn left before you go.

Anyway, patients are supposed to perform pre-diagnosis in the US. And you’re not supposed to show your doctor things that they will then act on. You should first apply Bayes yourself and then give the info to the doctor here because they won’t use Bayes.
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2026-02-15 18:18:33+00:00
This guy really illustrates the problem with mental illness in otherwise functioning adults. Since he is getting emails from his mom, and admits he "comes from a relatively privileged upbringing", my guess is he could get help from his family, but rejected it.

He is an adult, and is not sick enough to warrant involuntary intervention, so he is free to choose to reject care. Also, he mentions using psychedelics (to self medicate? Or just cause he wanted the experience?) So this could be 100% self-inflicted for all we know, although I'd put my money on self-medication.

Mentally ill people (depending on the type of illness) can be really hard to be around for long periods (source: father and brother who are bipolar.) It is no surprise he would have trouble finding a friend to let him crash. His narcissism and superiority-complex are just part of the package.

I will also note that it was infuriating that he got access to a women-only shelter when he said "I identify as a woman".
by kmeisthax | 2026-02-15 18:19:09+00:00
Shame on Heise for this GDPR-noncompliant trash in their cookie pop-up:

> We offer you the option of rejecting individual data processing. If you have made a selection for all processing purposes, you can save it. Please note that consent to personalised advertising is always required for use without a Pur subscription.

Naah, no, you don't get to gate rejecting consent behind a subscription. Not even if that's your economic reality. The GDPR entitles people in Europe to opt out of surveillance capitalism, and if you can't make money in that environment, you deserve to go bankrupt.

Gimme dat shit for free.
by aydyn | 2026-02-15 18:19:18+00:00
> That's why the general public views our ancestors as 'primitive,' when in reality they possessed techniques many of which we've lost or still don't fully understand.

Well stated. We often forget that people in the past had the same exact minds and abilities as the people of today and were in no way inferior or "primitive". I think this accounts for a lot of presentism that leaks into our understanding of history.
by nothrabannosir | 2026-02-15 18:20:03+00:00
> It reaffirmed a delusion that had previously gripped my mind and begun my psychosis; I must be dead. This place, purgatory. I prayed for a quest or that my retribution was almost over, so that I could go back to land of the living.

...

> The old lady’s came marching in, and fed us pasta and bread and cake and cookies. There was Coca Cola. I ate because I had no choice, but suspicious of the sugar they forced on us. We slept on green mats. Most of the folks, drenched theirs in Industrial Clorox. I thought they had it wrong. Embrace the filth. Do you trust the chemicals?

...

> Some of the people around me drenched theirs in mountains of maple syrup. Is sugar the enemy?

...

> My paranoia of the place had dissipated slightly as the idea of having my own room felt pretty nice.

...

> I had refused to steal, convinced I was in purgatory and doing the “right thing” was the only way to pass the test. But standing there, the rules dissolved.

This article is dripping with psychosis. It's a story about a failing health care system.

Reading some of these comments, I'm starting to understand how the system could be the way it is, and just how far we have left yet to go.
by O1111OOO | 2026-02-15 18:20:27+00:00
I gave up a long time ago and started using the "Save as..." on browsers again. At the end of the day, I am interested in the actual content and not the look/feel of the page.

I find it easier to just mass delete assets I don't want from the "pageTitle_files/" directory (js, images, google-analytics.js, etc).
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-15 18:21:00+00:00
> What if a batch of products is determined to have some QA problems?

Not covered by this regulation in spirit and (probably, haven't read it yet) in text. The spirit of the regulation is targeting fast-fashion on-prem retailers (think H&M, Primark, Zara and the likes) and online retailers like Shein, who have heaps of products that just aren't sold because they're not wanted - and also the occasional luxury brand trying to maintain scarcity [1].

> but for a while we found ourselves honoring warranty claims for items that, ironically enough, had already been warrantied once and then “recycled” by our recycling service.

Yikes. That's something worth filing a lawsuit claim or at the very least terminating the business relationship.

[1] https://theweek.com/95179/luxury-brands-including-burberry-b...
by tonymet | 2026-02-15 18:21:08+00:00
It’s baffling and makes you wonder about the strategic mission of the surveillance state. Surely they must be achieving some objectives – since they are heavily resourced, and capable. If not crime prevention, it must be political influence.

There’s a ton of evidence of foreign state intervention since WW2. And there are hints at domestic intervention since the 1960s . The likely focus is domestic political intervention, since it takes time for whistleblowers and stories to see the light of day.
by oschwartz10612 | 2026-02-15 18:21:22+00:00
Co-maintainer here: we also did this cool thing where we reused the same go codebase across our clients. We have a go package called olm (on our Github and following our animal theme) that implements all of the VPN capabilities. It creates the tunnel, monitors the peers, syncs with the Pangolin server. This itself is a binary that can run on its own as like our own little VPN kernel module - then in the different applications we use olm to trigger the tunnel. This is easy on Windows as the whole app is go based, but on Android, Mac, and iOS we use C bindings to compile it as a shared library into the application. Then the native application imports parts of the module to initiate the tunnel and handle the tunneling. On iOS and Macos this is handled in a "Network Extension" which is a secure environment Apple runs tunneling applications in, so we use a unix socket to communicate with the olm tunneling kernel to show status to the user and handle commands.