MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daskladas | 2026-02-10 13:10:22+00:00
Hey everyone,

I built nixmate, a terminal UI that brings together the NixOS tools I found myself using daily but scattered across different commands.

10 modules: generations (browse/diff/delete/pin), error translator (50+ patterns with AI fallback), services (systemd + Docker + Podman), storage (store analysis + GC), config showcase (SVG poster + architecture diagram), options explorer, rebuild dashboard with live progress, flake input manager, package search, and a health checker.

Also works as a pipe: nixos-rebuild switch 2>&1 | nixmate

13 themes, EN/DE, works over SSH.

Try it: nix run github:daskladas/nixmate

Repo: https://github.com/daskladas/nixmate

Written in Rust, MIT licensed. First release (v0.7.0), so rough edges are expected — feedback and issues very welcome!
Show HN: CodeSnip – Cross‑Platform Snippet Manager and Code Runner
by mx7b7 | 2026-02-10 13:10:32+00:00
CodeSnip is a cross‑platform snippet manager and local code runner built with Avalonia UI.
It includes local script execution (Shell, C#, F#, Python, PHP, Lua, Ruby, Node.js, PowerShell, Java/JShell), Compiler Explorer integration, and an advanced editor for editing XSHD highlight definitions.
by funkyfiddler369 | 2026-02-10 13:10:35+00:00
Enough of the people participating in any kind of social stuff lie whether they think it's real or not.

Social science aka sociology doesn't exist. It's all make believe, sabotage and (psychological) extortion and blackmail--aka peer pressure, within the constraints of the context and how the individuals project that context into the real world (or are convinced by others of a certain projection for some amount of time).

Sociology and psychology are situational assessments and measurements. All soft sciences are. They are not even sciences in isolated contexts. They are collections of methods that can be turned to dust by "a better", more fun, "more logical" argument, which is impossible to debate rationally.

Not lying for the sake of science is often enough disregarded even by scientists, which aligns perfectly with what you describe.
by ninalanyon | 2026-02-10 13:10:55+00:00
Automatic braking is a last resort to prevent serious injury to the occupants. That's not the same as safe following distance with adaptive cruise control. The closest my Tesla will go at 60 kph is about 15 m (three car lengths for my Model S) I think. I'm not sure because I normally keep it at maximum separation, about three seconds (50 m at 60 kph).
by Insanity | 2026-02-10 13:11:00+00:00
Literature should be able to explore tough topics and spark discussion. There are numerous interpretations of reading a book.. for example, if in the book it is written that a 10 year old had sex with a 30 year old, that could be the fantasy of the 30 year old and you can use it to explore the mind of a pedophile.

Also, reading this of course Lolita comes to mind. To this day, one of the best books I have read (although Pale Fire is the more literarily impressive one of Nabokov). Lolita is an example of a book that explores a complex controversial topic, with an unreliable narrator which forces the reader to think about what is actually happening and what is not.

Banning books and not allowing content such as this, where clearly no child is actually harmed, is insane.

Edit: the novel in the article takes the point of view of the (potential) minor rather than the adult. Doesn’t really change my point, in my opinion.
by alt227 | 2026-02-10 13:11:06+00:00
The tradeoff for the compression 'vanishing' is longer times pressing your breaks, travelling slower overall, and leaving your engine running for more of the time.

Also you then just leave a bigger gap in front of you for somebody to jump into, forcing you to break more and go further back to maintain your distance. This in turn just winds up the drivers behind you who end up overtaking you. All this chaos becasue you think you are helping by 'reducing compression'.

In heavy traffic I much prefer to quickly catch the car in front up and then sit stationary with my engine off. Much more efficient and less polluting than spending the whole time with your ewngine on managing gaps and braking distances at low speeds.
by thegrim000 | 2026-02-10 13:11:10+00:00
I like how they make grand claims and when you finally drill down into the data you find it's based on something like ..

"We took the opinion of this random bank about how efficient it is to allocate capital in the country, which translates to how corrupt it is"

or

"We had this (ironically, corrupt) NGO make a report where they asked some unspecified number of "credentialed" economics professors at an unspecified number of unspecified universities what they think about corruption in their country."

Yes, those are actual examples of the data/methodology they provide. That's the type of data backing up their ratings.
by evolighting | 2026-02-10 13:11:14+00:00
In my view, it is because if you don't, you die. This isn't merely about the division of labor; it’s about war between nations. The peoples here have endured thousands of years of cycles between violent upheaval and social stability. If you cannot rely on organizational cohesion to weather a crisis, you simply won't survive.

How does this differ from the Middle East? Because our friends in the Middle East have truly 'died off' in waves; many of the peoples who once inhabited those lands have long since been replaced."
by 0x3f | 2026-02-10 13:11:18+00:00
I'm curious how you feel about images, because it seems we have the same problem: I draw a stick figure with genitals. All good. I put a little line and write '10 year old child', then... illegal? In some places, anyway.

The difference with text I suppose is that text is _never_ real. The provenance of an image can be hard to determine.
by simonw | 2026-02-10 13:11:22+00:00
> Has Simon actually produced anything novel or compelling?

Here are some of my recent posts which I self-evaluate as "novel and compelling".

- Running Pydantic’s Monty Rust sandboxed Python subset in WebAssembly https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/6/pydantic-monty/ - demonstrating how easy and useful it is to be able to turn Rust code into WASM that can run independently or be used inside a Python wheel for Pyodide in order to provide interactive browser demos of Rust libraries.

- Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/distributing-go-binarie... - I think my go-to-wheel utility is really cool, and distributing Go CLIs through PyPI is a neat trick.

- ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages, and download files https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/26/chatgpt-containers/ - in which I reverse engineered and documented a massive new feature of ChatGPT that OpenAI hadn't announced or documented anywhere

I remain very proud of my current open source projects too - https://datasette.io and https://llm.datasette.io and https://sqlite-utils.datasette.io and a whole lot more: https://github.com/simonw/simonw/blob/main/releases.md

Are you ready to say none of that is "novel or compelling", in good faith?
by mr_toad | 2026-02-10 13:11:32+00:00
> maybe in 100M years we'll get a 4th cone or rod. Probably from nuclear mutation...

There’s a Greg Egan short story (I think it’s ‘Seventh Sight’) where a bunch of formerly blind kids with cybernetic eyes hack the receptors to respond to wavelengths other than the traditional RGB. So perhaps it wont take millions of years.
by throw0101c | 2026-02-10 13:11:33+00:00
> I'd like to know whether there's any objective way to measure how truth-seeking journalism actually is.

Apparantly:

* https://archive.is/https://www.businessinsider.com/study-wat...

* https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/fox-news-study-compari...

* https://washingtonmonthly.com/2011/06/19/the-most-consistent...

* https://portal.fdu.edu/fdupoll-archive/knowless/final.pdf

* https://portal.fdu.edu/fdupoll-archive/confirmed/final.pdf

* https://www.fdu.edu/academics/centers-institutes/fdu-poll/

A simple example: who won the 2020 election? What did each organization say?
by acrooks | 2026-02-10 13:12:02+00:00
This is obviously oversimplified but I think this is a big factor:

Singapore is a business masquerading as a country. While it is technically democratic, in practice there are some barriers preventing truly free and fair elections. That being said, the leaders in Singapore are not corrupt and truly do focus on what's best for the country. As a result decisions are made quickly, for the greater good, and are not politically driven. The leadership have the latitude to make decisions that they believe will make the country better. Sometimes these decisions don't have a lot of public support (because people are naturally more short-sighted) but, because of the political system, they don't need to rely on public support.

In the case of Singapore, I think this dynamic has led to a compounding effect of good decisions that have put the country in such a strong place today. You see this similarly with Norway's oil fund; it was likely unpopular initially to reinvest so much money into savings, but today it's paying off where they have a $2T savings account, from which they can withdraw up to 3% annually ($60B) for the needs of Norway.
by scronkfinkle | 2026-02-10 13:12:13+00:00
Nice!

I'm interested in your cubecl-wgpu patches. I've been struggling to get lower than FP32 safetensor models working on burn, did you write the patches to cubecl-wgpu to get around this restriction, to add support for GGUF files, or both?

I've been working on something similar, but for whisper and as a library for other projects: https://github.com/Scronkfinkle/quiet-crab
by will42 | 2026-02-10 13:12:52+00:00
10Cups. We pretty much all buy the same type of coffee, every time.
So I added a simple NFC reader to the barista's Kitchen Display.
You buy ten cups of coffee, they give you a NFC sticker for your travel mug.
Tomorrow, you skip the queue, hand the barista your travel mug.
They tap it on the reader, see how you like your coffee, and redeem one.

Makes your regular's lives easier, and you take regulars out of your queue.

No stupid loyalty apps, no QR Codes, no sign ups.

More "How are you?" and less "Flat White, please"

Here is an article I wrote about it

https://wherethereisawill.substack.com/p/coffee-shop-loyalty...

It is integrated into our coffee shop POS: https://www.beanpos.co.za
by vkazanov | 2026-02-10 13:13:20+00:00
We'd have to come up with definition of quake :-) FTE has a lot bolted on it but the focus us in Quake, quake mods, lifting some limitations and making mod dev convenient.

But it is the same overall code structure, the same game, etc.

All these oss quake engines, are they quake? Ironwail, quakespasm vkQuake?
by shayanbahal | 2026-02-10 13:13:28+00:00
Mother of All VPNs, Internet Freedom Stack

- https://moav.sh/
- https://github.com/shayanb/MoaV

Basically a one command installation of 8+ protocols with easy user management.

My idea is to make it easy to run your own battle tested VPN server for yourself (when traveling or not) and your family and friends. Pretty useful in national internet shutdown situations
by apwheele | 2026-02-10 13:13:32+00:00
Just released a new book on using the foundation model APIs, https://crimede-coder.com/blogposts/2026/LLMsForMortals, Large Language Models for Mortals: A Practical Guide for Analysts with Python.

Up to date and has examples for all of the major foundation model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and AWS Bedrock). Goes through basics of calling the API, structured outputs, RAG, and MCP/Agents. Also has a chapter on the LLM coding tools (Copilot, Claude Code, and Antigravity).
Show HN: FaceCrop – Align and crop portrait photos with face detection
by puntofisso | 2026-02-10 13:14:01+00:00
A friend who's a corporate photographer came to me with an interesting problem: aligning multiple portrait photos for team pages, yearbooks, directories, so that faces are consistently positioned.

Fundamentally, when you take dozens of photos in a day, they are likely to be all slightly different in terms of crop.

As I had done some work with facial feature recognition, my friend asked if the same tech could be used for his problem... and here's why FaceCrop came to be :-)

How does it work:

- drop in your photos

- FaceCrop detects faces using face-api.js or tracking.js

- FaceCrop suggests crops

- fine-tune the crops individually or globally

- export the crops in a .zip file.

To note, everything runs client-side on the browser: no uploads, no server-side, no accounts. It was mostly developed using some code I had from a previous project and some Claude Code.

Would welcome constructive feedback most importantly on the crop adjustment UI/UX, but also on the detection accuracy, suggested crop shape, etc.

http://facecrop.puntofisso.net/
by toyg | 2026-02-10 13:14:02+00:00
It means it was at a Swatch marketing event that featured Negroponte in person, in the room as they started the system.

It's like saying the Amiga 1000 was launched in the presence of Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol.

Maybe because I'm European and there are direct translations in my native tongue, "in the presence of" sounds just fine if a bit official.
Show HN: Parquetastic – a browser-based Parquet metadata inspector
by cgfloat | 2026-02-10 13:15:05+00:00
Hi HN!

I work on an analytical database engine, and I spend a lot of time trying to understand the structure of Apache Parquet files (row groups, column chunks, data pages, encodings, etc.).

I feel like existing tools for this job such as parquet-tools or pyarrow are cumbersome to use and for anything beyond the basics you end up writing custom code. Datanomy contains some more info, but still requires installing a CLI. Some databases like DuckDB also have a feature to query the metadata, but that means writing SQL for every little thing you want to check, and the output is still text.

I wanted something I could just drop a file into, and immediately see the structure visualized — so I built Parquetastic, a browser-based visual Parquet metadata inspector tool.

What it does:

- Visualizes the full Parquet file structure: row groups, column chunks, pages (if your file has a page index), encodings, compression, statistics

- Shows key specs at a glance without writing any code or queries (e.g., footer size, page index size)

- Runs entirely in the browser — the data never leaves your device

- No download, no installation, no signup

Live demo: https://parquetastic.dev

GitHub: https://github.com/FlorianPfisterer/parquetastic

I'd love your feedback, especially from anyone who regularly works with Parquet files!

Disclaimer: This project was fully built in my free time and has nothing to do with my employer.
And before you ask: Yes, this was mostly vibe-coded (or rather "agentically engineered"). Without these tools, I wouldn't have had the time to build it!
by throw0101c | 2026-02-10 13:15:23+00:00
> It’s very cable-news-brained to believe there must be sides at all. Report facts and let the readers form their own opinions.

"Feelings don't care about your facts." — not Ben Shapiro

Who won the 2020 US presidential election? If viewers think it was A and you report that it was B, will they believe you? Will they continue to watch/read you? If not, what does that do to your revenue and ability to pay your bills?

As Jason Zweig wrote:

> There are three ways to make a living: 1) Lie to people who want to be lied to, and you’ll get rich. 2) Tell the truth to those who want the truth, and you’ll make a living. 3) Tell the truth to those who want to be lied to, and you’ll go broke.

* https://jasonzweig.com/three-ways-to-get-paid/
by Symbiote | 2026-02-10 13:15:59+00:00
Looking at the location, it does seem a waste of a site very close to a railway station, park, offices etc to use it for a building which will have a staff of 10 or whatever.

It makes sense to deny this application. They can ask to build it elsewhere.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/1+Redheughs+Ave,+Edinburgh...
by daveguy | 2026-02-10 13:16:07+00:00
I'm not sure what part of "the safety net goes away if you have the living wage" you don't understand. The living wage is the wage that you need. Because you're not getting any "transfers" from safety nets at that point. If we had a perfect safety net you could claim any minimum wage, even $0/hr, is the "living wage". But that's not the point. The point is -- what wage would you need to live completely self sufficiently on your own. In policy, it is used to guide when the safety net is no longer necessary. So, including a decent, morally justified, safety net would defeat the purpose of calculating "living wage". tldr it's "living wage" not "living subsidy".
by alex_metacraft | 2026-02-10 13:16:39+00:00
This is a really interesting finding. It makes sense when you think about what the training data looks like — first person statements in a system prompt pattern-match to "internal monologue" or "chain of thought" examples, which the model has been heavily trained to follow through on. Second person commands pattern-match to user instructions, which the model has also been trained to sometimes push back on or reinterpret.

There's probably a related effect with imperative vs. declarative framing in skills too. "When the user asks about X, do Y" seems to work worse than "This project uses Y for X" in my experience. The declarative version reads like a fact about the world rather than a command to obey, and models seem to treat facts as more reliable context.

Would be curious if someone has tested this systematically across different models. The optimal framing might vary quite a bit between Claude, Gemini, and GPT.
by kaon_2 | 2026-02-10 13:16:45+00:00
Not to take away from the seriousness of the moment, but I feel compelled to share my feeling shere: My inner teenager was hoping to see TeamSpeak and Ventrilo listed just to honor the good old days. Between 2005-2008 it felt as if Ventrilo had about 90% of the market, with TeamSpeak having the rest. I guess the hopeful message is that nothing lasts forever and alternatives come and go.
by order-matters | 2026-02-10 13:16:49+00:00
I see the angle you're coming from now, more mass market and expanding best practices from bigger companies out to medium and small businesses looking for plug and play solutions.

I was thinking more about what I believe you describe as the "hard" engineers, and would say the power AI provides for mapping and translating will greatly benefit those teams as well with the right set-up. People are pushing for the "code for me" angle, but i think there will be a lot of opportunity to have LLMs take on a middle ground of syntax management while the engineers manage the system effects. for example, the engineer may be deciding whether to use a linked list or binary tree and the LLM is implementing it with the available code stack approved by the company.

A company that can successfully implement such an LLM opens up their talent pool from people who know their stack (or want to learn it) to people who know any stack
by Someone | 2026-02-10 13:16:57+00:00
I see a link with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder_model:

“The polder model (Dutch: poldermodel) is a method of consensus decision-making, based on the Dutch version of consensus-based economic and social policymaking in the 1980s and 1990s. It gets its name from the Dutch word (polder) for tracts of land enclosed by dikes.

[…]

A third explanation refers to a unique aspect of the Netherlands, that it consists in large part of polders, land reclaimed from the sea, which requires constant pumping and maintenance of the dykes. Ever since the Middle Ages, when the process of land reclamation began, different societies living in the same polder have been forced to cooperate because without unanimous agreement on shared responsibility for maintenance of the dykes and pumping stations, the polders would have flooded and everyone would have suffered. Crucially, even when different cities in the same polder were at war, they still had to cooperate in this respect. This is thought to have taught the Dutch to set aside differences for a greater purpose.”
by Borg3 | 2026-02-10 13:17:37+00:00
Because ML and LLM (Not the fucking AI, it doesnt exist yet) should be used to deal with bulk boring stuff. Filter milions of images to leave interesting. Transform some data (but IM not sure why LLM is interesting here, I can write a script to do so) and so on... Not a creative stuff. This should be left for humans. Because if we take this away, whats left? Low skilled labour at best...
by kachapopopow | 2026-02-10 13:18:09+00:00
While this is definitely a crime, it's also similar to books where authors "fantasize" killing people, both are pretty much equally treated in the court of law in a lot of countries.

Full on prosecutions does feel like a thought crime in this case, but I strongly believe that these things should not be available on the internet anyway and to give platforms and authorities the power to treat this content the same way as CSAM when it comes to takedown requests.

I mean just look at steam 'rpg maker' games, they're absolutely horrifying when you realize that all of them have a patch that enables the NSFW which often includes themes of rape, csam and more.

I do not recommend anyone to go down this rabbit hole, but if you do not belive me: dlsite (use japanese vpn to view uncensored version). You have been warned.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-10 13:18:18+00:00
When I worked for a nationwide company, that was chiefly WFH with several small satellite offices, and a few abroad as well, we had some timezone issues.

The main one, which became my pet peeve about event and meeting announcements, was that they always, always used Standard Time abbreviations, whether it was DST or not DST, they always specified standard time.

So if a meeting was at 3pm on June 13 in Delaware, it was announced as "3pm EST". If the meeting was at 9am on August 8 in California, it was announced "9am PST".

This drove me up the wall because, living in Arizona, there is a legitimate difference for us between "MDT" and "MST". Now if we anticipate this quirk, it is really not a problem, except for edge-cases.

But I complained and asked why they were doing it, and they said they'd always done it that way, and even implied that it was written into policy somehow, and I came to discover it was far more widespread than just our one company's internal comms, and my brain exploded with ASD dissonance.
by aleph_minus_one | 2026-02-10 13:18:50+00:00
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Im gonna go against the grain and say he is an elite expert on some dimensions, but when you take all the characteristics into account (including an understanding of people etc) I conclude that on the whole he is not as intelligent as you think.

Intelligence (which psychologists define as the g factor [1]; this concept is very well-researched) does not make you an expert on any given topic. It just, for example, typically enables you to learn new topics faster, and lets you see connections between topics.

If Karpathy did not spend a serious effort of learning to get a good understanding of people, it's likely that he is not an expert on this topic (which I guess basically nobody would expect).

Also, while being a rationalist very likely requires you to be rather intelligent, only a (I guess rather small) fraction of highly intelligent people are rationalists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
by api | 2026-02-10 13:19:01+00:00
By heat I think the parent mostly means industrial process heat, which is mostly supplied by natural gas now. Coal is still used in metallurgy.

Electric heat is rare since it’s inefficient (thermodynamics) and thus expensive but it’s used in applications where you need precision temperature control.

Of course if solar and batteries got cheap enough you could just say F it and use electric resistance heat everywhere. Time your peak production to coincide with mid day when solar is at peak.