MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gdhaliwal23 | 2026-02-13 09:05:40+00:00
Founder here. Gemini actually suggested I build this. I was brainstorming SaaS ideas and it pointed out the gap between AI cost tracking and revenue attribution. I dug into it, agreed, and built it.

The hardest part was the cost simulator. Comparing price-per-million-tokens across models is misleading — different models burn different amounts of tokens for the same task. So we normalize token counts to estimate what a swap would actually look like. When we recommend an alternative, we filter out anything that drops more than 10% on any benchmark or can't handle your context window size. Still improving this.

The SDK never sees your prompts or responses — just model name, token counts, and a customer ID. Limitations: simulator recommends from six vendors only, no custom/fine-tuned models, USD only.

Stack is Rails and Postgres. Happy to answer anything.
by ikornaselur | 2026-02-13 09:06:00+00:00
Most of my friends worked restaurants or bars when I was younger, tips were something some tourists would sometimes do and it would generally go into a pot for throwing a party for the staff few times a year. I have never tipped or seen a local tip in my home country.

Tips weren't a part of my friends income. The restaurant/bar paid them a salary.
by delaminator | 2026-02-13 09:06:31+00:00
You aren't telling us anything about how you're using it. So how can we tell you what you're doing wrong? You're just reporting what happened.

You haven't even said what programming language you're trying to use, or even what platform.

It sounds to me like you didn't do much planning, you just gave it a prompt to build away.

My preferred method of building things, and I've built a lot of things using Claude, is to have a discussion with it in the chatbot. The back and forth of exploring the idea gives you a more solid idea of what you're looking for. Once we've established the idea I get it to write a spec and a plan.

I have this as an instruction in my profile.

> When we're discussing a coding project, don't produce code unless asked to. We discuss projects here, Claude Code does the actual coding. When we're ready, put all the documents in a zip file for easy transfer (downloading files one at a time and uploading them is not fun on a phone). Include a CONTENTS.md describing the contents and where to start.

So I'll give you this one as an example. It's a Qwen driven System monitor.

https://github.com/lawless-m/Marvinous

here are the documents generated in chat before trying to build anything

https://github.com/lawless-m/Marvinous/tree/master/ai-monito...

At this point I can usually say "The instructions are in the zip, read the contents and make a start." and the first pass mostly works.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-13 09:06:32+00:00
I thought the problem was inability to edit, now it's inability to reply? Also you're wrong about the post and you don't know what damages are and your flex failed real bad. Good luck in life.

And nobody ever has to let you post on their private website. Right to redress is unrelated. If you take away anything from this conversation, please let it be that.
by kakacik | 2026-02-13 09:06:34+00:00
Thats your phone, I have no cloud storage and no most of my photos are not on my phone. Its not my first nor second account here, I don't care about some meaningless reward points. Same goes for everything else, very little of my life is stored digitally and connected/shared to internet. I see simply no reason for that, not cruising on some paranoia.

Its a fight worth fighting or behavior to adhere to, for me. Natural and logical. You seemingly gave up, thats fine as long as you are happy with your choices and consequences.
by zombot | 2026-02-13 09:06:49+00:00
> And in fact, the release notes have also been updated: the problem went from a “Resolved Issue” to a “Known Issue”.

So they finally admit that they are unable to solve a ridiculously trivial problem of their own making. This is a farce. Apple has managed to lose the last remnants of respect and good will on my part. And I cannot trust a platform that is so blatantly mismanaged.
by jamiemallers | 2026-02-13 09:07:30+00:00
This is becoming a predictable pattern in infrastructure tooling: build community on open source, get adoption, then pivot to closed source once you need revenue. Elastic, Redis, Terraform, now MinIO.

The frustrating part isn't the business decision itself. It's that every pivot creates a massive migration burden on teams who bet on the "open" part. When your object storage layer suddenly needs replacing, that's not a weekend project. You're looking at weeks of testing, data migration, updating every service that touches S3-compatible APIs, and hoping nothing breaks in production.

For anyone evaluating infrastructure dependencies right now: the license matters, but the funding model matters more. Single-vendor open source projects backed by VC are essentially on a countdown timer. Either they find a sustainable model that doesn't require closing the source, or they eventually pull the rug.

Community-governed projects under foundations (Ceph under Linux Foundation, for example) tend to be more durable even if they're harder to set up initially. The operational complexity of Ceph vs MinIO was always the tradeoff - but at least you're not going to wake up one morning to a "THIS REPOSITORY IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED" commit.
by gspr | 2026-02-13 09:08:00+00:00
> No. In Poland it's legal to record everything, only when you publish the recordings you need the recorded people to agree.

Interesting. Thanks for this perspective. But for the sake of this debate it's still more or less the same situation.

> The core issue is that "nothing to hide nothing to fear" argument is correct as long as the government is trustworthy.

The government and everyone else who might have access to the data.

> Not only that, but mass-surveilance greatly improves life because it allows much better crowd management.

Hard disagree.

> Case in point - speed cameras. Would you support the removal of all speed cameras in Norway?

No. Speed cameras are different. They do more or less not record people who are not reasonably suspected of committing the crime of speeding. They are more analogous to a doorbell camera (or car sentry system) that only actually starts storing/sharing/streaming data when very good evidence of a crime is in progress. I would, for example, be OK with a camera pointed at a public area if the operator of the camera can prove that the data is only stored whenever say the house's burglary alarm trips (this is equivalent to speed cameras when the induction loop in the ground says that a car passed faster than the speed limit). That minute of recording that may include innocent people in public areas is something I would consider to be in the public good. It's at least very different from a system that monitors continuously.

The fact that nothing is stored in normal circumstances of course needs to be backed up by very public audits. For example the operator would need to release source code and be liable to an enormous fine if state inspectors find that different code actually runs on the device. At least that seems like the ideal situation to me.
by gardnr | 2026-02-13 09:08:07+00:00
garaged:
image: dxflrs/garage:v2.2.0
ports:
- "3900:3900"
- "3901:3901"
- "3902:3902"
- "3903:3903"
volumes:
- /opt/garage/garage.toml:/etc/garage.toml:ro
- /opt/garage/meta:/var/lib/garage/meta
- /opt/garage/data:/var/lib/garage/data
by Markoff | 2026-02-13 09:08:17+00:00
here in Central Europe (SK/CZ) we never done percentage, we were just rounding up the sum, like 283 to 300, but even 292 would become 300, and if it's bill 300 then tough luck for waiter. But not sure what is the situation in recent years with card payments replacing cash, tips must been hit hard, also raising prices and people going to restaurants less and less doesn't help much.

Personally I pretty much stopped going to restaurants completely during COVID when I was treated worse than dog - dogs allowed (to some places), unvaxxed not allowed to enter.
by elC0mpa | 2026-02-13 09:09:08+00:00
I built aws-doctor because I found myself constantly repeating the same manual checks in the AWS Console to find wasted costs (orphaned EBS volumes, unattached IPs, old snapshots, etc.). I wanted a tool that could do a quick "health check" from the terminal without needing to export CSVs or click through the Cost Explorer UI.

The tool is written in Go and uses the AWS SDK v2.

I just launched this documentation site to make it easier to get started, but if you want to check out the code or the project structure, the repo is here: https://github.com/elC0mpa/aws-doctor

I'd love to hear your feedback on:

1 - What other "zombie" resources do you constantly find in your accounts? (I'm looking to add more checks).

2 - What new features you think might add value to the tool. I am thinking about exporting PDF reports

3 - Any feedback on the CLI design/UX.

Thanks!
by jackwhetren5 | 2026-02-13 09:09:43+00:00
The fear of bunk beds often stems from low-quality metal frames. A solid wood double bunk bed utilises the natural dampening properties of pine to absorb movement. This means when the bottom sleeper turns over, the top sleeper isn't disturbed. It provides a level of stillness that is only achievable through high-quality timber and expert assembly.
by muragekibicho | 2026-02-13 09:09:48+00:00
I ran a moderately large opensource service and my chronic back pain was cured the day I stopped maintaining the project.

Working for free is not fun. Having a paid offering with a free community version is not fun. Ultimately, dealing with people who don't pay for your product is not fun. I learnt this the hard way and I guess the MinIO team learnt this as well.
by 0xUndefined | 2026-02-13 09:10:57+00:00
Had great experience with garage for an easy to setup distributed s3 cluster for home lab use (connecting a bunch of labs run by friends in a shared cluster via tailscale/headscale). They offer a "eventual consistency" mode (consistency_mode = dangerous is the setting, so perhaps don't use it for your 7-nines SaaS offering) where your local s3 node will happily accept (and quickly process) requests and it will then duplicate it to other servers later.

Overall great philosophy (target at self-hosting / independence) and clear and easy maintenance, not doing anything fancy, easy to understand architecture and design / operation instructions.
by mrob | 2026-02-13 09:10:59+00:00
Consider weather prediction. Fluid dynamics are chaotic, so that's a good example of something where no amount of compute is sufficient in the general case. An ASI, not being dumb, will of course immediately recognize this, and realize it is has to solve for the degenerate case. It therefore implements the much easier sub-goal of removing the atmosphere. Humans will naturally object to this if they find out, so it logically proceeds with the sub-sub-goal of killing all humans. What's the weather next month? Just a moment, releasing autonomous murder drone swarm...
Show HN: Machine-readable CV portfolio (llms.txt, capabilities.json)
by vassilbek | 2026-02-13 09:11:31+00:00
I rebuilt my CV site as a recruiter/AI-friendly portfolio:

One-page profile + downloadable CV
3 case studies (including private-sector SaaS/e-commerce launch)
AI-friendly article briefs (summary + source links)
llms.txt, capabilities.json, sitemap.xml, robots.txt, JSON-LD
Live: https://vassiliylakhonin.github.io/
Repo: https://github.com/vassiliylakhonin/vassiliylakhonin.github....

I’m testing what actually improves discoverability and credibility for program/PMO/compliance roles.
Feedback welcome: what should I remove, and what signal is still missing?
by p-e-w | 2026-02-13 09:11:50+00:00
The failure of self-driving cars has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with regulation. It’s been demonstrated time and again that statistically, self-driving cars are safer than human-driven cars.[1]

Autonomous driving is a solved problem. The fact that self-driving cars are not permitted on most of the world’s roads is 100% the fault of regulators and those who vote for them.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48526-4
by rafaelmn | 2026-02-13 09:13:28+00:00
The point is that if you need performance you need to drop below tracing GC, and depending on your use-case, if that's the majority of your code it makes sense to use a language that's built for that kind of programming (zero cost abstractions). Writing C# that doesn't allocate is like wearing a straightjacket and the language doesn't help you much with manual memory management. Linters kind of make it more manageable but it's still a PITA. It's better than Java for sure in that regard, and it's excellent that you have the option for hot paths.
by ZPrimed | 2026-02-13 09:14:21+00:00
yeah, my parents' US home (which was originally my grandmother's) in the eastern half of the US has plaster-on-drywall construction.

it is a bitch and a half for hanging anything (just like plaster on lath), plus it screws up wifi.

Pro tip for finding a stud, if you have access to the bare floor -- stick a drywalling knife / spatula under the bottom trim and poke. you can find the studs that way, and then measure off since 16" is pretty common. Measuring off the edge of an electrical box can work too, but you have to figure out what side of the stud the box is on...
by tiew9Vii | 2026-02-13 09:14:34+00:00
Speaking of payment terminals.

Payment terminals used to have good UX, they all clearly showed you the price when paying. Tills had displays with the price facing the customer which were clearly visible.

Now traditional POS terminals have been replaced with tap and go devices by the latest fintech, non of them show the price to the customer by design. Instead you tap a small puck and you hope the price charged is the one asked only to find a transaction fee on top when later check your balance.

It's a deliberate design choice to withhold showing the price on these devices. It's cheap to add a small LCD panel to them, the technology previously existed and still exists however the choice have been made not to.
by voidUpdate | 2026-02-13 09:14:50+00:00
This reminds me a lot of a show I'm currently watching called Pantheon, where a company has been able to scan the entirety of someone's brain (killing them in the process), and fully emulate it via computer. There is a decent amount of "Is an uploaded intelligence the same as the original person?" and "is it moral to do this?" in the show, and I'm been finding it very interesting. Would recommend. Though the hacking scenes are half "oh that's clever" and half "what were you smoking when you wrote this?"
by axegon_ | 2026-02-13 09:15:55+00:00
We all saw that coming. For quite some time they have been all but transparent or open, vigorously removing even mild criticism towards any decisions they were making from github with no further explanation, locking comments, etc. No one that's been following the development and has been somewhat reliant on min.io is surprised. Personally the moment I saw the "maintenance" mode, I rushed to switch to garage. I have a few features I need to pack in a PR ready but I haven't had time to get to that. I should probably prioritize that.
by Aromasin | 2026-02-13 09:16:04+00:00
It's a British word for someone or something that's ugly, dirty or unpleasant. Generally it was used to be derogatory about women - ie. "she's minging mate". I believe it originally came from the Scots, where the word 'ming' comes from the old Scottish English word for 'bad smell' or 'human excrement'. It was in wide spread use in the South of the UK while I was growing up.

See here for background: https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/...
by echelon | 2026-02-13 09:16:33+00:00
> Attempting to copy the human brain or human consciousness is one of the biggest mistakes that can be made in the scientific field.

This will be cool, and nobody will be able to stop it anyway.

We're all part of a resim right now for all we know. Our operators might be orbiting Gaia-BH3, harvesting the energy while living a billion lives per orbit.

Perhaps they embody you. Perhaps you're an NPC. Perhaps this history sim will jump the shark and turn into a zombie hellpacalypse simulator at any moment.

You'll have no authority to stop the future from reversing the light cone, replicating you with fidelity down to neurotransmitter flux, and doing whatever they want with you.

We have no ability to stop this. Bytes don't have rights. Especially if it's just sampling the past.

We're just bugs, as the literature meme says.

Speaking of bugs, at least we're not having eggs laid inside our carapaces. Unless the future decides that's our fate for today's resim. I'm just hoping to continue enjoying this chai I'm sipping. If this is real, anyway.
by gambiting | 2026-02-13 09:17:29+00:00
Just a quick reminder that in the UK these websites are purely informative in nature and are not actual legislation - they are meant to summarise to the public the nature of the laws but they are not laws themselves. Another good example is the .gov website that says ebikes can have a maximum power output of 250W, while in reality the legislation around ebikes(pedelecs) says the average output measured as described in the relevant industry measuring standard over a period of 30 minutes has to average out to 250W, maximum peak output is actually unlimited. It's an example of authors of the website trying to simplify it a little bit too much so the website isn't 20 pages long. I'm not saying this page you linked is wrong - just that everything you read on there has to be taken through the lens of "this isn't actual legislative text, it's a simplified summary".

>>(for example it will not be appropriate to share any recordings on social media sites)

Again, that's not what the legislation itself says and it's not so black and white. Posting a video from your own driveway of you parking your car would be perfectly legal even if taken from your own CCTV system. Posting a video of a postie that comes to your door every day for no reason other than to identify them would be not.
by kakacik | 2026-02-13 09:18:35+00:00
We talk about video here with requirement to have as many FPS as possible, not static pics from camera with huge sensor and lenses, fixed on tripod like in your link. Try making a night video of the same scene with that same camera, it will be grainy useless crap that any newish cheap phone can triumph easily.

Actually most real cameras had/have subpar videos to normal phones. Small volumes so hard to develop good optimizations in small teams, sensors optimized to the max for still photos. That market is basically slowly dying (I stopped using my full frame too the day my S22 ultra phone came despite lower quality of photos, tried taking it on trips few times but it mostly stayed in the backpack).

Its better now regarding video quality, but if you say travel to exotic places, more than 95% of the folks have phone only. Even those with cameras rarely pull them out unless its proper photo safari.
by 7777332215 | 2026-02-13 09:19:48+00:00
Generally organic life has the tendency to want to endlessly expand to the best of it's abilities. It seems more reasonable that life which is the product of life that behaves that way, would behave in a similar fashion.

I cannot conceive of a way that any form of healthy life, does not want to expand it's resources to improve future outcomes, especially one that is maximally optimized for thinking. This would also assume the physical embodiments of this artificial life can interact and work with each other.

What else is there to do, simulate positive emotions and feelings?
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-13 09:19:59+00:00
> Speed cameras are different.

So basically your entire argument revolves around the government pinky-promising that it won't use the data from speed cameras to track innocent citizens. Because when the network is dense enough, you can tell who went exactly when and where. This isn't any different from Amazon pinky-promising that it will only use data to improve customer experience.

The bigger point I'm making is that mass-surveilance technology does have benefits to the society, and any absolutist "but but but my privacy" who fails to acknowledge them is doomed to lose the debate.
by Markoff | 2026-02-13 09:21:50+00:00
For X-Files fans who might be unfamiliar with the reboot, the reboot has actually one episode dedicated to this - S11E07 - Rm9sbG93ZXJz, Mulder/Scully don't want to tip the robotic self-service and are punished for it.

Available to watch here:
https://www.tvseries.video/series/the-x-files/season-11-epis...
Ask HN: Is there a no-LLM license yet?
by ahub | 2026-02-13 09:22:42+00:00
I'd like to keep sharing code online but would like to limit it's usage to prevent LLM training and usage on it. I've seen license

I can't be the only one looking for such a license, but I fail to find one. Do you know of any existing license, jurisprudence, or group working on redacting such a license?

I know licenses exists preventing the use of code in armament or other specific sectors, so surely there is a legal way to prevent it.
Show HN: Enunciate – Paste a speech script, find the words you'll mispronounce
by eventual_consis | 2026-02-13 09:22:46+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Enunciate because I kept stumbling over words like "epitome" (ih-PIT-uh-mee) and "unequivocal" (un-ih-KWIV-uh-kul) during presentations. I’d rehearse my delivery, but not the specific words most likely to trip me up, and looking up pronunciations mid-rehearsal broke my flow. I couldn’t find a simple script focused tool for this, so I built one.

Enunciate lets you paste a speech or presentation script and automatically highlights words you're likely to mispronounce. Click any flagged word to hear it spoken and see its phonetic spelling. Presentation mode is designed for recordings and live demos.

How it works:
- Paste your script (handles most rich text from Google Docs/Word)
- Uses a curated list of commonly mispronounced words (~350)
- Scores words based on patterns that tend to cause mistakes (silent letters, uncommon spellings, rare words, length)
- Click a word to hear pronunciation + see phonetics (IPA or simplified respelling)
- Presentation mode shows inline pronunciations

Technical details:
- No custom backend — scripts are analyzed locally in the browser
- Individual words are sent to dictionaryapi.dev to fetch pronunciation data
- Built with React + Vite + Tailwind

I mainly built this for rehearsing talks, interviews, lectures and demos without breaking flow to Google pronunciations. Presentation mode is useful for creators as well (recording for youtube/podcasts).

Would love feedback, especially from anyone who does public speaking regularly.
by jcattle | 2026-02-13 09:23:04+00:00
AI ignored a contributing guideline that tries to foster human contribution and community.

PR was rejected because of this. Agent then threw a fit.

Now. The only way your defense of the AI behaviour and the condemnation of the human behaviour here makes sense, is if (1) you believe that in the future humans and healthy open source communities will not be necessary for the advancement of software ecosystems (2) you believe that at this moment humans are not necessary to advance the matplotlib library.

The maintainers of matplotlib do not think that this is/will be the case. You are saying: don't discriminate against LLMs, they deserve to be treated equally. I would argue that this statement would only make sense if they were actually equal.

But let's go with it and treat the LLM as an equal. If that is their reaction to a rejection of a small PR, going into a full smear campaign and firing on all cannons, instead of searching more personal and discrete solutions, then I would argue that it was the right choice to not want such a drama queen as a contributor.