MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pyrale | 2026-02-17 07:29:46+00:00
> The instrument remained in the French court until the French Revolution, after which the basso fell out of favor and the “King” was “drastically reduced in size” through an alteration process that “stood at the forefront of musical instrument development during the last quarter of the 18th century

I had to process that sentence a couple of times to understand that the process the author was talking about wasn't the guillotine.
by efreak | 2026-02-17 07:30:31+00:00
Microscopic is unnecessary. Tessellation is already used in space and medical devices (not mentioned in this article: it's used in devices like stents). The specific fold being used here is named after an astrophysicist and has already been used in space.

> a simple piece of paper, folded into a Miura-ori origami pattern, could hold 10,000 times its own weight

> Wu was especially intrigued by the Miura-ori fold, named after its inventor, the Japanese astrophysicist Koryo Miura. Famed for its use in aeronautical engineering, the fold has been leveraged to make solar panels for spacecraft and satellites. One of its earliest space applications was in Japan’s Space Flyer Unit, a satellite launched in 1995.
by digitalPhonix | 2026-02-17 07:31:37+00:00
There's a big difference between utility classes which are shorthand for inline styles (random example from Tailwind's site where every single class is a one-to-one mapping with a single style override.):

class="ml-3 hidden rounded-lg bg-gray-100 px-2 py-0.5 text-xs/6 font-semibold whitespace-nowrap text-gray-700 lg:block dark:bg-gray-400/15 dark:text-gray-300"

and semantic names which use the CSS cascade:

class="main-content subheading"

Calling that a shorthand for inline styles is just being obtuse.
by hurios | 2026-02-17 07:32:05+00:00
Hey, that's an interesting project. If you're looking to host or share the Epstein Files using Gemini, you might want to ensure that your Gemini server is set up correctly. A popular choice for a Gemini server is `Agate`, which is lightweight and easy to configure. You can check out the [official Agate documentation](https://github.com/mbrubeck/agate) for setup instructions.

If you're not familiar with Gemini, it's a protocol that aims for simplicity and privacy, sitting somewhere between Gopher and HTTP. Make sure to keep your server secure, especially if you're dealing with sensitive information.
by Pay08 | 2026-02-17 07:32:40+00:00
You're a little off on the history. Zionism as a political movement (as opposed to the cultural idea which has existed for 3000 or so years) dates back to the late 18th century, as one of the responses to both antisemitism and the emerging nationalist ideas in Europe. The deciding philosophy in this case is the idea that antisemitism cannot be fought. This was originally a fringe left-wing idea, with the response being to stop being Jews (the Reform branch was borne out of this and is the reason many Jews, including me, still dislike it, even if it is a bit unfair). After the Holocaust, however, this idea transformed from a left-wing one to a right-wing one, where the solution became to take up arms and defend ourselves from those who would wish to kill us. I don't know about Jabrotinsky but your claim on Herzl is very hotly debated[0]. Not that I imagine many Arabs can read German. The claim also heavily erases Jewish presence in the Levant.

[0] https://tikvah.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Hazony-Did-Her...
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-17 07:32:53+00:00
I could maybe be more amenable to considering his opinion if his product wasn't designed to elicit this kind of behavior in users. Whether 16 hours specifically is the norm or just an extreme outlier, it is still the desired outcome of every decision that goes into engineering and building Instagram.

eating 20 twinkies a day isn't necessarily the norm but twinkies have been formulated to make you want to eat them.
by oivey | 2026-02-17 07:34:43+00:00
I don’t think this is true. Advancements in technology often make things possible that previously were not at any price. Engines, for example, are better than ever in part due to computer modeling that would have been impossible in the 70s. Same deal with aerodynamics, safety features, and a million other things. In the 70s, you couldn’t have those things for any price. They required decades of development in other sectors to open possibilities for automobiles.
by TZubiri | 2026-02-17 07:35:56+00:00
I guess 1.0001 ^2 is quadratic too, but note how it really only charges you 1.5x for more output tokens. Even if cost were quadratic with output length here, we are talking about a very small difference, nothing like the quadratic cost structure proposed by OP:

>Pop quiz: at what point in the context length of a coding agent are cached reads costing you half of the next API call? By 50,000 tokens, your conversation’s costs are probably being dominated by cache reads.

These are two different cost components, and the one you bring up is minor, OP is talking about a cost that at 1M output tokens, would cause the cost to be 20x per token. You are talking about a cost that at 1M output tokens would cost 1.5x, different things.

The first is an imperfection of the API encapsulation, the latter may be a natural cost phenomenon related to the internals of the state of the state of the art algorithms
Show HN: Decision OS – A framework to evaluate job offer risk (not just salary)
by cosmok | 2026-02-17 07:37:01+00:00
Hello HN,

A few days ago I shared my "Should I Quit?" calculator. The most common feedback was: "Okay, I should quit, but how do I know the next thing isn't worse?"

So I built Part 2: The Offer Evaluator.

Most offer comparison tools just look at Total Comp or commute time. I wanted to model the structural risks of a career move using a weighted decision matrix.

The Methodology:
The "Decision OS" compares three states: Current Role vs. New Offer vs. The Market (Keep Searching). Instead of just looking at cash, it scores them on:

Reversibility: If this role is a catastrophe, how hard is market re-entry? (High reversibility = lower risk).

Sustainability: Calculated based on the gap between your current burnout levels and the new role's expected operational tempo.

Downside Safety: Modeling the stability of the new company's runway vs. your current role.

It produces a PDF "Dossier" that breaks down these variables so you can see the trade-offs clearly.

I’m curious if you think "Reversibility" should be weighted higher than "Upside" in the current economic climate.

https://decide.trk7.app/intake/should-i-take-offer
Show HN: Free SEO Crawler and Analyze App
by aligundogdu | 2026-02-17 07:37:08+00:00
Most SEO tools hide basic features behind paywalls and expensive plans. I wanted something simple, honest, and actually useful. So I built Seodisias.

It crawls your website, finds technical SEO issues, and clearly shows what needs to be fixed, without artificial limits or locked features. You run it on your own computer and keep full control of your data.

Seodisias is for developers, marketers, and site owners who want clear SEO insights without subscriptions, noise, or tricks.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-17 07:37:23+00:00
If they build the new fabs and AI collapses then they still got all the AI companies' money because they prepaid. The current market price of chips is then going to crash, but that's what happens when AI collapses regardless. Might as well sell them five years worth of chips rather than two years worth of chips before the cash cow dries up.

Meanwhile, the fab companies want to think about what happens if AI collapses, but the AI companies don't. What do they care if they get screwed on a contract the day after they go bankrupt regardless? So offer them a contract where they get screwed if they go bankrupt, e.g. prohibit them from using any of the hardware for anything but AI for five years. Then the hardware is locked into AI stuff regardless of whether AI dries up and you can still go sell the rest of the chips that aren't to PC OEMs etc.
by pamelafox | 2026-02-17 07:38:36+00:00
So true! I've also setup automated evaluations using the GitHub Copilot SDK so that I can re-run the same prompt and measure results. I only use that when I want even more confidence, and typically when I want to more precisely compare models. I do find that the results have been fairly similar across runs for the same model/prompt/settings, even though we cannot set seed for most models/agents.
by drdeca | 2026-02-17 07:40:00+00:00
Your concept of “explains” seems like nonsense to me.

“what’s the mechanism?”? “[…] but that doesn't tell you what it is. It just tells you how it behaves […]”? A thing is what it does. C.f. the Yoneda lemma.

Again, your complaints sound like dissatisfaction with the fact that the world doesn’t run on stuff that fundamentally resembles substances we have everyday familiarity with.

You speak of “fitting the data”. I say “is compatible with the evidence”.

Also, asking where spacetime is, is a goofy question.

Oh, I see, you are expecting intrinsic curvature to derive from extrinsic curvature? There is no need for that. You could posit a larger (flat) space to allow that, but there is no reason to, as it would be indistinguishable from the simpler alternative.

“ We found out the universe is not amenable to our knowing it with any familiarity.” : You have to remember: it all adds up to normality. Any part of how the world works that seems “weird”, was already like that before you learned of it, and is, in fact, normal.

When I said “take it up with God”, that wasn’t just a figure of speech. Isiah 55:8-9 : “ “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,”
declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

God’s thoughts, God’s designs, are greater than our own. If how the universe functions offends our sensibilities, it is our sensibilities that need to change.

At the same time, Philippians 4:8 : “ Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.”

You say “ All they'll give us are ways to make better tools.” , but, better tools? This is certainly not my motivation! My motivation is to know truth! And, there is much that is both lovely and true in what you dismiss as “models that fit the data”.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-17 07:40:08+00:00
> Good doesn't mean perfect. it doesn't mean flawless.

"Good" means "I can trust it to give me code that is at least as good as what a moderately skilled human would produce". They still aren't there, even after years of development. They still regularly give you code that doesn't follow the correct logic, or which isn't even syntactically valid. They are not good, or even remotely good.
by whilenot-dev | 2026-02-17 07:40:20+00:00
I'd call every enjoyment that isn't practiced as a ritual an addiction, and healthy rituals should not take up more than a fraction of the available time.

With 16 hours of daily use (and 8 hours of sleep per day) I wouldn't contrast the batched consumption here on an hours/day-basis, but on a days/year-basis, like going on a trip, a festival etc. Since that basically results in all the days available each year here, it isn't really a practiced ritual anymore, but a complete lifestyle.
by Frieren | 2026-02-17 07:40:50+00:00
> "I'm sure I've said that I've been addicted to a Netflix show when I binged it really late one night, but I don't think it's the same thing as clinical addiction."

Tobacco defense. He is defending himself in a trial, is a very biased opinion.

> Familial links to lung cancer manifestation first appeared in the literature in the 1960s when siblings were found to have an increase in lung cancer mortality. ... The first published piece of literature attributing cigarette smoking to the growing incidence of lung cancer was in 1912 ... Tobacco companies enlisted the medical and nursing professions to promote the safety of their products in their advertising materials

Stop listening to billionaires and CEOs that profit the most from the damage that their business do to society. They lie for money, as simple as that.
by vrighter | 2026-02-17 07:40:54+00:00
Because how else can they make someone depend on them after the sell?

I see this also with QR codes. I see tons in for, example, restaurants which contain a link to some private company which automatically redirects to the restaurant's own page. They can get it for free if they just put their own url in the qr code directly (if they knew it was possible, of course. They're nontechnical). But then the other company keeps charging you money just to serve pointless 301s
by uecker | 2026-02-17 07:41:43+00:00
Also what I like about C is that is has mature tooling, very portable with multiple implementations, and that is is very stable. I would not use a language for any serious project hat does not offer all this.

Honestly, I do not think that the problem is C is o big that one needs to jump ship. There are real issues, yes, but there are also plenty of good tools and strategies to deal with UB, it is not really an issue for me.
by tsimionescu | 2026-02-17 07:41:46+00:00
While I don't know if this applies to AI usage, but actual gambling addicts most certainly do not shop around for the best possible rewards: they stick more or less to the place they got addicted at initially. Not to mention, there's plenty of people addicted to "casinos" that give 0 monetary rewards, such as Candy Crush or Farmville back in the day and Genshin Impact or other gacha games today.

So, if there's a way to get people addicted to AI conversations, that's an excellent way to make money even if you are way behind your competitors, as addicted buyers are much more loyal that other clients.
by hulitu | 2026-02-17 07:43:41+00:00
Oh, you will underestand. When, besides your bank, half of the planet will know about your shopping habits.

The device called "Smartphone" is only used to collect every possible detail about your life. The smart thing on a "Smartphone" is that, besides your bank, a lot of other "vendors" have access (not only) to your financial information.
by armcat | 2026-02-17 07:44:34+00:00
Incredibly I didn't do anything, I just told codex to use playwright cli, told it what to check (in plain English), and it did its thing. Looking at its log I can see that it was "playing" the game and defining its own test conditions, such as if the player/NPC is *not* on one of the "collidable" tiles, if the NPC is "going over the edge" of a collidable area, if it's facing the wrong way, etc. Sometimes it found bugs, e.g. it was testing for gravity checks and then it found that one of the movements was not working correctly and it went ahead and fixed it.

So essentially it uses CLI to read all the x,y coordinates, speed, timing, it took screenshots, and combined those together.

My learning from this is - just let the agent do it. Actually trying to interfere with specific conditions and checks lowers the agent's performance. Simply give it a guide.
by conductr | 2026-02-17 07:44:36+00:00
Tbf the brick industry helped indirectly and it just happened to be super helpful. They didn’t perform a mass mining of user data across the whole country or a large region. They had very little data to go off other than someone’s past memory of the material. I’m Facebook would have helped in that way too if it was able to.

However, this is exactly how I’d have hoped Facebook would have responded without some sort of court order for data, they shouldn’t be mining everything at the mere request for help by a law enforcement agency. I get this topic is one where you’d wish there was an exception but exceptions are slippery slopes.
by Someone | 2026-02-17 07:44:52+00:00
> not least when capturing numbers as the numeric key pad has Enter not Tab.

And “Enter” isn’t “Return”.

I don’t know how the PC and PC software did it, but the Mac, when it got a numeric keypad, discriminated between return (on the alphanumeric keyboard) and enter (on the keypad), and software did discriminate between the two.
by danaris | 2026-02-17 07:44:57+00:00
> If you improve the hiring process, the size of the hiring panel will be reduced from 20 people to 5, which means there's 75% chance you'll be fired.

Wait, what?

That only makes sense if the hiring panel is made up exclusively of people whose job is nothing but hiring.

That has never been the case anywhere I have worked or seen.
by voxelghost | 2026-02-17 07:45:32+00:00
What are you trying to achieve, none of those characters are printable, and definetly not going to show up on the web.

for x in range(0x0,0x20): print(f'({chr(x)})', end =' ')
(0|) (1|) (2|) (3|) (4|) (5|) (6|) (7|) (8) (9| ) (10|
) (11|
) (12|
) (14|) (15|) (16|) (17|) (18|) (19|) (20|) (21|) (22|) (23|) (24|) (25|) (26|␦) (27|8|) (29|) (30|) (31|)
by Doxin | 2026-02-17 07:47:25+00:00
No, because the former definition is still something you can rely on given a specific compiler and a specific machine. Hell a bunch of UB was pretty much universal anyway. Compilers would usually still emit sensible code for UB.

UB just ment "the spec doesn't define what happens". It didn't use to mean "the compiler can just decide to do any wild thing if your program touches UB anywhere at anytime". Hell, with the modern definition UB can aparantly time travel. you don't even need to execute UB code for it to start doing weird shit in some cases.

UB went from "whatever happens when your compiler/hardware runs this is what happens" to "Once a program contains UB the compiler doesn't need to conform to the rest of the spec anymore."
by brabel | 2026-02-17 07:47:59+00:00
It’s not a myth. What convinced you that there is a myth?? Almost everyone seems to agree it’s a real thing from what I see online. I recommend you watch this video by YouTube channel @Elephantintheroom https://youtu.be/Gvj8hG2UvbA?si=qz_7aC4jYq2CBfJl

Apparently it’s much worse than what we see around us. Women literally fall in love with monsters.
Show HN: Game Engine in Julia with 400KB Exports (Vs Unity's 200MB)
by MrNova | 2026-02-17 07:49:01+00:00
Hi HN! Built a code-first game engine called OpenReality. No visual editor - you write games in pure code.
features:
- Pure code workflow
- 400KB WASM exports (Unity: 200MB+)
- Free and open source
- full 3D rendering
- multiple rendering backends

github: https://github.com/sinisterMage/Open-Reality
Happy to answer questions about the tech or implementation!
by brontosaurusrex | 2026-02-17 07:49:24+00:00
Very small deepseek:r1 (5GB) does 'feel' ambiguity

> In many car washes, you drive up to the bay, but 50 meters is extremely close; it might be that the car is already at the entrance or something.
> It doesn’t specify that they must use the car wash; it just mentions that the car wash is 50 meters away, but they could wash the car elsewhere.

but it doesn't seem to figure out that car and human are in the same location. Quite funny imho https://brontosaurusrex.github.io/2026/02/17/Should-I-walk-o...
by argoeris | 2026-02-17 07:49:35+00:00
What exactly is the data correlation problem?

It’s when debugging (understanding what went wrong) takes longer than fixing because the information is in a bunch of different places: Sentry, Stripe, LogRocket and several APM tools.

So engineers spend hours playing detective: copying request IDs between tools, matching timestamps, manually piecing together what happened.

Most teams lose hundreds of engineering hours per month to correlation tax. Time that could be spent shipping features instead of hunting for information.
by Joker_vD | 2026-02-17 07:49:53+00:00
The proposals for Boring C or "Friendly Dialect of C" or whatever has been around for a while. None went beyond the early design stages because, it turns out, no two experienced C programmers could agree on what parts of C are reasonable/unreasonable (and should be kept/left out), see [0] for the first-hand recount.

[0] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1287
by xyzsparetimexyz | 2026-02-17 07:49:57+00:00
> Start with a conversation, and explore the problem space with the LLM. The idea here is to gather options and ideas. Once you have a clear vision of what you want to build, ask for a detailed specification. Iterate on the spec until you understand it fully and are happy with it.

Maybe its just the specific language being used here but I really hate talking to these things. They inject way too much personality into things, especially Claude and are still too sychophantic and could lead you down a wrong path. I'd much rather just give them instructions.
by kergonath | 2026-02-17 07:50:11+00:00
Why would they not be? A brain and a computer are completely different things. They don’t do the same thing and they don’t work the same way at all.

"Artificial neuron" was a useful metaphor at the beginning, but they really are a very simplified model based on what some people understood of neurology back then. They are not that useful to get insights into how actual neurons work.
Show HN: Toice – Local voice typing for Linux using Whisper
by zherotz | 2026-02-17 07:50:45+00:00
I built this because existing voice typing solutions either don't work well on Linux or send your audio to the cloud.

Toice is simple: press a hotkey, speak, and paste the transcribed text anywhere. It uses Whisper models locally (you choose the size during setup).

Works system-wide across all applications. English only for now.
by Klaster_1 | 2026-02-17 07:50:55+00:00
I think it would be really cool to have a Windows 98 running in browser and an agent to proxy all interaction to real desktop and web:

* It proxies web sites and optinally modifies them to look era-appropriate.

* It can generate missing native apps as shims to apps on your host or web sites. Like, cmd that's actually a pwsh. Or VSCode that looks like Borland C++ Builder.

* Streaming media like Bandcamp or Spotify inside a real WinAmp 2.x.
by ksaj | 2026-02-17 07:51:03+00:00
I'm just one guy, but I used Fiverr freelance services three times within the past year.

So I'm not making anyone rich. But I assume I'm not the only person who finds it all very useful.

There are some niches that I think they are trying to be "too" professional with (meaning, some tack on fees for things that are a bit too far beyond the person's actual professional level, or the gig purpose itself). But you can simply bypass those users anyway.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-17 07:52:09+00:00
There's a lot of different stuff there, looks like Data Set 10 does include some MOV's.

Randomly looked at a couple.

One short looked like some of his people leaving the dock for a boat ride. Didn't look like South Florida from the hilliness, maybe on his private island?

This one is two hours of him talking into a webcam, I didn't watch much or listen to the audio. He could be talking to various people, you might be able to hear them too? Looks like multiple sessions from the same camera angle, he has more than one change of clothes:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01600...

Excellent work, this is some of the most patriotic and worthwhile "hacking" I've seen in a while. The kind a free country always needs but shouldn't be necessary.

It might help if the file sizes could be listed in your text file as well.