MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Tycho87 | 2026-02-26 10:13:03+00:00
Rerun is an open-source viewer for time-series and multimodal data used in robotics and physical AI (images, point clouds, tensors, transforms, etc.).

In 0.30, you can plot arbitrary scalar data directly in time series views — floats, ints, uints, bools, including nested Arrow data — even without predefined semantics.

This release also introduces a new extension model: you can register custom visualizers directly into existing 2D/3D/Map views, define your own archetypes, and use fully custom shaders — without forking the Viewer. That means domain-specific GPU renderers (e.g., height fields, cost maps, learned fields) can live inside the standard app.

The Viewer now supports on-demand streaming when connected to a Rerun server or Rerun Cloud, fetching only what you’re viewing and evicting stale data as you scrub. This enables working with recordings larger than RAM — including in the web viewer beyond the 4 GiB Wasm limit.

Interested in feedback from people building robotics tooling, telemetry pipelines, or large-scale visualization systems.
by dakolli | 2026-02-26 10:13:44+00:00
Well I'm glad you haven't had any major side effects, just know you're playing Russian roulette with your sanity, and the way you perceive reality.. I'm not exaggerating here, give it a decade..or don't

And you're kind of confirming my original thesis, that its a class of drugs created by the ruling class for the working class to make the best workers for capital/ruling class, which it seems to have accomplished that in your case...

Among 1,374 case subjects and 2,748 control subjects, the odds of psychosis and mania were increased for individuals with past-month prescription amphetamine use compared with no use (adjusted odds ratio=2.68, 95% CI=1.90–3.77). A dose-response relationship was observed; high doses of amphetamines (>30 mg dextroamphetamine equivalents) were associated with 5.28-fold increased odds of psychosis or mania

https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20230329
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-26 10:15:04+00:00
It hasn't really changed, the only thing that's truly different is what they publish. But the Snowden leaks confirmed what many people already suspected - the American agencies have silent, backdoor access to all US based internet companies.

I don't know if it can be verified whether end-to-end encryption like Whatsapp and co claim to offer is actually safe. I suspect it isn't, but, I don't know enough.
by SLJ7 | 2026-02-26 10:15:19+00:00
That's a wide spectrum. Not understanding that gmail isn't email is well into "How do you not know this?" territory. Whereas only very specific users know about Bash and Emacs. I do often have that experience of needing to climb 47 levels upward to successfully explain something to someone. Right now I'm just intrigued by the fact that I can go out into my neighbourhood and nobody will know what 90% of these things are, yet I'm probably far from the only person on this forum who recognizes and has experience with the vast majority of that list.
by corford | 2026-02-26 10:15:50+00:00
>But you probably recoiled in horror reading that.

Not really. I laughed at your cartoonish notion of Europe (and the idea that the US way is somehow the only or most desirable goal).

For a more balanced understanding of US vs EU relative performance and QoL, this is a helpful, recent analysis: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-america-whos-rea...

If the EU just continues to slowly, deliberately continue on it's path towards tighter integrated capital markets, less reliance on US security, continuing energy build out and the growing of the EUR's share of global transactions; I think that will already be more than sufficient without the need for Europeans to "come home from their 30 year post cold war vacation." - whatever that means.
by bell-cot | 2026-02-26 10:16:00+00:00
"why is there not a law...?"

If you're just venting with friends, or trying to build cred as a moral philosopher, then yes, obviously there should be such a law.

Vs. if you're talking about cause and effect, in the real world... its kinda like how foxes never pass laws against foxes moonlighting as henhouse guards. Or somehow Officer Fox, Prosecutor Fox, and Judge Fox don't seem keen on enforcing that law.
Local-first desktop utility to migrate chats from ChatGPT to Gemini
by transferllm | 2026-02-26 10:16:14+00:00
I’ve built up a massive knowledge base inside ChatGPT. When I wanted to experiment with Gemini, I realized there was no easy way to move my data without manual copy-pasting or trusting a random 3rd-party web script with my private conversations. So, here's a native desktop application that handles the entire migration process locally. No servers, no data collection - just a bridge between LLMs that lives on your machine.
by ollybrinkman | 2026-02-26 10:16:32+00:00
Interesting to see budget enforcement paired with x402. We've been building in the same space — Apiosk (https://apiosk.com) approaches it from the server side: a gateway that enforces per-request x402 payments so API providers can monetize without accounts or keys.

Your budget SDK + Apiosk would be a natural combo — the agent has a spending ceiling (AgentBudget) and the APIs it calls use x402 for micropayments (Apiosk handles gateway/verification). Have you thought about hooks for x402-aware budget tracking where the ledger automatically records on-chain settlements?
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-26 10:17:10+00:00
It’s not though. Before the British gifted land to the Israelis they owned 7% of the land through land purchases and just ended up with 51% of the land after pressuring the British to leave with a series hotel and car bombs. So, yeah the Palestinians were victims and then about 750,000 of those people were forced from their homes into crowded ghettos Nazi style. All of that occurred irrespective of any armed conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians.
by panick21_ | 2026-02-26 10:17:24+00:00
On public transport this does not seem to be the case at all. Low floor buses, trams and trains are much, much more common in Europe. And bike lanes and better overall pedestrian infrastructure is much better.

So I really interested how you are getting to this 'wheelchair accessibility' is better in the US. I would love to see some data, and not just 'we have X more ramps', but actual people in wheelchair going into their experience.
by dakolli | 2026-02-26 10:17:59+00:00
stimulants help everyone focus if dosed correctly!! I never said that it doesn't have that effect. I'm just arguing its very bad for the brain, and it mostly just benefits your employer/future employer at the risk of you going literally insane. Its a tool for Empire/Capital. Its very common for Empires to dose their working class on stimulants to achieve certain goals. It may help you but you're also risk of getting amphetamine induced psychosis, which should void any potential gain for any reasonable person..
by servo_sausage | 2026-02-26 10:18:18+00:00
If there is a case for a smaller bus due to autonomy, there is a case for no bus at all.

Ultimately public transport that doesn't get its own infrastructure (lanes, rails, or tunnels), is just a economic compromise to move people for cheaper than a car... It's not better for the user in any way.

And if it does need special infrastructure to make sense, it gets harder and harder to justify at all once autonomy is in the mix.
by karmasimida | 2026-02-26 10:19:21+00:00
It would be an unpopular opinion but I am here to say it:

OpenAI has the best model, that is how they are going to compete.

Their chatbot business could be in trouble, but Gemini needs a LOT of work to make it better to use too.

Coding wise, it has become very competitive. They need to sell better and sell aggressively
by initramfs2 | 2026-02-26 10:19:35+00:00
Indeed. Also the usual criticism about education not being adequate training for the workforce bla bla is simply because education is not to train a worker in the first place. There's no way to train someone other than to let them do the damn job. Yes teaching mathematics and reading and writing is probably a prerequisite but how is Shakespeare relevant? It's just a confusion of two things: learning for the sake of learning, and learning for the sake of employability.

I'm not arguing for one or the other. I'm just saying that I would also hate it if university CS for example just became a web bootcamp to churn out as many code monkeys as fast as possible. There is a place for just vocational training, and there is another place for a more platonic kind of learning, and just sending everyone off to university and tying employability to a degree is really stupid.

Alas it can't be fixed now, because 1. For profit universities 2. HR needing a quick filter 3. States needing to standardize some kind of path for kids
by npunt | 2026-02-26 10:19:59+00:00
Yeah there’s balances to be struck. Tho I would push back a bit on the notion of great works being outdated. Think of them more as having survived the gauntlet of time, crushing generation after generation of newer writing with their undeniable superiority, emerging as the strongest and most adaptable ideas & stories that couldn’t be stopped even by the churn of centuries of change in language, culture, ideologies, wars and more.

Eg Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein will eat alive nearly anything written today, it accurately critiques a future it never saw like a laser beam cutting across time. Few if any works today possess such original and enduring foresight.

This is especially true as a generation of people are now getting deskilled by AI. Even if we have the writers capable of such feats, we likely lack the audience for those works because that requires a societal sophistication we may have lost. And so those works may never be adequately appreciated to let them ever break out of this little moment in time.
by yodsanklai | 2026-02-26 10:20:54+00:00
I don't think a big company can be on the side of anything, except making money, unless there's a majority owner. This is by design. If fighting the government is going to hurt the company more than not doing it they won't do it. The US government also has the possibility to blackmail people decision individually (like they do with European politicians or international court judges).
by JimDabell | 2026-02-26 10:21:28+00:00
> Current moderation tools just seem to focus on deletion and banning. Wouldn’t it be helpful to encourage productive discussion and teach people how to discuss and argue (in the debate sense) better?

Yes, but an awful lot of people aren’t interested in that.

I think a tool like this would be helpful for banning. LLMs are probably not reliable enough to make banning judgements themselves, but an LLM that pops up “Are you sure you want to post that? It seems to break these rules…” makes it very easy for human moderators to ban quickly and permanently. It provides incontrovertible evidence that the poster intended to break the rules but it still offers an escape hatch for when the LLM gets it wrong.
by Per_Bothner | 2026-02-26 10:22:34+00:00
Kawa predates Clojure by a decade. (Kawa work started 1996; Clojure's initial release was 2007.) Also, Clojure isn't really focused on high performance, while that has always been a priority for Kawa, which generates bytecode similar to Java, especially if you include suitable type annotations. (It is likely Clojure have have improved in this respect - they have a lot more people working on it.)
by nineteen999 | 2026-02-26 10:23:11+00:00
While I love Mitch's drumming and Noel's bass, can you imagine if Hendrix had worked with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce - both much more confident and strident players than the Experience's rythym section.

That would have blown the doors off of everything.

I don't think there was another as "out there" guitar player as Jimi until EVH came along - a little more controlled, but just as confident and chaotic. EVH was quite the systems engineer himself (variac, Floyd Rose later on etc)
by snovv_crash | 2026-02-26 10:23:23+00:00
Software that uses less RAM isn't necessarily worse, often RAM is wasted purely due to carelessness and because it didn't matter.

Your assertion that a world of lean software won't return is backwards looking; that was all driven by hardware being cheaper than developer effort.

If we now enter a world of AI-enhanced developer effort being cheaper than hardware, perhaps we can have lean efficient software again.
by gck1 | 2026-02-26 10:24:43+00:00
Every proprietary harness is just proprietary junk without ability to extend it without polluting context. This includes claude-code, gemini-cli, codex etc. They have tools which hardcode the behavior that is impossible to modify, they add tools you may not need that pollute context, they inject an entire textbook's worth of words into the system prompt which pollutes context, they provide zero observability into what the agent is doing when it's launching a subagent as one example.

They don't provide easy way to use multiple models from multiple providers for varying tasks. One model may be the best thing on earth at one thing, but fail miserably for another. Try orchestrating multiple agents from claude, gemini and codex in any of these proprietary boxes.

They also... suck at TUI UX. I don't know if it was fixed already, but claude code had flickering issue that was unresolved for more than a year.

You need to take a very good care of what goes into your context. A black box of proprietary harnesses is not it. Check out pi [1] for example, which is a very minimal harness with really nice extension system. The idea is that you start with barebones and add things that you need for your own goals.

claude-code HAS to have all these bells and whistles that pollute context to support larger audiences that can't tinker with it. If you have the ability to only pull in only what you need and extend things in a way that works for your workflow, you'll always get the best experience. And claude-code may never be that without making it complicated for the masses. OSS will always win here.

[1] https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono
by pona-a | 2026-02-26 10:24:51+00:00
I'm thinking of migrating to ExcaliDraw or Xournal++ next time I need a whiteboard.

The performative closing of public contributions citing the slop scare felt disingenuous from the start. You couldn't be bothered to implement _any_ mitigations that leave the community engaged with the project?

Writing a contributor karma bot, moving to a non-social or obscure git forge (most slop contributors are resume farming and GitHub is the only forge the HR cares about), newbie-unfriendly non-public workflows like git send-mail, or references from Discord... This isn't an AGI on the other side of the screen, planning the perfect strategy to infiltrate your project; it's a sub-script-kiddie trying to fill a portfolio with quick "contributions" doing the more annoying version of "fixing typos" in docs.
by kmm | 2026-02-26 10:24:58+00:00
That's correct, but it's pretty well-hidden because at first sight there is no term that's just the year modulo 7. That's because a Gregorian calendar cycle of 400 years is coincidentally an integer amount of weeks long, so after the term modulo 400 you don't need another correction anymore.

To recover the fact that 365 % 7 == 1 from the given formula, one can notice that the sum of the coefficients 5+4+6=15, which modulo 7 is 1.
by karmasimida | 2026-02-26 10:25:10+00:00
Same, I also have both subscriptions (100 Max and 200 Pro), and I am considering canceling MAX plan but would give it another month on watch.

The doomer sentiment is quite baffling to me, what trouble is OpenAI in? Definitely not after GPT 5.3. They have the model and they have the compute, people just don't realize it yet.

Might be I am in a twitter bubble, most people seem already team Codex
by lakma | 2026-02-26 10:25:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm the solo developer behind Baguno. I built this because I saw logistics and finance teams wasting hours manually copying data from messy PDF invoices into their ERPs.

The core premise is simple: you get a dedicated email address, forward your invoices to it, and the data is extracted, math-checked, and synced to your ledger (Zoho, QB, Xero) in under a minute.

The Architecture & Challenges:
Building a reliable extraction engine that handles everything from perfectly formatted SaaS receipts to messy, scanned freight bills was the hardest part.

Primary Engine: I'm using Azure Document Intelligence for the heavy lifting (great at complex table structures).

The Fallback: If Azure misses the grand total or fails on a complex layout, the backend automatically falls back to an OpenAI Vision model (gpt-4o-mini) to re-process the image and extract the missing fields.

Backend: Node.js, Express, Mongoose, Firebase Auth.

Security: Multi-tenant isolation in Google Cloud Storage ([org_id]/invoices/...).

We have a free tier (20 lifetime documents) if you want to test the extraction engine yourself. You can just sign up with Google Auth. I’d love to hear your feedback on the speed, accuracy, or any edge-case PDFs that break the parser!
Show HN: PyMOL-RS – Rust reimplementation of PyMOL with modern rendering
by zmactep | 2026-02-26 10:25:13+00:00
Well, it happened. After endless release candidates, we've finally made it to v0.1.0.

What's inside:

GPU-accelerated rendering with WebGPU shaders, shadows, and goodies like silhouette edges and a special soft-light mode

Core operations run up to 1000x faster than the original PyMOL. Surface generation that used to send you on a coffee run now finishes the moment you hit the button

Full PyMOL selection algebra support — 95+ keywords, boolean logic, distance/expansion operators, slash-macros

Distance, angle, and dihedral measurements, atom labels — everything you need for structural analysis

Python API — from pymol_rs import cmd and you're right at home

PDB, mmCIF, BinaryCIF, SDF/MOL, MOL2, XYZ, GRO — read and write, automatic format detection, transparent gzip decompression

Scenes, movies, ray tracing — all on the GPU

Kabsch superposition, CE alignment, RMSD, DSS, symmetry across all 230 space groups

Out of PyMOL's 798 original settings, some number of them actually work. Nobody knows exactly how many, but it's definitely in the hundreds. Plus we've added new settings that the original never had — like per-chain surface generation

13 independent crates — if you're writing Rust, you can use just the selection parser, the file readers, or the full GUI. No monolith
by solstice | 2026-02-26 10:26:30+00:00
After quickly googling, it seems that the plans do not go as far as they make them out to be. The things to be catalogued are only those relevant in the fight against money-laundering. That's hardly "full commie style inventory of every single item with any value".

Links (in German, unfortunately):
- https://dpa-factchecking.com/germany/240812-99-93247/
- https://www.money-coaching.de/politik-und-meinung/eu-vermoeg...
- https://creditanstalt.co.at/2025/10/08/vermoegensregister-in...
by rbanffy | 2026-02-26 10:26:39+00:00
> you should then create a bug report referencing the crash report

Reducing friction would be nice here - I don't remember encountering the crash log screen, but if you could file a bug report right from that screen, that'd be perfect. A lot of information can be pre-collected at that stage - precise version, build, OS, architecture, processor type, etc. All that'd be left is the "What I was trying to do", my e-mail, and a checkbox if I agree with the privacy policies and if I want to receive e-mail updates about this bug report.

> you can do your own build with debug symbols

It'd be great if the Document Foundation helped distros to offer libreoffice-*-debug packages for this case - if it's crashing for you, install the debug version and your crash logs will be a lot easier to read.
by close04 | 2026-02-26 10:27:17+00:00
This is the elephant in the room that most comments on this page miss. Office may be hard to replace, Teams maybe even harder, but the real pain comes when you touch identity and access management. The usual initial optimism that "yeah but [insert solution name here] does this, problem solved" dissolves very fast as you start going through the inventory of requirements for managing users, devices, authentication, etc.

It's not just the technical hurdle which maybe you'll whip your admins into finding workarounds (-keep praying that your admins don't leave because it will be painful to find replacements who understand and can maintain the spaghetti pasta monster your infra ended up being-). In overall non-technical organizations the user experience always ends up hobbled even just by asking people to keep track of multiple identities.

MS is still entrenched because they give a turnkey solution with Eeeeeverything™ and your CTO doesn't need to struggle with any uncertainty. SaaS made it so easy to just "outsource" everything to MS, they'll be responsible and accountable for operations, infra, security, processes, etc. Even less headache for your C-level people. See no evil, hear no evil, you pay MS to take the shit and your job is safe. If you throw a stone out the window you'll hit someone with general "MS administration" skills. And users are usually familiar with MS tools, Windows, Office, so they aren't bothered (you hear a lot of complaints about Teams on HN but not so much from normal users). So this covers the tech, the skills, and the UX.
by dakolli | 2026-02-26 10:27:23+00:00
I never said its the only factor, but its typical for Empires of the last 150 years to get their populations hooked on stimulants, whether this is outright intentional (probably), or a side effect of growing Empires is up for debate.

Do your school counselors in elementary school work with psychiatrists to get parents to get children hooked in 5th grade because they are a more active than other kids?
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2026-02-26 10:27:55+00:00
A thing I’ve learned about market cap in tech recently is that actually very little needs to get done on the core product. The momentum behind the brand is what carries the stock through time. The brand becomes its own compounding monetary instrument. Google had built a very very strong brand over the last 25 years or so. Only now is that starting to shift away from them. Because of that, I think we’ll start seeing them take more bold risks or they’ll be crushed by the weight of their own bureaucracy. This also tends to be the same reason startups can disrupt so swiftly.

An oversimplified version is this: So there are two core very critical components to the mid/late-phase tech megacorp strategy, you need to protect the core money printing product at all cost first and sustain that fiercely over a long period of time (decade+), then use any and all profits to find/fund the next cash cow, looking for optionality. While doing that, grow the market or consume a larger share of market. Google benefited from mainly the latter two and all while the internet blew up globally, funneling even more money into the machine.

It’s no secret that nearly every Google product that wasn’t search, lost them money. They were searching for the next big thing. They likely were some of the first to see AI as exactly that but moved too slowly to commercialize. Likely because of bureaucracy risk and also perhaps some sense of altruism in knowing the cataclysmic impacts AI could have. There have been plenty of former Google employees confirming this.

They also used to do things just to be cool, but those days have been long gone since Larry Page tapped out (and probably a few years before that, about a decade). Since then they’ve almost completely lost sight of what made them so successful that nobody even knows their vision or identity as a company today. These don’t correlate to market cap but they do silently lead to stagnation.

Their brand protects them from quite a lot but it’s not invincible.