MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cheschire | 2026-02-15 18:57:12+00:00
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels ... upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"

Well, except that you have debts like mortgages and car loans to pay off. And your kids need to participate in extra-curriculars so they can get into a good school, and those cost money. And theaters are out of fashion now, so you'll need to buy that 80" TV with the surround sound so you can have a theater at home. And your shows are now on 6 different streaming services so that'll cost a little extra each month. And life really is easier with AI, but they all have strengths and weaknesses so you'll probably want to pay for 2, if not 3 of them. And your fast fashion gets threadbare after 20 or 30 washes so you'll need to regularly order 3 or 4 replacement shirts so you can send back the 2 that don't fit quite right.

Anyways back to the gears and whee.... oh look a squirrel!
by dijit | 2026-02-15 18:57:47+00:00
textile waste, largely, is plastic waste.

Nearly all of the clothes you can buy contain a decent amount of plastic (elastane, polyester etc are just nice names for plastic).

in fact, I’ve been trying to buy plastic-free clothing for a few years (ever since micro-plastic was linked to diminished testosterone & fertility in men) I am finding it difficult, you often have to buy luxury and even then it’s no guarantee.

fast fashion is by far the worst offender though.
by altcunn | 2026-02-15 18:58:29+00:00
The "human-AI interaction cards" concept is one of the more interesting practical contributions here. As AI-assisted research scales, having a standardized way to disclose what was human vs. machine will matter a lot for academic integrity.

Also worth noting: the jump from IMO-level competition math to actual research isn't just about harder problems. Competition math has clean problem statements with known solutions. Research requires deciding what to work on, navigating incomplete literature, and tolerating dead ends. That they got Aletheia to solve 4 open problems from the Erdős conjectures database (even relatively accessible ones) is a meaningful step.

The inference-time scaling law extending beyond Olympiad problems is the technical result I'd like to see more detail on — particularly whether the scaling holds for problems where the search space is less structured.
by kshacker | 2026-02-15 18:58:45+00:00
What stops ExampleCo from asking for a receipt and limiting replacements only to legitimate channels? Or why is ExampleCo directly dealing with the consumer, and not Macys or Goodwill?

I suspect this will need to be a cultural change. If ExampleCo does it but not RandomCo, of course your reputation will suffer. But if the law is for all of EU, it gives everyone an equal footing.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-15 18:58:56+00:00
> Look at the changes from the conservative/MAGA movement, #metoo, and the George Floyd protests.

Which changes? metoo certainly didn't change much, the George Floyd protests also led to nothing, just look at how ICE has been executing US citizens in the last months. In 2025 alone, before Renee Good and Alex Pretti, ICE murdered 32 people with zero accountability [1].

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/...
by altcunn | 2026-02-15 18:58:58+00:00
The aria-first approach is underrated here. Most component libraries treat accessibility as an afterthought — you build your UI with divs and classes, then bolt on aria attributes later. Oat inverts this: write the semantic HTML with aria attributes, and the CSS reacts to the state. That's how it should work.

The practical benefit is that your HTML remains meaningful without the CSS loaded at all. Try disabling stylesheets on a typical React component library vs. this — the difference in readability is night and day.

The 18KB total size is notable too. For context, that's smaller than most hero images on a landing page. For internal tools, admin panels, or any project where you don't want to maintain a build pipeline just for UI, this hits a nice sweet spot between raw HTML and a full framework.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-15 18:59:04+00:00
The meaning of "inline" differs between C and C++.

Quote from the gcc manual:

"GCC implements three different semantics of declaring a function inline. One is available with -std=gnu89 or -fgnu89-inline or when gnu_inline attribute is present on all inline declarations, another when -std=c99, -std=gnu99 or an option for a later C version is used (without -fgnu89-inline), and the third is used when compiling C++."
Show HN: Nomousemode – keyboard window switcher for macOS
by ahalurooji | 2026-02-15 18:59:09+00:00
I built nomousemode to solve a specific problem. Every day I was losing focus switching between windows. Mission Control is slow, clicking the dock breaks flow, keyboard shortcuts aren't discoverable across different apps. The solution is simple: a keyboard-driven window switcher where you define memorable shortcuts for your windows. Hit your custom shortcut and jump directly to what you need. No mousing, no menus, just instant context switching. I've been using it for about 6 months and it genuinely changed how I work. Fewer interruptions, less RSI from mousing around, stay in flow state longer. The app is lightweight, works with any macOS app, setup takes maybe 5 minutes. No complex configuration needed.
by motbus3 | 2026-02-15 18:59:18+00:00
I have semi unlimited budget forAI tools. And doing it purely with Claude code or similar has been in effective.

The architecture is too simple or unmaintainable rubbish.
One can say that I don't need to care about that, but after few weeks of work, every small chance needs to read everything which quickly gets expensive to do anything.

Using human code and doing similar tasks is incredibly cheaper and more effective.

I run few simultaneous green field projects and I can evaluate basically any tool I want. And I will say that quality wise, all ones I tried are disappointing.
by altcunn | 2026-02-15 18:59:21+00:00
The $6.75/year VPS costing less than the domain is a great detail. The globe visualization really sells it — being able to watch attacks in real-time makes the problem visceral in a way that log files never do.

Interesting that you're seeing regional differences across your LA/London/Tokyo/Amsterdam instances. I'd bet the Tokyo server gets a noticeably different distribution of source IPs and credential patterns. Would be cool to see a comparison dashboard across all four.

Have you considered logging the client banners too? The SSH client version string bots send is often a fingerprint of the botnet toolkit they're using, which could add another layer to the visualization.
by Lanzaa | 2026-02-15 18:59:30+00:00
So, probably a dumb question from me, but why are we "all entitled to at least basic courtesy"? What is the "basic courtesy" that everyone has agreed to follow?

> this has nothing to do with open source or software; it's just common sense when dealing with people

Common sense is very different than entitlement. Back to the open source software point of view, your entitlement is described by the license. Basic courtesy, or even the opportunity to interact with anyone, is not included as a part of any open source license I remember. It isn't even a consideration for most [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_and_open-so...
by LUpath | 2026-02-15 19:00:16+00:00
Hello HN,

I spent the last 4 months building Lupath to solve "destination paralysis."

I realized that for many of us, the hardest part of a trip isn't the logistics—it's that initial gap where you know you need a break, but you have 20 browser tabs open trying to decide where to go. I wanted to build something that turns a "vibe" into a factual, bookable plan in under a minute.

The Tech: Most AI travel tools just ask an LLM to "hallucinate" a beach.
Lupath uses RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to ground the AI in a specific database of thousands of global ski resorts and beaches.

It works in 3 steps:

You select a vibe

The RAG engine retrieves real-world data points and matches them against your preferences.

It provides a curated list with direct booking links.

Why I built this:
Planning a trip should be exciting, not overwhelming. I found myself spending more time researching than actually dreaming about the destination. I'm currently bootstrapped and using this to learn more about improving recommendation accuracy in niche datasets.

I'd love to get the community's feedback on:

The recommendation logic—does it feel too generic or actually useful?

The UI/UX I’ve tried to keep it "barrier-free" (no login required)

Any "edge cases" where the AI fails to find a good match for your specific vibe.

I'll be here to answer any questions. Cheers!
by kderbyma | 2026-02-15 19:00:17+00:00
You sound like a dreadful psychologist if true. You clearly do not have empathy or understanding or tou have burned out and need a break. Your so assured in your antagonistic retorts that you are unraveling the very point of trust you staked to give your opinion social validation....You are lacking aelf awareness and it shows that clearly you are generalizing the diagnoses and possibily you just over diagnose narcissism because its easier?
by alexhans | 2026-02-15 19:00:55+00:00
I just shared this in HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47026263 to see if it's possible to scale the knowledge sharing and simple and good practices which keep people in control.

It may or may not address the practical examples you need but I'd been to hear your thoughts and maybe it's possible to come up with a more illustrative one.

I didn't go for bubblewrap or similar containers yet because I didn't want to lose a specific type of baseline newcomer yet (Economists who do some coding) but I will be adding to it with whatever most elegant approaches I can find that don't leak too much complexity for things like sandboxing, system testing, integration mocking (reverse proxying), Observing with Openteleletry or otherwise, presenting benchmarks, etc.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-15 19:01:18+00:00
> People changing size.

I was curious why I no longer was able to wear pants I wore in my 20s. I could not get them over my hips. It wasn't because I was getting fatter, my weight is about the same.

I was also intrigued by young men looking slim in the hips, and older men not.

So I looked it up.

Turns out that your hips grow wider with age. I'd never heard of this before! Though I did know one's ears got bigger.

Too bad my shoulders never get wider, and my height shrinks :-/

My feet have gotten considerably wider with age, too.
by altcunn | 2026-02-15 19:01:43+00:00
The thing that made Flash special wasn't the technology — it was the distribution model. A teenager with Flash MX could make something, upload it to Newgrounds, and have thousands of people playing it by the next day. No app store review, no deployment pipeline, no server infrastructure. Just a .swf file and a URL.

We've gained a lot since then in terms of what's technically possible in the browser, but we've lost that simplicity of creation-to-audience pipeline. The closest modern equivalent might be itch.io for games, but even that requires more technical overhead than dragging frames onto a Flash timeline.

200k preserved items is a staggering number. Each one represents someone who sat down and made something because the barrier was low enough that they could. That's the real loss when a platform dies — not just the content, but the ecosystem that made it easy to create.
by jorvi | 2026-02-15 19:01:50+00:00
> We even had customers write ragebait Reddit posts claiming we were unfairly denying warranties, people sending stories to popular newsletters and journalists, and other attempts to make us look bad for not honoring warranties on products

These days this is often the only recourse you have, because going the legal route you get stonewalled unless you are willing to spend serious money on pursuing a case. And it'll cost you gobs of time. An example is my mother buying new pants for 220 bucks from a reputable seller, the stitching starts to disintegrate after 7 months, and both the retailer and the manufacturer tell my mother to go pound sand.

So please do not portray customers trying to get their due as "ragebaiters".
by pan69 | 2026-02-15 19:01:55+00:00
>something I would ever release or need to share, just a local tool for me to use.

>This also got me thinking about open source might be dying.

Just because you can generate a wrapper app for a very specific use-case doesn't mean open source is dead or dying. As if open source was all just about people sharing their crappy specific use-case apps.

And software isn't getting weird. A part of the software development life cycle is being automated.
by dismalaf | 2026-02-15 19:02:05+00:00
Ugh sometimes I wish for an alternative universe in which Dreamcast had won over the other consoles of the day.

It was just awkwardly released, too soon after PS1 and N64. On one hand it was massively impressive for the time, on the other, most people's desire to buy another console was probably at a low and then PS2 and Xbox stole the show.

It probably also didn't help that Sega Genesis was a fiasco with all the weird add-ons.
by hkt | 2026-02-15 19:02:40+00:00
This is gorgeous. I hate frontend because of its sheer gratuity, and this is the kind of thing that might get me back into it. The only other contender for interactivity I'd consider is HTMX, and I'm going to boldly assume I'll be able to combine them without too much bother.

Bravo to the author, keep at it. I'll be recommending this to anyone who will listen.
by iambel0ved | 2026-02-15 19:03:12+00:00
As a Systems Architect, I've worked with various Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solutions, and I'm excited to see an open-source alternative like ShadowStrike. One key aspect to consider when building an EDR from scratch is the ability to collect and analyze telemetry data from endpoints. This includes process creation, network connections, file access, and other system calls. To achieve this, ShadowStrike could utilize a kernel-mode driver to intercept and log system calls, providing a robust dataset for
• threat
detection and incident response.
Additionally, implementing a cloud-based backend for data storage and analytics would enable scalable and efficient processing of the collected data, facilitating the detection of advanced threats.
by evanjrowley | 2026-02-15 19:03:15+00:00
Sounds interesting. There's one person in my family who is particularly good at this. We could all learn a lot from them if we had regular "family admin" parties.

I found the app and it's website. Links for reference:

https://www.pamfamilymanager.com/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pam-smart-family-planner/id673...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.mypam.app&h...
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-15 19:03:36+00:00
Whether one needs a custom frontier model or tuned model or an existing one depends on the task at hand. Custom tasks that are not covered by existing models will inevitably require a new frontier model independent of whether the business is a technology firm or not. An LLM or a basic vision model isn't suitable for all tasks. For example, imagine a model that outputs coherent architecturally sound designs for bridges or electrical systems that a mere rule-based system cannot output.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-15 19:03:57+00:00
If that were true, we wouldn't have companies overproducing and burning unsold products to protect profits on the next model.

Business and economics don't work the way you naively assume. Businesses should have a natural incentive to provide an environment that doesn't kill workers because it's cheaper to not kill someone and not hire a replacement. This is entirely disjoint from the reality where we have laws saying things like "you must stop a machine before putting a person inside it".

Business and economies are not rational by any definition of the word. If something feels like it will be easier or more profitable, business will happily shovel children into the active machinery of a printing press until government forces them to stop.

We have something like 200 years of labor laws around this point. You should probably read some history and ask yourself why every government on the planet has been compelled to force legislation on business to protect the interests of the people.
by ljf | 2026-02-15 19:03:59+00:00
Had this recently, bought a dehumidifier for a good price, marked as new - arrived and had obviously been opened and didn't work. Out of a desire to have a dehumidifier sooner than later I was about to open it up when I saw it already had been, so I opened a return instead and sent it back.

I can only assume it is worth it for the seller to sell untested goods as new, a good number must work long enough for the buyer to be happy.
by logicchains | 2026-02-15 19:04:53+00:00
No it's not. There are no human rights for the lowest castes in Hinduism, there are no human rights for polytheists in Islam, there were nothing like the modern idea of human rights in Japan or China before they westernized. That's why the west was able to leapfrog other nations economically (and hence militarily), because it was the first place where people had enough rights for something resembling a modern economy to develop.
by colmmacc | 2026-02-15 19:05:23+00:00
Native Irish Speaker and Sci-Fi fan here. What an unexpected delight. For those who might not pick it up , the author name "Máiréad Ní Ghráda" is that of an unmarried (that's the "Ní") woman ("Máiréad" which is like a variation of Mary).

Here's my Translations of the Chapter titles. I'm pretty sure many of these have old-Irish style séimhiú (a dot above a consonant denotes what would now be a h after the consonant) in the originals that have not been translated by the OCR, so there are several missing h letters. If I weren't on a plane over Afghanistan, I'd download the PDF to check. Will update the repo when I can!

Pláinéid na feaca Súil Duine riamh = A planet no person's eyes have ever seen
An Radarc, tríd an gCiandracán = the view throughout the [Ciandracan] (this is a compound proper noun, "Cian" is "head" or "brain" and "racán" could be visor or rocket)
An Turas go Manannán = the Trip to Manannán
Manannán = Manannán (it's a noun, which is very similar to the Irish term for the Manx and the Isle of Mann).
Muintear Manannáin = the people of Manannán
na 'Cráidmí' = the Craidmi (I think it's just a plural noun)
An tÁrd-Máigistir = the high Magistrate, or possibly the supreme magistry
An Priorún = the Priory
Oidce sa Coill = The class/lesson/teaching in the woods/forest
An tinneall = the fire
Oidce tar Oidceanta = Lesson upon lesson
Lug Lám-fada = the long-armed lug
An Tróid leis na 'Cráidmí' = The war with the Craidmi
Diogaltas = Revenge
An téalod = not sure about this one
by gwern | 2026-02-15 19:05:33+00:00
Also, PDF caught up on size with JBIG2, and tooling/support keeps getting worse.

(Not so fun fact: if you punch "filetype:djvu" into Google right now, you can easily page through what supposedly is every DjVu file on the Internet as far as Google knows, which is not many: "In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 300 already displayed." I learned this the hard way when I began wondering why a bunch of DjVu fulltexts I hosted never seemed to show up in Google or Google Scholar...)
by temp1514351 | 2026-02-15 19:06:46+00:00
Yeah like, I went to middle/high school 2008-2014, when Facebook was so popular that it's kinda hard to imagine today. I didn't have one. At some point I was so out of the loop that nobody even told me we had a freshman dance. In hindsight, could've just used it for a few minutes a week, so that's what I did in college.

Also have a burner Twitter just because that was the only damn way to contact the DMV in 2020.
by tptacek | 2026-02-15 19:07:40+00:00
* Doctors and medical researchers keep saying that routine MRIs for non-symptomatic or low-risk patients is a bad idea, because the outcomes are worse than not scanning.

* There's several clear, understandable mechanistic reasons why this would be the case, including simple applications of the base rate fallacy.

* Nevertheless, here we are, nerds arguing we know better than all these people.
by add-sub-mul-div | 2026-02-15 19:07:40+00:00
> We have covered the risks of overreliance on AI tools for years

If the coverage of those risks brought us here, of what use was the coverage?

Another day, another instance of this. Everyone who warned that AI would be used lazily without the necessary fact-checking of the output is being proven right.

Sadly, five years from now this may not even result in an apology. People might roll their eyes at you for correcting a hallucination they way they do today if you point out a typo.
by motbus3 | 2026-02-15 19:08:00+00:00
I'm reading the comments and I get confused. I kinda think this is a good idea and it is not like the government is purely making it a 3rd party problem only.
This might make production more complicated for a while, but nowadays it is much easier to predict demand and produce quicker in smaller batches.
In the 90s you might need change a whole factory setting for every single piece of fabric but nowadays it is that most of it are produced in small sets anyway.

Can anyone clear why would it not be a good idea?
My country can measured an increase of micro plastic from cloth fibers. We all know how pollution is getting worse. Here, we don't have winter, fall or anything anymore.
The acid rain from the 90s destroyed most of green on adjacent cities and when it is hot it gets in unbearably hot and when it is cold it gets stupidly cold.

Food production decreased by 20% this year. I kid you not. Prices went up and most of people can't afford cow's meat anymore. Most people are living on pasta and eggs, eventually they eat pig and chicken but that's getting rare.
by AngryData | 2026-02-15 19:08:17+00:00
Any criminals with more than a single brain cell already know what cop response times are in their area. In the 60s-90s everybody had police scanners and cops talked over open radio about their locations and calls but crime still dropped massively in that time.

We already live in the safest time in the last few hundred years atleast, if not of all human history, all these fears about rampant crime are unfounded. And most crimes are committed by people you already know. Hell the biggest source of theft in the US, which dwarfs all other forms of theft combined, is employer wage theft. The cops deserve no trust because they have spent the last 6+ decades doing everything possible to militarize and become more draconian while extorting the poorest of society for fines and funding. Civil forfeiture laws are still abused on the daily and the entire US population knows it. Trust is earned, not given, and US cops and courts have done everything possible to destroy any trust between them and average citizens.

Maybe if I could trust that being executed on the side of a road by a cop in full view of the public and on camera would result in them going to jail people might support them having a bit of leeway, but they have repeatedly destroyed that notion. Cops are a far bigger threat to me than any petty criminals, most criminals were driven to crime through desperation so I can atleast sympathize with some of them. I have yet to meet a cop that wasn't a complete and utter asshole looking for any excuse to arrest or harass me or others around me.