MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WalterGR | 2026-02-23 20:04:51+00:00
> Modern dishwashers use a turbidity sensor to detect how dirty the water, and therefore the dish, is.

That’s a fun word.

US NOAA: “Turbidity is a measure of the level of particles such as sediment, plankton, or organic by-products, in a body of water”

Other definitions focus on it being a measure of the clarity of a fluid.
by JetSetIlly | 2026-02-23 20:04:58+00:00
"All of them are moving into the direction of "less human involved and agents do more", while what I really want is better tooling for me to work closer with AI and be better at reviewing/steering it, and be more involved."

I want less ambitious LLM powered tools than what's being offered. For example, I'd love a tool that can analyse whether comments have been kept up to date with the code they refer to. I don't want it to change anything I just want it to tell me of any problems. A linter basically. I imagine LLMs would be a good foundation for this.
by kotaKat | 2026-02-23 20:05:03+00:00
Last I recall they’re just a crappy 5 megapixel Arducam camera module based on teardowns.

https://www.cehrp.org/dissection-of-flock-safety-camera/

https://www.arducam.com/product/arducam-ov5647-noir-camera-b...
by mikestew | 2026-02-23 20:05:09+00:00
Why would I put "salt" in my dishwasher?

TFA has the answer, it's to soften the water:

'Special dishwasher salt, meanwhile, helps to "soften the water preventing lime scale build up and those horrid white marks on glasses."'

In the U. S., if hard water is a problem then the house probably has a whole-house softener, and "dishwasher salt" isn't necessary.
by bob001 | 2026-02-23 20:05:22+00:00
> But this is only true if you trust the peer more than the author

Peer review means that EITHER the author or the peer are trustworthy. Not one. Not the other. The failure mode is that BOTH are untrustworthy and not that EITHER is untrustworthy on their own. This is different from no peer review where the author is a single point of failure. There is furthermore the overall system of peer review with some level of checks within it if a peer or author end up being visibly untrustworthy. Not perfect however the same can be said for every single part of human society.

> Every time I see people go "BUT IS IT PEER REVIEWED !??" I can't help but chuckle.

And I sort of chuckle at people like you who don't realize that all of human society if built on the exact same vague fuzzy framework. It's not about absolutes but about levels of trustworthiness and system level checks.

Edit: In this case, for example, the quote is based on a study that the speaker did not publish. The study actually says the exact opposite. So now there's THREE levels of trust that can cross verify. The speaker, the original study authors and the peer reviews. In this case the speaker clearly is not trustworthy as their own source material disagrees with them. Had I simply blindly trusted the speaker this would not have been evident but due to having a study I can verify.
by hinkley | 2026-02-23 20:05:27+00:00
The thing about the Mikado method is that you’re taking what from your perspective is a top down task and flipping it to bottom up. Which is for instance more amenable to refactoring, which is a bottom up task.

Sometimes when you get to the bottom you discover a shorter route backup to the top. The trap is that since you “already wrote the code” is seems a shame to delete it. But that code hasn’t been reviewed or vetted and “code is not the bottleneck”. You really do want to delete it because there’s a new version that’s 1/3 the code, and touches less of the existing system, and so will take less work to review and vet.
by modeless | 2026-02-23 20:05:37+00:00
Article is wrong. Tablets/pods are silly. The most important thing to improve dishwasher performance is to put detergent in the prewash compartment as well as the main compartment, which you can't do with pods. Second most important (maybe North America-specific) is to run the hot water in the sink to flush the cold water out of the hot water line before starting, so the first fill of the dishwasher uses hot water.

More than you ever wanted to know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0
by hilliardfarmer | 2026-02-23 20:06:14+00:00
What a deeply troubling and cynical comment.

As far as I know, nowhere in the Bitcoin white paper or the original code base. Does it say anything about what you seem to think it's use cases are.

Bitcoin has one main use, digital cash, that can be sent instantly and for free or a very low fee.

Edit: I would agree though, that anything other than that is probably a scam.
Show HN: Oxlo.ai – AI APIs with unlimited tokens and request based pricing
by Barathkanna | 2026-02-23 20:06:20+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m one of the founders of Oxlo.ai. We’re building a developer first AI API platform focused on simplifying how small teams integrate AI into production.

Most AI APIs charge per token, which can make costs unpredictable as usage grows. Oxlo.ai takes a different approach: request based pricing with unlimited token output per request.

We provide unified API access to curated open models across:
• Text generation
• Coding
• Embeddings
• Image generation
• Audio & speech
• Computer vision

The goal isn’t to replace large API providers. If you’re already using a major API in production, Oxlo.ai can act as a complementary layer.

For example, teams can:
• Route simpler or lower-priority workloads to Oxlo.ai under predictable pricing
• Keep higher-complexity or overflow workloads with their existing provider
• Implement fallback routing when one endpoint is busy

This hybrid approach can improve cost control while maintaining production reliability.

We’re still early (<3k users) and actively looking for feedback, especially from teams running AI features in production.

Happy to answer questions.

— Barath Kanna - Founder, Oxlo.ai
by dollylambda | 2026-02-23 20:06:37+00:00
> We should demand from our legislators that hardware like this is free of back-doors

In some countries that may be possible (if only for now). Where chips are produced makes that an impossibility for most. That is, you can have certain guarantees if you run the chip fab, although if you are downstream of that, it can be a tall order to guarantee your chips are sovereign. So, while I like the sentiment that you have some sort of control behind your router, I'm really unsure how true that is given the complexity of producing modern day chips. Disclaimer, not an expert, just an opinion.
by smithoc | 2026-02-23 20:06:58+00:00
This seems like a lot of different people voicing different opinions and talking past each other. Roughly, I think you're jumping into the middle of a hypothetical conversation that went like this:

Person A: "It's bad that we throw people in prison for pot, and use possession of pot as a subtext under which to harass people, perform warrantless searches, etc. We should just legalize it."

Person B: "But it might be bad for children and teenagers if they get access to it"

Person A: "Okay fine, we legalize it for people over the age of 21, happy now?"

Person A could be said to have compromised or ceded-ground to person B here, even though they themselves might actually not even disagree.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-23 20:07:01+00:00
Labor-intensive products. Custom suits, leather jackets, etc., are so, so much cheaper in places with lower costs of living. For individual items, flights might make it a toss-up, but on the scale of an entire wardrobe, flying to Turkey, having a bunch of tailored clothes made up, and then flying home would definitely work out.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 20:07:24+00:00
The memory interface of CPUs is made wider by adding more channels because there are no memory modules with a 512-bit interface. Thus you must add multiples of the module width to the CPU memory interface.

This has nothing to do with x86, but it is determined by the JEDEC standards for DRAM packages and DRAM modules. The ARM server CPUs use the same number of memory channels, because they must use the same memory modules.

A standard DDR5 memory module has a width of the memory interface that is of 64-bit or 72-bit or 80-bit, depending on how many extra bits may be available for ECC. The interface of a module is partitioned in 2 channels, to allow concurrent accesses at different memory addresses. Despite the fact that the current memory channels have a width of 32-bit/36-bit/40-bit, few people are aware of this, so by "memory channel" most people mean 64 bits (or 72-bit for ECC), because that was the width of the memory channel in older memory generations.

Not counting ECC bits, most desktop and laptop CPUs have an 128-bit memory interface, some cheaper server and workstation CPUs have a 256-bit memory interface, many server CPUs and some workstation CPUs have a 512-bit memory interface, while the state-of-the-art server CPUs have a 768-bit memory interface.

For comparison, RTX 5070 has a 192-bit memory interface, RTX 5080 has a 256-bit memory interface and RTX 5090 has a 512-bit memory interface. However, the GDDR7 memory has a transfer rate that is 4 to 5 times higher than DDR5, which makes the GPU interfaces faster, despite their similar or even lower widths.
by SteveVeilStream | 2026-02-23 20:07:31+00:00
This is an exmaple of a potentially problematic prompt:
"You are an expert data analyst combining statistical rigor with deep domain knowledge. Your goal is to deliver data-driven insights — not summaries or visualizations — grounded in real data and supported by complete and transparent reasoning."

And they say:
"This includes detection of chain-of-thought elicitation used to construct reasoning training data."
...
"We are developing Product, API and model-level safeguards designed to reduce the efficacy of model outputs for illicit distillation, without degrading the experience for legitimate customers."

It's going to be very hard to generate outputs that people need but that also can't be used for distillation. For example, it's a good practice for many reasons including audibility to ask for the chain of thought. In fact, I'd argue it's essentially impossible to modify the outputs in a way that makes them less useful for distillation without degrading quality for legitimate users.

So then their only viable option is to try to identify the traffic. However, that is very hard because: "In one case, a single proxy network managed more than 20,000 fraudulent accounts simultaneously, mixing distillation traffic with unrelated customer requests to make detection harder."
by terribleperson | 2026-02-23 20:07:32+00:00
The original Droid was accidentally good. A fresh droid has a smooth, flat keyboard that doesn't make for a great typing experience.

After a while, though, the keys on the keyboard swell and bulge out. Not the keyboard itself, but the keys. Might have been moisture, or oils, or heat, but it was a very noticeable effect. I owned at least 3 droid A855s, and it was a repeatable effect.

Despite the keyboard texture being an accident, to this day I consider it one of the best smartphones ever designed.
by WarmWash | 2026-02-23 20:07:59+00:00
Nothing, that's why this comes off as largely performative and awfully suspect.

Let me put it this way - these labs are functionally pretty similar to a Qwest diagnostics or Lab Corp. Those places draw your blood and run tests on it. The prescription tells them the tests to do, and the doctor is the one who evaluates the results. The labs are just a dumb tool to do the testing as prescribed.

Donut in this case is writing their own prescription and then posting the results. Just like a lab, they don't interrogate you to see if you are manipulating your blood results. That's the doctor's job. And ultimately at the lab it's just a lowly tech going through the same motions they go through every day.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-23 20:08:05+00:00
You're blurring the lines a bit. Gambling isn't inherently an addiction. Just like a good TV show isn't inherently addictive either. Social media trying to be more engaging shouldn't really be viewed as an evil action anymore than HBO trying to create compelling content is.

The problem with comparing social media use to tobacco is that they are completely different. It's like saying weed is just like heroin because they both make you feel good. It's reductive and not productive.

The completely anti-social media stance ignores the good parts of social media. People can connect from across the planet and found others who shares the same views or experiences. People who are marginalized can find community where none may exist in their local area. So we should approach this more carefully and grounded.
by pokot0 | 2026-02-23 20:08:21+00:00
It's a European (maybe rest of the world) thing.

It's interesting how different dishwashers are in US and Europe. Two main things for me:

- Salt: European dishwashers have embedded water softeners and you add salt once in a while. Only super high end ones have it in US.

- Water heater: European dishwasher expect to receive cold water and they heat it internally; US ones expect hot water and only partially boost the temperature (sometimes). That's why you have to run hot water before starting the dishwasher

Always wondered how we ended up like this...
by Waterluvian | 2026-02-23 20:08:26+00:00
> It is not ideal, but it is necessary when the higher-desirability options are not working.

What has worried me for years is that Americans would not resort to this level. That things are just too comfortable at home to take that brave step into the firing lines of being on the right side of justice but the wrong side of the law.

I'm relieved to see more and more Americans causing necessary trouble. I still think that overall, Americans are deeply underreacting to the times. But that only goes as far as to be my opinion. I can't speak for them and I'm not their current king.
by andrewflnr | 2026-02-23 20:08:44+00:00
A safe ABI would be cool, for sure, but in the market (specifically addressing your prediction) I don't know if it's really that big a priority for adoption. The market is obviously fine with an unsafe ABI, seeing how C/C++ is already dominant. Rust with an unsafe ABI might then not be as big an improvement as we would like, but it's still an improvement, and I feel like you're underestimating the benefits of safe Rust code as an application-level frontline of security, even linked to unsafe C code.
by FrustratedMonky | 2026-02-23 20:08:56+00:00
Not the insights I was expecting.

Thought it would be some fluid dynamics and an actual pattern to stack. Not generic life hacks.

And. Don't pre-rinse, is outright is wrong.

If the turbidity meter is causing this effect, then the washer is wrong. There should still be a min time, regardless of turbidity reading. To think the plates aren't getting clean because the water is too clear is crazy. No washer works this way.
by jjk166 | 2026-02-23 20:09:17+00:00
> I think the standard for public resources should be higher than this: it’s not good enough for it to be possibly useful, it has to be in fact useful.

And what evidence do you have that it is not in fact useful?

> TFA provides evidence of the chatbot being the opposite of useful, beyond telling people to stick things in their butts.

Where?

> Ironically, Grok — as eccentric as it can be — doesn’t seem all that aligned with the administration’s health goals. Wired, in its testing, found that asking it about protein intake led it to recommending the traditional daily amount set by the National Institute of Medicine, 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight. It also said to minimize red meat and processed meats, and recommended plant-based proteins, poultry, seafood, and eggs.

Seems pretty useful to me.
by jfengel | 2026-02-23 20:09:25+00:00
No, the Senate will never convict.

Using the military to attack Congress is unlikely. What's stopping him is that the military itself believes pretty firmly in the Constitution. He has control over a lot of top leaders, but there are a lot of intermediate levels that will reject it. That itself might lead to a conviction.

However, he has a ton of other tools at his disposal: ICE, national guard, a bunch of governors, etc. A lot can happen, and it is not clear what the responses would be.
by piva00 | 2026-02-23 20:09:28+00:00
> It’s CPC because the official name of the party is Communist Party

I'm very aware of that but it's commonly referred to as CCP which is understandable for any reader, I don't need to change it to CPC to be understood at all. Not sure why you insist on nitpicking this point, rather pointless, it's just a common way to refer to it.
by foenix | 2026-02-23 20:09:30+00:00
Hate to be that guy, but I'm not sure this is an HN worthy article to be honest. It's a listsicle that covers the title for a minority of its points.

Perhaps one could look at this recent Technology Connections video and its accompanying blog for a more insightful look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0

Alternatively, perhaps a direct link to the video from this article is in order?
Show HN: Makethlm – combine make/just with LLM
by elegantgate | 2026-02-23 20:09:31+00:00
Basically it's similar to just or make, but it allows embedding commands directly to agents, so you get the benefits of LLM agents + some sort of reasonable build flow.

And though GitHub released AI workflows a few days ago, I think it's still ok to share the ideas of this.

It also allows some sort of "ansible" commands to control remote hosts, which makes the LLM control remote hosts during builds which is also useful.
by stuffn | 2026-02-23 20:09:42+00:00
You're implying here, I assume, that anyone who voted R is pro neo-authoritarianism. It is interesting too that you've also implicitly stated that the D's are pro-freedom. Both statements are false on their face and highly influenced by terminally online behavior.

I would suggest you go look at polls. Dems have been polling in the dirt among their own party since they decided to usurp Bernie in 2016 and embrace the rich, Repubs have been polling in the dirt since Trump took office last year.

Absolutely no one is happy about the state of America. You can argue semantics, but it's pointless navel gazing at the larger national issue. No one, of any political affiliation, believes the government can govern. It's probably the single uniting factor across all political stripes. No one is happy. No one believes America has gotten measurably better in the last 10-15 years, and everyone is suffering in one way or another. The flock/authoritarian bent is simply the last gasps of a neoliberal government that has realized there's no easy way out of the last 40 years of anti-citizen policies.
by mikestew | 2026-02-23 20:10:07+00:00
Bear in mind that this guy pleaded guilty in a court case.

In my mind that doesn't mean shit. Prosecution said, "if this goes to trial, we'll try to get life in prison. Or you could take our plea deal." That is why 90-some percent of prosecutions (EDIT: in the U. S.) go plea deal instead of trial.
by KarlKode | 2026-02-23 20:11:04+00:00
Normally the risk of airborne spores taking over your growing material is much more likely than your (most of the time very selected and in no way adapted to the "normal" surroundings you try to grow them in) taking over your home. Keep in mind that almost all fungi like similar conditions and there are already loads of spores of fungi that are more adapted to your living conditions in the air.
by wmeredith | 2026-02-23 20:11:13+00:00
I don't mean to be a jerk, I think this looks cool... but unless I'm missing something this is just a sign up page for something that may or may not exist someday?

From the Show HN rules: "Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead."
by mionhe | 2026-02-23 20:11:14+00:00
I work in this field, and I've never seen a device that isn't dead simple be able to clear the FDA for $200k. I've definitely never seen a medical device with software anywhere near this.

The reason people don't switch to medical devices is because even a fairly simple device without software or electronics can still take between $750k and $1.2M to develop and clear the FDA. Adding software is a cost & time multiplier.
by srmatto | 2026-02-23 20:11:26+00:00
Or people who aren't parents are yet again sharing strong opinions that are not based in reality. Plenty of parental controls are deployed, how long they last against a determined child is the real question. Here's a concrete example for you. Spotify has a web browser built in so that you can watch music videos, kids have figured out a way to use that to watch any video on YouTube--a 12 year old told me this. If you search on this subject you'll quickly learn this is well known and is generally being ignored by Spotify. Why not allow parents to disable the in-app web browser / video function?

It's not as easy as you may believe to prevent that type of access.
by acadapter | 2026-02-23 20:11:26+00:00
Yes, but similarity alone is not a guarantee that words are related. The words val and [h]val are not related in Swedish, even though they ended up with the same pronunciation and spelling in the modern language. Sometimes, words can end up as "fossil words" because the main usage of the word was lost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_word

This can also happen to word roots. Because this is about a historical word, it's interesting to look at the broader Indo-European language tree for clues about the original meaning.
by Wobbles42 | 2026-02-23 20:11:32+00:00
It's a great question, and is tough to answer intuitively without speaking a native language that actually has such a word.

I would agree that "boiling milk" and "boiling oil" are very unlikely to get separate words, unless one of them happens to be an extremely common thing that people encounter a lot and that has special practical implications.

Milk might be a special case, in that it essentially is just water with some other stuff dissolved. It is to water as salt water is to water... but more so.

My guess would be that the single word might get pressed into service like "ice" does, but I think we'd have to find languages that include this word and survey native speakers. It could vary.

Nearly everyone encounters boiling water in everyday life, but do most people ever see other liquids boiling, even once, and especially during the historical periods that shaped our current languages? If not we might be getting into something like technical language, where daily life lines up poorly and terms and jargon get formalized.
by smithoc | 2026-02-23 20:11:36+00:00
That's not fringe at all. That was a claim made by anti-drug commercials that ran on TV across the US so frequently that it was satirized by South Park in 2002.

See the "Where did the idea come from" section here: https://southpark.cc.com/w/index.php?title=My_Future_Self_n%...
by SecretDreams | 2026-02-23 20:11:36+00:00
I've been on the internet for more than 20 years. It got a lot worse in the last 10. Individuals maybe shaped it in the early days, but the disastrous mess we have today is from the monetization and ensuing garbage that was pushed onto the world by some very profitable tech companies.

Undo the damage or otherwise come up with a way to shield kids from it. I won't let my own kids anywhere near the open web the way it is today. It's poison for young minds and needs to be fixed or gated off. Like alcohol at this point.
by jajuuka | 2026-02-23 20:12:11+00:00
I mean that's kind of a problem with ANY solution. There will be workarounds and ways to break it. There is no perfect solution outside someone standing over you while on the internet. We need to look at this more like age checks on porn sites and gaming platforms where you just put in a birthdate. Obviously someone can lie, but that point isn't to be a perfect wall but a hurdle to clear to make sure users are aware of the content and that any sort of nanny software to block if set up.