MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-23 14:49:36+00:00
The bitter lesson I think is a great way of explaining the logic behind Tesla's strategy. People aren't getting it.

Whether or not it'll actually work remains to be seen, but it's a perfectly reasonable strategy. One counterargument would be that the bitter lesson can be applied to LIDAR too; you don't have to use that data for feature engineering just because it seems well suited for it.
by Rochus | 2026-02-23 14:49:38+00:00
> I am worried about is if Ladybird changes the language again

In the time of good LLMs this is likely no longer a show-stopper (as e.g. the specific formating rules in C/C++ since there are good re-formating tools). The question is how long we will need programming languages at all. They were primarily invented because large assembler projects were too challenging for most people. But if all the complicated details can now be delegated to LLMs, strictly speaking, we no longer need programming languages either.
by skrebbel | 2026-02-23 14:49:49+00:00
I really want this to be true, but the founder launching AGI 9 months ago doesn't help their credibility a lot. And drip-marketing test results seems like a super weird thing to do, whether it's real or it's not.

Don't forget that a lot of scams aren't initially on purpose. Eg Theranos by all accounts very gradually morphed from a mild "fake it till you make it" scheme (mild by Silicon Valley standards at least) into a full-blown scam over years of growth and funding, the lies needing to be deeper and deeper over time to cover up the earlier ones.

I guess all I'm trying to say is the fact that it's a bad strategy for a scam, doesn't really mean it's not a scam.

Those Verge motorcycles appear to actually exist and work though, so that's a data point in favour of this being real.
by saalweachter | 2026-02-23 14:50:19+00:00
So purely from a hacker perspective, I'm amused at the whining.

Like, a corporation had a weakness you could exploit to get free/cheap thing. Fair game.

Then someone shares the exploit with a bunch of script kiddies, they exploit it to the Nth degree, and the company immediately notices and shuts everyone down.

Like, my dudes, what did you think was going to happen?

You treasure these little tricks, use them cautiously, and only share them sparingly. They can last for years if you carefully fly under the radar, before they're fixed by accident when another system is changed. THEN you share tales of your exploits for fame and internet points.

And instead, you integrate your exploit into hip new thing, share it at scale, write blog posts and short form video content about it, basically launch a DDoS against the service you're exploiting, and then are shocked when the exploit gets patched and whine about your free thing getting taken away?

Like, what did you expect was going to happen?
by fao_ | 2026-02-23 14:50:20+00:00
> This is actually a clean commodity price spike because it’s specifically not for market manipulation or financial engineering. It’s because demand for this product really did explode overnight.

Based on how the same 3 billion has been circiling between Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and a few other companies... I really doubt that this is the case, to be honest.
Show HN: Fiscal – An Agent Friendly CLI for Actual Budget
by jelled | 2026-02-23 14:51:28+00:00
I built Fiscal (fscl), a headless CLI for Actual Budget that's optimized for AI agents running in the terminal (Claude Code, OpenClaw, etc).

It acts as an Actual Budget client, so it can sync with an existing Actual server. I built it because I wanted an agent-friendly way to handle repetitive budgeting work while still being able to review everything in the Actual web dashboard.

Site/docs: https://fiscal.sh
GitHub: https://github.com/fiscal-sh/fscl
by techteach00 | 2026-02-23 14:52:16+00:00
All 3 "Is it how to type? Use Google Docs? How to program?". You nailed it. In addition to being comfortable taking state exams on.

I used to do a deep dive on settings and browser extensions until IT locked the devices down further. The kids can't even access settings. But I give them credit for finding work arounds, ways to get past restrictions.
by ToucanLoucan | 2026-02-23 14:52:16+00:00
Really it's the only Apple TV app that I regularly have issues with! Sometimes it opens to just a blank gray screen, sometimes you start a video and sits there waiting to start endlessly and doesn't play anything, sometimes it won't send the audio to connected Homepods for mysterious reasons, and even when it works it is so unbelievably slow.

The Nebula app also isn't great, but at least it functions, even if it too is slower that molasses in January.
by kevlened | 2026-02-23 14:52:40+00:00
> Musk miscalculated on 1) cost reduction in LIDAR

Given that Musk has a history of driving lower costs, it's unlikely he overestimated the long-term cost floor. He just thought we were close to self-driving in 2014.

Another factor is Andrej Karpathy, who was the primary architect for the vision-only approach. Musk wanted fewer parts, and Karpathy believed he could deliver that. Karpathy is still an advocate of vision-only.
by moffkalast | 2026-02-23 14:53:25+00:00
True, you have to go up to $120 for the 25m version, or $450 for Unitree's L2 which gets 30m in 3D. That's about as much you could possibly ever need unless you're making high speed vehicles that need more reaction time. In which case you probably shouldn't be relying on the cheapest thing on the market :)
by flohofwoe | 2026-02-23 14:53:52+00:00
> "redraw everything the whole frame" and "don't do any diffing" sound insane in this regard.

You need to consider that a web browser with its millions of lines of code in the DOM and rendering engine is pretty much the worst case for "redrawing a complex UI each frame". Add React on top and the whole contraption might still be busy with figuring out what has changed and needs to be redrawn at the time an immediate mode UI sitting directly on top of a 3D API is already done rendering the entire UI from scratch.

A native immediate mode UI will easily be several hundred times less code (for instance Dear ImGui is currently just under 50kloc 'orthodox C++').
by mikeayles | 2026-02-23 14:53:55+00:00
Although this has dropped off the FP now, I wanted to finish my response, but wanted to follow up with some data:

https://www.mikeayles.com/torque-rpm-time.png

So, here is approximately a weeks worth of data (around 700l of diesel), looking at the histogram on the right hand side, theres an awful lot of time spent at 0-10% this is around 60% of the trucks time.

https://www.mikeayles.com/torque-rpm-volume.png

However, when you multiply the time by the fuel consumption within that same time period, you get a volumetric chart, where we can see that 60% of the time, accounts for only 2% of the fuel use.

So, for idling, whilst it's noisy, produces CO2, a 5% improvement at highway speed will get you so much more of a fuel and co2 saving than eliminating idle. although, both, do both.
by techteach00 | 2026-02-23 14:54:12+00:00
This resonates. I'm in agony because I'm constantly up against IT and admin who seem to only care about lawsuits so they create an absolutely painful computing environment for the students. I see how using locked down slow machines makes them irritable and frustrated in my class and I just can't anymore. It's a losing battle really. But I need to collect a paycheck lol. In the meantime, anything I can do to make their situation less aggravating I will pursue.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-23 14:54:30+00:00
This reminded me of this song which actually shows the extremism of things in Internet.

Welcome to the Internet - Bo Burnham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

"Y'know wasn't always like this, not very long ago.. just before your time.. right before the towers fell.. circa 99 this was catalogues, travel blogs a chatroom or two, we set our nights and spent our nights waiting for you."

"It was always the plan to put the world in your head."

"Could I interest you in everything all of the time? Apathy is a tragedy and boredom is a crime. Everything and anything all of the time"

Bo Burnham is amazing. Another (interesting?) song is jefferey bezos song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI5w2QwdYik [Bo Burnham: Inside - Jeff Bezos]

Recommend everyone to watch both music if you have the time and the first one for sure.
by uyzstvqs | 2026-02-23 14:55:00+00:00
> It burned through a mountain of tokens, but 10/10 - would generate tens of thousands of lines of useless code again.

This is the biggest bottleneck at this point. I'm looking forward to RAM production increasing, and getting to a point where every high-end PC (workstation & gaming) has a dedicated NPU next to the GPU. You'll be able to do this kind of stuff as much as you want, using any local model you want. Run a ralph loop continuously for 72 hours? No problem.
by DanielHB | 2026-02-23 14:55:12+00:00
I am at a point where I just installed Bazzite on a mini-itx PC and bought a gyroscope mouse (also called a flymouse) and use steam big picture mode.
Access to a proper browser (with adblock) and a proper keyboard more than makes up for the UX problems.

I just wish modern browsers had the (old pre-chromium) Opera browser style of spatial navigation, gyroscope mouses work well enough but spatial navigation is the main feature I miss since I switched off old Opera

https://blog.codinghorror.com/spatial-navigation-and-opera/
by thrdbndndn | 2026-02-23 14:55:22+00:00
To me, a project's "hype-ness" is the ratio between how much attention it gets and how useful it actually is to users.

As a browser, Ladybird usefulness is currently quite limited for obvious reasons. This is not meant to dismiss its achievements, nor to overlook the fact that building a truly useful browser for everyday users is something few open source teams can accomplish without the backing of a billion dollar company. Still, in its present state, its practical utility remains limited.
by gildenFish | 2026-02-23 14:55:28+00:00
It is basically impossible to disallow the token to work that way on a technical level. It would be akin to trying to trying to set up a card scanner that can deny a valid card depending on who is holding it. The only way to prevent it from working is analyzing usage patterns/details/etc in some form or fashion. Similar to stationing a guard as a second check on people whose cards scan as valid.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-23 14:56:11+00:00
> And no, there's no mention of batteries there; it's literally a straw man fight, showing their applicability to daily solar power generation cycles while almost completely ignoring their applicability to annual cycles.

Why is it every single time someone in this thread speaks up they are just plain wrong?

Here is a direct link to the part about batteries. He talks about them for about 15 minutes which is something like a quarter of the video. There is even a chapter mark to take you to that part. He also mentions them half a dozen more times throughout the video and warns in the beginning that people like you will chime in with misinformation without watching the video. You proved him right.

https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM?t=3054

> applicability to annual cycles.

He talks about that too. I'm not going to bother linking. Actually watch the video or move on.

> Just take a weekly chart of the actual energy output of the panels for the year, and calculate the price relative to the worst week

I don't have to. The United States government did and even considering the cost of storage, it's still cheaper than all the alternatives. Has been for years now. See my earlier comments for links.

Private investors have done the same math, and that's why almost all new electricity generation being built is solar. It's the basically free money. Nobody with a brain can legitimately think that digging goop out of the desert, doing expensive processing to it, shipping it to the other side of the earth, and literally lighting it on fire (repeatedly forever) is more efficient than "slap up a solar cell and a battery then enjoy free energy for 20-40 years".

> hat's because the pedophiles who run the world can charge me 30 cents for electricity instead of the 3 cents it would cost if it were generated by fossil fuels.

Why would Donald Trump do that? He promised the oil execs anything they wanted for a billion dollars. Again, see my other replies for the receipts on that one. And see Trump inviting Epstein to his wedding for the other part.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-23 14:56:28+00:00
I don't think Waymo is using Street View / satellite data to drive. They have to build an HD map using a special LIDAR-equipped vehicle before deploying in a new area.

Maybe their navigation system will be better than the competition due to real-time traffic data from Google Maps users, but I don't think it'll be so much better as to be an unbeatable advantage.
Show HN: Ilove4o – a simple way to keep using GPT-4o
by Tanjim | 2026-02-23 14:56:42+00:00
Hi HN,

When OpenAI started phasing out GPT-4o from the main ChatGPT interface, I noticed a surprising amount of backlash — not about benchmarks or features, but about tone.

A lot of people (myself included) felt that 4o had a certain conversational warmth that later models don’t quite replicate in the same way. That difference was subtle, but noticeable.

So I built a small side project for myself: https://www.ilove4o.com/

It’s a minimal interface that connects directly to GPT-4o via the OpenAI API. No extra layers, no personality hacks — just a focused 4o-only chat experience.

I’m sharing it here because:
- There seems to be real user preference around model “personality.”
- I’m curious whether others noticed the same behavioral shift.
- It raises an interesting question: how much of perceived “friendliness” comes from system prompts, UI, or subtle model tuning?

If you try it, I’d genuinely love feedback — especially from people who’ve spent significant time with multiple model versions.

Happy to answer technical or architectural questions.
by viggity | 2026-02-23 14:56:48+00:00
I took 3 years of Japanese in HS (96-99). About 2 years ago I was doing a lot of work with genai and japanese typefaces. It was wild digging into how different the japanese web is. Back in like 2005, it was common to stylize english text by embedding it in an image and then applying drop shadows, etc. By 2022 everyone does the vast majority of that within CSS. Not in Japan though, I couldn't believe how much text content is still in image form.
by georgeecollins | 2026-02-23 14:57:03+00:00
It is sound to think that cameras plus an accelerometer, plus data about about the car and environment (that you get from your ears) ought to be able to mimic and improve on human driving. However humans general purpose spatial awareness and ability to integrate all kinds of general information is probably really hard to replicate. A human would realize that an orange fluid spilling across the road might be slippery, guess the way a person might travel from the way their eyes are pointing...

It may just be faster to make lidar cheap. And lidar can do things humans can't.
by sevensor | 2026-02-23 14:57:04+00:00
There’s a palpable assault on expertise afoot in the Anglosphere. It’s been going on for decades, at least since the rise of the counterculture in the 1960s, but what’s new is how pervasive it feels. Even software companies, once the nerdiest of institutions, would now rather fail to produce functioning software than identify and cultivate expertise. Ten years ago, we, or at least I, failed to recognize “nerds are cool now” as the cultural trojan horse it was. Nerds, experts, were never going to be cool; the cool kids saw money and power accumulating around nerds, and they muscled their way in.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-23 14:57:05+00:00
If your only need is a lot of bandwidth with very low server CPU use that’s fine.

That CPU is ancient, though. Over a decade old. That DRAM is 2-channel DDR3.

This could be a good deal for someone, but entrusting your startup’s operations to a 10 year old slow computer in Germany instead of using EKS would be an extremely short sighted move. A startup should be developing software and shipping it quickly to validate the market, not pinching pennies to save the equivalent of a couple hours of developer salary.
by gilrain | 2026-02-23 14:57:35+00:00
> the biggest issue with crawling is the blocking part and how much you need to invest to circumvent Cloudflare and similar … mix of residential proxies, captcha solvers, rotating user-agents, stealth chrome binaries

I would like to register my hatred and contempt for what you do. I sincerely hope you suffer drastic consequences for your antisocial behavior.
by graemep | 2026-02-23 14:58:43+00:00
The solution to "my transactional email service does not deliver to one ISP" is "use a transactional email service". I have used transactional email services for low volume and highly variable sites and have had very few problems, none of them general blocks - there were warnings from providers and a single digit number of hard bounces when one site had a vulnerability to registration spam (owner thought the previous developers had a honeypot to stop it, turned out it not so).

Its very weird that low volumes are the problem. I have been self-hosting personal email for myself and a few family members (so very low volume) on an OVH VPS for years. I cannot deliver to Hotmail (MS hosted institutional email works, outlook.com works) but that is the only problem and I can live with that for personal email.
Show HN: I Built an Offline Productivity System That Connects Goals and Systems
by vcool07 | 2026-02-23 14:58:55+00:00
After years of building for companies, I finally built something for myself.

Aura Tracker: Habits & Goals is now live on the iOS App Store.

It's an opinionated productivity system that connects Identity → Goals → Habits → Tasks → Deep Work → Insights → Reflection, all in one smooth coherent flow. I built it because most productivity apps I used felt like productivity tools. Also, I was highly influenced by the multitude of books I read on the topic and wanted to build something for myself where I can put all my learnings into use.

PS: This was kinda on my TODO list for like almost a decade. I quit my job last year to go full solo founder mode. As long as I was employed, I used to keep watching others posting Show HN and kept wondering when my time would come. Now that it has, it feels so good. Just the same kind of joy I felt, when I wrote my first "Hello World" program on Turbo C editor as a kid (long ago).

Not sure how this product would do, but the feeling that I built something that's gonna stay forever on the internet (and hopefully change the lives of whoever uses it for the better) is a feeling that no amount of corporate bonus or RSU's can provide !!
by samsartor | 2026-02-23 14:59:30+00:00
I feel like my papers are better for having gone through peer review, and I'm a better researcher for having had a few rejections. Of course the reviewers can't hover around in your lab watching everything you do. But even if reviewers can't check the validity of the evidence in your paper, they do a pretty good job ensuring that the claims you make are supported by the evidence you present. That's a valuable if imperfect guardrail! What would be the alternative?
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-23 14:59:40+00:00
Ah was it? I didn't notice it before I guess with all of the demolition and corporate/private equity skyscrapers sprouting around and behind it.

They had a one story "store" in Mountain View CA on Castro St (downtown shopping/eatery area) for a long time, but I guess they wised-up and moved[0] into a Better Call Saul-style strip mall more obscure and cheaper because it's more of an "LA celebrity" thing.

0. https://maps.app.goo.gl/szLiu9DiqbLbNGDY8
by jandrese | 2026-02-23 14:59:57+00:00
I remember those old cellphones with weak IR filters. It was a scandal because light clothing turns out to be more transparent to IR than to visible light so they were acting as a sort of clothing "X-Ray" in bright light. Creepers on the Internet tried to start a whole new genre of porn but were shut down in a hurry by cellphone manufacturers adding robust IR filters on the next generation of smartphones.

Shame that perverts had to ruin that for us, it was kinda neat to point a TV remote as the camera and see the bulb light up.
by t312227 | 2026-02-23 15:00:13+00:00
hello,

as always: imho (!)

idk:

as a business, if the "main focus" of your business is related to email =?> self-host.

but if this not your core business: why in the world would you even think about self-hosting!?

pay someone "as a service" / for your "peace of mind" and be done with that.

as a private person:

if you are interested in learning a lot about the internet and especially e-mail: do self-host ;)

if not: pay someone a few bucks a month and do stuff that matters to you ;)

just my 0.02€
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2026-02-23 15:01:02+00:00
I find it comical that people continue to go back to this rage well against "a certain company" for their vision-only approach when the truth is they have the best automatic driving system publicly purchasable, rivaling Waymo and beating the Chinese brands.

Why are the commenters not pissed at the dozens of other car companies who have done absolutely nothing in this space? Answer: because it's not nearly as fun to be pissed at Kia or Mercedes or whoever. Clearly they are just enjoying the shared anger, regardless of whether it is justified.
by miroljub | 2026-02-23 15:01:19+00:00
> So purely from a hacker perspective, I'm amused at the whining.

> Like, a corporation had a weakness you could exploit to get free/cheap thing. Fair game.

From a pure hacker perspective, I'm surprised there are people calling a legitimate usage a "weakness you could exploit"?

What weakness? What exploit? People have been using it in a way that was technically possible. And they paid for it, many purchased the product specifically because of it.

Then Google unilaterally changed the TOS of a product people already purchased and started pulling the rug. And again, there are people who call themselves hackers who approve of that? Even worse, they call people calling out Google for their monopolistic behavior whining.
by xp84 | 2026-02-23 15:01:28+00:00
I personally think it’s a feature and not a bug that web minimalism didn’t impact Japan in the same way it did here in the West. Giant images everywhere, and hiding most complexity behind the ubiquitous ••• buttons, is hostile to discoverability and usability. Our motto: “Hide everything that isn’t specifically earning money, or vitally important to the funnel to maximize our KPI!”

I’m not pretending to understand the why better than the author of this piece - just saying I’m happy for Japan.
by iggori | 2026-02-23 15:02:39+00:00
People keep treating OpenAI’s $100B raise as a company story. It is not. It only makes sense when you look at the whole stack.

Hyperscalers spent $251 billion on capex in 2024 and are projecting far more. Nvidia’s supply chain is booked 12 to 18 months out. OpenAI raised at a $157 billion valuation on roughly $3.7 billion in revenue, implying a 42x multiple and a roadmap that needs roughly 93 percent CAGR for five years to match that valuation. Those are not marketing numbers. They are structural constraints.

Put those facts together and you get a coordination trap. Hyperscalers must show forward demand to justify capex. Model companies must project revenue to justify valuation. Nvidia must keep a beat and raise cadence to keep its supply chain moving. None of these actors can slow down without losing allocations, market position, or investor credibility. The $100B raise is the cost of keeping that system intact for one more cycle. It is stabilization, not expansion.

If you want the full argument with the mechanisms, the math, and what this means for founders and engineers, read the essay here:
https://productics.substack.com/p/openais-100b-raise-isnt-ab...