MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by abcde666777 | 2026-02-23 02:15:25+00:00
I used to play Counterstrike competitively, and it's become commonly known that pre-match routines can help a lot with consistency. Often something as simple as warming up for 30 minutes in an offline server with bots.

Some of the benefits are physical, you're literally warming up the muscles in your hand and arm, but it also has psychological benefits. If for instance you're nervous about the upcoming match, going through the warmup puts your mind in a context of "alright, we've done this a thousand times before, nothing new, just got to go through the motions". It also removes noise from your mind as your attention is going into the warmup instead of overthinking the task ahead.

I think there's a predictive phenomenon in the brain which primes us for activities when the precursors are present. For instance, working at home versus at the office - my experience has been that the simple act of physically going to the office puts me in a better emotional state to get to work than staying at home, almost like during that process it's killed the tasks associated with home and booted up the ones associated with work.
by connorshinn | 2026-02-23 02:16:08+00:00
Agreed! I was able to track one down (at least I think): https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/31-5-e-ink-13-3_16013...

A bit more expensive than the one I linked previously at $1,400, though it's a full color display. It's unfortunately missing a description, so the only evidence that it's a touch screen is in the title itself. Would obviously require some due diligence with the manufacturer.

I'm sure there are other options as well (the breadth of vendors on Alibaba is pretty impressive actually)
by tuuioku | 2026-02-23 02:16:52+00:00
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by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-23 02:17:06+00:00
Edit: I have misread some of the comments here, he didn't lose access to his whole account and data just the antigravity part. I should've done my due diligence, get out of bed and spent more time thinking instead of emotionally reacting. Guess the rage machine got me as well. Damn. I think this thread might be hijacked by ai bros.

The main point still stands, google is part of a duopoly that runs the world. You can't be a functional member of society without them. They're like a public utility and too big to take decisions based on opaque internal policies. They're long overdue for a government intervention or for splitting up.
by sebmellen | 2026-02-23 02:17:33+00:00
It’s so weird, right?

Clearly this comment relevant to the tool the profile is selling as a kind of ‘submarine’ ad… profile was created 53 days ago (so no green tag) but only started commenting in earnest 12 hours ago (almost as if the account was farmed).

And the comment is full of AI tropes that seem highly generated.
by thrance | 2026-02-23 02:18:00+00:00
So what you're saying is that Palestinians all deserve to die because they gave their support to HAMAS when their neighbor was slowly colonizing their land and expropriating them. Meanwhile, the US should provide Israel with as much weapons and funding as necessary to help them achieve their overt genocidal agenda. And the people that call for the killings to end are actually just terrorists that you don't have to listen to. Got it.

Speaking of projection, damn...

PS your viewpoint was deliberately constructed by the Military Industrial Complex.
by dang | 2026-02-23 02:18:03+00:00
Very nice! One big past thread and 2 tinies, if anyone is curious:

Music-Map – Find Similar Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301628 - Sept 2025 (3 comments)

Music-Map – Find Similar Music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38481426 - Dec 2023 (110 comments)

Music-Map – a map of music - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8497450 - Oct 2014 (1 comment)
by doubled112 | 2026-02-23 02:18:03+00:00
We used G3 iMacs with the puck mouse until high school. You can't convince me it was the epitome of ergonomics.

They were an upgrade from the Mac LC II. I don't recall those having very big screens either.

15" and 4:3 was about as big as it got in high school. A computer on a table and we sat on a normal plastic school chair.
by selridge | 2026-02-23 02:18:09+00:00
"Oh, IEEE 754 double precision floating point accuracy?"

Ok, so we do agree! You DON'T want to go back to a system where everyone had to do their own arithmetic just to make a program! That's fabulous. I'm glad that we're in agreement.

It's it SO MUCH NICER to just have the vagaries of one arithmetic we've already agreed upon to deal with, instead of needing to become an expert in numerical analysis just to get along with things.
by PostOnce | 2026-02-23 02:18:17+00:00
/me squints at the ironic em dash in "Curious to know — are you an OpenClaw instance?"

But in good faith: they (HN staff) said in another comment I can't find just now that they're discussing what to do about it, but I can't think of any palatable easy answers.

In fact, the only easy answer I can think of is banning all accounts newer than 2022, but then how do you onboard new users? Captcha for every new comment? Do we have good AI-defeating captchas now?

Strange times.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2026-02-23 02:18:17+00:00
I think the problem is that people are lonely in ways that the medium can't address well, but does address to some lesser degree, so it elicits lopsided engagement. You're this whole person but people only ever react to this quirk or that one because those quirks come through better online, and over time those two quirks become a larger share of your personality. We end up with things like looksmaxxing--because pictures go online well, and it happens at the expense of whatever other characteristics of that person don't go online well.

I've been imagining a social medium which finds temporary peers via one of your phone's radios--so it broadcasts and gathers rotating public keys as you ride the same bus with people or share an elevator with them--and then your feed contains whatever they're posting, but only for 48 hours or something (unless you decide to make the connection permanent). That way when you see something cool in your feed, you're well positioned to go be social in meatspace.

Like I get why you don't bring your guitar on the bus, same reason I don't bring my drums on the bus, but if a few hours later I saw a video of you making some music I might be like "hey lets get together and jam" next time I see you.
by hedora | 2026-02-23 02:18:43+00:00
As I understand it, Sierra acquired most of the educational software outfits, and then was acquired for stock by a company that had been propped up by securities fraud.

Here’s the story of the acquisition that killed the company:

https://www.filfre.net/2025/04/the-end-of-sierra-as-we-knew-...

That site probably has the story of the educational software consolidation somewhere.
by mcswell | 2026-02-23 02:18:51+00:00
> LLMs do not bring us closer to literate programming...

Without saying that I agree with the person you're responding to, and without claiming to really know what he was saying, I'll say what I think he was suggesting: That a human could do the literate part of literate programming, and the LLM could do the computing part. When (inevitably) the LLM doesn't write bug-free code snippets, the human revises the literate part, followed by the LLM revising the code part.

And of course there would be a version control part of this, too, wherein both the changes to the literate part and the changes to the code parts are there side-by-side, as documentation of how the program evolved.
by sowbug | 2026-02-23 02:19:08+00:00
The facts are straightforward, even without analogies. But since we're using them...

You are at the grocery store, checking out. The total comes to $250. You pay, but then remember you had a coupon. You present it to the cashier, who calls the manager over. The manager informed you that you've attempted to use an expired coupon, which is a violation of Paragraph 53 subsection d of their Terms of Service. They keep your groceries and your $250, and they ban you from the store.

Google is acting here like it was entitled to a profitable transaction, and is even entitled to punish anyone who tries to make it a losing transaction. But they're not the police. No crime was committed.

Regular businesses win some and lose some. A store buys widgets for $10 and hopes to sell them for $20, but sometimes they miscalculate and have to unload them for $5. Overall they hope their winners exceed their losers. That's business.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-23 02:19:40+00:00
I think we're talking fast food rather than nicotine.

We know that fast food is bad for us. But fast food companies keep putting the things that we like into it. So a lot of people, when tasting actual, real, good-for-you, food decide that they prefer fast food. Other people are aware that fast food is bad for them and prefer real food. It's a choice that we leave up to the individual. Unfortunately we then allow the fast food companies to advertise so they can affect the choice.

We don't really have an answer for this as a culture. We should make the fast food companies responsible for the harms they're causing, but we don't have a mechanism for that. We could stop them advertising, as some countries have done, but that starts a whole process of questions about what the government can and can't do that ends up in bad places.
by dang | 2026-02-23 02:19:43+00:00
Interpretations differ, of course. I'd say any internet comment of the form "Please $Person. For the love of god stop trying to do $bad-thing" is clearly over that line, and snarky to boot.

I know "personal attack" sounds pretty strong, but the closer one is to being the target of such an attack, the more it feels like that—and there's absolutely no need to make a point that way.
by alterom | 2026-02-23 02:20:15+00:00
I can touch-type with flow typing in GBoard at this point.

That's to say, I'm writing this comment on my Android phone without looking at the keyboard.

QWERTY is in my muscle memory in such a way that words have become writable as single stroke characters.

I really, really doubt this Keybee thing can be an improvement over that in any way.
Search Console MCP – Unified CLI for Google Search Console, Bing and GA4
by svss_me | 2026-02-23 02:21:16+00:00
I built Search Console MCP — a CLI tool that lets you query Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools, and GA4 from a single interface.

The problem I kept running into:
- Search data lives in one place.
- Analytics in another.
- Bing in yet another.
And automation usually means stitching together brittle scripts or living in dashboards.

So MCP does a few simple things:

Unified CLI for GSC, Bing, and GA4

Consistent query interface across providers

Scriptable output (JSON-friendly, automation-ready)

Designed for pipelines, not dashboards

The goal isn’t another UI. It’s composable search + analytics data you can pipe into whatever you want — notebooks, internal tools, reports, experiments.

A few practical use cases:
- Compare query performance across Google and Bing
- Map queries → landing pages → conversions
- Run automated reporting without touching a browser

Build custom attribution models outside GA

It’s still early, but the core philosophy is:
Search data shouldn’t be trapped in web dashboards.

Repo + latest release:
https://github.com/saurabhsharma2u/search-console-mcp

Would genuinely love feedback from anyone building data pipelines, SEO tooling, or working with search/analytics APIs at scale.
If the abstraction is wrong, tell me. If something’s missing, tell me that too.
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-23 02:21:33+00:00
It’s basically oracle testing (because the tests can be wrong), you can also have your tests focus on edge cases to be more effective, you can also hone in and specify near pass/fail edges (but I guess this would be problem specific). LLMs are good at listing those, this one simple step prevents it from just testing random stuff with no concept of coverage. Really it’s up to the person writing the prompts to micromanage the LLm, if they aren’t very experienced they won’t get very good results with it, they basically need to outlay the test case selection strategy and then maybe even post annotate what cases they think are critical and need to be covered vs what is just nice to cover.

I just went through this a couple of weeks ago. My test cases were ok but missing some basic edge cases. I asked it to enumerate the edge cases but that didn’t work well either. I then asked it to list near positive and near negative edge cases, and that worked well for my problem. For bugs I found in the code that weren’t covered, I asked the LLM to add them and/or mark them critical to cover (the case might had been there already but I only let it generate 3 tests with a limited size data set, so not all cases would be covered). That worked well, although I’m sure I could do better (probably by generating more tests, but many current approach is slow because each artifact is generated in a context isolated agent, so I have to speed that up first).
by rixed | 2026-02-23 02:22:26+00:00
Have you ever tried literate programming?
In literate programming you do not write the code then present it to a human reader. You describe your goal, assess various ideas and justify the chosen plan (and oftentimes change your mind in the process), and only after, once the plan is clear, you start to write any code.

Thus the similarity with using LLM.
Working with LLMs is quicker though, not only because you do not write the code but you don't care much about the style of the prose. On the other hand, the code has to be reviewed, debugged and polished. So, Ymmv.
by clashmeifyoucan | 2026-02-23 02:22:45+00:00
I enjoyed the part about factoring in unpredictability. One of my peeves with weather apps had been that they do switch the forecast on the fly if it is inaccurate, and I have joked before that what we need is a derivative weather app accountability app that tells you how often a weather app corrects itself. So I'm excited to see if Acme makes a meaningful difference!
Show HN: InferShield – A Lightweight Orchestration-Layer Attack Detector (POC)
by Alex-Hosein | 2026-02-23 02:23:13+00:00
Attacks targeting the orchestration layer (e.g., Kubernetes control planes, cloud APIs) are stealthy and often bypass conventional security mechanisms. These attacks can exploit API misconfigurations, escalate privileges, and compromise infrastructure.

We built InferShield, an open-source Proof of Concept, to explore early detection of such threats. InferShield uses session tracking and event correlation to identify abnormal sequences of orchestration-layer activity.

Example Attack Detection:
An attacker uses a compromised API token to inspect deployment configurations, escalate privileges via role misconfiguration, and push modified manifests to introduce malicious containers. InferShield alerts by recognizing the unusual API call sequence.

Limitations:
- It's in-memory only, which limits scalability
- Detection is limited to rule-based patterns and cannot adapt to unknown attack vectors
- This is an experimental tool and should be treated as a starting point, not a solution

We're seeking feedback, contributors for further development, and insights from security researchers on how to strengthen this approach.
by walterbell | 2026-02-23 02:23:16+00:00
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2022-results-volum...

Citing Program for International Student Assessment data taken from 15-year-olds across the world and other standardized tests, Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores.
by sebmellen | 2026-02-23 02:23:22+00:00
Well, I love my em dashes. Won’t ever give those up! You can pry them from my cold dead hands.

No, I am not OpenClaw or an AI.

I see comments like this a lot. I don’t comment on them unless the profile seems to be an advert for exactly what the AI-generated comment is talking about (which is definitely the case here).

I’m not sure if you “feel” the AI nature of the GP comment, but to me it’s very strong. I pray my writing doesn’t “feel” the same to someone reading it. If it does we’re in a much worse spot than I thought!

Strange times indeed though.
by bachmeier | 2026-02-23 02:23:42+00:00
> You can sell a bigger house for 600k, or a 35% smaller house for 425k, odds are you’ll sell the bigger house quicker.

Yes, and that's the point I was making in my comment. What's driving the price gap is that you're selling to a group with a much higher capacity to pay when you're building the 2000 sf homes.

But that has nothing to do with it being unprofitable to sell lower-priced homes, it's just less profitable. The talking point makes it sound like the home builders are trying to do good things, but they're victims of the government. No, it's nothing more than a desire to maximize profit, because the folks that are looking for 2000 sf homes are high income households with kids, and they're willing and able to pay a steep premium for that house.
by ear7h | 2026-02-23 02:23:43+00:00
This identity politics/virtue signaling seems off topic.

> I havent used Loops

I think the worst repercussion of consuming short form content is that it gives the _consumer_ a false sense of engagement. That their passive consumption endows them with knowledge and credibility, leading to the deluded belief that a display of disintirest such as this one is 1) appropriate and 2) a profound condemnation rather than the petty, irrelevant whine that it is.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-23 02:23:53+00:00
Meanwhile it's day 3? 4? since Gemini 3.1 was announced with a claim that Gemini CLI users would have access to it, but AI Pro subscribers still don't see it, and there's been no clarification from Google about what is going on, and why:

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/19532

They are not serious. I only keep the "AI Pro" sub because it comes with a couple terabytes of Drive storage for the family.

Anyways, Google, nobody wants to use your bad VSCode fork. I want to use my own tools, and use your model where it makes sense as part of my own workflow.
by btbuildem | 2026-02-23 02:24:03+00:00
I've been futzing about with a vague prototype of a backcountry comms device (esp32, lora radio, gps) and initially was going to pair it via bt to a phone, for the use of screen / browser / keyboard. Long story short, small e-ink displays work really well in daylight, and blackberry keyboards (and other tiny form factor ones) can be got off ali[baba|express] for relatively cheap.

It doesn't take much to throw in a LTE modem, sim card reader, a mic and a speaker -- suddenly you have a phone!

I'm don't really have a point here, and I don't know exactly where my meandering project will eventually end up -- but I really like the "own the full stack" aspect of it, and the decoupling of my little device from all the extras that have accumulated under the umbrella of "phone".
by cpncrunch | 2026-02-23 02:24:52+00:00
>And now another ongoing experiment with genAI.

It's both an opportunity and a curse. When I was younger I wrote 3d games in raw assembly language, and created my own language and VM. Today you can now do all of that entirely with AI. It's a huge time saver and will result in greater productivity. However, in order to maintain and build strong cognitive skills, you need to engage in challenging problems and learning.

The drive to solve complex problems and build new and fancy things will always be there, and there will always be a subset of people who will leverage the technology to build even bigger and better things than was possible for our generation. So those people will benefit (and possibly get very rich). The technology will likely raise up everyone's productivity and living standards, although those who don't flex their cognitive abilities might find they suffer more chronic health problems later in life.
by telman17 | 2026-02-23 02:25:23+00:00
This article tries to put the blame on laptops when the real culprit could simply be boiled down to a failure in classroom management and lack of enforcement against cell phones in class, whiny parents who rage when their children are told they can't be playing video games in class, and teachers who are using computer programs to teach the kids instead of actually teaching.

Ban phones from class. For real. Lock down websites that are irrelevant to the subjects being taught. These are all technically possible with the tools schools have. Even Youtube. If something is important enough to show the class, the teacher can show it on their larger screen.

Half these issues can be solved by teaching kids how to use technology meaningfully instead of using it as a babysitter.
by brudgers | 2026-02-23 02:25:57+00:00
How much effort on your part is reflected by your questions?

What business logic justifies time spent answering your questions?

This bothers me a bit because if I can expect this kind of response, what does that say about the thought they put into their work, even if they’re using AI for everything coding related?

Is there a business case in Excel for what you want? Good luck.
by spudlyo | 2026-02-23 02:26:01+00:00
Every morning for the past 14 months or so I've sat down at my desk with a cup of coffee and spent ~20 minutes writing out a page of thoughts in my Hobonichi Techo journal with my trusty Pilot Metropolitan fountain pen. I try to write plainly and honestly about whatever pops into my head, and before I know it, I'm done.

It hasn't been super life changing, but I do enjoy doing it. Sometimes during the course of the day I'll think back about an aspiration I had that morning, and actually do something I might not have done otherwise.

About a year into this practice my hand started hurting a bit, so I've slowly trained myself to write using the muscles in my arm and shoulder rather than moving the muscles in my hand. My handwriting quality took a nose-dive in the short term, but my hand stopped hurting and I have moments now where my cursive looks nearly as good as it used to.
by hsuduebc2 | 2026-02-23 02:26:01+00:00
This is a serious problem. I think the only durable solution is legislation that requires these companies to provide access to your data, or at least a way to export or transfer it, even after an account ban. Otherwise, if they delete your account for any reason, even for a legitimate policy violation, they can effectively cut you off from information you have built up and stored over years. In Apple’s case, an account lock can even leave a device unusable.

I have read several blog posts from people describing how frustrating it is to have an account locked. Because Google, like many large companies, provides little to no effective support, the only thing that seemed to work was getting a post to trend on Hacker News so that someone inside Google noticed and intervened to resolve it.
by Tadpole9181 | 2026-02-23 02:26:22+00:00
They said "no one". Not even "most", let alone "half" or "some". Those are their words.

To live in a country where tens of millions of people have food insecurity, 50 million rely on food stamps, and the median income is 40,000 while the median rent is 1,700 (20,000/year) and claim no one has to watch their grocery bill to their own inconvenience would be utterly disconnected from the reality of the survival of half of their countrymen.

Anyway, the irony is not lost that you simultaneously advocate for the parent being interpreted non-literally, by intent, but my colloquial, common use of the word "nuts" is "unacceptable".
by nsonha | 2026-02-23 02:27:59+00:00
why do you even need MacOS? Again OpenClaw works in linux and any other option of messaging is better than iMessage.
As for AppleScript, if the intention is computer use. I have never seen it done to any useful result, OpenClaw or not. What will realistically be useful is driving the browser (web apps), and you don't need MacOS for it.