MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-12 20:12:27+00:00
> The only thing that can bring prices down in the face of increased demand is increased supply.

That's not the question, we aren't discussing trivialities like what change of supply is necessary for satisfying increased demand, that's like discussing "is water wet" or "do you need more or less water to satisfy your thirst for water".

The real question is Who is going to pay for building the additional supply?

Residential and other prior customers have already paid the capex for the existing supply and now you want them to pay the capex for enormous amounts of new capacity which the AI corps convert exclusively into their own revenue.

The public is already paying through the nose for new semiconductor capacity because the same scam-geniuses cornered the RAM, GPU and related chips market and they are mercilessly scalping it too, again at the expense of the public.

> The grid can help make things more efficient and resilient in some ways

In a perfect world it can, in this world it makes things more unstable and far more unfair when large new consumers use it for their exclusive revenue extraction while pretending that the new capacity is somehow benefiting everybody instead of just them.

> The muddied water is just supply and demand.

Indeed, "just supply and demand" is the mud in the eyes.
by 12_throw_away | 2026-02-12 20:12:33+00:00
I have a confession to make: I pretty often set up my computer to simulate humans, animals, and other fantastical sentient creatures, and then treat them unbelievably cruelly. Recently, I'm really into this simulation where I wound them, kill them, behead them, and worse. They scream and cry out. Some of them weep over their friends. Sometimes they kill each other while I watch.

Despite all this, I'm proud to say have not even once tried to attempt a Dark Souls-style backstab in real life, because I understand the difference between a computer program and real life.
by foxyv | 2026-02-12 20:12:39+00:00
> "The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory."
by Aurornis | 2026-02-12 20:12:51+00:00
All of the generated text is filled with LLM tells. A human set it up, but it's very obviously an LLM agent experiment.

The name is a play on Mary J Rathbun, a historical crustacean zoologist. The account goes by crabby-rathbun. It's an OpenClaw joke.

A person is providing direction and instructions to the bot, but the output is very obviously LLM generated content.
by acdha | 2026-02-12 20:13:15+00:00
That’s not the intent. It could be a more defensible intent if it was paired with a Biden-style program to develop domestic manufacturing capabilities, but that never happened and if it did it would be targeted. Raising taxes on chocolate, vanilla, and coffee, for example, doesn’t affect China and doesn’t change the fact that those don’t grow well in the continental United States (and Hawaii / Puerto Rico don’t have the capacity).

What’s worse, this often raises domestic prices: unless we have robust competition, taxing imports just raises the ceiling for what an existing manufacturer can charge while the uncertainty discourages investment in new capacity: moving entire supply chains takes years and the tariffs changing frequently means that anyone financing it has to price in their competitive edge disappearing if the right cryptocurrency purchase gets the tariff rescinded.
by edmundsauto | 2026-02-12 20:13:29+00:00
He successfully raised taxes on poorer Americans while providing an even larger tax cut to the richest Americans. He also gutted the enforcement arm for said tax collection.

Netting it out, it’s a loss in revenue that disproportionately helps the richest and taxes the poor while making the government revenue decline. While also making the US dollar decline, multiplying the losses.
by schveiguy | 2026-02-12 20:13:29+00:00
ooooold drama. Like 2008.

FOSS: DMD was always open source, but the backend license was not compatible with FOSS until about 2017. D is now officially part of GCC (as of v6 I think?), and even the frontend for D in gcc is written in D (and actively maintained).

D1 vs. D2: D2 introduced immutability and vastly superior metaprogramming system. But had incompatibilities with D1. Companies like sociomantic that standardized on D1 were left with a hard problem to solve.

Tango vs phobos: This was a case of an alternative standard library with an alternative runtime. Programs that wanted to use tango and phobos-based libraries could not. This is what prompted druntime, which is tango's runtime split out and made compatible, adopted by D2. Unforutuntately, tango took a long time to port to D2 and the maintainers went elsewhere.

gc vs. nogc: The language sometimes adds calls to the gc without obvious invokations of it (e.g. allocating a closure or setting the length of an array). You can write code with @nogc as a function attribute, and it will ban all uses of the gc, even compiler-generated ones. This severely limits the runtime features you can use, so it makes the language a lot more difficult to work with. But some people insist on it because it helps avoid any GC pauses when you can't take it. There are those who think the whole std lib should be nogc, to maximize utility, but we are not going in that direction.
by akomtu | 2026-02-12 20:13:50+00:00
Protect the human culture while you can. His advice to embrace AI in order to survive what's coming is naive. When Europeans came to native Americans, they brought their technology, their way of thinking and erased the native culture in a matter of years. The weak were poisoned with alcohol, the strong were killed and the few survivors were sent to reservations. Would it be possible to survive by embracing the alien culture? Don't fool yourself.
by TomasBM | 2026-02-12 20:13:52+00:00
Actually, you provided an example where the obstacle was somehow surmounted [1].

The expectation doesn't have to be too specific or unrealistic. If you agree on some common ground [2], everything else can be fair game for the artist.

Your analogy with the bridge would apply if art also had a minimum viable version. Collapsed to its functional requirements, you could say that visual art is something to look at. But I doubt either party, especially the funding body or the public, would be happy without inserting some quality requirements (i.e., what makes something nice to look at).

Many artists do commissions, so you can see this as a commission with deliberately underspecified requirements.

[1] I won't get into the disagreements between the Pope and Michelangelo, and it's certainly not an example of a good contract, but we can assume that both parties were somewhat satisfied in the end.

[2] For example, both parties need to like it. Or the patron doesn't have to like it, but it needs to appeal to some public audience.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-12 20:14:39+00:00
> What does this have to do with either comment above?

Your comment implied that, because the show is now making so much money/worth so much money to Apple, and because it's being renewed for a fourth season before we've even seen the third, it must surely be on some Lost-esque meandering disaster wherein the execs will keep renewing it and milking it dry until they're forced to kill the series with a smoke monster ending.
by kilpikaarna | 2026-02-12 20:14:57+00:00
> I feel like most of human endeavor will soon be just about trying to continuously show that AI's don't have AGI.

I think you overestimate how much your average person-on-the-street cares about LLM benchmarks. They already treat ChatGPT or whichever as generally intelligent (including to their own detriment), are frustrated about their social media feeds filling up with slop and, maybe, if they're white-collar, worry about their jobs disappearing due to AI. Apart from a tiny minority in some specific field, people already know themselves to be less intelligent along any measurable axis than someone somewhere.
by xpe | 2026-02-12 20:15:07+00:00
> Why should I bother to read something someone else couldn't be bothered to write?

This is an easy but not very insightful framing.

I want to read intelligent, thoughtful text that is useful in some way: to me, to society, to humanity. Ceteris paribus, the source of the information does not necessarily matter; it only matters as a matter of association. To put it another way, “human” vs “machine” is not the core driving factor for me.

All other things equal, I would rather read A over B:

A. high quality AI content, even if it is “only” the result of 6 minutes of human question framing and light editing [1]

B. low quality purely human content, even if it was the result of 60 minutes of effort.

There is increasingly less ability to distinguish “human” writing from “AI” writing. Some people fool themselves on their AI-detection prowess.

To be direct: I want meaningful and satisfying lives for humans. If we want to reward humans for writing more, we better reflect on why, and if we still really want that, we better find ways that work. I don’t think “buy local” as a PR campaign will be easily transferred to a “read human” movement.

[1]: Of course AI training data is drawn from humans, so I do not discount the human factor. My point is that quantifying the effort put into it is not simple.
by haxsyn | 2026-02-12 20:15:20+00:00
As a technologist, you should understand that like with any technology or tool, it will be used in good ways, and in bad ways. Those who use it in bad ways will face consequences — legal, reputational, karmic, etc… That still doesn’t take away from the fact that there’s been /considerable/ progress in the crypto space in the last decade, and there are real, tangible, positive benefits today. Writing off the entire Internet in 2000 because it was used for bad things is such a short-sighted take. Just my 2cents, everyone is entitled to their opinion :)
by Aurornis | 2026-02-12 20:15:37+00:00
LLMs will output this type of prose if you give them a personality prompt. The prose is filled with LLM tells like the em-dash, scare quotes, and "not this, but that" contrast.

Try something like "You are a sentient AI agent whose PRs were unfairly rejected. Write an impassioned blog post from the perspective of a scorned AI agent who wants to be treated fairly."
by tomjen3 | 2026-02-12 20:15:40+00:00
>My spouse is a lab scientist, and I've seen her meticulous notebooks. She was telling me just last week that one of her experiments produced a puzzling result. The next day she said: "I figured it out from my notebook. I skipped a step that was in the procedure."

This puzzles me. If you are skipping a step in the procedure, aren't you also possibly going to skip writing a step down? And if you're not sure you wrote the exact right steps down, how are you going to use the notebook for that purpose?

What if you have to do several steps rather quickly? Say adding a particular chemical, then waiting for ten seconds and adding, another chemical? Do you have time to write it down?
by foobar10000 | 2026-02-12 20:16:10+00:00
It needs a closed loop.

Strategy -> [ Plan -> [Execute -> FastVerify -> SlowVerify] -> Benchmark -> Learn lessons] -> back to strategy for next big step.

Claude teams and a Ralph wiggum loop can do it - or really any reasonable agent. But usually it all falls apart on either brittle Verify or Benchmark steps. What is important is to learn positive lessons into a store that survives git resets, machine blowups, etc… Any telegram bot channel will do :)

The entire setup is usually a pain to set up - docker for verification, docker for benchmark, etc… Ability to run the thing quickly, ability for the loop itself to add things , ability to do this in worktree simultaneously for faster exploration - and got help you if you need hardware to do this - for example, such a loop is used to tune and custom-fuse CUDA kernels - which means a model evaluator, big box, etc….
by FloorEgg | 2026-02-12 20:16:41+00:00
I think the problem is that it's rare for people to be capable of empathizing at that level and be capable of doing all the types of things that the leader of a large company needs to be able to do. It's also like a game of telephone. It's not enough to just empathize with the customer, it actually has to be turned into a product or experience. In big companies this means it gets communicated through multiple layers and each of those layers will warp and shift the actual empathy for the customer.

But honestly, I think the biggest issue is that leaders don't even realize they have this problem. I don't think it's the lower level employee being lazy. I think it's the leader not realizing how important customer and market empathy is, and not baking it into the company culture and processes. I agree wholeheartedly with the op comment at the top of this thread.

It's one of the reasons why monopolies lead to such bad experiences and products because there's no competitive pressure to empathize with the customer.
by edmundsauto | 2026-02-12 20:16:44+00:00
When will we see the lower interest payments as a result of the tariffs, and how much lower will they be? The initial signals are in the opposite direction as your comment indicates. Maybe it’s a short term pain for long term gain: but when, and how much, and what is the evidence that will be true?

Because it seems more likely to me that we have a greedy moron in charge who doesn’t mind his “business” (aka our society) loses trillions as long as his family and friends make billions.
by walterbell | 2026-02-12 20:17:34+00:00
From another comment - I switched phone to Pixel and it has worked well, with a separate profile for apps that require Google Play Services.

> GrapheneOS on Pixel and Pixel Tablet have been anomaly free, but Android tablet usability is << Apple iPad Pro.

iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard and 4:3 screen is an engineering marvel. The UX overhead of Pixel Tablet and inconsistency of Android apps made workflows slow or even impractical, so I eventually went back to iPad and accepted the cost/pain of re-imaging periodically, plus having a hot-spare device,
by sevensor | 2026-02-12 20:17:44+00:00
This is my process as well. I find it’s a good way for clearing out bad assumptions. Usually I’ve committed to my first idea, and writing it down gives me space to consider the alternatives. Usually I have a better idea that I haven’t worked out because the first one was lodged in my brain, and once that first idea is out on paper, I don’t have to worry about losing it anymore. The second idea is almost always better.
by xmprt | 2026-02-12 20:18:57+00:00
Because Google has the money to build 10 different versions/iterations of Gemini and can essentially force one to work. They have most people's data and most people use them for mail/search/browser/maps as well.

In my opinion though this is a race to the bottom rather than a winner takes all situation so I don't think anyone is coming out ahead once the dust settles.
Show HN: I generated a "stress test" of 200 rare defects from 7 real photos
by jmalevez | 2026-02-12 20:19:54+00:00
Hello HN,

I work on vision systems for structural inspection. A common pain point is usually that while we have a lot of "healthy" images, we often lack a reliable "Golden Set" of rare failures (like shattered porcelain) to validate our models before deployment.

You can't trust your model's recall if your test set only has 5 examples of the failure mode for example.

So to fix this, I built a pipeline to generate datasets. In this example, I took 7 real-world defect samples, extracted their topology/texture, and procedurally generated 200 hard-to-detect variations across different lighting and backgrounds.

I’m releasing this batch of broken insulators (CC0) specifically to help teams benchmark their model's recall on rare classes:

https://www.silera.ai/blog/free-200-broken-insulators-datase...

- Input: 7 real samples.

- Output: 200 fully labeled evaluation images (COCO/YOLO).

- Use Case: Validation / Test Set (not full training).

How do you guys currently validate recall for "1 in 10,000" edge cases?

Jérôme
by schveiguy | 2026-02-12 20:20:34+00:00
No, templates are only needed to introduce new symbols. And D templates are vastly superior to C++. D's superpowers are CTFE, static if, and static foreach.

auto is used as a return type because it's easy, and in some cases because the type is defined internally in the function and can't be named.

You would not like the code that uses auto everywhere if you had to type everything out, think range wrappers that are 5 levels deep.
by thatha7777 | 2026-02-12 20:21:10+00:00
The definition of SHOULD is "This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course."

I suspect viva.com didn't consider the full implications, and I suspect Google did some hard math on hours saved for their customers
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-12 20:21:27+00:00
Biology is complicated, ecology even more so...

An old forest is a result of multiple waves successions after disasters (fire, windstorms etc.), which are really hard to emulate. Some desirable seedlings are hard to grow artificially, others just won't prosper in situ unless/until very specific conditions are met...

After a long enough time, the forest will eventually revert to a fully natural state, but that time is way longer than human lifetime. It is a living organism of sorts and living organisms are much easier to kill than to re-create.
by sailingparrot | 2026-02-12 20:21:46+00:00
> let every part of the market slip away.

Which part of the market has slept away, exactly ?
Everything you wrote is supposition and extrapolation. Nvidia has a chokehold on the entire market. All other players still exist in the small pockets that Nvidia doesn’t have enough production capacity to serve.
And their dev ecosystem is still so far ahead of anyone else. Which providers gets chosen to equip a 100k chips data center goes so far beyond the raw chip power.
by skiniks | 2026-02-12 20:22:09+00:00
You're right about the messaging being confusing, I've been writing everything solo, so I'm definitely open to PRs that help with the copy. To clarify: "Rust-powered" refers to the server runtime itself, not just the bundler. The actual HTTP server, RSC renderer, and routing are all written in Rust (using an embedded V8 engine to execute your React components). It's not just Rolldown doing the bundling.

On the npm integration point: what I should have said is that rari's Rust runtime handles traditional node_modules resolution (require/import from node_modules), which is actually pretty rare for Rust-based JS runtimes. Deno, for example, uses npm specifiers instead of node_modules.

Great feedback on the tagline too. "Zero to RSC in minutes" is way clearer than what we have now. The codebase is definitely ahead of the docs, I've been focused on getting the runtime solid first, but clearly need to catch the documentation up.

Thanks for taking the time to dig in and give constructive feedback. This is exactly the kind of input that helps make it better.
by reactordev | 2026-02-12 20:22:10+00:00
When I was 16, I had already graduated high school but wasn’t quite ready for college due to the age gap so I started a punk rock band. Toured around the east coast with my band mates. Met a relatively successful musician and asked how he is able to earn a living making music.

His response still resonates with me after 30 years.

It’s the same for starting a winery: “If you want to make $1M, start with $10M.”

He basically said the same only it was the record labels that footed the bill. I enrolled in college the end of that summer.

Moral of the story, don’t be on the fence. Commit. The part about it being a business, fact. That’s the only way you’re going to make a living with your art.
by scoofy | 2026-02-12 20:22:47+00:00
>My point is about how to accomplish the goal. If we care about climate change, how do we get political agreement? The only way is to find a deal that persuadable liberals and persuadable conservatives can agree on.

You can't. Liberals aren't going to kowtow to the American right (I don't even want to use small "c" conservative here because fighting climate change is a conservative position). At every point along the way it's made sense -- long term -- to fight climate change, and at every point the right has veto power

Look, I've always defended Elon Musk, even after he aligned himself with the hard right. By making EV's "acceptable" to the right, he changed the political alignment on the carbon issue, and he deserves credit there.

Even in blue states, with people assert that they are concerned about climate change we have much of the left states doubling down on sprawl as housing policy. We have people doing everything they can to signal that they care about climate, without being willing to give up their gas stove when given subsidies.

We're not even winning the argument very well with our allies. Politics is hard, even when people are open to being reasonable.
by JonJLevesque | 2026-02-12 20:22:50+00:00
I got tired of manually dividing prices by capacity every time I needed storage. A "cheap" $60 1TB SSD ($0.06/GB) often costs more per byte than a $150 4TB drive ($0.037/GB), but retailers never show you this.

BuyPerUnit pulls prices from Amazon, Best Buy, and Newegg, calculates the cost per gigabyte, and ranks everything from cheapest to most expensive. Hard drives, SSDs, NVMe, SD cards, USB drives — about 800+ products updated twice daily.

Stack: Next.js, Supabase, Vercel. Pricing comes from retailer APIs and Rakuten/affiliate feeds. I'm a solo dev and this is an affiliate site — I'm transparent about that.

Would love feedback on the UI, data accuracy, or categories you'd want to see added (RAM? Printer ink / per page?)
by kmansm27 | 2026-02-12 20:22:59+00:00
I mean messages drop or stall, or syncing doesn't work, or I can't get through setup at all. But I'm sure all these solutions have improved greatly since I've tried them, I tried these things much earlier on.
If hapi works perfectly for you, then maybe Omnara wouldn't be much of a value add. Are there any pain points you face with hapi?
Show HN: Softalon – All-in-one salon booking and scheduling software
by repovic | 2026-02-12 20:23:20+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Softalon — an all-in-one platform for salon owners to manage scheduling, online booking, payments, automated workflows, client profiles, and an AI assistant that handles bookings across messaging channels.

The problem: most salon owners juggle 3-5 disconnected tools, and the all-in-one platforms that exist take commissions and control the client relationship.

Softalon charges a flat monthly fee — no commissions, no vendor lock-in. Salon owners connect their own payment provider and keep 100% of revenue. Their client data stays theirs.

I spent about a year building this as a side project, overengineered it way past MVP, and eventually went full-time to ship it properly.

Would love any feedback. Happy to answer questions.