MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spankalee | 2026-02-14 18:52:27+00:00
Wow, this looks potentially amazing!

I've been look for a way to use Git for smaller, high volume document storage - think something like Google docs where every doc is a repo and every change is a commit - but also, where the vast majority of docs age out and are effectively archived and not used, but still need to be available.

This looks like it technically, I just wonder how well the pricing scales for that case of docs that might never be read again...
by flax | 2026-02-14 18:52:37+00:00
That appears to be more than a centimeter thick, and not particularly flexible. It's more like ski goggles than a sleep mask.

So yeah, a product exists that claims to be a sleep mask with these features. Maybe someone could even sleep while wearing that thing, as long as they sleep on their back and don't move around too much. I remain skeptical that it actually does the things it claims and has the battery life it claims. This is kickstarter after all. Regardless, this would qualify as the device in question for the article. Or at least inspiration for it.

Without evidence such as wireshark logs, programs, protocol documentation, I'm not convinced that any of this actually _happened_.
by gruez | 2026-02-14 18:53:23+00:00
>Apple has surprised us before

It really isn't. The reason I used the specific wording for "records kept in the usual course of business" is that's the legal standard for subpoenable information. It shouldn't be surprising to any legal expert that it was fair game for the government to request. The only thing surprising is that we didn't know it specifically happened before, so it's only as "surprising" as chatgpt logs being subpoenaed. Yes, it's "surprising" for the people using chatgpt as their therapist and think it should have been protected, but ask any lawyer and they'll all agree it's fair game. On the other hand forcing apple to specifically insert a backdoor runs into all sorts of constitution/due process issues.
by mbreese | 2026-02-14 18:54:23+00:00
This looks like a nice project!

I always have a love hate relationship with bookmarks. I tend to treat bookmarks as a write once read never datastore. I have a set of 2-3 bookmarklets that I use often, but almost never use other bookmarks. I do keep an archive of pages or links I find interesting, but I store those in a separate archive (self hosted Karakeep).

So, I’m legitimately curious — for the author or others — how do you use bookmarks? What is your personal usage pattern? Do you have many pages you need to keep track of? Is there much churn or adding of new bookmarks? I’d like to make beater use of my stored links, but right now it is really a write-only archive.
by onli | 2026-02-14 18:54:31+00:00
Then I think I disagree with the specifics of that statement, or am I reading this wrong? The porta pros have to sound better than the average IEM, or think of the KSC 75 for another quite nice option in that space. Especially for the price. And I'm not even sure that speakers sound better than headphones most of the time.

+1 though for the thought that the medium makes the biggest part of the sound quality.
by xp84 | 2026-02-14 18:55:22+00:00
Tenuous relevance, but a different stock market game written in BASIC on the Apple II (well, I only had access to the Franklin Ace clone) was my initial motivation at age 10 or so to try programming. It was a pretty thrilling amount of power to a 10-year-old to be able to rename all the companies after my friends or whatever jokes I wanted, and next to alter the rules to get more money. It’s a good thing BASIC was everywhere in the 80s — so many books and computer manuals had enough information that it was easy to find a source to learn the (no pun intended) basics.
by cardanome | 2026-02-14 18:55:53+00:00
Oh I am sorry for highlighting one of the side effects of my crippling disability.

I did not even present it as an advantage but as something that causes feelings of isolation but I guess I am bragging about it and need more humility.

My brain's filtering function is defect. Where neurotypical people see one or two possible solution my brain automatically comes up with ten which is great for creativity but also paralyzing. Where neurotypical people can easily control their focus I can't.

Now I do think people that present their ADHD as a superpower are full of shit but I think it is fair to point out that some of the aspects could also be strengths if the structure I work with would allow them to be strengths. I think that is very fair to criticize.

I assure you that a significant chunk of my energy is spend every day in adjusting my communication to the needs of neurotypical people and always second guessing myself and improving how I do that. It just sucks that they get quite angry if I ever suggested they adjust their communication just a tiny bit for my sake.
by clcaev | 2026-02-14 18:56:15+00:00
I'm curious to hear more of this "Informed Consent" based framework. I think disclosure of potential negative outcomes from a decision would help.

My concern with liquid democracy is about speed and predictability. Politics involves human relationships, traditions, compromises, etc. I'm worried rapidly switching would further erode local rule and undermine bottom up democracy. Recall referendum/elections seems to work well enough, they create a newsworthy topic so people may have time to absorb and adjust.

Regarding your question. Human behavior seems more a function of circumstances; trying on someone else's shoes can be heartbreaking, so it's often rationale to look the other way. Emotional decisions must be acceptable in a democracy: who am I to decide if someone else is being rational?

For the US, we could start by dramatically expanding the house of representatives so races become more about local human connection rather than party identity. The Senate seems immovable architectural debt, however, its role to buffer sudden change seems important.
by Seattle3503 | 2026-02-14 18:56:23+00:00
This sort of purity policing happens to other open source mission driven projects. The same thing happens to Firefox. Open source projects risk spending all their time trying to satisfy a fundamentally extreme minority, while the big commercial projects act with impunity.

It seems like it is hard to cultivate a community that cares about doing the right thing, but is focused and pragmatic about it.
by martythemaniak | 2026-02-14 18:56:44+00:00
I recently got started and as others have said, it helps to have some idea of what you want to do, since 'robotics' is such a wide field. In my case I was curious if I can get LLMs to drive a robot, so I bought a quality, mostly-assembled chassis (https://www.waveshare.com/ugv-beast.htm) that let me focus more on software and sensors. If you want more low-level stuff, you can make your own chassis (motors, 3d printed parts, arduino/esp32 programming), you can make your own attachments to chassis like the one I have, etc. On the software side, you can focus on navigation/mapping or operating actuators on a stationary base, you can run small specific models (segmentation/etc) paired with classical algorithms, you can run VLAs (LLMs that output motor actions instead of words). There's really quite a bit to do.

I wrote a bit about how I got Gemini to drive my rover here, it might give you some ideas of what the software side looks like: https://martin.drashkov.com/2026/02/letting-gemini-drive-my-...
by Larrikin | 2026-02-14 18:57:44+00:00
This feels like a reason to buy the device to me? I would want to block all of the data going to the cloud and would only want operations happening locally. But the MQTT broadcast then allows me to create a local only integration in Home Assistant with all of the data.

What's the real risk profile? Robbers can see you are asleep instead of waiting until you aren't home?

I have not implemented MQTT automations myself, but it's there a way to encrypt them? That could be a nice to have
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-14 18:57:56+00:00
It's definitely a time/energy vs quality tradeoff. You say you're not that great of a writer, and I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on that. But I can tell that your natural narration style is much higher quality and more enjoyable to read than what an LLM can generate (even if it's trying to copy your personal style).

It's a tough tradeoff for me both as a consumer and as a do-er. I am very sensitive to LLM-isms. Like many other millennials, (even if perhaps not quite most) I grew up online from a young age when text was the only viable communication medium, so I learned to notice incredibly small nuances of how someone writes and use those nuances to infer/personify the narrator. LLM's not only stick out like a sore thumb, their language actually "jams up" my 'text-personifier' neurological circuits. It's like my brain is saying "WTF? Why can't I synthesize any reasonable model of the person who wrote this?" the entire time, even if I know it's AI. That's frustrating, exhausting, and alienating.

So yeah, as I said: It's a tough tradeoff for me both as a consumer and as a do-er. I'm glad you used an LLM to do the write-up so that it shows up here and I can enjoy the work you did. I often use LLM's to write documentation at my startup for both my own reference and for my cofounders. I don't like it, but it's better than not doing it, and sometimes it's better to spend that time on other things, especially when the thing I'm documenting is subject to change very shortly.

I think the sweet spot, for me, is this:

If you're going to write it with an LLM, do so unapologetically. Put a disclaimer at the top. Understand that what you are delivering to your audience is not the LLM output, but whatever output was generated from your own input (work, vision, ingenuity, perseverance). Keep the LLM generated content concise, sharing only the necessary narrative and information to give consumers the context they need to understand whatever the actual work product is. The less slop I have to struggle through, the better - LLM's are absolutely awful at narration. And then make it easy to explore your actual work product!

I'm not sure my strategy might cause posts to never reach the front-page. I hope that our audiences can understand that this might be the best compromise and come to accept it in some cases. I will continue to point out when HN posts show strong signs of being LLM generated (as judged by my own tuned sense of nuance, empathy, and theory of mind...not whether they use em-dashes) but the intent isn't to tell people "this isn't worth reading". The intent of disclosing LLM generation is to inform people that the best way to consume the content is to switch to their personal "I'm reading LLM generated content"-mode and experience it through that lens.
by Youden | 2026-02-14 18:58:27+00:00
It depends somewhat on the specific campaign but generally in right-leaning Swiss politics, "immigrant" includes Europeans as well. I think that's definitely the case in this initiative since the text of the initiative requires ending freedom of movement with the EU.

They really don't like asylum seekers either though. Several of their arguments reference asylum seekers specifically: https://nachhaltigkeitsinitiative.ch/argumente/
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-02-14 18:58:52+00:00
i have been using vim since v4 (1999?), but in the last year+ - maybe since v9? - there's some weird defect happening only once in a while:

While walking around a file with keyboard, sometimes a random line's indent is removed - that is, text goes left-flushed. AND it's not a tracked change that can be UNDOne - as if it never happened / always has-been-so. Have not been able to correlate this to any other thing. It happens like once a few days, very rarely it might happen twice within minutes. Sometimes i notice that, sometimes i don't and (luckily) python screams of broken indentation. If the file isn't deeply nested python.. good luck.

Has anyone "achieved" such a thing?
by SmirkingRevenge | 2026-02-14 18:59:00+00:00
No side is perfect, but contrary to popular misconception, Democrats/liberals have generally been much better when it comes to restrictions on state power and support for civil liberties.

Until the COVID-conspiracism came around, vaccine mandates had been supported by a massive bi-partisan consensus - for decades - because they make sense. Just take a look at this article on The Federalist of all places, from 2015: https://thefederalist.com/2015/02/03/the-insane-vaccine-deba...

> Fundamentally, the protection against life-threatening plague is one of the original reasons government exists. We’ve had mandatory vaccines for schoolchildren in America since before the Emancipation Proclamation. The Supreme Court has upheld that practice as constitutional for over a century, and only the political fringes believe there ought to be a debate about such matters. This is one of the few areas where government necessarily exercises power.

> You shouldn’t be compelled to vaccinate your child, but neither should the rest of us be compelled to pretend like you did.

> It’s the failure to deal with those consequences that frustrates me about this debate. If you choose to not vaccinate your children, that is your choice. In the absence of an immediate threat, such as a life-threatening plague or outbreak, the state doesn’t have a compelling reason to administer that vaccination by force or to infringe on your rights. But that doesn’t mean there are no tradeoffs for such a decision. If you choose not to vaccinate, private and public institutions should be able to discriminate on that basis.
by mathgladiator | 2026-02-14 18:59:21+00:00
Since I'm dealing with how good claude code is, I gave a research task to claude to help my in-laws (who are psychologists) understand the coming storm at a more visceral level.

AI produced this: https://nexivibe.com/future.mental.health.web/index.html

I can't argue with the urgency. I then had claude produce a prompt based on this that I could feed Grok as a project to do therapy, and the result was shockingly good.

Obviously, Dr. Oz is going to be a political lightning rod for some people, but if you factor that out and try using AI for therapy... this is coming. This is happening right now.
by pron | 2026-02-14 18:59:22+00:00
> It was an overall improvement than those and therefore there is a legit reason for it to take off.

Of course. The rate of adoption is related to the increase in value compared to the status quo, much like how genes spread. But Rust's adoption is slow precisely because its "fitness benefit" is low.

> That would almost always cause problems but for greenfield projects it's a no brainer IMO.

It would have been a no brainer if, when writing a new codebase expected to last 20 years or more (which is often the case with software written in low-level languages), you'd believe the chosen language to be very popular over the next few deacdes. But given its slow adoption compared to languages that ended up achieving that status, despite it's rather old age, it's not looking like a safe bet, which is why Rust's adoption for important greenfield projects is also low (again, relative to other languages).
by gtowey | 2026-02-14 18:59:33+00:00
Yes, because as a company who's main features were Farmville and posting pics of your food, it was ridiculously overvalued.

But we all underestimated just how ruthless Zuck would be in turning Facebook into a machine for disseminating propaganda and invading our privacy. It has become more akin to Palantir than MySpace because that's where the money is.
by mhb | 2026-02-14 19:00:37+00:00
>> ... Accordingly, the mission of HonestReporting is to ensure truth, integrity and fairness, and to combat ideological prejudice in journalism and the media, as it impacts Israel.

> The name seems to be a red herring, their mission statement is to protect Israel.

Even according to your quote, your rephrasing is inaccurate.
by hxtk | 2026-02-14 19:01:04+00:00
When I look at historical cases, it seems different from a case today. If I’m a programmer in the 60s wanting async in my “low level language,” what I actually want is to make some of the highest level languages available at the time even more high level in their IO abstractions. C was a high-level language when it was invented, as opposed to assembly with macros. They were pursuing a new state of the art for high level abstraction.

A language doing it today is doing it in the context of an ecosystem where even higher level languages exist and they have made the choice to target a lower level of abstraction.
by Tempest1981 | 2026-02-14 19:01:41+00:00
I think the challenge would be picking those 10 people, in a way that is satisfying to you and everyone. (Is there a good way to find 9 like-minded people on the internet who have spare time?)

And to prevent commercial and political interests from joining the community, and later overwhelming the original core team.

I think you're asking the author to organize a structure like Wikipedia, with talk pages and topic experts, which would be a significant undertaking.
by trollbridge | 2026-02-14 19:01:50+00:00
I would go to the library on my bicycle to scour for a new copy of DDJ as a 10 year old.

I had dreams of someday meeting “Dr.
Dobbs.” Of course, that was back in the day when Microsoft mailed me a free Windows SDK with printed manuals when I sent them a letter asking them how to write Windows programs, complete with a note from somebody important (maybe Ballmer) wishing me luck programming for Windows. Wish I’d kept it.
by metrix | 2026-02-14 19:03:09+00:00
So we get so worked up over this stuff, and for good reason. But personally I'm taking another stance...

let them..

It's not my choice to make someone understand what's best for an individual or as a group. Let them make these decisions, and learn for themselves. Will this cause issues where I am at risk of getting measles? Or that kids could get sick over non pasteurized milk? yes, but we're back in a place where people have to feel the pain.

That's not to judge, or belittle or put anyone down. There's people who have views and values that conflict and that's OK.. Even if it's not the best for us a whole.
by anon7000 | 2026-02-14 19:03:19+00:00
The shareholders don’t care. Yet another example in the long list of late stage capitalism problems.

The only thing these executives are allowed to care about is money & profit. If Trump is able to unilaterally threaten those profits (via tariffs or other regulations), obviously the executives have to respond to that.

Plus, Trump has proven to be extremely receptive to farcical “bribes” — just look at the “FIFA peace prize.” It doesn’t take much to placate his ego.

So the rational, easy path through for the executives is to get with the program and play nice with Trump.

Are they spineless cowards? Sure, but since when does capitalism and shareholders incentivize anything else?
by staplung | 2026-02-14 19:03:23+00:00
The sling seems like it has a steeper learning curve and colorful failure modes, like breaking a sliding glass door or somesuch. You might have better luck with a fairly low draw-weight bow and some blunt rubber-tipped arrows.

My guess is that deer wouldn't be frightened by a drone but the sound is pretty annoying. Maybe it would be a good Pavlovian conditioning trigger to pair with some other deterrent.

Could you put sprinklers out there?
by eshaham78 | 2026-02-14 19:03:33+00:00
Great question. In our production experience, the hybrid approach (BM25 + vector) typically wins for most use cases around 70/30 split favoring keyword for exact matches. The key insight is that reranking becomes critical - without it, you're just concatenating results and hoping. We typically use cross-encoder rerankers (like Cohere or custom fine-tuned models) to score the combined results. The break-even point for pure semantic search is usually when queries are abstract concept-heavy, not entity-specific.
by ninjagoo | 2026-02-14 19:03:36+00:00
Perhaps the AI slop isn't worth preserving, but the unarchivability of news and other useful content has implications for future public discourse, historians, legal matters and who knows what else.

In the past libraries used to preserve copies of various newspapers, including on microfiche, so it was not quite feasible to make history vanish. With print no longer out there, the modern historical record becomes spotty if websites cannot be archived.

Perhaps there needs to be a fair-use exception or even a (god forbid!) legal requirement to allow archivability? If a website is open to the public, shouldn't it be archivable?
Show HN: File Brain – Local file search with OCR and semantic search
by Hamza5 | 2026-02-14 19:03:43+00:00
I’ve released File Brain, an open-source tool for searching your local files with the power of a modern search engine.

Unlike typical file explorers, it uses Typesense for typo-tolerant and semantic search, and Apache Tika to extract text from over 1000 formats (including OCR for images/PDFs). It operates entirely locally and is read-only, so it won't mess with your file structure.

Repo: https://github.com/Hamza5/file-brain
by Snow_Falls | 2026-02-14 19:03:51+00:00
"Do you not learn anything about Islam in schools where you live? I'm sure you must have spent at least few hours at History class covering Islam expansion starting with Mohamed."
I am ex-muslim, I am aware of islamic history. And what of it? Do christians want to crusade for the levant still? Why are you pointing to literal ancient history?

"You want more people from cultures who think exactly like that"
Many don't think like this. I do not want or not want them.

"You believe Muslim women should be baby factories for the West."
No I don't, why would you think otherwise?

On second though, you simply extracted what things you could best insult me with from my reply and put words in my mouth, I will no longer be engaging in this. Goodbye.
by GorbachevyChase | 2026-02-14 19:04:11+00:00
I’m not sure where you’ve been the last four years, but we’ve come a long way from GPT 3.5. There is a good chance your work environment does not permit the use of helpful tools. This is normal.

I’m also not sure why programmatically generated code is inherently untrustworthy but code written by some stranger who is confidence in motives are completely unknown to you is inherently trustworthy. Do we really need to talk about npm?
by lich_king | 2026-02-14 19:04:22+00:00
It's fashionable to dunk on audiophiles because many of their beliefs are silly and there are businesses that prey on them selling them "oxygen-free" cables and stuff like that. And some of their beliefs are auto-suggestion. But here's another way to look at it: some audio setups will sound better than others in your living room, because of a million variables you can't really control for. Maybe one manufacturer compensates for speaker characteristics in a different way and that accidentally works better with the speaker you have and the room you're in. Maybe it's the deficiencies of the amplifier that prevent resonance from a nearby bookshelf. Or a ceiling lamp. Or maybe they cause resonance that actually sounds good to you.

So yeah, audiophiles are in over their heads and tend to attribute near-mystical properties to individual electronic components, but the only tool they can rely on is trial and error. So if you can afford it, and if some of it seemingly sounds better... have fun? You're going to make mistakes, but that's not the end of the world.
by fooker | 2026-02-14 19:04:22+00:00
> plain old Nazis kicking around, holding offices and passing laws

This happened everywhere, to an extent that is genuinely surprising to me.

Pretty much every German company and government position post WW2 is in this category. And funnily enough, a good number of American organizations.

Chile's president is the son of a Nazi.

Japan went on operating business as usual except for the invading China part.