MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dijit | 2026-02-23 12:11:57+00:00
I'd make an argument for the idea that Siri (like the touch-based keyboard) has actually regressed.

I recall scoffing at the idea of a touchscreen based keyboard due to how close the buttons were already on my Nokia E63- and contending that without the tactile differentiation I wouldn't be able to effectively type.

Even on a 4" screen, it worked wonderfully, almost like magic.

Nowadays I'm forced to have a much larger screen and yet I make significantly more mistakes than I used to.

The same is true for Siri, things like "Hows the weather outside" and "I'm thinking of going for a walk" would bring back results like "It's currently raining" or "Bring a jacket, it will be cold".

There were also all kinds of fun interactions hidden in there.

Now it's "if you ask me again on your computer"; or "I found some web results".

My Homepod insists that it doesn't know where I live too, despite it being listed in the settings. And I can't ask it about my environment unless I use VERY specific wording despite it having a digital termometer built-in (based on the fact I can see it in my Home app).

Idk, something is fucky in the land of "once great" software from Apple.
by Betelbuddy | 2026-02-23 12:12:04+00:00
If you take that page and apply one simple filter, that is which of these are actually profitable standalone businesses as of 2026, the list collapses fast. And only a small minority, Stripe, Airbnb, Dropbox, maybe Uber after 13 years...are slightly profitable. Many others were acquired early, remain VC subsidized, or are open source projects.

This list does not show HN is bad at predicting outcomes, it shows how strong survivorship bias can be, when only remembering the rare successes.

Remember the founders of Google, tried to sell their business for one 1 million dollars, even discounting at a point to 750k... and still had no takers...
by Terretta | 2026-02-23 12:12:39+00:00
Why are the backs upside down from POV browsing the Musidex?

Final animated GIF drives this home.

You only see one side at a time, never the other way round. The back art and QR code should be pasted and taped "upside down" so right side up when top card's face (bottom card's hidden back).

For the list of improvements to next one...
by throwpoaster | 2026-02-23 12:12:40+00:00
> On Christmas Eve, 9 “peer-reviewed” economics papers were quietly retracted by Elsevier, the world’s largest academic publisher.

It is becoming clearer and clearer that peer review is a systematized band wagon fallacy.

It relies on the belief that one’s peers in a competitive field, presented with new ideas and evidence, will simply accept it.

And yet, “science progresses one funeral at a time” is an old joke.

“Peer review” is an indication an idea is safe for granting agency bureaucrats to fund, not an indication of its truth, validity, or utility.
by noirscape | 2026-02-23 12:13:24+00:00
Well for one, Servo isn't just JavaScript, it's an entire engine. Closer to Blink & Gecko.

Secondly, Ladybird wants to be a fourth implementor in the web browsers we have today. Right now there's pretty much three browser engines: Blink, Gecko and WebKit (or alternatively, every browser is either Chrome, Firefox or Safari). Ladybird wants to be the fourth engine and browser in that list.

Servo also wants to be the fourth engine in that list, although the original goal was to remove Gecko and replace it with Servo (which effectively wouldn't change the fact there's only three browsers/three engines). Then Mozilla lost track of what it was doing[0] and discarded the entire Servo team. Nowadays Servo isn't part of Mozilla anymore, but they're clearly much more strapped for resources and don't seem to be too interested in setting up all the work to make a Servo-based browser.

The question of "why not use Servo" kinda has the same tone as "why are people contributing to BSD, can't they just use Linux?". It's a different tool that happens to be in the same category.

[0]: Or in a less positive sense, went evil.
by vidarh | 2026-02-23 12:13:26+00:00
> Actually knowing Tolkien well has been helpful because the way he writes is very anglo-saxon, not so even his word choices but just the rhythm or syntax.

In English class at school in Norway, I went through a phase after reading LOTR in Eglish for the first time, where I'd frustrate my teacher by using words that were archaic enough that my teacher had to look them up.

> Old English thinking it would be more like German, but really it is much more like English than people think IMO.

Compare it to Old Norse, and Old Dutch, though, and there are many similarities that stand out. My Norwegian lessons very brief foray into Old Norse definitely made it easier for me to dechipher parts of Old English and Old Dutch (the latter also helped a lot by my halting German). I think a lot of the similarities comes down to learning to recognise a few of the key sound and ortography shifts, at which point they start to look a lot more similar than it looks at first glance.
EV424 Evidence Definition
by lws9262 | 2026-02-23 12:13:28+00:00
EV424 Evidence Definition

Don’t Trust, Verify.
Not a single byte changes.
If it cannot be reproduced, it is not evidence.
We respond with reproducible evidence, not words.

Without accuracy, truth is impossible.
Without truth, life cannot follow.
That is why EV424 allows no error, not even a single byte.

Accuracy(4)=Truth(2)=Life(4)
by Someone | 2026-02-23 12:13:35+00:00
> Since lidar has distance information and cameras do not, it was always a ridiculous idea by a certain company to use cameras only

Human eyes do not have distance information, either, but derive it well enough from spatial (by ‘comparing’ inputs from 2 eyes) or temporal parallax (by ‘comparing’ inputs from one eye at different points in time) to drive cars.

One can also argue that detecting absolute distance isn’t necessary to drive a car. Time to-contact may be more useful. Even only detecting “change in bearing” can be sufficient to avoid collision (https://eoceanic.com/sailing/tips/27/179/how_to_tell_if_you_...)

Having said that, LiDAR works better than vision in mild fog, and if it’s possible to add a decent absolute distance sensor for little extra cost, why wouldn’t you?
by bluGill | 2026-02-23 12:13:39+00:00
Until a lawyer points out other cars see that. My car already has various sensors and in manual driving sounds alarms if there is a danger I seem not to have noticed. (There are false alarms - but most of the type I did notice and probably should have left more safety margin even though I wouldn't hit it)

also regulators gather srastics and if cars with something do better they will mandate it.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-23 12:14:11+00:00
Tasks might have prerequisites or conditions.

Like "if it's raining, remind me to grab my umbrella before I leave for work"

-> "is it raining?" requires a tool call to a weather service

-> "before I leave for work" needs access to the user's calendar and information when they leave compared to the time their work day starts

-> "remind me" needs a way to communicate to the user in an efficient way, Telegram, iMessage or Whatsapp for example.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-23 12:14:31+00:00
> American designs are aerodynamically better

But that goes directly against TFA, doesn't it? The final image is closer to the European design than the American one? Or am I misunderstanding the article?

> they are potenitilly safer

Maybe for the occupants, but for everyone else they seem strictly worse, not to mention the visibility much be much much worse, making it a somwhat iffy tradeoff.
Show HN: Patentfig.ai AI-generated patent drawings
by xueshufun | 2026-02-23 12:14:34+00:00
Hi HN,
I built PatentFig.ai to solve a frustrating problem I kept running into: patent drawings are technically demanding, expensive to outsource, and incredibly time-consuming to do manually — yet they're mandatory for virtually every patent application.
Traditional options are either hiring a patent draftsman ($50–200/figure) or wrestling with CAD software for hours. Neither is great if you're an independent inventor or a startup trying to move fast.
PatentFig.ai lets you generate patent-compliant technical drawings in minutes. You describe your invention or upload a rough sketch, and the tool produces figures that follow USPTO and EPO formatting requirements — proper line weights, reference numerals, black-and-white rendering, and standardized views.
A few things I focused on:

Compliance first: the output is designed to pass examiner review, not just "look technical"
Multiple views (perspective, cross-section, exploded) from a single description
SVG output so attorneys and agents can fine-tune details before filing

Still early — currently handling mechanical and electrical inventions best. Software/UI patents and biotech figures are on the roadmap.
Would love feedback from anyone who's dealt with the patent drawing process, especially patent agents or attorneys who know the pain points better than I do.
https://patentfig.ai
Show HN: Give your LLM benchmark a built-in alarm for leakage and gaming
by tksii | 2026-02-23 12:14:56+00:00
Publishing LLM benchmarks on the Internet can cause contamination, since the benchmark can leak into training data or be used to tune models. A common mitigation is to keep the benchmark private and host a leaderboard, but that does not fully solve the problem. Participants can still overfit to a hidden test set through repeated queries. We propose CapBencher, a simple protocol that intentionally caps the best possible accuracy on a public or private benchmark. If a model scores above the cap, it is a strong black-box warning signal of leakage or gaming.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-23 12:15:02+00:00
It depends what you're trying to make. There are two things I almost always cook from scratch in the microwave, and that's trifle sponge (because I don't care if the sponge cake is going to be a bit dry and heavy, because I'm about to break it all up, mix it with diced fruit, and pour some sherry and quite a lot of jelly over it) and onion paste for curry.

If you want to make curry from scratch you can either do the whole thing in one pan and get "homestyle" curry - which is good - or you can make an onion paste by either cooking a very mildly spicy but ultimately rather bland onion soup for an hour to make the "base gravy", or by just chopping three or four onions and sticking them in the microwave on full blast for ten minutes before mooshing them with the hand blender.

Then you just bloom your spices in a bit of oil, chuck in some garlic and ginger paste (literally about the same amount of peeled garlic cloves and peeled ginger root mooshed up with the blender in a little oil and water) and let it bubble a bit, chuck in whatever veg and meat you're adding, and then slowly start adding your onion gloop, and boom, restaurant-style curry.

If you make the garlic and ginger paste in advance, and precook the meat a little (beef kind of wants to be stewed until it's tender, and then you can fire in the stock it's stewing in) then you can knock out an incredibly tasty curry in the same amount of time it takes to cook the rice.

And that's how restaurants do it, because you're not going to wait two hours for a homestyle curry to cook off properly.
by otikik | 2026-02-23 12:15:31+00:00
I am learning rust myself and one of the things I definetly didn't want to do was let Claude write all the code. But I needed guidance.

I decided to create a Claude skill called "teach". When I enable it, Claude never writes any code. It just gives me hints - progressively more detailed if I am stuck. Then it reviews what I write.

I am finding it very satisfying to work this way - Rust in particular is a language where there's little space to "wing it". Most language features are interlaced with each other and having an LLM supporting me helps a lot. "Let's not declare a type for this right now, we would have to deal with several lifetime issues, let's add a note to the plan and revisit this later".
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-23 12:16:51+00:00
I'd love them to try getting caught on audio asking a governor to find votes, and campaign on pardoning people convicted of treason because virtually no one on any part of the political spectrum would get behind that besides the most corrupted and soulless ghouls masquerading as politicians.

I could have substituted many other things up there. I was very naive when I thought getting caught on audio talking about grabbing women by the pussy and being able to do whatever you want to them because you’re a celebrity was one of those things too.
by orwin | 2026-02-23 12:16:56+00:00
My sister worked as an intern on mycelium as fertilizer. Basically, using cover crops create a small mycelium layer that helps plant grow and reduce fertilizer use (by fixing nitrogen probably). Her job was to find molecules that would make the mycelium, and only the mycelium, grow quicker.

That's a very interesting field to study, and it seems promising.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-23 12:17:04+00:00
Indeed. As one priest in graduate school said to me (and with which I agree), one should generally keep homilies short, simple, clear, and to the point. In most cases, it isn’t the proper place for an extended theological meditation.

Of course, people ought to realize that the purpose of the mass is not the homily, but the sacrifice of the eucharist, which is the “source and summit of the Christian life”.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-23 12:17:04+00:00
I have used only microwave ovens with rotary knobs.

They had a finer resolution of 10 seconds for short times, then the resolution was progressively coarser for longer times, e.g. of 30 seconds for times over 10 minutes.

This is perfectly adequate for finding optimum times, and I cook in a microwave oven all the food that I am eating, from raw ingredients.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-23 12:17:41+00:00
> then these two teams are essentially in a race against each other and the port will likely never catch up

Ladybird appears to have the discipline to have recognized this: “[Rust] is not becoming the main focus of the project. We will continue developing the engine in C++, and porting subsystems to Rust will be a sidetrack that runs for a long time.”
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-23 12:17:45+00:00
Its not the same at all though, because the right uses the deficit to excuse their selfish bullshit, like letting children starve, then they go on to increase it by more than the other side whenever they have power.

We get wildly different results, even with the similar spending.

The government exists to benefit the people, not the other way around, and only one side gets that.
by ahartmetz | 2026-02-23 12:17:52+00:00
Ah, thanks, good to know. I thought solid state power electronics had come down in price more than they apparently did. I guess it's high frequency plus high power that's still expensive. For not so high frequencies (< 1 MHz), mass production for ubiquitous switched-mode power supplies and electric cars has surely brought down the price.

(Side note, modern very high power radio transmitters might also still use some vacuum tube technology - my latest information is that there's a slow transition going on)
by mark_l_watson | 2026-02-23 12:18:17+00:00
I agree. As others have mentioned here, the authenticate with AntiGravity web popup clearly says that this authentication is only to be used with Google products.

How can Claws users miss this?

What Google could have done better: obviously implement rate throttling on API calls authenticated through the Gemini AI Pro $20/month accounts. (I thought they did this, buy apparently not?) Google tries hard to get people to get API keys, which is what I do, and there seems to be a very large free tier on API calls before my credit card gets hit every month.
by small_model | 2026-02-23 12:18:22+00:00
Err they have lots of Model Ys in Austin as Robotaxis right now with no drivers. I guess this is also 'dubious'. Look it's clear you have a huge bias I would urge you to read up on https://grokipedia.com/page/List_of_fallacies otherwise your emotional responses will blind you to reality.
by gnfargbl | 2026-02-23 12:18:29+00:00
It's how most of us are actually going to end up using AI agents for the foreseeable future, perhaps with increasing degrees of abstraction as we move to a teams-of-agents model.

The industry hasn't come up with a simple meme-format term to explain this workflow pattern yet, so people aren't excited about it. But don't worry, we'll surely have a bullshit term for it soon, and managers everywhere will be excited. In the meantime, we can just continue doing work with these new tools.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-23 12:19:08+00:00
Two of these are not like the others.

One of the things that is so deceptive is the way so many people think that ways to make money need to be both obvious and proven.

Of course you have to be very good at math or natural science to be able to figure out how to support your own research so you can get way more accomlished than you could at a unversity.

All others need not apply.

Most universities wouldn't act on your application anyway, if you got very far without being on the academic track, that could make lots of people look bad who would prefer to keep the status-quo more restrictive.

Edit: The threat to the status-quo must have gotten bigger than I thought, defensive reactions are popping up quicker than ever.
by jvillasante | 2026-02-23 12:19:12+00:00
> We’ve been searching for a memory-safe programming language to replace C++ in
Ladybird for a while now.

The article fails to explain why. What problems (besides the obvious) have been found in which "memory-safe languages" can help. Do these problems actually explain the need of adding complexity to a project like this by adding another language?

I guess AI will be involved which, at this early point in the project would make ladybird a lot less interested (at least to me).
by ramon156 | 2026-02-23 12:19:34+00:00
I'm a long-time Rust fan and have no idea how to respond. I think I need a lot more info about this migration, especially since Ladybird devs have been very vocal about being "anti-rust" (I guess more anti-hype, where Rust was the hype).

I don't know if it's a good fit. Not because they're writing a browser engine in Rust (good), but because Ladybird praises CPP/Swift currently and have no idea what the contributor's stance is.

At least contributing will be a lot nicer from my end, because my PR's to Ladybird have been bad due to having no CPP experience. I had no idea what I was doing.
by FpUser | 2026-02-23 12:19:54+00:00
I think we've come to the point when it should be the opposite for any new code, something in line of: "done without AI". Bein an old fart working in software development I have many friends working as very senior developers. Every single one of them including yours truly uses AI.

I use AI more and more. Goes like create me classes A,B,C with such and such descriptive names, take this state machine / flowchart description to understand the flow and use this particular sets of helpers declared in modules XYZ

I then test the code and then go over and look at any un-optimal and other patterns I prefer not to have and asking to change those.

After couple of iterations code usually shines. I also cross check final results against various LLMs just in case
by rob74 | 2026-02-23 12:20:01+00:00
Cool project! What I miss most about switching from CDs to digital music/streaming is the CD art/booklets. Yeah, I know, that itself was a far cry from the art on vinyl record sleeves (mostly because of size constraints), but still, if I built one of these, I would probably make the cover images bigger - or even provide a sleeve in which to insert a CD booklet (however I guess that would be difficult with a Rolodex?).
by misnome | 2026-02-23 12:20:26+00:00
Right. I had a 100% manual hobby project that did a load of parametric CAD in Python. The problem with sharing this was either actively running a server, trying to port the stack to emscripten including OCCT, or rewriting in JS, something I am only vaguely experienced in.

In ~5 hours of prompting, coding, testing, tweaking, the STL outputs are 1:1 (having the original is essential for this) and it runs entirely locally once the browser has loaded.

I don’t pretend that I’m a frontend developer now but it’s the sort of thing that would have taken me at least days, probably longer if I took the time to learn how each piece worked/fitted together.
by tianrenz | 2026-02-23 12:20:31+00:00
Most Android automation tools rely on Accessibility Service or root access, but Android keeps tightening restrictions on both.
We tried something different: what if automation lived in hardware instead of software?

TUTU is a small plug-in device that connects directly to a phone and behaves like a physical input device (like an external keyboard/mouse). Plug it in, give a voice command, and it performs actions on your phone. No root or accessibility service required.

This is still an early prototype. We’re exploring possible use cases and would really appreciate feedback. For more information, please check out https://tutuai.me and subscribe for updates.
by nananana9 | 2026-02-23 12:20:32+00:00
I'm not sure 25,000 lines translated in 2 weeks is "fast", for a naive translation between languages as similar as C++ and Rust (and Ladybird does modern RAII smart-pointer-y C++ which is VERY similar to Rust). You should easily be able to do 2000+ lines/day chunks.
by harimau777 | 2026-02-23 12:21:08+00:00
Catholic priests are forbidden from revealing anything they learn in confession under ANY circumstances. If someone comes in and confesses to a crime or that they are planning a crime, the priest can advise them to go to the police, they can counsel them that they may be in danger of hellfire if they do not, but they absolutely cannot tell anyone. The Catholic Church takes this very seriously. It is fully expected that a priest would die rather than break the confidentiality of confessions.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-23 12:21:30+00:00
I personally suspect that it’s because they had a huge hiring surge, in the last decade; mostly brogrammers.

We are now at “second generation” brogrammers, where the initial bunch are interviewing and hiring the next bunch, being careful to select jargonauts that don’t make them feel uncomfortable. They have also established the corporate culture.

Been happening in lots of companies. It’s just more jarring, with Apple, because we expect more from them.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-23 12:21:32+00:00
>75% of global desktop users run Windows

>The people who need AI assistants are overwhelmingly not developers

>They don't install Node.js. They don't use terminals. They don't git clone.

>What they need is: double-click, install, open, use

>That decision might not look "sexy" to the tech community. Mac has the aura. Linux has the religion. Windows... Windows is just the computer most people turn on every day.

>But "the computer most people turn on every day" is exactly who we want to serve.

These guys get it.

The most underserved user base for advanced computer science projects by brilliant developers.
by Betelbuddy | 2026-02-23 12:21:48+00:00
5 billion dollars will be the price of a Big Mac meal, after President Trump fourth mandate and the dollar collapse.

Historians now refer to 2029–2032 as The Great Trumparinflation. It began when President Trump, in a surprise move, appointed Kid Rock as Chair of the Federal Reserve because he "understands America and probably money too"