MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andrekandre | 2026-02-23 02:28:35+00:00
i think that is the ideal situation, but i am probably a bit pessimistic from my experience; i feel like people will experiment more but it will be more like throwing things at the wall to see what sticks instead of more focused customer research (by devs or pm/pdms alike)... anyways just my feels...

> reality is that perfection is the enemy of good

not to take too much from your point, but i would slightly modify this to something like "perfection is the enemy of good but good can be the enemy of what is needed"; we should know what the customer needs and build that, not just something (more) good... sorry for the pedantry lol we are probably not disagreeing here but anyway
by jmholla | 2026-02-23 02:29:18+00:00
Here's a little extra magic so that you don't even need to be in the root of the repository to create such a temporary file (you'll have to change the readlink invocation if you're on MacOS):

git-ignore-local () {
root=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
path=$(readlink -f "$1")
# ${path#${root}} should suffice if you don't have realpath
relpath=$(relpath -m --relative-to="$root" "$path")
echo "$relpath" >> "${root}.git/info/exclude"
}

Edit: You could also put the function contents as an executable on your PATH called `git-ignore-local` then it becomes something you can invoke as `git ignore-local`.
by Herring | 2026-02-23 02:31:16+00:00
Article didn't explain why tech doesn't work in education. It's biological. We evolved to learn from and interact with other humans, preferably the same group over a long time, so we really get to understand/mirror/like/support each other. Anyone who has tried Duolingo gets this. Drop me in China with Chinese friends and I'll learn 100x faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U
by yoyohello13 | 2026-02-23 02:31:35+00:00
Seriously, for anyone that knows how to code it’s super easy to setup your own thing. I set up an cloudflare email worker that just forwards emails to my server and Claude can send me emails back. It’s super nice because email already has all the functionality for threads and nice formatting.

Since I control the server and all the code it’s very simple to setup up schedules or new tools.
by nsainsbury | 2026-02-23 02:31:43+00:00
Just wait until we start to see the full impact of AI on learning. I suspect the results are going to be so catastrophic that there will actually be attempts to hide it.

eg. See [1] which finds:
"The report shows a rapid change over just five years. Between 2020 and 2025, the number of incoming students whose math skills were below high school level rose nearly thirtyfold and 70% of those students fell below middle school levels. This roughly translates to about one in twelve members of the freshman class."

and

"high school math grades are only very weakly linked to students’ actual math preparation."

There is simply no way you can dangle an automatic homework and assignment solver in front of kids and not absolutely destroy their motivation, desire, and ability to learn.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/annaesakismith/2025/12/11/uc-sa...
by hackit2 | 2026-02-23 02:32:55+00:00
I'm not concerned, they're accelerating research and development into hardware and more optimal models. People forget that you can locally host some of the early models quantized to 4 with reasonable inference with a 4080 and 64gb of ram. There are daily tools being released that are a simple click and run, without much hassle other than downloading the model and you're off and running.

Yes there is mad dash by Google, Oracle, Microsoft, Meta, and China not to cede their position to each other - it actually isn't about who will buy or pay for the service its more of a Business Strategic position to obtain critical mass in a new market using their massive reserve of cash. The users right now are insignificant to their goal - they probably aren't even given a second thought.
by throwaway13337 | 2026-02-23 02:32:59+00:00
These companies are engaged in a sort of AI dumping. Cheap inference below cost.

Price out competitors. Abuse your newfound dominance.

Worked for Standard Oil. It's the VC playbook.

I don't think it's going to work this time.

Tools like OpenClaw are an existential threat precisely because it allows the user control over their experience. The value in it cannot be captured by a monopoly.

The good news is that LLMs don't seem to be a very good moat. At the same time, the software moat is eroding due to those same LLMs.

Telecom tech killed telecom dominance.

With some luck, Google tech will kill Google dominance.
by xethos | 2026-02-23 02:33:05+00:00
My Zinwa (full-device, not kit) BlackBerry actually showed up, and has been my daily for several weeks. It's fantastic, and I adore it. I love the trackpad, and use it for scrolling and cursor-placement in text daily. The keyboard is an actual, honest-to-god RIM keyboard, and it feels like it. Batteries have gotten denser, but the screen is still small, and I ditched GApps - so my battery life is measured in days.

To temper expectations though: the screen ratio doesn't always work perfectly with apps, getting Google Pay can apparently be a challenge, and the LineageOS build is imperfect (though fixes have been sent, and I expect it to get better).

Should anyone pick one up, mind the antenna resistors when using the SIM removal tool - it's possible to bump them, and they'll have to be soldered back to the board for WiFi and GPS to work correctly after.

Overall, it was cheap enough [0] that I jumped on it early, and it's gone well enough that if the Q10 revival happens, I'm buying a full device and a spare mainboard immediately.

[0] Initially there were two sets of specs, and I bought the lower-end one. Later on, to simplify production, Zinwa bumped everyone to the Pro version at no extra cost.
by hsaliak | 2026-02-23 02:33:13+00:00
Google's Pro service (no idea about ultra and I have no intention to find out) is riddled with 429s. They have generous quotas for sure, but they really give you very low priority. For example, I still dont have access to Gemini 3.1 from that endpoint.
It's completely uncharacteristic of Google.

I analyzed 6k HTTP requests on the Pro account, 23% of those were hit with 429s. (Though not from Gemini-CLI, but from my own agent using code assist). The gemini-cli has a default retry backoff of 5s. That's verifiable in code, and it's a lot.

I dont touch the anti-gravity endpoint, unlike code-assist, it's clear that they are subsidizing that for user acquisition on that tool. So perhaps it's ok for them to ban users form it.

I like their models, but they also degrade. It's quite easy to see when the models are 'smart' and capacity is available, and when they are 'stupid'. They likely clamp thinking when they are capacity strapped.

Yes the models are smart, but you really cant "build things" despite the marketing if you actively beat back your users for trying. I spent a decade at Google, and it's sad to see how they are executing here, despite having solid models in gemini-3-flash and gemini-3.1
by japhyr | 2026-02-23 02:33:43+00:00
> the real culprit could simply be boiled down to a failure in classroom management and lack of enforcement against cell phones in class

I was a middle school and high school math and science teacher from 1994 through 2019. I watched the advent of internet in schools, then desktop computers in classrooms, and finally smartphones in students' hands.

I've lived a life of watching teachers and schools get blamed for not dealing better with society's issues. "Just teach kids how to use technology", "just ban phones", and "lock down irrelevant websites" is a pretty big ask when the entire industry is focused on getting kids to use these devices, apps, and sites as much as they possibly can.
by telman17 | 2026-02-23 02:36:05+00:00
I can definitely see the push for using technology in schools - what you're saying makes sense.

It's not the individual teachers I blame. I come from a family of educators and a lot of the crappy enforcement falls to the district level, who just want to make the parents happy. There is literally no reason a child needs a cell phone in class. Computers are great. Lock them down. There is nothing unreasonable about this.
by deterministic | 2026-02-23 02:36:45+00:00
Completely agree. Refinement types is a much more practical tool for software developers focusing on writing real world correct code.

Using LEAN or Coq requires you to basically convert your code to LEAN/Coq before you can start proving anything. And importing some complicated Hoare logic library. While proving things correct in Dafny (for example) feels much more like programming.
by musicale | 2026-02-23 02:36:48+00:00
Here is my understanding of the basic points:

1. Knuth laments the lack of technical ("internal") history of computing, which traces the evolution of technology and ideas, and should be of great interest to practitioners.

2. Historians typically focus on their domains of expertise - social history, culture, economics, politics, personalities, etc. - and tend to write non-technical ("external") history of computing.

3. The people who have the relevant technical expertise - practioners, researchers, and scholars within the computing field - are qualified to write this technical history, but have basically zero economic incentive to do so. There is no reward for industry practitioners to write the technical history of computing, and there is little to no reward for computing researchers or scholars either. And of course if one is an expert in computing, there is no economic incentive to become a historian.

4. Nonetheless, there is in fact a small (and hopefully growing) group of scholars who seem to be interested in investigating the technical history of computing (and "holistic" history which includes multiple aspects.)

I tend to agree with Knuth - technical history is extremely valuable to both practitioners and researchers in computing. There is some activity in writing up and analyzing the technical history of computing, and I certainly appreciate the work of the CHM, journals like the Annals of the History of Computing, the work of retrocomputing hobbyists, and the work of the scholars mentioned in the article, but overall there are few opportunities for professional advancement.

While it is understandable that computing practitioners want to look forward rather than backward, ignoring computing history means that we are often reinventing the wheel, repeating old mistakes, etc., all while lacking an understanding of how and why things are the way they are today.

The article validates Knuth as well, saying:

> Most of this new work is aimed primarily at historians, philosophers, or science studies specialists rather than computer scientists

"this isn't for you - you're not a member of our club"

> Work of the particular kind preferred by Knuth will flourish only if his colleagues in computer science are willing to produce, reward, or commission it.

"what you want is garbage, and it's also your fault that you don't have it"

The second part isn't exactly wrong (as I note above), but this summary seems to sidestep the importance of technical literacy when addressing the history of computing. One might analogously blame historians for being "unwilling" to reward and commission experts in technology, in spite of the obvious benefits of improving technical history.
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-23 02:38:04+00:00
centralized servers cost less to operate, that why data intensive applications centralize over time. That's division of labor. The higher the complexity the the higher degree of specialization. And a video service is very demanding.

And you need to solve the economics first because otherwise your decentralized service is simply going to centralize over time to deal with demands for a more reliable and higher quality service. (and how to compensate creators)
by BLKNSLVR | 2026-02-23 02:38:38+00:00
If you're into John Zorn and The Residents, you gotta check out Angine de Poitrine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so

Microtonal polyrhythmic looping absolute madness.

Residents -> Pixies is certainly an odd recommendation. Having said that, where _can_ you go from The Residents? Daniel Johnston?
Ask HN: Freelance full-stack dev in between contracts
by downbad_ | 2026-02-23 02:39:28+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a freelance web developer (Python, JavaScript). I’ve been between contracts longer than expected and have run out of runway.

I need about $2,000 to cover essential expenses while I continue my job search and outreach.

I’m staying anonymous for privacy reasons, and I understand that this reduces trust, and I respect that some people may be skeptical.

To make this more concrete, I’m happy to take on small paid tasks (bug fixes, feature builds, automation scripts), or help with MVPs.

You can reach me at:
downbad1253 at yahoo dot com

If someone prefers to help directly, I’m accepting USDC (BEP20) at:

0x9357fc346afe270faab8f873400a39cc9cdc6b3b

If this post isn’t appropriate here, I understand and apologize to the mods.

Thanks for reading.
by jancsika | 2026-02-23 02:39:41+00:00
> The tension arises because the "Seventh" (A) is not a new addition, but a residue of the previous geometric state.

That residue in m.2 is common-tone voice leading. It's a technique that was used throughout the common-practice period to avoid tension, not introduce it. I'd bet the progression in m. 1-2 could be found in the figured bass at the beginning of a slow movement by Telemann or another Baroque composer.

Speaking of Baroque composers-- in the Coda of the 4th Ballade, Chopin has an exquisite passage of basso continuo plus accompaniment that would be right at home in a minor key aria by Handel. Except that:

1. There's no melody being accompanied.

2. It moves about 4x faster than it would have in the Baroque era.

I'd love to see a pianist play that passage by suddenly looking up and frantically nodding cues to an invisible, demonic singer.
by avaer | 2026-02-23 02:40:37+00:00
This is why companies get broken up.

Usually they'll try to hide the monopoly/tying to avoid this. What's interesting is that they don't seem to be trying.

It's not the same thing but it does remind me of [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....
by beloch | 2026-02-23 02:41:18+00:00
One thing that's awesome about this and is 100% better than TikTok:

No burned-in branding. No trailing brand screen. No trademark brand noises.

----

Tiktok videos have omnipresent logos burned-in and a full-screen trailer with an annoying Tiktok brand sound. The few random loops that I looked at had none of these. I hope this doesn't change and, if it doesn't change, I hope loops displaces TikTok. I despise being constantly bombarded with branding.
by akssassin907 | 2026-02-23 02:41:19+00:00
The buffet analogy breaks down here. Using OpenClaw isn't stuffing steaks in your bag — you're eating the same food, in the same seat, consuming the same tokens your subscription allows. Google banned you because they didn't like the plate you brought. Then took your house key as punishment.

The steaks-in-bag analogy would apply if you were somehow extracting MORE than your quota. You're not. You're just routing the same tokens differently.
by the__prestige | 2026-02-23 02:41:22+00:00
Where do I even begin?

Speed is unrealistic. It compresses a decade of enterprise adoption into 18 months. Organizations don't restructure at the speed of a demo. And if it were true, companies would also stop buying AI once their customers are broke and revenue is falling. The "rational firm" logic cuts both ways.

"No new jobs" is asserted, not argued. It dismisses 200 years of counter-evidence in two sentences and treats intelligence as one thing when it's really a bundle of very different skills.

Ignores the deflationary benefit. If AI makes everything cheaper, the purchasing power of remaining income rises. The article only looks at the income side and never the cost side.

Consumption collapse is too fast. It ignores savings buffers, severance, spousal income, and automatic stabilizers. Even 2008 took years to fully hit spending.

"Ghost GDP" is wrong. Corporate profits don't vanish. They flow out as dividends, buybacks, investment, and taxes. The distribution changes, but money doesn't disappear from the economy.

Overstates the intermediation collapse. People don't optimize purchases like machines. Brand loyalty, identity, and experience aren't just "friction."

Stablecoin disruption is fantasy. It ignores KYC/AML rules, consumer protection laws, chargebacks, and the reality of merchant adoption.

Assumes zero regulatory response. Governments moved in weeks during COVID. White-collar professionals are politically powerful and vocal. Regulation would arrive fast.
by sathish316 | 2026-02-23 02:42:27+00:00
Google is a copycat in AI products.

Gemini Chat: ChatGPT

Gemini CLI: Claude Code

Antigravity: Cursor

Nano banana: Midjourney

Subscription API ban: copied Anthropic

NotebookLM seems to be the only exception, or it could be an acquisition.

Subscription API ban could be part of a larger strategy because of OpenClaw’s association with OpenAI and Google will not be able to copy OpenClaw Personal Assistant model due to the security implications.

Pay as you go through API pricing is one of the easiest ways to drastically reduce mass adoption of a product. Pay per month works on consumption patterns where 80% of the users will barely use the product to compensate for the other 10 or 20% power users.
by maerF0x0 | 2026-02-23 02:42:28+00:00
If we're spouting off unsubstantiated claims. I'll add teachers unions and the mandatory spend of tax money on their near monopolies versus a voucher system that allows parents to choose the best education the money can buy. (To be clear I do think we should fund educating our children, I disagree with forcing the purchase to go to a specific solution / system)
by akssassin907 | 2026-02-23 02:42:32+00:00
Fine, restrict the OpenClaw usage. Fine, cancel the AI Pro subscription. But nuking Gmail, Google Photos, Drive — years of irreplaceable personal data — as punishment for how you routed tokens? That's not enforcement, that's collective punishment.

No bank closes your checking account because you used your debit card at a competitor's ATM.

The offense and the penalty are in completely different weight classes. That's what makes this indefensible regardless of whether the policy itself is legitimate.
by gck1 | 2026-02-23 02:43:17+00:00
> Yes the models are smart, but you really cant "build things" despite the marketing if you actively beat back your users for trying

I think this is the most important takeaway from this thread and at some point, this will end up biting Google and Anthropic back.

OpenAI seems to have realized this and is actively trying to do the opposite. They welcomed OpenCode the same day Anthropic banned them, X is full of tweets of people saying codex $20 plan is more generous than Anthropic's $200 etc.

If you told me this story a year ago without naming companies, I would tell you it's OpenAI banning people and Google burning cash to win the race.

And it's not like their models are winning any awards in the community either.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-23 02:43:41+00:00
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp are not "the internet"

Anything that hurts Meta's business is arguably a potential step toward more "anonymous" internet access. Anything that helps to stop the process of indoctrination of future generations and the normalisation of what Meta does is a step toward more anonymous internet access as it allows expectations of privacy to rise to previous levels

Companies like Meta have worked to systematically destroy anonymous internet use. Anonymity directly conflicts with Meta's "business model" of data collection, surveillance and serving users up as ad targets

Meta and "anonymous internet access" are mutually exclusive. Meta doesn't collect data about and show ads to "anonymous" internet users. It forces users to create "accounts" and "sign in" with clients that run surveillance-related code on the users' computers without the user's input. It builds profiles of internet users (ad targets), even ones that do not use Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp, e.g., through the use of tracking pixels on the open web
by akssassin907 | 2026-02-23 02:44:01+00:00
The heuristic detection approach is fine. The penalty ladder is broken.

Reasonable progression: warning email → quota throttle → AI Pro subscription suspended → Google account suspended.

They skipped to step 4 on a first offense, paid account, no appeal. That's not a terms enforcement system, that's a hostage situation. "Comply or lose your digital life."

The real lesson isn't "don't use OpenClaw." It's: never let one company own your primary identity infrastructure.
Show HN: Lyra Kids – I built an AI bedtime storyteller for my daughters
by Kael1 | 2026-02-23 02:44:35+00:00
Show HN: Lyra Kids – A personalized AI picture book generator for parents

Hi HN,

I’m a developer and a father of two daughters (ages 4 and 6). Like many parents, I found that standard bedtime stories didn't always capture their unique imagination. So, I built Lyra Kids (https://lyra.kids) to turn our nightly ritual into something more magical.

What it does:
It allows parents to input a simple hero name and a plot idea. The system then generates a structured story blueprint and brings it to life with high-quality, whimsical illustrations.

Why I built it:
I wanted a safe, ad-free environment where my kids could see themselves as the heroes of their own adventures. I've focused on creating a "Draft the Plan" feature that helps when you're feeling stuck but still want to be part of the creative process.

The Tech:

Frontend: Responsive web design for both mobile (vertical) and PC (side-by-side reading mode).

AI: Powered by Google Gemini's image and language models for story and illustration generation.

I'm currently optimizing the layout for PC users to provide a more immersive, "book-like" experience.

I’d love to get your feedback on the UX and the storytelling logic. I'm also happy to answer any questions about the technical challenges of maintaining character consistency across generated illustrations.

Thanks for checking it out!
Show HN: OpenClaw alternative written in Golang and talk with you in voice
by coolwulf | 2026-02-23 02:45:29+00:00
I have been working on this project relentlessly in the last a couple weeks, mainly is for my own usage case since I'm relying on a lot of browser automation. So my focus is more on browser CDP tool usage than just IM integration. Please enjoy and give me some feedback. Thank you!
by remarkEon | 2026-02-23 02:45:47+00:00
In fairness (to myself, I guess) I did start this thread out by saying that I do think this is more complex.

With regard to your question, my mistake I thought I implied an answer to (a). Of the people I see complaining about this, a very very small fraction are actually Persian. It's really just one person, and she's someone I met through my wife while living in LA. There's not that many Iranian ex-pats living in the US relative to ... people who are not Iranian ex-pats, I guess, so if the point you're making is "Iranians who do not live under the regime don't care about this criticism" it's certainly possible you are correct, as I have n = 1 evidence to the contrary. My commentary was more on the general case, though, and I'm not sure how meaningful it is to try to discern the exact percentage of "Iranians not living in Iran are upset the media isn't covering the regime murdering its own people". This would be par for the course, no? It's not like it would be a surprise. So, what does it matter if the percentage of Iranians complaining about this issue is high, or low?