MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-09 04:09:05+00:00
> Which I think is what people gather from him, but somehow think he's hiding it or pretending is not the case? Which I find strange, given how openly he's talked about it.

Well the person you're responding to didn't say anything like that. They're saying he's unqualified.

> The systems and habits are the ways he found to essentially trick himself into working.

And do they work? If he's failing or fooling himself then a big chunk of his podcasting is wasting everyone's time.

> videos getting bigger scopes and production values

I looked at a video from last year and one from eight years ago and they're pretty similar in production value. Lengths seem similar over time too.

> moving some of his time into some not so publicly visible ventures

I can see he's done three members-only videos in the last two years, in addition to four and a half public videos. Is there anything else?
by mnky9800n | 2026-02-09 04:10:13+00:00
I like it because it lets me shoot off a text about making a plot I think about on the bus connecting some random data together. It’s nice having Claude code essentially anywhere. I do think that this is a nice big increment because of that. But also it suffers the large code base problems everyone else complains about. Tbh I think if its context window was ten times bigger this would be less of an issue. Usually compacting seems to be when it starts losing the thread and I have to redirect it.
by kanodiaayush | 2026-02-09 04:10:34+00:00
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by zhoujianfu | 2026-02-09 04:11:28+00:00
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by jasonfarnon | 2026-02-09 04:11:29+00:00
"Everyone is already on it and it has a notification system that people check b/c it's how they find out about college parties"

In that era I recall several US universities career offices gave students the blanket advice that not having a facebook page would raise an employer's eyebrows.

"(I suggested Reddit and he acknowledged that would probably be one place where you at least knew students from the school might be there and were interested.)"

My impression of the college kids I deal with is that they now all use LinkedIn. (I think? It feels weird even saying that.)
by amadeuspagel | 2026-02-09 04:11:50+00:00
> First came the infamous infinite scroll. I remember feeling uneasy the first time a web page no longer had a bottom. Logically, I knew very well that everything a browser displays is a virtual construct. There is no physical page. It is just pixels pretending to be one. Still, my brain had learned to treat web pages as objects with a beginning and an end. The sudden disappearance of that end disturbed my sense of ease.

Your brain was wrong. And my fingers were hurting (and are hurting when I use websites without infinite scroll, like Hacker News).
by solaire_oa | 2026-02-09 04:12:06+00:00
This is an excellent step in the direction of a web-of-trust that the present moment demands, facing an increasingly mistrustful web in the face of LLMs.

Major congratulations to the creator, you're doing god's work. And even if this particular project struggles or outright fails, I hope that it provides valuable insight for any follow-up web-of-trust projects on how to establish trust online.
by kolpaque | 2026-02-09 04:12:25+00:00
I'm working on Blender-like UI areas Vue plugin. Pure planar graph, UI interactions, API, styles customization

I need it to create Gamedev and 3D artists oriented tool for creating SDF-based shader visualizations (with 3dgs/nerf compilers)

90% is done

https://github.com/pavel-voronin/sliced-areas
by aleda145 | 2026-02-09 04:12:46+00:00
That's super interesting!

With Kavla I want to lean into the exploring/debugging phase for analytics. "Embrace the mess", in a way.

My vision is that there will be an "export to dbt" button when you're ready to standardize a dashboard.

What made you pick count?
Was spaghetti the major reason you left count, or something else?
by Opus_Warrior | 2026-02-09 04:13:34+00:00
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by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-02-09 04:13:54+00:00
Ah egregious kernel-bug that I haven't fixed yet :( Looks like inner sharpbigot/schizo indeed got confused with E? maybe not quickly fixable, so I'd better find a win-win way to leverage it ;)?

I know a person who published(!, but easier to check) citation-bugs of this variety (not defending this, just pointing out a possible WASP-slav superposition condition :)

"Orthogonally", PH might have (linked)some answers to your presumed queries
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46939793
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46940953

Hilarious YouTube comment: the image you inspired of collecting nickels* in front of cultural steamrollers is beginning to look like GOAT

(*Well-bred dogs as "nicklers of men"?)
by numpad0 | 2026-02-09 04:14:28+00:00
That and GP are both plain untrue. The system literally hides useful and/or organic contents. There's also no signs of ads doing better than before.

The current Twitter algorithm funnel users into divided bubbles of couple hundreds users each, and cap numbers and quality metrics of contents that are allowed to be accessed beyond the bubbles, except for spams, which are artificially kept in the global context. Or something like that. To maintain the facade of a unified timeline, the system picks contents that would have been plausibly popular in the absence of it and push it into global contexts, but those are so out of contexts and out of regular system behaviors that it only brews hostility among the users against the system.
by pram | 2026-02-09 04:14:45+00:00
I don't agree this is an issue and I'll tell you why: Homebrew isn't responsible for keeping the system functional like apt or pacman, it's a supplemental thing. I've also found it's useful in this capacity on Linux specifically with LTS distros, I can get the latest fzf or zoxide or whatever without having to add some shady repo.
by ALLTaken | 2026-02-09 04:15:00+00:00
DO NOT GOOGLE EXPRESS VPN!

The GitHub links are one of the nastiest Malware I ever encountered in my life!

I steals your Apple Keychain, all your "Safe" Passkeys, your Google Chrome "Saved Passwords", even your KeePass Database!

Login and security is still not sufficiently solved with attack-proofs for the most important things in life like your Bank, Email, Wallets, Social Logins.

Your "logged-in Sessions" also get stolen! It's unbearable that most cookies expire in months "ON THE SERVER SIDE"! You have no control and can't log the attacker out!

It happened to me, when I was in China and searched for ExpressVPN, because the main website didn't load forever, the GitHub link seemed like an alternative.. damn.. I changed my Google Password 5 times and the attacker was still able to log-in, it was so devastating! I had to change my email passwords multiple times too.

Sessions are what make logins valid and this is the weakest link of all. I wish Sessions used Off-The-Record encryption with One-Time-Pads, such that each acccess requires a new key, that can only be derived with a valid reply that makes safe that the attacker can be logged out safely.
by chongli | 2026-02-09 04:15:48+00:00
Riverdale [1] is a neighbourhood in Toronto with the kind of higher-density mixed single-family and multi-family homes as well as a few small apartment buildings (but no large apartment buildings) that I had in mind with what I described above. It also happens to be one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in the city which I take as an indication of high demand for the houses there.

Compare that with the sprawl of Vaughan also shown in the video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0
by im3w1l | 2026-02-09 04:15:54+00:00
I have had a set of like 15 t-shirts that I wash and tumble dry after one day of wear. After a decade of service some of them are showing signs of wear, but the majority are still in good condition.

My over ear 3.5mm headphones are still going doing well after 7 years.

After watching some up and coming band live, I can find their music on spotify available for listening without ads included in my existing subscription.
by Faelon | 2026-02-09 04:16:14+00:00
Just because you evolved to do something doesn't provide a moral justification to do that thing. Whether you evolved to or not, animals suffer extraordinarily in the farms of torture we've made for them. It is well accepted that you can eat healthily on a vegan diet, and it would only really take a couple articles to figure out how to have a healthy plant-based diet. You could do it at Walmart.
by dijksterhuis | 2026-02-09 04:16:31+00:00
> Can you say that about any project that was done before GenAI?

yes. the linux kernel and it's extensive mailing lists come to mind. in fact, any decent project which was/is built in a remote-only scenario tends to have extensive documentation along these lines, something like gitlab comes to mind there.

personally i've included design documents with extensive notes, contracts, meeting summaries etc etc in our docs area / repo hosting at $PREVIOUS_COMPANY. only thing from your list we didn't have was transcripts because they're often less useful than a summary of "this is what we actually decided and why". edit -- there were some video/meeting audio recordings we kept around though. at least one was a tutoring session i did.

maybe this is the first time you've felt able to do something like this in a short amount of time because of these GenAI tools? i don't know your story. but i was doing a lot of this by hand before GenAI. it took time, energy and effort to do. but your project is definitely not the first to have this level of detailed contextual information associated with it. i will, however, concede that these tools can make it it easier/faster to get there.
by albert_e | 2026-02-09 04:16:45+00:00
I tried writing a plain text wordle loop as a python exercise in loops and lists along with my kid.

I saved the blank file as wordle.py to start the coding while explaining ideas.

That was enough context for github copilot to suggest the entire `for` loop body after I just typed "for"

Not much learning by doing happened in that instance.

Before this `for` loop there were just two lines of code hardcoding some words ..that too were heavily autocompleted by copilot including string constants.

```
answer="cigar"
guess="cigar"
```
by sutterd | 2026-02-09 04:17:22+00:00
I’m working on a solo project, a location-based game platform that includes games like Pac-Man you play by walking paths in a park. If I cut my coding time to zero, that might make me go two or three times faster. There is a lot of stuff that is not coding. Designing, experimenting, testing, redesigning, completely changing how I do something, etc. There is a lot more to doing a project than just coding. I am seeing a big speed up, but that doesn’t mean I can complete the project in a week. (These projects are never really a completed anyway, until you give up on it).
by hilbert42 | 2026-02-09 04:17:43+00:00
The article is a nostalgic reminder of when I was first interested in electronics and got interested in quartz resonators for projects. Grinding down old war surplus FT243-style crystals and other types so as to resonate at frequencies I needed was a common practice with hobbyists back then.

I used many similar techniques to the same end of removing quartz which raised its frequency. Grinding materials included abrasives such as jeweler's rouge, cerium oxide, commercial polishes such as Brasso and Silvo and even HF solution. I'd place the quartz on a small section of plate glass and slide it through a slurry of the abrasive periodically testing its frequency until I'd reached my target.

There's an art to this that's too long to mention here except to say abrasives were used strategically, course grinding would get me near the desired frequency and I'd finish off with a fine abrasive. Then there was the job of re-aging the crystal after its recent abuse to increase its stability. Other techniques were involved such as not lowering its Q factor, etc. which I'll not cover here.

The most desired crystal cut was from the XT-plane (being the most stable) but it was generally difficult to get as it's only a small section of the quartz crystal (also each cut oscillates only over a limited range of frequencies). I used to have a book that explained these cuts in detail, their frequency ranges and electronic properties along with the basic crystallography which I lost years ago. A quick glance at the book would have shown that a great deal of science, engineering and skill is involved in the selection of quartz and its manufacture into useful resonators.

BTW, the mentioning of HF will likely horrify chem-phobic readers. We were well aware of its dangers and took special precautions never to come in contact with it.
by ctoth | 2026-02-09 04:18:02+00:00
Nope, I meant what I originally said.

The problem is technical: too many low-quality PRs hitting an endpoint. Vouch's solution is social: maintain trust graphs of humans.

But the PRs are increasingly from autonomous agents. Agents don't have reputations. They don't care about denounce lists. They make new accounts.

We solved unwanted automated input for email with technical tools (spam filters, DKIM, rate limiting), not by maintaining curated lists of Trusted Emailers. That's the correct solution category. Vouch is a social answer to a traffic-filtering problem.

This may solve a real problem today, but it's being built as permanent infrastructure, and permanent social gatekeeping outlasts the conditions that justified it.
by xXSLAYERXx | 2026-02-09 04:18:28+00:00
> My guess is that the drive is toward power

Not really for me. Programming is an effort type job. The more effort you put in the more you get out. True in other professions sure but multiplied with dev work. When became a dad everything changed. Solve hard problem or spend time with kid. I couldn't juggle the two. So i made a choice and fortunately had an opportunity to move into management.

Anyway full circle now I'm back to being a dev and this go around couldn't be easier with our ai agents. Point is I went into management because I was forced, not at all for power.
by TheDong | 2026-02-09 04:18:54+00:00
I wish the mac users would switch to a real OS, linux, so that software companies would release linux versions of stuff first.

Codex, Claude Desktop, etc etc all starting out as "macOS exclusive" feels so silly when they're targeting programmers. Linux is the only OS a programmer can actually patch and contribute to, and yet somehow we've got a huge number of developers who don't care about having a good package manager, don't care about being able to modify their kernel, don't care about their freedom to access and edit the code of the software they rely on to work...

It's depressing how much of the software industry is just people on macbooks using homebrew to install a newer version of bash and paying $5 for "magnet" to snap windows to the corners since their OS holds them in a prison where they can't simply build themselves a tiling window manager in a weekend.

The OS is core to your tools and workflows, and using macOS cedes your right to understand, edit, and improve your OS and workflows to a company that is actively hostile to open source, and more and more hostile to users (with a significant increase in ads and overly priced paid services over the years).

Anyway, yeah, homebrew sucks. At least nix works on macOS now so there's an okay package manager there, but frankly support for macOS has been a huge drag of resources on the nix ecosystem, and I wish macOS would die off in the programming ecosystem so nix could ditch it.
by brynet | 2026-02-09 04:19:01+00:00
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by bradgessler | 2026-02-09 04:19:01+00:00
I’ve been working on https://og.plus, a service that creates unique Open Graph images per page on a website.

It does this by taking a screenshot of the page, but before it does that, you can modify what’s displayed in the screenshot with CSS, tailwind classes, meta tags, or HTML templates.

If you connect your website to it, the only thing you need to deploy to your web app are a few meta tags. The OG+ servers do the heavy lifting of processing the meta tags to setup the page, take a screenshot of it, and serve it up to the consumer.

The other cool thing it does is generate a different Open Graph images per social network so they all get an image for the exact size they works best in their previews. The CSS or HTML templates are aware of this too so you can display different content to specific social networks.
Show HN: Vrhi: AI Slop DX9/DX11-Style Immediate API on Vulkan
by hypernewbie | 2026-02-09 04:19:07+00:00
It's 2026 and we're still raw-dogging 10,000 lines of Vulkan to draw a triangle, or using high-level libraries that don't even have basic transient buffer allocation or caching.

Most high-level gfx APIs don't even get the basics right. Transient staging, sync, cached FBOs/PSOs/descriptor sets, RT support. Instead they enforce invented concepts onto a rock (the GPU), which does not really care how elegant your invented abstraction is. Or they take a "common denominator features of 2006" approach, ending up extremely outdated in 2026. Great if you plan on running your cutting edge graphics project on a knockoff MediaTek phone running Android Kit Kat and about nothing else.

So I wrote one with AI as a statement: someone please write one by hand that's better, not worse.
by Gibbon1 | 2026-02-09 04:19:12+00:00
I stumbled on something also interesting. The oxygen from photosynthesis comes from water not CO2. So all the energy from food is essentially from splitting water.

Also I think I read in a book on aeronautics which was published in the 1950's that more energy is required from oil to grow food than the food itself. Trying to look that up again just now the internet spits out an efficiency as low as 10%.
by Faelon | 2026-02-09 04:19:27+00:00
You could find the time to figure out what to eat on a plant-based diet in the space of a single Youtube video. The science that eating plant-based isn't just fine for you but also better for you is extremely solid. Just because we evolved to do something doesn't make it moral, and needlessly killing animals is clearly not moral. Humans did not evolve with the terrifyingly industrial scale farming we do now providing the unprecedented amount of meat global humans now consume.
by ryan_lane | 2026-02-09 04:20:39+00:00
Using Lyft, Uber, or Waymo in San Francisco is slow, especially during peak times. To go across town in NYC by train, it would take 5-10 times as long to go that same distance in SF by car. If you have to cross a bridge or tunnel, it's going to be even longer during peak times.

That's the whole problem. Car transportation simply doesn't scale, so there will never be an option to use waymo that's as fast and cheap as the subway. It's worth calling out that an efficient train system is vital to keeping car traffic moving quickly, because once everyone is in a car, it's gridlock.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-09 04:20:57+00:00
Electricity prices have gone up due to datacenters as well as neglected grid infrastructure needing investment. Natural gas prices are going up because of LNG export infrastructure causing US consumers to compete against global LNG consumers for fuel to heat, as well as domestic electrical generation demand. Pick your poison.

Electricity prices might come down over time (renewables push down generation costs), natural gas prices won’t due to global demand for it.
by okanat | 2026-02-09 04:21:28+00:00
The breach in TFA happened because Microsoft actually did something benevolent and it blew up on their face. Now almost all of the hardware that takes security a bit seriously (basically expensive business class computers) have to upgrade their UEFI FW (many have already done ao via Windows Update).

No single point of failure will protect you fully. UEFI SB is just one layer. And nobody ever would protect you from a dedicated nation state (except another nation state). Unless you own the entire supply chain from silicon contractors all the way up to every single software vendor and every single network operator, you cannot fully prove things aren't snitching on you.
Show HN: I Let AI Agents Train Their Own Models. Here's What Happened
by Hamza-Mos | 2026-02-09 04:25:55+00:00
there's a big narrative in the AI space right now that agents training future generations of models is imminent.

i spent a few weeks testing whether the current generation of models can actually do this.

full breakdown below:

https://hamzamostafa.com/blog/agents-training-their-own-mode...
by possibleworlds | 2026-02-09 04:26:52+00:00
I reported one of these recently. It was also related to clearing space, specifically system files. It was the second top sponsored link and presented as an Apple support page. The styling was very convincing, with the only giveaway being the url.

A day later my parents called me very stressed out about a popup on my mother’s iPhone saying she had been hacked. I asked them to take a screenshot, and again it was a website that was styled to look like a modal on top of a iOS Settings app page. With the new ui this was extremely effective, as the page title is just a tiny thing down the bottom in scrolled state.

I don’t know what is going on, but I’d assume the problem is AI moderation.
by xhrpost | 2026-02-09 04:27:09+00:00
> To be fair, I was able to get it to work pretty well after giving it extremely detailed instructions and monitoring the "thinking" output and stopping it when I see something wrong there to correct it, but at that point I felt silly for spending all that effort just driving the bot instead of doing it myself.

This is the challenge I also face, it's not always obvious when a change I want will be properly understood by the LLM. Sometimes it one shots it, then others I go back and forth until I could have just done it myself. If we have to get super detailed in our descriptions, at what point are we just writing in some ad-hoc "programming language" that then transpiles to the actual program?