MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rossdavidh | 2026-02-09 15:07:17+00:00
"This is what we have to look forward to? Journals filling up with this bilge, this useless wordy debris? Gosh, that's going to work out great with all those machine-learning algorithms for collating human knowledge - just wait until we pour these buckets of sludge into them."

He could also have pointed out that LLMs are the only readers for these articles, as well.
by cam311 | 2026-02-09 15:07:43+00:00
A healthcare integration engine for companies who don't want to build their own or don't want to use Mirth connect. Brings together some of the nicer features we have had in the SWE world (writing code and using a CLI vs clicking in a UI, version control, IaC, spin up/tear down envs easily, CI/CD, telemetry). It is written in Go.
by AgentLensAI | 2026-02-09 15:07:44+00:00
Hi HN! I’m building a Chrome Extension that uses AI to help realtors and photographers with virtual staging and decluttering.

The goal is to allow users to edit property photos (removing mess, adding furniture, HDR effects) directly in the browser where they manage their listings.

We’ve focused on:

Processing speed (in-browser).

Compliance with real estate advertising laws.

A simple credit-based model.

I’d love to hear your feedback on the tech stack or the UX! We offer 10 free credits for everyone to try.
by itissid | 2026-02-09 15:08:55+00:00
Nice. I store my photos on Dropbox and now duplicated locally on a home NAS. They don't have a photograph based product like Google memories, which I really like. I've been de googling and looking to reproduce it.

I've been noodling with running a preprocessing step to "tag" pictures and videos with a set of tags with richer spatial and temporal features with off the shelf models and then just let a local AI model pick one based one what might match today's theme.

Are you using any models to make your curation step easier/better UX wise? e.g." Compose all Christmas pictures with Grandma and the kids on vacation" and it would give you a collection to curate from my library
by Joker_vD | 2026-02-09 15:09:21+00:00
> And finally, source-level debugging is gnarly. You would like to be able to embed DWARF information corresponding to the code you residualize; I don’t know how to do that when generating C.

I think emitting something like

#line 12 "source.wasm"

for each line of your source before the generated code for that line does something that GDB recognizes well enough.
by exo762 | 2026-02-09 15:09:55+00:00
> What is encrypted and how is public information. If it doesn't fit your use case don't use it. There is no "spin".

Correct way of speaking about Telegram is - nothing* is encrypted. (encrypted chats are not more than 0.5% of all chats). That would be a "no spin" take.

> one guy dared write a crypto library rather than using their own

Red herring. This library is NOT used for more than 99.95% of chats on Telegram. It is applied only to "secret chat", which is a torture device with horrible UX. I guess that horrible UX is the result of choice of using custom crypto library instead of going with something capable of working when addressee is not online.

> Another darling is Signal who refused to stop collecting phone numbers until recently even though they never needed it, does not allow open source or other clients to use their servers (and won't release the actual server code) and frankly does not work half as well as Telegram in terms of UX.

Phone numbers are still used as anti-spam measure. You are free to get a burner, register an account and throw away the SIM card.

> does not allow open source

Signal client is open source.

> frankly does not work half as well as Telegram in terms of UX.

It works well where it does matter. Vide Telegram's "secret chats".

> All of this is really confusing for me.

You are clearly misinformed. That explains the confusion.
by ffsm8 | 2026-02-09 15:10:19+00:00
I am still missing something like Claude code that's less "hands-off" and optimizes for small edits instead of full feature development

Like you're sitting in your ide, select a few rows, press (for example) caps lock to activate speech and then just say a short line what it should adjust or similar - which is then staged for the next adjustments to be done with the same UX

Like saying "okay, I need a new usecase here, let's start by making a function to do y. [Function appears] great, we need to wire with object into it [point at class] [LLM backtracking code path via language server until it finds it and passes things through]

The main blocking issue to that UX would likely be the speed of the response, as the transcription would be pretty much instant, but the coding prompt after would still take a few moments to be good... And such an interactive approach would feel a lot better with speed.

Too bad nobody seems to target the combined mouse+voice control for LLMs yet. It would even double as a fantastic accessibility tool for people suffering from various typing related issues
by ted_bunny | 2026-02-09 15:10:25+00:00
It is heartbreaking to see how people's eyes light up when you give them a modicum of recognition. We shouldn't be so starved of love that we expect to walk through a wasteland every day. When I was Lyfting I had people shower me with thanks simply for showing what I consider basic human decency, by having genuine conversations and truly listening.
by throwaway713 | 2026-02-09 15:11:04+00:00
> Fluid intelligence, which peaks near age 20 and declines materially across adulthood [...] while fluid intelligence may decline with age, other dimensions improve (e.g., crystallized intelligence, emotional intelligence)

As someone well past "peak" fluid intelligence at this point, I always hate reading research like this. "Crystallized intelligence" and "emotional intelligence" are the consolation prizes no one really wants.

I'd rather we instead perform research to identify how one might reverse the decline of fluid intelligence...
by brushfoot | 2026-02-09 15:11:18+00:00
> How do you know one party isn’t 15 when the other is 25?

You don't. That's why parents need to be involved in their children's lives.

CSAM is the easy excuse, anyway. That's the one lawmakers use, and most people are against CSAM, myself included, so the excuse goes down easy. But the impetus they don't talk about is monitoring and control.

The answer isn't to destroy privacy for everyone. The government and these corporations don't need to know what you're doing every second of the day.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-09 15:11:33+00:00
(1) I've somewhat stumbled on a persona as a Fox-photographer who strongly communicates that he is a public affordance which (a) helps me get better photos of people, (b) gets me flagged down by people telling me about interesting things going on like

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/116021033821248982

and (c) results in handing out several business cards a day

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/115901190470904729

and I'm within site of having to reorder cards. I just finished a landing page for the cards (before they went to one of my socials)

https://gen5.info/demo/fox/

but having to reorder the cards I am planning on making a next generation card which has a unique chibi and unique QR code that will let me personalize the landing page for cards, particularly I will be able to share a photo just with the person who has the card.

(2) I've been doing heart rate variability biofeedback experiments and I have this demo

https://gen5.info/demo/biofeedback/

which is still not quite done but has source code at

https://github.com/paulhoule/VulpesVision

It works with most heart rate monitors that support the standard BTLE API not just the H10. I run it on the Windows desktop with Chrome and with Bluefy on iPad. Once it displays the instantaneous heart rate I can control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_waves

by following the slope of the instantaneous heart rate, breathing out when it is slowing down and breathing in when it is speeding up. This greatly intensifies the Mayer_wave and increases the SD1 metric. I think this drops my blood pressure significantly when I'm doing it. This needs better instructions and some kind of auditory cue so I can entrain my breathing when I am looking at something else. Longer term I am interested in incorporating some other biofeedback gadgets I have like a respiration monitor (got an abdomen band and a radar which could probably even read HRV if I had the right software for it) and a GSR sensor, and EMG sensor, etc.
by pyeri | 2026-02-09 15:11:40+00:00
I've found some basic lifestyle changes to be way more effective at weight-loss and inducing well-being than a drastic chemical therapy like Ozempic. Imbibe at your own risk.

- Intermittent fasting (16x8 or at least stop eating after sun down)

- Daily morning pranayama (or 'breath work' if you prefer that term)

- Daily morning intake of copper utensil stored water (~8 hours or overnight)

- Weekly oil pulling for gum health.

This approach feels a bit stoic and neanderthal initially, less attuned to our modern and progressive society, but as effective as Ozempic in long-run (minus the side-effects or addiction).
by anal_reactor | 2026-02-09 15:12:25+00:00
In an ideal scenario, you want your employees to be fungible. You don't want any irreplaceable individuals who hold the entire organization hostage. One way of defending yourself from such individuals is ensuring that all members have enough knowledge to take other people's roles, at least after some brief training. The problem is, maintaining high level of competency and transparency is very expensive. The other solution is when your organization is a complete mess and nobody knows what they're doing anyway. Yes, this results in your organization being inefficient, but this inefficiency might actually be cheap in the grand scheme of things.
by ok123456 | 2026-02-09 15:12:25+00:00
If they simply implicated an "APT" in wrongdoing, they would have released it, as it would have been unremarkable and fit neatly within the Overton window of hissing-chinese spys justifying an even more expansive national security apparatus and general anti-sino sentiments among the ruling class in Washington.

This leads me to two possible, non-exclusive outcomes: the links to China are tenuous, and the attribution is flimsy (e.g., they accessed a machine at 9 am Beijing time!); or the report implicates the system itself as unauditable by design, which was bound to happen given the design of the intercept tools.
by schnacki | 2026-02-09 15:12:37+00:00
For me they absolutely have been performance enhancing. Previously, especially in the afternoon it was hard to concentrate due to the constant cravings / constantly thinking about needing to eat something. These thoughts are completely gone, I can concentrate for hours and hours without needing to eat something. I have always only been mildly overweight, but these thoughts have been constant before I started Wegovy.
by rgsen8 | 2026-02-09 15:12:47+00:00
I built Video to GIF Converter (https://videogif.app) because I was tired of free tools adding watermarks or limiting file sizes.

It's a web-based video to GIF converter built with:
- Next.js 14 (App Router)
- Server-side FFmpeg processing
- Smart palette generation and dithering algorithms
- Quality presets from 64-256 colors

Key features:
No watermarks, no registration, no limits
Support for MP4, MOV, AVI, WebM, MKV (up to 500MB)
4 quality presets (smallest file to best quality)
Video trimming and dimension customization
Reduces file size up to 90% with minimal quality loss
Files are processed in memory and never stored

The converter uses:
- Floyd-Steinberg dithering for best quality
- Sierra 2-4A for balanced quality
- No dithering for smallest files
- Custom color palette generation for each GIF

Tech stack:
- Frontend: Next.js 14 + Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Next.js API routes + FFmpeg
- Deployment: Vercel
- Open source: [GitHub link if applicable]

Would love feedback on:
1. Conversion quality for your use cases
2. Performance (currently processes 500MB files in ~10-20s)
3. Feature requests

Try it: https://videogif.app
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-09 15:12:55+00:00
I don't think it ever was. I mean, how many people ship every day?

People have a hard time understanding the intensity of indifference that people have to any kind of marketing (especially a lack of marketing!)

Back when I was the PR director for a college radio station I fully expected to use a whole ream (500 sheets) of paper to cover a campus that had 2000 students and have at least 10 different poster designs if I wanted to get people to show up for a dance back when we had a reputation that "nobody shows up at KTEK dances" -- that's what it takes to break through.

I'd be loathe to delegate that kind of work to a student these days because most of them lack the hustle. They'd think putting up 15 copies of one design is enough because of course everybody is so desperate to see your message... NOT!

If
by crazygringo | 2026-02-09 15:13:31+00:00
This is so clever and interesting. Congratulations!

But... I want to see a photo! Or at least what it looks like in Google Earth, with a red arrow marking the furthest point.

It feels like the site is setting you up for the big suspense of the longest line of sight... and then it's just a line on a 2D map.

I think it would also really help if the maps themselves were at an angle in 3D with an exaggerated relief, with the line drawn in 3D, so you can get a sense of how it travels between two peaks.

It seems like you've put a ton of effort into this project. I think with just a tiny bit more work on the page, you could really put the "cherry on top".

And with those visualizations, get it picked up by a lot of major news outlets. This is a really fun story, the kind of stuff newspapers and magazines love to run. It's easily understandable, it's a cool new "record", it's a story of someone's perseverance paying off, and then you show a Google Earth image simulating the view as the payoff. (And from slightly above, if necessary, to take account for refraction.)

EDIT: Here, I used Google Earth to show the two points. Unfortunately it's from high above, since otherwise Earth wouldn't show the pin for Pik Dankova, but it at least gives a general idea of the area:

https://imgur.com/hindu-kush-to-pik-dankova-530km-adbVFwb

And here is the Google Earth link for the view, but it doesn't contain the pins:

https://earth.google.com/web/search/41.0181,77.6708/@36.6644...
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by ltbarcly3 | 2026-02-09 15:15:22+00:00
I had an experience similar to the article. Over 18 months, I lost about 85 lbs on Ozempic and Retatrutide. I went from struggling to walk past beer at the at the supermarket - giving in about 50% of the time - to having almost no desire to drink. I only one or two beers every few months. I haven't had a drink alone in two years, and my total alcohol consumption in that entire two year period is less than what I used to drink in a single week.

During this same period, I left an abusive marriage and started exercising extensively. While the causes are complex, I attribute the loss of desire to drink primarily to the GLP-1. Subjectively, I now see drinking as a distraction from programming and other things I enjoy. This feels like my early 20s, when I saw getting drunk as a waste of time, rather than later years when I pushed for another round.
by gjulianm | 2026-02-09 15:15:52+00:00
> The goal is to assess the current capabilities of a largely autonomous software-building pipeline: it's not yet limitless, but better than it was. What a shocker.

Of course, but we're trying to assess the capabilities by looking at the LLM output as if it were a program written by a person. If someone told me to check out their new C compiler that can build the kernel, I'd assume that other basic things, such as not compiling incorrect programs, are already pretty much covered. But with an LLM we can't assume that. We need to really check what's happening and not trust the agent's word for it.

And the reason why it's important it's because we really need to check whether it's actually "better than it was" or just "doing things incorrectly for longer". Let's say your goal was writing a gcc replacement. Does this autonomous pipeline get you closer? Or does it just get you farther away through the wrong path? Considering that it's full of bugs and incomplete implementations and cannot be changed without things breaking down, I'd say it seems to be the latter.
by toss1 | 2026-02-09 15:15:54+00:00
>>rarely...[Citation needed]

You are awfully quick to dismiss what you do not know and are too lazy to even do a quick search. I literally read about these parallel construction scenarios here on HN and they are sufficiently common and severe to generate multiple legal actions and be repeatedly reported in mainstream press, e.g., [0],[1],[2],[3], and Flock even stopped cooperating due to these issues[4]. so, there's five citations, doing your homework for you.

>>we're not talking about "absolute power"; bullshit and hyperbole.

A corporate-government alliance that can track every movement of you and every other resident and arrest you on any pretext (e.g., "these two photos show you averaging 5mph over the speed limit, oh, you refuse a car search? GET OUT OF THE CAR...") is functionally indistinguishable from absolute power.

There is a reason such a panopticon is a core feature of many dystopian novels or movies - if they always know what you do, you have zero freedom to do anything they do not want you to do.

With that kind of power, there are endless examples of opportunities for abuse, and the burden of proof is on those trying to defend implementing such a system.

Repeatedly yelling "strawman!" or "citation needed" as if they were a magical argument winning incantations dismissing statements based on "tone" are not arguments. You really read like a high-school poster who got a hold of one of his older sister's college philosophy books over the holidays and now fancies himself a master logician. Of course it feels powerful to take an absolutist stand, and you can argue it forever, but such sophistry doesn't convince anyone and is extremely boring and pointless.

You had one good point upstream that one needs to draw a line somewhere between a single CATV camera and a panopticon. Yes, it is difficult to draw that line. Discussing THAT makes sense.

CBP is already creating surveillance networks to identify "suspicious" routes, and in real-time identify people coincidentally driving that direction, and having local police cook up a reason to stop them.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/border-patrol-surveillance-licens...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/immigration-border-patrol-surveil...

[2] https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45030853

[4] https://apnews.com/article/immigration-abortion-license-plat...
by bigfudge | 2026-02-09 15:16:18+00:00
As someone who has dealt into this quite recently, I can confirm that it hasn’t really changed that much. The documentation for integrating clients and bots is just old or wrong or non-existent. The complexities of getting authentication right and even getting messages validated between two human clients was really much worse than it should’ve been and it’s just not in a position where normal people can use it just yet.
That said, I’m hopeful that government adoption could make it right quite quickly. And adopting it within a managed setting would mean that the UX could be ironed out fairly quickly.
by anonymousab | 2026-02-09 15:16:27+00:00
There is a bit of an arms race between id verification systems and users bypassing them when AI gen. Which is really just ai generated images vs. AI generated image detection.

In practice, nothing will stop it, the tooling will gradually get better at detecting prior fakes and banning those users while the newer fakes will go undetected for longer.

Putting up the requirement satisfies their CYA requirements here. The race between AI fraud vs. detection is something they can just ignore and let happen on its own.
by vineethy | 2026-02-09 15:16:47+00:00
There’s plenty of people that know the fundamentals of the system. It’s a mistake to think that understanding specific technical details about an implementation is necessary to understand the system. It would make more sense to ask questions about whether someone could conceivably build the system from scratch if they have to. There’s plenty of people that have worked in academic fabs that have also written verilog and operating systems and messed with radios.
by ch4s3 | 2026-02-09 15:16:51+00:00
> are the consolation prizes no one really wants.

If you can't figure out how to use accumulated knowledge and advanced people skills by your late 30s, then maybe you weren't so rational or adaptable to new situations in the first place. Things may not click for me like they did when I was 25, but I usually see right away when I have relevant knowledge to solve a problem or when I know someone who can help.
by medina | 2026-02-09 15:16:58+00:00
https://www.commerce.senate.gov/2025/12/experts-agree-u-s-co...

> “The Chinese government's espionage operation deeply penetrated networks of at least nine U.S. telecom companies, including AT&T and Verizon,” said Sen. Cantwell. “They exploited the wiretapping system that our law enforcement agencies rely on under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act -- known as CALEA. These systems became an open door for Chinese intelligence. Salt Typhoon allowed the Chinese operation to track millions of Americans’ locations in real time, record phone calls at will and read our text messages.”
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-09 15:17:37+00:00
But what if this self-described obsession translates into burnout? Does it actually make you good or just work more compared to your peers? Can you maintain it for the rest of your career?

(I'm just concerned; I've seen many people good at and super into their job end up with burnout, often multiple times because they keep thinking "I used to be good at this!", "I enjoy this!", etc instead of accepting that it was never sustainable in the first place. I suspect people's nervous systems etc are more resilient in their 20's, which is why most people with burnout only start to run into it in their 30's)
by bobbiechen | 2026-02-09 15:17:41+00:00
(creator here) +1, the different digits add trivially as you say.

I also thought it was fun that when you overlay digits, you do get 1+4=5, 1+6=7, 1+8=9, 2+6=8, and 2+7=9 . That one I only found accidentally after a bit of playing, so the demo note is more of a fun side note than a really useful property.
by kortex | 2026-02-09 15:17:55+00:00
Why are folks seemingly so averse to sending an email / hopping on a channel to actually talk to maintainers before just firing off code? I've been on both sides of this; I have been young and green and just fired off contributions without stopping to think, do they event want this?. Codebases are rarely built primarily out of zillions of shotgunned patches, they are more like a garden that needs tending over time, and the ones that are the best tenders are usually the ones that spend the most amount of time in the garden.