MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saghm | 2026-02-11 06:27:10+00:00
The value is pretty similar to autocomplete in that sometimes it's more efficient than manually typing everything out. Sometimes the time it takes try select the right thing the complete would take longer to type manually, and you do it that way instead, and sometimes what you want isn't even going to be something you can autocomplete at all so you do it manually because of that.

Like autocomplete, it's going to work best if you already know what the end state should be and are just using it as a quicker way of getting there. If you don't already know what you're trying to complete, you might get lucky by just tabbing through to see if you find the right result, or you might spend a bunch of time only to find out that what you wanted isn't coming up for what you've typed/prompted and you're back to needing to figure out how to proceed.
by rmunn | 2026-02-11 06:27:24+00:00
I looked at their docs. Their "Debug with SSH" feature is something I would have liked to have had many times in the past: instead of adding a CI command to cat a log file to the terminal, then examining it with GitHub's inadequate log viewer (which seems to bug out, at least under Firefox, when logs are too long), I could have SSH'ed in and examined the log files with my familiar tools.

If I may ask, what about CircleCI have you found particularly nice? What tools does it give you that you would miss if you had to move to a different CI platform?
by zepolen | 2026-02-11 06:28:15+00:00
> With AI, it is like coding is on GOD mode

Which mythical AI are you using that does this?

All the ones I've tried feel like little toddlers that completely miss the point, forget half the requirements mid way, are adamant that they are completely correct then have the gall to act an authority when you point out glaring issues.

I take way less time doing it myself vs coaxing an AI to get a decent solution that catches all edge cases.

AI for me is only useful on subjects I know nothing about, and even then, given I know how bad it is in subjects I know everything about I take everything it says with a megacrystal of salt.
by Marsymars | 2026-02-11 06:28:33+00:00
> Also, one of the main advantages with EVs is their insane low maintenance, but sounds like PHEVs still have to all the same maintenance issues of ICE vehicles.

I keep seeing this repeated, but I kept a detailed decade-plus spreadsheet of maintenace costs for my last ICE car, and ~2/3 of the costs were for components that are common to EVs.
by bonesss | 2026-02-11 06:29:07+00:00
> As an experiment

The threshold for caring about experiments is exponentially higher in 2026 thanks to half baked vibe slop.

Non-functioning software and demoware comes fast and cheap, regardless of author.

> we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec

Having used the former a lot and read the latter in detail, uhhh…

Trim down the claims here, clarify the editor subset you plan to be supporting, and map the “last 90%”’s to honestly reflect the product you are pushing.

If “tables” and “images” aren’t there I’m quite skeptical about content controls and other key OOXML constructs being addressed meaningfully. The full OOXML footprint chokes OpenOffice out of procurements, rich OOXML documents choke half-way-there implementations (which was the whole point of the format).

As is pointed out elsewhere in the thread - there are fundamental constraints that have kept Google, Apple, and others from pursuing this route. Relatively simple docs are one thing, but OOXML is full of dragons and parity with Word has eluded more than a few tech giants.
by toraway | 2026-02-11 06:29:57+00:00
Yeah it's really frustrating how often I see kneejerk rebuttals assuming others are solely basing it on presence of em-dashes. That's usually a secondary data point. The obvious tells are more often structure/cadence as you say and by far most importantly: a clear pattern of repeated similar "AI smell" comments in their history that make it 100% obvious.
by esseph | 2026-02-11 06:30:15+00:00
The dirty secret is a lot of them come through "residential proxies", aka backdoored home routers, iot devices with shitty security, etc. Basically the scrapers who are often also third party, go to these "companies" and buy access to these "residential proxies". Some are more... considerate than others.

Why? Data. Every bit of it is it might be valuable. And not to sound tin foil hatty, but we are getting closer to a post-quantum time (if we aren't already ).
by dean0224 | 2026-02-11 06:30:18+00:00
I've been working on PenPage (https://penpage.com) - it's a lightweight privacy-first markdown editor that stores everything locally in your browser local DB (IndexedDB). No signup required, works offline as a APP, and optionally syncs to Google Drive if needed. Great for quick notes without the overhead of heavier tools like Obsidian.
by s1artibartfast | 2026-02-11 06:31:16+00:00
I think it is more than just tolerance and stink eyes.

Some cultures actively celebrate children and families. They center them in social life in an inclusive way. This covers inclusion in social events, institutions, and civic design.

Kids are not only FUN, but interesting, challenging, and rewarding.

I would be very interested in a breakdown of how the American perception changed over time and what the drivers were.
by dalyons | 2026-02-11 06:31:50+00:00
> This sounds like you basically have to plug it in every time you park it. And there’s no way you could do any sort of (even small) road trip without using gas.

Yep, so people (mostly) don’t , in aggregate:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-...
by latchkey | 2026-02-11 06:32:12+00:00
<mermaid>
flowchart TD
A["Claim: Bridge opening is conditional"] --> B["Actor: Donald Trump"]
A --> C["Project: Gordie Howe International Bridge"]
A --> D["Condition: Canadian concessions required"]

B --> E["Public statement"]
C --> F["Status: not opening (per claim)"]
D --> G["Type: policy/trade concessions"]

E --> H["Outcome framing"]
F --> H
G --> H

H["Message: No opening unless concessions are granted"]
</mermaid>

https://oj-hn.com

<mermaid>
flowchart TD
A["Claim: Bridge opening is conditional"] --> B["Actor: Donald Trump"]
A --> C["Project: Gordie Howe International Bridge"]
A --> D["Condition: Canadian concessions required"]

B --> E["Public statement"]
C --> F["Status: not opening (per claim)"]
D --> G["Type: policy/trade concessions"]

E --> H["Outcome framing"]
F --> H
G --> H

H["Message: No opening unless concessions are granted"]
</mermaid>
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-11 06:32:13+00:00
I don't have enough data to generalize across the US, but I grew up in a cold, snowy state (Wisconsin) and we almost never lost power. It happened, but it was pretty rare. We did have a generator for such instances, but that was because we had a dairy farm and the cooling unit for the milk tank needed to be kept running even if utility power was down.
by smt88 | 2026-02-11 06:32:45+00:00
> I think RFK is actually mentally damaged

He is, and he's publicly admitted to both mercury poisoning (which leads to cognitive impairments and potentially insanity) and having part of his brain eaten by a worm[1].

1. https://cnas.ucr.edu/media/2024/05/08/rfk-jr-revealed-he-had...
by abustamam | 2026-02-11 06:33:14+00:00
I think a couple of these points are getting mixed together.

On the “crimes aren’t prosecuted” issue: that’s a broader criminal justice question, not really an immigration one. Whether someone is a citizen, documented immigrant, or undocumented immigrant, the question of prosecution policy is the same. If people think prosecutors are being too lenient, that’s something to take up locally through elections, town halls, etc. Immigration status doesn’t really change that dynamic.

On sanctuary policies or limits on local cooperation with immigration enforcement: the argument many cities make isn’t “ignore crime,” it’s “local police should focus on crime.” When local law enforcement is seen as an arm of immigration enforcement, it can discourage victims or witnesses from reporting crimes at all. So the policy goal is usually public safety, not shielding criminal behavior.

And on the last point: I agree. if an undocumented immigrant commits a crime, sure, there can be both a criminal justice component and an immigration component. But it helps to be clear about what problem we’re actually trying to solve. If the concern is crime, then that’s primarily a policing and prosecution issue regardless of who commits it. If the concern is immigration system design, then we should look at whether data actually shows disproportionate criminality among immigrants before framing it as an immigration enforcement failure.
by cyode | 2026-02-11 06:33:42+00:00
Excellent series, I've been reading for a few years now!

Q for OP: looking back at your 8 posts, I don't see you ever reflecting on loneliness (or lack thereof) as part of your founder journey. Yet both founder friends and anecdotes always emphasize this as a big weight.

Is it a significant factor for you, compared to your past life at FAANG? Do you you ever think about spending your time differently to optimize for more social fulfillment (vs. fulfillment from building or becoming profitable)?
by throwaway290 | 2026-02-11 06:34:51+00:00
that's rich, from Railway employee.

your company's mod in that thread said there was supposed to be no SMTP at all for any plan but it was enabled by a bug. then once you saw people were using it you decided to milk your bug via the most expensive payment plan.

but that's your internal dealings. from your paying customers perspective, company had a change in the environment where something was working and now it's not. which could be even okay if it was a legit bug that was fixed, but what makes it worse is instead you said "just pay us 4x more and you get it back". for some users it probably just broke
production, is there a more perfect time for blackmail right?

don't try to paint it as altruistic attempt to reduce spam in the internet, this is sleazy af
by saghm | 2026-02-11 06:35:21+00:00
Having bad coworkers who write sloppy code isn't a new problem, and it's always been a social problem rather than a technical one. There was probably a lot less garbage code back when it all only ran on mainframes because fewer people having access meant that only the best would get the chance, but I still think that opening that up has been a net benefit for the craft as a whole.
Show HN: GHOSTYPE – AI voice input that learns your writing style
by astnd | 2026-02-11 06:35:56+00:00
Hello HN,

I’m the creator of GHOSTYPE.

I built this because I wanted a voice input workflow that didn't feel like talking to a chatbot. I wanted something that felt like a "neural extension" of my keyboard.

It’s a macOS-native app that sits between your voice and your active window. Here is what it actually does:

The Core Input Workflow:

Push-to-Talk & Smart Send: Hold a global shortcut to speak. It detects the active app to determine the correct send method (e.g., Cmd+Enter for Slack vs Enter for Discord).

Inline Editing: You can format while speaking. Need a line break, a specific spelling, or a bulleted list? You just say it, and it handles the formatting inside the sentence before outputting.

"Call Ghost": Post-processing commands (translate, polish, expand) are available immediately after speaking, before the text is typed out.

The Experimental Stuff (WIP):

1. Ghost Twin (Style Transfer): I call this a "Virtual Personality Engine" (a bit pretentious, I know). It analyzes your local writing history to build a style vector. It learns your tone—whether professional for emails or casual for Discord—so the output sounds like you, not a generic LLM.

Side note: I'm currently building the training UI to look like a retro CRT terminal because I miss that aesthetic.

2. Ghost Morph (Custom Skills): Trigger custom macros with a modifier key. For example, turn a raw voice thought directly into a formatted Twitter thread or a Jira ticket structure.

Privacy & Architecture:

Local-First: I’m an indie dev and literally cannot afford the server costs to store user typing data.

E2E Encrypted: Your "Ghost Twin" profile and skills are synced across devices via E2E encryption. Data stays on your machine.

Constraints:

macOS Only: I don't own a Windows PC, so I can't build for it yet. (If any Windows devs want to port this, let me know).

It's currently in pre-launch. I threw up a landing page at if you want to follow the progress. https://ghostype.one

Happy to answer questions about the local-first architecture or the style transfer logic!
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-11 06:37:34+00:00
Two to three times faster? Has productivity doubled or tripled? Stuff shipping in 1/3 the time? I'm not aware of this - which company is now shipping features twice as fast?

AI can produce greenfield code faster, sure, but you spend more time debugging it. If you write the code, it's slower to get the first version out, but then you understand the code and can debug much faster going forward.

You can also use AI to write unit tests, documentation, and stuff like that, while writing the code yourself.
by jmspring | 2026-02-11 06:38:17+00:00
I spent 7 years living in an area with 1m acre fires, winters that were 4 feet in april and nothing in december. Having a house setup where you have multiple heat sources - important. My fireplace had a fan and my kerosene heater was pretty low maintenance as well - a honda 2200 generator under the eaves - only needed once.

UPSs for power outages.

Chest freezer - put those 1 gallon crystal springs (if in western us) jugs in to have ice blocks.

Have warm clothing. If you live in an HOA, be on top of them plowing both common areas and walk ways (mine was supposed to, FedEx/UPS/DHL all let me know - the walkway couldn't be an ice sheet).

Ensure you have access to a vehicle to get your to the services you need.
by int_19h | 2026-02-11 06:38:25+00:00
I don't want to run my own Whatever server.

I want Whatever to be designed in a way that allows me to go find a provider of Whatever that I'm comfortable with, to run my server for me, and for it to interoperate with Whatevers of other people regardless of which provider they are using.

I also want it to be possible for me to take all my data - chat logs, membership etc - and move them to another provider of Whatever if my current provider enshittifies.

And yes, I do want it to be possible to self-host, if it turns out that no remaining providers of Whatever meet the bar.
by brigandish | 2026-02-11 06:38:33+00:00
> Why are you keep repeating this myth?

Why do you write like someone's crazy uncle on Facebook? The caps are inappropriate here, as is the hysteria and hyperbole.

> Oligarchs buy up competition

You realise that those advocating for free markets are against oligarchy, right? That they say that in most, if not all cases, regulatory capture and monopolies are the causes of lack of competition, right?
by BuyMyBitcoins | 2026-02-11 06:39:03+00:00
>”those religious groups that forced card payment processors to ban pornhub et al”

I question how much influence such groups actually have, given that payment processors already dislike dealing with adult oriented businesses.

The percentage of chargebacks and disputes made for those transactions is significantly higher than any other category. Companies hate having to investigate such claims and issue new cards, even when it appears fairly obvious the purchase was made by the cardholder. It’s also tricky from a customer service standpoint, because the cardholder may likely be lying in order to hide an embarrassing purchase from a spouse or other family member.

It seems like payment processors just want to get rid of a hassle for themselves.
by jader201 | 2026-02-11 06:39:12+00:00
1. Maintenance isn’t just about cost. It’s about the number of things that move and/or need fluids, and can fail/leak. It’s about dealing with service centers trying to upsell you on every little possible thing that could go wrong.

When I take my EV in, it’s for one of two things: I need my tires rotated, or I need new tires. That’s it. There’s no “curtsy inspection” that comes back with literally 40 different things that I could have done to it.

2. Our household has four vehicles: one EV, three ICE vehicles. There’s no way the occasional new tires (rotations are free where we bought our tires) amount to 2/3 the cost of the maintenance needed on our ICE vehicles. It’s probably closer to 1/10.

I think you’re overestimating what all needs maintenance on an EV.
by dannyw | 2026-02-11 06:39:34+00:00
I was part of the exodus too, I spent hours everyday on Digg before switching to Reddit. I remember, and Digg staff’s nonchalant/hostile responses to the community also hurt.

I wasn’t trying to provide a complete biopsy, I’m just explaining that the exodus (I agree with you on the cause) was only practical because there was a viable and user-friendly alternative.
by ubixar | 2026-02-11 06:39:46+00:00
The most interesting thing here isn't the CVE - it's the invisible coordination. A backbone provider acted on advance knowledge of a critical flaw, implemented filtering at scale, and the rest of us didn't notice until GreyNoise's data showed the drop. The vulnerability got patched at the network layer before it ever reached the application layer. This is what mature security ecosystems look like - the boring, quiet fixes that happen before the press release.
by dalyons | 2026-02-11 06:40:35+00:00
The cars fine. It’s great it works for him. I wouldn’t personally buy one today when lots of options for real BEVs exist, but you do you.

What I do care about, and why I care that he’s an outlier, is that low range PHEVs mainly exist to get emissions credits for manufacturers so that they can sell more gas cars, and those emission savings aren’t real [1]. You could say everyone’s dumb for using them this way, but clearly the ergonomics of the electrical capabilities in this category are lacking in important ways.

And I can’t prove it but I bet the manufacturers have known this for a long time. But adding a plug to a hybrid with a tiny battery was an awfully cheap way to get your existing car counted as “green” for credits, so too tempting.

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-...
by burnerRhodov2 | 2026-02-11 06:40:41+00:00
hyperloop got open sourced. He spawned and gave engineering support for a wide variety of companies, i think richard branson started one too/ provided a bunch of funding. He saw the biggest problem as the tunnel boring, so he focused on that and thought the other companies would figure it out. One of the OG's from SpaceX now runs boring company and they are on v5-6 of the tunnel boring machine?

He makes big prenouncements, but once he gets in the engineering details... they cease to make sense. Tesla in tunnels makes more sense because they can be end to end. Instead of a hypoerloop, you can drive a cybertruck fast AF down a tunnel. (Again, tunnel boring is the bottleneck here.)

New roadster is on like revision 20+. They had 4 roadsters in 2018, each different from the last. Last i've heard on this, the roadster is going "to fly".I think what he means by this is they are going to add krypton, or some sort of thruster to the car. They don't want to launch the roadster to compete with the cyber truck.

Instant battery swaps were for rigidity purposes. If you cast the battery directly into the car, the battery becomes part of the frame, resulting in a much smoother ride. They did have a couple prototypes of Battery swaps, but they decided not to pursue it and instead focus on improving the megachargers.

Tunnels to replace all traffic was discussed above a bit, but he did do the vegas loop and is doing it for waaaaayyyyyyy less than any other underground system. Something like $42m for the whole vegas loop. I think the boring company has like 5-6 ongoing projects around the US. Did you expect him to do it over night? They custom built a boring machine, like 6 times over and are doing projects all over the US.

your car appreciating in value... I mean, they actually kinda did... If you had an early enough reservation on the model 3, you could make a big flip. Thats why they put a clause in for the cybertruck where you couldn't flip. Also, renting it out on E-turo was very profitable for the longest time. All jokes aside, cause i know that's not what you're talking about... Yeah, that's a bold face lie from elons part. Because latest models only are going to run on AI6 chip.

Semi Convoys are an awesome idea and could totally work. I mean... like i said, AI self driving is pretty good. Especially on freeways. Streets, not 100% solved, but i literally never have to disengage on the freeway. They just built an entire dedicated manufacturing facility that started commisioning this month for the Semi. You will see this alot more often. Obviously they'll still have human drivers, but i'm sure they can write some software to make this possible and provide some "draft effect" for the semis.
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-11 06:41:22+00:00
> My take on it is:

Thete are lots of takes here. Most of them don't explain how TSMC employees, who compared to their countrymen well paid, highly educated and in a high pressure job, have a fertility above replacement rate while the rest of their countrymen have a fertility rate of 0.87%

https://www.boomcampaign.org/p/on-the-higher-fertility-of-se...

TSMC provides extensive support for mother's, including childcare in the workplace. It goes well beyond most companies provide (it would dent the bottom line after all with no obvious return given they can just hire a man), and far more convenient and practical than third party services, even if they subsided by the government.
by radicality | 2026-02-11 06:42:16+00:00
Wow, this should be higher up and with a different title.

People who are paying $200/month for a defined service, and think they are using `gpt5.3-codex`, are getting their requests silently routed to a less capable model without telling the user at all. Why? - because openAI claims gpt5.3-codex is too powerful and dangerous in regards to cybersecurity, and their system randomly flags accounts. And the way to unlock access to a model you thought you already were paying $200/month for, is upload your ID and do identity verification...
by kusokurae | 2026-02-11 06:42:17+00:00
At this stage the moment this kind of rhetorical structure, whereby a series of affirmatory statements (sometimes alternatively a series of rhetorical questions) are used to hedge a following "but", is so reliable a flagraiser that an article will be either propagandistic, blinded-by-science, or otherwise uncritically oleaginous towards AI, that I can close this article midway through already knowing that the title is both the substance of the argument and also incorrect.
by abustamam | 2026-02-11 06:42:45+00:00
If you managed an AI (or rather, ai system) that wrote a compiler or web browser like Claude code or cursor did, would you feel like you did it?

Just a curious question, not trying to be combative or anything.

I myself will go into planning mode and ask it to implement a feature, and ask it to give me tradeoffs between implementation details. Then I might chat with it a bit to further understand the implementation before it writes the plan.

I find it to be very effective and gives me a sense of agency in my features.
by tempestn | 2026-02-11 06:43:28+00:00
That's not surprising. The point isn't to use it to regularly drive tall adults around back there. It's for when your family of four needs to take two of your kids' friends somewhere, that kind of thing. We probably use it once every couple of months, but it's super handy at those times, and folds away out of sight and mind the rest of the time.