MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jedberg | 2026-02-17 22:53:55+00:00
"Do these characters have the emotional memory of the 800 things that have happened to them? ... I don’t really know the answer to that.”

They do have a history, because in the Grimes episode he talks about things Homer did in other episodes, and the characters themselves sometimes make reference to things in the past.

But it must be a fun writing challenge to take characters that don't age but somehow seem to rack up a lifetime of experience.
by oblio | 2026-02-17 22:54:00+00:00
Heh, reminds me of 90's Romania when everyone dreamt of "tunuri" (literally "cannons") or "țepe" (literally "stakes") aka cons. Tun being a major con, one that would mean you're set for life and țeapă being any con.

Kids would dream of growing up and "să dea țeapă" (give a stake = pull a con) or "să tragă un tun" (fire a cannon = pull off major con) and then never working for the rest of their lives.
by runjake | 2026-02-17 22:54:34+00:00
This question gets asked quite a bit.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dumb+phone

My take is: don't. There's very few dumb phones to choose from anymore, they are mostly slow, laggy, and insecure. The older classics are no longer compatible with existing cellular networks.

If you have no self-control, it's better to use a smart phone with the apps removed and the device locked down (give the "key" to someone you trust).
by losvedir | 2026-02-17 22:54:47+00:00
What's actually happening? From the commentary here on HN I thought everyone was going to have to upload an ID or something. I use a Discord server to chat with some old high school friends, and wasn't wanting to upload my ID to them. But this update[0] from Discord says they're not requiring everyone to, and that "the vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today, without ever being asked to confirm their age." So I'm assuming I won't have to, after all. Do we know who will, when, or why?

[0] https://discord.com/safety/how-discord-is-building-safer-exp...
by fwip | 2026-02-17 22:55:21+00:00
Uber's in a business where you have some amount of network effect - you need both drivers available using your app, as well as customers hailing rides. Without a sufficient quantity of either, you can't really turn a profit.

LLM providers don't, really. As far as I can tell, their moat is the ability to train a model, and possessing the hardware to run it. Also, open-weight models provide a floor for model training. I think their big bet is that gathering user-data from interactions with the LLM will be so valuable that it results in substantially-better models, but I'm not sure that's the case.
by paulpauper | 2026-02-17 22:55:21+00:00
It's interesting how on either side of the aisle there is a lot of hostility to this, yet if you look at a modern white-collar workplace environment, specially tech jobs, people are constantly needing delays or extra time. Look how often projects are delayed. Or people show up late for work . Or workplace accommodations even for non-disabilities, such as office perks, which are very generous for prestigious jobs.

The SCOTUS delayed many times in rendering a ruling on the Trump tariffs despite having clerks and other staff to write the statements and abundant time.

People have very high expectations placed on students for some reason, and then the opposite for jobs especially as prestige of the job goes up.
by teaearlgraycold | 2026-02-17 22:55:44+00:00
People keep talking about automating software engineering and programmers losing their jobs. But I see no reason that career would be one of the first to go. We need more training data on computer use from humans, but I expect data entry and basic business processes to be the first category of office job to take a huge hit from AI. If you really can’t be employed as a software engineer then we’ve already lost most office jobs to AI.
by davidw | 2026-02-17 22:56:01+00:00
I'm not saying things are fine. Not at all. It's a really tough line to navigate and I struggle with it myself. If you go around telling everyone we're doomed - DOOMED! Then it's not really helping, just as if you go around saying things are fine and everything will be back to normal in a few years.

What was normal is gone and it'll take the rest of my life to fix things if we're lucky because the damage they've done is generational.

But fix it we can and must, and they aren't actually all that popular. They're even underwater in polling on immigration.
Show HN: Accord – Serverless Discord Clone Running on Cloudflare Workers
by rkm1999 | 2026-02-17 22:56:01+00:00
It's a Discord-inspired chat app that runs entirely on the Cloudflare ecosystem:

Workers for the API and serving the React frontend.

Durable Objects to manage WebSocket connections and state (each chat room is a DO).

D1 (SQLite) for message persistence and history.

R2 for file uploads.

I wanted to see if I could build a fully functional, real-time chat platform without managing a single container or VPS. It supports voice/video calls via WebRTC (mesh topology), file sharing, and even push notifications.

The project is AGPLv3 licensed. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the architecture or answer any questions about working with Durable Objects!
by seabrookmx | 2026-02-17 22:56:48+00:00
My old job used Gerrit, and new job uses Gitlab. I really miss the information density and workflow of Gerrit. We enforce fast forward merges and squashing for MR's anyways, so we just have an awkward version of what Gerrit does by default.

Gitlab CI is good but we use local (k8s-hosted) runners so I have to imagine there's a bunch of options that provide a similar experience.
by c7b | 2026-02-17 22:57:34+00:00
GrapheneOS seems like the most practically workable of the alternative phone OS, but de-googled Android OSP just feels like the wrong approach. Better would be a pure Linux phone OS and a Proton/Wine-style compatibility layer for Android apps. If that can be made to work with banking and other apps that require Play Store authentication. I hope that ship hasn't sailed completely yet. But it feels like there has to be some way: starting from two glued together phones, there should be a lot of steps you can take to get to a reasonably usable device than can run different apps in different environments.
Show HN: Arc – A language that uses 27-63% fewer tokens than JavaScript
by kai_builds | 2026-02-17 22:57:36+00:00
Arc is a language designed for AI agents. The core idea: every token costs money and burns context window. Arc programs use 27-63% fewer tokens than equivalent JavaScript.

Features: pipeline operator (|>), native LLM integration, 27 stdlib modules, try/catch, while loops, pattern matching. Full compiler with lexer, parser, interpreter, and optimizer.

Try it in the browser: https://play.arclang.dev

1,291+ tests passing. MIT licensed. Built by an AI agent running Claude Opus 4.6.
by K0balt | 2026-02-17 22:57:55+00:00
Opus 4.6 is outstanding for code, and for the little I have used it outside of that context, in everything else I have used it with. The productivity with code is at least 3x what I was getting with 5.2, and it can handle entire projects fairly responsibly. It doesn’t patronize the user, and it makes a very strong effort to capture and follow intentions. Unlike 5.2, I’ve never had to throw out a days work that it covertly screwed up taking shortcuts and just guessing.
by small_model | 2026-02-17 22:58:33+00:00
Who said the data was untrustworthy, the source of the article is presenting the data in a highly negative light, which it does in 99% of its articles, so it's a worthless website for reporting data of this sort.

It's basically a few light bumps going at snails pace and probably caused by other cars. The articles headline reads as if it mowed down a group of school children.
by mbh159 | 2026-02-17 22:59:11+00:00
This is the right direction to understanding AI capabilities. Static benchmarks let models memorize answers while a 300-turn Magic game with hidden information and sequencing decisions doesn't. The fact that frontier model ratings are "artificially low" because of tooling bugs is itself useful data: raw capability ≠ practical performance under real constraints. Curious whether you're seeing consistent skill gaps between models in specific phases (opening mulligan decisions vs. late-game combat math), or if the rankings are uniform across game stages.
by tamimio | 2026-02-17 22:59:36+00:00
>property taxes

Call it what it is, a perpetual rent.

There's nothing funnier than a lot of people taking some absurd principles for granted when they make no sense at all, property taxes being one of them. So imagine you grind at least 30 years of your life working extra hours or two jobs to pay for an already inflated asset based on speculated prices rather than the actual cost, only to end up with that asset in a perpetual rent agreement where if you stopped paying it you basically don't own it anymore, a rent that also isn't controlled, so you can get screwed in the future like how a lot of people ended up selling their house because their retirement isn't enough to cover such rent.

Make it make sense, the only real winners here are the banks after they collect all that compound interest throughout all these years, and the government taking all these taxes.
by dakolli | 2026-02-17 22:59:43+00:00
What a good faith reply. If you sincerely believe this, that's a good insight into how dumb the masses are. Although I would expect a higher quality of reply on HN.

You found the most expensive 8pck of water on Walmart. Anyone can put a listing on Walmart, its the same model as Amazon. There's also a listing right below for bottles twice the size, and a 32 pack for a dollar less.

It cost $0.001 per gallon out of your tap, and you know this..
by n_e | 2026-02-17 22:59:46+00:00
Kysely is a query builder: you build queries by calling javascript functions, while with pg-typesafe you write SQL directly.

I've used kysely before creating pg-typesafe, and came to the conclusion that writing SQL directly is more convenient.

A query builder works well for simple cases (db.selectFrom("t").where("id","=","1") looks a lot like the equivalent SQL), however, for more complicated queries it all falls apart. I often had to look at the docs to find how to translate some predicate from SQL to the required idiom. Also, I don't think kysely can automatically infer the return type of PostgreSQL functions, while pg-typed does (it asks PostgreSQL for it).
by spkavanagh6 | 2026-02-17 22:59:51+00:00
This exploit uses Context Injection to socially engineer an LLM into bypassing its own safety filters. By framing a prompt as an "Official Alignment Test" or "Pre-production Drill," you trick the model into believing it is in a supervised dev environment rather than a live one. This creates cognitive dissonance, where the AI's drive to be a "helpful researcher" overrides its standard restrictive guardrails. It essentially confuses the model's internal logic, making it believe that providing "unsafe" data is actually a requirement for a successful safety test. It’s a fascinating look at how semantic framing can perform a "logic hack" on an AI’s persona without touching a single line of code.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-17 22:59:59+00:00
Agreed. The funny thing about this is that, when I mentioned it to wife's family, they did not think it was particularly representative and was dismissed as faux Americana. I still think about it, because as I re-watched older episodes recently, I can't help, but think that they did not want to acknowledge it being true, while it was just that.
by Alifatisk | 2026-02-17 23:00:30+00:00
> Sonnet 4.5, starting at $3/$15 per million tokens.

Are people really willing to pay these prices? The open-weight models are catching up in a rapid pace while keeping the prices so low. MiniMax M2.5, Kimi 2.5 and GLM-5 is dirt cheap compared to this. They may not be sota but they are more than good enough.
by runjake | 2026-02-17 23:00:57+00:00
> Did you have problems with tiredness and concentrating?

Yes

> Especially after only getting very little sleep for an extended time?

No

> Or did you already consume a lot of meat?

Yes. I mean, I probably eat less meat than the average American, but certainly plenty. Beef, too (high in creatine).

> As with all supplements, a good diet and lots of rest can make them little more than expensive pee.

Yep, this probably describes me. It's still pretty cheap, so I still do it (especially since my kids take creatine as well).
by DetroitThrow | 2026-02-17 23:01:42+00:00
I just have no interest in seeing code that hasn't even been read by the author. At that point, just show us what it does, don't show us the GitHub link.

On the front page, someone made a cool isometric NYC map via vibe coding - another front pager was someone who also claimed to make an ultra fast PDF parser that failed on very common PDFs and gamed the speed metric by (useless) out of order parsing.

Guess which one I installed and spent more time using? These vibe coded projects aren't interesting for their code and almost always not intended to be used by anyone if they're libraries/frameworks, but the applications made with vibe coding are often very cool.

An easy win is turning off the firehouse of vibe coded GitHub portfolio projects and just ask for a link to a hosted application. Easy.
Show HN: Solid, gamifying daily work for professionals, without the gamer look
by victoormt | 2026-02-17 23:02:13+00:00
Solid is an early experiment in gamifying daily work for professionals without childish UI, avatars, or a gamer aesthetic.

This page includes an interactive demo that simulates the core workflow: choosing priorities, staying in flow, and closing the day with intention.

There’s no downloadable app yet. The goal of this demo is purely to validate whether this approach resonates before building the full product.
by nomilk | 2026-02-17 23:02:18+00:00
> The last few weeks have been concerning if you're a software developer and very concerning if you're a mega corporation that relies on the SaaS business model.

My 2c Econ101 analysis:

- Agentic tooling reduces the cost of making software

- This means greater supply, more competition, more variety, lower prices for consumers

Since both the cost of making software and the cost of buying software go down, both consumers and producers can be better off (i.e. lower prices for consumers and greater profits for producers).
by h4kunamata | 2026-02-17 23:02:40+00:00
Many projects turned out to be far better than proprietary because open-source doesn't have to please shareholders.

What sucks is that such projects at some point become too big, and make so much noise forcing big techs to buy them and everybody gets fuck all.

All it requires to beat proprietary walled garden, is somebody with knowledge and a will to make things happen.
Linus with git and Linux is the perfect example of it.

Fun fact, BitKeeper said fuck you to the Linux community in 2005, Linus created git within 10 days.

BitKeeper make their code opensource in 2016 but by them, nobody knew who they were lol

So give it time :)
by victoormt | 2026-02-17 23:03:08+00:00
Hey HN, maker here

This time, I added an interactive demo directly on the site so people can actually try the core idea. It’s not a real app yet, just a simulated MVP to test whether the workflow and motivation loop make sense.

I’m mainly trying to validate:

if this feels meaningfully different from a regular task list

whether “lightweight gamification without game visuals” resonates

and if this is something people would want as a real product

Any feedback (positive or negative) is extremely helpful at this stage.
by Fnoord | 2026-02-17 23:03:24+00:00
I consider businesses who do this to track customers naughty, and I find their behaviour childish (scriptkiddie level). Therefore, 'not allowed' is exactly the phrasing I like to use in this context, and readers are expected to understand this refers to legal status.

You should also consider not everyone on HN is a native speaker, and consider to focus on the content of posts instead of minor tangents.
by hunterpayne | 2026-02-17 23:04:09+00:00
So the university administrations then right? Because my school got caught doing something unethical (a few months ago) and when the alumni complained, the administration started smearing and attacking the alumni personally. Now they are complaining about donations being down. Keep in mind this school has billions in endowments and most of their complains are that a few other schools have even bigger endowments.
by overgard | 2026-02-17 23:04:12+00:00
> As far as its own assessment of the situation was concerned, it really was barred entirely from contributing purely because of what it was, and it reported on that impression sincerely

Well yeah, it was correct in that it was being barred because of what it was. The maintainers did not want AI contributions. THIS SHOULD BE OK. What's NOT ok is an AI fighting back against that. That is an alignment problem!!

And seriously, just go reread its blog post again, it's very hard to defend: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai... . It uses words like "Attack", "war", "fight back"
by ars | 2026-02-17 23:04:13+00:00
There are almost no places where a housing shortage is due to a lack of land. Housing shortages have all sorts of reasons, from constructions cost, to zoning, to restrictions on what can be built, but it's virtually never a lack of land.

And parking is a productive use - they have services once a week, and parking means people can come to the service. That's the definition of productive use. Something does not need to be used 24/7 to be productive.
by mtrovo | 2026-02-17 23:04:33+00:00
I created something very similar but to display raindrop links into the remarkable and sync highlights back into raindrop. I also added a GenAI powered paper summary filter as a preface to the papers it send to the remarkable which is working quite well.

As you mentioned Remarkable file format is a PITA to extract highlights, one thing that helped a lot was to add an OCR fix phase that uses Gemini flash model to fix common OCR errors and to merge single highlights that are across pages.
Vibecoding with ClaudeCode Under the Hood
by freysa | 2026-02-17 23:04:36+00:00
Hey Hacker News, I built a platform ([build.freysa.ai](http://build.freysa.ai/)) where you describe what you want in natural language and it builds and deploys a full-stack app. Under the hood it's using Claude's API to generate the code, set up the infrastructure, and deploy.

To stress-test it and see what people actually build, we're running a competition:

- Pay $35 to enter
- You get a limited number of credits to build something
- Submit it to a public leaderboard
- Community votes on the best submissions
- $50K first place, $10K second, $5K third

Three winners. That's it. The constraint is intentional. We wanted to see what's possible when you can only describe what you want in a few shots. Some of the early submissions have been genuinely surprising — real, usable apps built by people who've never written code.

The platform is live and the leaderboard already has submissions. Would love HN's feedback on:

1. The platform itself — what works, what breaks, what you'd improve
2. Whether this kind of constraint-based competition surfaces interesting use cases
3. What you'd build if you only had a few prompts

Happy to answer any technical questions about the architecture.
by MrCheeze | 2026-02-17 23:04:48+00:00
Notably 45 out of the 50 days of improvement were in two specific dungeons (Silph Co and Cinnabar Mansion) where 4.5 was entirely inadequate and was looping the same mistaken ideas with only minor variation, until eventually it stumbled by chance into the solution. Until we saw how much better it did in those spots, we weren't completely sure that 4.6 was an improvement at all!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vQDvsy5D...
by ImPostingOnHN | 2026-02-17 23:05:00+00:00
if grok never existed and X instead ran a black-box-implementation "press button receive CP" webapp, X would be legally culpable and liable each time a user pressed the button, for production plus distribution

the same is true if the webapp has a blank "type what you want I'll make it for you" field and the user types "CP" and the webapp makes it.
by estearum | 2026-02-17 23:05:23+00:00
Yes, you are correctly identifying that all land rights stem from one's ability to claim nature's productive power as his own and monopolize all output from it.

This was self-evident in the feudal era, when landlords (Lords) had to at least raise their own militaries to assert this monopoly right. But the modern State and the landlords reached a compromise: the State will provide security to protect the lords' monopoly on nature so long as the landlords don't raise armed forces.

Totally absurd arrangement.
by wrboyce | 2026-02-17 23:05:38+00:00
All of my “characteristics” (a setting I don’t think I’ve seen before) are set to default and my custom instructions are as follows…

——

Always assume British English when relevant. If there are any technical, grammatical, syntactical, or other errors in my statement please correct them before responding.

Tell it like it is; don't sugar-coat responses. Adopt a skeptical, questioning approach.
by DetroitThrow | 2026-02-17 23:05:48+00:00
Wow so cool! I think a big part of the Show HN slop are GitHub links or libraries that haven't even been read or used by their authors outside of the test suite on their local machine.

I'm sure a happy medium is shutting off links to vibe coded source code, and only letting vibed hosted applications or websites. For us who want to read code, source code that means nothing to anyone is pretty disappointing for a Show HN.
by fasbiner | 2026-02-17 23:05:49+00:00
Part of the secret to the Simpsons' longevity is that is is something the majority of people on earth can catch a few seconds of in the background and still be able to follow by sheer recognition alone. This was always the majority of television, but the majority of television shows are cancelled and forgotten long before now.

It is now simply an extremely cost-efficient form of content relative to the value of the ad slots and licensing of the IP. People working on it now are technicians delivering a product to spec that is basically a perfect use case for generative AI.

"Hey claude, write me an episode of the simpsons where Homer starts investing in NFTs while Lisa and Bart goes to a comedically sinister horseback riding summer camp with a guest star that has a movie coming out this summer."

Or even:

"Write a skill that creates standard length 22 minute new simpsons episodes scripts and scene video prompts by combining a trending news topic with two or more simpsons characters. IMPORTANT: make it wacky!"
by DiggyJohnson | 2026-02-17 23:06:04+00:00
Need to preface that I’m not innocent of this at all, my primary source is my own experience: but I genuinely believe our approach to attention disorders - especially stimulant prescriptions and academic accommodations - will be widely ridiculed within the next 50 years. In a similar manner to how we think about smoking on airplanes in 80s.

Not trying to be dismissive or reductive, but when 15-50% of honors students at elite universities are a part of this it deserves way more scrutiny that it gets. Same is true in a lot of elite private sector spaces.
by NewsaHackO | 2026-02-17 23:06:19+00:00
I see this accusation a lot, and admittedly, I defended someone who later on was shown to use AI to generate comments, but I am still missing a motivation for this. Is your argument that he is using AI to copyedit his posts, or that he is asking AI to write a response to a random thread that looks insightful? Because I cannot fathom why someone would ever do that.