MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jryb | 2026-01-31 11:50:57+00:00
This is so riddled with inaccuracies that I can spot them immediately despite not being a phage biologist. For example, the PhiX image has a DNA with about 20 base pairs - wildly not to scale. M13 is also wildly scaled, and it clearly has a double stranded DNA which is labeled as single stranded.

What the hell is this amino acid view? This is not how genes work at all. This is biology 101 and it's completely wrong. Why did you buy a domain name to share disinformation that you don't even understand?

None of this is displayed in a way that would be useful to working biologists, and I don't see how this could be used as a teaching tool even if all the errors were corrected. This simply doesn't provide any insight into how phages work. Looking at a raw sequence is pointless (also that color scheme is incredibly garish) - you need annotations! The 3D structures don't have their domains labeled and you can't connect sequence features to structural elements.

Why wouldn't you just use all of the existing tools that already do all of this correctly? Look, I don't mean to gate keep, and it's great that you learned something (assuming you didn't vibe code this), but this is a lot of effort that could have been avoided if you had had a single conversation with a biologist of any background, or asked an LLM to critique your idea, or made a single reddit post asking if this would be useful.
by chrisremo85 | 2026-01-31 11:50:57+00:00
I built a small browser game where everyone plays the exact same sequence.

No RNG, no luck — your leaderboard position reflects only reaction time and execution.

Two modes:

KEYSTORM – hit appearing keys as fast as possible, speed ramps up until you fail

AIMSTORM – click shrinking targets before the timeout expires

On Mobile only AIMSTORM

Both modes are deterministic: every player faces identical challenges.

There’s no winning state — difficulty scales beyond human limits.
You just try to survive longer than everyone else.

Playable here:
https://1vsall.voidmind.io

Would love feedback.
by nottorp | 2026-01-31 11:51:20+00:00
> everyone has their own hacky solution to cram stuff into limited hardware

Limited hardware gave us a lot of classic titles and fundamental game mechanics.

Off the top of my head:

Metal Gear's stealth was born because they couldn't draw enough enemy sprites to make a shooting game. Instead they drew just a few and made you avoid them.

Ico's and Silent Hill's foggy atmosphere is partially determined by their polygon budget. They didn't have the hardware to draw distant scenery so they hid it in fog.
by willtemperley | 2026-01-31 11:51:30+00:00
This poses a fundamental problem for many SaaS providers. How can you guarantee client data aren't sent across the pond when all the app state is held server-side?

The answer is obvious with native apps, where it's standard practice to provide server endpoint details, so client-verified data locality is simple.

I don't really know how this is practically possible in SaaS web apps.
by griffzhowl | 2026-01-31 11:52:12+00:00
Yeah, it was quite a compelling story, and it's at least a genuinely beautiful and intriguing tablet. The author Hempsell does have some talent though, in seemingly getting a reputable university to publish his book... I'm thinking he was quite canny in finding this attractive untranslated tablet with little else written about it, and then employing enough knowledge about a combination of different subjects (ancient Sumerian, asteroid orbits, Alpine geology) that no single reviewer was able or motivated to properly evaluate all the arguments. Or he just had a friend at the press.
by nicbou | 2026-01-31 11:52:23+00:00
Sometimes the writing itself is useful, like when I realise that I've been stressing about something minor for a few days, or when I hesitate to write down how I _really_ feel about something. In other cases it forces me to actually understand what I'm feeling in order to put it into words. In a sense those notes could be write-only and still be useful.

In other cases these notes are a complement to my photos. They show a different aspect of my life at a given moment. My photos don't show that on September 4, 2015, I had a massive crush on someone. I have built a timeline that combines my journals, photos, sketches, geolocation, Google searches and other things. It reveals a far more nuanced picture of me at a given time.

I also have more technical notes. Those are a bit of a "collection of facts". It's a bit like putting all the parts on the table, and slowly organising them into a coherent structure. This is how I approach bigger topics before I understand them fully. Then my notes act as a sort of medium-term memory. When I finish a project, I usually have a bunch of leftover notes and todos that I don't intend to ever finish. That's why I say that notes are not an obligation.
by iLoveOncall | 2026-01-31 11:52:30+00:00
Europe will never have competitive offerings until they pay their employees the equivalent of what FAANGs pay.

If you work for GCP or AWS in Europe, you'll easily get twice as much income as if you do the exact same job for Hetzner or OVH.

You can't build equivalents to GCP and AWS without paying the same. I work for a FAANG right now in Europe and I wouldn't consider even a single second any European cloud provider as potential employers.
by dTal | 2026-01-31 11:52:54+00:00
+1 for qalculate

Favorite feature: you can type in any equation, writing 'x' for an unknown quantity, and it will solve for x. This comes in handy to avoid having to engage brain even for simple calculations. How many pixels per mm is 96 DPI? Just type 96/inch = x/mm. Sure you could rearrange it yourself but why bother?
by catdog | 2026-01-31 11:53:30+00:00
As it is so often in life, extreme approaches are often bad. If you do pure waterfall you risk finding out very late that your plan might not work out, either because of unforeseen technical difficulties implementing it, the given requirements actually being wrong/incomplete or just simply missing the point in time where you planned enough. If you do extreme agile you often end up with a shit architecture which actually, among other things, hurt your future agility but you get a result which you can validate against reality. The "oh, I didn't think of that" is definitely present in both extremes.
by rm30 | 2026-01-31 11:53:43+00:00
If we review the history we can notice that there was always an influence from politics/religion to science, literature, arts, philosophy and the use of them by politics, maybe to justify some decision and state of facts.

It helps to empower control over population and fits perfectly in the social and historical context: the emperor blessed by God, the evolution theory, the epic poems, theory of race, the industrial revolution, and modern times don't escape these patterns too, we just suppose to be neutral.
by dragonman | 2026-01-31 11:53:43+00:00
I’m a DevOps engineer and recently started experimenting seriously with AI-assisted coding to see how useful it actually is in real work.

It checks:

- HTTPS redirects
- SSL certificate validity
- Mixed content
- basic security headers
- HTTP/3 support

AI helped a lot with speed — scaffolding, boilerplate, and quick iterations.
But testing, edge cases, and reviewing security-related logic quickly reminded me that AI doesn’t replace understanding. You still own every line of code you ship.

This is mainly a learning project, not meant to replace full security scanners.
I’d appreciate any feedback, bug reports, or thoughts on what’s missing or misleading.
by gustavopezzi | 2026-01-31 11:54:16+00:00
Thanks for mentioning pikuma. :-)

The 3D software rendering is still the most popular lecture from our school even after all these years. And it really surprises me because we "spend a lot of time" talking about some old techniques (MS-DOS, Amiga, ST, Archimedes, etc.). But it's fun to see how much doing things manually help students understand the math and the data movement that the GPU helps automate and vectorize in modern systems.
by aglavine | 2026-01-31 11:55:05+00:00
No.

Agile core is the feedback loop. I can't believe people still don't get it. Feedback from reality is always faster than guessing on the air.

Waterfall is never great. The only time when you need something else than Agile is when lives are at stake, you need there formal specifications and rigorous testing.

SDD allows better output than traditional programming. It is similar to waterfall in the sense that the model helps you to write design docs in hours instead of days and take more into account as a result. But the feedback loop is there and it is still the key part in the process.
by ezconnect | 2026-01-31 11:57:39+00:00
The next crash will probably be a race for assets or hard assets for the people who can afford it. It means the stock market will reach all time high, gold all time high and land prices skyrocketing as people try to escape from the dollar currency. The US President will still be proud the economy is still good because the stock market is at all time high and the people are rich because their homes are at all time high valuation but the middle class can barely afford food because there are no available jobs that pays good enough.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-01-31 11:59:28+00:00
> I'm curious how the modern pronunciation is arrived at. Is that a lot of convention and guess work or is it reasonably secure through knowing (approximately) Akkadian pronunciation via other Semitic languages?

I would also be interested in material on this. The pronunciation is clearly not obvious; our first attempt at reading the name "Gilgamesh" came out "Izdubar". But it's also not just gone the way, say, Old Chinese pronunciation information is.

Note that our knowledge of Akkadian pronunciation is quite a bit better than our knowledge of other old Afroasiatic languages, because Akkadian is written with vowels.

A fun example is that we know the vowel in the name of the Egyptian god conventionally called "Ra" because he is mentioned in an Akkadian text. (That "a" in the English version of the name represents an Egyptian consonant, not a vowel.)
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-31 11:59:41+00:00
Yeah, good point. I was astounded when I lived in the US that it was impossible to get from my temporary accommodation to the place I worked, about 300m away, without driving. I eventually found a place to rent on the one single bus route that served the area. The rental agent treated me with the same level of patience that you use with slightly crazy people.
by ampersandwhich | 2026-01-31 11:59:59+00:00
Also not a brain surgeon, but to my understanding, modern satellites already have solar panels and radiators that account for the system's overall energy absorption and dissipation in low Earth orbit [1]. Therefore, plugging a supercomputer into the solar array instead of another instrument would likely not affect the overall heat profile meaningfully. Most energy in LEO is ultimately derived from solar irradiance and passes through the spacecraft regardless of internal usage. That said, take this with a grain of salt due to the aforementioned lack of astrochirurgical bona fides.

[1] https://youtu.be/DCto6UkBJoI
by kris_builds | 2026-01-31 12:00:11+00:00
Interesting take. I think the real question isn't whether we're "claudemaxxing" but whether the mental model of treating AI as a tool vs collaborator matters.

Anecdotally, I've found better results when I treat Claude less like a search engine and more like a pair programmer - giving it context, asking it to reason through problems, and iterating on its output rather than expecting perfect first responses.

The name is funny though. What's next, GPTpilling?
by greenbit | 2026-01-31 12:00:36+00:00
My HP32s from ~40 years ago still resides on my workbench where I mess around with RF circuits for fun. It has no graphing capability and it's barely programmable, but that's ok, I keep an actual computer nearby for those sorts of things. The calculator keeps earning new batteries bc tinkering with analog circuits I frequently want to evaluate little things like AB/(A+B) or 1/2piF or (1+S)/(1-S), or need the log 10 or square root or the cosine of something.

In those circumstances, the calculator's compact form factor is quite convenient, compared to needing two hands at the computer keyboard, or one handedly hunt-pecking said keyboard. As for the mouse, that has to be the slowest, most focus stealing option of them all. The calculator doesn't take much room, so it can be kept within arm's reach without getting in the way, quickly gives me the numbers I need, without demanding I become fully engaged with it.

Also, those old HP buttons are just so nice to press, a refreshing break from the dead flat glass you get everywhere else these days.
DietPi released a new version v10.0
by StephanStS | 2026-01-31 12:00:47+00:00
DietPi released a new version v10.0

DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the version DietPi v10.0 on January 25th, 2026.

The highlights of this version are:
Minimum supported Debian version: Raised from Bullseye (Debian 11) to Bookworm (Debian 12)
ownCloud Infinite Scale: New software package, replaces ownCloud
Uptime-Kuma: New software package, a monitoring tool for your system
Sparky SBC, NanoPi M2/T2/Fire2, and NanoPi M3/T3/Fire3 families: Removed support due to very old vendor images
RPi Cam Web Interface, Pydio: Removed. They do not support Bookworm and higher
Quartz64: Support of the new NPU driver
Fixes for Radxa ZERO 3, Orange Pi 3/3 LTS/3B, NanoPi R2S, NanoPi NEO3, ROCK64
Fixes for Home Assistant, BirdNET-Go, Mopidy
Raspberry Pi Imager: Support of DietPi as a selectable “Other general-purpose OS”

The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v10_0/
by prorez | 2026-01-31 12:00:49+00:00
Friendly reminder that almost nobody is working this way now. You (reader) don't have to spend 346742356 tokens on that refactor. antirez won't magically swoop in and put your employer out of business with the Perfect Prompt (and accompanying AI blog post). There's a lot of software out there and MoltBook isn't going to spontaneously put your employer out of business either.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking "if I don't heavily adopt Claude Code and agentic flows today I'll be working at Subway tomorrow." There's an unhealthy AI hype cottage industry right now and you aren't beholden to it. Change comes slowly, is unpredictable, and believe it or not writing Redis and linenoise.c doesn't make someone clairvoyant.
by asyncadventure | 2026-01-31 12:00:58+00:00
This is a refreshingly pragmatic take on AI adoption. The "step behind the bleeding edge" philosophy resonates deeply - especially the security concerns around the AI gold rush mentality. The emphasis on maintaining ownership of your work while leveraging AI for toil rather than thought is spot on. Too many teams are either completely avoiding AI or blindly adopting every new tool without considering the broader implications.
by input_sh | 2026-01-31 12:01:20+00:00
> Do you mean reset as reopening?

Yes, I have two vaults (one work-oriented, one completely personal) and frequently switch between them. Whenever I do so, I use a homepage plugin that always opens the same "root" note. You can vibe-code this plugin within minutes if you prefer, it's literally all that it does. Or you can have that note pinned to the sidebar and skip the plugins entirely, up to you really.

> How can I get those lists?

You need to be able to embed queries into your notes. Either you use Bases (first-party plugin) or Dataview (third-party plugin). The second one is a little more ironed out as of now, so I keep using that (but will probably migrate in the future). For the first two lists you create queries that simply look at file's creation/modification time. For the third one, Obsidian gives you an option to "star" a note, so you query for that.
by abc123abc123 | 2026-01-31 12:01:37+00:00
Why should they do something about it? They are not IT people. If you want to switch, do it today. Plenty of options exist.

If you designed yourself into a corner by utilizing function as a service to program agains ta proprietary API, then you can just as well start from scratch or quit and join a company that knows how to avoid lock-in.
by jeppester | 2026-01-31 12:01:39+00:00
> Thus is probably more about the EU having access to eu data than not having the US have access to EU data.

The EU governments do not have free access to data in a non-transparent way. That's the main difference between EU and American laws.

> Also it’s not like it’s impossible to encrypt things when you store them?

The GDPR lets you store any data in a third country, so long as it's impossible for that country to decrypt the data. E.g. it has to be encrypted before it's transferred.

It just severely limits what you can build, to a degree where it's probably easier to just use a cloud that can be trusted to follow the GDPR.
by tirant | 2026-01-31 12:01:48+00:00
I would say there’s even less chance nowadays to generate a fully private set of European alternatives to American cloud offerings.

Europes bureaucratization and the growth of the size of states has increased the last 10 years. I have less and less hope that we’re able to set the right free market conditions for real competition to happen.

That doesn’t mean that won’t be alternatives to American offerings, but most probably will come from somewhere else (Singapore, China, Taiwan…)
by alecco | 2026-01-31 12:02:01+00:00
> if vibe coding is the process of producing software without much understanding of what is going on (which has a place, and democratizes software production, so it is totally ok with me)

Strongly disagree. This is a huge waste of currently scarce compute/energy both in generating that broken slop and in running it. It's the main driver for the shortages. And it's getting worse.

I would hate a future without personal computing.
by sublinear | 2026-01-31 12:02:40+00:00
For over a decade I've been using emulators of the calculators I grew up using on all my android phones. I see no point in changing my "weird" ways.

I use RealCalc for most things (RPN style). Has many functions like a scientific, but I mostly stick to the basic four and it also converts units.

I switch to Graph89 when I need a graph/table involving trig or polynomial approximations. Sometimes I'll even write a basic program. If I'm using this app I probably also have measuring tools out for a DIY project.

I go to spreadsheets for anything beyond that using "Office: Planmaker". It handles the xlsx format perfectly! That's how I do my monthly budget, health tracking, etc. For reasons beyond my understanding, some people are still impressed seeing proper full-featured spreadsheets done quickly on a phone.
by rtafs155 | 2026-01-31 12:03:54+00:00
"When the process is actual software production where you know what is going on, remember: it is the software you are producing. Moreover remember that the pre-training data, while not the only part where the LLM learns (RL has its big weight) was produced by humans, so we are not appropriating something else."

What does that even mean? You are a failed novelist who does not have ideas and is now selling out his fellow programmers because he wants to get richer.
by aembleton | 2026-01-31 12:03:57+00:00
> It just means we don't let you starve if you don't work and we stop making you work out of fear of leaving you starve if you don't.

Seems inefficient to pay for everyone to have kitchens in their house and pay them cash to get ingredients to cook. Couldn't we just employ some of these people as cooks and have them make meals in a centralised kitchen in every neighbourhood? A bit like the British Restaurant idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Restaurant
by griffzhowl | 2026-01-31 12:03:57+00:00
The plot thickens: a commenter here posted this link, which indicates Ötzi might have been roped in to this story in quite an imaginative way:

"Despite this new evidence, curiously in 2008 the impact hypothesis was revived by some pseudoscientists in connection to supposed observations of a meteorite by the Sumerians or to explain the death of the Iceman as a human sacrifice to prevent a nuclear winter after the impact."

http://historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2011/04/landslide...

Unfortunately the sciforums link to discussion of the pseudoscientists is dead
by norir | 2026-01-31 12:04:16+00:00
> I'm a programmer, and I use automatic programming. The code I generate in this way is mine. My code, my output, my production. I, and you, can be proud.

I disagree. The code you wrote is a collaboration with the model you used. To frame it this way, you are taking credit for the work the model did on your behalf. There is a difference between I wrote this code entirely by myself and I wrote the code with a partner. For me, it is analogous to the author of the score of an opera taking credit for the libretto because they gave the libretto author the rough narrative arc. If you didn't do it yourself, it isn't yours.

I generally prefer integrated works or at least ones that clearly acknowledge the collaboration and give proper credit.
Show HN: Aegis – open-source filter controls for AI chatbots and img generators
by sujitn | 2026-01-31 12:04:46+00:00
I built Aegis after realizing there are no parental controls for AI chatbots.

It's a local proxy/Chrome extension that filters conversations on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and others. Also blocks NSFW images from Grok, DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion.

Stack: Rust, ONNX Runtime for ML classification, Dioxus for UI. Everything runs locally - no cloud, no data collection.

https://github.com/sujitn/aegis
https://www.parentalsafety.ai

MIT licensed.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-31 12:04:52+00:00
> set the right free market conditions for real competition to happen

Just as a curiosity, what exactly are those "right free market conditions" and where have those been successfully implemented before? Because I think most of us (Europeans) are desperately trying to avoid replicating the American experiment, so if that's the "right free market conditions" I think we're trying to avoid those on purpose.

But maybe you're thinking of some other place, then I'm eager ears to hear what worked elsewhere :)
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-01-31 12:05:09+00:00
> He knows how to push buttons

Nobody whos word is that worthless, is suited for any position of power. This is indefensible.

> I learned decades ago to ignore politicians.

Then why do you know about obamas corruption and how bad it is?

You are just biased. Most right wingers go silent when pointed to their contradictions.
by nullsanity | 2026-01-31 12:05:48+00:00
I think reductionist opinions about the "Free market" and price competition being the only factor are naive. Culture and trust are major components of a project, and cultural sensibilities and development culture can be a part of procurement decisions.

I worked for a company that chose Tresorit over any other option because it gave them Data Sovereignty, E2E encryption, and most important, it was not American.

There is intrinsic value in being "Not made in America" and data sovereignty is a major issue for a lot of organizations. Just as an American company would be concerned about storing their data in China, the rest of the world is/should be concerned about storing their data in the US.