MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simtel20 | 2026-01-31 14:41:41+00:00
There were publications in the 80s that used that term iirc, and I do recall the term for how slightly incongruous it was, and how it didn't come with an explanation.

In looking into ut some more, it looks like the executive was a term from mainframes for the layer of the kernel that enforced isolation, but I must have read the term being loosely used in pc magazines. Or maybe mockingly?
Show HN: Nexwork – Multi-repo orchestrator with Git worktrees
by ambot404 | 2026-01-31 14:41:47+00:00
Hi HN! I'm the creator of Nexwork.
I built this to solve a problem my team had: managing features that span
multiple microservices (usually 3-5 repos per feature).
The Problem:
- Manually cloning/branching each repo
- Tracking progress across repos in Jira/spreadsheets
- AI assistants (Claude/GPT) waste tons of tokens scanning directories
- Hard to run tests across all repos at once
Nexwork uses Git worktrees to:
- Create isolated feature branches in one command
- Auto-generate AI context files with complete file trees
- Run commands across all repos (e.g., "run npm test" in 5 repos)
- Track time, commits, and git statistics
Quick try:
npm install -g multi-repo-orchestrator
multi-repo init
multi-repo feature:create
It's v1.0.0, so definitely rough around the edges. Built with TypeScript,
MIT licensed, works with Node/Python/.NET/Go/Rust/etc.
I'm here to answer questions and would love feedback on:
- Is this useful for others managing microservices?
- What features would make it more valuable?
- Any bugs or usability issues?
Thanks for checking it out!
by item007 | 2026-01-31 14:42:47+00:00
This is a super interesting (and refreshingly candid) direction. You’re basically building a local-first “life event ledger” with delayed sync.

Actually, I'm not an expert in this area, but I feel the challenge may not lie in data collection itself, but rather in ensuring the data remains secure, usable, and easy to maintain over many years.

A custom binary format can work, but it could be a long-term maintenance commitment (schema evolution, tooling, corruption recovery).
by zauberberg | 2026-01-31 14:42:58+00:00
You’re raising the key issue: it’s not whether AI can produce an answer, it’s whether an organisation can rely on it, and who is accountable when it fails.

A few points I mostly agree with, with one nuance:

Humans are in the loop today because accountability is clear. You can coach, discipline, replace, or escalate a person. You can’t meaningfully “hold an API responsible” in the same way.

But companies don’t always solve reliability with a person reviewing everything. Over time they often shift to process-based controls: stronger testing, monitoring, audits, fallback procedures, and contractual guarantees. That’s how they already manage critical dependencies they also can’t “fire” overnight (cloud services, core software vendors, etc.).

Vendor lock-in is real—but it’s also a choice firms can mitigate. Multi-vendor options, portability clauses, and keeping an exit path in the architecture are basically the equivalent of being able to replace a bad supplier.

High fault-tolerance domains will keep humans involved longer. The likely change is not “no humans,” but fewer humans overseeing more automated work, with people focused on exceptions, risk ownership, and sign-off in the most sensitive areas.

So yes: we need humans where the downside is serious and someone has to own the risk. My claim is just that as reliability and controls improve, organisations will try to shrink the amount of human review, because that review starts to look like the expensive part of the system.
by littlestymaar | 2026-01-31 14:43:27+00:00
> like containing Russia without having to rely on the whims of another country's politics

That's true, but at the same time it was probably already the case before invasion of Ukraine, and it is definitely the case now.

The main issue is political fragmentation: would Paris and Berlin risk lives of French and German people (soldiers and civilians due to retaliation) to save Vilnius?

But if the answer is true (as obligated by the Treaty of Maastricht, independently of NATO) then Russia stands no chance with conventional weapons against the whole Western Europe, the balance of military, demographic and industrial power is ridiculously lopsided (involving nuclear weapons would also raise the same political question about the French willingness to nuke Russia in retaliation to Russia nuking Poland but if the answer is yes, Russia cannot win a nuclear war either (which everyone would lose)).
Show HN: How We Run 60 Hugging Face Models on 2 GPUs
by pveldandi | 2026-01-31 14:43:53+00:00
Most open-source LLM deployments assume one model per GPU. That works if traffic is steady. In practice, many workloads are long-tail or intermittent, which means GPUs sit idle most of the time.

We experimented with a different approach.

Instead of pinning one model to one GPU, we:
•Stage model weights on fast local disk
•Load models into GPU memory only when requested
•Keep a small working set resident
•Evict inactive models aggressively
•Route everything through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint

In our recent test setup (2×A6000, 48GB each), we made ~60 Hugging Face text models available for activation. Only a few are resident in VRAM at any given time; the rest are restored when needed.

Cold starts still exist. Larger models take seconds to restore. But by avoiding warm pools and dedicated GPUs per model, overall utilization improves significantly for light workloads.

Short demo here:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IL7mBoRLHZk

If anyone here is running multi-model inference and wants to benchmark this approach with their own models, I’m happy to provide temporary access for testing.
by arter45 | 2026-01-31 14:44:00+00:00
Not sure I follow.

It's one thing to say that a lot of AWS/Azure/Google users take advantage of many managed services.

But saying something is not a cloud provider because they don't provide a specific SaaS is kinda weird, especially if you read the NIST definition of cloud computing or when you consider that not every AWS user is using more than a handful of services (does that make AWS a cloud provider only for more "advanced" users?).

Sure, smaller cloud providers don't usually have all those services, but this doesn't mean they are not cloud providers. They cannot attract users who are more familiar with specific managed services, but they can probably satisfy the needs of other users who are more than happy with a smaller feature set.

Also, limiting yourself to a smaller portion of AWS/Azure/GCP services can facilitate migrations to other cloud platforms (think AWS -> Azure or viceversa), because you're less tied to specific proprietary tooling.
by compumike | 2026-01-31 14:44:02+00:00
The big thing that articles like this miss completely is that we are no longer in the brief HTTP/1.0 era (1996) where every request is a new TCP connection (and therefore possibly a new DNS query).

In the HTTP/1.1 (1997) or HTTP/2 era, the TCP connection is made once and then stays open (Connection: Keep-Alive) for multiple requests. This greatly reduces the number of DNS lookups per HTTP request.

If the web server is configured for a sufficiently long Keep-Alive idle period, then this period is far more relevant than a short DNS TTL.

If the server dies or disconnects in the middle of a Keep-Alive, the client/browser will open a new connection, and at this point, a short DNS TTL can make sense.

(I have not investigated how this works with QUIC HTTP/3 over UDP: how often does the client/browser do a DNS lookup? But my suspicion is that it also does a DNS query only on the initial connection and then sends UDP packets to the same resolved IP address for the life of that connection, and so it behaves exactly like the TCP Keep-Alive case.)
by direwolf20 | 2026-01-31 14:44:06+00:00
It could accept any credible currency if it was connected enough. Euros, yuan, rupees and yen aren't going anywhere for at least 20 years. Each one is a separate system and countries mostly connect to just one, which is USD, but that doesn't have to be the case forever.

India won't accept euros because it's not part of the ECB, not because it doesn't believe in their value. But India has accounts at US banks in dollars.

Banks do this, not countries. Most banks in the world have accounts at US banks to accept dollars with, they don't have accounts at eurozone banks to accept euros with, or Japanese banks to accept yen with. It doesn't matter in everyday practice because it's easy to exchange euros in eurozone banks or yen in yenzone banks with dollars in dollarzone banks. There's plenty of infrastructure for that. It matters in long–term economic trajectories because all those banks are holding US dollars and the US exports inflation to them and they're not holding euros and then ECB can't.
by nixpulvis | 2026-01-31 14:44:18+00:00
Well said.

One of the USA's greatest exports is intelligence and higher education, and what has been happening with that and the general anti-intellectual atmosphere is to me the most concerning as an american. Ironically, public education in america has been pretty bad for a while. But I'm going to start rambling here... way too many problems, and no damn leadership.
by bitwize | 2026-01-31 14:44:57+00:00
What's amusing to me is that PRIDE, the oldest generally available software methodology and perhaps the least appreciated, is basically just "spec driven development with human programmers". Most of the time, and personnel, involved in development is on elucidating the requirements and developing the spec; programmers only get involved at the end and their contribution is about 15%. For a few decades this was considered the "correct" way to develop software. But then PCs happened, mom-and-pop software vendors stuffing floppy disks into Ziploc happened, and the myth of the lone "genius programmer" took hold of the industry, and programmers experienced such prestige inflation that they thought they were able to call the shots, and by and large management acquiesced. And that's how we got Agile.

With the rise of AI, maybe programmers will be put back in their rightful place, as contributors of the final small piece of the development process: a translation from business terms to the language of the computer. Programming as a profession should, by all rights, be obsolete. We should be able to express the solution directly in business terms and have the translation take place automatically. Maybe that day will be here soon.
Are article paywalls dead with LLMs? How has nobody built this
by amantrying | 2026-01-31 14:45:09+00:00
For you would have noticed that a lot of news media houses have paywalled articles, especially in The New York Times, WSJ, or The Information. Actively bar websites like 12 feet from accessing their data. 12 feet is still a hit or miss. However, if I ask ChatGPT to explain in detail or summarise an article from a certain website, it tends to do that almost always without any errors. Isn't this a loophole? Is there an AI that can just take in articles from all of these sources, run them through an AI, and then post them out for everyone to read?
by 9dev | 2026-01-31 14:45:19+00:00
> Compliance and security testing does not go away just because you use cloud. The steps and questions will be different, but regulations like NIS and GDPR have extensive requirements regardless if you implement it yourself or buy it from an external supplier.

That’s a bit disingenuous. If I don’t operate a physical server rack, I also do not need to take care of physical access control, fire suppression policies, camera monitoring, key handling, and a wide range of other measures I would be otherwise obliged to take care of under GDPR. You can absolutely outsource classes of problems. What’s true is that that doesn’t lift the responsibility from you to check your cloud provider fulfils these obligations, but that’s very different from having to fulfil them yourself.
by mrits | 2026-01-31 14:45:43+00:00
While no doubt all these changes are for the best I have to wonder how many are using htmx for the same reasons as I do. It’s simple. I don’t need much functionality. I don’t want to spend time in frontend work so any changes are just a pain and only risk losing business. Htmx 1 and Django are working great for me and I don’t need to change for some time.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-01-31 14:45:57+00:00
> Am I the only one cynically thinking that "Russia, Iran, DPRK, PRC, etc" is the "But think of the chiiildren!!!" excuse for doing this?

Maybe. But until I dropped all traffic from pretty much every mobile network provider in Russia and Israel, I'd get up every morning to a couple of thousand new users of whom a couple of hundred had consistently within a few hundred milliseconds created an account, clicked on the activation link, and then posted a bunch of messages in every forum category spreading hate speech.
by ExoticPearTree | 2026-01-31 14:47:21+00:00
> Give me

Companies have this risk adversity when it comes to trusting all their infrastructure to a person that knows it all and can do it on three physical servers.

I am old enough to have set up services on bare metal servers with what was virtualization or containerization back then (vserver), but today no one wants to know how to tweak Postfix because some emails are not coming through or whatnot.
by everyone | 2026-01-31 14:48:42+00:00
AI slop. The more you look at an image the more bizarre stuff you see. Eg. It seems obsessed with various types of electrical substation and junction boxes.

Those things dont just grow like lichen or something, they are planned.
It put a bunch of them on the pedestrian bridge as well and a lot of fat cables like from Akira or something.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2026-01-31 14:48:47+00:00
That's mostly how it was during the last US presidential term. The president even said that "America is back" (1)

The fact is, it didn't last. It was not a one-off. It got worse than before. The lesson that the USA is a country that does this from time to time.

As another US accurately president said: "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice ... you can't get fooled again."

1) https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/250909...
by rvnx | 2026-01-31 14:48:48+00:00
Finally, this is the comment I was looking for.

If you are in France you may benefit from having your data outside of France unless it's really safe stuff (e.g. a website about your dog) and no user-generated content.

Because, if they seize your server for a case A, and they see evidence for case B, they can charge you for B, C, D, E...

Of course the government, public policy, police and intelligence folks are going to tell you:

"yes yes don't worry, bring your data here, it'll be safer with us. Don't put it in countries like Russia or China where they do not cooperate."

We talk about the country (France!) which already requires you to give your ID card or take a selfie of your face to be permitted to look at porn sites.

In a few months you will have to give your ID to access Discord, Meta, X, etc, and in September 2026 giving ID will be mandatory to subscribe to VPNs.

(and yes technically these services can't be blocked, but once they'll threaten you or the operators of such services with jail and big fines it will be difficult to resist).

If your server is in Russia or China, well, good luck, so many traps during the procedure that unless it is really important, the French authorities are going to give up.

Russia doesn't care about non-Russian stuff, China the same, if you own a small clone of X for example, you are much safer there, and it is easier to operate.

The only thing is that you have to make more frequent backups, as the things are less reliable there, so you can move somewhere else.
by westurner | 2026-01-31 14:49:36+00:00
That quaternions also solve for what we normally have 3D+time for.

And Lewis Carroll (Oxford (Math)), preferred Euclidean geometry over quaternions, for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865).

Quaternions:

q = a + bi + cj + dk
-1 = i^2 = j^2 = k^2

Summarized by a model:

> In a quaternion, if you lose the scalar (a) — the "real" or "time" component — you are left with only the three imaginary components (i, j, k) rotating endlessly in a circle.

(An exercise for learning about Lorentzian mechanics, then undefined: Rotate a cube about a point other than its origin. Then, rotate the camera about the origin.)

4D Quaternions (a + bi + cj + dk) are more efficient for computers than 3D+t Euclideans. Quaternions do not have the Gimbal Lock problem that Euclidean vectors have. Quaternions interpolate more smoothly and efficiently, which is valuable for interpolating between keyframes in a physical simulation.

Why are rotations and a scalar a better fit?

Quaternions were published by William Rowan Hamilton (Trinity,) in 1843, in application to classical mechanics and Lagrangian mechanics.

Maxwell's (1861,1862) original ~20 equations are also quaternionic; things are related with complex rotations in EM field theory too. Oliver Heaviside then "simplified" those quaternionic expressions into accessible vectors.

Is there Gimbal Lock in the Heaviside-Hertz vector field reinterpretation of Maxwell's quaternionic EM field theory? Maxwell's has U(1) gauge symmetry.

And then quantum has complex vectors and some unitarity, too

History of quaternions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_quaternions
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-01-31 14:49:39+00:00
While the environment is changing. That's the key.

If you already know the requirements, and they aren't going to change for the duration of the project, then you don't need agile.

And if you have the time. I recently was on a project with a compressed timeline. The general requirements were known, but not in perfect detail. We began implementation anyway, because the schedule did not permit a fully phased waterfall. We had to adjust somewhat to things not being as we expected, but only a little - say, 10%. We got our last change of requirements 3 or 4 weeks before the completion of implementation. The key to making this work was regular, detailed, technical conversations between the customer's engineers, the requirements writers, and our implementers.
by stared | 2026-01-31 14:50:03+00:00
As someone living in Central-Eastern Europe, I approve. Finally, stripping away that Disney saccharine and making things real and familiar.

In Polish, we actually have a new word for this: marcopad. It’s a portmanteau of March (marzec) and November (listopad). It describes this cold, rainy weather perfectly: no leaves, no snow, just dirt. It's generally depressing and really makes you think about global warming from December to February.
by bitwize | 2026-01-31 14:50:38+00:00
One of the reasons why Rust is taking over userland is that it's getting more and more difficult to find people willing to maintain a C code base—especially an old one—while there's no shortage of kids willing and eager to hack in Rust.

C will end up in exactly the same place as COBOL: there will be applications that depend on code written in it for decades to come, but they will be maintained by very well-paid grognards simply because those are the only people who know how, and are willing (for a steep price), to maintain them.
by its_ubuntu | 2026-01-31 14:50:51+00:00
So that's the VeryGoodCorp example. Now let's do VeryEvilCorp, so it will be closer to the reality of Microsoft. It starts out something like this:

1. VeryEvilCorp builds a "harmless" feature that is not harmless and was never intended to be harmless, despite the pretense.

2. People go along with it because they are blind, stupid sheep who will believe anything they're told, as long as it's in the soft, soothing voice of Big Brother.

3. What is not forbidden is now mandatory in this Brave New Tomorrow.

4. Everyone is now enslaved. Congratulations! Your name is Toby.
by nixpulvis | 2026-01-31 14:51:22+00:00
My point was that the development gap is what lead to the current situation, not that it's just cheap labor that makes Chinese stuff cheap.

My point about maintaining higher economic efficiency is actually the same point you're making. How can the globe (not just the west vs the east) learn from the past and build for the future. We live in a magical world with translation services available to billions of people, how can we empower them to organize around the right ideas. How can we preserve culture and art while flooding ourselves with technologies developed globally? Who pays for security and research? Intellectual property law in general?

So many big issues and questions still need a lot of work.
by jonathanstrange | 2026-01-31 14:51:36+00:00
I think what OP means is that a US company cannot simultaneously comply with the CLOUD act and the GDPR. That case has also been made by some courts in the EU, that US law and practice are incompatible with the requirements of the GDPR. US companies who claim to process data in accordance with the GDPR seem to be deceiving their customers. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me that companies in the EU who rely on US services, corporations in the US, and even governments themselves keep quit about this unpleasant truth. It means that Microsoft Windows violates the GDPR, Google violates it, every US social network violates it, etc.

Of course, as someone else mentioned, that is not an argument against EU sovereignty but rather one of its motors.
by graupel | 2026-01-31 14:51:36+00:00
As a Meteorologist, I love this! There is one little thing to be aware of with using Purple Air for temperatures, though, as their primary purpose is AQI not temp, all temp data comes with this disclaimer. That said, everything is still at lease directionally accurate.

"Temperature, estimated using a formula temp = 1.0227 * raw_temp_f - 9.3755 developed by Lance Wallace to account for heat generated by the WiFi module and other electronics in a PurpleAir sensor. This will not be accurate for all situations. More information can be found in Lance Wallace's notes."
by coffeeri | 2026-01-31 14:52:01+00:00
This is/was also my take.
I’m skeptical that a probe-based network can be granular enough to reliably pinpoint a city, especially when some paths are much better connected than others (fewer hops, uncongested fiber, no throttling).

However, ipinfo still appears to rely on active probing to triangulate geolocation data, which suggests they believe these routing asymmetries can be modeled or averaged out in practice.

https://ipinfo.io/blog/ipinfos-probe-network
Show HN: Flexboxle – A Daily Puzzle with Flexbox
by wluer | 2026-01-31 14:52:46+00:00
I built Flexboxle, a daily puzzle game where you use Flexbox to rearrange blocks to match a target goal state.

How it works:

* Your goal is to arrange a set of blocks into a specific pattern using Tailwind CSS Flexbox classes (and <divs>)
* After every submission, every block is graded as perfect (green), close (yellow), or wrong (gray)
* You have 6 attempts per puzzle
* The game checks block positions, not your specific CSS so there can be multiple solutions that work
* There is a new puzzle every day so come back tomorrow for a new challenge

The trickiest part of building this game was making it playable on mobile. Highlighting sections, navigating in an editor, and adding in common HTML characters like <, >, /, and = are easy on desktop but pretty annoying to do on mobile. I eventually settled on a quick add panel with all of the controls you need so you can easily apply classes, group elements together in a div, and see all of the supported classes.

Let me know if you have any feedback! Enjoy!
by ajross | 2026-01-31 14:53:01+00:00
Because in 1985 Ken Shoemake dropped the idea like a bomb on the computer graphics industry and it changed the way hackers thought about rotations forever. https://www.ljll.fr/~frey/papers/scientific%20visualisation/...

I mean, there are practical reasons too (which are mostly just isomorphic to the stuff in the paper). But really that's why. It's part of our cultural history in ways that more esoteric math isn't.