MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Liftyee | 2026-01-30 15:18:38+00:00
I'm curious - which firmware version are you on? Just yesterday I got confused when I accidentally entered the "cache" folder (Handy sliced models?) on my P1S, so it looks like my machine definitely supports folders at least. I am located in the UK and bought it late 2025.

AFAIK, the hidden internal USB port is intended to charge a phone/other device used as a "touch controller".

I don't like their closed-source control and the way they've managed local integrations, but I also want to accelerate making things with a printer that just "prints" (akin to how some will buy into the Apple ecosystem for something that "just works"). I've now sold my previous open-source Klipper/Mainsail printer which I heavily modified.

If/when Bambu makes their ecosystem unbearable for me, I will switch away (probably to a Prusa). For now, the ease of use of the machine has led to much more things being made as I can trust it to work accurately and reliably.
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-30 15:18:40+00:00
As something to compare to, I picked a random repository from what GitHub Explore showed, clicked on the first that looked like a desktop application (https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/releases/tag/v3.5.4), and their Windows binary is currently 166MB for a "privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software".

I'd claim 80MB for an entire game engine + editor for said engine is very good.
by vunderba | 2026-01-30 15:18:55+00:00
BG1/BG2 are excellent games but it can take some getting use to the RTWP (Realtime with Pause) system and AD&D rules (THAC0, etc).

BG2 in particular is fantastic. Highly recommend them.

> Be it stupid companions walking into danger

Oooo boy - you're gonna love the pathfinding in BG especially with 6 people in your party in tight corridors. /s
by peepee1982 | 2026-01-30 15:19:12+00:00
I've done this out of curiosity with the base model of LLama 3.1 405B. I vibe coded a little chat harness with the system prompt being a few short conversations between "system" and "user" with "user:" being the stop word so I could enter my message. Worked surprisingly well and I didn't get any sycophancy or cliched AI responses.
by MisterTea | 2026-01-30 15:19:27+00:00
I always get reminded of this when I see all the weird praise the 555 gets: https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/analog/article...

It's one of those poor/early designs like the 741 opamp that has since been superseded by much better chip designs but is thoroughly ingrained in hobbyist and EE101 classes to the point where people think it must be a good design because it's so venerated. It's meme driven really.

However, for educational and hobby use, eh whatever. If I was a professor and the curriculum called for 555 or 741 use I would thoroughly state to the students that A. these devices are historic and good teaching tools, however, in the real world their performance has been surpassed and you would use new designs. Maybe even present a few alternatives like the TL081 and what Pease mentioned for timing.
by ashwaa101 | 2026-01-30 15:19:32+00:00
Hi HN — I’m building Thandev, a “security control room” for web app scanning.

I started it because running multiple tools (Nuclei, ZAP, Nmap, etc.) often produces a lot of duplicated alerts and messy outputs, and it’s hard to turn scans into a short, actionable list. Thandev tries to normalize + dedupe findings across tools and present them as something you can actually work through.

What it does today

Takes a target URL/domain and runs a scan pipeline (current stack includes Nuclei, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, httpx, plus a few others depending on the scan type)

Collects outputs in a single place and tries to:

dedupe repeated alerts across tools

keep severity consistent (so the same issue doesn’t show as “info” in one place and “high” in another)

produce a cleaner report you can share / export

What I’m building next

Better “signal vs noise” ranking: merge similar findings, raise confidence when multiple tools agree, suppress low-value repeats

More recon/enumeration-driven scanning (so scans cover more than just the base URL)

Clearer repro steps and context in the report (what endpoint, evidence, why it matters, how to verify)

Important note
Thandev is meant for targets you own or are authorized to test. I’m also working on domain ownership verification to enforce this.

It’s currently early beta — access is manual so I can watch costs + iterate quickly.

Project/site: https://thandev.io/

Docs / tool catalog: https://thandev.io/docs/tool-catalog

If you want beta access, comment or email me at: help@thandev.io

I’d love feedback from people who use these tools regularly:

What creates the most “noise” for you in scan results?

What would make a report actually actionable for your workflow (dev vs security)?

Thanks!
Show HN: Claude Commander: runtime model switching in Cloud Code via hooks/API
by stefanostraus | 2026-01-30 15:19:36+00:00
Hi HN,
I built Claude Commander, a small wrapper around Cloud Code that lets you issue commands programmatically from inside Cloud Code (via hooks or scripts).

Main feature: switch model at runtime.

Why: start expensive for planning or hard debugging, then downgrade for execution to cut cost.
by MarkusWandel | 2026-01-30 15:19:42+00:00
Am I courting disaster by reviving won't-charge pouch cells by just manually running a bit of current through them until they're nonzero volts and then a normal charger will do the rest? So far, in the maybe half dozen times I've tried it (rectangular battery blocks for old digital cameras, the pouch cell inside a long-disused Kobo Reader) it's worked. They charge right up, they don't swell, and they still have decent capacity.

I'm running at the hairy edge and only high quality safety engineering is protecting me here? Or these cells can take a lot more abuse than they're given credit for?
by tsimionescu | 2026-01-30 15:19:44+00:00
An article about a counterfactual (how many people would have survived had aid continued as before) can only be based on estimates, not real world data, yes, by its very nature. You can say the estimates are wrong, or that the source isn't trustworthy, maybe. But providing estimates for counterfactuals is not in any way illegitimate.
by tmp10423288442 | 2026-01-30 15:19:46+00:00
As a percentage of GDP investments in the railroad buildout in the US was comparable or slightly higher than AI-related investments. But they are on the same order of magnitude, which says a lot about the scale of AI.

> AI infrastructure has risen by $400 billion since 2022. A notable chunk of this spending has been focused on information processing equipment, which spiked at a 39% annualized rate in the first half of 2025. Harvard economist Jason Furman commented that investment in information processing equipment & software is equivalent to only 4% of US GDP, but was responsible for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of 2025. If you exclude these categories, the US economy grew at only a 0.1% annual rate in the first half.

https://www.cadtm.org/The-AI-bubble-and-the-US-economy?utm_s...
by fc417fc802 | 2026-01-30 15:19:53+00:00
I appreciate the insightful reply. In typical HN style I'd like to nitpick a few things.

> so if process described in 1) is going to lead towards a working general intelligence, there's a good chance it'll stumble on the same architecture evolution did.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. Consider that a biased random walk using agents is highly dependent on the environment (including other agents). Perhaps a way to convey my objection here is to suggest that there can be a great many paths through the gradient landscape and a great many local minima. We certainly see examples of convergent evolution in the natural environment, but distinct solutions to the same problem are also common.

For example you can't go fiddling with certain low level foundational stuff like the nature of DNA itself once there's a significant structure sitting on top of it. Yet there are very obviously a great many other possibilities in that space. We can synthesize some amino acids with very interesting properties in the lab but continued evolution of existing lifeforms isn't about to stumble upon them.

> the symbolic approach to modeling the world is fundamentally misguided.

It's likely I'm simply ignorant of your reasoning here, but how did you arrive at this conclusion? Why are you certain that symbolic modeling (of some sort, some subset thereof, etc) isn't what ML models are approximating?

> the meaning of words and concepts is not an intrinsic property, but is derived entirely from relationships between concepts.

Possibly I'm not understanding you here. Supposing that certain meanings were intrinsic properties, would the relationships between those concepts not also carry meaning? Can't intrinsic things also be used as building blocks? And why would we expect an ML model to be incapable of learning both of those things? Why should encoding semantics though spatial adjacency be mutually exclusive with the processing of intrinsic concepts? (Hopefully I'm not betraying some sort of great ignorance here.)
by souvik1997 | 2026-01-30 15:20:17+00:00
Appreciate your support! We deliberately chose a limited runtime (quickjs + some shell applets). The tool parameter constraint enforcement was more important to us than language completeness. For agent tool calling, you don't really need NumPy and Pandas.

Wasmer is doing great work—we're using wasmtime on the host side currently but have been following your progress. Excited to see WASM sandboxing become more mainstream for this use case.
by ramses0 | 2026-01-30 15:20:20+00:00
Came here to post this. I'm 100% agreed with Mr. Geerling.

For a fun challenge try to find a non-built-in-battery arc lighter (eg: candles, grills, etc). When I found one I bought four (think camping/disaster bag... if everything is AA/AAA then having a shelf-stable fire starter is easier/safer than lighter fluid).

For a fun sidebar check out the "Panasonic BQ-CC87AKBBA" which is effectively a combo "in/out" battery charger OR USB battery pack(!). It'll suck in (unfortunately) Micro-USB and charge your AA's, then switch a button and it'll spit that power back out as a battery bank. When I find one like that for USB-C, it's going on my christmas list.

Look up plastic battery holders that hold 8-10 along with a 4x charger and I just swap batteries out and recharge them into that buffer/holding cell. I'll have to look into the Eneloops as I've been working with the Amazon Basics and generally have 1-2 batteries fail out every few months (and am specifically looking for heat-resistant / outdoor applications).

Last one: Lots of cheap solar products have cheap rechargeable AA batteries inside... you can generally open them up and swap the battery out if they're not working any more (and/or potentially scavenge the charging panel if you think about it!).
by tombert | 2026-01-30 15:20:20+00:00
Maybe the people who go hardcore like that, with the obnoxious PC cases, but there are lots of casual-to-less-casual gamers out there who will be happy enough with Bazzite.

There’s a whole spectrum of PC gamers, and I think Linux+Proton can appeal to most of them. Let the people spending $10,000 on a glowing case make their own bad decisions.
Show HN: Flowly – Managed Clawdbot in 5 min
by hakanorensy | 2026-01-30 15:20:37+00:00
Hi HN,

I spent 3 hours trying to set up Clawdbot (OpenClaw) (an open-source
AI assistant for messaging apps) and thought there had to
be a better way.

Clawdbot is great - it's like ChatGPT but runs in WhatsApp,
Telegram, and Discord on your own server. The problem?

Setup is brutal: SSH, Node.js 22, systemd, API keys,
platform integrations...

So we built Flowly to automate it.

What it does:
- One-click VPS provisioning (Hetzner)
- Automated Clawdbot installation & config
- Platform connection wizards (QR codes for Telegram/WhatsApp)
- Usage monitoring, model switching, auto-reconnect

Self-hosted (your data, your server) but SaaS-easy to deploy.

Technical details:
- Hetzner Cloud API for VPS provisioning
- Automated deployment via SSH
- Supports multiple AI models (Claude, GPT, Gemini)
- $25/mo (includes VPS + platform + api credits)

We launched 4 days ago. Early users have processed 40M+
tokens already.

Try it: https://useflowlyapp.com

Happy to answer any technical questions!
by latexr | 2026-01-30 15:20:51+00:00
> Sentient Lesbian Em-Dashes

Looks at book cover and sees “From Two Time Hugo Award Finalist Chuck Tingle”.

There’s no way that’s true. Does a quick search anyway. Holy shit!

https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2016-hugo-awards/...

https://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/2017-hugo-awards/...

The story behind it:

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Chuck-Tingle-become-a-Hugo-Awa...

https://archive.ph/20160526154656/http://www.vox.com/2016/5/...
by heliumtera | 2026-01-30 15:21:13+00:00
Phones have as much memory as Android requires, not much more.
A low end thinkpad 10 years ago had 8gb memory, and today is same capacity bit more modern and faster.
By the same rate we would have a very very fast 8gb memory thinkpad by 2040.
Same thing with GPUs. Mid range GPU 10 years ago had 12gb VRAM, mid range AMD GPU last generation (6600xt) had 8gb and 7600xt 16gb, Nvidia 5060 comes at 8gb/16gb.

Phones with 4gb ram is not feasible today because they wouldnt be able to run Android and phone home comfortably, even being a thin client requires running Android and react application on electron. 4gb is not good.

In 2040 phones will came out with the bare minimum to run Android, all the stupid Chinese apps Android distro pushes into consumers, and a react application on electron.
by jbmilgrom | 2026-01-30 15:21:23+00:00
totally, it's like ai-native github with some linear plus some ability to push the ball forward autonomously. This doesn't exist yet so we had to build a version internally, but also we built it pretty specifically for our needs. The general version might have to be more componentized, not sure. We also as an industry probably need some version control protocol above git that includes all the history around the commit so we don't have to string together root cause documents and conversation history in s3 linked via relational entities in psql.
by smoovb | 2026-01-30 15:22:08+00:00
electrek.co recent Tesla headline summary with sentiment:

(negative) Tesla to stop selling Full Self-Driving package, moves to subscription-only

(negative) Elon Musk says Tesla 'almost done' with AI5 design, 6 months after saying it was 'finished'

(negative) Tesla's full 2025 data from Europe is in, and it is a total bloodbath

(neutral) Tesla updates 2026 Model Y with new features, launches tiny third row in the US

(positive) Tesla launches US-made solar panel, a rare sign of life for its solar business

(negative) Elon Musk moves goalpost again: admits Tesla needs 10 billion miles for 'safe unsupervised' FSD

(negative) Are Tesla Gigafactory Berlin's days numbered?

(negative) Elon Musk shows total ignorance of Tesla's current falling sales trajectory

(negative) Tesla rolls out 0% financing to boost declining sales

(negative) Tesla (TSLA) releases Q4 delivery results: confirms decline in sales is accelerating

(negative) Tesla Cybercabs spotted testing, unsurprisingly with steering wheels

(negative) Elon Musk's top 5 Tesla predictions for 2025 that didn't happen

(negative) Tesla (TSLA) does something unusual ahead of Q4 delivery results

(negative) Elon Musk drops 'sustainable' from Tesla's mission

(negative) Tesla's Robotaxi project in Austin is much smaller than Musk claims

(neutral) Tesla Robotaxi spotted without a safety driver in Austin; Musk confirms testing begins

(negative) Tesla US sales drop to under 40,000 units following tax credit expiration

(neutral) Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims driverless Robotaxis coming to Austin in 3 weeks

(positive) Tesla announces 2025 holiday update with a few cool features

(negative) Tesla (TSLA) sales keep crashing in Europe with a single market temporarily saving it
by dbtablesorrows | 2026-01-30 15:22:26+00:00
I realize many are disappointed (especially by technical churn, star-based-development JS projects on github without technical rigour). I don't trust any claim on the open web if I don't know the technical background of the person making it.

However I think - Nadh, ronacher, the redis bro - these are people who can be trusted. I find Nadh's article (OP) quite balanced.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-01-30 15:22:51+00:00
> Software development, as it has been done for decades, is over.

Simon I guess vb-8558's comment inn here is something which is really nice (definitely worth a read) and they mention how much coding has changed from say 1995 to 2005 to 2015 to 2025

Directly copying line from their comment here : For sure, we are going through some big changes, but there is no "as it has been done for decades".

Recently Economic Media made a relevant video about all of this too: How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0nH_pSAdM]

My (point?) is that this pure mentality of code is cheap show me the talk is weird/net negative (even if I may talk more than I code) simply because code and coding practices are something that I can learn over my experience and hone in whereas talk itself constitutes to me as non engineers trying to create software and that's all great but not really understanding the limitations (that still exist)

So the point I am trying to make is that I feel as if when the OP mentioned code is 10-20% of the craft, they didn't mean the rest is talk. They meant all the rest are architectural decisions & just everything surrounding the code. Quite frankly, the idea behind Ai/LLM's is to automate that too and convert it into pure text and I feel like the average layman significantly overestimates what AI can and cannot do.

So the whole notion of show me the talk atleast in a more non engineering background as more people try might be net negative not really understanding the tech as is and quite frankly even engineers are having a hard time catching up with all which is happening.

I do feel like that the AI industry just has too many words floating right now. To be honest, I don't want to talk right now, let me use the tool and see how it goes and have a moment of silence. The whole industry is moving faster than the days till average js framework days.

To have a catchy end to my comment: There is just too much talk nowadays. Show me the trust.

I do feel like information has become saturated and we are transitioning from the "information" age to "trust" age. Human connections between businesses and elsewhere matter the most right now more than ever. I wish to support projects which are sustainable and fair driven by passion & then I might be okay with AI use case imo.
by tombert | 2026-01-30 15:22:55+00:00
They don’t care about FOSS, but they care about “computer lets me do what I want”.

Discord is obviously proprietary but it’s actually a very modular platform that gives a lot of nice controls. It’s easy to make your own “server”, it’s easy to add whatever bots you want, it’s easy to moderate. From a consumer perspective, it’s “open”.

Also, I know that this wasn’t your point, but I do feel compelled to point out that Discord works fine on Linux.
by parineum | 2026-01-30 15:23:03+00:00
> The 3x figure in the title is based on a comparison of the Tesla reports with estimated average human driver miles without an incident, not based on police report data. The comparison with police-report data would lead to a 9x figure instead, which the article presents but quickly dismisses.

I think OP's point still stands here. Who are people reporting minor incidents to that would be publicly available that isn't the police? This data had to come from somewhere and police reports is the only thing that makes sense to me.

If I bump my car into a post, I'm not telling any government office about it.
by auggierose | 2026-01-30 15:23:09+00:00
Well, there are apps that you can only do native, not in a browser, we agree on that. But I also think that the browser is actually providing a very compelling standard OS with batteries included for many kinds of applications, and now there is even webGPU. I am currently building a local-first interactive theorem prover with built-in IDE as a PWA, in TypeScript, and you have really cool tools you can use as a foundation for something like this, such as ProseMirror and IndexedDB. Of course the raw prover can also be run from the command line via node. Claude Code is also very useful in this environment. Yes, different browsers are an issue, but so much works on all modern ones.
by candiddevmike | 2026-01-30 15:23:18+00:00
I think the rapid iteration and lack of consistency from the model providers is really killing the hype here. You see HN stories all the time around how things are getting worse, and it seems folks success with the major models is starting to heavily diffuse.

The model providers should really start having LTS (at least 2 years) offerings that deliver consistent results regardless of load, IMO. Folks are tired of the treadmill and just want some stability here, and if the providers aren't going to offer it, llama.cpp will...
by skydhash | 2026-01-30 15:23:23+00:00
> that most software will be built very quickly, and more complicated software should be developed by writing the specification, and then generating the code. We may still need to drop down to a programming language from time to time, but I believe that almost all development will be done with generative AI tools

My strongly held belief is that anyone who think that way, also think that software engineering is reading tickets, searching for code snippets on stack overflow and copy-pasting code.

Good specifications are always written after a lot of prototypes, experiments and sample implementations (which may be production level). Natural language specifications exist after the concept has been formalized. Before that process, you only have dreams and hopes.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-01-30 15:23:36+00:00
Yeah, it doesn't seem to be the thing for Windows. For example its capture hotkey is PrtScrn which has been the Windows built-in capture key since approximately the Bronze Age, and then there's modifiers for whether you want to capture one window or everything, and if you really want to get fancy the Snipping Tool, all of them already built into the OS.
by Waterluvian | 2026-01-30 15:23:36+00:00
I think if your job is to assemble a segment of a car based on a spec using provided tools and pre-trained processes, it makes sense if you worry that giant robot arms might be installed to replace you.

But if your job is to assemble a car in order to explore what modifications to make to the design, experiment with a single prototype, and determine how to program those robot arms, you’re probably not thinking about the risk of being automated.

I know a lot of counter arguments are a form of, “but AI is automating that second class of job!” But I just really haven’t seen that at all. What I have seen is a misclassification of the former as the latter.
by otterley | 2026-01-30 15:24:08+00:00
The best thing my fellow Americans can do is get to the ballot box in November and vote Democrat. Even if it’s inconvenient, even if you’re cynical about politics, even if you otherwise despise Democrats, and even if you think one vote makes no difference in your state—it absolutely does.

If we are successful, then Congress will achieve a sufficient majority to not only impeach, but convict Trump, and eject him and his cronies from office.

This is the way.
by antonvs | 2026-01-30 15:24:10+00:00
Amusingly, by (dictionary) definition you're wrong, because "grift" means "engage in petty or small-scale swindling" (Merriam-Webster), but you're alluding to a much larger-scale phenomenon.

But it's tinfoil-hattish to claim that projects like this and the PR about it is part of a "grift". You're squinting hard to be able to see what you want to see.