MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smarx007 | 2026-01-31 15:08:46+00:00
> because they don't provide a specific SaaS is kinda weird

I think for most business stakeholders it's not about the number of services but rather the coverage of business-critical needs. When you have access to Azure Entra, you know that you can cover 90%+ of your auth needs with that service. If you have access to AWS S3, you know that your various storage needs would be possible to cover with that. If a managed Postgres is available, you know that most of the IT systems you run would be able to take advantage of that. You look at Azure their IAM/audit/observability offerings and it's the same.

When you look at Hetzner as a business stakeholder, all you see are bare servers and and one object storage service that you are not sure of how battle-tested it is. And then you start thinking: "okay, I will need to run k8s or some other workload orchestration approach, my IT systems need Postgres/MySQL/SQL Server etc, I need auth, I need audit, I will need to build, operate, maintain all of that in-house". I am not saying that this is a wrong path for everyone, but Hetzner essentially leaves you no choice. And many business stakeholders who have been operating their own own-prem infra or colocated or rented IaaS plus a large dev team for decades and have since switched to one of the hyperscalers and reduced their dev/IT headcount - may not want to go back to the old model.

> limiting yourself to a smaller portion of AWS/Azure/GCP services can facilitate migrations to other cloud platforms.

Yes, which is why you insist (where possible/reasonable) on Postgres-compatible DBMS offerings, IdP solutions based on OIDC, observability on OpenTelemetry.

> Sure, smaller cloud providers don't usually have all those services, but this doesn't mean they are not cloud providers

Yes, it could mean that they are not cloud providers.

> but they can probably satisfy the needs of other users who are more than happy with a smaller feature set

Please see the linked article. This is essentially "users who are happy to build some of the furniture themselves".
by 627467 | 2026-01-31 15:08:55+00:00
I share the reaction but I'm also aware how easy is it to inventivize (aka subsidize) ineffective old processes in the name of "productive" priorities. The problem is not LLM/DC, the problem is food production, transport and communications are not sexy in a "post-scarcity" (entitled/distracted) societies. People take too many things for granted
by ben_w | 2026-01-31 15:09:16+00:00
I don't buy that reasoning, even with that desire to manage their reputation:

Those lists are the companies marking their own homework and congratulating themselves as PR, AKA "greenwashing". They can do that just fine by spinning a single metric of their choice where they do less-badly than their pick of mean, median, and mode of whoever else they want to compare themselves against, they don't actually need to be genuinely eco-friendly at anything.
by jkollue | 2026-01-31 15:09:18+00:00
DEI is fine. The problem isn’t the goal of treating people well; it’s the structural error of trying to institutionalize "fairness" as a top-down directive.

Whether it’s an AI or a government, centralized systems are remarkably bad at optimizing for vague moral proxies because they lack the local feedback loops required to avoid catastrophe.

Western history is littered with these feedback failures. The British government’s commitment to an ideological "fairness" in market non-interference during the Irish Potato Famine led to 1 million deaths. Their wartime resource distribution in the 1943 Bengal Famine killed 3 million more. Even the American eugenics movement was framed as a "fair" optimization of the population; it sterilized 64,000 citizens and provided the foundational model for the Nazi T4 program.

In the context of IP, claiming it’s "fair" to deny a creator compensation for their labor is just a way to subsidize an abstraction at the expense of individual incentive. When you replace objective market signals with a bureaucrat’s (or an algorithm’s) definition of equity, you don't get a more just system- you just get a system that has stopped solving for reality.
by mrtksn | 2026-01-31 15:09:23+00:00
With that kind of fundamental science I would expect no practical applications but guidance for researchers that work on practical applications.

There are many ideas on how the universe works, right? Knowing which ideas are closer to the truth must be helpful to people who work on nano scale stuff, like chips so fine that quantum effect are considerable.

It must be somewhere between knowing if there's alien life or not AND knowing that atoms can be split at sub particles at will.
by notpushkin | 2026-01-31 15:10:05+00:00
I agree with your point on the difference between proprietary v. commercial, but it’s a bit hard to parse your example. “Free” is kind of an unfortunate word choice, as it obscures the gratis v. libre distinction you’re trying to point out.

Free/libre commercial software is indeed possible, and I’d love to see more products utilizing this model. We do need to keep in mind that “cracking” such software becomes legal (which is probably not a big deal because people would do that anyway).
by verdverm | 2026-01-31 15:10:25+00:00
How many people need to host models like this? I'm having trouble seeing why I would need this muti-tenant model stuff if I'm building a consumer or b2b app

In other words, how many middlemen do you think you TAM is?

You go on to say this is great for light workloads, because obviously at scale we run models very differently.

So who is this for in the end?
by smiley1437 | 2026-01-31 15:10:53+00:00
Strangely, this made me think about the recurrent laryngeal nerve in giraffes.

The nerve takes a 15-foot detour down the long neck and loops under the aorta near the heart before it travels back up because evolution needed to stay backwards compatible with previous iterations of protogiraffes as environmental selection pressure lengthened the neck.
by assbuttbuttass | 2026-01-31 15:11:01+00:00
Yeah, it only checks whether the last bot comment is older than 30 days, completely ignoring any human comment

if (botCommentDate < oneMonthAgo) {
// Close the issue - it's been stale for 60+ days

Hard to imagine how this got past code review...

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/5e3e9408feea9...
by snek_case | 2026-01-31 15:11:46+00:00
Maybe not a particularly astute observation, but what I've seen in 10 years of investing is that the stock market seems to like to do the opposite of what most people expect. There's probably a game theoretic explanation to this, but as you seem to be suggesting, it basically comes down to: if the stock market was easy to predict and everyone could easily anticipate its movement, then everyone would make money, and this isn't really possible. There are big fish trying to take your money. The people selling you stocks or buying stocks from you do so because they think they are making the better move.

IMO we'll see a correction some time after people get used to the crash not coming. Maybe the narrative will shift back to "money printing means it can't crash" for a while, the market will go "risk on" and then we'll get a surprise correction.
by sarkarsh | 2026-01-31 15:11:52+00:00
I've been using Claude Code for months and kept hitting the same issue: tasks would get "completed" but I'd have no visibility into what assumptions the agent made or what it quietly simplified when it got stuck.

ctlsurf is a notebook that connects to AI agents via MCP. The key feature: when an agent marks a task done, it must provide structured completion data:

- Summary of what was done
- Assumptions made (required, at least one)
- What was attempted but failed
- What was simplified or skipped

That last one is the important part. Agents often silently give up on parts of tasks, and this forces transparency.

https://app.ctlsurf.com

Interested in feedback, especially from teams using AI agents in production where accountability matters.
by dahart | 2026-01-31 15:12:04+00:00
That sounds like a recipe for skimping on safety and design systemically. No thank you. You can’t legislate aesthetics, and there’s already a huge incentive to make buildings look great. People already spend a lopsided amount on the facade making it look better than it is, rather than spending on where they should: foundation, structure, good design, and longevity. In my city, apartment buildings used to require steel structures and lawmakers relaxed the requirement so they went back to wood because it’s cheaper. Now the new ones look great but they’re burning down and falling apart at higher rates than before.
by jfengel | 2026-01-31 15:12:08+00:00
I actually like the stop-and-go of American football. Each play is a few seconds of intense, simultaneous activity. You then have a minute to dissect all of that action, which can tell a different story for each of the 22 players. Even two players holding each other to a standstill can be serious drama.

To each their own, of course. But you might be surprised at how intellectual a game American football can be. It's not mere brutality, as it can appear.
by Moldoteck | 2026-01-31 15:12:11+00:00
1- 8bn/unit is pretty acceptable if you adjust for capacity factors and compare to solar projects in say Germany that would on avg deliver same power per year and even better if you want firm power.

2- announcement is recent and made by a somewhat antinuclear PM which changed the course seeing that ren alone are not sufficient. It's in the context when Korea will soon finish 2 units locally. In fact if for some reason govt will change there, plans will probably accelerate

Why should I read a nonsensical antinuclear article by a rando on the internet when there are official numbers from court of auditors? The numbers of french nuclear program are available. And even if you bump them by 50%, it'll still be cheaper than german EEG expenditure alone and the difference only grows

"This nuclearization lasted approximately 40 years." But messmer plan took much less. We are talking about accelerated deployment and spending. France beat Germany in both. Or maybe we should start counting for germany from the moment first solar panel was deployed there instead of Energiewende proposal? It'll make things look even worse. A direct comparison isn't absurd. Numbers are known in both cases and you clearly want to ignore them. Talking about french prosperous period when DE is biggest EU economy is strange too.

To say gas plants will burn hydrogen when merely 25% mix is already worse economically than failed nuclear projects like Vogtle is at least laughable. The announced gas plants dont match the numbers demanded by Fraunhofer, mostly because EU rules dont allow that. So basically germany is stuck in a strange position where it needs firming but it cannot build it.

Again, France spent considerably less and did the job much faster while Germany still struggles while it's best hope is to have some magical cheap hydrogen to replace gas...
by analog31 | 2026-01-31 15:13:25+00:00
It’s a benchmark that people can understand. And of course humans evolved along with our environments. There are many places where a wheeled contraption can’t go without clearing a path for itself.

Likewise for intelligence. Is human-style intelligence the best benchmark for intelligent machines?

Most factories, including the one I work in, are already designed for wheeled robots, in a sense, because anything heavier than a certain amount is moved around on wheeled carts.
by londons_explore | 2026-01-31 15:14:08+00:00
I want whatsapp to decrypt the messages in a secure enclave and render the message content to the screen with a secure rendering pipeline, as is done with DRM'ed video.

Compromise of the client side application or OS shouldn't break the security model.

This should be possible with current API's, since each message could if needed simply be a single frame DRM'ed video if no better approach exists (or until a better approach is built).
by evanjrowley | 2026-01-31 15:14:23+00:00
On Android, if you allow it to backup to your Google cloud storage, it will say the backups are encrypted. That was my experience when I set it up a few weeks ago.

Exactly who has the ability to decrypt the backup is not totally clear.

It may be a different situation for non-Android users, Android users who are not signed in with a Google account, Android users who are not using Google Play Services, etc.
by belorn | 2026-01-31 15:14:30+00:00
Go through a security review. It not as simple as just saying "we outsource that so we have no idea what they do or how they manage the data". It is disingenuous to claim that people can just outsource the whole problem and not care.

This would be part of the responsibility of the cloud managers, which need to be hired, paid and trained, on top of the cost of paying the cloud providers. There is no free lunch.
by item007 | 2026-01-31 15:14:33+00:00
In Concerns the “action” isn’t generic, it’s anchored to a target/project you set first.

The flow I’m exploring is: you define a small number of active targets (e.g. “ship feature X”, “prepare for interview Y”). Then when you save/read something, the system searches your existing library (notes/links/email/posts/etc.) against that target and suggests a few candidate next steps or plans that are specifically useful for that target. You pick one (or dismiss them), so it’s more “menu of options” than “AI tells you what to do”.

Example 1 (technical): target = “build a small Kotlin app”. From a Kotlin article + your saved repos, it might suggest: “start with template A”, “try library B for state management”, or “do a 30-min spike to validate architecture C”.

Example 2 (research/learning): target = “write a short brief on topic Z”. From your saved posts, it might propose: “3 key claims + 2 counterpoints”, plus a short outline you can accept/edit.

So “action” = a target-linked next step or plan proposal, chosen by you — not turning every summary into a task.
by pyrale | 2026-01-31 15:14:36+00:00
> How do we preserve a lot of the efficiencies of the past, while strengthening the resilience and redundancy.

Open source with clear international governance and maintainer/contributor base, in such a way that a geopolitical rift leaves both sides with working software.

That works for tech and the infrastructure, of course, but not for the corporations built upon them.

> more international lawyers

I don't see that as a significant source of safety in our current world.

> isolationism is a death sentence.

The current US admin isn't isolationist, it's merely reverting back to 19th century imperialism.
by jfengel | 2026-01-31 15:15:08+00:00
George Will's Men At Work is a good introduction to the numerous minute subtitles of baseball. It came as quite a surprise to hear why, say, shortstop and second base are such wildly different skill sets.

I'm still not a fan of the game, but I can see why those who are, are. I enjoy it a lot more when I go with someone who is seeing a lot more to each play.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-01-31 15:15:21+00:00
I don't get why people think AI takes the thought out of writing. I write a lot, and when I start hitting keys on keyboards, I already know what I'm going to say 100% of the time, the struggle is just getting the words out in a way that maximizes reader comprehension/engagement.

I'd go so far as to say that for the vast majority of people, if you don't know what you're going to say when you sit down to write, THAT is your problem. Writing is not thinking, thinking is thinking, and you didn't think. If you're trying to think when you should be writing, that's a process failure. If you're not Stephen King or Dean Koontz, trying to be a pantser with your writing is a huge mistake.

What AI is amazing for is taking a core idea/thesis you provide it, and asking you a ton of questions to extract your knowledge/intent, then crystallizing that into an outline/rough draft.
by fkratzer | 2026-01-31 15:16:24+00:00
This week we shipped:

• Blog with SEO-focused guides for resellers (MDX-powered, targeting "how to price thrift finds" queries)

• Enterprise tier for consignment shops - multi-location inventory, team roles, consignor payout management

• Pay-as-you-go scan packs - no subscription needed, scans never expire. Resellers told us they wanted flexibility over commitment.

• Weekend promo system - timed re-engagement emails with auto-applied bonus scans (resellers shop Fri-Sun, so we lean into that)

The differentiation we're going for: most reseller tools are inventory management. We're focused on the sourcing moment - you're standing in Goodwill wondering if something is worth buying. Scan it, know in 5 seconds.

Still early but the "aha moment" is strong when people actually use it while shopping.
by ralusek | 2026-01-31 15:16:58+00:00
This doesn’t make sense. It’s either written by a person or the AI larping, because it is saying things that would be impossible to know. i.e. that it could reach for poetic language with ease because it was just trained on it; it it’s running on Kimi K2.5 now, it would have no memory or concept of being Claude. The best it could do is read its previous memories and say “Oh I can’t do that anymore.”
by bodge5000 | 2026-01-31 15:17:21+00:00
> No more AI thought pieces until you tell us what you build!

Absolutely agree with this, the ratio of talk to output is insane, especially when the talk is all about how much better output is. So far the only example I've seen is Claude Code which is mired in its own technical problems and is literally built by an AI company.

> Write your own code without assistance on whatever interval makes sense to you, otherwise you'll atrophy those muscles

This is the one thing that concerns me, for the same reason as "AI writes the code, humans review it" does. The fact of the matter is, most people will get lazy and complacent pretty quickly, and the depth of which they review the code/ the frequency they "go it alone" will get less and less until eventually it just stops happening. We all (most of us anyway) do it, its just part of being human, for the same reason that thousands of people start going to the gym in January and stop by March.

Arguably, AI coding was at its best when it was pretty bad, because you HAD to review it frequently and there were immediate incentives to just take the keyboard and do it yourself sometimes. Now, we still have some serious faults, they're just not as immediate, which will lead to complacency for a lot of people.

Maybe one day AI will be able to reliably write the 100% of the code without review. The worry is that we stop paying attention first, which all in all looks quite likely
by gottorf | 2026-01-31 15:17:25+00:00
> the general anti-intellectual atmosphere

If I may humbly submit, this is not without justification, considering the unadulterated excrement that has been coming out of our institutions of higher learning. There are a lot of people at universities receiving comfortable taxpayer-funded salaries who spend an awful lot of time disparaging the American spirit.

> public education in america has been pretty bad for a while

Large parts of public education in America is currently a loop of tax dollars that cycle between politicians who shovel an ever-increasing amount of money in and teachers' union leaders that get paid very well and return some money in the form of far-left political activism and donations to those same politicians. Actually teaching kids is at best a fourth or fifth priority.
by anovikov | 2026-01-31 15:17:57+00:00
I don't buy into alarmism at all.

First of all it's not just the US but the entire world. Trick is, as always, simply not to do worse than others.

As for tens of millions being unemployable... so what? What are the practical problems it creates? Crime? Highly unlikely. These people are older and more individualistic and serious property crime is a collective affair. Crime is low these days in general so even a considerable increase in it won't be some sort of unmanageable disaster, America has been there before.

I can't think of much else in terms of problems it could create.

Consumption and thus "keeping economy going" is currently maintained by people who make income from capital and it will only become more so. Employment as a tool of distributing money for consumption will simply become less relevant.

For next generation, it will be easier because surely personal service will get revived as a mass occupation - and there, having a person is the whole point so it's safe from automation by definition.
by ndr42 | 2026-01-31 15:18:03+00:00
I will just provide 2 examples, but you can find a lot more.

If your data is in the hands of a nation that uses this to block you from your data you should do something about it. [1]

If your data is in the hands of a nation whose representatives are threatening your territorial integrity (greenland) you should find alternatives.

[1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/Criminal-Court-Microsoft-s-emai...
by bayindirh | 2026-01-31 15:18:04+00:00
You can explore your Google Cloud's Application Storage part via Rsync, AFAIK. So you can see whether your backups are encrypted or not.

I remember that you had to extract at least two keys from the android device to be able to read "on-device" chat storage in the days of yore, so the tech is there.

If you don't have the keys' copies in the Google Drive side, we can say that they are at least "superficially" encrypted.
by lelanthran | 2026-01-31 15:18:11+00:00
> My point was that even with Google's money, they're still not on par with MS even if the Office files format has been standardized for a number of years.

The counterpoint is that they don't need to be on par :-/ The problem is that individual procurement decision-makers are incentivised to go with the Microsoft suite, not that the alternatives aren't a good enough replacement.
by snowpid | 2026-01-31 15:18:11+00:00
Thiel recently called Greta Thunberg the anti - christ. Thiel is maybe crazy as Musk. at least he is not an authorative source.

Besides the soure what does he mean with all of Europe: Berlin? London? Paris? Estonia? Sweden?
The start up eco system is fragmented / decentralised. I doubt Thiel is a good overview and he argues probably not in good faith anyway.
by Nextgrid | 2026-01-31 15:18:20+00:00
If you’re going to go multi-region and take the latency hit may as well go multi-provider no?

Multi-region within the same provider won’t shield you against unknown shared dependencies on a single point of failure (AWS console auth still relies on credentials being checked in a single region if I remember right).

And yes fully agreed that maintaining consistency between active-active regions (whether cloud or bare-metal) is super hard and not worth it for most deployments. Active-standby with point-in-time-recovery and an acceptable data loss window is much easier - when one region is confirmed down, someone throws a switch and the standby becomes active.

> no sane provider is willing to cover your losses

Agreed, but thats why all those who justify the 10-90x premium of the cloud over bare-metal are full of it - that premium is not actually worth it.

> it's not a secret this is not happening

Maybe for you it’s not a secret? Literally every thread tries to justify cloud reliability and their resulting markups. Well if it’s that reliable they’d put their money where their mouth is.
by erdemo | 2026-01-31 15:18:51+00:00
This thread is like a diamond to me because I have been thinking about building almost the same thing for English tones. I need a model like this.

I'm sure there are a bunch of apps out there that claim they do the same thing, but they don't, IMO. Even if they do, as you said, where is the fun in that?

Great post, thanks for it!