MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giancarlostoro | 2026-02-04 14:36:53+00:00
The best analogy I think is, if you just take Stack Overflow code solutions, smoosh over your code and hit compile / build, and move on without ever looking at "why it works" you're really not using your skills to the best of your ability, and it could introduce bugs you didn't expect, or completely unnecessary dependencies. With Stack Overflow you can have other people pointing out the issues with the accepted answer and giving you better options.
by the_af | 2026-02-04 14:37:16+00:00
> First time I've seen it. It will be interesting to see if that trends.

It's not a new trend, I'm surprised you never noticed it. It dates back to at least a decade. It's mostly used to signal informal/hipster speak, i.e. you're writing as you would type in a chat window (or Twitter), without care for punctuation or syntax.

It already trends among a certain generation of people.

I hate it, needless to say. Anything that impedes my reading of mid/long form text is unwelcome.
by guerrilla | 2026-02-04 14:38:32+00:00
> If there is a glut of legal, AI generated CSAM material then this provides a lot of deniability for criminal creators/spreaders that cause genuine harm, and reduces "vigilance" of prosecutors, too ("it's probably just AI generated anyway...").

> You could make a multitude of arguments against that perspective, but at least there is a conclusive reason for legal restrictions.

I don't know about that. Would "I didn't know it was real" really count as a legal defense?
by amluto | 2026-02-04 14:38:40+00:00
I wonder whether they will also require that the interior handle be able to open the door without power. Older Teslas got this right but newer ones broke it, and I really cannot fathom why given that Tesla had already engineered right solution.

(In an old Tesla, as you pull the handle, you first actuate a switch that triggers the window to retract slightly and then, as you pull farther, you mechanically release the latch. It works very well.)
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-04 14:39:06+00:00
But they are getting in trouble. However, for every one that gets in trouble, there's more that don't get discovered, or that don't get in trouble for it.

Besides, getting in trouble for something is already after the fact, the damage has been done. If it can't be done in the first place, or the barrier is too high for most, then the damage would have been prevented.

But this is a recurring dilemma.
by 1dom | 2026-02-04 14:39:11+00:00
I really dislike it too.

I think it might be adults ignoring established grammar rules to make a statement about how they identify a part of a group of AI evangelists.

Kind of like how teenagers do nonsensical things like where thick heavy clothing regardless of the weather to indicate how much of a badass them and their other badass coat wearing friends are.

To normal humans, they look ridiculous, but they think they're cool and they're not harming anyone so I just leave them to it.
by avoutic | 2026-02-04 14:39:11+00:00
WardGate also tackles "deleting all meetings"-kind of attacks, at least if you choose to. So for my setup, I allow calendar reading, but updating and editing, requires an approval by me.

So you would configure this:

endpoints:
calendar:
preset: google-calendar
auth:
credential_env: WARDGATE_CRED_GOOGLE_CALENDAR
capabilities:
read_data: allow
create_events: allow
update_events: ask
delete_events: ask

So updating or deleting events requires human permission.

There are already time controls and rate-limiting included.

On the list for things to develop is an LLM model adapter as well, that could detect prompt injection, but also identity-masking and credential-triggering-approvals. Anomaly detection is on the todo.

The threat model is agents deliberately (because of gullibility, prompt injection, or dumb actions) leaking data and either detecting that early on or preventing such things.
by speak_plainly | 2026-02-04 14:39:19+00:00
Someone at some point styled themselves as a new E.E. Cummings, and somehow this became a style. The article features inconsistent capitalization for proper names alongside capitalized initialisms, proving there is some recognition of the utility of capitalization.

Ultimately, the author forces an unnecessary cognitive burden on the reader by removing a simple form of navigation; in that regard, it feels like a form of disrespect.
by sodapopcan | 2026-02-04 14:39:45+00:00
This keeps coming up again and again and again, but like how many times were you able to copy paste SO solution wholesale and just have it work? Other than for THE most simple cases (usually CSS) there would always have to be some understanding involved. Of course you don't always learn deeply every time, but the whole "copy paste off of stackoverflow" was always an exaggeration that is being used in seeming earnest.
by superkuh | 2026-02-04 14:39:49+00:00
We know. But it's a problem because alcohol is one of the most dangerous and damaging drugs. It's basically just society grandfathering it in and all of us living in a state of cognitive dissonance.

re: the article itself, they concentrate only on brain regions which have high density of CB1 expression and that's reasonable. But CB1 is not the only CNS cannabinoid receptor (CB2 mostly expressed peripherally). There's also GPR55 which is activated by cannabinoids like THC. A little issue which could be addressed in future work.
Show HN: Fluid.sh – Claude Code for Infrastructure
by aspectrr | 2026-02-04 14:39:52+00:00
Hey HN,

My name is Collin and I'm working on fluid.sh (https://fluid.sh) the Claude Code for Infrastructure.

What does that mean?

Fluid is a terminal agent that do work on production infrastructure like VMs/K8s cluster/etc. by making sandbox clones of the infrastructure for AI agents to work on, allowing the agents to run commands, test connections, edit files, and then generate Infra-as-code like an Ansible Playbook to be applied on production.

Why not just use an LLM to generate IaC?

LLMs are great at generating Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, etc. but bad at guessing how production systems work. By giving access to a clone of the infrastructure, agents can explore, run commands, test things before writing the IaC, giving them better context and a place to test ideas and changes before deploying.

I got the idea after seeing how much Claude Code has helped me work on code, I thought "I wish there was something like that for infrastructure", and here we are.

Why not just provide tools, skills, MCP server to Claude Code?

Mainly safety. I didn't want CC to SSH into a prod machine from where it is running locally (real problem!). I wanted to lock down the tools it can run to be only on sandboxes while also giving it autonomy to create sandboxes and not have access to anything else.

Fluid gives access to a live output of commands run (it's pretty cool) and does this by ephemeral SSH Certificates. Fluid gives tools for creating IaC and requires human approval for creating sandboxes on hosts with low memory/CPU and for accessing the internet or installing packages.

I greatly appreciate any feedback or thoughts you have, and I hope you get the chance to try out Fluid!
by cubefox | 2026-02-04 14:39:54+00:00
Sounds like there is still some way to go:

> To fully eradicate the disease, cases in animals (infected by the same species of worm) must also be wiped out. In 2025, animal cases were detected in Chad (147 cases), Mali (17), Cameroon (445), Angola (70), Ethiopia (1), and South Sudan (3).
by Dacit | 2026-02-04 14:40:16+00:00
Indeed this can simply be checked by a command-line invocation.
But I don't think the student was aware: They would only have seen a purple coloring of the "stuck" part, as shown in the linked example in the blog post. And if one assumes that the system only accepts correct proof steps, it's very easy to miss a small error in a theorem statement...
by ksec | 2026-02-04 14:40:19+00:00
>Do you have to bring up D in every Zig related post?

I dont think that is the case here, and in all previous encounter. I see this every time Ada was mentioned in Rust as well.

He is not brining up about D in every Zig post, he is simply replying whenever people said something about only in Zig, he is replying that D could do it as well. Which is fair.

Same with Ada, when Rust people claim to be the only language doing something, or the safest programming languages, there is nothing wrong in providing a valid, often missed out counter argument.

A subset of D could have been better C, or "Das C". Unfortunately I dont see anyone craving that out as a somewhat separate project.
by protimewaster | 2026-02-04 14:40:54+00:00
I simply don't agree with that, either. It just seems like journalism to me. No details were reported that would reasonably be expected to compromise anyone's safety. Why should it be disallowed to investigate the ownership of a website? People used to do this all the time when they were going to order products from a web store they'd never used before, to try to deduce if it was trustworthy. They'd look up the owner, verify that the store has a physical address, etc. Were they not supposed to be doing that? They're just supposed to never Google any of that and just pray instead, because, if they learn any of that information, they've done something morally reprehensible? That's absurd.

And, to that point, archive.is isn't so different from a store. They accept donations, so it seems perfectly reasonable to ask and answer questions about where the donations go IMO. Is it unreasonable to look at and report on Archive.org's nonprofit details?
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-04 14:41:33+00:00
>> or store sexually explicit material that represents a real person without their consent

Who told you that? Go ask Pamela Anderson or Paris Hilton about that one. There are rules about material created without consent, but people do not retain a perpetual right to have formerly consentual material taken down. Hollywood, let alone the porn industry, would collapse overnight if every disgruntled star could have movies removed whenever they feel like it simply by withdrawing "consent" years after creation.

And for copyright, generally the person on camera is not holding the camera and so is not the creator/owner of the material. That is a regular issue where people attempt to use the dmca to remove images of themselves from websites.
by lbschenkel | 2026-02-04 14:41:38+00:00
This is not true. The airline has the right to ask for it but in practice this is not really done -- or let me rephrase, not consistently done.

I fly intra-Schengen flights at least twice a year. I had to show ID sometimes before COVID but I never had to show ID after that, it actually caught my attention as anybody could have travelled in my place. I do online check-in, drop the bags, go through security, and show the boarding pass. Last time was three months ago, and once again: no ID.

From the top of my mind I can say that I travelled from/to Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Spain, Portugal in the last few years and I didn't need to present any ID to board the plane.
by reactordev | 2026-02-04 14:42:00+00:00
I have some old software I wrote that calls home to a server that no longer exists to do a cert check that would never pass in order to install it. I tried writing my own Ghidra tool, skill, agent, MCP and still can’t seem to figure it out. I’m positive it’s a “human skill” issue but man… ironic that this pops up the week after I gave up trying.
by Squissy | 2026-02-04 14:42:03+00:00
Hi Hn,

I am Kevin, I built this tool after noticing a pattern across enigneering teams and client projects.

When somone ist leaving a company, knowledge isn't lost because of documentation is missing.. I'ts lost in the last working days, when there is not time to capture the context behind decisions, workaround and project history.

I know that companies have offboarding and documentation. But neither helps when you have 5 days left and need to extract what is inside someone's head.

So I built a tool for that. I don't say it's solving the problem 100%, but it's a nice help for the successor.

Based on the profession and position it generates role-specific questions, guides the leaving employee through the context, risks, decisions and dependencies to turn the answers into a structured handover report for wohever takes over later.

What it does:

- Asks guided and role-specific questions (no setup, just a link)

- Works asynchronously, no meetings

- Produces a structured handover report from answers

Why this was interesting to build (in 6 months...)
I originally thourht this was a documetnation problem, but while building it, I realized it's actually a timing problem.

This moment simply ins't covered by any existing tool. What makes hard to sell it to be honest...

Tech side:
- Web app, no accounts required fot the employee, just set you password

- Dynamic question flows with LLM
- LLM-assisted structuring of the answers into report
- TypeScript/Node/Postgres backend

What suprised me
People don't recognize this as a seperate problem. They assume "we have onboarding" or "we have docs".

But both fail in this specific time window.

Would love to hear your thoughts, criticism, or experiences.
by maxehmookau | 2026-02-04 14:42:12+00:00
In reality, us thinkers will have to find other things to think about. Maybe not right now, but in the not-too-distant future we'll have to find other things that make us think and scratch that bit of our brains that need itching from learning new stuff and thinking hard about it.

It might be difficult to figure out what that is, and some folks will fail at it. It might not be code though.
by ssl-3 | 2026-02-04 14:42:17+00:00
Step 1: Cut the zip tie tail off using whatever semi-appropriate tool is at hand.

Step 2: Remove nail clippers from your purse.

Step 3: Use them to trim the remaining tail. One single satisfying click is sufficient to leave an end that barely protrudes, is nicely-rounded, and which lacks sharp-and-pointy features.

Alternatively: Use the China-clone of the Xuron flush cutters that your 3D printer came with, or buy some (the real ones are made in Maine). Just cut it as close as you can.

Or for higher volumes and/or better repeatability, Panduit (and others) sell installation tools that tension zip ties and automatically cut them off rather exquisitely once a predetermined tension is reached by just squeezing a handle.
by sbacic | 2026-02-04 14:42:59+00:00
I'm just going to go out and say it: Europe is poor. At least compared to the US. You can see this plainly when comparing GDP per capita but it's particularly telling when you look at the revenue of tech giants, such as Alphabet and Meta. For example, Alphabet made roughly 50% of its revenue from the US and about 30% from EMEA in 2025.

Now compound that issue with conservative investors, a fractured "single" market and a strong preference for social equality over entrepreneurship.
by randusername | 2026-02-04 14:43:16+00:00
I think I like it generally, maybe not in this specific case, but I'm not sure why it appeals to me.

Over the last 5 years or so I've been working on making my writing more direct. Less "five dollar words" and complex sentences. My natural voice is... prolix.

But great prose from great authors can compress a lot of meaning without any of that stuff. They can show restraint.

If I had to guess, no capitalization looks visually unassuming and off-the-cuff. Humble. Maybe it deflects some criticism, maybe it just helps with visual recognition that a piece of writing is more of a text message than an essay, so don't think too hard about it.
by rushingcreek | 2026-02-04 14:43:16+00:00
One major point I haven’t seen mentioned is maintenance.

Nvidia GPUs, particularly H100s, have a failure rate orders of magnitudes higher than traditional CPU-only hardware. I myself have accidentally melted an H100 during a large-scale training run.

While it’s trivial to replace a broken GPU in the ground, it seems to be infeasible in space during the life of the satellite. Getting a human or robot “fixer” spacecraft to it would likely cost more than the $30K GPU itself.
by agentultra | 2026-02-04 14:43:19+00:00
You don’t use it, you lose it.

Not every programming task needs to be a research project. There are plenty of boring business problems that needs the application of computing to automate. And it’s been a decent way to make a living for a while.

It’s great getting a good problem to chew on.

I try to keep a small percentage of my time occupied by one or two good ones. If I’m always bored it’s a sign I could be doing better. And I like being at my best.
by Trufa | 2026-02-04 14:43:27+00:00
Perhaps next time be nicer.

I mean, I imagine this being a mess, each country having it's own rules

- maybe it's legal but regulated

- does size matter?

- does it matter when you cross a border?

- do you have to announce?

- does it matter how high you fly it?

- are the International norms?

- are there regulatory bodies?
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-04 14:43:31+00:00
> No, but if you send those people who made and distributed the AI nude of her to jail, these problems will virtually disappear overnight, because going to jail is a hugely effective deterrent for most people.

Actually you'll see the opposite happen a lot - after Columbine, the number of school shootings went up [0] for example, because before people didn't consider it an option. Same with serial killers / copycats, and a bunch of other stuff.

Likewise, if it hadn't been in the news, a lot of people wouldn't have known you can / could create nudes of real people with Grok. News reporting on these things is its own kind of unfortunate marketing, and for every X people that are outraged about this, there will be some that are instead inspired and interested.

While a lot of punishments for crimes is indeed a deterrent, it doesn't always work. Also because in this case, it's relatively easy to avoid being found out (unlike school shootings).

[0] https://www.security.org/blog/a-timeline-of-school-shootings...
by runjake | 2026-02-04 14:43:36+00:00
A lot of it is, in fact, new.

The hype around OpenClaw is largely due to the large suite of command line utilities that tie deeply into Apple’s ecosystem as well as a ton of other systems.

I think that the hype will be short-lived as big tech improves their own AI assistants (Gemini, improved Siri, etc), but it’s nice to have a more open alternative.

OpenClaw just needs to focus on security before it can be taken more seriously.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-04 14:43:45+00:00
Aluminum foil of great surface will not work very well, because the limited conductivity of a thin foil will create a great temperature gradient through it.

Thus the extremities of the foil, which are far from the satellite body, will be much cooler than the body, so they will have negligible contribution to the radiated power.

The ideal heatsink has fins that are thick close to the body and they become thinner towards extremities, but a heatsink made for radiation instead of convection needs a different shape, to avoid a part of it shadowing other parts.

I do not believe that you can make an efficient radiation heatsink with metallic foil. You can increase the radiating surface by not having a flat surface, but one covered with long fins or cones or pyramids, but the more the surface is increased, the greater the thermal resistance between base and tip becomes, and also the tips limit the solid angle through which the bases radiate, so there must be some optimum shape that has only a limited surface increasing factor over the radiation of a flat body.
by encyclopedism | 2026-02-04 14:44:01+00:00
I find it interesting that the comments on this post (and not just this particular comment per se) and the sheer inability to relate or ATTEMPT to relate to another persons experience or feeling. The post itself articulated a viewpoint and experience, your having a different one does not negate the other. Nor does your perspective mean the other does not exist. I'm dumbfounded at many of the comments.

Here are some clipped comments that I pulled from the overall post

> I don't get it.

> I'm using LLMs to code and I'm still thinking hard.

> I don't. I miss being outside, in the sun, living my life. And if there's one thing AI has done it's save my time.

> Then think hard? Have a level of self discipline and don’t consistently turn to AI to solve your problems.

> I am thinking harder than ever due to vibe coding.

> Skill issue

> Maybe this is just me, but I don't miss thinking so much.

The last comment pasted is pure gold, a great one to put up on a wall.
Gave me a right chuckle thanks!!!
by t312227 | 2026-02-04 14:45:01+00:00
hello,

as always: imho. (!)

we already had this topic before, an example for another good article regarding physical arguments against this idea would be:

"Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea" ~ late 2025

* https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horri...

TL;DR: It's not going to work.

idk ... maybe elon has something else in mind with this merger!?

cheers,

a..z
by chasd00 | 2026-02-04 14:45:05+00:00
Do you miss thinking hard or do you missing typing? GenAI can save you from lots of typing and stack overflow copy/paste but it’s not going to think for you. Further, think as hard as you want you’re perfectly free to do so. I get the feeling a lot of people are deep down upset that knowledge and speed with code that use to be theirs and theirs alone is now much more accessible to the unwashed masses.
by riskable | 2026-02-04 14:45:10+00:00
The only thing I don't like about this article is it didn't talk about the actuation tech. It basically only showed switches with springs. My Void Switch design doesn't have springs at all!

https://github.com/riskable/void_switch

I'm typing on my AHEK-95 right now which has 95 Void Switches and a custom hall effect PCB (and custom firmware). It also has two custom analog rotary encoders (which is just a ring of six magnets over two hall effect sensors; the firmware is what figures out what direction the ring moved).

I sent one of my AHEK-95 keyboards to Chyrosran22 (known for his brutal keyboard reviews) and he reviewed it:

https://youtu.be/iv6Rh8UNWlI?si=9xGNm4jIDLFzx80c

One other thing missing in the article: Hall Effect sensors are temperature sensitive! My AHEK-95 has a number of features in the firmware to work around this (constant re-calibration) but anyone with other Hall Effect keyboards might have experienced it: Some keys seem to stop responding reliably after a while (usually a week or two in winter). This is because the temperature changed (enough), causing sensor drift. The fix is to just reset the keyboard (<1 second) which forces a recalibration but it can be annoying (my father in law has a Wooting keyboard that suffers from this after a few weeks if there's big temperature fluctuations at his desk which is right next to an exterior door).

Anyone with a 3D printer should print my Void Switches! It's a teeny tiny amount of filament (use PETG for best results) and only requires some 4x2mm magnets. I uploaded a model to Printables that has all the parts in one 3mf file: https://www.printables.com/model/233699-void-switch-fidget

Aside: Last time I ordered 4x2mm magnets, I ordered six thousand from AliExpress. That was after my last order of five thousand that I blew through quite quickly :D. I highly recommend ordering them in bulk like this because they end up costing about a penny each and they're useful in so many 3D printed things.