MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kajolshah_bt | 2026-02-03 06:03:30+00:00
This matches my experience pretty closely.

A lot of teams treat notifications as a default feature instead of something that has to earn its place. From the builder's side, it’s often framed as keeping users engaged, but from the user's side, it’s just another interruption competing for attention.

What I find interesting is that muting often just means I’ll use this when I need it. That often gets lost when teams look at notification opt-out as a negative metric.
Show HN: A Simple Time Converter
by RobbieZhao | 2026-02-03 06:04:06+00:00
Hi HN!

I vibe coded this time converter using NextJS. I think it's pretty cool because the UI is very user friendly.

As an engineer I am constantly asking the question "what's the current UTC time?", or I am looking at a UTC timestamp, and asking "what's the converted PT/ET/MT/CT time?". With this tool I can easily get answers for my questions.

Feedbacks/suggestions welcome! Thank you!
by jdub | 2026-02-03 06:05:37+00:00
Sounds like your admin, distro, or the systemd team could pay some attention to systemd-update-done.service

The "can only be used in /etc/fstab" systemd settings are essentially workarounds to do those things via fstab (and workaround fstab related issues) rather than depend on other systemd facilities (c.f. systemd-gpt-auto-generator). From a "what can you do in /etc/fstab without knowing systemd is working behind the scenes" point of view, then yes, systemd units are vastly more configurable.
by Nevermark | 2026-02-03 06:05:48+00:00
No they are not. I think humor needs to be trained for via some form of indirection of reinforcement.

And certainly not by generalizing/interpolating examples, since telling jokes accumulated by exposure to examples would be the antithesis of a comedian's process.

Models and humans are very bad at extrapolation beyond the training set/experience (vs. interpolation at which we are both more likely to excel). But good humor is extrapolation. It breaks ground somehow, or it is an already dead "joke".

Likewise, training a model to be creative by training it on past creative artifacts is going to have the opposite effect. Creativity doesn't reproduce past creativity.
by raattgift | 2026-02-03 06:05:50+00:00
In a terminal window run

log stream --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.TimeMachine" AND NOT (category == "LogLimits" OR category == "VolumeViewModel")' --info --debug --style compact

and then start a backup (either from the menu bar icon, the system settings panel, or "tmutil startbackup"). This will tell you what Time Machine is doing, and might give you some useful information.

man log

where you can use "show" and a lookback period instead of "stream".

man tmutil

is pretty decent documentation, although the glossary secdtion ("BACKUP STRUCTURE") is important to understand if reading the whole man page.

Some things to look out for are what filesystem your newly formatted external volume is (APFS might not be great for a single spinny disk, for example), and what version of USB is in use (friends don't let friends do USB 2 mass storage). With inexpensive external media it's often a cable or power supply issue, even if (as in your case) tar appears to work. Have you checked that the contents of the tar file are correct? Also, tar files tend to be streamed out to sequential LBAs, where smaller files and (in Time Machine backups) holes might lead to a different write pattern that the drive might not like. Maybe test with rsync -c instead of tar?
by ps2026 | 2026-02-03 06:06:34+00:00
You're right on that. That is one reason I am avoiding scientific polling and calling it "public sentiment".

The binary, with all its flaws, is dead simple. I see a statement, do I agree or disagree with that statement. If I don't fully support one or the other, the discussion section I intended for them to make their case.

I am trying to keep the same similar format for each poll. X should Y or X was right to Y in hopes people get used to the wording. On the backend I have a bias rating I give each poll as well as a temperature. The bias is LeansLeft, Center, LeansRight. The temperature is Cool, Warm and Hot. For most warm to hot polls, the statement has to be worded in the affirmative towards one side or the other. I try to keep the wording bias somewhat balanced so I don't post too many in one direction.

I am playing around with the idea of having two steps though, Agree/Disagree (required) then an optional follow-up to rate where on the scale you fall. I want to keep the simplicity as the primary target, but it could be interesting to see where people fall on a range. It would still be anonymous but rather this vote was agreed and they leaned 75% towards that side or something.
by King-Aaron | 2026-02-03 06:07:25+00:00
Twitter is absolute garbage and all their users are either racists, bots, or simply garbage people. And I'm not really sorry to be that blunt, it's a platform owned by a straight up criminal and has been promoted heavily towards like minded people, and after all the events of the last few years I have nothing but poor opinions of anyone still on there.

And tbh I use private channels on disco.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-03 06:08:00+00:00
I'm a total noob on this.

I get that vacuum is a really good insulator, which is why we use it to insulate our drinks bottles. So disposing of the heat is a problem.

Can't we use it, though? Like, I dunno, to take a really stupid example: boil water and run a turbine with the waste heat? Convert some of it back to electricity?
by youarentrightjr | 2026-02-03 06:08:28+00:00
On the off chance you're sincere and not just heavily over indexed into Elon stocks:

It's trivial to understand why this is all hype if you pay attention to physics, as another commenter suggested earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law

Assume you're radiating away the heat for a single B200 (~1kW), and the max radiator temp is 100C, you find A = ~3m^2.

So that's 3 square meters per GPU. Now if you take into account that the largest planar structure deployed into space is ~3k m^2 (https://investors.lockheedmartin.com/news-releases/news-rele...), you're looking at 1000 GPUs.

That's a single aisle in a terrestrial data center.

Cost to deploy on earth vs satellite is left as an exercise to the reader.
by Vicinity9635 | 2026-02-03 06:08:36+00:00
"shall not be violated" leaves no loopholes. Just like the second amendment:

>A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

"shall not be infringed" and "shall not be violated" do not leave loopholes. It's quite clear.
by shostack | 2026-02-03 06:09:28+00:00
So much this. I'm eagerly waiting to see what anthropic and OpenAI do to make dictation-first interaction a first class citizen instead of requiring me to use a separate app like Super Whisper. It would dramatically improve complex, flow-breaking interactions when adding files, referencing users or commands, etc.

Importantly I want full voice control over the app and interactions not just dictating prompts.
by robomex | 2026-02-03 06:09:52+00:00
Location: Chicago

Remote: Yes, remote only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Swift, ARKit, SwiftUI, RealityKit, Reality Composer Pro, Shader Graph, SwiftData, object tracking, room tracking, LiDAR scene reconstruction, world tracking, hand tracking, Enterprise APIs, plane tracking, body tracking, postprocessing, face tracking, image saliency analysis, semantic segmentation, depth estimation, RoomPlan, SceneKit, Object Capture, photogrammetry, CoreML, Create ML, OpenAI API, Claude, Gemini, Convex, Supabase, Metal, Combine, iMessage extensions, Firebase, Firestore

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/atmorales0/

Email: tony [at-symbol] 1984 [dot] dev

GitHub: https://github.com/robomex

I am a freelancer/contractor who specializes in developing augmented reality, spatial computing, and computer vision apps for iOS & visionOS. Several of my apps were handpicked and featured worldwide by Apple. I've worked with solo founders, startups that went on to get acquired (OpenAI, Shopify), and R&D teams at large corporations.

If you have any questions or you want to get a conversation started: Shoot me a message & let's talk!
by akhil77901990 | 2026-02-03 06:10:13+00:00
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by deaux | 2026-02-03 06:10:18+00:00
> Well, I wish I had one, but at this stage I really don’t. The most charitable interpretation would be that the investigative heat is starting to get to the webmaster and they’re lashing out in misguided self-defense.

I don't think they're lashing out in self-defense. This is a harmless way for them to get attention, which is what they're desparate for because the FBI is after them at the behest of Bezos and other billionaires who control the paywalled media and don't like archive.today's role in making them accessible. The only thing that could possibly save them (though it almost certainly won't), is gathering as many eyeballs as possible from the people who like the service. HN having a super high concentration of those. Almost every paywalled post here has an archive.today link in the comments.

That's also why they posted about it on HN, explicitly under that name. To get HN eyeballs.

It's intentionally harmless because, as you confirmed, it's not costing you any money or resources.
by King-Aaron | 2026-02-03 06:10:34+00:00
There's a bunch of stuff coming out about his coordination with Epstein to run pandemic simulations, and a lot of business level stuff going on after Epstein's initial run-ins with the law. That aside if he's on a personal enough level to ask him for antibiotics to sneakily slip his wife, then Bill would definitely know about all the rest.

Really don't have any more room to give these people the benefit of doubt.
by codetiger | 2026-02-03 06:10:38+00:00
Came here to type something similar and saw this comment.
+1

Just repeat this until you understand a language's unique ways of implementing things, and understand why a language has those choices compared to others. I always pick one of these experiments to learn a new language with/out LLM support.
1. Ray tracing
2. Gameboy Emulator
3. Expression evaluation (JSONLogic or Regex)

These are super easy to implement in 100s of lines of code, however if you want to optimize or perfect the implementation, it takes forever and you need to know a language's nuances to get it better. Focus on performance tuning these implementations and see how far you can go.
by tzs | 2026-02-03 06:10:49+00:00
You can see the karma of the people with the 11th-100th highest karma at https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders . Here are the 60 of those people who are also in the top 1000 on the word count list, sorted by increasing word to karma ratio.

Columns are words/karma, words, karma, name.

3.5 308431 88008 mooreds
4.1 307127 75567 stavros
4.3 314850 73503 minimaxir
4.3 575909 133629 ColinWright
4.5 429663 96135 walterbell
5.5 320283 58461 wallflower
5.9 463540 78823 paxys
6.1 298839 49063 paulpauper
7.1 450573 63823 cperciva
7.1 685484 97028 simonw
7.2 415385 57466 mpweiher
8.8 435188 49452 Waterluvian
9.4 912601 97058 steveklabnik
9.5 484782 51089 pavlov
9.5 514233 54028 nkurz
9.6 738986 76912 jedberg
9.9 538580 54533 pavel_lishin
10.5 523765 50113 wmf
10.5 562066 53697 kibwen
11.1 649587 58521 pmoriarty
11.2 554531 49316 petercooper
11.3 626706 55613 sp332
11.3 674598 59635 tyingq
11.3 997305 88154 ceejayoz
11.4 774926 67711 davidw
11.8 892827 75358 hn_throwaway_99
12.5 652216 52309 duxup
12.5 627078 49987 Someone1234
12.6 1999366 159310 Animats
13.3 1168121 87843 userbinator
13.5 1425286 105817 pjc50
13.5 771686 56994 lisper
14.1 1143293 81306 crazygringo
14.2 698215 49002 JoshTriplett
14.3 867103 60494 saagarjha
15.4 1628467 105619 toomuchtodo
16.2 787659 48722 amelius
16.3 1285245 78792 WalterBright
16.5 1058282 64324 ryandrake
16.6 892312 53904 ksec
18.8 1038783 55136 bane
19.8 1950935 98675 anigbrowl
19.9 1355066 67997 masklinn
20.0 2510303 125350 pjmlp
20.2 2110424 104359 PaulHoule
20.3 2251499 110917 ChuckMcM
20.5 1497782 73213 jrockway
21.0 1168930 55722 btilly
21.9 2747766 125470 rayiner
22.2 1822427 82045 nostrademons
22.4 1319812 58825 wpietri
24.7 1275113 51702 brudgers
27.6 3131449 113256 TeMPOraL
29.7 2701314 90987 jerf
30.1 2696913 89718 coldtea
31.7 1911252 60198 Retric
37.6 4785959 127149 dragonwriter
38.5 2130838 55318 derefr
39.3 2583878 65748 dredmorbius
42.5 2141376 50383 tzs
by toast0 | 2026-02-03 06:11:53+00:00
My American perspective is unless I'm participating in an activity that definitely requires carrying and presenting ID, I don't need to.

Driving is such an activity. Transiting national borders as well. Maybe opening a bank account, but really it should be up to the bank if they want to see my ID.

If I'm travelling but not operating the vehicle, why should I need to carry and present ID? I'm pragmatic, and it's convenient to carry and present my papers to the nice officers, but I shouldn't need to.

Demanding ID when unnecessary is a hallmark of a police state.
by themafia | 2026-02-03 06:12:02+00:00
> If a country changes course every four years

Dozens of new GW+ wind farms came online in the last four years. This concerns a few projects in a few particular locations that are exposed to federal interference. It has impacts on the market but the market is larger than these minor disturbances by an order of magnitude.

> while keeping the focus on long-term ideas and plans.

We have private business in this country. They're doing just fine.
by alexr1712 | 2026-02-03 06:12:44+00:00
I built this because dealing with different formatting requirements across every platform was becoming a recurring nightmare. It's exhausting — constantly adjusting prompts, reloading unnecessary context, and repeating the same setup steps over and over.

I researched to see if there was already a PHP package that tackled this problem, but nothing came close to what we needed. That's how this package was born: fully open source, so anyone facing the same struggle can use it and save time.

The goal is simple: focus on what matters — your content — instead of wrestling with platform-specific quirks every single time.

Any suggestions or complaints are welcome.
by Lammy | 2026-02-03 06:12:47+00:00
Macromedia Flash MX was also the first version released after Adobe started running scared and fighting dirty with a look-and-feel lawsuit against Macromedia Flash 5 for its use of tabbed UI palettes: https://web.archive.org/web/20010516014855/http://www.adobef...

“Adobe's tabbed palette, used throughout Adobe's products, are being copied by Macromedia® in many of its products, including Macromedia® Flash™ 5, Dreamweaver®, FreeHand® and Fireworks® software.”

Compare the infringing tabbed palettes of Flash 5 to the non-infringing (vertically-stacked) palettes of Flash MX:

- https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/old-software/macromedia-flas...

- https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/old-software/macromedia-flas...

And then of course Adobe gave in and bought Macromedia outright in the MX2004 era.
by fooker | 2026-02-03 06:12:53+00:00
> Instead you put your confidence in Elon

No, I put confidence my ability to do a web search, pretty rare skill nowadays ;)

You'll see that none of these are Elon/spacex, hopefully?

https://medium.com/@cognidownunder/google-just-announced-the...

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/starcloud

https://www.informationweek.com/it-infrastructure/lunar-data...

https://ascend-horizon.eu/

https://www.axiomspace.com/orbital-data-center
by jmward01 | 2026-02-03 06:15:41+00:00
From your description it sounds like you have the most important stuff: variety, a willingness to do things and a willingness to seek advice. I doubt anyone on HN really knows what it takes to learn to be a coder in the new vibe world. It is really too soon to have seen people 'grow up' and the paths that lead to success or not. In general though if you want to learn something you need to do stuff related to what you want to learn, you need to do stuff in many different ways and you need to ask others what they are doing and have done to see if their paths can help you. Keep doing those things and you will likely be fine. The only other advice I can give you you probably already know, find a passion project. For me it was (initially) fractals. Then it was a thousand other things. One passion project will get you through a lot of learning.
by shostack | 2026-02-03 06:16:05+00:00
I did a whole feature in a game I'm building while riding in a car to dinner in Claude this weekend. It could do everything itself except the PR (kicked me over to the GitHub app for that).

I do wonder how that impacted my usage vs doing it locally, and I do with usage were more visible in the mobile app (at least give me my statusline). But it worked.
by happymellon | 2026-02-03 06:16:10+00:00
> I will soon be releasing a distro that is free of systemd, wayland, dbus, and other troublesome software.

What makes you decide that these are troublesome software's? Systemd is usually argued that it is monolithic and breaks the Unix paradigm.

But then you are going for X over Wayland? X is a monolithic application that breaks the Unix paradigms.

Are you just picking things because they are old, or is there a reason you decided to go with this setup?
by eagleeyethinker | 2026-02-03 06:16:36+00:00
IDEs have changed. Dramatically.
They’re no longer just code editors.
Today’s enterprise teams operate across four types of IDEs:
1. Traditional IDEs
2. Cloud IDEs
3. IDEs with Embedded AI
4. Agentic IDEs
Each solves a different problem – stability, collaboration, productivity, and automation. The real future? A hybrid IDE strategy.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-03 06:17:09+00:00
Is this like learning calligraphy in the typesetting era?

Before the AI era, I didn’t know much bash, but I was a reasonably OK programmer besides that I think. I found by getting AI to write me a lot of bash scripts and following along and then making edits myself when I needed small things changed I ended up with the ability to write bash now, and actually kind of appreciated as a language where as before I thought it was confusing. YMMV

Like anything with enough dedication you can achieve what you want.
by NickLangat | 2026-02-03 06:17:17+00:00
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, TypeScript, Next Js,Tailwind CSS, PostgreSQL, AWS, DigitalOcean, Docker

Résumé/CV: https://nicklangat.com

Email: nicksonlangat95@gmail.com

About:
I’m a product-focused full stack engineer who’s built and shipped multiple revenue-generating SaaS and fintech products end-to-end, often as the first or solo engineer.

Zanari is multi-tenant property SaaS (Postgres schema isolation, M-Pesa reconciliation)

Fiscal AI is an ML-driven transaction classification and fraud detection

Codetail is for AI-generated coding challenges with automated evaluation.

I can share short Looms walking through these products if useful.
- https://www.loom.com/share/975073fa95aa49dd95d1b5801820f9f4
- https://supercut.ai/share/nickson-langat/lKLxTSQsdv79scuWAy2...
- https://www.loom.com/share/b14ec3c881a440a59453c3a62c0f6d74

If you want a cracked energetic engineer, reach out. Happy coding!
by tacticus | 2026-02-03 06:17:35+00:00
given the max bandwidth of a starlink sat is in the 100Gb on a good day range why would you want to limit a DC to less bandwidth than a single cheap fibre?

Also in LEO you're going to have reentry become more of an issue (starlink burning up in the atmosphere isn't some free garbage removal it will have a measurable impact on the chemical make up (assuming it even burns up and doesn't just squash more farm buildings), Power supply more of an issue and still have huge problems with heat and radiation.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-03 06:18:42+00:00
PiCArD?

- Piloted Intelligent Circumnavigation Airship for Research and Development

- Prototype Integrated Control Autonomous Route Drone

- Programmable Intelligent Circumnavigation Aeronautical Remote Device

- Piloted Intelligent Craft: Autonomous Route, Data-driven

- Primary Intelligence Control And Route Determination

- Precision Integrated Circumnavigation And Remote Deployment
by adithyassekhar | 2026-02-03 06:18:58+00:00
It's not just about elegance.

I'm going to give an example of a software with multiple processes.

Humans can imagine scenarios where a process can break. Claude can also do it, but only when the breakage happens from inside the process and if you specify it. It can not identify future issues from a separate process unless you specifically describe that external process, the fact that it could interact with our original process and the ways in which it can interact.

Identifying these are the skills of a developer, you could say you can document all these cases and let the agent do the coding. But here's the kicker, you only get to know these issues once you started coding them by hand. You go through the variables and function calls and suddenly remember a process elsewhere changes or depends on these values.

Unit tests could catch them in a decently architected system, but those tests needs to be defined by the one coding it. Also if the architect himself is using AI, because why not, it's doomed from the start.