MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jedberg | 2026-02-04 20:39:06+00:00
My family is doing our part to keep the average up (despite me being part of the family). I read one book last year, and it wasn't so much a single story as a collection of short non-fiction stories. I've read various chapters of some business books. But most of my reading is shorter form content like on here or articles.

But! We take our kids to the library every couple of weeks, and while we do let them check out Nintendo games, they also will each pick a stack of books. So my kids are going through 4-8 books a month. And my wife is part of a book club at the library so she's doing 8-10 in a year at least.

But for myself, I just have a hard time sitting down to do it. By the time I'm done with work and chores, it's late at night, and my brain barely has enough power to handle a TV show.

How do all y'all readers with young kids do it? How do you find the time?
by amanzi | 2026-02-04 20:39:27+00:00
Why would you not put a description like this on your actual website? Your homepage does not explain anything about what this actually does. Are you really expecting infrastructure engineers to install your app with a bash command after only providing the following information?

Claude Code for infrastructure. Debug, act, and audit everything Fluid does on your infrastructure.

Create sandboxes from VMs, investigate, plan, execute, generate Ansible playbooks, and audit everything.
by letsfancy | 2026-02-04 20:39:48+00:00
Hi HN!
I’m back with my 2nd app, still built with FlutterFlow, and powered by Gemini (switching it up from ChatGPT this time!).

The inspiration was simple: I love the emotional depth of Inside Out and the addictive, clear progress of Duolingo’svertical roadmap. I wanted to merge them into something that makes self-reflection feel like a journey rather than a chore.

Introducing: Letsfancy Joy
Vertical Roadmap: Log and review your emotional history on a single, continuous path—not another calendar of faces.
The Emotion Pill: Each emotion has a "Pill" with varying intensity. As we say: "The deeper the feeling, the longer the memory."
Core Memories & Beliefs: When an emotion reaches "Core-level" intensity, link it to a Belief (like Kindness or Curiosity) to strengthen your self-awareness. Vivid Logs: Add images and "trigger contexts" to turn a simple log into a vivid Core Memory.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this approach. Thank you!
by snailmailman | 2026-02-04 20:40:19+00:00
I just scrolled through my Libby history to check. I checked out 25 books in 2025. Several of them I didn't finish, so the number is closer to 15 completed books, but that's only though Libby. I also finished an entire fiction series that wasn't available on Libby, which was an additional 7 books.

Series is really what makes the number so high IMO. I read a lot of fanasy/sci-fi which is often a lot of trilogies. Reading just one trilogy puts you above the median. I have several friends that read only 3-4 books last year, but several that also read as much or more than me. Discussing the books amongst friends helps, as we recommend books to each other. Book-tok and other book-centric social-media circles are huge.

And it may seem like a lot but that was spread across an entire year. I often read a few chapters before bed each night, but it often depends on how hooked I am on the book, I make more time for it when I'm more hooked on a book, or on a deadline to return the book to the library.

Audiobooks helps carry the number higher as well. Its a lot easier to "read" a book when you can do it while doing other things. Although I prefer to sit down and dedicate time for e-books, I do listen to some audiobooks as well, and many of my friends exclusively read via audiobooks.
by axka | 2026-02-04 20:40:39+00:00
I'm getting emails titled "Activate account for ...", and addressed to random names of web services at my domain (e.g. reddit@example.org). Also Twitch-related names like pog, kekw and xqc.

Also super annoying are crypto scams sent from an Italian ISP's (tiscali.it, shame on you) email service, even though I tried to contact the ISP, but that's unrelated to this.
by secretballot | 2026-02-04 20:40:54+00:00
Parents reading books to kids, students reading books for classes, and people who end up reading at least one book a year for work (many teachers or professors, for instance) set a fairly-high lower bound on this.

Much of the rest is people who exclusively read very easy books from one or two genres (“romance”, true crime, airport thriller/mystery, young-adult fantasy, and self-help/business-guru, mostly). That’s especially going to dominate the shelves of the set of folks with books-read counts far higher than one per year. Whether that crowd counts much toward a measure of the exercise of quality, general literacy, is a judgement call, but those readers are the engine of what little remains of the market for new books.

(There’s a niche market that’s commercially viable that involves books laser-focused at being optioned for TV or movies, but it’s as cliquish as you’d expect and hard to break into, and of course other genres still support a tiny number of super-stars)
by TheGoddessInari | 2026-02-04 20:41:22+00:00
Haven't dived deep into it yet, but dabbled in similar areas last year (trying to get various bits to reliably "run" in-context).

My immediate thought was to want to apply it to the problem I've been having lately: could it be adapted to soothe the nightmare of bloated llm code environments where the model functionally forgets how to code/follow project guidelines & just wants to complete everything with insecure tutorial style pattern matching?
by IanCal | 2026-02-04 20:41:44+00:00
If you use something like youtube-dlp you can download the audio from the meetings, and you could try things out in mistrals ai studio.

You could use their api (they have this snippet):

```curl -X POST "https://api.mistral.ai/v1/audio/transcriptions" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $MISTRAL_API_KEY" \
-F model="voxtral-mini-latest" \
-F file=@"your-file.m4a" \
-F diarize=true \
-F timestamp_granularities="segment"```

In the api it took 18s to do a 20m audio file I had lying around where someone is reviewing a product.

There will, I'm sure, be ways of running this locally up and available soon (if they aren't in huggingface right now) but the API is $0.003/min. If it's something like 120 meetings (10 years of monthly ones) then it's roughly $20 if the meetings are 1hr each. Depending on whether they're 1 or 10 hours (or if they're weekly or monthly but 10 parallel sessions or something) then this might be a price you're willing to pay if you get the results back in an afternoon.

edit - their realtime model can be run with vllm, the batch model is not open
by zbentley | 2026-02-04 20:41:47+00:00
Misinformation and mass hysteria suck, I agree. But if the amplification of the sky-is-falling-flavor-of-the-week braindead youtuber take can materially imperil financial markets, the stability of that system was always doomed.

An “SEC for YouTube” can’t prevent shit if the lever of influence is already that long. It might be able to keep a lot of meme investor idiots from losing their shirts, but that has to be weighed against the historically evident risks of having what amounts to a ministry of truth/state propaganda regulator.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-04 20:41:56+00:00
> In the 1990s there were people who thought OOP with point and click tools like FoxPro and Delphi would make it so easy to create software that everything could be built in-house without expert programmers. The invention of SQL was supposed to eliminate roles like Report Writer and Data Analyst because now business people could just write their own queries "in English" and get back answers.

And yet, precisely that happened in the end, just not with the tools envisioned. Excel, VBA and, where you had one knowledgeable employee, MS Access makes for incredibly powerful and incredibly hard to maintain "shadow IT" - and made even more difficult when someone sneaked in a password, because that takes a bit of an effort to remove [1], knowledge that is easy for us today to find, but not when I was young.

Also, back in the IE6 era, there was a lot of point-and-click created web interfaces... just that it wasn't HTML5 or even HTML. It was an <object> tag loading some ActiveX written by some intern in VB6, or Java, or Flash. I sort of miss that era but also, it was a damn security nightmare. Flash with its constant stream of security vulnerabilities was ripe for exploits, but at least it didn't run native code with full user privileges by design. I'm not kidding, theoretically you could go and import/use functions from any system DLL up to and including Kernel32. OLE/OCX, ActiveX... a design way ahead of its time.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/272503/removing-the-pass...
by danaris | 2026-02-04 20:42:05+00:00
First, I want to be clear that in the sense you are talking about, I fully agree with you.

But "work", in the sense that AI can, in theory, replace humans in, is about more than just jobs. It's about many of the things that humans do—including many that we do for pleasure as well as for money, like painting, writing, and other forms of art.

In that sense, it absolutely does bring dignity and purpose to people's lives. Very few people can feel fulfilled without some form of work in their lives, whatever that looks like for them.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-04 20:42:31+00:00
> Startups don't win by attacking. They win by transcending. There are exceptions of course, but usually the way to win is to race ahead, not to stop and fight.

> Another reason mean founders lose is that they can't get the best people to work for them. They can hire people who will put up with them because they need a job. But the best people have other options. A mean person can't convince the best people to work for him unless he is super convincing. And while having the best people helps any organization, it's critical for startups.

This is just lame, self-serving rationale. One of the most vapid arguments I read in recent memory.

It's the sort of rationale that results in "good people are successful, therefore successful people are good".

Winning quite often has nothing to do with being good or mean, and only with being related to the correct people and having access to more money. This, paired with the fact that most people with a lot of money are all sociopaths does not paint a very rosy "mean people fail" bullshit.
by ryukoposting | 2026-02-04 20:42:55+00:00
> Cataloguing your fridge requires taking pictures of everything you add and remove which seems... tedious. Just remember what you have?

Yeah, the sane solution here is much simpler. Put a magnet whiteboard. When you put something into the fridge, add it to the whiteboard. When you take something out, you erase that item from the whiteboard.
by openasocket | 2026-02-04 20:43:03+00:00
I genuinely don't get it. I just don't understand how billionaires think.

Everyone knows why he bought the Washington Post: it was for clout and prestige. Just like how the titans of industry built opera houses and libraries in centuries past. You aren't buying it to make a profit. You take care of something valued by society, and you win some respect from society. Conversely, if you burn that thing to the ground, society will hate you.

So why is the profitability of the Washington Post such a concern all of a sudden? Sure, they lost $100M in 2024, but Bezos didn't buy the Post to make money! And it's not like money is tight. Bezos is worth over $250B; in the last few days alone the jump in AMZN stock increased his net worth by over $5B. If he were to hand that $5B over to the Washington Post, they could keep on losing money at that rate for another half of a century! The article makes this exact point in the last few paragraphs.

If Bezos was genuinely concerned about alienating Trump or whatever, why not just sell the Post? Why try to undermine it like this? You are pissing off the people who like the Post, and I don't think the people who hate the Post are really going to care.
by ajross | 2026-02-04 20:43:03+00:00
> what are you blathering on about, sir?

Please don't.

I mean, I applaud your work. But let's also be honest (in the "tough love" sense): those are all toys with significant limitations that preclude anyone shipping any of them on an actual device to an actual consumer. I mean, your SOC (maybe a $2 one) surely already includes a SPI master and USB host!

Actual interconnects that solve real market problems have big boring spec books and competing implementations and silicon vendors. The application for PIO is basically limited to "I have to connect to this crazy old junk and no one makes the part I'd otherwise need".
by alwa | 2026-02-04 20:43:17+00:00
I'm kind of shocked that 60% of all US adult citizens did report reading a book during the year. That seems much higher than I would have expected.

It is a self-reported measure, and it's phrased "read or listened to"--I don't normally think of "listening to audiobooks" when I think about reading, and I can imagine how that might broaden the pool. Other sources (e.g. the NEA survey at [0]) seem to put print book readership closer to 50%.

Though at least one survey [1] points out the wide range of genres that count as books for this purpose: manga, the Bible/Torah/Quran, cookbooks...

[0] https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-...
[1] https://gitnux.org/readership-statistics/
by monero-xmr | 2026-02-04 20:43:21+00:00
The network effects. The strong get stronger and grow larger, creating a fly wheel. On X.com there are citizen journalists publishing and reposting tons of hyper local news, and I assume it also hits FB but I don’t use that. We don’t need as many proper media companies as we did decades ago. The Tier 3 media outlets died long ago, now WaPo tried to be tier 1 but it failed, and will die as a has-been slowly. Probably should switch to Washington DC gossip and scoops as its forte.
by mmooss | 2026-02-04 20:43:27+00:00
Yes, I forgot about that major part of the story! Still, acts of Congress can't violate Consitutional rights.

It seems unlikely you lose all rights when you die or it would be chaos - imagine all the secrets people die with that affect everyone they know. An integral part of every estate plan would be incinerating records. Wills do have real power.
by jsphweid | 2026-02-04 20:43:28+00:00
I used to play on the regular world (RSC Preservation, non-bot). There's not enough people. And probably won't be hardly anyone there when I'm old enough to be in a nursing home.

I could join the bot worlds, but I'm fairly certain that they don't talk much or behave like a normal play in general (stumble through quests, make friends, trade with other random players, etc.). They probably just grind skills in some optimal way.
by bigbuppo | 2026-02-04 20:43:59+00:00
The problem with SaaS is that it's like the early dotcom era where you took a crackpot idea, added "...but on the internet" and it was worth $100mil until it wasn't. SaaS is more like... dBase III application, but with a pretty web UI and on the internet... and instead of hiring a person to do this work you using manual processes you can pay us 9x the cost of that but if you act now you can like it in at 6x the cost for the next 36 months with a 96 month commitment.
by swyx | 2026-02-04 20:44:00+00:00
i mean the other obvious answer is to plug in to the other claude code proxies that other model companies have made for you:

https://docs.z.ai/devpack/tool/claude

https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/introducing-cerebras-code

or i guess one of the hosted gpu providers

if you're basically a homelabber and wanted an excuse to run quantized models on your own device go for it but dont lie and mutter under your own tin foil hat that its a realistic replacement
by streetfighter64 | 2026-02-04 20:44:02+00:00
Counterpoint: https://youtube.com/watch?v=r8Y-P0v2Hh0

Summary: Trump used memes not in the sense of pepes but in the original (Dawkins') sense of "earworm" soundbites, along with a torrent of scandals, each making the previous seem like old news, to exploit a public tired of the "status quo" into voting for a zany wildcard pushing for reactionary policy
by sdellis | 2026-02-04 20:44:16+00:00
The key hurdle for AI to leap is establishing trust with users. No one trusts the big players (for good reason) and it is causing serious anxiety among the investors. It seems Claude acknowledges this and is looking to make trust a critical part of their marketing messaging by saying no ads or product placement. The problem is that serving ads is only one facet of trust. There are trust issues around privacy, intellectual property, transparency, training data, security, accuracy, and simply "being evil" that Claude's marketing doesn't acknowledge or address. Trust, on the scale they need, is going to be very hard for any of them to establish, if not impossible.
by IanCal | 2026-02-04 20:44:22+00:00
The HF page suggests yes, with vllm.

> We've worked hand-in-hand with the vLLM team to have production-grade support for Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime 2602 with vLLM. Special thanks goes out to Joshua Deng, Yu Luo, Chen Zhang, Nick Hill, Nicolò Lucchesi, Roger Wang, and Cyrus Leung for the amazing work and help on building a production-ready audio streaming and realtime system in vLLM.

https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-Mini-4B-Realtime-26...

https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/serving/openai_compatible_ser...
by maouida | 2026-02-04 20:44:26+00:00
I'm working on a parametric, feature based CAD by code software which should be released next month.
LLMs are good at generating code. It should be able to handle any complex task given a good documentation. I'm planning to write an mcp for providing feedback to the LLM but that will come at a later stage.

The code is based on js and opencascade with a feature rich vscode extension.

I'll post it here on release day.
by nailer | 2026-02-04 20:45:01+00:00
> It mentions it once.

> > (tranferring USDC or another GENIUS-compliant stablecoin on Solana).

> > The Genius act regulates stablecoin provision. US-issued stablecoins are backed by government bonds with proof of reserves. USDC and PyUSD are compliant already, USAT exists because USDT isn't compliant.

No.

> More importantly, not only are those regulations not in effect, the final regulations haven't even been written or approved yet - which brings up certain questions about how a stablecoin could be compliant with them.

No. The GENIUS Act is in effect, it was signed on July 18, 2025, becoming Public Law No: 119-27.
by overfeed | 2026-02-04 20:45:08+00:00
The philosophical definition just opens up bigger cans of worms that can't be adequately addressed in an HN thread, and have been debated for thousands of years: what is "good"? Perhaps we need a moral framework to answer that, but then, what are morals? "You can't have good without optimism" is a declaration that has to be contextualized, and is far from universal.

I suspect answers couched in terms of individualism will always sound inadequate to questions that are inherently collectivist, such as why people do things "for the greater good" detrimental to their own well-being.
by epistasis | 2026-02-04 20:45:31+00:00
My impression was that the point of buying the Washington Post or Twitter was to have some sort of control over the media environment, to the benefit of the owner.

If Bezos can't get $100M of losses worth from the Washington Post by other means, well, he's not using it very well.

However since he switched from the "Democracy dies in darkness" ethos to the "ah fuck it bring on the darkness, I own all the torches" ethos, he eliminated the possibility of him getting benefit from owning and running an elite institution in the information ecosystem.

It's been really funny to see a lot of tech execs fail to understand power, and its sources, when outside of their tiny section of the economy. Peter Thiel might actually understand a lot more, but Thiel seems to be the only one capable of doing anything except losing their power in an oligarchy.
by tw04 | 2026-02-04 20:45:49+00:00
Because the entire reason they "refused to endorse a candidate" was at the behest of Bezos because he's a greedy coward. The actual people working at the paper were quite clear and vocal about their support of one candidate. The downside to one candidate is that his playbook was literally bringing facism to America via "Project 2025". The downside to the other candidate was highlighted by being a black woman, and not being progressive enough I guess? That's not a difficult choice for anyone outside of the ruling class.
by malcolmxxx | 2026-02-04 20:45:50+00:00
This sounds like one of my former bosses' speeches! He's a nasty man, of course. He's stupid, too. Now I'm his partner. I suppose that makes me mean, too. And even more stupid. Is the detail about his wife symptomatic? My friend often says the same thing about his wife. I've tried a couple of times to tell him that it's not a good idea to 'vibe' people's intentions and that he's confusing loyalty with goodness. Like the Politburo. I'm trying to convince him that it would be more democratic and environmentally friendly to assume that everyone is mean and stupid.
by yesfitz | 2026-02-04 20:45:55+00:00
The survey this is based on[1] counts listening to audiobooks as "reading", which can only inflate the numbers.

I have nothing against audiobooks, but they are not the same as reading. It is a passive consumption of the content. You can daydream or lose focus and the story keeps rolling on. If you lose focus while reading, the story stops. You may find that you've "read" a few sentences, but it's quickly self-correcting.

Additionally, reading forces you to parse tone, interpret context, and resolve syntactic ambiguity on your own. Listening to a narrator removes those tasks.

I think that this door was opened when we started accepting that reading graphic novels was the same as reading a book of text. Rather than elevating new(ish) media for storytelling for their own merit, we've lumped them into another medium that was already deemed "good".

All that said, listening to an audiobook or reading a graphic novel is still better than not reading a book at all.

1: https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/53804-most-a...
by zingar | 2026-02-04 20:45:59+00:00
I guess I should be able to use this config to point Claude at the GitHub copilot licensed models (including anthropic models). That’s pretty great. About 2/3 of the way through every day I’m forced to switch from Claude (pro license) to amp free and the different ergonomics are quite jarring. Open source folks get copilot tokens for free so that’s another pro license I don’t have to worry about.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-04 20:46:15+00:00
> a hard wealth cap. 100% tax on wealth above $100M

I can’t think of a better policy suggestion for folks who have more than $100mm than this. Sort of like “corporate death penalty” mostly serves to distract from fines, “no more billionaires” conveniently distracts from e.g. adding tax brackets to pay for increasing the ones we have.