MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nine_k | 2026-02-05 03:24:25+00:00
Isn't it a waste to run a test suite for a program that would run 1M times a day in production?

The key adjective here is successfully run. You want to detect any errors as early as possible. Ideally even at the early stages of writing the script, when a typechecker is already able to point at certain errors, and thus help avoid missteps in further design.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-05 03:25:27+00:00
For most software products I use, if the company spent a year doing nothing but fixing P2 bugs and making small performance improvements, that would deliver far, FAR more value to me than spending a year hamfistedly cramming AI into every corner of the software. But fixing bugs doesn't 1. pad engineer's resumes with new technology, or 2. give company leadership exciting things to talk about to their golfing buddies. So we get AI cram instead.
by majormajor | 2026-02-05 03:25:47+00:00
> The "now that producing plausible code is free, verification becomes the bottleneck" people are technically right, of course, but I think they're missing the context that very few projects cared much about correctness to begin with.

It's certainly hard to find, in consumer-tech, an example of a product that was displaced in the market by a slower moving competitor due to buggy releases. Infamously, "move fast and break things" has been the rule of the land.

In SaaS and B2B deterministic results becomes much more important. There's still bugs, of course, but showstopper bugs are major business risks. And combinatorial state+logic still makes testing a huge tarpit.

The world didn't spend the last century turning customer service agents and business-process-workers into script-following human-robots for no reason, and big parts of it won't want to reintroduce high levels of randmoness... (That's not even necessarily good for any particular consumer - imagine an insurance company with a "claims agent" that got sweet talked into spending hundreds of millions more on things that were legitimate benefits for their customers, but that management wanted to limit whenever possible on technicalities.)
by bryanrasmussen | 2026-02-05 03:26:01+00:00
my only complaint has always been that the contrast between screen color and text color is worse than in other eInk devices and as a consequence need to either wear reading glasses which I tend not to like over time, or use it in direct light, which drastically decreases the utility.

Often when I say this on HN I get told reading is not the purpose of the device, which is really strange since it is one of the mentioned purposes of the device on their site, and also because I just generally find people who don't read what they're writing, or read the text they are making notes in, to be strange people.

on edit: Of course mine is from a few years ago, and have not purchased another for the reasons given above, but have looked at it in the store and it didn't seem to be improved, and obviously it is not the Pro Move under discussion here.
by tastyfreeze | 2026-02-05 03:26:08+00:00
Maintenance also informs builders on what can be improved next time. For example, we now know that rebar reinforced concrete will eventually need to be replaced due to spalling. If we reinforced with glass or basalt rebar that problem is solved. It might fail a different way but it won't be from spalling.

Over time we learn to build structures that last a long time and require less maintenance. Unfortunately, building codes are often very specific. Sometimes requiring specific materials. Using a different material requires proving it is a suitable replacement before construction. We have to allow builders to take risks. Sometimes we get a Tacoma Narrows bridge, sometimes we get a Hoover dam. But, the builders have to be able to try new things even if we get a few stinkers once and awhile.
by yencabulator | 2026-02-05 03:26:08+00:00
The International Bureau of Weights and Measures, by an agreement between 64 countries that has been in effect for 6 and a half decades by now, and currently officially used by countries representing approximately 95% of the world's population. The work itself started in 1875 with an agreement between 17 countries.

A little late to lawyer that...
by geokon | 2026-02-05 03:26:17+00:00
This looks very pretty! I like it and it's very minimalist. This is pretty much entirely outside of my area of expertise, but do you have some library for leaflet that you're using from Clojure? Or just JS interop calls?

It's cool to see sleek projects like this. I made an application that needed to make heatmaps, but I just made a grid of colored squares and cropping some GeoJSON contours and I ended up generating SVGs .. A bit goofy reimplementing a mapping library, but I needed to do some heavy math, so this way it was all JVM code
by bandrami | 2026-02-05 03:26:48+00:00
> How do you calculate the time spent on an internal tool like this, actually?

In broad strokes there's two ways. You can count it as an operational expense, or you can count it as capital (this takes more work to do but can have some advantages). If you count it as operations, it's just a big red pit you're throwing money into that you hope is offsetting a larger operational cost somewhere (but this can be hard to quantify). If you count it as capital, you're basically storing all of those hours as an "asset" which then loses value over time (it's kind of like the charge in a battery). The problem is you have to be able to show that this internal tool would, in the case of an acquisition or liquidation, be valued by the new owner at the value you're setting it at.

The problem there being that people are even more hesitant to trust somebody else's internal tool than they are to trust their own internal tool, so I've seen multiple managers think "I sunk a million dollars into this so it must be worth something" but in fact they were just running a jobs program for their team.
by majormajor | 2026-02-05 03:27:13+00:00
> Put another way, if you don't know what correct is before you start working then no tradeoff exists.

This goes out the window the first time you get real users, though. Hyrum's Law bites people all the time.

"What sorts of things can you build if you don't have long-term sneaky contracts and dependencies" is a really interesting question and has a HUGE pool of answers that used to be not worth the effort. But it's largely a different pool of software than the ones people get paid for today.
by angiolillo | 2026-02-05 03:27:33+00:00
> you can easily share a read-only version of, say, your work calendar with your personal account so that you can have them combined in the morning.

If only it was that easy. I'm not allowed to share content to or from my work calendar for security reasons. The school and camp calendars are a mix of PDFs and hand-written websites -- a neighbor wrote a scraper to extract the information from a few of them into a caldav at one point but it ended up being even flakier than copying the relevant bits by hand. There's no technical barrier to consolidating my personal calendar with the various family / neighborhood calendars but in practice I have to hide most of the other calendars because the volume of irrelevant events is just too large, so I end up just copying over the relevant events to a personal calendar.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-05 03:28:29+00:00
> Kimi K2.5 is absolutely competitive for coding.

Kimi K2.5 is good, but it's still behind the main models like Claude's offerings and GPT-5.2. Yes, I know what the benchmarks say, but the benchmarks for open weight models have been overpromising for a long time and Kimi K2.5 is no exception.

Kimi K2.5 is also not something you can easily run locally without investing $5-10K or more. There are hosted options you can pay for, but like the parent commenter observed: By the time you're pinching pennies on LLM costs, what are you even achieving? I could see how it could make sense for students or people who aren't doing this professionally, but anyone doing this professionally really should skip straight to the best models available.

Unless you're billing hourly and looking for excuses to generate more work I guess?
by apsurd | 2026-02-05 03:28:34+00:00
> Hey, we'd boycott Instagram too if we could, but we need it to get this message to you.

everything on the list has a justification.

You gotta believe me that I haven't had Prime or owned a car for 80% of my adult life. And I live in LA! So I want to believe in this message, but it loses it's credibility and plausibility with above statement.

These companies are not evil. Bezos didn't take power. We gave it to him for fast shipping of unlimited cheap plastic comforts that comes to us on our toilet.
by syockit | 2026-02-05 03:28:49+00:00
We have OnlyOffice as an alternative today. Personally I find the UI quite pleasing. But lately I haven't had any need to use office suite at home so I don't really use it so I have yet to find anything to complain (meanwhile, LibreOffice was horrible, while Office 365 was bearable until you stuff too many things in the equation editor).
by tzury | 2026-02-05 03:30:24+00:00
The notion that if it is good then the big-ones should have done it is the complete opposite of innovation, startups and entrepreneurial culture.

Reality is the exact opposite. Young, innovative, rebellions, often hyper motivated folks are sprinting from idea to implementation, while executives are “told by a few colleagues” that something new, “the future-of foo” is raising up.

If you use openclaw then that’s fantastic. If you have an idea how to improve it, well it is an open source, so go ahead, submit a pull request.

Telling Apple you should do what I am probably too lazy to do, is kind of entitlement blogging that I have nearly zero respect for.

Apparently it’s easier to give unsolicited advice to public companies than building. Ask the interns at EY and McKinsey.
by exodust | 2026-02-05 03:30:29+00:00
> name of freedom

Speaking of freedom, I lost posting permission yesterday after my earlier post. Even though vile replies were insinuating vile things, my right of reply was taken away. We should never diminish the "name of freedom" as you've just done.

It should go without saying that CSAM is revolting. Who wants to see that stuff? Not me, not most people. Grok can't make that content. Maybe someone got around it temporarily. I've always thought Grok heavily censored, it refuses to analyse an image of the Statue of David because "naughty bits". The ironic and sad thing is a fig leaf gets around that restriction. So the accusation that Grok has no guardrails and can generate CSAM seems at best an anomaly or a lie.
by keychera | 2026-02-05 03:30:55+00:00
I am curious as well. some past readme has Why sections and I am not sure why they are removed/changed

this have "Why" section
https://gitlab.com/FascinatedBox/lily/-/blob/d3ace2907747106...

this have "How Lily stands out from other languages:" section
https://gitlab.com/FascinatedBox/lily/-/blob/785a88534cced53...
by Raviteja_ | 2026-02-05 03:31:18+00:00
Every time you paste a stack trace into ChatGPT, you might be leaking:

- User session tokens

- Database connection strings

- API keys from env variables

I built Risk Mirror to scan and redact sensitive data BEFORE it touches any AI.

It's deterministic (no AI used for scanning because that would defeat the purpose).

Feedback welcome !
by lovich | 2026-02-05 03:31:38+00:00
> There’s a lot to say about the politics of the Fed, but a contact of mine in Trump-world told me the way these guys understand political success or failure is pretty simple. Are the wages of middle class Americans increasing? That’s it.

Not very far in and this seems like a propaganda piece already. I’m not even gonna claim they don’t care about middle class wages going up, but they have way too many side quests to claim that’s all they care about.
by NegativeK | 2026-02-05 03:31:41+00:00
I had a drawn out conversation with a friend about erasing NVME drives in a way that met compliance needs. The procedure they were given was to install Windows, with Bitlocker, twice with no effort to retain the key.

But that doesn't even overwrite the visible drive space; you can do a simple PoC to demonstrate that Windows won't get to all the mapped blocks. And that still hasn't gotten to the overprovisioned blocks and wear leveling issues that the article references.

You could use the BIOS or whatever CLI tool to tell the drive to chuck its encryption key, but are you sure that tool meets whatever compliance requirements you're beholden to? Are you sure the drive firmware does?

So they went with paying a company to shred the drives. All of them. It's disgustingly wasteful.
by autoexec | 2026-02-05 03:31:47+00:00
I have zero doubt that AI will eventually make many people lots of money. Just about every company on earth is collecting TBs of data on everyone and they know they're sure they can use that information against us somehow, but they can't possibly read and search through it all on their own.

I have quite a few doubts that it'll be a net positive for society though. The internet (for all of its flaws) is still a good thing generally for the public. Users didn't have to be convinced of that, they just needed to be shown what was possible. Nobody had to shove internet access into everything against customer's wishes. "AI" on the other hand isn't something most users want. Users are constantly complaining about it being pushed on them and it's already forced MS to scale back the AI in windows 11.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-05 03:33:01+00:00
I think that's a bit shortsighted. It's sort of an open secret that the current US admin is doing russia's bidding. Obviously America will lose a lot more than gain if it attacked or invaded Canada. There is nothing canada has right now that is inaccessible to the US, the US can deploy troops, bases, train soldiers,etc.. if it had peaceful relations with Canada. keystone XL is sifting canadian oil to US refineries, alaska benefits a ton from canada based supply chain and airspace, alaska strategically is extremely critical to the US, far more than any part of canada, because it's proximity to asia, the US itself and europe by way of the arctic, it is a major (if not the most important) logistics hub the US has in the western hemisphere (I'd say Ramstein in germany is the only other more important hub the US has). All to say that canada attacking alaska would be devastating to the US. If canada simply stopped all relations with the US, I'm pretty sure it will cause a major recession in the US, if not a depression outright. Again, all THAT to say that the hostility against canada is not being done on behalf of the american people but on behalf or russia. Similar to how the hostility against EU via greenland is meant to destroy nato for the benefit of russia.

Russia cares a lot about controlling canada and greenland because of their desire to dominate the arctic. They already control one half of it more or less, but as I mentioned earlier, the fastest way to europe from the americas, and even from eastern russia and north eastern asia to western europe is via the arctic. They want ukraine to dominate agriculture, and gain warm water ports, the arctic to control shipping lines and flight paths (including ICBM flight paths :) ).

With a presumed fallen global order where Canada and the US are not allies in the least, Russia has every reason to invade Canada, if they decide to control all of canada, that'd be an immense victory for them, outside of china no one can stop them from global domination at that point.

Strategically, what Ukraine is for europe, Canada is to north america.

Russia's arctic fleet supposedly is even superior to the US navy's from what little I've heard about the topic. Wars aren't that simple either, Russia hasn't mobilized or entered full wartime mode yet with Ukraine, it's still a "special operation". They're more than willing to mow down tens of millions more of their people. Another interesting aspect of a prolonged war is that they start building internal supply chains to build tanks, artillery, basic supplies,etc.. that is if their economy doesn't collapse, which it hasn't. Oil sales is still keeping them alive (in no small parts thanks to europe). But I'm sure putin is content merely controlling canada via the US as its vassal state.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-05 03:33:17+00:00
Hrrm. Lemme glassballit...

Imagine a liquid which can be electrically charged, and has a low boiling point.

(Ask 3M/DuPont/BASF/Bayer... - context 'immersion cooling')

Attach heat-pipes with that stuff to the chips as is common now, or go the direct route via substrate-embedded microfluidics, as is thought of at the moment.

Radiate the shit out of it by spraying it into the vacuum, dispersing into the finest mist with highest possible surface, funnel the frozen mist back in after some distance, by electrostatic and/or electromagnetic means. Repeat. Flow as you go.
by theamk | 2026-02-05 03:33:29+00:00
Author's inspirations are BBS + 'offline first", and together, this produces something like Android Instant Apps. On first visit, your client downloads some remote code, as a signed package. Then the code gets run, and it can only talk back to the originating server.

The overall result gives all powers to server owners, and IMHO is pretty terrible for users. Definitely much worse than current web, UX-wise.

- There is forced, instant auto-update. You don't get to postpone updates, and in fact, there is a system for real-time update of all of the clients.

- There is no inner links by design. It's like being in giant SPA, bookmarks are useless.

- User has zero power of customization (unless author designs a system for it). Adblock? Nope. Increase font size or change to more legible font? Not with A12. Custom userstyles? Not here.

- Oh, and if you want to extract information, there is no convenient HTML representation to parse, or an API to intercept. It's all internal state, driven by server. Maybe start reverse-engineering stuff.

- Special mention for search: it's all under server owner control. Server has to provide index for search engines, and inside page, implement Ctrl-F if they feel like it. There is no way to ensure that the index is up to date, nor that it actually has any relation to site's contents.

- About cookies and privacy: each user gets identity, and it is immediately sent to a server at each connection. That identity is salted so it's different between app, but within app, it's permanent.

I'll give credit to the author, it is very much like BBS. As a user, this makes me appreciate how great the current web is, even with all its downsides.

As a special mention, there are some _weird_ claims in here...

- Apparently "eval()" is disabled, to prevent "‘middleboxes injecting code’ adtech style tampering." I had to read this twice and check the calendar.. it's 2026, the last time middleboxes could inject code was over a decade ago, before https was everywhere.

- The only allowed connections are to originating host ("directory"), and it has to proxy whatever resources it has. It is no longer possible to keep control of HTML and offload large files to CDN - if you want CDN, you go all the way in and surrender all control.

(Author claims this means "request record/replay is trivial for both archival and development purposes.", but unless the script is fully deterministic, any application can easily defeat archival replay by putting a changing number into request and expecting it back. This is, again, 100% inline with author's vision of user having no control)

- Author talks a lot about local-first, and you can bundle media with code in initial downloads. But many examples are of regular remote apps. "image sharing" app which loads images on-demand. A video player which can only stream videos. A complex app which is backed by VNC-like remote desktop connection. None of this is local-first!
by systems | 2026-02-05 03:33:32+00:00
is there anything (open source) similar to microsoft database project
but that would work for postgresql

i like the following about it
1. database schema is regular code
2. make schema change declaratively
3. packaging (.daspac) and deployement script

most open source tools , seem to be after the fact tools, that do diffs
ms db project, handle the code from the start in a declarative, source code managed way
by ivraatiems | 2026-02-05 03:34:20+00:00
First of all, those registries can have an LLC's name or the name of a trust, etc. It may not be my name.

Second, those registries are much harder to find me in than a random Facebook Marketplace ad.

Third, those registries do not advertise that I am trying to sell my property or rent it out; there is no invitation to come to my home and approach me. I have literally had people show up at my door asking why I'm there if my house is for rent. Imagine if one of those people - as is common on Facebook Marketplace - was unhinged or dangerous, or got mad when I told them the truth.

It is a direct threat to my safety in a way that the mere record of my ownership of the property wouldn't be (if it had my name on it).
by dangus | 2026-02-05 03:34:40+00:00
The article is so comprehensive it’s hard to comment on all of it.

I think the idea of making physical workplaces better accessible for older people also benefits the young as well. So many companies just assume “oh hey our factory workers/laborers are strong dudes they can handle XYZ repetitive task no problem.”

But really, you’re just making everyone less productive.

I also think that companies underestimate the quality loss they get when they refuse to cultivate an environment that employees who have the wisdom of older age and perhaps more options to go elsewhere will tolerate.

9/9/6 burnout shops chase away families with kids and older employees who know the value of time and bias themselves toward inexperience, working harder not smarter, and a general lack of diversity in life experience.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-05 03:34:42+00:00
Ok, I'm sorry, I'll try again. Seems I've missed your point a few times now, may be projecting my own perspecitve there.

So...it's not that you don't understand how what Elon does works, you do understand it, and your descrpition of him is accurate, you just seem to think it's unfair that it does work? "unearned gravitas" "w/o much expertise" "sheer force of grand will"

So you're saying Elon isn't a deferential technically-talented leader, he's wilful and a marketer, who you feel constantly changes course, and so maybe the people who work for him are not as aligned as I believe with what he's doing?
by tejohnso | 2026-02-05 03:34:48+00:00
Well, time is one aspect but we'd also need motivation and proper execution for a reasonable chance at successful adaptation. My guess is we'll coast along the boundary. I don't imagine things will move so fast as to cause the sort of general upheaval that I think you're talking about. But I do think things will move fast enough to cause significant harm on a larger scale than we've seen recently in the West.
by beej71 | 2026-02-05 03:34:54+00:00
Ideally they get snatched up by a competitor with more vision. You know who processes more volume than one guy with AI? Six guys with AI. I think it'll take the market a minute to relearn this.

The only thing that makes me happy about that is the fact that our entire economy just might not implode. But I think we'd be better off without LLMs at all. Oh well. Pandora Box is open and here we are.
by DigitalSea | 2026-02-05 03:35:06+00:00
Martin, I just wanted to say you've built something awesome here. I'm the player Vheissu you might see who has been topping the leaderboard. I would love to help you expand upon the game and make it even better. I'm a bit addicted to it, but think being able to have other avenues to expand the mechanics would be awesome (think maintenance costs, fuel costs, market volatility around fuel, etc). If you're down for a collaborator, I'd love to get involved. It's got a lot of potential.