MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-03 18:11:12+00:00
Why wouldn't you compare to the entire fleet? You think they're going to deploy an entire data center in one sat? That'd be as dumb as trying to deploy an entire data center in one rack back on Earth. Of course if you frame the problem that way it seems impossible.

I already gave my thoughts on radiation and economics in my original comment. I agree those could be significant challenges, but ones SpaceX has a plausible path to solving. Starship in particular will be key on the economic side; I find it very unlikely they'll be able to make the math work with just Falcon 9. Even with Starship it might not work out.

And it's not just a 1.4x boost in solar power availability. You also eliminate the need for batteries to maintain power during the night or cloudy days (or cloudy weeks), and the need for ground infrastructure (land, permitting, buildings, fire suppression systems, parking lots, physical security, utility hook-up, etc).
Show HN: ContextPin – local-first context manager for AI coding workflows
by strandnerd | 2026-02-03 18:11:29+00:00
ContextPin addresses a common pain in agent workflows: context drifts, docs go stale, and markdown ends up scattered. It’s a local-first workspace where AI assistants can read and manage real project context via MCP.

Highlights:
- Local-only storage, offline friendly
- Structured docs with folders, references, and file linking
- Warnings for broken references
- Mermaid validation feedback for agents
- Multiple tabs + version history
- Sync coming soon

Happy to answer questions and hear feedback.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-03 18:11:31+00:00
> Well, that's the problem, these people are wildly uneducated and unsophisticated. They are voting their feelings.

This is what people who "vote their feelings" would assert. Most people think they are "sophisticated" and "educated" on these issues, both Democrats and Republicans. There is ample evidence that this is not the case for either.

Politics is completely driven by uncritical "just so" narratives. The people pushing the discourse never check or justify their assumptions with actual data. This is the real issue.
by petsfed | 2026-02-03 18:11:36+00:00
I don't know if its still true, but I recall reading once that CEQA had never been used to actually prevent or even slow the building of a dam or a mine or something. It had only ever been used to hobble otherwise neutral development. Its a good idea in theory, but I feel like the plaintiff ought to be able to articulate what environmental impact they are concerned about and maybe require a study from them in support of that claim too.
by tasubotadas | 2026-02-03 18:11:40+00:00
> A flat minimum, say 5,000€ per violation, no matter how small the company, applied automatically when non-compliance is confirmed.

No wonder Europe is such a laggard in tech when even software devs write non sense like this.

One one hand they want independence from the evil US hyperscalers but on the other hand they are ready to kill any new company in the EU.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-03 18:11:47+00:00
Yeah, Thomas Midgley Jr., from Wikipedia [1]:

"…played a major role in developing leaded gasoline and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons…; both products were later banned from common use due to their harmful impact on human health and the environment. He was granted more than 100 patents over the course of his career."

As someone else said, this guy's work was so toxic to the planet we ought to ban everything else he ever invented—just in case.

(And weirdly, one of his own machines took his life as well—whether by design or not.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
by utopcell | 2026-02-03 18:11:53+00:00
This reconstruction is atrocious! There is absolutely no way that such a prominent statue looked so bad given the rest of the artifacts that we have from antiquity Greece.

This reconstruction somehow reminded me of [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Garc%C3%ADa_Mart%C3...
by smeeth | 2026-02-03 18:12:13+00:00
Just reading your description, it sounds like there are two variables:

1. Prompt adherence: how well the models follow your stated strategy

2. Decision quality: how well models do on judgment calls that aren’t explicitly in the strategy

Candidly, since you haven’t shared the strategy, there’s no way for me to evaluate either (1) or (2). A model’s performance could be coming from the quality of your strategy, the model itself, or an interaction between the two, and I can’t disentangle that from what you’ve provided.

So as presented, the benchmark is basically useless to me for evaluating models (not because it’s pointless overall, but because I can’t tell what it’s actually measuring without seeing the strategy).
by iryndin | 2026-02-03 18:12:37+00:00
I’m continuing to work on AllZonefiles.io — a domain-data hub that aggregates and serves large-scale zone files. Right now it covers ~354M domains across 1,575 zones, including ~114M domains from 317 ccTLDs, which turned out to be the hardest part operationally.

The next step is an extended dataset parsed from WHOIS: create/expire/update timestamps, NS records, and IANA registrar info. Stack is fairly boring on purpose: Go, bare-metal Linux, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap 5. The motivation is to make downloading and keeping the most complete domain lists possible automated and predictable, without manual registry workflows or fragmented sources.
by pc86 | 2026-02-03 18:12:55+00:00
> I don't think any employer has any right to know their employee's home address, to be honest.

Regardless of whether this should be the case or not, it is the case is every country I can think of.

I agree I think we're straying from the point a bit. When is the last time you can point to an act of political violence that would not have occurred had some public servant or elected official's address not been on a website or spreadsheet somewhere?

These things simply don't happen enough to warrant further limiting government officials' accountability to the public.
by at1as | 2026-02-03 18:13:05+00:00
I think the problem is that “transformation” has never been clearly defined in copyright law, and that ambiguity is exactly what AI companies lean on in their defense.

At a human scale, those boundaries get clarified through litigation on a case by case basis once an infringement becomes large or obvious enough. But there has always been a gray area around when a derivative work crosses the line into infringement.

And AI didn’t create that ambiguity, it just pushed it to a more extreme scale
by tshaddox | 2026-02-03 18:13:38+00:00
Yes, although OpenCode works great with official Claude API keys that are on normal API pricing.

What Anthropic blocked is using OpenCode with the Claude "individual plans" (like the $20/month Pro or $100/month Max plan), which Anthropic intends to be used only with the Claude Code client.

OpenCode had implemented some basic client spoofing so that this was working, but Anthropic updated to a more sophisticated client fingerprinting scheme which blocked OpenCode from using this individual plans.
by belval | 2026-02-03 18:13:46+00:00
Look I am all for Euro-skepticism, but "boycotting the best products" on an article about Microsoft Teams which is well known to be clawing its way into companies despite very negative feedback due to advantageous pricing when you are integrated with Office 365 (which is itself monopolistic behavior). Is not one.

The reality is that chat apps nowadays have little moat, blocking the worst offenders for sovereignty's sake it perfectly logical.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-03 18:13:47+00:00
I'm not calling the author arrogant or self-righteous. I stated that if a hypothetical person simply assumes that every "kilobyte" they come across is 1,000 bytes, that they are doomed to frequent failures. I implied that for someone to hypothetically adhere to that internal dogma even in the face of impending failures, the primary reasons would be either arrogance or self-righteousness.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-03 18:13:56+00:00
While I love the idea of GDPR, and especially local versions like CCPA that benefit me directly, I loathe much about the GDPR.

1. Cookie popups. Enough said.

2. Its extraterratoriality claims. Yes, I know you also want it to apply to companies in, say, Japan. Bummer. Unless they signed a treaty agreeing to abide by it, their they're own sovereign entities and their businesses don't have to comply with remote EU laws.

3. The annual moderation report. I've lost an aggregate of several weeks of my life filling out reports where 99.9% of our moderation actions were to delete link farms, fake drug sales, phishing portals, and cockfighting fliers.

4. The misperception that GDPR means you have to delete everything. Uh, no. If we suspend joe.scammer@gmail.com's account for phishing, we're not obligated to purge every instance of that email address from our systems, especially not the one that gets to decide whether a new user is allowed to register for another account. And if "joe.scammer" deletes his account, we don't have to return "joe.scammer" into circulation so another user can register it, and simply saying that "joe.scammer is not available" is not disclosing sensitive data. And in any case, a company entirely outside the EU isn't compleleled to do it anyway (see #2).

Love the idea, strongly dislike the implementation.
by marssaxman | 2026-02-03 18:14:16+00:00
That is a prescriptivist way of thinking about language, which is useful if you enjoy feeling righteous about correctness, but not so helpful for understanding how communication actually works. In reality-reality, "kilobyte" may mean either "1000 bytes" or "1024 bytes", depending on who is saying it, who they are saying it to, and what they are saying it about.

You are free to intend only one meaning in your own communication, but you may sometimes find yourself being misunderstood: that, too, is reality.
by mhitza | 2026-02-03 18:14:38+00:00
Unfortunate. I've had good success rate with smaller companies, whereas I still have an open email chain with Deezer and Glovo in my inbox because their process required to much back and forward (Deezer was particularly stupid because while I had an active trial they couldn't delete my account).

I think the bigger problem is that the entire process is left up to the invidual, to both deal with the vendors (sometimes having to scavange the privacy policy for an email address, or follow multi step processes) and report to the local DPAs. And the local DPA could have as arbitraty rules for the process, and very involved form fillings.

It doesn't help when institutions smell as corruption, as likely seen in Ireland, where it took them almost 8 years to resolve a complaint against facebook and fine them.

Only line I always want to see go up https://www.enforcementtracker.com/?insights
by jama211 | 2026-02-03 18:14:39+00:00
Depends again on the type of work, and it absolutely has something to do with quality. You’re caring about not breaking existing functionality, you’re refactoring, you’re moving forward with confidence in your code.

That’s absolutely a quality thing. I can assure you that you could move a lot faster if you didn’t try and meet such standards, not that it’d be a good idea necessarily, but in isolation it proves the point.
by tartoran | 2026-02-03 18:15:04+00:00
Teams is the bane of my existence. Oh well, one of them at least and am forced to use it for the time being. Europeans may get lucky with some sane software or get something even worse than Teams. It remains to be seen how they do. If their software is starting to get better, perhaps US software will get better too because they can no longer justify the junk they're pumping out on us.
by saila | 2026-02-03 18:15:09+00:00
> now that Windows mostly stopped resisting the inevitable

I've been trying to get Visual Studio to stop mucking with line endings and encodings for years. I've searched and set all the relevant settings I could find, including using a .editorconfig file, but it refuses to be consistent. Someone please tell me I'm wrong and there's a way to force LF and UTF-8 no-BOM for all files all the time. I can't believe how much time I waste on this, mainly so diffs are clean.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-03 18:15:27+00:00
Perhaps not much, but last year I was looking at using IMAP as an export/import path for a relative's old Eudora mails to some much-more-recent client. I insisted on it, after I found out it could no longer make a secure connection to their e-mail server.

That said, I was saved/pleased by Eudora2Unix [0], one of those projects that represents a very long slow burn of successive people with a similar niche struggle. You might think Thunderbird would have an import tool for that, but it's been so many years it didn't survive...

[0] https://github.com/jonabbey/eudora2unix
by vidarh | 2026-02-03 18:15:35+00:00
Agents add a docs index in context for skills, so this is an issue of finding that the current specific implementation of skills in Claude Code is suboptimal.

Their reasoning about it is also flawed. E.g. "No decision point. With AGENTS.md, there's no moment where the agent must decide "should I look this up?" The information is already present." - but this is exactly the case for skills too. The difference is just where in the context the information is, and how it is structured.

Having looked at their article, ironically I think the reason it works is that they likely force more information into context by giving the agent less information to work with:

Instead of having a description, which might convince the agent a given skill isn't relevant, their index is basically a list of vague filenames, forcing the agent to make a guess, and potentialy reading the wrong thing.

This is basically exactly what skills were added to avoid. But it will break if the description isn't precise enough. And it's perfectly possible that current tooling isn't aggressive enough about pruning detail that might tempt the agent to ignore relevant files.
by verdverm | 2026-02-03 18:15:48+00:00
France24 article on this: https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260203-paris-prosecutor...

lol, they summoned Elon for a hearing on 420

"Summons for voluntary interviews on April 20, 2026, in Paris have been sent to Mr. Elon Musk and Ms. Linda Yaccarino, in their capacity as de facto and de jure managers of the X platform at the time of the events,
by maxloh | 2026-02-03 18:16:22+00:00
One thing I’ve learned over the years is that people don't necessarily vote for the "best" candidate. Instead, they vote for the candidate who is "least bad" and do the minimum amount of damage to their interests. It is always a matter of compromise.

As a counter-example, you cannot expect an LGBT person to vote for a right-wing conservative who advocates against their own rights, even if that candidate makes the "right call" on every other issue.
by gib444 | 2026-02-03 18:16:49+00:00
Criticism of the EU always gets down voted here but this on point. The EU does too much trumpet blowing.

Too much gets put into law/regulations and then ignored without any kind of retrospective with regards to undesirable effects and efficacy.

Companies have realised GDPR isn't really anything to be feared in reality. Don't quote issued fines at me - quote fines that have been actually paid at least (you'll find that harder to Google)
by cyberax | 2026-02-03 18:17:05+00:00
This service is the standard part of systemd. And my distro is a bog-standard Fedora, with only iSCSI as a complication.

Are you surprised that such a service exists? I certainly was. And doubly so because it has unusual dependency requirements that can easily lead to deadlocks. And yes, this is known, there are open issues, and they are ignored.

> 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.

No, they are not. In my case, I had to use fstab to be able to specify a retry policy for mount units (SMB shares) because it's intentionally not exposed.

And yes, there's a bug: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4468 with the expected GTFO resolution: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4468#issuecomment-...

So there's literally functionality that has been requested by people and it's available only through fstab.
by stronglikedan | 2026-02-03 18:17:10+00:00
lol, "Europe" isn't seeking anything of the sort. France maybe, and a couple other countries, but very, very far from the whole of Europe. And even then, only a handful of people relative to the whole country. This won't even cause a blip on a balance sheet.

What are they gonna switch to? I'll bet it ends up being a fork of Zoom or Teams. It's all just theater.
by nbbaier | 2026-02-03 18:17:30+00:00
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by petcat | 2026-02-03 18:17:35+00:00
Many of the "evil US hyperscalers" are headquartered in California, and the CCPA [1] has this exact penalty structure codified in law:

> (b) A business shall be in violation of this title if it fails to cure any alleged violation within 30 days after being notified of alleged noncompliance. Any business, service provider, or other person that violates this title shall be subject to an injunction and liable for a civil penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) for each violation or seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) for each intentional violation, which shall be assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General. The civil penalties provided for in this section shall be exclusively assessed and recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the people of the State of California by the Attorney General.

$7,500 per intentional violation, $2,500 per unintentional.

[1] https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
by qkeast | 2026-02-03 18:17:36+00:00
As far as cookie popups go (and recognizing you probably know this so it’s more a general comment), GDPR doesn’t encode cookie popups into law, but the entire industry follows the pattern of cookie popups in response to the underlying requirement of informed consent. Companies could choose to not collect as much info, or take other approaches, but cookie popups are the default.
by genpfault | 2026-02-03 18:17:38+00:00
Nice! Getting ~39 tok/s @ ~60% GPU util. (~170W out of 303W per nvtop).

System info:

$ ./llama-server --version
ggml_vulkan: Found 1 Vulkan devices:
ggml_vulkan: 0 = Radeon RX 7900 XTX (RADV NAVI31) (radv) | uma: 0 | fp16: 1 | bf16: 0 | warp size: 64 | shared memory: 65536 | int dot: 1 | matrix cores: KHR_coopmat
version: 7897 (3dd95914d)
built with GNU 11.4.0 for Linux x86_64

llama.cpp command-line:

$ ./llama-server --host 0.0.0.0 --port 2000 --no-warmup \
-hf unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL \
--jinja --temp 1.0 --top-p 0.95 --min-p 0.01 --top-k 40 --fit on \
--ctx-size 32768
by melesian | 2026-02-03 18:18:05+00:00
Patronizing rubbish. The EU builds plenty of EVs, rockets and fighter jets and has far more subway systems and public transport than the US.

Europe is already great. It's why hundreds of thousands of Americans moved here in 2025.

As for being a vassal: Trump was warned of the consequences of invading Greenland and he backed down immediately. Some vassal.
by hazmazlaz | 2026-02-03 18:18:15+00:00
The most insane thing about this is that it is not illegal to manufacture firearms in the United States. Providing that you do not sell or distribute the firearm, it is entirely legal to manufacture a firearm in the USA for personal use only. Laws vary state by state, of course, and it may be different in the state of New York, but assuming that this federal law has not been overridden by some state law in New York, then this proposed regulation is 100% nonsensical.
by vidarh | 2026-02-03 18:18:22+00:00
A bit of caution: it's perfectly able to look up and read the slash-command, so while it may be true it technically can't "invoke" a slash-command via TaskTool, it most certainly can execute all of the steps in it if the slash-command is somewhere you grant it read access, and will tend to try to do so if you tell it to invoke a slash command.
by lo_zamoyski | 2026-02-03 18:18:45+00:00
Government should be active and in charge of urban planning. It is a matter of the common good.

One of the biggest problems today is that urban planning has basically evaporated. Local and state governments don't plan towns anymore. Things are left to developers who have no other concern than to run a street off a major road and plop a few houses down, sell, and move on to the next project. No thought is given to traffic or public services or walkability or public transportation. No care is given to integration with existing urban structures. Instead of mixed-use zoning or building houses around a common public space, which are historically the more common and sensible form of urban planning, we end up with car-dependent suburban dead zones, suburban sprawl.

This should be receiving more attention from environmentalists, as urban planning is intimately related to environmental issues.
by george87 | 2026-02-03 18:19:07+00:00
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Technologies: Java (Spring, Swing, FX), JavaScript (Node, React, D3), Python, various SQL & NoSQL data stores, ETL platforms, UI/UX design tools, AI/LLM tools, Git, AWS, etc.
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by xienze | 2026-02-03 18:19:21+00:00
You're pretty representative of why Republicans can't stand Democrats. They make wild accusations about everything being rooted in "white supremacy", present themselves as intellectual superiors (as if a significant portion of the Democrat voting block isn't full of similarly poor and uneducated people), demand compliance with social movements that a significant portion of the population find bizarre and off-putting. And if you complain, "well you're just too stupid to realize this is actually good for you."

Does changing the messaging ever cross the mind of Democrats? No, why would it? The people who vote against them are just stupid, obviously. I mean why do we even let these rubes vote?
by rlt | 2026-02-03 18:19:51+00:00
I agree he leans into the hype aggressively, and spends too much time on Twitter, but they are making progress regardless.

Starlink is growing rapidly.

Starship has been making steady progress.

Neuralink is helping ~12 real people with spinal cord injuries/ALs.

Optimus seems to be making progress.

Tesla is beginning to roll out robotaxis without safety drivers.