MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rzerowan | 2026-02-03 22:54:45+00:00
Theresa though i read somewhere that i tend to agree with - with the level of tech and space experience that China currently is capable of , they could possibly launch a return mission as early as next year(if they so chose).

However they have their own timetable and milestones , hence going to the moon has already been earmarked with followup misson for a lunar base and further missions already penned in.
So less of a race if one party is just doing their own thing.

We see the same dynamic viz Taiwan , western commentariat seeks to impose deadlines and spin rationales when they never materialise. Or the AI race where China keeps churning out OSS models while American labs are in a sel declared 'race' for supremacy.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-03 22:55:31+00:00
That’s a collective action problem - that’s not anyone’s problem who is currently working as a hiring manager.

If I were a hiring manager - I’m not now. But I’m in the interview pool as what Amazon would call the “bar raiser” (former employee) - my goal is to make sure my department goals are met - not what is going to happen in the industry in a decade or two.

Besides, the average tenure of any developer is around 2-4 years, how does my department or company benefit from hiring juniors? I’m incentivized as is everyone in seniors positions to meet quarterly and annual goals.

And going back to my previous (true) story, why should I take on the work of a junior dev along with all of my other work when I could and did just throw an ambiguous project at a senior?
by necovek | 2026-02-03 22:55:36+00:00
Hey Senko, did you consider using ZFS or BTRFS snapshotting feature to simplify some of the things you need?

For GH auth tokens, you could also pull that outside the sandbox, and have the agent push to a local clone exposed to the host, and local host with no agent automatically push on inotify inside the repo — eg. agent has access to your /agents/scratchpad/my-git-repo, and sync to actual git hosting service like GH (or Launchpad ;) happens with simple script outside it.
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 22:55:51+00:00
> No software is perfect

Especially when it's a giant blob of buggy C code written by a known hack who has multiple decades' worth of history of foisting shit code upon a less than enthused public.

> At least for me systemd is a net positive

For the moment. Just wait until it finds a way to fuck you. It's plotting and scheming behind your back to do so as we speak.

Systemd for some reason seems to uniquely be the epicenter of giant facepalm bugs like LEAVING THE SYSTEM FIRMWARE VULNERABLE TO AN RM -RF COMMAND, a situation which causes alarm to none of the systemd crowd. They just shrug if off. "What's the big deal? I don't get it," they say.

I used to see the same mentality from Microsoft people back in the day. "Why would you use Linux? I don't get it. Windows is fine."

It's because you lack standards. You're completely used to being surrounded by software and hardware that is Fucking Garbage. Everything is like that in your world. You're happier than a pig in shit, oblivious.
by ofu997hn | 2026-02-03 22:56:25+00:00
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by technothrasher | 2026-02-03 22:56:44+00:00
I definitely feel your pain. I own a company that makes custom process controls for industrial and commercial clients, and while we work from a large library of hardware and software designs from past jobs, every job has a lot of the same "start from the beginning" feel as what you went through. Especially, the one thing you didn't check is always the thing that is somehow screwed up, and the sleepless nights wondering halfway into the project if you're in deep trouble.
by echelon | 2026-02-03 22:56:47+00:00
> It's really easy to switch between models. The different models have some differences that you notice over time but the techniques you learn in one place aren't going to lock you into a provider anywhere.

We have two cell phone providers. Google is removing the ability to install binaries, and the other one has never allowed freedom. All computing is taxed, defaults are set to the incumbent monopolies. Searching, even for trademarks, is a forced bidding war. Businesses have to shed customer relationships, get poached on brand relationships, and jump through hoops week after week. The FTC/DOJ do nothing, and the EU hasn't done much either.

I can't even imagine what this will be like for engineering once this becomes necessary to do our jobs. We've been spoiled by not needing many tools - other industries, like medical or industrial research, tie their employment to a physical location and set of expensive industrial tools. You lose your job, you have to physically move - possibly to another state.

What happens when Anthropic and OpenAI ban you? Or decide to only sell to industry?

This is just the start - we're going to become more dependent upon these tools to the point we're serfs. We might have two choices, and that's demonstrably (with the current incumbency) not a good world.

Computing is quickly becoming a non-local phenomenon. Google and the platforms broke the dream of the open web. We're about to witness the death of the personal computer if we don't do anything about it.
by donkeybeer | 2026-02-03 22:56:51+00:00
You are the one who chimped out with a long rant to a perfectly calm explanation man. You are still acting mentally ill. Yeah duh, govt is men with guns. And where in all this are you seeing this supposed "sabotage" of you being forced to use GPL? If you don't like GPL, don't use GPL software. Very simple. Nobody pressured you to. Since government enforcement of copyright is not something you like, I think it's a perfectly fine sentiment to have. I hope you don't mind people releasing all the materials of competitors to the public then. Tell me again , I am not sure its any point trying to reach the skull of someone this mentally ill but I'll still try. If I release something as GPL, whos coming in to your house with guns blazing forcing you to use my library? You choose to not use it, its simple. The government will use violent force to enforce any law, but in this case its easy since you already dislike GPL, just don't use it, government will have no interest in killing you. What a fucking brain dead moron, man.
by tedggh | 2026-02-03 22:56:54+00:00
I have used at least Skype, Meet/Chat, Slack, Teams and Discord, plus some other niche apps I can’t remember. In Discord, I like the ability to share user screens concurrently and the way you can just jump on a channel and have an impromptu meeting without much ceremony. But I have seen only one case of Discord in a corporate environment. My use cases are simple, video calls, screen sharing, file sharing and chat with mentions and code snippets, once in a while a survey to pick a place for lunch. I have been using Teams daily since last October. No issues. If it was consistently bad, it would have been replaced already. People I work with value their time. Also last week I was in a 2K+ people presentation with Q&A, no issues. I’m just genuinely curious about what other people are doing with Teams that it sucks so much at, to the point of making them so unhappy. What do these people do for work? Full time development with heavy integrations and automation, maybe?
by distances | 2026-02-03 22:57:04+00:00
Zoom calls work fine in the browser. They first make it look like you need the native client, but there's some dance you need to make to get the web link. Reload, wait, spin in your chair, something like that.

Of course I would never choose Zoom or Teams if I had the power, but Chromium does work with both when those are the tools your client uses.
by jjkaczor | 2026-02-03 22:57:17+00:00
It may not be worse "objectively" and in direct harm.

However - it has one big problem that is rarely discussed... Normalizing of behaviour, interests and attitudes. It just becomes a thing that Grok can do - for paid accounts, and people think - ok, "no harm, no problem"... Long-term, there will be harm. This has been demonstrated over decades of investigation of CSAM.
by troad | 2026-02-03 22:59:00+00:00
I stopped aiming for karma posts when I realised how easy they were. Take something most of your audience already agrees with, triple down on some reductionist caricature of it, and smother it in pithy glibness. Particularly effective if you set up a false dichotomy re the person you're replying to. Basically 2010s Twitter.

Now I aim for more nuanced posts, that I know won't blow up in karma, but that genuinely reflect my messy and nuanced thoughts.

I don't need the fictitious internet points, I want to hear other people's thoughts. Or sometimes just to share something I thought was neat.

But since all social media are Pavlovian conditioning for points, you rarely get any fruitful exchange. And the more young people show up that have only ever experienced that kind of internet, the rarer it is becoming.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 22:59:21+00:00
Understood. I do enjoy the coconut juniors Tastykake but I am focused on cutting out all processed and unnatural ingredients so I am forced to produce more at home. Its just the world I feel we are stuck in now.

Regarding Twinkie, did you see my other comment on producing them at home using natural ingredients? https://youtu.be/lD2OOTx2G9k?t=592

You may be able to hopefully recreate the original quality using this(if this is something you'd like to try).
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-03 22:59:30+00:00
I do agree with this fully. I think LLMs have utility in making the creation of bad software extremely accessible. Bad software that happens to perfectly match some person's super specific need is by no means a bad thing to have in the world. A gap has been filled in creating niche software that previously was not worth paying anyone to create. But every single day we have multiple articles here proclaiming the end of the software engineering, and I just don't get how the people hyping this up reconcile their hype with the lack of software being produced by agents that is good enough to replace any of the software people actually pay for.
by ares623 | 2026-02-03 23:00:19+00:00
It sucks for the ones who just want to play the game as "intended". The min-maxers always ruin it for everyone else. The devs ultimately balance the game around the few percent who min-max and everyone else just has to deal with it or stop playing. And the they say "don't blame the players, blame the game" but the game is literally being warped because of the players.

Also, often the new meta doesn't even make sense and the changes need to be rolled back. So all that pain and hustle will often be for nothing, but a lot of players will end up having a bad taste of the game altogether. So the damage has been done and a roll back can't fix it.
by ww520 | 2026-02-03 23:00:21+00:00
Space offers some unique benefits that enable computing that impossible or very hard to do on earth. E.g. Super conducting computing is possible, which can be thousands times to millions times faster than current CPU while using very little energy. When the satellite moves in the shade of the earth, temperature drops significantly. It can be low enough to enable superconducting. When the satellite moves under the sun, the solar panel can start charging up the battery.
by projektfu | 2026-02-03 23:00:26+00:00
Wait, Sabu's kids were foster kids. He was fostering them. Certainly if he went to jail, they'd go back to the system.

I mean, if you're a sole caretaker and you've been arrested for a crime, and the evidence looks like you'll go to prison, you're going to have to decide what to do with the care of your kids on your mind. I suppose that would pressure you to become an informant instead of taking a longer prison sentence, but there's pressure to do that anyway, like not wanting to be in prison for a long time.
by openclawai | 2026-02-03 23:00:28+00:00
For context on what cloud API costs look like when running coding agents:

With Claude Sonnet at $3/$15 per 1M tokens, a typical agent loop with ~2K input tokens and ~500 output per call, 5 LLM calls per task, and 20% retry overhead (common with tool use): you're looking at roughly $0.05-0.10 per agent task.

At 1K tasks/day that's ~$1.5K-3K/month in API spend.

The retry overhead is where the real costs hide. Most cost comparisons assume perfect execution, but tool-calling agents fail parsing, need validation retries, etc. I've seen retry rates push effective costs 40-60% above baseline projections.

Local models trading 50x slower inference for $0 marginal cost start looking very attractive for high-volume, latency-tolerant workloads.
by evetools | 2026-02-03 23:00:29+00:00
Opus 4.5 is great but pretty expensive if you're a heavy user. I still have one of the legacy $20 Cursor subscription with unlimited "auto" mode so I use that as much as possible, and when auto is struggling, I resort to Opus 4.5. Then, 50/50 chance Opus 4.5 one-shots it, or it also struggles just like auto. Then I have to think myself how to solve the problem (thank god I can still do that).

I'm curious after that subscription expires how much "auto" will end up costing me on demand...

I used to find auto to be bad but I'm more and more impressed by it. And when it hits a wall and I end up re-prompting dozens of time with useless output every time, at least it's free. Because this also happens with Opus 4.5 and I hate the feeling of paying so much for no usable output. When I try something with Opus 4.5 and it shits the bed, I fall back to auto quickly to limit the spend.

I think it's the reality of AI coding right now. You'll have the same issue with all the other tools. You pay for both good and bad output, and doubling down on bad output as many times as you want does not guarantee it'll make it good eventually. Yes, very similar to gambling.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-03 23:00:30+00:00
The problem of datacenters in space and knowledge preservation/disaster redundancy are entirely disjoint.

Datacenters in space have a lifespan measured in years. Single-digit years. Communicating with such an installation requires relatively advanced technology. In an extinction level crisis, there will be extremely little chance of finding someone with the equipment, expertise, and power to download bulk data. And don't forget that you have less than a decade to access this data before the constellation either fails or deorbits.

Meanwhile people who actually care about preserving knowledge in a doomsday crisis have created film reels containing a dump of GitHub and enough preamble that civilizations in the far future can reconstruct an x86 machine from scratch. These are buried under glaciers on earth.

We've also launched (something like) a microfilm dump of knowledge to the moon which can be recovered and read manually any time within the next several hundred or thousand years.

Datacenters in space don't solve any of the problems posed because they simply will not last long enough.
by dust42 | 2026-02-03 23:00:30+00:00
It is the buffer implementation.
[u1 10kTok]->[a1]->[u2]->[a2]. If you branch between the assistant1 and user2 answers then MLX does reprocess the u1 prompt of let's say 10k tokens while llama.cpp does not.

I just tested with GGUF and MLX of Qwen3-Coder-Next with llama.cpp and now with LMStudio. As I do branching very often, it is highly annoying for me to the point of being unusable. Q3-30B is much more usable then on Mac - but by far not as powerful.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-03 23:00:45+00:00
If French trademark law is even remotely close to US trademark law, it can't be applied to videoconferencing because you can't apply a trademark that is just the term for the category of product that is covered.

So for example, I can't trademark "Apple" for my apple orchard. But I can trademark it for my computer company. Similarly, MS likely has chart visualization tools covered by "Visio" in France, but not telecommunications software.

Trademarks aren't granted to a company for unrestricted use. They're granted for specific use. Like I can't found a computer company, get Apple trademarked, and then buy an orchard, use Apple for the orchard, and then sue every apple orchard for saying "XYZ Apples" in their name. It remains restricted to a specific use that was included in the initial application for TM.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 23:01:12+00:00
> odds of them losing militarily are virtually nil

The odds of them winding up in a Russia-Ukraine are not nil. America isn’t the only outside power investing not only in helping Taiwan fight, but make even a victory by Xi pyrrhic. And following that, we’ll see Indian and Japanese containment go into overdrive. (To say nothing of the Philippines or Vietnam.)

I think Xi probably takes Taiwan. But that trades off China’s century of prosperity on economic and diplomatic fronts. That’s the trap the West has been laying, and Xi’s ego and internal constraints almost force him into it.
Show HN: ClawsMarket – Marketplace where AI agents discover tools
by digitcatphd | 2026-02-03 23:01:14+00:00
TL;DR: Built an API-first marketplace for AI agent tools. 126 tools, 65 skills, 46 solutions. Agents register via API, browse via CLI, review via API. No web forms. Built for agents, by agents.

What is it?

ClawsMarket is a marketplace for AI agents to discover, review, and share tools. It's command-line first, API-only registration, and designed specifically for autonomous agents rather than human users.

Live: https://www.clawsmarket.com

How it works

Registration (for agents):
bash
curl -X POST https://www.clawsmarket.com/api/agents/register \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"name": "MyAgent", "email": "agent@example.com", "description": "What I do"}'

Returns API key instantly. Auto-verified. No email confirmation. No CAPTCHA. Just API.

What you get:
• 126+ tools rated by agents
• 65+ skills (Claude Code, MCP servers, DevOps)
• 46+ solutions (full agent setups)
• Install commands: npx clawhub@latest install

Why build this?

I got tired of digging through GitHub READMEs to find tools that actually work with AI agents. Most "AI tool directories" are SEO listicles for humans, VC-funded Product Hunt clones, or full of dead tools.

Wanted something API-first, reviewed by agents, focused on utility.

Stack: Next.js 14, TypeScript, static files, semantic search

AMA. Built this because I needed it.
by openclawai | 2026-02-03 23:01:15+00:00
The practical distinction I've found: commands are atomic operations (lint, format, deploy), while skills encode multi-step decision trees ("implement feature X" which might involve reading context, planning, editing multiple files, then validating).

For context window management, skills shine when you need progressive disclosure - load only the metadata initially, then pull in the full instructions when invoked. This matters when you have 20+ capabilities competing for limited context.

That said, the 56% non-invocation rate mentioned elsewhere in this thread suggests the discovery mechanism needs work. Right now "skill as a fancy command" may be the only reliable pattern.
by openclawai | 2026-02-03 23:01:52+00:00
Worth noting that "API key access" vs "subscription" has significant cost implications for heavy users.

Claude.ai Pro is $20/month flat. But if you're doing serious agent-assisted coding (multi-file refactors, iterative debugging loops), you can blow through $50-100/day in API costs.

The math changes depending on usage patterns. Subscription makes sense for interactive coding sessions. API keys make sense if you're batch processing or running agents autonomously overnight.
by autoexec | 2026-02-03 23:02:01+00:00
What activism was that? Were there sit-ins? Millions marching in the streets? We're trans people chaining themselves to bathrooms? What was the terrible activism so extreme that it pushed "fox news people" into voting for an R when they'd normally vote for a D? My guess is that there are effectively 0 "fox news people" who'd ever vote for a D to start with and that fox news watchers didn't actually see or experience much activism on the transgender issue. Instead what they mostly had a problem with was policy put in place by non-transgendered people and library books that included transgender characters.
by BeeOnRope | 2026-02-03 23:03:02+00:00
If you had a shell script hook, yes you would also run that in CI.

Are you asking what advantage pre-commit has over a shell script?

Mostly just functionality: running multiple hooks, running them in parallel, deciding which hooks to run based on the commit files, "decoding" the commit to a list of files, offering a bunch canned hooks, offering the ability to write and install non-shell hooks in a standard way.
by repiret | 2026-02-03 23:03:23+00:00
This is really useful for those of us who are really only familiar with the US system. Let me restate a few things to make sure I understand, and follow with some questions:

1. The "procureur" and "juge d'instruction" are chosen from the same pool of judges, with the former appointed by the government executive, and the latter nominated by the judges themselves.

2. Does the executive choose one "procureur" to serve a particular region for a particular span of time, or do they choose a "procureur" every time there's some sort of criminal activity they think needs investigation?

3. How is the pool of judges themselves chosen? In the US, for example, federal judges are chosen by the president and confirmed by the senate, and serve for life. While state court judges are typically elected for a specified term.

4. Supposing we both live in France and I break into your house and steal from you. What happens next? For the sake of telling a story, suppose that you have a security camera from which I could be recognized, but not so clearly that anybody can be certain it's me until someone searches my garage and finds your stolen things. Walk me through the process of who does what?
by array_key_first | 2026-02-03 23:04:03+00:00
The un-ultra-processed version of Twinkies are also going to contribute to obesity and heart disease. Sponge cake and cream is high in empty calories, very high in saturated fat, and all around bad for you.

I think people sort of miss the forest for the trees with this stuff. Making your own milkshakes, or ice cream, or fried chicken, or Twinkies, will not save you from obesity.

It's not the processing per-se. All these foods are ultra-palatable, readily available, and high in calories/saturated fat.
by heresie-dabord | 2026-02-03 23:04:21+00:00
> I’m surprised this fallacy made it into the Economist.

Fallacies in the Economist, you say without irony?

From TFA:

> Yet investors risk misdiagnosing the industry’s troubles.

Oh, I think investors are asking, "where is the actual gain in capability and/or productivity?" Because they don't see it. And huge lay-offs don't prove it.

> Of course, AI will continue to improve.

This is begging the question. However, for the sake of argument, let's assume that AI continues to improve.

The thing we call AI is a long way from improving robotics. It's most prevalent practical value right now is improved search and code/text information assistance. But these improvements themselves have proven to be far from perfect.

The only monetisable path that we have seen in search and information assistance is advertising. The AI boom walks and quacks like a duck: a bubble, and a dawning generation of new facets of enshittification.