MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by andsoitis | 2026-02-03 00:57:57+00:00
> maybe I am a fool, does space-based AI make no sense at all?

I think it does, for what it’s worth if we are to extend intelligence (as we know it) and potentially consciousness out there into the galaxy.

Because of distances and time, it is unlikely that humans will populate the galaxy with biological offspring (barring some technical breakthroughs that we have no line of sight on).

AI, on the other hand, could theoretically populate the galaxy and beyond, carrying the human intelligence and consciousness story into the future.
by harry8 | 2026-02-03 00:58:02+00:00
This sort of thing works well for individuals. Eg.

https://www.fuelcheck.nsw.gov.au/app/FuelPrice/ByLocation?la...

Then you need the integration into home assistant for your local options.

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/nsw_fuel_station/

And an app for ease of use when you're out of your local area.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.nsw.one...

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/nsw-fuelcheck/id1266569551

How does it affect things across the economy for fuel purchase? Haven't seen a study. I would incentive-ise price cutting to increase sales, especially by the independendent operators, by essentially advertising the lower pricing for free is my guess.
by jordwest | 2026-02-03 00:58:10+00:00
I think it comes down to a fear of uncertainty. It's comfortable to believe in authority.

Authority provides the illusion of a sense of control, predictability, certainty and orderliness, and it's like we gravitate toward that even when it leads to bad outcomes for us.

For most of us the fear of being out of control seems to be greater than the fear of being controlled.
by ibarrajo | 2026-02-03 00:58:16+00:00
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At DoorDash, I contributed to the migration from Django to Kotlin microservices on the Drive Merchant Services team, focusing on customer support endpoints. I also designed and implemented a modular refund rules engine for our largest partners, enabling flexible refund logic and supporting internal tooling.

I’ve previously built NLP pipelines at Jobscan to match résumés to job descriptions and score resume strength, and earlier, trained models to predict ad performance based on copywriting—my first foray into ML back in 2016.

After wrapping up at Uber. I'm now excited to return to a hands-on engineering role with a collaborative, technically strong team and a path toward engineering leadership (EM or CTO). I'm particularly interested in infrastructure, developer platforms, and applied ML systems in domains like healthcare, logistics, finance, or defense.

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by sailingparrot | 2026-02-03 00:58:46+00:00
> How much maintenance do you need?

A lot. As someone that has been responsible for trainings with up to 10K GPUs, things fail all the time. By all the time I don't mean every few weeks, I mean daily.
From disk failings, to GPU overheating, to infiniband optical connectors shaking and disconnecting randomly, we have to send people to manually fix/debug things in the datacenter all the time.

If one GPU fails, you essentially lose the entire node (so 8 GPUs), so if your strategy is to just turn off whatever fails forever and not deal with it, it's gonna get very expensive very fast.

And thats in an environment where temperature is very well controlled and stabled and where you don't have to put your entire cluster through 4 Gs and insane vibrations during take off.
by anyfoo | 2026-02-03 00:58:48+00:00
It could be a tiny drop of something corrosive, but with that I’m also still wondering if a laser isn’t simpler, yeah.

I have almost no doubt that it could be a laser, it’s just unfortunate (and maybe a little bit suspicious) that I haven’t found it confirmed anyway. Almost like they wanted it to be a laser (hence the folklore around it), but had to use a less cool method to do it. But of course it might as well just have been a laser, and they for some reason declined to market or even just document it that way, for whatever reason.
by shermantanktop | 2026-02-03 00:59:14+00:00
I understand it now, after reading the thread. There's a reason for that.

I have not been following the machinations of X very closely. I don't have the corporate structure of Elon's empire in my head, nor do I have the Meta or Alphabet/Google hierarchies in there. I couldn't have told you about the history of xAI beyond that it exists.

So that's plain ignorance of something you consider common knowledge, but I don't, rather than "aggressively trying to not understand it." And that phrase is particularly grating btw.
by marcus_holmes | 2026-02-03 00:59:20+00:00
> I don't see anyone cooking up the next photoshop and selling it at $3/month.

That's not the situation we're talking about though. It's someone saying "hmm, I need to edit this picture. Can I get ChatGPT to do it?" where 3 years ago they would have had to buy Photoshop and learn how to use it.

Similarly, if they need a tool to batch-convert a thousand images, they're getting an LLM to construct the specific tool they need in a couple of hours and then running that, rather than buying a software product that can do it.

You don't need a whole dev team to build a one-off tool for a specific job, which is probably 90% of the demand for those software products. LLMs are becoming the general-purpose tool for a lot of use cases.
by lelandfe | 2026-02-03 00:59:36+00:00
This new, worse Apple's own macOS apps are vaguely weird[1] these days due to running on an iPadOS/macOS cross-platform framework... so all the inevitably vaguely weird[2] Electron apps just fit right in.

[1] you can't use Opt-Shift-→ to increase text selection in News.app; right-clicking a location in Weather produces solely "Delete"; Stocks search bar has an atrocious "Done" button which you can tab to... and then continue typing in the unfocused input

[2] hotkeys still don't flash the menubar in VS Code; Obsidian added a Window menubar thankfully but never populated it, so if you Cmd-Shift-W there's no returning (and because it's Electron, none of their menubar items reopen a closed window)
Show HN: Private LLM UI (no account, no tracking)
by harbinger-sec | 2026-02-03 00:59:48+00:00
I've been frustrated with how much data standard LLM interfaces collect, so I built a barebones, privacy-focused alternative.

Key features:

Private AI conversations with zero data retention.
Account and billing identity exist. Prompt and response content does not.
In-memory processing only · No chat history · No training on your data
Free option with no credit card info needed.
Short, clean domain for easy sharing: wraith.sh

Goal: A genuinely private way to use LLMs for sensitive brainstorming, drafting, or just messing around without a paper trail.

I'd love feedback on the UI/UX, and especially any ideas for privacy-preserving features I could add.
Try it here: https://wraith.sh
by StillBored | 2026-02-03 00:59:53+00:00
There are whole catagories of people without "ID" as such, like say underage children or people unable to drive. ID's in the USA have traditionally been either drivers licenses or passports. Many states have added non-drivers license IDs for handicapped, elderly, etc, but AFAIK they aren't particularly popular since those catagories of people don't tend to need them until they suddenly find themselves in a situation needing one.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-03 00:59:53+00:00
Nintendo's strategy isn't the absolute worst. They mostly just give new names to new console designs, with modifiers to specify next-gen-without-major-changes. So the SNES was a next-gen NES, the N64 was its own thing, the GameCube was its own thing, the Gameboy, Gameboy Color, and Gameboy Advanced were iterations on the same thing, DS, DSi, 3DS were all generation steps. WiiU was a next-gen Wii, Switch 2 is a next-gen Switch.

They probably should have called the WiiU the Super Wii or Wii 2 or something, but on the whole they've got a mostly coherent naming convention.
by SJC_Hacker | 2026-02-03 00:59:59+00:00
> Finally, if we limited ourselves to earth-based raw materials, we would eventually reach a point where the remaining mass of the earth would have less gravitational effect on the satellite fleet than the fleet itself, which would have deleterious effects on the satellite fleet.

The Earth's crust has an average thickness of about 15-20 km.
Practically we can only get at maybe the top 1-2 km, as drill bits start to fail the deeper you go.

The Earth's radius is 6,371 km.

So even if we could somehow dug up entire crust we can get to and flung it into orbit, that would barely be noticeable to anything in orbit.
by coldtea | 2026-02-03 01:00:09+00:00
>You are who, what and where you are by virtue of historical accident. The serfs of the Middle Ages sure as shit didn’t want that economy either

At least many of them fought hard to keep what they liked - plenty of peasant revolts and coming at feudal lords when they overdid it...

Early industrial workers didn't like their economy and conditions either, fought hard, organized, and got many changes to labour laws and conditions.

Us?
by tadfisher | 2026-02-03 01:00:22+00:00
If you're considering only viability, the obvious concern would be cooling, yes; because increasingly large radiative cooling systems dominate launch costs because of all the liquid you need to boost into orbit. And one 100MW installation would be 500 times the largest solar power/radiative cooling system we've ever launched, which is the ISS. So get that down 2 orders of magnitude and you're within the realm of something we _know_ is possible to do instead of something we can _speculate_ is possible.

After that frankly society-destabilizing miracle of inventing competitive photonic processing, your goal of operating data centers in space becomes a tractable economic problem:

Pros:

- You get a continuous 1.37 kW/m^2 instead of an intermittent 1.0 kW/m^2

- Any reasonable spatial volume is essentially zero-cost

Cons:

- Small latency disadvantage

- You have to launch all of your hardware into polar orbit

- On-site servicing becomes another economic problem

So it's totally reasonable to expect the conversation to revolve around cooling, because we know SpaceX can probably direct around $1T into converting methane into delta-V to make the economics work, but the cooling issue is the difference between maybe getting one DC up for that kind of money, or 100 DCs.
by acdha | 2026-02-03 01:00:22+00:00
They don’t need the grid if they’re deploying their own solar. I find it exceedingly unlikely that there is nowhere in the U.S., much less the world, that they couldn’t use some of Tesla’s battery experience to deploy a boatload of solar panels and batteries for less than the launch costs, and then have something which can be serviced or upgraded in place.
by straydusk | 2026-02-03 01:02:21+00:00
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by weddingbell | 2026-02-03 01:02:25+00:00
Yesterday I set up Rclone, and the download speed from Google Drive was so slow that caching took a long time.
After applying the method described in this article, the speed improved.

This is my mount configuration. What do you think? Is there anything that might be causing issues??

rclone mount google_drive: X: ^

--vfs-cache-mode full ^
--vfs-cache-max-age 24h ^
--vfs-cache-max-size 50G ^
--vfs-read-ahead 1G ^
--cache-dir "./rclone_cache" ^
--vfs-read-chunk-size 128M ^
--vfs-read-chunk-size-limit off ^
--buffer-size 128M ^
--dir-cache-time 1000h ^
--drive-chunk-size 64M ^
--poll-interval 15s ^
--vfs-cache-poll-interval 1m ^
--multi-thread-streams 32 ^
--drive-skip-shortcuts ^
--drive-acknowledge-abuse ^
--network-mode
by mr_toad | 2026-02-03 01:02:49+00:00
> Americans will be forced to bail this mess up because we need Falcon 9, Starship one, etc.

Or they could just go with the competition. If it came down to propping up something, I don’t see much difference between propping up ULA, Blue Origin or SpaceX. In the current environment who gets propped up probably depends on who scratches Donalds back.
by coldtea | 2026-02-03 01:02:59+00:00
>Those who resist AI and/or fail to set high expectations for themselves will have to settle for lower income and status.

Millions of those fully ok with embracing AI, but superfluous in the economy created it by it, will have to settle for lower income and status too.

That doesn't mean they need to tolerate privileged c*ts who have no worry and millions in the bank be smug about it.
by tootie | 2026-02-03 01:03:21+00:00
The intractable problem is heat dissipation. There is to little matter in space to absorb excess heat. You'd need thermal fins bigger than the solar cells. The satellite's mass would be dominated by the solar panels and heat fins such that maybe 1% of the mass would be usable compute. It would be 1000x easier to leave them on the moon and dissipate into the ground and 100000x easier to just keep making them on earth.
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-03 01:04:00+00:00
Having seen what happens with bad gas from shoddy stations, i too will bypass many in favor of the big names. I know someone who got water instead of gas when a tiny mom-and-pop gas station let thier tank run so low it started pumping decades of groundwater from the bottom of a rarely-serviced tank.

Just google "gas station pumped water" to see all the local news articles about this sort of thing.

https://www.koco.com/article/drivers-oklahoma-furious-after-...

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/gas-station-pumps-ga-water/

https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/lake-county/mentor-w...

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/nevada-gas-station-pumps-golden...
by mothballed | 2026-02-03 01:04:01+00:00
... if you aren't detained you are free to go. And if you are free to go, you are free to stay, unless the property owner has trespassed you. TSA doesn't own the airport, at least in my state. So how can they trespass you from the airport or otherwise continue to detain you from moving forward?

I mean, I know you're right, and I know you will always lose if you try, but I don't understand the legal basis.
Show HN: AuthFill – Verify your email with one click
by soeckly | 2026-02-03 01:04:11+00:00
I built AuthFill after catching myself switching between tabs for the hundredth time just to copy a 6-digit verification code. You know the dance: sign up → wait for email → hunt through promotions tab → memorize code → switch back → already expired.

AuthFill kills that friction. You connect your email accounts once, then whenever you hit a verification field, just click the extension icon. It instantly parses your recent emails, grabs the code (or link), and copies it or opens the link directly in a new tab.

Works for:
- Email verification codes & magic links
- 2FA/OTP codes
- Password reset flows
- All major email providers

Would love your thoughts and happy to answer any questions!
by tialaramex | 2026-02-03 01:04:16+00:00
Ambulances are for emergencies. An ambulance could be dispatched depending on availability, but the dispatch team has more experience with this than I do and so they - like the hospital's initial triage team - would put me in the "injured but not dying" category and maybe I get an ambulance in an hour or two depending on other priorities.

They don't want me to go home and fall asleep, because it is possible that I have a brain injury and will never wake up, but their advice is going to be "Can you get somebody else to drive, or maybe call a taxi?" not "We will Blue Light an ambulance to you ASAP".
by AndyKelley | 2026-02-03 01:04:37+00:00
This use case is unchanged.

If you specify -target x86_64-windows-gnu -lc then some libc functions are provided by Zig, some are provided by vendored mingw-w64 C files, and you don't need mingw-w64 installed separately; Zig provides everything.

You can still pass --libc libc.txt to link against an externally provided libc, such as a separate mingw-w64 installation you have lying around, or even your own libc installation if you want to mess around with that.

Both situations unchanged.
by robocat | 2026-02-03 01:05:27+00:00
> So what happens is a corporation ends up spending a lot of money for a square tool [SaaS] that they have to hammer into a circle hole.

You are assuming that corporations have the capability to design the software they need.

There are many benefits to SaaS software, and some significant costs (e.g. integration).

One major benefit of SaaS is domain knowledge and most people underestimate the complexity of even well known domains (e.g. accounts).

Companies also underestimate the difficulty of aligning diverging political needs within the business, and they underestimate the expense of distraction on a non-core area that there is no business advantage to becoming competent at. As a vendor sometimes our job was simply to be the least worst solution.

At least that's what I saw.
by jfengel | 2026-02-03 01:06:34+00:00
The ill that it's supposed to address is people hassling government officials who are just doing their jobs. Their jobs require them to do things that people don't want them to do, like making you pay taxes or go to jail for committing crimes. They are prominent targets and can easily spend their entire career fighting off complaints.

Of course that promptly shifts the potential for abuse in the other direction. Supposedly, democracy is the control over that. If they are abusing their office, you vote them out. (Or you vote out the elected official supervising them, such as a mayor or sheriff.)

It actually does work out most of the time. The cases of abuse are really few and far between. But in a country of 300 million, "few and far between" is somebody every single day, and a decent chance that it's you at some point.

That said, it should be zero, and there's good reason to think that for every offender you see there are dozens or hundreds of people complicit in allowing it. The theory I outlined above can only handle so many decades of concerted abuses before they become entrenched as part of the system. At which point it may be impossible to restore it without resetting everything to zero and starting over.
by consumer451 | 2026-02-03 01:06:47+00:00
My up thread commentary was not meant as real snark at all. I was attempting to be genuine.

However, I think it did accomplish my goal. I bet that we could now have a beer/tea, and laugh together.

If you are ever near Wroclaw, Prague, Leipzig/Dresden, or Seattle, please email my username at the the big G. I would happily meet you at the nearest lovely hotel bar. HN mini meetup. I can only imagine the stories that we might exchange.
by prewett | 2026-02-03 01:08:04+00:00
I wonder if 3D printing is a good analogy. The promise was "you can print anything you want!" From my observation, the reality is that you can 3D print cheap plastic crap that looks like voxel rendering made manifest. This turns out to be handy in a lot of situations, like making custom jigs for something, but you're not going to be 3D printing custom jewelry, or custom furniture. Sure, you hear stories about how SpaceX is 3D printing rocket engines, but you can't afford a machine like that, and even if you could, you won't be printing custom jewelry with it.

So, sure, some people are going to be using AI to create professional software, but they aren't going to tell you about all the engines that blew up along the way, and who knows which ones are going to blow up in the future. But custom utility software might get a whole lot more common.
by namelosw | 2026-02-03 01:08:18+00:00
> If tones were completely irrelevant regarding understandably then they would have disappeared long ago.

Probably because it's a legacy and disappearing slowly? Modern Mandarin only has four tones left and has already lost tone patterns.

Do you know there's a "robot tone" in Chinese? It's simply swap every character to the flat or the first tone. Though it's under the stereotypical false assumption that robots have troubles with tones, kids in the late last century often communicated in that tone for fun without issues.

At the end of the day, vocal Chinese is always ambiguous with or without tones and in practice heavily relies on context. It requires written language to truly fix that.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-03 01:08:19+00:00
> I personally have a hard time believing that a “Real” ID that does not verify citizenship or residency is meaningfully different from my current one.

I guess that's because you haven't renewed your driver's license yet?

I did last year, precisely because I had to fly, and had to bring a bunch of new documentation I never needed for my previous driver's licenses, including, yes, multiple proofs of both citizenship and residency, and then had to go through a whole additional process because of a slight name discrepancy between documents that they had to get a supervisor to make a judgment call on. It's a totally different verification process that is actually quite meaningfully different.
by shagie | 2026-02-03 01:08:40+00:00
> maybe Tim Walz

https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2026/01/29/tim-walz-say...

> MINNEAPOLIS (Gray News) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said he will not run for elected office again.

> Walz touched on his political plans in a recent interview with cable news channel MS Now.

> “I will never run for an elected office again,” Walz said. “Never again.”

> The 2024 Democratic vice-presidential nominee said he plans to “do the work” while finding other ways to serve the country.