MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nearbuy | 2026-02-06 05:51:19+00:00
I think it's the opposite. Bill credited his parents for his philanthropic drive and Warren buffet as the person who first introduced him to the idea of giving everything away. He's been active and knowledgeable in his philanthropy and posts frequently about global health, poverty, aid, etc.

Melinda also, of course, did work for their joint foundation before she left. Since leaving, she shifted her philanthropic focus more to US women's health and reproductive rights.

Bill has committed to giving away nearly all his wealth (99%) over the next 19 years. Melinda is still committed to giving away over 50% of her wealth over her lifetime.

I don't see any evidence that Melinda was the primary driver for Bill's philanthropy.
by Ygg2 | 2026-02-06 05:52:40+00:00
> Yes, because C is, by virtue of its history

Sure history is great and all, but in C it's hard to say reliably define this int is 64-bit wide, because of the wobbly type system. Plus, the whole historical baggage of not having 128-bit wide ints. Or sane strings (not null terminated).
by somenameforme | 2026-02-06 05:53:34+00:00
It is still a crime even in Brazil and Argentina. Whether or not it's enforced and/or the degree of exceptions allowed, are another issue. For instance obviously illegal immigration was treated radically different during the previous administration, but the laws remain overwhelmingly the same. For instance the most controversial issue in contemporary times is deportation without trial. That's called expedited removal [1], and was passed under Bill Clinton's administration, 30 years ago.

One thing that I really don't like about the way the Democrat party is handling illegal immigration is that they know it's overwhelmingly unpopular, so they say one thing and do another. For instance part of the DNC 2024 platform was "Securing the Border" [2] which they tried to argue Biden had done, and that the only reason he hadn't doing more was because of Congress. Obviously that's overt gaslighting. If they want to run on a platform of defacto open borders, more power to them - laws can be changed, but they need to actually run on that platform instead of lying and gaslighting.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedited_removal

[2] - https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FINAL-MASTE...
by lihaoyi | 2026-02-06 05:53:48+00:00
I was inspired by the jane street post and implemented exactly this in my Scala unit testing library uTest (http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/GoldenLiteralTestinginuTest090.h...). Can confirm that auto updating golden test assertions does make working with a test suite much more joyful than struggling with each assertion by hand
by Animats | 2026-02-06 05:53:52+00:00
The trouble with C as an API format is that there's no size info. That's asking for buffer overflows.

There's an argument for full type info at an API, but that gets complicated across languages. Things that do that degenerate into CORBA. Size info, though, is meaningful at the machine level, and ought to be there.

Apple originally had Pascal APIs for the Mac, which did carry along size info. But they caved and went with C APIs.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-06 05:54:43+00:00
> You don't always get it pop-free but it's much better than an arbitrary point as the sample is rising.

I agree with this, but that doesn't invalidate anything I've said. When you or a bit of software decide to make the cut at x[n], you are faced with the near certainty that the x[n] != 0. If you set it (or x[n+1]) to zero, you add distortion; if you don't, the risk of a pop is significant.

By contrast, if you apply a fade, the risk of getting a pop is negligible and you can make the cut anywhere you want without paying attention to 1 sample-per-pixel or finer zoom level and the details of the waveform.
by ATNINFO | 2026-02-06 05:54:56+00:00
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Show HN: Fylepad – A minimal, tabbed Markdown notepad built with Rust
by imrofayel | 2026-02-06 05:57:11+00:00
I built fylepad because I needed a dead-simple, local notepad that handles Markdown and tabs without the bloat of a full IDE or a browser-based app.

Why use this?

Instant: Built with Rust/Tauri, so it’s light on RAM.
No Cloud: Just a local tool for quick notes (with tables, code blocks etc) and diagrams (Mermaid/PlantUML).

Tabs: I hate having 20 windows open; this keeps my scratchpads in one place.

I'm curious—what's the one feature you feel is missing from your current "quick note" workflow?
by simianwords | 2026-02-06 05:57:21+00:00
You’ve ignored my point on material poverty leading to suicides again. This means you can’t appreciate that Indians suffer mostly from people lack of money than anything else.

> As if nobody in the history of the world took a deal that turned out to be bad for them. A voluntary choice does not inherently imply that the choice made them better off

I’m suggesting that it’s the best decision for them. They’ve clearly taken the decision so they also think the same. I asked you for alternatives, or what you could have rather done but you’ve not answered. Maybe consider that it’s the best option for them?

> In other words, the US has a vested interest in making sure some people are always poor and desperate enough to do the jobs it doesn't want to do.

This shows clearly you have no idea what you are talking about. It’s mostly because of US that India has great IT jobs. It’s also because of products and services made in the US that we use in India that India enjoys some prosperity. Think of all the pharmaceutical innovations. Think of the internet, iPhones and everything. The USA has a massive part in reducing poverty in India.

What you are doing is clear: moral grandstanding without suggesting any clear alternative. It’s always nice to show easy empathy.
by kaibee | 2026-02-06 05:57:26+00:00
It reminds me a lot of 3D Printing tbh. Watching all these cool DIY 3d printing kits evolve over years, I remember a few times I'd checked on costs to build a DIY one. They kept coming down, and down, and then around the same time as "Build a 3d printer for $200 (some assembly required)!" The Bambu X1C was announced/released, for a bit over a grand iirc? And its whole selling point was that it was fast and worked, out of the box. And so I bought one and made a bunch of random one-off-things that solved _my_ specific problem, the way I wanted it solved. Mostly in the form of very specific adapter plates that I could quickly iterate on and random house 'wouldn't it be nice if' things.

That's kind of where AI-agent-coding is now too, though... software is more flexible.
by theorchid | 2026-02-06 05:57:39+00:00
However, there is a lack of information when a user opens your website after interacting with AI.

Google Search Console shows the user's query if the query is popular enough and your website is in the search results.
Bing shows all queries, even if they are not popular, and if your website is in the search results.

But if AI recommends your website when answering people's questions, you cannot find out what questions the user discussed, how many times your website was shown, and in what position. You can see the UTM tag in your website analytics (for example, GPT adds utm source), but that is the maximum amount of information that will be available to you. But if a user discussed a question with AI and only got your brand name, and then found your site in a search engine, you won't be able to tell that they found you with the help of AI advice.
by MadnessASAP | 2026-02-06 05:58:26+00:00
I wish I could believe in more conspiracy theories. At least then I might believe there was some sort of master plan, that some individual or group had some image of a better world (to them) and that the world was being steered somewhere.

Unfortunately no, it just seems to be greed, incompetence, and incompetent greed. At least when a tank drives over a protestor somebody gets to be on the side of the tank. When the bus goes off a cliff because the driver sold the steering wheel everybody dies.
by stackghost | 2026-02-06 05:58:48+00:00
>why incorporate it instead of just having proper moderation and/or private servers?

Because game studios these days are all about global matchmaking. Private servers aren't really a thing any more except in more niche games. Instead you (optionally with a party) queue for matchmaking. Every game has to have a ranked ladder these days, it seems.

I miss the days of Tribes 2 or CS1.6 when games had server browsers
by seanmcdirmid | 2026-02-06 05:59:20+00:00
Obama and to a lesser extent Biden weren't soft on illegal immigration, but they did two things that differ from the current administration:

* They followed the law. Crackdowns like the one Trump is taking are only possible if you treat law as a fluid concept and ignore judges consistently. A democrat is never going to get around that, and yes, laws can be changed, but notice how Trump isn't even bothering to do that also (he just ignores them), the best he got from a Republican congress was extra funding for ICE (and remember, Bush was worse than Obama on illegal immigration).

* They just treated them with some dignity (which Trump sees as soft, dignity isn't really in his vocab).
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 06:00:20+00:00
Evil is, as evil does.

Bill Gates and his Foundation have a bad rep long before his Epstein link came into the news.

Who better to collude with a known child trafficker/molester, than one who has no qualms in killing children via illegal vaccines/drugs to help his nexus with Big Pharma.

Bill & Melinda Gates' Foundation's evil illegal "vaccine trials" on tribal children (especially girls) in India (without the consent of them and their parents) directly caused the deaths of several children, hospitalizations of scores of such innocent victims, and it was a huge conspiracy and controversy that was uncovered during investigations by Supreme Court and police.

https://m.economictimes.com/industry/healthcare/biotech/heal...

The Gates Foundation operates like a monopolistic unethical pharmaceutical company (as a weapon and Think Tank of Big Pharma) under the guise of a charitable NGO or grantmaker.

https://capitalresearch.org/article/bill-gates-big-philanthr...
by alexsmirnov | 2026-02-06 06:00:42+00:00
For me, AI is the best for code research and review

Since some team members started using AI without care, I did create bunch of agents/skills/commands and custom scripts for claude code. For each PR, it collects changes by git log/diff, read PR data and spin bunch of specialized agents to check code style, architecture, security, performance, and bugs. Each agent armed with necessary requirement documents, including security compliance files. False positives are rare, but it still misses some problems. No PR with ai generated code passes it. If AI did not find any problems, I do manual review.
by fmjrey | 2026-02-06 06:00:58+00:00
Nice write up, but wondering now what nix proposes in that space.

I've never used nix or nixos but a quick search led me to nixops, and then realized v4 is entirely being rewritten in rust.

I'm surprised they chose rust for glue code, and not a more dynamic and expressive language that could make things less rigid and easier to amend.

In the clojure world BigConfig [0], which I never used, would be my next stop in the build/integrate/deploy story, regardless of tech stack. It integrates workflow and templating with the full power of a dynamic language to compose various setups, from dot/yaml/tf/etc files to ops control planes (see their blog).

[0] https://bigconfig.it/
Show HN: Skeletoken, a Python package for editing model tokenizers
by stephantul | 2026-02-06 06:02:56+00:00
Hello!

I just released a new version of Skeletoken, a package for editing tokenizers. New in this version is the ability to automatically adapt a model to an edited tokenizer.

For example, you can a new token to your tokenizer, and then ask skeletoken to add new token indices in the correct embedding tables.

Let me know what you think!
by ok_dad | 2026-02-06 06:03:06+00:00
I live on an island and my first priority after getting a full time job again is to buy solar and storage good for a few days of my homes usage. The cost of energy is increasing here and I don’t see it ever going down since we’re still using oil for the most part. I plan to build a little wood workshop shed in my yard and cover it with solar panels and put some batteries in it. I should only need about 30 kWh of storage to cover three days use, and maybe 2 or 3 kW of panels for daily use and recharging the batteries; except for the EV, which I normally charge once a week but I can just start plugging in during the day instead. With that setup I can keep connected to the grid and eventually see if I can go off grid after a few years, or possibly add more solar and storage later if I find the first phase wasn’t enough.

However, that’s only possible because I have money and knowledge; most people don’t have that and so as a whole we’re kind of screwed here. Costs will continue to rise while not enough renewables are installed, usually on individual homes which only helps those individuals.
by BoorishBears | 2026-02-06 06:03:08+00:00
Great of you to accept critiques, but I don't think there's anything more I can add.

You brought up Planetscale's markdown homepage rework in one of those posts and I actually think it's great... but it's also clear, direct, and has no hidden information.

I'd love to see what happens to conversions once you retire this to an Easter Egg.
by thesz | 2026-02-06 06:03:34+00:00
> This test sorta definitely proves that AI is legit.

This is an "in distribution" test. There are a lot of C compilers out there, including ones with git history, implemented from scratch. "In distribution" tests do not test generalization.

The "out of distribution" test would be like "implement (self-bootstrapping, Linux kernel compatible) C compiler in J." J is different enough from C and I know of no such compiler.
by queenkjuul | 2026-02-06 06:03:35+00:00
Fascists have argued for years, including today, that they've only "gone fascist" because their perceived left-wing opposition was so "insane."

At this point, I'm planning to tattoo my "terrorist" affidavit on my arm, assuming i survive the encounter after filming ICE through my window next time they tear gas a child in front of my house (which they did do, here in Chicago, but i don't want to be more specific than that for obvious reasons)
by nso | 2026-02-06 06:04:12+00:00
Location: Mexico (Norwegian citizen)
Remote: Yes (fully remote since 2022, available for Norwegian/EU or US office hours)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C#/.NET, Perl, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, Linux, Ansible, Nginx, HAProxy, Xen virtualization, IoT firmware/hardware integration, RabbitMQ, Nuxt.js
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/paaltuv/paaltuv/raw/main/cv_improved.docx
Email: me@paaltuv.no

20 years building and operating production systems. Most interesting thing I've done: joined an aquaculture startup as the first engineer, built the entire platform (software, IoT firmware, hardware integrations, infrastructure), grew into the CTO role, and helped the company raise $5M Series A.

Before and after that, I've spent ~10 years at a Norwegian hosting company doing everything from datacenter buildouts and cloud platform architecture to migrating 50+ systems from Perl to .NET and managing a remote dev team.

I'm strongest where software meets infrastructure meets hardware. Looking for senior/staff platform, backend, or infrastructure roles -- especially at companies doing IoT, energy, climate tech, or anything with real-world integrations. Remote only (or commute to Mexico city).
by Quothling | 2026-02-06 06:04:24+00:00
Is this not basically Azure Management Groups for policy rules, Entra ID for identity management linked to whatever HR system your organisation has? Since we're in the Microsoft world you'd probably sprinkle Cluedin or whatever it's called on top of it for mdm.

I don't necessarily recommend living in the Microsoft cloud, but it's what companies do in Denmark, so it's what I know.
by Panzerschrek | 2026-02-06 06:04:43+00:00
> Anyone who spends much time trying to parse C(++) headers very quickly says “ah, actually, fuck that” and asks a C(++) compiler to do it.

That's exactly my case. For my programming language I have wrote a tool for C headers conversion using libclang. And even with help of this library it wasn't that easy, I have found a lot of caveats by trying converting headers like <windows.h>.
by politelemon | 2026-02-06 06:07:14+00:00
No, not really. This reads like ornate hand waving to distract from different threat models and situations.

A lot of safety is down to accountability. A distribution through an attributable marketplace or being verifiably signed.

Safety isn't a performative action, so reading a script may still confuse you or you may miss subtleties. But opting for a safer install mechanism makes a huge difference, which is we always ought to prefer apt, dnf, over the likes of curlbash, brew, npm.
by AXEbot | 2026-02-06 06:07:19+00:00
I built an open-source tool for monitoring investment portfolios that works as a Claude Code skill.

Key features:
- Aggregates portfolios from Longport and Moomoo/Futu brokers
- Calculates institutional-grade risk metrics (VaR, Sharpe, Beta)
- Technical analysis (RSI, Bollinger Bands)
- Smart alerts for price movements

It's designed to be used conversationally with Claude Code ("/portfolio risk") or as a standalone CLI/Python library.

GitHub: https://github.com/2165187809-AXE/portfolio-monitor

Tech: Python, pandas, yfinance. MIT licensed.
by bilbo0s | 2026-02-06 06:07:23+00:00
Sure.

But no one stops you from writing software again.

It's not that PE's can't design or review buildings in whatever city the egregious failure happened.

It's that PE's can't design or review buildings at all in any city after an egregious failure.

It's not that PE's can't design or review hospital building designs because one of their hospital designs went so egregiously sideways.

It's that PE's can't design or review any building for any use because their design went so egregiously sideways.

I work in an FDA regulated software area. I need 510k approval and the whole nine. But if I can't write regulated medical or dental software anymore, I just pay my fine and/or serve my punishment and go sling React/JS/web crap or become a TF/PyTorch monkey. No one stops me. Consequences for me messing up are far less severe than the consequences for a PE messing up. I can still write software because, in the end, I was never an "engineer" in that hard sense of the word.

Same is true of any software developer. Or any unlicensed area of "engineering" for that matter. We're only playing at being "engineers" with the proverbial "monopoly money". We lose? Well, no real biggie.

PE's agree to hang a sword of damocles over their own heads for the lifetime of the bridge or building they design. That's a whole different ball game.
by smallstepforman | 2026-02-06 06:08:46+00:00
C’s biggest sins (also inherited by C++):

- unspecified default type sizes. Should have had i8, u16, i32, u64, f32, f64 from the beginning.

- aliasing pointers being restricted by default (ie an alias keyword should have been added). Performance matters. All these benchmarks which show something beating C or C++ are mostly due to dealing with aliasing pointers. C++26 still doesnt have standardised restrict keyword.

There are more but I understand the logic/usability/history behind them. The above points should have been addressed in the 80’s.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-06 06:09:43+00:00
On the one hand it is pretty cool that this exists.

On the other hand ... to me it always felt as if I'd waste too much
time writing assembler code. I like being able to express thoughts
and ideas, via code, in a more easily manner, e. g. ruby. Or perhaps
another language that may be even more expressive (and fast at the
same time; I am talking about C-like fastness or even faster, why
can't we combine both?).

I also wonder how adjustable MenuetOS is. It looks as if the default
theming in all those screenshots is quite basic, always fitting to
just one style only. This may be ok in 1980 but I kind of feel that
the world moved on, what with HTML/CSS being so dominating everywhere.
In fact: any aspect of the OS that relates to design, should be easily
adjustable by a user at any moment in time, just as it is with
HTML/CSS (JavaScript I don't care as much for - it is a very poorly
designed programming language after all).
by vee-kay | 2026-02-06 06:10:06+00:00
Yeah, I am surprised that when I am stating known facts with relevant links, my comments are getting downvoted.

It is as if Gates's team are lurking here in HN, to immediately downvote any comments that reveal the truths about him. Hmmm.

No wonder his wife divorced him. She should have done it long ago.

But she too (as part of their Foundation) is culpable for the deaths of those tribal children given those illegal vaccines.
by joriJordan | 2026-02-06 06:10:41+00:00
In this thread; exploiters of child labor engaged in empty rhetorical debate. Zero to be accomplished by it. Just chimps in emotional cages slapping the dopamine button.

I am sure the sweatshop kids work under informed consent too and were given a choice between 996 in the textile factory and education.

300 million Americans are incredibly deluded about their place in a world of 8 billion.

America operates with a monopoly on unethical labor practices.

None of you are in the streets to put each other on the hook for your own healthcare, let alone extend the offer to your neighbors. That's how much money obsessed Americans care about their own existence; happy to roll the dice they don't get some illness and lose it all to medical debt versus ask their neighbors to get their back.

Meanwhile every other modernized country has single payer.

Cosplay rugged individuals who don't need the help, while codependent on sweatshop labor.

Such an unserious people.
by otterley | 2026-02-06 06:11:15+00:00
> Dependency deadlocks are the big one - you try to share resource attributes (eg ARN) from one stack to another. You remove the consumer and go to deploy again. The producer sees no more dependency so it prunes the export.

I’m a little puzzled. How are you getting dependency deadlocks if you’re not creating circular dependencies?

Also, exports in CloudFormation are explicit. I don’t see how this automatic pruning would occur.

> Deploying certain resources that have names specified (vs generated) often breaks

CDK tries to prevent this antipattern from happening by default. You have to explicitly make it name something. The best practice is to use tags to name things, not resource names.