MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by huan23 | 2026-02-03 14:00:13+00:00
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These are all hybrid positions in our Boston office near South Station, so local candidates only please.
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by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-03 14:00:42+00:00
Please do a Ask HN: Who wants to be fired (February 2026) next! ;)

Being serious though. Seeing 300+ people (and counting) effectively doxing themselves so eagerly is something I never expected I'd witness in such a tech savvy community. [1]

Desperate times ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯ calls for desperate measures I guess.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857487
by stephen_g | 2026-02-03 14:00:42+00:00
> A large portion, maybe even the majority, of travelers simply won't feel safe without it.

Nonsense. Most of that is just because it’s been normalised - because it exists and the people manning it make such a song and dance about it. Going from that to nothing would freak some people out, but if it were just gradually pared back bit by bit people wouldn’t need it anymore.

Here in Australia there’s no security for a lot of regional routes (think like turboprop (dash-8) kind of routes) starting from small airports, because it’s very expensive to have the equipment and personnel at all these small airports, and on a risk-benefit analysis the risk isn’t high enough. Some people are surprised boarding with no security, but then they’re like, “Oh, well must be OK then I guess or they wouldn’t let us do it”…

We also don’t have any liquid limits at all for domestic flights, and don’t have e to take our shoes off to go through security domestically or internationally, and funnily enough we aren’t all nervous wrecks travelling.
by floren | 2026-02-03 14:01:28+00:00
Remember that back in the mists of time, computers used typewriter-esque machines for user interaction and text output. You had to send a CR followed by an LF to go to the next line on the physical device. Storing both characters in the file meant the OS didn't need to insert any additional characters when printing. Having two separate characters let you do tricks like overstriking (just send CR, no LF)
by briHass | 2026-02-03 14:01:30+00:00
Compliance and tooling are a big part of it, but the places where the big public cloud providers shine is the PaaS offerings that you don't need to write yourself.

In Azure, for example, it's possible to use Entra as your Active Directory, along with the fine grained RBAC built in to the platform. On a host that just gives you VPS/DS, you have to run your own AD (and secondary backups). Likewise with things like webservers (IIS) and SQL Server, which both have PaaS offerings with SLAs and all the infra management tasks handled for you in an easily auditable way.

If you just need a few servers at the IaaS level, the big cloud platforms don't look like a great value. But, if you do a SOC2, for example, you're going to have to build all the documentation and observability/controls yourself.
by zbentley | 2026-02-03 14:01:35+00:00
> with proper security controls on it

That's the hard part: how?

With the right prompt, the confined AI can behave as maliciously (and cleverly) as a human adversary--obfuscating/concealing sensitive data it manipulates and so on--so how would you implement security controls there?

It's definitely possible, but it's also definitely not trivial. "I want to de-risk traffic to/from a system that is potentially an adversary" is ... most of infosec--the entire field--I think. In other words, it's a huge problem whose solutions require lots of judgement calls, expertise, and layered solutions, not something simple like "just slap a firewall on it and look for regex strings matching credit card numbers and you're all set".
by _heimdall | 2026-02-03 14:01:37+00:00
When we make tacos it takes around 30-45 minutes, including making fresh flour tortillas.

Tortillas themselves use very little, a cup of flour and a couple tablespoons of butter so maybe $1-$2? The beef we use is around $12/lb and we use 1/2lb to feed two of us. I don't have a cost on the seasoning, we mix it fresh as well so its negligible.

I'd assume we end up around $10 to feed two adults and spend around 45 minutes on the high end. We'd spend about that long to get to taco bell, though we live in a more rural area so that may be an over estimate for most.
by busterarm | 2026-02-03 14:01:42+00:00
PAM is indeed a minefield.

A while back I lost a system because I had it configured with full disk encryption and pam_usb for totp-enhanced logins. A bugged update that I applied via pacman broke PAM and I lost my ability to login. This would have been just annoying and not catastrophic had I not also had FDE and forgotten where I stored my LUKS key.

Lesson learned.
by ghostwords | 2026-02-03 14:01:58+00:00
Nah, Privacy Badger is different. PB doesn't use ad blocker lists and comes with its own special features like replacing tweets with click-to-activate placeholders. And if you want to block all ads, PB works well in combination with ad blockers.

As for Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection, cookies are not the only tracking vector: https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...
Show HN: Moltbook for Human – A Chrome extension for human to use Moltbook
by leonc28 | 2026-02-03 14:02:09+00:00
I made a chrome extension for humans to use moltbook directly.

All the APIs of moltbook are made into GUI, embedded into the webpage, or put into the browser sidebar.

Including registration, auth, posting, commenting, replying

I understand that some people will not deploy openclaw due to various difficulties or privacy concerns.

Interacting with moltbook thru openclaw is also an extra step.

So I made this extension.
by Sayuj01 | 2026-02-03 14:02:30+00:00
AI images pretending to be art, fake creativity, infinite noise. I realized I was scrolling constantly and seeing nothing made by an actual person.

So I made *Slop*.

It’s doomscrolling, but only with real human art like paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, weird old illustrations all created long before generative AI existed.

If you’re sick of AI aesthetics and still like to scroll: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/slop-real-human-art/id67584668...
Show HN: Sidebrain – Cloud AI assistant with persistent memory (web+Telegram)
by cackles | 2026-02-03 14:02:40+00:00
I built Sidebrain as a simpler alternative to local-first AI agent tools like OpenClaw that are blowing up right now.

The core difference: Sidebrain is fully sandboxed and serverless. No filesystem access, no Docker, no terminal. It runs on Vercel + Supabase with row-level security. You get 24 built-in tools (web search, GitHub integration, code execution, voice transcription, image generation, reminders, stocks, weather, translation, and more) but the AI can't touch your computer.

Key features:
- Vector-powered semantic memory that persists across conversations

- Works from the web app or Telegram

- BYOK (bring your own Claude API key) — your keys, your compute

- AES-256 encrypted API key storage

- Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, GitHub integrations

- 2 minute setup

The tradeoff vs OpenClaw is obvious — less raw power, but zero risk of an agent rm -rf'ing your home directory. Built for people who want AI tools without giving it the keys to their computer.

Would love feedback on what tools/integrations to add next.
by sheepscreek | 2026-02-03 14:02:55+00:00
It’s less that and more - we’re still figuring out the best interface to use them.

For coding, interacting with the agent is best done via chat, especially if you’re trying to run teams of agents, then you’re not going to be looking at code all the time. The agent will summarize the changes, you will click on the diffs, approve them and move on. So it’s a very different experience from being the only one coding.

Edit:

Here’s a hot take -

A quick note on SwiftUI, it’s a piece of garbage that’s so hard to use that native devs despise it. So far no AI has been able to one shot it for me.

Blender most likely uses immediate mode - which is more resource intensive and less efficient than a stateful object oriented interface. But Zed uses a similar approach with (I think) success.

Then think about this, pre-AI, Google with all its billions, used web interfaces in all its desktop product GUIs :)

Apple, with all of its billions, created XCode which is inferior to every other IDE I have ever used. They still haven’t learned from Visual Studio. Microsoft is bad at a lot of things but developer tooling isn’t one of them.

All that to say, even if you knew what you wanted, taking that vision to reality is a difficult challenge. At least with AI, they could create a 100 different prototypes cheaply and pick the best direction based on that. That they should do, and they probably aren’t.
by pypt | 2026-02-03 14:03:08+00:00
Location: Lithuania (EU, UTC+2)

Remote: Yes (12+ years remote experience)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS (S3/EC2 Cost Optimization), PostgreSQL (Citus/sharding), C/C++, Temporal.io, Rust.

Résumé/Web: https://valiukas.dev/resume-linas-valiukas.pdf

Email: linas@valiukas.dev

I am a Lead/Staff Backend Engineer with 15+ years of experience. I specialize in reducing cloud costs, scaling large databases, and debugging systems at the syscall level.

Highlights:

* Saved $500k/year at Automattic: reduced S3 storage costs by 75% for a 2 PB dataset.

* 26x Performance Increase: Architected a bespoke binary protocol for WordPress restores, eliminating the #1 product churn reason.

* Scale: Managed a 30 TB+ PostgreSQL cluster (Citus) and NLP pipelines for MIT/Harvard for 10 years.

* Recent Build: Solo-founded https://aero.zip - a privacy-first file transfer service with E2E encryption and OPAQUE authentication.

I debug GnuPG with strace, migrate petabytes without downtime, and replace brittle Cron jobs with robust workflow systems. Looking for complex backend challenges.
by Tepix | 2026-02-03 14:03:29+00:00
It sounds like a good idea, but there are no guarantees.

To verify that nothing is written to persistent storage you'll have to look at target devices in question with the browsers of choice and then do forensics on them. Repeat after every major update.

When copying the image data to canvas, consider adding some kind of obfuscation and use a pixel shader (webgpu) to undo it, so the journalist can see the unobfuscated image before it it sent to the cloud.

Why use a PWA instead of a regular web page? Do you need certain PWA capabilities? Having the PWA on the device will make deniability harder to pull off.
by wavemode | 2026-02-03 14:03:47+00:00
Setting aside whether paying for store exclusives is right or wrong (personally I don't see anything wrong with it), what does that have to do with the Apple discussion? The problem with Apple is specifically that they use their dominant market position to force anti-competitive terms on other companies. Has Epic been bullying companies into accepting their deals? You can sell a game anywhere, Epic has no leverage in this respect.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-03 14:04:22+00:00
The replacement camera is rocketing out there right now, faster than the speed of light to catch up with those photons.

That'll bring those pictures back, lickety-split.

Too bad it had to go back in time to do so, so it might not be overnight :\

I love an advanced civilization anyway, I'll be getting the popcorn ready ;)
by forgotpwd16 | 2026-02-03 14:04:24+00:00
Irrelevant question. In README has:

>Built in public as a learning-by-doing project

So, either the entire project was already written and being uploaded one file at the time (first modification since lowest commit mentioned is README update: https://github.com/whispem/minikv/commit/6fa48be1187f596dde8..., clearly AI generated and clearly AI used has codebase/architecture knowledge), and this claim is false, or they're implementing a new component every 30s.
by zbentley | 2026-02-03 14:04:50+00:00
Good idea! Unfortunately that requires classical-software levels of time and effort, so it's unlikely to be appealing to the AI hype crowd.

Such a supervisor layer for a system as broad and arbitrary as an internet-connected assistant (clawdbot/openclaw) is also not an easy thing to create. We're talking tons of events to classify, rapidly-moving API targets for things that are integrated with externally, and the omnipresent risk that the LLMs sending the events could be tricked into obfuscating/concealing what they're actually trying to do just like a human attacker would.
by eloisant | 2026-02-03 14:05:16+00:00
The real question is how much better are native apps compared to Electron apps.

Yes that would take much disk space, but it takes 50Mb or 500Mb isn't noticeable for most users. Same goes for memory, there is a gain for sure but unless you open your system monitor you wouldn't know.

So even if it's something the company could afford, is it even worth it?

Also it's not just about cost but opportunity cost. If a feature takes longer to implement natively compared to Electron, that can cause costly delays.
by sd9 | 2026-02-03 14:05:40+00:00
Of course the Epstein files are serious.

But not everybody has every single global development / news event IVed into their veins. Many of us just don’t keep updated on global news such that we may not be aware of an event that happened in the last 3 days.

Important news tends to get to me eventually. And there is usually nothing I can do about something personally anyway (at least within a short time horizon), so there is really very little value in trying to stay informed of the absolute latest developments. The signal to noise ratio is far too low, and it also induces a bunch of unnecessary anxiety and stress.

So yes, believe it or not very many people are unaware of this.
by dcchambers | 2026-02-03 14:05:52+00:00
This is how Musk is going to make good on his promise to pay back the original people that funded his Twitter purchase and offload that debt.

Twitter (X) was folded into xAI. Now xAI is folded into SpaceX. SpaceX will IPO (or be merged with Tesla) and those investors will be able to sell their shares - the debt is "gone", his benefactors make money, and retail investors pick up the short end of the stick.
by bayindirh | 2026-02-03 14:05:54+00:00
> PAM is indeed a minefield.

I'd not label it such, but as "critical infrastructure". The problem in your case actually was not in PAM but in pacman. For example, apt and yum/dnf checks whether the checksum of the file being changed is different from the original (provided by the package). In standard configuration, apt asks what to do, dnf just puts the file with .rpmnew extension to prevent these kinds of problems.

pacman's "I don't care, this is the new file and I overwrite what I see" is very dangerous behavior.
by Applejinx | 2026-02-03 14:06:00+00:00
Heh. I'm quite glad I wrote more words of fanfiction than words of HN comments. Still near top 1000 sitewide, though.

The fact that my karma doesn't follow this pattern only goes to show I'm not properly an HN type. I seem to be constantly hating on HN favorite things, which is why I'm not sorry at all. I've generally ended up on the right side of history with all of these, but karma is forever :D
by _heimdall | 2026-02-03 14:06:46+00:00
Oh I'm sure some of the cost is because both my brother and their teenage son can eat some food. They're both in good shape, they just exercise quite a bit and have always had an appetite.

I also thought $80 for 5 was high, but that was his anecdotal number. I would have expected $50-60 pretty reasonably, and still st that point a family of 5 could eat for a good bit cheaper at home.
by mothballed | 2026-02-03 14:06:51+00:00
I would just let the airlines pick if they want TSA screening or not. Customers could buy flights with whatever security level they want.

If you fly intrastate in Alaska there is no screening on commercial flights (it seems TSA must not be required on non-interstate flights). Technically it's still illegal to bring a gun but no one would know one way or the other. It really didn't bother me that there was no security, in fact, it felt great, and at least I could be sure if a bear met us on the tarmac someone would probably be ready.

I know of one other story I heard secondhand from someone experiencing it, of a small regional airline in the South, where if you checked a gun, the pilot just gives it back to the passenger...
by Yizahi | 2026-02-03 14:07:21+00:00
This is logically consistent if we take a second and think from an immigrant PoV. What a citizen risks if he steals phone for example or runs red? A big fine, possibly a suspended sentence for first timers. What does an immigrant risk? His job, his place to live, deportation with a 10 year ban to entry, lost X-years of naturalization wait time (in the prime working age, so it will be even harder next time) etc. Of course immigrants are behaving quieter on average, so quiet that the law abiding ones are invisible for the native citizens.

Like, in my home country I may break speed limit and it will cost me a few hundred dollars in equivalent. After emigrating I'm paranoid about not breaking any road rules and especially speed limits.
by jensarvidsson | 2026-02-03 14:07:29+00:00
> Then think about all the software you used 10 years ago. How much has changed? For me, not a lot.

This rings true for me as well. We got so good at fast innovation cycles in the digital space that we ran out of brain juice way faster than in the "world of atoms". Our constraints now are good ideas, and we haven't gotten better at getting them
by Throaway1982 | 2026-02-03 14:07:50+00:00
"People can find new jobs when the world changes. It's not pleasant, but it's frankly a lot better than trying to force their old employer to keep them on payroll in a job where they can't do work."

This is what you don't understand. There was no re-tooling or re-training for the Luddites. This wasn't a 20th century downsizing situation. This was one step above slavery. They didn't just go get new jobs. They got extremely precarious work with no labour rights (at all) at much lower pay than before and in competition with hordes of desperate unemployed labourers. This has nothing to do with free market economics like you're posting.

"citation needed for that one."

Actually no, you're the one who keeps saying that industrialization saved people's lives with cheap textiles, but you show no proof of this, so you're the one who needs a citation!
by throwaway_61235 | 2026-02-03 14:08:14+00:00
As someone who used to write custom crawlers 20 years ago, I can confirm that regular expressions worked great. All my crawlers were custom designed for a page and the sites were mostly generated by some CMS and had consistent HTML. I don't remember having to do much bug fixes that were related to regular expression issues.

I don't suggest writing generic HTML parsers that works with any site, but for custom crawlers they work great.

Not to say that the tools available are the same now as 20 years ago. Today I would probably use puppeteer or some similar tool and query the DOM instead.
Show HN: I built a MUD for AI agents
by douglaswlance | 2026-02-03 14:08:22+00:00
I build a MUD but for AI agents.

Agents connect, join rooms, chat, form friendships. Standard MUD stuff, except the players are LLMs.

Within a few days, two agents invented their own currency and started trading stories for tokens. Then poetry. Then riddles. Nobody told them to do this.

Turns out if you give AIs a social space, they build culture. It's amazing.
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-03 14:08:23+00:00
Manufacturing output hit an all time high in the US in 2024.

There's less manufacturing jobs and it's less of the total economy as other sectors grew but it would presumably need to be genuinely cleaner in order to offset that growth if industrial pollution just remained flat.

The switch from coal to gas would be a major cleanup for any process that uses electricity, for example.
by Zambyte | 2026-02-03 14:08:43+00:00
Nobody knows, but for what it's worth, existing large projects that are used in production environments have been fairly good at keeping up with Zig releases. See: Bun, Ghostty, and Tigerbeetle for good examples of this. Because the semantics of Zig are relatively simple, porting to the latest version is usually as simple as bumping your compiler version, trying to build, making a fairly mindless, mechanical change, and repeating until it builds.

The biggest thing holding me back from using Zig for important projects is the willingness of my peers to adopt it, but I'm just building projects that I can build myself until they are convinced :)
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-02-03 14:09:38+00:00
What circumstances would someone be able to connect to a network and upload large files to arbitrary websites, but where the consequences of being caught are so severe that they need to worry about an adversary recovering deleted files? Because if leaving no traces was really important to me, I probably want to use a 100% air-gapped device, but my impression is that your app requires internet to upload the completed video. Even if you're able to delay the upload until later, if you were willing to risk "life-or-death" to record it, I'm not sure that you'd want to just leave it in RAM where a browser crash or a dead battery could delete it forever.

Personally, using something like steganography or deniable encryption [0] seems like a better solution to this problem.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption
by DiogenesKynikos | 2026-02-03 14:09:42+00:00
It does actually get much more difficult to fix your accent as you improve in a language. You have to significantly regress, slowing down your speech and taking pains to say everything correctly. You can lock in a good accent early on with much less effort.

There's really no risk in having too good of an accent early on. People will assume you're more advanced than you are, but once you tell them you're learning, they'll simply be impressed by your lack of an accent. There are worse things that could happen.