MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-03 10:10:21+00:00
I don't think it's insane. It might not work or be competitive but it's not obviously insane.

In a frictionless economy governed by spherical cows it'd be insane. But back here on Earth, AI is heavily bottlenecked by the refusal or inability of the supply chain to scale up. They think AI firms are in a bubble and will collapse, so don't want to be bag holders. A very sane concern indeed. But it does mean that inferencing (the bit that makes money) is constantly saturated even with the industry straining every sinew to build out capacity.

One bottleneck is TSMC. Not much that can be done about that. The other is the grid. Grid equipment manufacturers and CCGT makers like Siemens aren't spinning up extra manufacturing capacity, again because they fear being bag holders when Altman runs out of cash. Then you have massive interconnection backlogs, environmentalists attacking you and other practical problems.

Is it easier to get access to stable electricity supplies in space? It's not inconceivable. At the very least, in space Elon controls the full stack with nearly no regulations getting in the way after launch - it's a pure engineering problem of the sort SpaceX are good at. If he needs more power he can just build it, he doesn't have to try and convince some local government utility to scale up or give him air permits to run generators. In space, nobody can hear you(r GPUs) scream.
by 1jreuben1 | 2026-02-03 10:10:39+00:00
You never stop learning to code.
Experimenting with LeetCode and ClaudeCode - revising the landscape of DS&A (again) enough to steer the which, when and what, and validate the how.
Eg: I know what a SkipList does, when to use and fuzzily how it works.
The hardest thing about leetcode:
1) knowing you will forget it
2) knowing you will never use it much
3) knowing you are forgoing time to learn other stuff
4) knowing that AI makes knowing it redundant
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 10:12:10+00:00
> One of these days I plan to scrape all of mine so I can sort by karma and do some meta-commentary

Seems simple enough, while searching I came across this snippet you can paste in the console, and gives you a sorted list of most upvoted/downvoted comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36107028

Sadly requires hitting news.ycombinator.com rather than the API, but only way to get the actual points as you mention.
by falkuall | 2026-02-03 10:12:12+00:00
The other day i read a article about hyper-individualism in the age of AI (Brand Eins Magazin - a german mag)

It stated that democracy is in danger, because hyper individualism is destroying our Agora - our place of sharing experiences with others, as spotify will no longer create a "mix of the week" based on your history in listening to music, but rather create "Bands of the Week" which will be a bunch of AI created bands that are exactly fitting your taste in Music.
There wont be no common ground to agree or disagree as everyone lives in their own bubble.
Of course its a bit dystopical, and maybe we humans will always prefer the shared experiences as we are social beings.
We are not made for our individual bubbles, is what i believe and strongely hope!
by fragmede | 2026-02-03 10:12:28+00:00
I'd love to!

So I used AI to help me write this, I gotta be honest, but I have this TUI I use over SSH to access HN. I call it Nitpick!

It's GPL, at https://github.com/fragmede/nitpick

It uses the HN API and algolia and golang with the bubble tea libraries.

It even supports logging in and commenting and reply notification!

I'm not totally sure where I land on using libraries (bubble tea) as they do bloat the program with unnecessary features, but I do like its simple text interface over using a web browser and a whole javascript engine for just rendering text.

Anyway, patches welcome!

:)
by DonHopkins | 2026-02-03 10:13:10+00:00
Always mount a scratch monkey!

My old friend and usenet denizen Laura Creighton was the one who wrote the device driver and verified the story. (Not that your should trust anything ESR writes in his polluted version of the Jargon file, but Laura says it's true, and she's trustworthy.)

https://edp.org/monkey.htm

Always mount the scratch monkey (1987) (edp.org)
34 points by pook on May 7, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 6

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1327146

baha_man on May 7, 2010 | parent | next [–]

http://tafkac.org/faq2k/animal_618.html

"At this writing, the Jargon File claims the incident actually happened, at Toronto in 1979 or 1980, and that the sysadmin on duty was actually interviewed. The account doesn't provide enough details to track down an independent account, however.

Current University of Toronto sysadmins have expressed skepticism. For one thing, in almost all versions of the story, including the ostensibly documented one in the Jargon File, the computer is a VAX; at the time a VAX would have been a very unusual platform for this kind of data acquisition (they used PDP-11s). The Toronto zoology department has never been licensed to work with primates; the only section of the university that could have done experiments of this nature was the School of Medicine. Investigation continues."

ableal on May 7, 2010 | root | parent | next [–]

Actually, the original story does say it was Medicine buying the Vax and doing the experiment, with Zoo helping. The VAX 11-780 was the hot machine of 1979/80 ("a 1 MIPS beast!", I heard).
I've seen Laura Creighton's name on Python lists - I believe she's on LinkedIn. The author's "Statistically Invalid Sampling of My Life" (http://edp.org/index.htm) is also pretty amusing - don't think he'd need to embellish that incident.

P.S. The story is, for instance, alluded to here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2002-May/756589... [broken link not on archive dot org], without either rebuttal or elaboration.

----

Laura's done a lot of work on PyPy, which I described in this email (c. 2007):

>Laura and three other members of the PyPy team are doing a benevolent world domination tour, and visiting the bay area soon.
I think you would enjoy meeting each other and talking about PyPy!

>Laura does all kinds of other interesting stuff, with python in particular and computers and reality in general, like writing a device driver to interface monkeys to a VAX. (Google "always mount a scratch monkey"!)

https://www.python.org/about/success/strakt/

>Laura Creighton has 20 years experience in software training, and Human Factors Engineering. She is a founder of AB Strakt, and a founder and Treasurer of The Python Business Forum, an international non-profit trade association for businesses which develop in Python.

https://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2017-10/msg...

>Yes, that is me. I actually think that Medicine had an 11/something-or-other dual space machine that was running Berkeley 2.98 bsd, not an 11/780 vax, but otherwise, seems correct enough to me.
by epolanski | 2026-02-03 10:13:26+00:00
I'm not sure where are you from, but we Europeans do also feel Europeans.

This isn't about countries losing sovereignty over night, but about creating common frameworks and regulations step by step.

This is already a reality in some sectors, e.g. agriculture.

Agriculture sits under exclusive or near-exclusive EU control in the whole EU and the model works (albeit it's not perfect, like no model is). EU promotes countries to produce what they are good at. Thus, it doesn't incentivize Italy to produce cereals much, because Italy does not have the right land to grow cereals and that would not make much sense in economic terms. Instead Italy is incentivized to grow cheese, meat, grapes, olives, etc, things that Italy is good at and sells well.

There's other things on which all countries delegate to EU: trade (tariffs and custom rules), goods standards, aviation safety rules, competition and state aid regulations, etc, etc.

So I would say that EU has been very successful on multiple fronts in harmonizing and taking responsibility for multiple things.

But I'm gonna give you of a simple blocker at EU level: why gdpr or dma/dsa are very EU centralized, ultimately digital and data regulations are still not really delegated and national law takes precedence: this is a very heavy blocker to scale any company that requires any kind of business involving data. As soon as you cross a border you need to know the ins and outs of every single country. So it's not that trivial to build a software service company and have it scale painlessly across Europe.

Examples include: contract law, consumer protection, liability rules, and all courts remain national. Terms of service, refund rules, dispute handling is always country-specific. Expanding beyond your own borders is very expensive. Then you have tax complexity, payment and banking, labor law, data protection (as mentioned)..
by CrzyLngPwd | 2026-02-03 10:13:36+00:00
Most food in supermarkets is now just slop. Foam for bread, veggies that have been grown as fast as possible and packaged as fresh despite being weeks or months old, sprayed with chemicals and shipped halfway around the world, meat raised in a shed and fed one food, which is then injected with water to increase it's weight, freerange eggs that were laid 6 weeks ago and have had their protective layer washed off so must be refrigerated...and on it goes.
by noduerme | 2026-02-03 10:13:45+00:00
I think you misunderstood me. That's exactly what I'm saying. And I'm saying that Sikhs with or without ceremonial blades are no more of a threat than Mormons wearing special underwear.

[edit]
To be more specific: An individual with an extreme belief about anything is as dangerous as an extremist member of a group with extreme beliefs. So the smart thing is to look at the beliefs and extramicy of each person. If you find someone trying to board an aircraft who doesn't care if they make it to the end of their flight, that is a security problem.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-03 10:14:28+00:00
> Just focusing on the outputs we can observe, LLMs clearly seem to be able to "think" correctly on some small problems that feel generalized from examples its been trained on (as opposed to pure regurgitation).

"Seem". "Feel". That's the anthropomorphisation at work again.

These chatbots are called Large Language Models for a reason. Language is mere text, not thought.

If their sellers could get away with calling them Large Thought Models, they would. They can't, because these chatbots do not think.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 10:14:32+00:00
> with the aim of being as succinct but high quality as possible

You're assuming "high karma = high quality" which, isn't always correct :) I've had wildly incorrect claims be upvoted a lot, and correct ones downvoted, seems to be more about what the subject is about and what "side you're coming from" rather than anything else sometimes. Other times it goes exactly as expected.

End effect is, I wouldn't rely on karma as a signal for quality, just "agreement at large" or something.
by zvqcMMV6Zcr | 2026-02-03 10:14:50+00:00
It is almost like finding 20 year old bugs on Mozilla tracker. That said GitHub doesn't have the excuse of mostly relying on volunteer work.

Also I don't find GitLab that much better. I remember the feature request for "Give option to disable automatic adding of 'Closes ISSUE' to merge requests" closed with "Why would you need an option for that, everyone either loves it or likes manually removing it every time.
by prodigycorp | 2026-02-03 10:15:12+00:00
You're probably right. It seems like there's not a hard line between behavior and chemical addiction, because of how the chemicals create reward signals to reinforce certain behavior.

From the article:

> Basic science models show that liquid sugar concentrations around 10% by weight—comparable with Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Mountain Dew—can reliably trigger addictive behaviors in animals, including bingelike consumption, withdrawal, and dopamine system alterations.

But yeah, it's obviously nothing close to a nicotine.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 10:15:25+00:00
Yes.

> The information is public. "I can get the API wrapper to output more data" might be a quirk but it doesn't have security impact.

To be honest, I want more people to play with the clickhouse playground too. I feel like a lot of people have some great ideas to expand upon & I feel like they should play around with clickhouse playground for themselves! Highly recommended (also the reason why I referenced them in the website a lot)

Also, another point, but the data's not completely 1:1 but pretty close, I think the HN comments references till 6 january 2026 when I had run a date like query on it, but pretty close if you ask me & Clickhouse updates their database a lot from what I can feel like.

A bit of a backstory but I first wanted to try it with algolia api. Found the 10_000 requests per ip per hour to be really restricting. Then thought of using the big query data but it was really hard to play with that & I really couldn't understand how to really use it (a bit of skill issue), I also tried looking at firebase api of HN itself but found that it also had rate limits from what I can tell which wouldn't have been so useful.

I then found a HN comment about someone from clickhouse when searching to find that they had the play.clickhouse feature and then I remembered playing with that/being familiar with it from some time ago as well so decided to build on top of it.

The most interesting part was that when I was running it on browser & it ran. I felt like it would be a huge job to create an api. (I was thinking of having a puppeeter instance on my netcup vps) but then I simply took the request from network and pasted it in gemini to simplify it (remove all the browser things so that it can work in curl as when I pasted it directly in curl, it had issues) and it gave me a curl command which when I ran actually gave just the table itself. I wasn't really expecting this but it made the whole process even smoother and was thus capable of being able to run on github pages.

Clickhouse's pretty awesome from what I can tell :] (Wish I was sponsored xD)

Honestly, Tried to find if clickhouse has any merch but couldn't find any. Oh well, I might as well still print a sticker of clickhouse and paste it on my mac because I found it really cool for olap. (Honestly I now love both duckdb [for simple purposes] and clickhouse [for more advanced queries from large databases like this one])
by iamkrystian17 | 2026-02-03 10:15:51+00:00
Yes, the tool takes that into account and transforms mcps/permissions/rules to different tool formats.
Sadly some tools might not support fine-grained permissions (e.g. Codex) in which case a warning will be displayed but everything else will get transformed/symlinked.
Additionally you can put per-tool overrides in ‘.ai/{codex/claude/cursor/etc.}/‘ if needed and lnai will automatically symlink those overrides to respective tools.
by GVRV | 2026-02-03 10:15:53+00:00
G'day! There seems to be a major inconsistency in the listing for https://www.tigerdata.com/careers/ac8ae587-fd1d-4a3f-b844-74.... While the job description mentions "4-day 10-hour night shift from 7am - 5pm IST (1:30am to 11:30am UTC) Friday-Monday", the questionnaire for submission mentions "4-day 10-hour night shift from 11pm - 9am IST (4:30pm to 2:30am UTC) Friday-Monday". Might be worth rectifying.
by frumplestlatz | 2026-02-03 10:15:54+00:00
> If it was a hindrance, why did it win?

Why did MS Internet Explorer win? Its peak market share in 2003 was *95%*.

It was only eventually dethroned through a massive investment by first Apple, and then Google.

If IE6 was such a pile of shit (and it was), why did it win? Why did it cost so much to unseat it, and why was that so difficult? People would have much rather had a better browser, but we got stuck with IE6 for years with because of complex market forces.

Like IE6, Electron isn’t about what’s best for users. It’s what’s best for companies that prioritize web developer accessibility and reduced cross-platform development complexity over their users’ experience.
by pcanelas | 2026-02-03 10:16:09+00:00
Location: Portugal

Remote: Yes.

Hybrid: Yes.

Relocate: Yes.

Languages, and Domain: Java, Python, and Golang. Program Analysis, Programming Languages, Applied AI, Software Verification, Code Generation & Repair

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Résumé/CV: https://pcanelas.com/CV.pdf

Email: pcanelasdossantos@gmail.com
by infp_arborist | 2026-02-03 10:16:14+00:00
Disagree. There are effective strategies for creating more sustainable economies and societies. Affordable housing, education, universal healthcare will make us all happier and healthier.

We know how to fix lots of problems, and money is orthogonal to the issue.

Sentences like "They have to go down..." are really a symptom of a static "there is no alternative" view.
by wobfan | 2026-02-03 10:16:19+00:00
The article is not about UNIX, what's good and bad, but what's better for understanding Linux. And replacing SysVInit with systemd is, objectively, bad for understand the core of Linux. And this is the core of LFS.

Discussing whether UNIX is good or bad seems narrow-minded, as there is no solution to that. It's like discussing whether iOS is better than Android. We can always isolate some specific parts and discuss that, but just slashing the whole concept doesn't help anyone and rarely yields any meaningful results.
by bonesss | 2026-02-03 10:17:14+00:00
Talking and typing feels far more productive that staring and thinking, and there is a cumulative effect of those breaks to check Reddit while something is generating.

Humans are notoriously bad at estimating time use with different subjective experiences and show excessive weighting of the tail ends of experiences and perceived repetitious tasks. Making something psychologically more comforting and active, particularly if you can activate speech, will distort people’s sense of time meaningfully.

The current hype around LLMs is making me think about misapplied ORMs in medium scale projects... The tool is chosen early to save hours of boring typing and a certain kind of boring maintenance, but deep into the project what do we see? Over and over days are spontaneously being lost to incidental complexity and arbitrary tool constraints. And with the schedule slipping it’s too much work to address the root issue so band-aides get put on band-aides, and we start seeing weeks slip down the drain.

Subjective time accounting and excessive aversion to specific conceptual tasks creates premature optimizations whose effects become omnipresent over time. All the devs in the room agreed they want to avoid some work day 1, but the accounting shows a big time commitment resulting from that immediate desire. Feelings aren’t stopwatches.

[Not hating on ORMs, just misusing tools for weeks to save a couple hours - every day ain’t Saturday - right tool for the job.]
by netdevphoenix | 2026-02-03 10:17:30+00:00
> Or I fixed a bug in a linux scanner driver. None of these I could have done properly (within an acceptable time frame) without AI. But also none of there I could have done properly without my knowledge and experience, even with AI

There are some things here that folks making statements like yours often omit and it makes me very sus about your (over)confidence. Mostly these statements talk in a business short-term results oriented mode without mentioning any introspective gains (see empirically supported understanding) or long-term gains (do you feel confident now in making further changes _without_ the AI now that you have gained new knowledge?).

1. Are you 100% sure your code changes didn't introduce unexpected bugs?

1a. If they did, would you be able to tell if they where behaviour bugs (ie. no crashing or exceptions thrown) without the AI?

2. Did you understand why the bug was happening without the AI giving you an explanation?

2a. If you didn't, did you empirically test the AI's explanation before applying the code change?

3. Has fixing the bug improve your understanding of the driver behaviour beyond what the AI told you?

3a. Have you independently verified your gained understanding or did you assume that your new views on its behaviour are axiomatically true?

Ultimately, there are 2 things here: one is understanding the code change (why it is needed, why that particular change implementation is better relative to others, what future improvements could be made to that change implementation in the future) and skill (has this experience boosted your OWN ability in this particular area? in other words, could you make further changes WITHOUT using the AI?).

This reminds me of people that get high and believe they have discovered these amazing truths. Because they FEEL it not because they have actual evidence. When asked to write down these amazing truths while high, all you get in the notes are meaningless words. While these assistants are more amenable to get empirically tested, I don't believe most of the AI hypers (including you in that category) are actually approaching this with the rigour that it entails. It is likely why people often think that none of you (people writing software for a living) are experienced in or qualified to understand and apply scientific principles to build software.

Arguably, AI hypers should lead with data not with anecdotal evidence. For all the grandiose claims, the lack of empirical data obtained under controlled conditions on this particular matter is conspicuous by its absence.
by Defletter | 2026-02-03 10:17:54+00:00
Since you're so eager to construe his support for peaceful protest as support for civil unrest, I therefore think it's fair if I construe your defence of ICE to mean support for their extrajudicial executions and the people who dress up as ICE (ie: masked men dragging people at gunpoint into unmarked vans) to kidnap and rape people.
by maxberdnikau | 2026-02-03 10:18:11+00:00
Hi! I am Max. I am a Design Engineer with 13+ years of experience and extensive knowledge in several areas: Design, Development, Analytics. Involved in creation of several startups and have previously created my own products and tools. I have a strong mathematical background.

Interested in fintech, crypto, LLMs, AI, and complex business-technical systems. Open to joining early-stage startups or other interesting opportunities.

Location: Warsaw, Poland

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Willing to relocate: Yes

Des: User Research, User Flow, UX/UI, Web, Holistic, Design System, Wireframes, Email Design, Dashboards, Mobile App Design, 3D, Illustrations, Animations, Figma, FinTech, E-commerce.

Dev: Ruby, Rails, Hotwire, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Vue, Svelte, Nest, Next, Nuxt, Tailwind, Postgres, Docker, CI/CD (Gitlab & Github), Grafana, etc.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maxberdnikau/

Email: maxberdnikau@gmail.com
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-03 10:18:11+00:00
Sexually assaulting your employees and coworkers then silencing them with NDAs seems to be a popular option.

Musk was reported to attempt to buy off an employee with a horse after exposing himself to her on a private jet.

This leads to my theory that a big part of the recent lurch to the right by the people at the top of the tech world was a result of the #MeToo movement, ironically unleashed by social media.

There's a whole industry of people who were writing "let's not go too far with exposing rapists and abusers" op-eds in respected publications who've just been revealed to be best friends with sex trafficking Epstein.
by ImPleadThe5th | 2026-02-03 10:18:13+00:00
A lot of these UPFs are targeted at young people who don't have the same ability to think of long term consequences. If you start young, it's a much harder habit to break later in life.

And in many places UPFs are cheaper and more widely available than unprocessed food. If you're worried about paying rent, you're not questioning cheap calories for your family.

Even if we can agree that people should exercise more willpower, isn't there something wrong with companies weaponizing science to make food as addictive as possible?