MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by a_squirrel | 2026-02-04 15:20:34+00:00
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by AndrewKemendo | 2026-02-04 15:20:52+00:00
I started medical cannabis at 38 after leaving the military and it has been completely transformative for my Epilepsy/PTSD/CPTSD/arthritis and all of the other bullshit that came from being in the military for 17 years

100% of my doctors say (incl. Director level at Mt Sinai and orthopedic surgeons for the Washington commnders) are more than delighted with my prescription

so like that’s just your opinion man
Show HN: Vibefs – A file preview server for remote vibe coding
by novoreorx | 2026-02-04 15:20:55+00:00
I vibe-coded this tool entirely from my phone with OpenClaw, to solve a problem I encountered in this workflow. It's called vibefs.

The use case: when you're remotely controlling an AI agent and want to preview a file it generated — a development plan, a piece of code, or some log it found — you can have the agent run vibefs allow /path/to/file and send you back an accessible URL. Open it in your browser and you're looking at the file with syntax highlighting.

For large files, the agent can use --head N or --tail N to share only the first or last N lines — useful for checking large log files.

It's not simply a static file server though. A file can only be accessed via URL after the agent explicitly adds it to an allowlist with an expiration time. Each generated link contains a unique short hash — you can't enumerate paths to discover files. This non-permanent whitelist mechanism ensures your local files aren't exposed by accident.

Deployment is straightforward:

1. Set up a Cloudflare Tunnel (or ngrok, Tailscale Funnel, etc.) pointing to local port 17173
2. Add usage instructions to your agent's memory or tools file (see README)
3. uv tool install vibefs

The server daemon starts automatically when a file is first allowed and shuts itself down when all authorizations have expired. Zero resource and management cost.

Happy cooking!
by Symmetry | 2026-02-04 15:21:03+00:00
The rock in this case acts as extra thermal mass that makes it take longer to reach thermal equilibrium, but doesn't change what the ultimate thermal equilibrium is. Only the configuration of the parts of the surface that can absorb or radiate electromagnetic radiation do that. And because rock is a fairly good insulator we only really benefit from the top layer and if the sun went out we would all freeze in a week or so.
by pc86 | 2026-02-04 15:21:36+00:00
At the risk of being kind of ass, which I've been trying to be better about lately, I'm going to offer some advice. If you can't even respond to a question about secure computing without bringing American presidential politics into things, perhaps you need to take a break from the news for a few weeks.

The reason I asked that question is because I don't think it's complicated. I should be able to lock down my device such that no other human being on the planet can see or access anything on it. It's mine. I own it. I can do with it whatever I please, and any government that says otherwise is diametrically opposed to my rights as a human being.

You are more likely to be struck by lightning while holding two winning lottery tickets from different lotteries than you are to be killed by an act of terrorism today. This is pearl-clutching, authoritarian nonsense. To echo the sibling comment, society does not get to destroy my civil rights because some inbred religious fanatics in a cave somewhere want to blow up a train.

Edit: And asking for someone to says "there are concerns!" to proffer even a single one is not a Socratic line of questioning, it's basic inquiry.
by Retric | 2026-02-04 15:21:41+00:00
“Possessing a live grenade is illegal.” https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-def...

Obviously there’s a bunch of exceptions, including as you point out the federal option of going through a background check and paying 200$/grenade. But that’s only at the federal level it doesn’t necessarily meet state requirements.

The rules on those background checks are as capricious as banning people who were dishonorably discharged from the military.
by 1970-01-01 | 2026-02-04 15:21:47+00:00
Until someone actually launches a prototype, this is not happening. The economy of just doing everything on the ground is underestimated. And the technology simply is still not ready. LEO sats randomly falling down is a daily occurrence. I would love to see the Excel spreadsheet these investors are drooling over. It probably has less than 6 tabs.
by bluecoconut | 2026-02-04 15:22:00+00:00
I almost feel like this goes opposite to what attention is good at. This would be good at approximating all the places where attention is low / not sharp. Where attention/the exponential is key is when it selects out / needle-in-haystack / winner-takes-all focus (the word "attention" itself sorta implies this), and this is where the taylor expression would fail to represent the values well. This just... softens attentions ability to attend?

(I'm imagining that if in the context there's ~4-8 "similar" attention-targets that should be sharp, and regular attention learns to select the correct one, this taylor approximation version would wash out any difference and they'd all loosly be attended to, and it'd fail to isolate the correct signal)

Really wish this had some downstream tests -- apply it to a pretrained model and see how performance degrades, train a fresh one, etc. The tests are worth doing, but I somehow don't feel that hopeful this is the unlock required for sub-quadratic attention. It's possible that a freshly trained model with this learns to attend without the sharp attention signals, but that seems a bit dubious to me.

But also, maybe this combined with some other selective (sparse attention) trick, means that the hybrid model gets the "fuzzy long tail" of attention well represented as well as the sharpness well represented, and all together it could actually be a part of the larger solution.
by 4er_transform | 2026-02-04 15:23:08+00:00
Honestly this sounds like a Luddite mindset (and I mean that descriptively, not to be insulting). This mindset holds us back.

You can imagine the artisans who made shirts saying the exact same thing as the first textile factories became operational.

Humans have been coders in the sense we mean for a matter of decades at most - a blip in our existence. We’re capable of far more, and this is yet another task we should cast into the machine of automation and let physical laws do the work for us.

We’re capable of manipulating the universe into doing our bidding, including making rocks we’ve converted into silicones think on our behalf. Making shirts and making code: we’re capable of so much more.
by ptorrone | 2026-02-04 15:23:08+00:00
(posting this in both comments about this) i am the author of the article.
the adafruit blog is not trying to block you my dude(s). we are under constant automated scraping and ddos, largely from ai crawlers, and we use cloudflare to keep the site online at all. the nature of of these things will cause false positives depending on browser, extensions, network, or referrer.

the site publishs full-text rss feeds with no blockers here, no ads: https://blog.adafruit.com/rss

the site respects do not track, privacy badger, and similar tools. the site will probably never pass the purity tests for everyone, the goal is to stay independent, publishing, without selling readers or folding into a mega-platform. we're open source and vc free, chill out about us, ok?

if you still can’t get an article and want it in html, markdown, text, or pdf, email me and i’ll send it directly, i will read it on the phone to you, i am not kidding.

we’re trying, and we’ll keep trying. you gotta meet somewhere.
by ChrisArchitect | 2026-02-04 15:23:43+00:00
Previously, direct link to the court doc:

FBI unable to extract data from iPhone 13 in Lockdown Mode in high profile case [pdf]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.58...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843967)
by jahaman | 2026-02-04 15:23:51+00:00
Built an EPUB reader in about 4 months and felt ready to ship.

First TestFlight batch revealed freezing and crashes I never saw in development.
I Spent the next 3 weeks working harder than the previous 4 months combined.

Sean Allen's "90/90 rule" finally clicked: the first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90%.

Are you experiencing the same?
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-04 15:24:06+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Night_in_Paris

She claimes, later, to have not consented but given the sophistication of the production no reasonable person could believe she had no idea it was being filmed. She might not consent to the exact public release but she was certainly well aware of being filmed on the day. She consented to the creation.

Same issue decades later during the iphone hacks/leaks. They did not consent to public release, but did consent to creation and private distribution, sometimes even taking and initially sharing the photos themselves.
by spudlyo | 2026-02-04 15:24:22+00:00
The price of marijuana in the US has collapsed in recent years, and in much of the country the market is flooded with dispensaries and excess weed. In Michigan, which has the dubious honor of having the cheapest cannabis in the US, an ounce will set you back $60. Part of the problem is that there are no established pot brands, and thus no brand loyalty. Unlike cigarettes, consumers don't develop a strong attachment to a particular formulation of their drug, so they are free to shop around.

I quit last year, but before that I was a weekend user, and an $8 gram, (which is less than I paid when I was a high school kid in the 1980s) would last me a month or more. I haven't looked at the paper the article is based on, but as an older adult I felt like I was on the losing side of the risk/reward proposition. If however, I was looking to replace a more expensive and destructive habit like alcohol, switching to cannabis would be an easy decision.
by everforward | 2026-02-04 15:24:29+00:00
I absolutely do too, I’m just not convinced a single humanoid robot is going to do the job cheaper and better than a dozen purpose-built robots (which you might own, or might rent from Home Depot or whatever when the need arises).

Eg lawn mowing robots already exist, and have for a decade or so. Garden tending also exists, though I think only commercial prototypes at the current moment. Roofing feels very possible, but I only roofed once so ymmv.

Is the future going to be buying a humanoid robot with a thousand servos for $100,000, or texting a number to have a self-driving car drop off a bladed roomba made from bargain bin brushless motors and plastic to mow your lawn for $0.50?
by bayindirh | 2026-02-04 15:25:32+00:00
I don't have to have any concern to be able to secure my device against third parties, it's just good operational discipline.

I don't do anything classified, or store something I don't want to be found out. On the other hand, equally I don't want anyone to be able to get and fiddle a device which is central to my life.

That's all.

It's not "I have nothing to hide" (which I don't actually have), but I don't want to put everything in the open.

Security is not something we shall earn, but shall have at the highest level by default.
by ziml77 | 2026-02-04 15:25:32+00:00
I've had no issues with Claude refusing the few times I've done it. But I also remember I phrased things in a sort of way to make sure it didn't sound shady.

I suspect if I asked it to crack DRM or help me make a cheat for an online game, it would probably have refused. Or maybe it wouldn't have cared, I was just not interested in testing that and risking ending up banned from using Claude.
by quenix | 2026-02-04 15:25:34+00:00
Forget OS updates. The biggest obstacle to exploit persistence: a good old hard system reboot.

Modern iOS has an incredibly tight secure chain-of-trust bootloader. If you shut your device to a known-off state (using the hardware key sequence), on power on, you can be 99.999% certain only Apple-signed code will run all the way from secureROM to iOS userland. The exception is if the secureROM is somehow compromised and exploited remotely (this requires hardware access at boot-time so I don't buy it).

So, on a fresh boot, you are almost definitely running authentic Apple code. The easiest path to a form of persistence is reusing whatever vector initially pwned you (malicious attachment, website, etc) and being clever in placing it somewhere iOS will attempt to read it again on boot (and so automatically get pwned again).

But honestly, exploiting modern iOS is already difficult enough (exploits go for tens millions $USD), persistence is an order of magnitude more difficult.
by mapontosevenths | 2026-02-04 15:25:37+00:00
This uses the Taylor approximation to approximate softmax, but that IS only an approximation. I wonder exactly how much that trade-off costs in terms of accuracy vs performance? I note that they say it's close to float16 with four Taylor terms.

My other concern would be that Taylor itself is fairly complex. I wonder how well GPU's handle this in comparison to good old fashioned softmax? The last time I used Taylor with a custom Triton kernel it was still very slow. That could just have been my own jank vibe-coded implementation though.
by kortex | 2026-02-04 15:25:47+00:00
>
Anna Grzymala-Busse, a Stanford University international studies professor, said that seizing the means of production is a socialist and communist goal. "The difference is that with communism, there is also one ruling party that brooks no opposition and no pluralist civil society," she said.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/jul/03/seizing-means...

Collectivism and some amount of state controlled means of production are typical of many leftist systems. America already does this in many places: military, power, education, civil works. Communism stands out among other -isms on the left in that it is single-party and incompatible with democracy.

> suspicious gesture with his right hand

It was a Nazi salute. Don't believe me? Go to a crowded street corner and do the "suspicious gesture," and gauge the reaction.
by wkoszek | 2026-02-04 15:26:01+00:00
Starship payload: 100,000 kg (100 tons). Looks like they talked about 150 tons and even 250 tons. My understanding is that they can be adding more engines to get more thrust.

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/02/spacex-reusable-rocket... -- looks like target price for Starship launch would be $3--$5m according to the author.

Wouldn't the /kg price to SpaceX be:

3000000/100000 = $30/kg -- 5000000/100000 = $50/kg?

If they recover everything and produce fuel at scale, wouldn't it drop the cost even more.

What many people quote here are commercial rates, I think. SpaceX won't pay those prices.

Can someone check my math
by defgeneric | 2026-02-04 15:26:12+00:00
You mention the technical aspect (readability) and others have suggested the aesthetic, but you could also look at it as a form of rhetoric. I'm not sure it's really effective because it sort of grates on the ear for anyone over 35, but maybe there's a point in distinguishing itself from AI sloptext.

Incidentally, millenials also used the "no caps" style but mainly for "marginalia" (at most paragraph-length notes, observations), while for older generations it was almost always associated with a modernist aesthetic and thus appeared primarily in functional or environmental text (restaurant menus, signage, your business card, bloomingdales, etc.). It may be interesting to note that the inverse ALL CAPS style conveyed modernity in the last tech revolution (the evolution of the Microsoft logo, for example).
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by pjc50 | 2026-02-04 15:26:41+00:00
Like anything involving hundreds of millions of users, there's going to be good or bad effects. However I have been on the internet long enough to have concluded that the idea that local law has _no effect at all_ on websites is not good. Ultimately if they don't comply they would probably have to be blocked.

CNN is a very silly example though, because .. you can just go to the CNN website separately. The one that is blocked is Russia Today and various other enemy propaganda channels.
by JeremyNT | 2026-02-04 15:26:55+00:00
> Why does that make sense at all

Parent said it would make more sense.

I guess in terms of the relative level of stupidity on display, it would be slightly less stupid to build huge reflectors in space than it is to try to build space datacenters, where the electricity can only power specific pieces of equipment that are virtually impossible to maintain (and are typically obsolete within a few years).
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-04 15:28:14+00:00
My “skill” for 40 years has been to turn what I wanted my computer to do into code to get it done using the tools available to me. A “senior developer” is not someone who “codez real gud”. It’s someone who can work at a higher level of scope and ambiguity and has a larger impact on the organization than a ticket taker
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-04 15:28:25+00:00
> It makes a lot of sense if you agreed on a price per unit before everything was locked in. If their profit is a flat price minus expenses, lower expenses is more profit.

That's the thing that makes no sense to me. Wouldn't it work better for everyone involved, including the manufacturer, if they come back with a "here's exactly how we interpreted your spec and what materials we're using, including cases where we picked something you left unconstrained", and a corresponding price for using those materials, with the understanding that if you want different materials you get a different price, before they do any manufacturing whatsoever?
by greenavocado | 2026-02-04 15:28:28+00:00
They are trying to criminalize everyone who uses a normal lathe or a normal CNC without a permit

House Bill 2321 (HB-2321) proposes exemptions only for machines with licensed AI firmware that connects to blacklists, potentially requiring refits or licensing for machine shops.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2228
by inglor_cz | 2026-02-04 15:28:37+00:00
"fantastically expensive"

From individual POV yes, but already Falcons are not that expensive. In the sense that it is feasible for a relatively unimportant entity to buy their launch services.

"The satellite is built on Earth, so I’m not sure how it dodges any of those regulations practically."

It is easier to shop for jurisdiction when it comes to manufacturing, especially if your design is simple enough - which it has to be in order to run unattended for years. If you outsource the manufacturing to N chosen factories in different locations, you can always respond to local pressure by moving out of that particular country. In effect, you just rent time and services of a factory that can produce tons of other products.

A data center is much more expensive to build and move around. Once you build it in some location, you are committed quite seriously to staying there.
by deployhq | 2026-02-04 15:28:39+00:00
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Show HN: Ultra-Dex v3.5 – AI orchestration layer with 17 agents and 61 commands
by maya0769 | 2026-02-04 15:28:48+00:00
I built Ultra-Dex to solve "AI amnesia" - the problem where Claude, Cursor, and Copilot forget your project context between sessions.

It's a meta-layer that:
- Maintains context in versioned Markdown + SQLite
- Orchestrates 17 specialized agents (CTO, Backend, Security, etc.)
- Provides 61 CLI commands for the full dev lifecycle
- Includes MCP server for Claude Desktop integration

Try it: npx ultra-dex init

MIT licensed, free. Feedback welcome!
by Schmerika | 2026-02-04 15:29:11+00:00
I've seen many. There are no shortage of successful people who say so themselves.

Read what any of your favorite musicians have to say about it. Check the science and testimony on it enhancing creativity and sensory experience, helping people see see themselves and the world from a new perspective - introspective development.

You know, the same sort of introspection that might make one wonder if your statement above says a lot more about you, and your values, than it does about cannabis enjoyers.
by BobaFloutist | 2026-02-04 15:30:01+00:00
>It's not hard to not be "the thing" in any given crazy's life they choose to go out with a bang over

> The "budget" you have to wrong people and cause despair before people would be apathetic to violence done upon you is pretty directly coupled to the amount of good you do to offset your harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Abraham_Linco...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kenne...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_John_Lennon

Agree to disagree. I'm not willing to trust the judgement of those most willing to commit gun violence as to whom deserves gun violence.