MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tabbott | 2026-02-10 01:59:03+00:00
That's a huge friends group! :)

You don't need to email the sales team unless you have questions about the policy. It should be clear that "groups of friends" are eligible from the text you quoted.

You just need to spend 2 minutes filling out a brief form that's integrated in the server setup process if/when you have more than 10 users on your server. We enjoy hearing the brief notes users provide about how they are using Zulip. Is that too much to ask in exchange for reliably delivering you a service that you use every day?

It takes quite a bit longer to install a self-hosted server or configure an organization for thousands of users than to fill out the form -- I'd expect most people to spend more than 2 minutes creating a VM before they even get to running the installer. I'd expect that nicely configuring a Discord server for 2K people takes hours.

Is there something that we could change in the website that would make it obvious this is not an onerous process? The purpose of the section is to make clear that self-hosting Zulip is free for this sort of non-incorporated community use ... but we do need to have some eligibility process where you describe what you are, or it's free for Amazon too.
by peteforde | 2026-02-10 01:59:28+00:00
I just don't get it.

Why do all of that when you can just keep a tight hold on an agent that is operating at the speed that you can think about what you're actually doing?

Again, if you're just looking to spend a lot of money on the party trick, don't let me yuck your yum. It just seems like doing things in a way that is almost guaranteed to lead to the outcomes that people love to complain aren't very good.

As someone getting excellent results on a huge (550k LoC) codebase only because I'm directing every feature, my bottleneck is always going to be the speed at which I can coherently describe what needs to be done + a reasonable amount of review to make sure that what happened is what I was looking for. This can only work because I explicitly go through a planning cycle before handing it to the agent.

I feel like if you consider understanding what your LLM is doing for you to be unacceptably slow and burdensome, then you deserve exactly what you're going to get out of this process.
by sixo | 2026-02-10 01:59:32+00:00
The point is not to make better predictions of the things we already know how to predict. The point is to determine what abstractions link the things we don't presently understand--because these abstraction tend to open many new doors in other directions. This has been the story of physics over and over: relativity, quantum theory, etc, not only answered the questions they were designed to answer but opened thousands of new doors in other directions.
by troad | 2026-02-10 01:59:40+00:00
> Static types, algebraic data types, making illegal states unrepresentable: the functional programming tradition has developed extraordinary tools for reasoning about programs.

But none of these things are functional programming? This is more the tradition of 'hard static types' than it is of FP. Sure, they go together in some languages, but not in others.

What about functional Lisps, Clojure, Scheme, Erlang / Elixir...
by stubbi | 2026-02-10 01:59:44+00:00
Author here. I run OpenClaw.rocks, a hosting service for OpenClaw AI agents.

The parallel I'm drawing: LLMs are commoditizing the way x86 hardware did in the early 90s. What's missing is the open-source operating system on top - the layer that connects a token prediction API to your actual tools and messaging apps. That's what OpenClaw does.

I know the analogy is imperfect (and I address where it breaks in the post). Happy to discuss the technical architecture, the agent layer thesis, or where you think I'm wrong.
by 2bsinha | 2026-02-10 01:59:50+00:00
Are AI failures really model problems, or governance problems?

Over the past year, we’ve seen AI systems hallucinate in courts, leak internal prompts, get manipulated by praise, or make decisions they were never meant to make.

Most discussions focus on:

better models

alignment

prompt design

But I’m starting to think many of these failures aren’t intelligence issues at all.

They’re governance issues.

In most real systems, we separate:

capability from permission

intelligence from authority

generation from action

AI systems often skip this and let agents act by default, then try to clean up afterward with filters.

Curious how others here think about:

eligibility checks before AI actions

graduated authority for agents

limiting influence rather than outputs

system-level governance outside the model

Is anyone building or experimenting with this kind of control layer?
by ipnon | 2026-02-10 02:00:34+00:00
Why do you need a CI at all? You can use a queue like Oban on your own server to kick off jobs. And with AI you can add new jobs, so long as they are well defined, in a few minutes and schedule them however you like. I only recommend this because I use a similar system. If you are planning on GitHub's recent instability to be improved in the future, I would not get your hopes up, they have a long history of instability.
by singingbard | 2026-02-10 02:01:45+00:00
I actually disagree.

People only take your lane if you are in the fastest lane. If you are in any slower lane, people tend to jump in and then leave and I have no problem with people who do that.

You can also keep a gap in the fastest lane but you need to keep track of other cars on the road. You’ll observe that most cars rarely leave their lane. People who tend to leave their lane keep smaller gaps in front of them. Use that knowledge. There are many more factors than just that but if you start observing everyone drive, your little simulation in your head will start putting other drivers into buckets.
by Jaauthor | 2026-02-10 02:02:18+00:00
Getting my novel published:

A broke kid wins a spot at a high-tech genius school and finds out the “cool” project is really mind control for the whole world. Now he has to out-hack teachers, drones, and a traitor friend using only his brain, his DIY skills, and the outlaw Mesh. Readers get wild gadgets, sneaky pranks, and fast chases—plus the chance to ask what they would do if adults tried to control every thought in their head.

Final edits from the editor are arriving this week - then I'm off to find a lit agent, hopefully get a publishing deal by the end of 2026. More info below.

https://inkican.com/mesh-middle-grade-scifi-thriller/
by tasty_freeze | 2026-02-10 02:02:20+00:00
> This is "expected" from theory, because all particles seem to be just various aspects of the "same things" that obey a fairly simple algebra.

But again, this is just observation, and it is consistent with the charges we measure (again, just observation). It doesn't explain why these rules must behave as they do.

> This very, very strongly hints that the fundamental particles aren't actually fundamental in some sense.

This is exactly what I am suggesting in my original comment: this "coincidence" is not a coincidence but falls out from some deeper, shared mechanism.
by foxes | 2026-02-10 02:02:21+00:00
The current state must satisfy all constraints?

Eg some table Users -> you start with `add user_id` , `add org_id`, `remove org_id` for example, so then the current state is `Users{ user_id }`. But you trust the compiler to derive that, and then when you want to do something with Users you have to scope into it, or tell it how to handle different steps in that chain.

Im not saying this is not equivalent at the end of the day, just if anything surfaces it this way, or makes it more ergonomic.
by jgeada | 2026-02-10 02:02:46+00:00
This seems like one of those problems that arise when we let rich people and corporations arbitrage for the lowest possible legal consequences, in this case flags of convenience that have no standards.

There is always some poor or corrupt country willing to ignore consequences as long as they can make a buck. The profits are private, but costs and consequences always laid onto the public. Miserable way to run things.
by beezle | 2026-02-10 02:02:52+00:00
I never liked that the physics community shifted from 'high energy' particle physics (the topic of the article) to referring to this branch as just 'particle physics' which I think leaves the impression that anything to do with 'particles' is now a dead end.

Nuclear physics (ie, low/medium energy physics) covers diverse topics, many with real world application - yet travels with a lot of the same particles (ie, quarks, gluons). Because it is so diverse, it is not dead/dying in the way HEP is today.
by somat | 2026-02-10 02:02:54+00:00
Hard to say, I don't really use discord so I think of it as voice chat as a service, and for pure voice chat it is hard to do better than mumble. However from the way people talk about discord, it is also a text chat screen sharing file server. and it is hard to find one product that does all that well.

For video, both video chat and screen sharing I have had a lot of success with Galene, it
offers text chat and file sharing, but they are sort of anemic and bare bones, which could be good or bad based on the needs of your users. https://galene.org/

What I usually do is start with a fossil server, this is trivial and gives you files, a wiki and a forum (none of them super good but like I said trivial to set up) then if I want voice, mumble is my normal route, but galene is growing on me more and more, the web interface makes buy in from the end users trivial and despite it being nice you almost never need the cool room stuff you can do with mumble.

But I am a sys-admin, I like running servers, hell, I find I enjoy running the servers more than I like playing the games. Plus, statistically, I have zero-friends, it is fine to say a server is great when only one other person has used it. That is to say, my results may not be typical.
by beloch | 2026-02-10 02:03:52+00:00
Implement campaign spending limits, regulate or ban PAC's, and commit to an ongoing effort to stomp whatever new methods big-money comes up with to influence politics.

We do most of this in Canada and our leaders seem to be less influenced by big money. (Nevermind that we recently elected a billionaire PM...) The vast expense of running a U.S. style election campaign virtually guarantees that U.S. politicians are all bought and paid for.
by ivewonyoung | 2026-02-10 02:04:10+00:00
>I said that most pre-GC work-permits (e.g. H1B) don't allow you to own a US-based business

You can absolutely own a US-based business on a H1B, like you can buy shares in companies, it's just a 100% share. You just cannot work for your company without having an approved H1B from that business or having some other generalized work permit like an EAD.
by drdeca | 2026-02-10 02:04:44+00:00
This makes some jumps I was unable to follow.

like, the part where they get a_i log p_i ,
well, the sum of this over i is gives the number,
but it seemed like they were treating this as… a_i being a random variable associated to p_i , or something? I wasn’t really clear on what they were doing with that.
by maxglute | 2026-02-10 02:05:06+00:00
Last reply to more ahistoric cope, the exchange of raw materials was because postwar PRC had nothing else to barter, you know because incumbent KMT fucked it up.

Chinese literacy rates was fucking pre CCP, it was agrarian nation that CCP uplifted. If you want to cope with repainting history, go accuse world bank... in the 80s, by every metric except human lives, CCP was horrifyingly efficient, precisely because they value human lives less.

What techstack does TW have that PRC doesn't? TSMC based off foreign tech stack. Let's not forget ROC is also outcome of subsidy / finance program by US. The difference between PRC and ROC is PRC sugar daddy was poor USSR, TW was rich US, and population scale means US could injected more to smaller pop to bring up development. All while US+co sanctioning PRC btw, hence PRC succeeded where TW has not, and did so on hard mode.

Smaller economies of scale is precisely why TW/ROC is unimpressive, TW should be much richer for how small it is and how lavishly it was rewarded. There's reason TW has to literally ban TWners from working in PRC high end industries... because PRC tier1 opportunities has vastly exceeded TW.
by thmpp | 2026-02-10 02:05:34+00:00
The challenges mentioned on the article are challenges that are known to every larger distributed system. They are not challenges solved or to be solved by functional programming.

But the solutions and tools functional programming provides help to have higher verifiability, fewer side effects and more compile-time checks of code in the deployment unit. That other challenges exists is fully correct. But without a functional approach, you have these challenges plus all others.

So while FP is not a one-size-fits-all solution to distributed systems challenges, it does help solve a subset of the challenges on a single system level.
by digiown | 2026-02-10 02:05:58+00:00
> handsomely rewarded after-the-fact

The other more important effect is that it neuters any kind of quid pro quo type of corruption, if paired with a big enough stick. It's hard to bribe someone if they will get to live in luxury for the rest of their life anyway, and where discovery of the deal would land them in prison for life.
by mattlangston | 2026-02-10 02:05:59+00:00
Experimental particle physicist here. It's just hard.

I measured the electron's vector coupling to the Z boson at SLAC in the late 1990s, and the answer from that measurement is: we don't know yet - and that's the point.

Thirty years later, the discrepancy between my experiment and LEP's hasn't been resolved.

It might be nothing. It might be the first whisper of dark matter or a new force. And the only way to find out is to build the next machine. That's not 'dead', that's science being hard.

My measurement is a thread that's been dangling for decades, waiting to be pulled.
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-10 02:08:55+00:00
This is a feature of all resource extraction industry. I live in New York - we have 100+ year old oil related hazards in western NY to this day. My folks had a gravel mine near their home that would occasionally cause issues relating to flooding and some sort of contamination that was there.

IMO, these industries need to be heavily taxed if not owned by the government.
by rohanmallya | 2026-02-10 02:09:13+00:00
Github Copilot is just a front-end. You pay for the frontend and some premium requests every month.

The base models like GPT 4o, 4.1 don’t have a usage cap. Models like Claude Sonet, Opus, etc have a monthly limit and you can pay more to use these through Github Copilot.
by gruez | 2026-02-10 02:09:14+00:00
>If you're not going to ally with the people fighting the surveillance systems that are currently being used by the secret police to disappear and kill people what does that make you.

1990s Ireland:

A: "hey guys, maybe it's a bad idea to set off bombs in public places to promote Irish independence. You won't get an ally in me."

B: "If you're not going to ally with the people fighting British that are currently subjugating the Irish what does that make you. My cause doesn't need your sympathy it needs to stop this horror. I'm not quite saying "with or against" but you are saying "against.""
by tadfisher | 2026-02-10 02:09:32+00:00
In this case, we don't have good data representations for code which produces or consumes structured data, where the structure of that data changes over time. We have some pieces figured out for certain domains, such as database schemas, but we do not have a "theory-of-everything" for enforcing types/structure across all domains of our systems. The domain addressed by GraphQL, HTTP APIs, is another instance of this same problem.

There are experimental systems like Unison that keep old versions of your code alive as data, which are fascinating solutions to the underlying problem.
by ivewonyoung | 2026-02-10 02:09:40+00:00
Huh, the headline is very misleading but the article says this:

> Culleton entered the US in 2009 on a visa waiver programme and overstayed the 90 day-limit

> Culleton said that when he was arrested he was carrying a Massachusetts driving licence and a valid work permit issued as part of an application for a green card that he initiated in April 2025

That's about 15 years of illegal stay according to "the facts in the article".
by thrance | 2026-02-10 02:09:51+00:00
We absolutely have proof that Trump is, in fact, a pedophile. Still doubting that is weirdly delusional, more probably plainly dishonest.

> Continuing to call him a pedo just looks like more partisan politics, which uninterested people (who still bother to vote) tune out.

Exactly the contrary is true. The Epstein stuff has caused an unprecedented dip in Trump's popularity. The more it's talked about the angrier the people get at him and his friends.

> Dems need to figure out how to run more interesting candidates.

Indeed, here's hoping for a true Democratic Tea Party, let progressives run the show. They've proved more than capable of motivating the masses, in New York and other places...
by lynnharry | 2026-02-10 02:10:03+00:00
Thanks for the link! It's a very helpful website. It's a pity I can't find any info on the developers for the website.

It even points me to google earth website with the same view: https://earth.google.com/web/@41.059167,77.684167,5853a,0d,3...

Google chrome is probably necessary for openning the site.
by mjrbrennan | 2026-02-10 02:10:17+00:00
I work at Discourse. As a regular user, if you want to prevent these new user badges (and notifications), head to /u/yourusername/preferences/interface and check "Skip new user onboarding tips and badges".

It is in our plans to eventually rework how this new user education and notification system works, and I suppose eventually with https://id.discourse.com/ the intent would be that your preferences follow you to every Discourse site you sign up for, so you could just set it once.

As an admin, badges can be disabled entirely, or individually.
by sparkie | 2026-02-10 02:10:27+00:00
`uintptr_t` and `intptr_t` are integer types large enough to hold a pointer. They're not pointer types (They're also optional in the standard).

In the first `my_func`, there is the possiblity that `a` and `b` are equal if their struct layouts are equivalent (or one has a proper subset of the other's fields in the same order). To tell the compiler they don't overlap we would use `(strong_type1 *restrict a, strong_type2 *restrict b)`.

There's also the possibility that the pointers could point to the same address but be non-equal - eg if LAM/UAI/TBI are enabled, a simple pointer equality comparison is not sufficient because the high bits may not be equal. Or on platforms where memory access is always aligned, the low bits may be not equal. These bits are sometimes used to tag pointers with additional information.
by tabbott | 2026-02-10 02:10:28+00:00
Can someone explain to me why we should do engineering work to build features where the stated objective is to help corporations use our product without paying for it?

Remember, self-hosted mobile push notifications already have a free community plan!

I can't say whether Zulip might be a fit for your needs. But you can always email our lovely sales/support team. https://zulip.com/help/self-hosted-billing#paid-plan-discoun... should give you a sense of our policies.
by hn_acker | 2026-02-10 02:10:41+00:00
From [1]:

> Dave was the longest-serving EFF Board member, having joined in the early 1990s, before the creation of the World Wide Web or the widespread adoption of the internet.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/rip-dave-farber-eff-bo...
by vo2maxer | 2026-02-10 02:11:54+00:00
Yes! The reflexive “must be LLM generated” is becoming ridiculous. Anything that includes proper punctuation and, god forbid, em dashes which I’ve used all my life must be suspect. The “it’s not x, it’s y” construction predates LLMs. I don’t recall ever sending a text without making sure it contained no errors, and yes, many have included infrequently used vocabulary.
by stavros | 2026-02-10 02:12:15+00:00
Has anyone found the chip on AliExpress? I only get unrelated listings with that part number, but this is a pretty interesting chip I'd like to get a few of.

An alternative would be a supercapacitor and a voltage divider connected to the ADC pin of the microcontroller. When the 5V rail dies, the supercapacitor can hold 3.3V for a few seconds while you write everything to the EEPROM.
by sliken | 2026-02-10 02:12:27+00:00
Along similar lines, the double-slit experiment, seems simple. Two slits let light though and you get bands where they constructively or destructively interfere, just like waves.

However I still find it crazy that when you slow down the laser and one photon at a time goes through either slit you still get the bands. Which begs the question, what exactly is it constructively or destructively interfering with?

Still seems like there's much to be learned about the quantum world, gravity, and things like dark energy vs MOND.
by komali2 | 2026-02-10 02:12:48+00:00
Sorry dang, you're right.

I get set off specifically by wumao/little pinks (the Mandarin term for PRC based nationalist netizens, not necessarily an insult), something about their arrogance while wishing death on me and my family is very personal and hard to resist engaging with.

I accept I broke the rules and will try to avoid doing so again in the future, but for perspective, just imagine if you were Ukrainian, it's 2018, and someone from Russia was posting about how they can't wait for their country to invade yours.

But, I like the site the way it is, and the rules make it that way, so I understand.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-10 02:13:31+00:00
> so these ships are abandoned by the companies that own them, with the crew still on board? and then the crew is just stuck there with dwindling food supplies until somebody comes to rescue them?

Yes, basically. The situation is really really nasty, every year thousands of sailors are stuck aboard abandoned ships [1][2]. Sometimes, crews get stuck for years [3] - and the situation is made worse by the fact that leaving ship means forfeiting payment.

[1] https://www.voanews.com/a/fleet-of-abandoned-ships-is-growin...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3r4nr2zy2do

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56842506