MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by restalis | 2026-02-02 23:24:39+00:00
"We should look at how people are using LLMs right now instead of chasing promises of superintelligence."

This. When more computing power and memory resources became available to software engineers, we've seen how that impacted the software development. Sure, there were happy stories of new class of problems being attacked, which couldn't before due to resource limits, but a lot of software just stopped being frugal and did pretty much what it did before, but somehow consuming much more. Extrapolating to the case of staggering resources poured over the AI solutions, I'd be surprised if most of it won't just be consumed to generate higher resolution (and longer) videos.
by kevstev | 2026-02-02 23:24:52+00:00
Yeah- but LFS didn't really expose you to that or really teach you much about Systemd internals. Here is the page on it: https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/systemd/chapter09/...

The only other page that covers it is how to compile it and it install it (make configure, make, make install essentially- with a bunch of flags).

It kind of touches upon a few commands that will let you know what its doing and how to get it started, but from this page you don't learn much about how it works.

In fact, one of my takeaways from LFS was that I already kind of knew how a linux system starts... and what I really wanted to learn was how the devices are discovered and configured upon startup to be used, and that is pretty much all done in the black box that is SystemD.
by Ajakks | 2026-02-02 23:25:07+00:00
It isnt God - Sam went a little overboard with his pushing that.

AI still isnt just hype tho and remains the greatest digital tool ever made by people.

The reality remains that if you adopt AI into your workforce, not replace your workforce with AI, use AI to help with your work - you can do a lot more and faster too.

I just downloaded deepseek on my Win 11 PC - Copilot is obviously more integrated but its not that bad at all. Copilot is very limited in the boxes Microsoft built into it but it is a great tool for average people that only need to interact with AI occasionally to search the internet.
by einpoklum | 2026-02-02 23:25:51+00:00
> How can we get less parking lots?

Switch from a culture of car use to walking, biking and public transport (buses, trams, light rail). And if people outside the city are coming in by car - let them park outside the town center and continue with public transport from there (while public transport is developed further afield; after that they would only drive their cars as far as the nearest train station, or even bike there).
by dgxyz | 2026-02-02 23:25:55+00:00
This is quite frankly the largest amount of bollocks Musk has come up with so far. The market is basically a meme market:

Same some futuristic sounding shit -> stonks go up -> repeat

All literally while trying to do really bad things everywhere which are going to end up with bodies piled to the fucking ceiling. And not delivering products. And being a proto-nazi.

This needs to break. Now. No one should be rewarding this shit.
by goforbg | 2026-02-02 23:26:13+00:00
This is so fucking good for TESTING stuff end to end. I have mongodb, I have a next JS app, I have a virtual machine that runs something and grafana for logs - it would have been impossible to automate this testing end to end (I’m building Tuco ai) but now it’s possible. I’m so shocked how good this thing is for testing. It was meh for everything else!!
by mmooss | 2026-02-02 23:27:01+00:00
A supervisor layer of deterministic software that reviews and approve/declines all LLM events? Digital loss prevention already exists to protect confidentiality. Credit card transactions could be subject to limits on amount per transaction, per day, per month, with varying levels of approval.

LLMs obviously can be controlled - their developers do it somehow or we'd see much different output.
by pityJuke | 2026-02-02 23:27:13+00:00
As someone who has used Anki for a decade, a thank you to dae for everything. Best of luck in your future endeavours.

With that out of the way, some thoughts:

- Anki is in a really good position to work around enshitification. The app, at least to me, is "complete" - the only additional features that might pique my curiosity is a different scheduler (at the moment, they're integrating a newer one, although I don't follow enough to know the state of it). Additionally, modern Anki is really well architected: the core of it is a Rust library, that is used by all of the platforms [0]. You can write new front ends using that, or just fork the existing FOSS ones. Maybe dae does a gorhill and gives us Anki Origin.

- Really the only service-y part of Anki I use is AnkiWeb, which is basically a backup and sync system. Wonder how that'll evolve (if they do end up charging for it, I hope it is "Obsidian" reasonable). EDIT: Ooo, Anki has public server software for running your own version. Awesome! [1]

- The idea outcome in my opinion would have been some form of charitable organisation (Linux Foundation?), with people donating to support Anki.

- So, AnkiHub is a company that produces Anki flashcards, and they've scaled that quickly? Jeez. Obviously Quizlet proved there was a market for flashcards, but I didn't realise this was possible for Anki.

- No outside investment is... hopeful. Not quite sure what indicates that this company has the technical know-how to maintain it.

- I've heard too many stories of a maintainer or creative being "hopeful" about their new acquirers, only to regret it years down the line.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46299897

[1]: https://docs.ankiweb.net/sync-server.html
by AstroBen | 2026-02-02 23:27:13+00:00
If I were confident it were AI as the cause I'd be seriously tempted to buy right now

Take Adobe for example: they're getting pummeled and there's no way it's due to AI

No-one's building an in-house Photoshop clone to replace them

AI also isn't letting any competitors in. Geez if it were as easy as cloning their product you'd have a mile high mountain of VC money to fund it even pre-AI

Code has never been much of a barrier to entry
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-02 23:28:22+00:00
>Of course it is — unproductive land use creates negative externalities that affect the entire surrounding community. It's like saying "a factory dumping waste into a river doesn't pollute the commons if the river runs through their property".

Pretty damn rich to say such a thing when exactly this sort of hand wringing that brought this whole crap about.

"oh no, think about how the commons will be polluted if we don't compel people to build parking space". -some karen in 1970, probably

The right thing go do is back off the regulation. Let land owners do what they please. If that's a parking space (it almost certainly won't be in the overwhelming majority of cases) so be it. And then when there's enough demand parking garages will go up.
by kirrent | 2026-02-02 23:28:38+00:00
Sean Duffy is no longer acting administrator of NASA. This proposal was apparently part of a bid to get the support of a coalition of old-space companies and new-space non-SpaceX companies. As part of that strategy he apparently leaked Isaacman's Project Athena document and was backgrounding that he was a SpaceX plant.

But, Isaacman is administrator now, and whatever you think about Isaacman and his relationship to SpaceX, I don't think there's much merit in thinking one of Duffy's half thought out plans is likely to be carried out.
Ask HN: Why are customer feedback boards so static? Building a live alternative
by develotor | 2026-02-02 23:28:47+00:00
Hey everyone,

I’m currently in the middle of building a feedback tool for my own SaaS projects, and I wanted to gut-check a UX/Architecture theory with this community.

When I was looking for existing tools to handle feature requests and user feedback, I noticed a depressing pattern. Almost every "Feedback Board" I visited felt boring and like a ghost town.

You know the vibe:

You land on the page.

There are a dozen posts from 8 months ago and a few recent ones.
Most are tagged "Under Review" (and have been for a year).
It feels silent. Static. Dead.

As a user, my immediate reaction is: "Nobody is home. Why bother typing my idea?"

The Theory:
I think the problem is that we treat feedback like tickets instead of conversations. We are building "suggestion boxes" in dark corners when we should be building "town halls."

The Tech Stack / Approach:
I decided to code a solution that tries to flip this using a Nuxt 4, focusing heavily on real-time presence. I want to know if you guys think this technical overhead is worth it, or if I’m over-engineering a simple problem.

Here is how I’m handling it:

Forcing "Aliveness" with Real-Time State:
Instead of a standard CRUD list, I’m using Server-Sent Events (SSE) to sync user presence.

The Goal: Show "Staff Online" indicators and "User is typing..." bubbles in the feed.

The Tech: Leveraging Vue's reactivity system to broadcast updates instantly. If a user is viewing a post, I want others to see their avatar there. I want to psychologically trick the user into feeling like they are entering a live room, not filling out a form.

Killing the Silos (Unified Inbox):
I realized that having "Support" in email and "Feedback" on a board creates a disconnect.

I’m building a unified admin stream that merges Email (via parsed webhooks), Chat, and User post submissions into a single view.

It’s designed to be keyboard-first so admins can clear the queue faster, keeping the "Last Activity" timestamps fresh.

The Question for you builders/users:

If you landed on a roadmap/feedback page and saw a green dot saying "Staff is Online" or saw live activity happening (comments updating, viewing counters ticking up), would that actually make you more likely to engage?

Or do you prefer the standard "Submit and Forget" style boards like Canny/Uservoice?

I’m squashing the last few bugs (mainly edge cases with the real-time sync) right now, but I’m really curious if the "Dead Board" vibe bothers anyone else, or if it’s just me.
by walt_grata | 2026-02-02 23:29:00+00:00
Do not give a shit about how they excuse doing a bad job. If their tools make them that much more productive, and being the developer of those tools should allow you to make great use of them.

Use native for osx
Use .Net framework for windows
Use whatever on Linux.

Its just being lazy and ineffective. I also do not care about whatever "business" justification anyone can come up with for half assing it.
by terminalshort | 2026-02-02 23:29:25+00:00
The government is prevented from doing that by a little thing called the first amendment. "Mainstreaming far right supremacist politics" is just a hyperbolic way of saying he has politics you don't like and is exercising his freedom of the press by promoting it on the media platform he owns. Legally that is no different then the rights that every newspaper and TV station in the country has.
by marcinjachymiak | 2026-02-02 23:29:27+00:00
The ISS is in the middle of rolling out upgrades to their panels so it’s not a great comparison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roll_Out_Solar_Array

> ROSA is 20 percent lighter (with a mass of 325 kg (717 lb))[3] and one-fourth the volume of rigid panel arrays with the same performance.

And that’s not the current cutting edge in solar panels either. A company can take more risks with technology choices and iterate faster (get current state-of-the-art solar to be usable in space).

The bet they’re making is on their own engineering progress, like they did with rockets, not on sticking together pieces used on the ISS today.
by lmm | 2026-02-02 23:29:37+00:00
> There's a lot of complexity and management attention and testing and programmer costs involved in building something in house such that you need a very obvious ROI before you attempt it especially since in house efforts can fail.

I wonder how much of the benefit of AI is just companies permitting it to bypass their process overhead. (And how many will soon be discovering why that process overhead was there)
by dgxyz | 2026-02-02 23:30:43+00:00
Oh c'mon now. Damn model 3 and model S I have driven were considerably lower quality interiors than an ass end Citroen or Fiat. The Model S, a 2023 model the doors didn't even fit properly. And that was all Europe.

As for FSD, nope. Unless you redefine the word reliable.

Edit: I owned a 2018 Model S as well. Literally the worst fucking car I have ever owned or driven.
Show HN: aTerm – a terminal workspace built for AI coding workflows
by saadn92 | 2026-02-02 23:30:52+00:00
I’ve been doing more AI-assisted development lately using tools like Claude Code and Aider, and I kept running into the same friction: too many terminal tabs and split windows to manage at once — agent, shell, dev server, tests, git, etc.

So I built a small macOS app called aTerm — a terminal workspace designed around multi-pane, agent-driven coding workflows rather than single shells.

Core ideas:

- project-based terminal workspaces

- predefined layouts for common AI coding setups (AI + Shell, AI + Dev + Shell, AI + Git)

- terminals persist per project when switching

- built-in git panel for staging/committing/diffs

- split panes with drag resize

- per-pane font sizing and themes

- keyboard-first navigation (project switching, pane control)

- Stack is React + TypeScript + xterm.js on the frontend and Tauri (Rust + portable-pty) on the backend.

It’s early (v0.1.x) but already usable for my daily workflow. I’m mainly trying to see whether this workflow pattern is useful to other people doing agentic or multi-terminal development.

Repo + macOS build:
https://github.com/saadnvd1/aTerm

Happy to get feedback or criticism.
by dev1ycan | 2026-02-02 23:30:58+00:00
We just had an X8.1 CME event, I just want to point out that at any moment we could have an x40 (we had a carrington event already in 1859) or higher event and all those sats at low earth orbit would be fried and start hitting each other, if SpaceX keeps launching more it becomes incredible probable that we might hit the Kessler Syndrome, and we would legit lose access to Space for a WHILE, including all of what satellites entail.

Are we ready for that as a modern society or are we going to start enacting regulation against it? I'm sorry but people wanting internet everywhere does not justify we going back to the dark ages for a decade or more.
by MiltarizdMerica | 2026-02-02 23:31:21+00:00
I want to prefice this by saying Prettis' death seemed sooo unnecessary to me as a Monday morning quaterback.

However, I'm pretty sure you have a *far* less chance of being shot at a protest than him. He was a law-abiding gun owner who, from other reports, did not carry himself as us law abiding gun owners know we should. If you want to express anger, leave your gun at home.

So, now having said he acted incredibly irresponsible in prior incidents on film, I'd like to state the CBP officer also seems to have acted incredibly irresponsible too. I'd love to see some accountablity on behalf of those two officers involved, but I doubt we will...

Also, I see abolish ICE everywhere... It was a border patrol officer(s) that killed him. Does this change anything? Should we be abolishing CBP too?
by eduardogarza | 2026-02-02 23:31:30+00:00
From the Big Short (movie)

Jared Vennett (narration):
"In the years that followed, hundreds of bankers and rating agency's executives went to jail. The SEC was completely overhauled, and Congress had no choice but to break up the big banks and regulate the mortgage and derivatives industries."

"Just kidding. Banks took the money the American people gave them, and they used it to pay themselves huge bonuses, and lobby the Congress to kill big reform. And then they blamed immigrants and poor people, and this time even teachers."
by unyttigfjelltol | 2026-02-02 23:31:35+00:00
If the concern is the control module of the wind turbine— that’s not a nationalization and confiscation program. It might look similar in the near-term to participants, but that’s simply because they are functioning as instruments of the control module supplier, extending the inference, which isn’t a legitimate owner of the wind farms or US electrical grid anyway, and is quite unlike the fossil fuel companies in Venezuela of the 1970s.
by margorczynski | 2026-02-02 23:33:03+00:00
I would say that MS here is undervalued. They do not offer some small software package for a given business problem but the whole shebang - the OS, mail, calendar, office suite, IAM, cloud, etc. + support for each and the whole integration.

You can't realistically replace that with some LLM solution (in the near-term at least) and they can use the AIs to reduce their costs which is mostly people.
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by JeremyNT | 2026-02-02 23:33:45+00:00
It's such bullshit that we've decided this moron and others in his cohort can unilaterally reallocate such vast portions of humanity's labor at their whims.

This is an extremely stupid idea, but because of our shared delusion of capitalism and the idea that wealth accumulation at the top should be effectively limitless, this guy gets to screw around and divert actual human labor towards insane and useless projects like this rather than solving real world problems.
by foxglacier | 2026-02-02 23:33:50+00:00
His cases that I could find are where the company republishing his photos didn't attribute them to him at all so it seems fair to sue (except when it turned out to be fair use). What is this attribution error you mentioned? CC BY-SA 3.0 is pretty onerous "You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made." All 3 things are required. Maybe every CC-BY photographer should be suing newspapers for stealing their work, shouldn't they?
by consumer451 | 2026-02-02 23:33:57+00:00
tone: I don't really understand orbital mechanics, but I do understand geopolitics a bit.

1. China is very concerned about Starlink-like constellations. They want their own, but mostly they want to be able to destroy competitors. That is really hard.

2. Many countries have single ASAT capabilities. Where one projectile can hit one satellite. However, this is basically shoot a bullet, with a bullet, on different trajectories.

3. > Sure, it'd take orbital launch capabilities to lift ... how many bags of metal scrap and explosives?

If I understand orbital mechanics... those clouds of chaff would need to oppose the same orbit, otherwise it is a gentle approach. In the non-aligned orbit, it's another bullet hitting a bullet scenarios as in 2, but with a birdshot shotgun.

My entire point is that constellations in LEO take hundreds of Falcon 9's worth of mass to orbit and delta-v to destroy them, as in-orbit grenades which approach gently. This IS REALLY HARD, as far as mass to orbit, all at once! If you blow up some group of Starlink, that chaff cloud will just keep in orbit on the same axis. It will not keep blowing up other Starlinks.

The gentle grenade approach was possibly tested by the CCP here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820992
by nly | 2026-02-02 23:34:03+00:00
The over 60s in the UK are probably the most privileged demographic in the history of the nation.

Just last October the government reduced tax free savings allowances on the Cash ISA for everyone...except he over 60s.

The over 60s have iron-clad "triple locked" state pensions that are _guaranteed_ to grow unsustainably (faster than tax revenue) at the cost of the working tax payer.

We need infrastructure and productivity growth, so the over 60s can take their gold plated compulsory buyouts and go do one.
by SLWW | 2026-02-02 23:34:19+00:00
Seeing how it's Portland I don't believe they were all that peaceful; history has shown they are unhinged, only place I've ever felt threatened by protestors was in Portland and I was just passing through. Given your rhetoric you might be the type to get yourself shot by acting erratically or stirring up the crowd.

Please don't go out and protest if you are treating this like a "battle to my doorstep", you're not a martyr and not the main character.
by tax-logic | 2026-02-02 23:34:43+00:00
TL;DR: I open-sourced a US tax calculation library where every calculation cites its legal authority (IRC sections, Publications, Forms). Looking for tax professionals to review the logic and help catch errors.

Why I built this

Tax software is a black box. You enter numbers, it spits out a result, and you have no idea if the math is correct. I wanted to create something where:

Every calculation cites its legal authority

The community can audit and fix errors

Anyone can verify the math against IRS publications

What it covers

Federal: 2025 income tax brackets, capital gains (0%/15%/20%), self-employment tax, NIIT, QBI deduction, AMT

State: 16 state PTET programs (NY, CA, NJ, CT, TX, etc.), CA Mental Health Tax, TX Margin Tax

Specialized: Crypto tax, real estate professional status, international tax (FEIE, FTC, FBAR)

2025 OBBBA updates: New $40k SALT cap, tips/overtime deductions, updated child tax credit

What I need help with

Verify calculations - Are the formulas correct?

Find edge cases - AMT interactions, phase-outs, etc.

Improve citations - Did I cite the correct IRC sections?

Disclaimer: This is NOT tax advice. It's open-source code for educational and verification purposes.
by wffurr | 2026-02-02 23:35:01+00:00
You already dump waste hot air into your kitchen from the refrigerator during the summer. Is this much different?

It does seem a little silly to have these chains of heat pumps all working in various directions. I read about "cold district heat" in a sibling comment which circulated lukewarm water to use as a heat sink or source with heat pumps. Maybe something similar could be done with a water or refrigerant loop through the house. Probably not economical to do all the plumbing though.
by tyg13 | 2026-02-02 23:35:40+00:00
It all basically boils down to: in order to dissipate heat, you need something to dissipate heat into, e.g. air, liquid, etc. Even if you liquid cool the GPUs, where is the heat going to go?

On Earth, you can vent the heat into the atmosphere no problem, but in space, there's no atmosphere to vent to, so dissipating heat becomes a very, very difficult problem to solve. You can use radiators to an extent, but again, because no atmosphere, they're orders of magnitude less effective in space. So any kind of cooling array would have to be huge, and you'd also have to find some way to shade them, because you still have to deal with heat and other kinds of radiation coming from the Sun.

It's easier to just keep them on Earth.
by piskov | 2026-02-02 23:35:42+00:00
Now tell me how you heat dissipate all this. Not that there is a lot of air or water in space.

Not that you would want 500+ square meters just for cooling of 200KW

And, mind you, it won’t be a simple copper radiator

https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/473486main_i...
by crabmusket | 2026-02-02 23:35:46+00:00
Solar modules you can buy for your house usually have quoted power ratings at "max STC" or Standard Testing Conditions, which are based on insolation on Earth's surface.

https://wiki.pvmet.org/index.php?title=Standard_Test_Conditi...

So, a "400W panel" is rated to produce 400W at standard testing conditions.

I'm not sure how relevant that is to the numbers being thrown around in this thread, but thought I'd provide context.