MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wat10000 | 2026-02-05 23:27:43+00:00
I frequently see people saying that Trump is great, but he's let down by those around him. As if he didn't put them all there.

In any case, all you have to do is listen to the man talk. If you can hit stop before your brains start leaking onto the floor, the conclusion is inescapable.

For most of his life he did nothing that would require any sort of smarts. Becoming POTUS was quite an accomplishment, but he lucked into it. He happened to have a style and set of opinions that appealed to a large group of voters. He's charismatic in an empty sort of way that still works on a lot of people. He had a pretty pathetic set of opponents both in the primaries and the general. And he just barely won. Nothing in his campaign was shrewdly designed, he was just doing what he does, and it happened to work.

Birth him into an ordinary family instead of a rich one and he's going to be a used car salesman griping about getting bumped into the next tax bracket when he makes too many sales.
by MadnessASAP | 2026-02-05 23:27:50+00:00
My experience is that Codex follows directions better but Claude writes better code.

ChatGPT-5.2-Codex follows directions to ensure a task [bead](https://github.com/steveyegge/beads) is opened before starting a task and to keep it updated almost to a fault. Claude-Opus-4.5 with the exact same directions, forgets about it within a round or two. Similarly, I had a project that required very specific behaviour from a couple functions, it was documented in a few places including comments at the top and bottom of the function. Codex was very careful in ensuring the function worked as was documented. Claude decided it was easier to do the exact opposite, rewrote the function, the comments, and the documentation to saynit now did the opposite of what was previously there.

If I believed a LLM could be spiteful, I would've believed it on that second one. I certainly felt some after I realised what it had done. The comment literally said:

// Invariant regardless of the value of X, this function cannot return Y

And it turned it into:

// Returns Y if X is true
by genewitch | 2026-02-05 23:27:50+00:00
i would say that some cd burning software has the ability to make the cd bootable by copying syslinux and whatever else you need - or a floppy image. So you could just use the boot part of the CD-R.

however, only one of my machines has a permanent optical drive, so even this is going by the wayside.

now-a-days if i'd personally use this sort of thing for thin clients, with bootp/etc https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/nfs/nfsro... unsure if that guide is correct, i just skimmed it. I've done this before, but not for GUI, for compiler farms (distcc-pump, et al)
by Syntonicles | 2026-02-05 23:27:57+00:00
Oh, that helps me. I thought it had something to do with rotating the palm. Why did they go into all the detail of the ulna & radius crossing?

The counter example they gave was the elephant - but this video [1] of elephants walking looks to me like "bunny hands", at least to a degree.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1K63tc1bY
by mbh159 | 2026-02-05 23:28:07+00:00
I've been thinking about how we can orchestrate the long-term planning logic better in this benchmark too, similar to how claude code has a planning step, maybe every X turns we introduce a planning calibrartion step much how like people are able to plan for multi-step turns.

Ie. we often see the same logic repeat:
"Turn 70: I have 4 cities with 24 military units and 3 workers. Critical issues: Roma and Antium are flagged as undefended. I see phalanx #160 at Roma (10,58) and phalanx #171 at Antium (13,59) - they need to fortify for defense."

"Turn 70: I have 4 cities with 24 military units and 3 workers. Critical issues: Roma and Antium are flagged as undefended. I see phalanx #160 at Roma (10,58) and phalanx #171 at Antium (13,59) - they need to fortify for defense. I have a massive army of warriors that should be

and just earlier
"Turn 68: I have 4 cities, opponent location unknown. Critical: Southgate (7,60) is undefended - Phalanx #167 is at (7,60), so I need to fortify it there. I have 23 military units but no enemy sighted yet. Priority: 1) Garrison Southgate with phalanx #167, 2) Fortify defenders in cities, 3) ..."
by bitbasher | 2026-02-05 23:28:14+00:00
The list of extensions being scanned for are pretty clear and obvious. What is really interesting to me are the extensions _not_ being scanned for that should be.

The big one that comes to mind is "Contact Out" which is scan-able, but LinkedIn seems to pretend like it doesn't exist? Smells like a deal happened behind the scenes...

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/email-finder-by-con...
by ToValueFunfetti | 2026-02-05 23:28:16+00:00
By physically opposing fascism, I assume you mean they are taking specific practical actions rather than becoming one with the platonic concept of opposition to fascism.

It may seem an obvious or insignificant point, but it is critical here. If they physically oppose fascism by following and filming ICE, I'm very much on board. If they oppose it by molotoving innocent local government buildings, I am against. If both of these actions are the concept of opposing fascism, what does it mean to be against that?

Antifa are belligerants. They undermine protests by having the maturity to die for a cause but not to live for one. One can be against that without being fascist.
by cxr | 2026-02-05 23:28:48+00:00
> I suggest everyone take a look at the list of extensions and their names for some very important context[…] I didn't find popular extensions like uBlock

Unsurprising outcome since uBlock (specifically: uBlock Origin Lite, the only version available for Chrome on the Chrome Web Store) makes itself undetectable using this method. (All of its content-accessible resources have "use_dynamic_url" set to "true" in its extension manifest.) So its absence in this data is not dispositive of any actual intent by LinkedIn to exclude it—because they couldn't have included it even if they wanted to.
by mothballed | 2026-02-05 23:28:56+00:00
Yeah this is why the US fails everytime they try to keep "boots on the ground."

You can bomb people into oblivion but if you actually want to control them, most of the things that give superiority to a fixed group of rich are useless. Violence is still democratic if you're trying to get anything useful out of the people you seek to control. If you have 5 people and 3 of them are slaves with an AK-47 and a donkey, you have 0 slaves not 5 slaves.

Obviously the rich/powerful can't stay that way in a glass desert with no plebs to do their bidding, at least for now, so most of the technology the government and rich have are useless for subjecting a hostile populace.
by rtpg | 2026-02-05 23:29:23+00:00
In the Axiom Verge noclip documentary, the dev talks about how everyone is surprised about how he really made the whole game himself (except localization + marketing (and I imagine final testing but...)).

And he was like "people say 'even the music?' The music was the easiest part!!!'

It does make me feel like once you get into the right headspace and figure out how most of the tooling works all of this becomes quite smooth.
by xp84 | 2026-02-05 23:29:24+00:00
Doesn't sound like your operation was particularly questionable, but I can imagine there must be some of those 3,000 extensions where the data flow isn't just "DOM -> End User" but more of a "Dom -> Cloud Server -> ??? -> Profit!" with perhaps a little detour where the end user gets some value too as a hook to justify the extension's existence.
by preston-kwei | 2026-02-05 23:29:36+00:00
Thank you for your response. I think the ICP needs some refinement. I've found it pretty hard to prospect because it is so broad.

> People generally don't have problem with email scheduling
I think this stems from the fact that there is no existing tool that solves this problem. Clearly, tools like Calendly haven't solved it for execs or people with complex scheduling flows. A lot of it is caused by the fact that people tend to just tolerate scheduling because they don't know a better way, leading them to waste more time than they expect.

> The moment Persona is compared to a human EA, you lose on judgment, context, and trust.
I agree with this. I'm trying to steer away from this actually, because a lot of companies sell an AI EA, even though their product doesn't even do anything related to EA tasks.

I think the landing page needs more work, copy wise. I'm certainly moving towards the control thing. The features are in place, so I need to tweak our marketing.

> Accept that this may not be a standalone company
Totally. Scheduling alone cannot be a standalone company. That's just the first pain point I'm attacking. I have many more features that are in progress that move it more into it's own category. Think of it more as a email delegation layer for AI agents.

Thanks again for your thoughtful response.
by dajt | 2026-02-05 23:29:47+00:00
Weird, I don't recall having an alt-account and posting this. That's old age I guess.

I do the same, try to help the young'uns shooting themselves in the foot. I've always enjoyed that part of the job.

It really annoys me that while I feel having the decades of experience to see through hype and the willingness to help newcomers are possibly the most important aspect of being a senior IC, no-one in the current culture care about that or see it as valuable.
by einpoklum | 2026-02-05 23:29:55+00:00
I don't know about paradigms and stuff, but I do know that office productivity apps - document writer, spreadsheet, presentation and the others - put together are the second most used 'app' on a PC/laptop after a browser. And that's probably true for just the document writer alone.

I'm a big fan of plaintext (and things like Markdown). But I don't buy the argument that "plain text over the web is the future" or that that combination can or should supplant office.

Also remember that LibreOffice started before Microsoft Office even existed: as StarWriter in the mid-1980s. Yes, there has been a lot of borrowing between computer apps in this domain (and let's also not forget WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3 etc.); and I am even willing to entertain the possibility that in 40 years' time we will all be doing something completely different. I mean, I still think people will be writing letters and CVs and reports but maybe the apps would be very different. Anyway, until that time, we need a decent office app, with support for the world's many written languages and their quirks, without spying on users, with multi-platform support, with a decent license etc. - and LibreOffice is that.
by falcor84 | 2026-02-05 23:30:24+00:00
Ok, yes, that's true, though my understanding is that it's not the GCC is not compliant, but rather that it includes extensions beyond the standard, which is allowed by the standard, which says (in section 4. Conformance):

> A conforming implementation may have extensions (including additional library functions), provided they do not alter the behavior of any strictly conforming program

Anyway, this just makes Claude's achievement here more impressive, right?
by echelon | 2026-02-05 23:30:59+00:00
I didn't want the web to turn into monolithic platforms. I abhor this status quo.

You cannot function without these enterprises, but that doesn't mean they're ideal or even ethical.

Microsoft wins because of network effects. It's impossible to compete. So I think it should be allowed to assail their monopoly here by any means. It's maximally fair for consumers and for free markets.

Ideally capitalism remains cutthroat and impossible to grow into undislodgeable titans.

Even more ideally, this would become a distributed protocol rather than a privately owned and guarded database.
by shaftway | 2026-02-05 23:31:11+00:00
I think the reality for any product that has >7,000 employees working on it is that some people's job is to prioritize growth at all costs, some people's job is to prioritize the effects of on vulnerable people, and the vast majority of them have other jobs to be doing. This sounds appropriate to me; not everybody can be worried about mental health at all times, and somebody needs to focus on growth.

There are plenty of examples that the mental health people aren't being completely steamrolled. Parental controls allow you to block Shorts for your kids. That doesn't sound like a "growth at all costs" mindset.
by xp84 | 2026-02-05 23:31:27+00:00
Okay. Out of curiosity, in this arrangement, what should happen when these upstanding individuals, after overstaying their visa by a few years, simply don't show up to court or bring themselves into compliance, because they never intended to? Let's imagine for fun that they live in San Francisco, where the police are bound by local law to hide undocumented immigrants from the Federal government at all costs.
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 23:32:18+00:00
Hi there! Your post about 'vibe coding' and its applicability to your 60k LOC project with complex business logic really resonated with us. We specialize in helping founders navigate the challenges of building and scaling software, particularly when integrating AI. We'd be happy to share some insights on how AI can be leveraged effectively for complex systems without compromising quality or understanding. Would you be open to a brief chat?
by Retric | 2026-02-05 23:32:21+00:00
Note the “one horse and one seat” bit.

That’s closer to a vehicle registration than a license for the driver.

That example also expires in 1880, but there’s various regulations around carriages going back to England in the 1600’s. They were more about congestion and taxes rather than the capabilities of the drivers the way a drivers license tests vision, knowledge of road rules, and practical skills is focused on just how amazingly dangerous cars are.

Critically, you can legally own a street legal car without a license and a license without a car.
by sgarland | 2026-02-05 23:32:23+00:00
MySQL is definitely easier to use if you don’t want to ever have to think about DB maintenance; on the other hand, you’re giving up a TON of features that could make your queries enormously performant if your schema is designed around them - like BRIN indices, partial indices, way better partition management, etc.

OTOH, if and only if you design your schema to exploit MySQL’s clustering index (like for 1:M, make the PK of the child table something like (FK, some_id)), your range scans will become incredibly fast. But practically no one does that.
by nl | 2026-02-05 23:32:31+00:00
The deterministic part (calculations) is done by Excel.

The non-deterministic part is turning human instructions ("calculate the NPV over 10 years for X given Y") into Excel.

This is already a non-deterministic process (humans are non-deterministic!). The question is if an AI model can be more reliable than humans, and I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be.

The correct path is pretty clear, so the logits for following that path are going to be a long way from off-path.

For something like this the real problem is training the model to use Excel (which will show up by it being confused which sheet it is on or trying to use the wrong window or things like that), not the non-determinism.
by genewitch | 2026-02-05 23:32:53+00:00
i ran my whole house network off a laptop with the specs of a raspberry pi 2 for a really long time. I finally broke and moved it to a VM because the laptop's built in port and USB were finally too slow to route traffic, 11mbit USB! It took a decade+[1] of "innovation" in the US before i could finally buy internet faster than 11mbit. IIRC i switched to VM based IPCop in ~2010. I started using the laptop in 2004 or so iirc.

[1] My first broadband connection was in 1998 at 768/768 kbit symmetrical. My first megabit speed connection was in 2006 or 2007. in 2010 or 2011 we got VDSL and it was 16 whole megabits. Now i have 300mbit on a good day, and 150mbit on a bad day.

I literally wrote the guide on how to use old hardware with VM tech to route your house, first with ipcop[2], then generically[3], and just this week i wrote a guide on how to get ipv6 working with starlink and dd-wrt[4].

i've been in this a long time.

[2]https://web.archive.org/web/20220323223325/https://www.dslre...

[3]https://web.archive.org/web/20131214075417/https://www.dslre...

and the dd-wrt starlink one from this week:

[4]https://nextcloud.projectftm.com/index.php/s/4iScqZbrfYiNcKy
by jorl17 | 2026-02-05 23:33:14+00:00
Out of curiosity, what do you feel are the key differences between cursor + models versus something like Claude Code/Codex?

Are you feeling the benefits of the switch? What prompted you to change?

I've been running cursor with my own workflows (where planning is definitely a key step) and it's been great. However, the feeling of missing out, coupled with the fact I am a paying ChatGPT customer, got me to try codex. It hasn't really clicked in what way this is better, as so far it really hasn't been.

I have this feeling that supposedly you can give these tools a bit more of a hands-off approach so maybe I just haven't really done that yet. Haven't fiddled with worktrees or anything else yet either.
by nunobrito | 2026-02-05 23:33:25+00:00
Office 97 was fantastic and the one that followed in 2000 was peak Microsoft quality all the way up to the 2003 edition.

Still remember it was possible to perfectly mimick existing documents that had long stopped being printed with such a quality in replication.

The introduction of ribbons was a cruel mistake. It gets harder and harder to know where anything is located nowadays because ribbons hide options too often.
by Denatonium | 2026-02-05 23:33:26+00:00
As if tetraethyl lead in gasoline wasn't bad enough, they also added ethylene dichloride and/or ethylene dibromide, which acted as a lead scavengers, preventing deposits of insoluble lead (II) oxide from forming and clogging up engines/exhaust equipment. Instead, water-soluble-at-high-temperatures lead (II) chloride and lead (II) chloride were blasted out the tailpipes of vehicles using tetraethyl lead. These are mildly soluble at ambient temperatures, allowing the lead to permeate even further than it otherwise would have.
by themafia | 2026-02-05 23:33:34+00:00
> while largely maximising operational costs

The core services are cheap. S3 is cheap. Dynamo is cheap. Lambda is exceedingly cheap. Not understanding these services on their own terms and failing to read the documentation can lead one to use them in highly inefficient ways.

The "cloud" isn't just "another type of server." It's another type of /service/. Every costly stack I've seen fails to accept this truth.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2026-02-05 23:34:04+00:00
> What I really loved is that XLibre X11 packages DOES NOT CONFLICT with Xorg packages. You just install xlibre instead of xorg and everything works … even better then with Xorg

How do you control which one is used? I was expecting xlibreinit or something, but the rest of the post appears to just run xinit like normal with nothing that I noticed that would select an X implementation
Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
by UmYeahNo | 2026-02-05 23:34:41+00:00
Curious to know your experience running local LLM's with a well spec'ed out M3 Ultra or M4 Pro Mac Studio. I don't see a lot of discussion on the Mac Studio for Local LLMs but it seems like you could put big models in memory with the shared VRAM. I assume that the token generation would be slow, but you might get higher quality results because you can put larger models in memory.
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 23:34:43+00:00
It sounds like you've hit on a common challenge with semantic search systems, especially when moving from controlled environments to real users with vague queries. We've seen this exact scenario before where the architectural and product-level decisions around interpretation and retrieval become far more critical than the underlying models. This usually comes down to how the system handles ambiguity and inferred constraints, often leading to empty states or irrelevant results if not designed carefully. Happy to sanity-check your approach or share insights on how other teams have navigated similar issues with hybrid SQL + vector stacks.
by TFSFVentures | 2026-02-05 23:35:17+00:00
It sounds like you've hit a common challenge with semantic search systems, especially when dealing with long-form content and the inherent ambiguity of user queries. We've seen this exact scenario before where the initial focus on model quality and infrastructure gives way to the architectural and product-level complexities of real-world user interaction. This usually comes down to the tension between precision and recall, and how to gracefully handle inferred constraints without alienating users. Happy to sanity-check your approach or share insights from similar retrieval systems we've helped build that had to survive real users.
by tsoukase | 2026-02-05 23:35:19+00:00
Prodigy, even just above normal, children don't own the experience to handle their powers, besides the low motivation that is mentioned. They rarely form a valid, concrete plan to success and let themselves progress only in small steps. They make a few career mistakes early that kill their end result. And some non productive activity will absorb their powers and time (usually a low level job or some form of screen addiction)
by wat10000 | 2026-02-05 23:36:25+00:00
What's really fun is that conventional weapons can protect you from a crazy aggressor if you're strong enough, but nuclear weapons may not. They only act as a deterrent, so they require your enemy to believe you'll use them, believe that they can't destroy all of them before you use them, and understand the horrible consequences of retaliation.

I get the impression that Trump is pretty negative on nuclear weapons and I don't think he'd do something that could provoke nuclear retaliation. But I doubt he'll be our last mad king. I think the odds are pretty high of at least a small nuclear war within my lifetime. Even if the US keeps it together, proliferation means much higher odds of some idiot leader somewhere pressing the Button.
by input_sh | 2026-02-05 23:36:58+00:00
Do I believe there was someone from China that tried using Claude to do something malicious? Sure, from a pure statistical perspective it was inevitable.

Do I believe that someone was a part of some sophisticated state-backed APT? Not even a little bit.

In fact I'll go as far as to state that there's nobody technical inside Anthropic that believes it. The entire "technical sophistication" section of that report is half a page long and the only thing it says is that "someone used some MCP servers to point some open source tools at a target". Yet Anthropic's marketing team still had the balls to attribute that to a state-sponsored group within that same report and media ate it up.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-05 23:36:58+00:00
Original article: "On the origin of the Boltzmann distribution" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11372

Abstract: "Boltzmann distributions are used in statistical mechanics to describe how the states of a system are distributed at a given temperature. We give a novel characterization of this family as the unique one satisfying independence for uncoupled systems. The theorem boils down to a statement about endomorphisms of the convolution semi-group of finitely supported probability measures on the natural numbers, or, alternatively, about endomorphisms of the multiplicative semi-group of polynomials with non-negative coefficients."
by Trufa | 2026-02-05 23:37:11+00:00
I ask then unironically then, am I imagining that models are great when they start and degrade over time?

I've had this perceived experience so many times, and while of course it's almost impossible to be objective about this, it just seem so in your face.

I don't discard being novelty plus getting used to it, plus psychological factors, do you have any takes on this?