MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hyperadvanced | 2026-02-07 04:55:34+00:00
Fwiw I’m not making a comment on companies which have transitioned from private to public or doing any sort of strategic analysis related to that. I’m merely saying if we index on publicly traded companies which have made substantial AI investments, the story isn’t super clear, i.e. as an investor there is not yet a solid positive thesis for the economics of LLM that would rate the tech as a buy. It doesn’t help that information is sparse here and that AI investments in general is clustered around a few megacap stocks with other interests outside of AI writ large
by nabilt | 2026-02-07 04:56:08+00:00
Very cool project. Congrats. I will be trying this out.

Two other project I saw that are somewhat related for those interested:

1. reddit community (r/xteinkereader) building an OS like ebook reader app for a small chinese ereader based on esp32-s3

2. Linux port for the esp32-s3. Interestingly, the S3 has an MMU but I don't think it was used in this project.

https://github.com/ESP32DE/Boot-Linux-ESP32S3-Playground?tab...
by palmotea | 2026-02-07 04:56:58+00:00
> That’s a bit too cynical for me. After all, yes, your boss is not paying you for sipping lattes, but for producing value for the company. If there is a tool that maximises your output, why wouldn’t he want you to use that to great efficiency?

Sitting in a cafe enjoying a latte is not "producing value for the company." If having "5 agents to generate a new SAAS-product" matches your non-AI capacity and gives you enough free time to relax in a cafe, he's going to want to you run 50 agents generating 5 new SAAS products, until you hit your capacity.

If he doesn't need 5 new SAAS products, just one, then he's going to fire you or other members of your team.

Think of it this way: you're a piece of equipment to your boss, and every moment he lets you sit idle (on the clock) is money lost. He wants to run that piece of equipment as hard as he can, to maximize his profit.

That's labor under capitalism.
by simonw | 2026-02-07 04:58:38+00:00
How do you feel about software engineers who build open source libraries?

Open source has been responsible for enormous productivity boosts in our industry, because we don't all have to build duplicates of exactly the same thing time and time again.

But think of all of the jobs that were lost by people who would otherwise been employed building the 500th version of a CSS design system, or a template engine, or code to handle website logins!

What makes AI tools different? (And I actually do agree that they feel different, but I'm interested in hearing arguments stronger than "it feels different".)
by jiggawatts | 2026-02-07 04:58:56+00:00
I’m personally convinced that at least for physics we have sufficient data for the next big theoretical breakthrough and we lack only the imagination and the computer power required to numerically validate the maths through simulations.

It feels an awful lot like the decade before Einstein’s landmark papers on quantum mechanics and relativity.

Watch how people like Terrence Tao et al are transforming how mathematics is done: with AI assistance and the Lean theorem prover, at a level of collaboration and consistency never before possible.

Something similar is just around the corner for the other sciences, the ability to mechanise the integration of vast tracts of previously disconnected facts and insights.

Surely something of value will pop out of the result…
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-07 04:59:10+00:00
I'm not sure how causality works on that one. Netflix made great stuff, back when streaming was still a small market, then they got big and started making trash.

It's not like they weren't trying to attract everyone when they were releasing content worth watching. Maybe it's because they didn't have any feedback yet on what works, so they couldn't even try to make safe bets, instead creating a little of everything, with most of it being bland, but a surprising portion being top-tier.
by phmagic | 2026-02-07 05:00:56+00:00
Congrats! I tried it and some feedback:

1. Every action seems slower than Figma and Sketch-my main tool
2. Some short cuts didn't seem to to work, like how I can't copy and paste a canvas. It was hard for me to forego muscle memory
3. Is there a way to try it without signing up for an account? Like a sandbox? I tried to delete my account but because I logged in via Google and it requires me to enter a password (I don't know), I can't delete.
by lifestyleguru | 2026-02-07 05:01:09+00:00
The same with medical doctors. Funnily once in financial subreddit someone claiming to be doctor from maybe Croatia asked for financial or early retirement advice, but the post was a word salad with misspellings and errors. Commenters immediately reacted that their writing is as illegible as probably their handwriting is, by the way the person reacted one can see that's really a doctor.
by 8fu8uf8 | 2026-02-07 05:01:49+00:00
> If a developer cannot be bothered with answering why the code exists, why bother to work with them?

Most people can't answer why they themselves exist, or justify why they are taking up resources rather than eating a bullet and relinquishing their body-matter.

According to the philosophy herein, they are therefore worthless and not worth interacting with, right?
by sgentle | 2026-02-07 05:01:52+00:00
At some point, every man comes face to face with the lie of his potency. We're told our willingness to turn ourselves into ruthless avatars of purpose makes us powerful. Unstoppable. We can do anything if the call is great enough. Is it suspicious that the call takes the voice of more powerful men? Pay it no mind. The world is yours for the taking.

Then, one day, the tide comes in. You learn what old men know. What women know. What every victim of circumstance knows. Sometimes the world just happens to you.
by IhateAI | 2026-02-07 05:02:42+00:00
It liberates those who have massive resources to run gigantic models at whatever scale they want.

Corporations and billionaires will get Ti-Nspires we get Ti-83s.

I do not agree that inference will get more affordable in time to prevent harm. It will cause way more problems with the devaluation of labor before it starts to solve those problems, and in that period they will solidify their control over society.

We already see it in how ML is being used on a vast scale to build advanced surveillance infrastructure. Lets not build the advanced calculators for them for free in open source please, they'd like nothing better. I wrote a lot more in the comments above also.

If anyone has time, this is required reading imho:
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/r...
by lurk2 | 2026-02-07 05:03:47+00:00
You don’t necessarily need it to learn during the game, it would be enough for it to learn between games. If you’ve played the game long enough there are behaviors you can exploit that wouldn’t work against a human player. They iterated on the AI in Beyond the Sword and fixed some of the more abusable mechanics in Civilization V (e.g. by introducing diplomatic penalties when you camp units next to an AI’s borders), but it’s just inevitable that once you’ve played a game long enough you will find these kinds of exploitable patterns.

The customization available in IV makes it basically infinitely replayable, but the AI makes the trajectory of each game too predictable if you understand the mechanics well enough.

Lots of old strategy games have been revived by introducing new factions that change the game’s meta; imagine if this process was automated by training the AI on recorded games from the entire playerbase, or on games recorded locally to adapt to the user’s unique style of play.
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-07 05:04:13+00:00
> How is this any diffent than when Democrats put finding into liberal NGOs and charities?

For one, I have to repeat yet again that wrong plus wrong doesn't equal right it equals twice as wrong. It's time to learn proper math already!

For another, what NGOs did the Dems fund? Do you have links so we can compare the causes supported by the Dems and the nationalism which is now being pushed inside and out.

All causes aren't the same, they can be very different as the current case shows.

Nationalism is a tool of destruction which works both domestically and internationally, those who know and think about history and some recent events understand that, it isn't new or a secret - that's why many European countries are spooked and they aren't mistaken.
by satvikpendem | 2026-02-07 05:04:57+00:00
That's literally the UX I'm talking about and that's what other companies copied too. To be clear, I'm not (just) talking about how heroku.com looks and works, I'm talking about the entire user experience including git push to deploy, so I believe you are agreeing with me here. That is why I said VPS with Dokploy or Coolify and so on have the same UX, both in the command line with git push deploys supported as well as (now, at least) a vastly superior website user experience, akin to Vercel.
by impossiblecode | 2026-02-07 05:05:13+00:00
I've seen a few other solvers out there - this a processing / java version that uses Knuth's dancing links, and some pre-pruning and feasibility checks (DLX doesn't readily allow all the constraints to be converted into a sparse matrix for solving). Generally finds a solution for any given puzzle in a few milliseconds. Or up to 1.5-2 seconds to get all solutions for some of the larger puzzles, depending on the constraints (the hardest puzzle so far has 2.764m possible solutions)
by afatparakeet | 2026-02-07 05:05:58+00:00
I mean I understand the OpenClaw concerns and extremely valid security issues.

However this article is almost entirely incorrect about the usage model OpenClaw is leveraging with signal.

The design that OpenClaw recommends is that you "Use a separate Signal number for the bot"

In other words has its own dedicated signal account in which you white list your personal signal account so you can message OpenClaw.
by arjie | 2026-02-07 05:06:03+00:00
Thank you for sharing the story. I appreciate your taking the time to write out all of these things despite having to also do the work to combat the condition.

About the kids thing: Genetic causes for these are super hard to isolate but if, perchance, science sees fit to give us the information then you do have embryo selection available to make this choice safely.

Rooting for the two of you. And just wanted to thank you for the story. The sum of anecdotes often is the source for good hypotheses for science. I think you’re doing a good thing sharing what you’re doing.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-07 05:06:17+00:00
Oh God, Yes. Now, in my favorited posts and comments.

For keys, there is only one place: the Keyholder wall-mounted near the main door, while still visible from the main Hall. Not easy to pick and go by “guests” without being seen by someone, but easy for residents to just walk out with one. I got the exact same ones from Amazon and wall-mounted them in all the homes where I serve as Printer-Repair Guy. 10+ years, I kinda have trained every family member’s muscle memory, “Keys go there and only there.” ;-)

Add/Edit: I also have a sticker I printed stuck to the Keyholder, in Monica’s words from Friends, “Got the Keys?”
by mav5431 | 2026-02-07 05:07:24+00:00
"OP here. I’ve been working on a passive signal triangulation array (running on RPi 5) specifically for high-clutter environments like the Cascades.
Standard TDOA (Time Difference of Arrival) kept failing due to multipath errors in the dense terrain. I found that by hard-coding a .72% variance offset (\Delta = 0.0072) into the correlation kernel—effectively treating the 'noise' as a constant phase-shift rather than random error—I could achieve a sub-millisecond lock where Bayesian models failed.
It’s a work in progress, but the repo contains the core logic for this 'Brucker Constant.' Curious if anyone else in SDR/EW has played with fixed-variance targeting?"
by neogoose | 2026-02-07 05:07:39+00:00
100% POSIX and glibc compatible globbing library for C, Zig, and Rust that is faster and supports all the modern globbing formats (more than libc and rust glob crate)

It supports all the formats like * and {a,b} expansion as long as have a very efficient syscall and SIMD optimization for faster processing
by nosuchthing | 2026-02-07 05:08:20+00:00
New York City had hybrid in-person and remote as an option, so only about 4 months were remote for most students. Seems like a perfect A/B test case to test the theory that a remote learning was actually associated with cognitive decline 5 years later. Meanwhile every year since 2020 there have been studies published from nearly every country on the neurological and cognitive damage from mild covid cases. Seems to be more of a cognitive dissonance issue, that people don't want to confront the elephant in the room. 100 years ago when TB and Polio were taken more seriously than today, the common solution was fresh air. Schools today are even more sealed off to the point where a simple lack of oxygen starts to noticeably reduce cognitive ability after a few minutes.
by Animats | 2026-02-07 05:08:24+00:00
Right. It's like pushing a nut along a screw by turning the screw.

This article is about exotic screw/nut assemblies which have lower friction, longer life, and more strength than ordinary screws. The recirculating ball screw used for automobile steering is the classic of such mechanisms.[1] Both roller and ball screws substitute rolling for sliding, always a win against friction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recirculating_ball
by raymondhou | 2026-02-07 05:08:26+00:00
hi! i'm a current junior at yale, recruiting for 2026 summer internships in either NY or SF

location: new haven, ct

remote: no -- looking for either hybrid or in-person

willing to relocate: yes

technologies: python (pytorch, fastapi, flask, retrieval systems, recommender models), ts/js, postgres, docker, next.js, react/rn, bash, git, swift, LLMs

resume: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/u39hrekituu7y6oeu99hv/rhou_re...

email: raymond.hou@yale.edu
by abalone | 2026-02-07 05:08:45+00:00
The argument here is simply over your false claim that "You don’t need to do anything to keep panels with a significant angle clear of dust in deserts." Your only source does not, in fact, establish that, and cementation is in fact a challenge with desert solar -- something that happens much faster than every five years.

Repeating unsupported claims and declaring yourself the winner does not, it turns out, actually help you win an argument.
by louprado | 2026-02-07 05:09:26+00:00
Agreed that initially referring to it as "brain tumor" would have been fine.

Thanks for sharing your story too, perhaps this condition isn't rare. Coincidentally I once went into bar and vaguely recognized a roommate I hadn't seen in years. His appearance had changed and he now had remarkable Hulk like features. I restrained myself from asking but I honestly thought he looked great.

We chatted and he shared that he had "brain surgery" 2 weeks(?) prior to remove a tumor on his pituitary gland. He just woke up one day and his vision was distorted. The next day he woke up blind which lead to him getting a diagnosis and surgery. The tumor had also caused pituitary disfunction which induced giantism.

If I recall, the surgery was performed going behind his nose through an incision in his mouth above the posterior of his upper lip which differs slightly from the approach in the OP. It's amazingly fortunate that this is an option given it looks inoperable from the MRI.

I'll also share that towards the end of our conversation he thanked me for not commenting on his appearance and that he was self-conscious. It's compelling, especially when someone looks good, to mention it, but there's no need to lead with it.
by rramadass | 2026-02-07 05:09:54+00:00
For a detailed understanding of the psychological harm and detrimental long-lasting effects of explicit image annotation see the following documentary (not specific to India). Undercover reporter does annotation of explicit images for AI but is so traumatized by what he sees that he quits in two weeks;

The "Modern Day Slaves" Of The AI Tech World. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSZFUiElls
by apothegm | 2026-02-07 05:11:45+00:00
Email works very well for this. I do wish my neighborhood association would move to a Google group, because right now it’s a massive CC list. Mail hosts tend not to like that very much, and it’s not the most privacy-minded solution.

Several other active communities I’m a member of are on mailing lists. The one that switched to a forum platform with email notifications of new threads died fast.
by acomjean | 2026-02-07 05:11:52+00:00
Humans are very good at processing the images that come into our brain. Each eye has a “blind spot” but we don’t notice. Our eyes adjust color (fluorescent lights are weird) and the amount of light coming in. When we look through a screen door or rain and just ignore it, or if you look outside a moving vehicle to the side you can ignore the foreground.

If you increase the distance of stereo cameras you probably can increase depth perception.

But a lidar or radar sensor is just sensing distance.
by chongli | 2026-02-07 05:13:11+00:00
It's not that hard to do this, the chess engine crowd figured it out back in 2001.

They really didn't. No one likes playing against weaker chess engines. They play perfectly like a higher-rated engine and then randomly make an obvious blunder. They don't play naturally like a human player of that rating.

The weaker AIs in Civ games do a far better job at "playing to lose" than low rated chess engines. It's not even close!
by ameliaquining | 2026-02-07 05:15:10+00:00
I think a lot of people are under the misconception that the Salesforce acquisition happened a lot later than it really did. In particular, I think people often implicitly date it to the late-2010s-ish period when Heroku's product emphasis got more visibly enterprisey, and in particular when it started putting integrations with Salesforce's other products front and center.
by dj0k3r | 2026-02-07 05:15:42+00:00
The value for money is crazy on these boards, in my opinion. I'm planning on using these as a cheap replacement to a KVM. Flashing esp bus pirate (https://github.com/geo-tp/ESP32-Bus-Pirate) and leaving it connected to whatever device I want to control ( remotely in my case), is quite handy. The power draw is negligible so I just leave it always on connected to my wifi.
by Brajeshwar | 2026-02-07 05:16:39+00:00
LOL! I also found that our dear friend ChrisArchitect, sees them (maybe s/he uses a tool), and I just refer to them to see duplicates I might have missed/submitted. I see no harm, and it is a thankless job. We also know that sometimes duplicates are the only way to resurface interesting and curious articles.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-07 05:19:30+00:00
I keep everything simple, my complete orchestration is in a deploy.sh script that can run locally on my Mac or in AWS CodeBuild that is just either a provided Docker container or one that you can customize. My yaml file is simple - bash deploy.sh. It works anywhere - Azure containers jobs or GitHub Actions and any other build system that I can just hand it a Docker container
by Animats | 2026-02-07 05:19:52+00:00
A degree in mechatronics gets you up to speed on the electromechanical side.

Here are some simple online courses that come with basic robotics kits.[1]
It's not free, but prices are in the $250 - $600 range, so it's not a big decision like choosing a college or career. This is a way to find out if you want to do this sort of thing.

[1] https://www.skyfilabs.com/mechatronics-online-courses
by jandrewrogers | 2026-02-07 05:20:25+00:00
Yes, S2 is a congruent DGGS. Unfortunately, it kind of straddles the analytics and visualization property space, being not particularly good at either. It made some design choices, like being projective, that limit its generality as an analytic DGGS. In fairness, its objectives were considerably more limited when it was created. The potential use cases have changed since then.
by mjevans | 2026-02-07 05:20:32+00:00
NT4 started with a kernel mode, user mode, security model and drivers had to be written and validated accordingly.

9x, me, and even compatibility parts of XP (up to some service patch IIRC? Might have been SP2) would still allow dos mode realtime BS for any driver that wanted.

I loath all the dang software modems too cheep to ship a decent device in a single unit and instead slice off the user's already constrained resources.
by queenkjuul | 2026-02-07 05:20:41+00:00
You don't; you import 3-4 libraries that do what you need, each of them imports 10-30 libraries they need, next thing you know, you've got 100 dependencies.

I don't really see the big deal--for as long as I've been using Linux, which is over 20 years now, installing many packages requires pulling in dozens of other packages, themselves perhaps composed of multiple libraries... The problem is they come from cargo and not a distro? I get the problem with the language repos being more prone to supply chain attack than distro repos, but i don't really get the impression it was ever normal to build complete apps without dependencies.
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-07 05:22:38+00:00
"Stack Overflow that reads your codebase" — perfect. But Stack Overflow is
stateless. Agent sessions aren't.

One session's scaffold assumes one pattern. Second session scaffold contradicts it. You reviewed both in isolation. Both looked fine. Neither knows about the other.

Reviewing AI code per-session is like proofreading individual chapters of a novel nobody's reading front to back. Each chapter is fine. The plot makes no sense.
by Stratoscope | 2026-02-07 05:23:57+00:00
> Regular branch banks have stuff go missing from the safety deposit boxes shockingly regularly. The locks aren’t particularly secure and various people are able to access them.

My late wife had a safe deposit box in the Almaden Valley (San Jose) branch of US Bank. Her key to the box was nowhere to be found. So I had to get the box drilled open.

This would normally require a hefty fee. But the branch was moving to a new location, so they invited customers to make an appointment to show up a Saturday with proper ID for a lock drilling party.

I showed my ID and the death certificate, and we went into the safe to have the lock drilled.

But there was no real drilling involved. The locksmith had a little handheld gadget that she pushed into the lock, gave it a little twist, and the door came right open.

The ironic part? All that was in there were a few pieces of costume jewelry, worth maybe $50 in total.

She was paying more than that per year for the box rental, and if I'd had to pay for the "drilling" it would probably be more than that.