MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by haizhung | 2026-02-04 06:47:30+00:00
Correct. It helps by not distracting your LLM with a prompt that is, in X% of the cases, irrelevant to the task at hand.

However, when you DO need to do something special (like create a new endpoint), the LLM knows where to get more info on this.

Kinda like a library of „how to“ books.
by vessenes | 2026-02-04 06:48:42+00:00
An assassination market, at least the one we discussed, works like this - One or more people put up a bounty paid out on the death of someone. Anyone can submit a (sealed) description of the death. On death, the descriptions are opened — the one closest to the actual circumstances is paid the bounty.

One of my portfolio companies had information about contributors to these markets — I was told by my FBI contact when I got in touch that their view was the creation of the market, the funding of the market and the descriptions were all legal — they declined to follow up.
by alexneamtu | 2026-02-04 06:50:32+00:00
Fair point — I should have submitted this as a regular post rather than Show HN since there's nothing to try yet. The product is pre-development; I'm validating demand before writing code. The repo and AGPLv3 license are there to signal intent, not to mislead. I'll come back with a proper Show HN once there's something to demo.
by purplehat_ | 2026-02-04 06:51:21+00:00
I hear sentiment like this occasionally and I genuinely wonder if this is conspiracy theory stuff or if this sort of thing actually happened in the past.

I'm aware of the programs Snowden revealed, Tempora / XKeyscore / Longhaul / the like, plus I've heard J. Edgar Hoover did bad things and lots of CIA meddling internationally was bad. Still, these seem qualitatively different to the explicit blackmail you're referring to.

Do you (or someone else reading this) know of historical examples that demonstrate a pattern of this sort of thing? You can interpret "this sort of thing" as you wish.

That's a lot to ask for on the spot, so if not, I would be interested in what generally makes you approach the situation from this cynical angle, especially given that it's the FBI. In my experience, which is fairly limited but is as a US citizen, most of the time the US government mostly follows the law and doesn't do this sort of thing to citizens.
by bombela | 2026-02-04 06:51:37+00:00
It's a no-name mini PC with four HDD bays. It doesn't seem to exist anymore.

It's a weird Chinese board with a silly gen1x1 pcie link to a 4 port sata controller on a daughter board. I bet it was designed for the 2 port version of the controller and two bays. And some lhow they sold a 4 bays version. So I only have half the bandwidth required to drive the 4xHDDs. Sucks for linux raid.

Interestingly this tiny mobo also has two full speed sata ports on it, that are completely inaccessible, I am not even sure a low profile and thin sata cable can even fit in there. Maybe one day I will try to solder in place from the mobo to the daughter board.
by XorNot | 2026-02-04 06:51:44+00:00
You cannot just block out the mass of stuff and declare it'll cost exactly the launch cost, nor can you take the cost of current datacenter servers and go "they'll definitely cost the same to put in space".

A regular set of servers will straight up be destroyed if put on a rocket and launched into space: the motherboards and PCBs aren't mounted or rated to survive the vibration. The connectors and wiring isn't rated for that vibration. Sure, some probably make it, but you will lose machines from just launching them alone. Any electrolytic capacitors in there? If your system exposes them to vacuum or even just low pressure, then those likely die too. Solar panels? We can launch them obviously, there's a reason people send up expensive solar panels: because you're doing a lot of work making sure they'll physically survive the launch.

So of course, now you have to build a space-rated server frame, PCBs and GPUs. You ain't going to buying bulk H100's from Nvidia. And you have to package and mount it to get it both survive the launch and physically fit into the payload bay. Then you have to add a deployment system for it, sensors etc. And then you have to add an assembly system, because if it doesn't fit in one launch (you're proposing 250+ launches for power alone) then all of these systems need to be assembled in orbit. How are they going to be assembled? How are they going to be maneuvered? Even if you could rendezvous accurately with the construction orbit, we're talking months of drift from every little thing knocking stuff around, putting it into a spin, etc.

So either each of these is now a fully contained satellite, complete with manoeuvering system and power, or you're also needing to develop a robotic assembly system - with power and manoeuevering in order to manage and assemble all this.

And let's not forget mission control: every single one of these steps is incurring a bunch of labor costs to have people manage it. And not cheap labor costs: you're going from "guys who roll racks in and plug stuff in and can be trained up easily" to "space mission control operators".

Is this doable? Probably. Is this going to be in anyway cheaper then Earth? Not in the slightest, and it's not going to be close.
by xerzes | 2026-02-04 06:52:31+00:00
Hi HN,

I built this because reverse engineering software across multiple versions is painful. You spend hours annotating functions in version 1.07, then version 1.08 drops and every address has shifted — all your work invisible.

The core idea is a normalized function hashing system. It hashes functions by their logical structure — mnemonics, operand categories, control flow — not raw bytes or absolute addresses. When a binary is recompiled or rebased, the same function produces the same hash. All your documentation (names, types, comments) transfers automatically.

Beyond that, it's a full MCP bridge with 110 tools for Ghidra: decompilation, disassembly, cross-referencing, annotation, batch analysis, and headless/Docker deployment. It integrates with Claude, Claude Code, or any MCP-compliant client.

For context, the most popular Ghidra MCP server (LaurieWired's, 7K+ stars) has about 15 tools. This started as a fork of that project but grew into 28,600 lines of substantially different code.

Architecture:

Java Ghidra Plugin (22K LOC) → embeds HTTP server inside Ghidra
Python MCP Bridge (6.5K LOC) → 110 tools with batch optimization
Any MCP client → Claude, scripts, CI pipelines

I validated the hashing against Diablo II — dozens of patch versions, each rebuilding DLLs at different base addresses. The hash registry holds 154K+ entries, and I can propagate 1,300+ function annotations from one version to the next automatically.

The headless mode runs in Docker (docker compose up) for batch processing and CI integration — no GUI required.

v2.0.0 adds localhost-only binding (security), configurable timeouts, label deletion tools, and .env-based configuration.

Happy to discuss the hashing approach, MCP protocol design decisions, or how this fits into modern RE workflows.
by friendzis | 2026-02-04 06:53:45+00:00
> Competent engineers understand tradeoffs and the importance of creating and managing technical debt.

I would disagree on the engineering point, as this ultimately falls on project management. Yes, engineers should provide professional expertise, but if management decides to yolo then engineers do not have the capacity to remove tech debt, regardless of their competence. Management of technical debt is, at the end of the day, managing short term versus long term velocity.

> Things don't happen in a vacuum, and your hypothetical "fragile interfaces" that you frame as being a problem are more often than not a lauded solution to quickly deliver a major feature.

Nothing I said disagrees with this, however that quick delivery of a major feature has downstream effect: anything that touches said feature is harder / slower / error-prone to implement. The more the team embraces "move fast and break things" the harder the wall it hits. Slower teams tend to be consistently average. Neither is better and this competence in managing technical debt is more often than not coupling/decoupling over fragile/robust interfaces.

This shows in LLM coding assistant use. Drop them in a well structured codebase and they implement features relatively well. Drop them in a bowl of spaghetti and they hurt themselves over confusion. With LLM coding assistants becoming more prevalent this managing of tech debt becomes even more important topic. You just cannot tell the LLM "pls implement well, no tech debt bro" or "yolo this, move fast, make it work 80% of the time".

If my career has taught me anything is that it takes competent engineering to push back against management pushing for every possible shortcut. A worry here is that detachment from the final output will reduce buy-in and produce "bad" code that will eventually grind feature velocity to a halt.
by chunza2542 | 2026-02-04 06:54:01+00:00
I'm working on https://storymotion.video/

a tool for creating hand-drawn animated diagrams for educational creators or technical writer.

- You can export it as video (4k, 60fps)
- Do some presentation.
- or embed as iframe on to the blog posts or technical docs.

It's combined the experiences of Keynote and Excalidraw, both software I was enjoy using!
by kalaksi | 2026-02-04 06:55:43+00:00
> Same with pounds, for example. A pound is 16 ounces, which can be divided 4 times without involving any fractions. Try that with metric.

Not sure if you're actually serious... 1 kg is 1000 g, dividing with 4 gets you 250 g, no fractions. And no need to remember arbitrary names or numbers for conversions.

> Then there's temperature. Fahrenheit just works more naturally over the human-scale temperature range without involving fractions. Celsius kind of sucks by comparison.

Again, I'm not sure I get it. With celsius, 0°C is freezing temperature of water and 100°C is boiling point of water. For fahrenheit it was something like 32 and 212? And in every day use, people don't need fractions, only full degrees. Celsius also aligns well with Kelvins without fractions (unlike fahrenheit).
by lordkrandel | 2026-02-04 06:55:45+00:00
The answer is still the same. Don't they get the lesson? People don't want generic "weather" information if they're NOT going out, stock information if they don't invest, inbox headers in a 200px space where a notifications number could suffice, events in town when they are going to work.
It's not they HAVE to open an app to get forcefed ads. It's that they WANT to need an app to get ads. Otherwise there's no need to clutter up the empty "desk" metaphore THEY created, with litter.
by nunez | 2026-02-04 06:57:29+00:00
I will never not be upset at my fellow engineers for selling out the ONE thing that made us valuable and respected in the marketplace and trying to destroy software engineering as a career because "Claude Code go brrrrrr" basically.

It's like we had the means for production and more or less collectively decided "You know what? Actually, the bourgeoisie can have it, sure."
by maxglute | 2026-02-04 06:57:40+00:00
>doesn’t fall into the middle income trap

There's 2 middle income traps.

1) the actual middle income trap, failing to move up value chain

2) the byproduct, traps population to middle income

India has the sheer population to pass through 1) eventually.

Ironically the byproduct of sheer population means they will unlikely pass 2).

Middle income trap logic breaks part for large countries.

There's a reason why bottom 40 quantile of PRC, i.e. 600m are still low income. Even the most favourable geopolitical developing conditions couldn't uplift 1.4B because there simply aren't enough middle/high income opportunities for that many bodies. With labour saving tech hollowing out manufacturing and ai hollowing out services, India trending towards 1.6B people is going to be extra fucked in the per capita game. Again that doesn't mean India couldn't eventually replicate PRC in sheer economic chains and potential, it just means they'll be governing a country with 60/70/80% poor with vast gini inequality between modern india and subsistent india where extra pop = more farm land dilution = potentially worse calorie security because inefficient farming = jobs programs > food security.

AKA PRC demographers nightmare scenario that triggered family planning / one child policy that just barely dodged 2)... PRC more or less high income now, and certainly will be as old-poor dies and denominator converge towards young-rich. India will simply be saddled with too much old-poor, and young-poor that the young-rich will not meaningfully skew the per capita math.
by vessenes | 2026-02-04 06:58:13+00:00
I’m mostly out of the local model game, but I can say confidently that Llama will be a waste of time for agentic workflows - it was trained before agentic fine tuning was a thing, as far as I know. It’s going to be tough for tool calling, probably regardless of format you send the request in. Also 8b models are tiny. You could significantly upgrade your inference quality and keep your privacy with say a machine at lambda labs, or some cheaper provider, though. Probably for $1/hr - where an hour is a many times more inference than an hour on your MBA.
by sonofhans | 2026-02-04 06:58:18+00:00
Ironic. The frequency and predictability of this type of response — “This criticism of new technology is invalid because someone was wrong once in the past about unrelated technology” — means there might as well be an LLM posting these replies to every applicable article. It’s boring and no one learns anything.

It would be a lot more interesting to point out the differences and similarities yourself. But then if you wanted an interesting discussion you wouldn’t be posting trite flamebait in the first place, would you?
by LoganDark | 2026-02-04 06:58:32+00:00
Every time I try to use LLMs for coding, I completely lose touch with what it's doing, it does everything wrong and it can't seem to correct itself no matter how many times I explain. It's so frustrating just trying to get it to do the right thing.

I've resigned to mostly using it for "tip-of-my-tongue" style queries, i.e. "where do I look in the docs". Especially for Apple platforms where almost nothing is documented except for random WWDC video tutorials that lack associated text articles.

I don't trust LLMs at all. Everything they make, I end up rewriting from scratch anyway, because it's always garbage. Even when they give me ideas, they can't apply them properly. They have no standards, no principle. It's all just slop.

I hate this. I hate it because LLMs give so many others the impression of greatness, of speed, and of huge productivity gains. I must look like some grumpy hermit, stuck in their ways. But I just can't get over how LLMs all give me the major ick. Everything that comes out of them feels awful.

My standards must be unreasonably high. Extremely, unsustainably high. That must also be the reason I hardly finish any projects I've ever started, and why I can never seem to hit any deadlines at work. LLMs just can't reach my exacting, uncompromising standards. I'm surely expecting far too much of them. Far too much.

I guess I'll just keep doing it all myself. Anything else really just doesn't sit right.
by bonsai_spool | 2026-02-04 06:59:30+00:00
> A pound is 16 ounces, which can be divided 4 times without involving any fractions. Try that with metric.

1000 g, 500 g, 250 g, 125 g

I also don't understand the fear around fractions - we deal with halves, quarters and fifths all the time in the natural world.
by k310 | 2026-02-04 06:59:32+00:00
I haven't used a laptop in a long time, splitting time between the mini and an assortment of mobile devices. I do shut down the mini at night because for unknown reasons, it (the display) sometimes wakes at night. I considered putting the display on a switched outlet box, but that just shuts down all the gadgets hanging off the back, and you might know about annoying messages. Only black tape on the display will stop them (unacceptable solution)

Interestingly, when I plug in a camera SD card, and (oops) quick look a photo on the card, I have to force eject the card, or just live with the annoying message on the top right of the display. It's in effect a read-only memory, though I suspect that quick look (preview in disguise?) touches something. And as for flipping the read-only switch, I ain't doing that. I will surely lose a timely photo that way.

FWIW, I read that deep-cycling a battery at the outset will help it live longer (forgot the article) so I am resisting the urge to float-charge a Christmas Special ipad that I got mainly to stream classical music over the internet. I'll give it some deep cycles.
by b1temy | 2026-02-04 06:59:45+00:00
I'd be curious to see if there were any discoveries of any cut features left on the cutting room floor still present in the code [0] (aside from the demo teaser code mentioned still being present). I always find software archaelogy fascinating, as we get scraps of unused content or code, and can only guess as to the decisions made that led to it being scrapped, or why certain custom file formats were used, or code was structured a certain way.

[0] I am aware that such a wiki exists exactly for this purpose.
by teo_zero | 2026-02-04 06:59:51+00:00
> how long is it before you can't print a replacement part for something you bought because it looks too similar to an OEM part and the manufacturer doesn't think you should be able to do that so they throw a little money to the right politician

At least 25 years. That's the time passed since the first introduction of Eurion marks on banknotes. As far as I know, noone has used it to block reproduction of anything other than money.
by gspr | 2026-02-04 07:00:13+00:00
You are presented with a factual, verifiable, statement that starship has been promised for years and that all that's been delivered is something capable of sending a banana to LEO. Wayyyy overdue too.

You meet this with "well, once it works, it'll be amazing and you'll be queuing up"? How very very musky!

What a cult.
by saturatedfat | 2026-02-04 07:00:51+00:00
I think for days at a time still.

I don’t think you can get the same satisfaction out of these tools if what you want to do is not novel.

If you are exploring the space of possibilities for which there are no clear solutions, then you have to think hard. Take on wildly more ambitious projects. Try to do something you don’t think you can do. And work with them to get there.
by salawat | 2026-02-04 07:00:54+00:00
>I remember ~10 or 15 years ago, I had concerns about drones becoming illegal due to FAA.

My Plato hating friend, my "called it" list is filled with things the old-timers at the time said no one would be stupid enough to, and the old codgers went and died on me so I can't even give em a good lambast. I believed them, and helped them build things... Now I get to watch things get coopted by a madman and a NatSec apparatus. Pour one out.
by eknkc | 2026-02-04 07:01:04+00:00
Is the mechanical keyboard craze still going on?

At some point everyone was talking about about / showing off their mech keyboard in developer scene. I don’t think I’ve seen much in recent years.

I myself went deep into that for a while. Got a couple of keyboards and now I have two Apple Magic Keyboards. Don’t even know where I stashed my mechanicals.
by kasey_junk | 2026-02-04 07:01:18+00:00
“in practice FDIC usually will bail out the full balances even over the nominal limit”

That’s not true. It takes the systematic risk exemption and agreement between the fdic/fed reserve board and the president to make that happen. I think it’s happened like 4 times out of the thousands of bank bailouts that have happened.

There are other cases where the acquiring bank took on uninsured funds (like jpmc did for first republic) but in that case your gamble is that the other depositors on the banks balance sheet are desireable to the acquirer. Which presumably isn’t the case for your hypothetical max risk run bank.
by obidee2 | 2026-02-04 07:02:44+00:00
My sketchy napkin math gives an order of magnitude of a few months of panel output to get it in space.

5kg, 500W panel (don’t exactly know what the ratio is for a panel plus protection and frame for space, might be a few times better than this)

Say it produces about 350kWh per month before losses.

Mass to LEO is something like 10x the weight in fuel alone, so that’s going to be maybe 500kWh. Plus cryogenics etc.

So not actually that bad
by enaaem | 2026-02-04 07:02:48+00:00
It's better to over regulate than under regulate, if you look at it in terms of utility. The damage of under regulation can be catastrophic, like people getting cancer or irreversible loss of species. Based on examples I read here, overregulation is much easier to solve. For example, the weaponisation of environmental regulation to block new development is a political problem not a technical one, which is solvable if people really want to.
Show HN: Yutovo – visual online and desktop calculator inside a text editor
by denprog | 2026-02-04 07:03:40+00:00
Hi all,

I build a calculator that displays and edits formulas in a familiar graphical form, has a WYSIWYG editor, can work with numbers of any size, supports physical units, and has many other features.

There are online and desktop (Linux, Windows) versions.

The project is open source and consists of these ones:

https://github.com/denprog/yutovo-editor — a text and formula editor with output to a custom window. Built from scratch, no dependencies on other editors. C++, boost.

https://github.com/denprog/yutovo-desktop — a desktop application based on Qt.

https://github.com/denprog/yutovo-web — an online version based on Vue.js and Quasar. The remaining components are compiled for Wasm.

https://github.com/denprog/yutovo-calculator — a string expression calculator based on boost.spirit.

https://github.com/denprog/yutovo-server — a web server for a website based on Drogon.

https://github.com/denprog/yutovo-solver — a calculator broker. C++.

https://github.com/denprog/yutovo-logger — a logger based on spdlog.

There are versions for Flatpak, Snap, Debian, and Windows. You can save your documents on the website after registering.

I welcome any comments, bugs, shortcomings, or suggestions.
by LandenLove | 2026-02-04 07:04:45+00:00
I see that you mentioned no images, but I feel that images would make it easier for quickly locating information. You can probably use some basic svg files to keep the file size small. E.g. a simple design of a building shaking to represent an earthquake.

Right now, I am seeing a flood of text that I have to carefully read. I don't think emoji's would help, because they can be more subject to interpretation. And the quality of the design varies based on the device's emoji font.

But it is an interesting concept. Maybe add a small note about bookmarking the page?