MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jrflowers | 2026-02-03 02:17:22+00:00
There is no conspiracy theory, that aside the link does not indicate that there is one? “Vaguely accurate” does not mean “untrue”, and Vance is clear that he is talking about his personal interpretation of what Elon Musk is documented to have said, which he does not refute.

I like the idea that “he didn’t say that” and “he did say that but a different guy feels like he probably meant something else” are so obviously equivalent that skepticism of that notion constitutes a ‘conspiracy theory’.

That aside I like that the guy whose opinion should be treated as indisputable fact said that he thinks that there hasn’t been any high speed rail built globally in the past decade, which is not even remotely true. Obviously if he meant to say in the US he would have said so, since his next sentence was praise of Musk’s world-wide achievements.

I suppose it’s possible that Vance either doesn’t know anything about high speed rail or was in such a rush to extoll the virtues of the CEO of Tesla that he just sort of blurted something out to make Musk look good?
by indigodaddy | 2026-02-03 02:17:56+00:00
This looks awesome! And incredibly polished. Exactly the approach I take to vibebin-- I may have to integrate yep anywhere into it (if that's ok) as an additional webui!

https://github.com/jgbrwn/vibebin

Although I would need it to listen on 0.0.0.0 instead of localhost because I use LXC containers so caddy on the host proxies to the container 10.x address. Hopefully yep has a startup flag for that. I saw that you can specify the port but didn't see listening address mentioned.
by chillfox | 2026-02-03 02:18:20+00:00
I am tired of turning features off. At this point I just want a boring browser that handles html/css/js, bookmarks, tabs (should sleep inactive tabs), plugins (for my chosen password manager and ad blocker), and page zoom. Those are the only features I actually use regularly.

That's it, I would be willing to make a one time purchase for that, no subscriptions... Ok, I could maybe be convinced for a subscription if it was a low yearly one.
by motoboi | 2026-02-03 02:18:28+00:00
Yeah. The guy who carefully arranged assembly instructions to match the memory magnetic drum movement latency perfectly so that when one instruction finished executing the drum was exactly over the next instruction to be read and executed.

Those guys? Masters. Their craft? Reinvented, rearranged, some parts of it abstracted away by a more intelligent machine.

Current masters don’t know about memory drums and their read latency, nor about assembly instruction set execution time, but they are still crafting interaction between machines and the physical world.

So the next generation will be master of what? Which skills will they possess?
by benjushi | 2026-02-03 02:19:48+00:00
I’ve been reading HN daily for four years, but I rarely post—only when I genuinely have a question I can’t figure out on my own. I recently built this side project but wasn’t sure if anyone else actually needed it, or whether it was worth launching. I figured if there’s anywhere on the internet where people could answer that question, it’s here. So I posted.

Got nothing. Well, except some “weird” replies.

Yes, English isn’t my first language, so I used AI to polish my writing. I don’t see anything wrong with that. And I’ll keep doing it.
by hellojesus | 2026-02-03 02:19:56+00:00
> It usually means 'convert to our religion or you get no benefits' or 'gays do not apply'. See: Salvation Army.

I fail to see how this is a problem. Beggers can't be choosers. If you need help, it may not be the worst thing to follow some guidance from folks that have figured things out. Note: Christian faiths would likely preach against queerness but not use it as a disqualifying event. At most they would state that the lifestyle isn't consistent with scripture. (of course extremes exist).

I'll have to look up on literature about means testing. I still fail to see how some person's poor decisions across the country should affect me. It should be a local issue to resolve governmentally. I'm sure the country would open their arms voluntarily if prompted. See Grover Cleveland and the farm disaster.
by nine_k | 2026-02-03 02:19:58+00:00
I think we're on the same page. Lifting the actual computing devices would be not that expensive, compared to lifting a lot of other related mass, principally the cooling systems, and the solar panels.

The solar panels used in space are really lightweight, about 2 kg / m² [1], it's like ten times lighter weight than terrestrial panels. Still they need load-bearing scaffolding, and electrical conductors to actually collect the hundreds of kilowatts.

Water can't be made as lightweight though.

[1]: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/30238
by josephg | 2026-02-03 02:20:17+00:00
I'd love to see some opensource projects actually do a good job of this. Its a lot of work, especially if you want:

- Good cross platform support (missing in filepilot)

- Want applications to feel native everywhere. For example, all the obscure keyboard shortcuts for moving around a text input box on mac and windows should work. iOS and Android should use their native keyboards. IME needs to work. Etc

- Accessibility support for people who are blind and low vision. (Screen readers, font scaling, etc)

- Ergonomic language bindings

Hitting these features is more or less a requirement if you want to unseat electron.

I think this would be a wonderful project for a person or a small, dedicated team to take on. Its easier than it ever used to be thanks to improvements in font rendering, cross platform graphics libraries (like webgpu, vulcan, etc) and improvements in layout engines (Clay). And how much users have dropped their standards for UI consistency ever since electron got popular and microsoft gave up having a consistent UI toolkit in windows.

There are a few examples of teams doing this in house (eg Zed). But we need a good opensource project.
Show HN: AI Medical Scribe WASM. Reduced API Cost to $0.03 per Month
by mson281 | 2026-02-03 02:20:18+00:00
Hey everyone, thought I might share this.

I was having issues with the cost to service users with transcriptions with costs ranging from $0.013 to $3 per hour with live text.

I ended up shifting over to a WASM for scribing. There are general models for listening and a medical specific model for dictation.

This reduced our API needs to just transforming the transcript - for which I am using an open source model instead of APIs from hyper scalers, claude, open ai etc.

It burns through your battery so most people use it on a desktop. But a benefit is the audio doesn't get sent outside the clinic's computer.

Try it out. I think there will be a decline in inference needs as models get better and so does the engineering around costs.

Feel free to share with your clinician friends.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 02:20:32+00:00
eldenring is slightly wrong: for reasonable temperatures the area of the radiating panels would have to be a bit more than 3 times the area of the solar panel, otherwise theres nothing wrong.

No need to apply at NASA, to the contrary, if you don't believe in Stefan Boltzmann law, feel free to apply for a Nobel prize with your favorite crank theory in physics.
by ehasbrouck | 2026-02-03 02:21:09+00:00
No, it's not "regulatory policy". It's been done entirely with some combination of secret "Security Directives" and "rulemaking by press release". As the article and the linked references explain, the TSA never issued any regulations, published any of the required notices, or obtained any of the approvals that would have been required even if Congress had passed an (unconstitutional) authorizing statute (which it didn't).
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-03 02:21:19+00:00
It's game over, guys. With newer AI models and coding agents that you will see in the next year or two, resistance is futile. Move on to something else that is not purely a programming job. If you only move to a different programming language, the same outcome will inevitably follow you. Wages are expected to diminish. As a case in point, almost no one needs Assembly experts anymore. From a management pov, professional coding now comes down to specifying requirements precisely and having exhaustive tests for them, all AI generated.
by pron | 2026-02-03 02:21:42+00:00
> By definition, this is the worse AI coding will ever be

This may be true, but it's not necessarily true, and certainly not by definition. For example, formal verification by deductive methods has improved over the past four decades, and yet, by the most important measures, it's got worse. That's because the size of software it can be used to verify affordably has grown, but significantly slower than the growth in the size of the average software project. I.e. it can be used on a smaller portion of software than it could be used on decades ago.

Perhaps ironically, some people believe that the solution to this problem is AI coding agents that will write correctness proofs, but that is based on the hope that their fate will be different, i.e. that their improvement will outpace the growth in software size.

Indeed, it's possible that AI coding will make some kinds of software so cheap that their value will drop to close to zero, and the primary software creation activity by professionals will shift precisely to those programs that agents can't (yet) write.
by amauboussin | 2026-02-03 02:21:44+00:00
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by ysavir | 2026-02-03 02:21:49+00:00
I think the parent comment is snark. They're saying that since many Firefox users are saying "Let me turn off AI features, please!" for features they don't want at all, and few to no Firefox users are saying "Let me turn on AI features!" because few to no Firefox users want AI features in the first place, Mozilla is making AI features opt-out to "satisfy" the "want" of turning off AI features.
by IhateAI | 2026-02-03 02:22:41+00:00
More adoption? I don't think so... It feels to me that these models && tools are getting more verbose/consuming more tokens to compensate for a decrease in usage. I know my usage of these tools has fallen off a cliff as it become glaringly obvious they're useful in very limited scopes.

I think most people start off overusing these tools, then they find the few small things that genuinely improve their workflows which tend to be isolated and small tasks.

Moltbot et al, to me, seems like a psyop by these companies to get token consumption back to levels that justify the investments they need. The clock is ticking, they need more money.

I'd put my money on token prices doubling to tripling over the next 12-24 months.
by cwalcott | 2026-02-03 02:22:41+00:00
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I like staying up to date with modern best practices and enjoy working across different technologies — especially when I can take what I’ve learned from one area and apply it to another. I get the most satisfaction from solving real-world problems and building software that holds up over time.
Ask HN: Interest in low cost / fast container registry?
by osigurdson | 2026-02-03 02:23:00+00:00
Hi all,

I've noticed that container images are getting bigger (particularly with AI related images). I was annoyed the pricing of my cloud provider so I quickly whipped something up.

It uses Cloudflare R2 + workers which is the lowest cost way to do this (AFAICT). However, due to how Cloudflare works, I had to change the push side to do it (pull side remains the same). I don't mind this personally (simplifies things a lot for typical use cases imo), but not sure what others would think. I am dog-fooding it right now and it is working fine but wondering if there is any interest in the community more broadly? As a SaaS, $5/month would cover 100GiB storage easily. Egress has a non-zero associated cost, but I think would be noise for most use cases. Alternately it could be something you run in your own CF account perhaps. It is extremely fast as well since it leverages Cloudflare's edge / CDN. So, faster, cheaper but a necessarily a little bit different to take advantage of things.

Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts / feedback on this approach, please let me know.
by sgarland | 2026-02-03 02:23:02+00:00
> BIGINT

I’d use a SMALLINT (or in MySQL, a TINYINT UNSIGNED) for a lookup table. The bytes add up in referencing tables.

> Most people don't employ these strategies because storage is cheap and compute time is expensive.

Memory isn’t cheap. If half of your table is low-cardinality strings, you’re severely reducing the rows per page, causing more misses, slowing all queries.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 02:23:04+00:00
The distinction is that you don't need to compete for land area, that you don't cause local environmental damage by heating say a river or a lake, that you don't compete with meatbags for energy and heat dissipation rights.

Without eventually moving compute to space we are going to have compute infringe on the space, energy, heat dissipation rights of meatbags. Why welcome that?!?
by jmyeet | 2026-02-03 02:23:24+00:00
There are a class of people who may seem smart until they start talking about a subject you know about. Hank Green is a great example of this.

For many on HN, Elon buying Twitter was a wake up call because he suddenly started talking about software and servers and data centers and reliability and a ton of people with experience with those things were like "oh... this guy's an idiot".

Data centers in space are exactly like this. Your comment (correctly) alludes to this.

Companies like Google, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft all have so many servers that parts are failing constantly. They fail so often on large scales that it's expected things like a hard drive will fail while a single job might be running.

So all of these companies build systems to detect failures, disable running on that node until it's fixed, alerting someone to what the problem is and then bringing the node back online once the problem it's addressed. Everything will fail. Hard drives, RAM, CPUs, GPUs, SSDs, power supplies, fans, NICs, cables, etc.

So all data centers will have a number of technicians who are constantly fixing problems. IIRC Google's ratio tended to be about 10,000 servers per technician. Good technicians could handle higher ratios. When a node goes offline it's not clear why. Techs would take known good parts and basically replacce all of them and then figure out what the problem is later, dispose of any bad parts and put tested good parts into the pool of known good parts for a later incident.

Data centers in space lose all of this ability. So if you have a large number of orbital servers, they're going to be failing constantly with no ability to fix them. You can really only deorbit them and replace them and that gets real expensive.

Electronics and chips on satellites also aren't consumer grade. They're not even enterprise grade. They're orders of magnitude more reliable than that because they have to deal with error correction terrestial components don't due to cosmic rays and the solar wind. That's why they're a fraction of the power of something you can buy from Amazon but they cost 1000x as much. Because they need to last years and not fail, something no home computer or data center server has to deal with.

Put it this way, a hardened satellite or probe CPU is like paying $1 million for a Raspberry Pi.

And anybody who has dealt with data centers knows this.
by ehasbrouck | 2026-02-03 02:23:56+00:00
As of the imposition of start of this new fee/fine, about 200,000 people a day fly without ID or without REAL-ID: https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/05/28/200000-people-a-day-f... - At $45 a pop, that would bring in >$3B a year. "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money."
Show HN: CancelShouldBeEasy – Generate and co-sign consumer complaint letters
by xinbenlv | 2026-02-03 02:26:11+00:00
Hi HN,

I built CancelShouldBeEasy.com after a frustrating experience with a SaaS subscription. I was overcharged and found it incredibly difficult to get a cancellation and refund. When I searched online, I realized I wasn't alone—I found others on Reddit venting about the exact same issue with the same company.

I was like: this can't be right, cancel should be as easy as signup.

And after some search, I realized that while new regulations like the FTC's "Click-to-Cancel" rule and California's AB 2863 are steps in the right direction, many of us still feel unheard when dealing with confusing cancellation flows.

Hence, I built this site.

What it does:

This tool makes it easy to create, share, and co-sign professional complaint letters.
1. Generate: You enter the vendor and your issue. It drafts a structured letter that references relevant consumer protection guidelines (like the new FTC rule or GDPR) to articulate your frustration clearly.
2. Share & Co-sign: It creates a permalink for your letter so others with the same problem can "co-sign" it.
3. Visibility: We specifically optimized for SEO and social media metadata (Open Graph tags).

This ensures that when complaints are searched for or shared on social platforms, they are indexed effectively and display clearly with rich previews to help gain attention.

The Goal:

We aren't lawyers and this isn't legal advice. The goal is to help consumers express their frustration in a structured way and show businesses that these aren't just isolated incidents. We hope that by raising awareness of these consumer protection laws, we can encourage companies to simplify their cancellation processes voluntarily.

I’d love your feedback on the letter generation and if there are other ways we can help make these complaints more constructive and visible.
Thanks!
by dillydogg | 2026-02-03 02:27:01+00:00
I thought about defining it up front but decided to move it to the second paragraph.

I would say it's worth talking to a doctor about how you feel. There are many things that can help. If you are in the USA, if is likely that they will use the PHQ-9 form, so consider looking at that questionaire to see how it aligns with your mood. medcalc is a common site that many of the residents at my institution use for these questionaires and other various scoring systems.
by rudedogg | 2026-02-03 02:27:13+00:00
I made a Zig agent skill yesterday if interested: https://github.com/rudedogg/zig-skills/

Claude getting the ArrayList API wrong every time was a major reason why

It’s AI generated but should help. I need to test and review it more (noticed it mentions async which isn’t in 0.15.x :| )
by rjmunro | 2026-02-03 02:27:15+00:00
The UX is a mess. Why does the car always label the trunk as open rather than have a button that I press to open it?

Why does cruise control sometimes change to the speed limit and sometimes not?

Why does auto lane change sometimes need me to start the manoeuvre and sometimes not? If I guess wrong and start the lane change myself, all autopilot just disengages suddenly.

I have to proove that I'm holding the wheel by wiggling it from time to time, but if I accidentally wiggle too hard it disengages. Why not have a sensor or use the cameras to detect if I'm holding the wheel?

My son didn't shut the back door properly. I started driving and the car started binging. It didn't tell me why it was binging until I put it in park and looked at the pretty 3d representation of the car, then noticed that the door was open.

Maybe if I drove more regularly I would get used to all this stuff. The car was borrowed and I gave it back.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-03 02:28:32+00:00
It’ll come back when there is more policy certainty, China isn’t going anywhere and they’re going to keep building. Luckily, there is manufacturing supply chain safely outside the US. China is roughly a third of global manufacturing capacity after all.

Don’t think in years, think in half decades and decades. This too shall pass.

https://ember-energy.org/data/china-cleantech-exports-data-e...
by cldcntrl | 2026-02-03 02:28:39+00:00
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by rglullis | 2026-02-03 02:28:45+00:00
Sorry, but that logic is pure cope.

If you want to go down the value chain, then by definition the less valuable the software is and the easier to be commoditized. The automation is not going to help just the manager-turned-vibecoder, it's also going to help professionals to create FOSS alternatives that can be robust enough.

It's not going to happen overnight, but the trend is there.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-03 02:29:28+00:00
You sure about that? A $7k car expensed over 18 months plus insurance and road tax is ballpark $450 /mo. That omits maintenance and fuel but conversely also underestimates how long the vehicle will be kept on average. Depending on where you live parking will range from free to potentially more than $100 /mo.

If you manage to stretch $10k cars out to 5 years on average with zero maintenance it's less than $200 /mo but ... no maintenance in 5 years?

I think $300 /mo plus fuel and parking is probably a reasonable estimate for frugal behavior.