MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exe34 | 2026-02-03 15:51:43+00:00
The 2nd amendment was only carved out to cater for school shootings and manly displays of virility on Facebook. I suppose maggats thought they would need it to rise up against a tyrannical government that protects minorities, but now that they have a fascist government, they tell us that the 1st, 2nd and 4th amendments aren't actually serious. You have to be nice to the members of the gestapo, if they get offended, they can kill you. if you hold a protest, they can kill you. if you carry your gun, they can kill you. they will face no consequences other than getting doxxed and going into hiding for a bit of a break.
by baljeet_ | 2026-02-03 15:51:55+00:00
Hey HN! I'm Baljeet, and I built Party Genius AI to solve a problem I kept running into — planning birthday parties for my kids was always stressful and time-consuming.

You enter the basics (child's name, age, theme, guest count, budget, date) and get a complete party plan in under 60 seconds: week-by-week checklist, themed menu with recipes, age-appropriate activities, shopping list with cost estimates, a Spotify-ready playlist, treasure hunt clues, and themed invitations.

There are 100 themes (dinosaur, princess, superhero, space, etc.) with 8,400+ curated data items.

Tech stack: Next.js, Supabase, Claude API for the initial generation pipeline, Vercel edge. Free tier available, no signup required to try it.

Would love feedback on the UX and what features you'd want to see next.
by ehasbrouck | 2026-02-03 15:51:56+00:00
As discussed in the original article, John Gilmore (co-founder of EFF) did sue. "His complaint was dismissed on the basis of TSA policies that said travelers were still allowed to fly without ID as long as they submitted to a more intrusive 'pat-down' and search. The court didn’t rule on the question of whether a law or policy requiring ID at airports would be legal, since the TSA conceded there was no such law."
by postalcoder | 2026-02-03 15:51:58+00:00
I think the reason why Skills, despite feeling half-baked right now, will probably render better results in the medium term is because these labs haven't tuned their models to effectively call skills in this current crop of models. Once they do, we're probably going to see something worthy of the initial hype.

The benefit of skills standardization isn't just for user+agent ergonomics - it's also going to standardize how you train these models to reference their own documentation/memory.

The reason why old chain of thought commands dont improve outcomes like they did before is because they trained the models to think without having to run those commands.
by simoncion | 2026-02-03 15:52:05+00:00
> I was under the impression that gnome requires it.

It doesn't seem to require it at this moment. I have "-systemd" in my USE flags, and have neither sys-apps/systemd nor gnome-base/gnome currently installed. After enabling several USE flags that have nothing to do with systemd [0], emerge was quite happy to offer to install gnome-base/gnome and its dependencies, and absolutely did not offer to install systemd.

Honestly, I don't even know if GNOME has a hard dependency on Wayland... I see many of the dependent packages in the 'gnome-*' categories have an "X" USE flag. I CBA to investigate, though.

Is KDE Plasma building in hard systemd requirements, or is it just building in hard Wayland requirements? I'd known about the latter [1] and -because I'd thought it was important to the KDE folks that KDE runs on BSD- would be surprised if they irreversibly tethered themselves to systemd.

[0] introspection pulseaudio vala server screencast wayland theora eds egl gles2

[1] Though do note that the same blog post that announced the change in policy for Plasma also announced that no other KDE software was going to have a hard dependency on Wayland for the foreseeable future.
by rbbydotdev | 2026-02-03 15:52:25+00:00
> Wouldn't the thing to do be to give AI its own account id / email so we can use standard git blame tools?

That’s a reasonable idea and something I considered. The issue is that AI assistance is often inline and mixed with human edits within a single commit (tab completion, partial rewrites, refactors). Treating AI as a separate Git author would require artificial commit boundaries or constant context switching. That quickly becomes tedious and produces noisy or misleading history, especially once commits are squashed.

> Why do we need a plugin or new tools to accomplish this?

There’s currently no friction‑less way to attribute AI‑assisted code, especially for non–turn‑based workflows like Copilot or Cursor completions. In those cases, human and machine edits are interleaved at the line level and collapse into a single author at commit time. Existing Git and blame tooling can’t express that distinction. This is an experiment to complement—not replace—existing contributor workflows.

PS: I asked for a resubmission and was encouraged to try again :)
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 15:52:38+00:00
Currently eating dinner & reading the comments. I have got 2 priorities for this project. This is the 3rd one.

Commenting to not forget it as its actually pretty nice and I can feel useful for people. Personally I am more of a new account guy (joined in 2024) but the website's really old & it's history's quite rich! [the famous rsync comment]

Actually this website is older than me. (It's 18 when I am 17)

maybe I am getting offtopic but I wonder how many teenagers use this website quite a lot like me (don't use tiktok)

I wonder because when I mention hackernews to my age friends.

Me:"Yea I use hackernews"

They say: "Oh so are you a hacker?"

Me:...

I just end up saying computer tinkerer. Actually (I have written about this once or twice here) but it's actually really hard finding people (my age) to have something in common at times.

Actually the reason why this and many other reasons made me want to watch movies & series again. Dexter is awesome :D
Show HN: Spend.watch – The cash flow app I needed
by splurk | 2026-02-03 15:52:39+00:00
I'm building Spend.watch because my checking and credit card balances felt out of control.

Other personal finance apps didn't give me an overall picture of my spending across multiple accounts in different areas, and where my balance was likely headed over the next month.

With no accounts connected, the site shows demo data. If you’re interested in trying it with your real accounts (US only for now) and are willing to give feedback, please reach out: travis@readyrickshaw.com.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-03 15:52:41+00:00
I tried to do exactly this, but you need to hit the actual HTML news.ycombinator.com site, since karma is not visible through the API or in any of the public data dumps. And HN appears to have rather robust anti-scraping provisions. Even after trying a few different back-off strategies, my scraper was rate limited quickly, so I gave up.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-03 15:52:42+00:00
The general premise of cryptocurrency is that the architecture makes it so you can't prevent it from being used for crimes and thereby creates the incentive for the government to gracefully take the L and peel back all of the now-useless AML bureaucracy that screws over innocent people rather than criminals.

What they didn't account for is that the government is run by an amalgamation of spiteful authoritarian twits, dogmatic process bureaucrats and corrupt industry shills who don't want competition when they're quietly extracting 3% from the whole economy. So they apply the bad rules to the new thing even though it means paying all the costs for none of the benefits, which makes it arduous for law-abiding people to use it (have fun filling out government paperwork every time you want to buy a piece of chewing gum) meanwhile the criminals just ignore the reporting requirements.

Remember when we were going to repeal the entire Patriot Act? Maybe we should still do that.
by gyulai | 2026-02-03 15:53:13+00:00
I am willing to downgrade my statement “exceedingly rare” to “relatively rare”. It is certainly exceedingly rare in my sphere of experience. The last time I worked for a company that had shared computers was 16 years ago. This was on a trading floor set up for compliance. And they were in the process of phasing that out and making the computers on the trading floor just dumb terminals for Windows terminal server. So the desktops, themselves, ceased to be multi-user because they only ran the terminal server client, and it didn't matter which user that ran under.

After that, the only setup I've ever known was company-issued single-user laptops, and rarely BYOD. Company-issued single-user laptops are also what is used by all my friends and colleagues, where I have knowledge of such things.

With that said: The multi-user model is pretty broken on modern desktop Linux anyway, if you only look at how much stuff goes in $HOME these days, including software installed through flatpaks, configuration, even configuration with system-wide effects like power management and network, etc.
by 9dev | 2026-02-03 15:54:24+00:00
Because it's not their company mission to provide an HR tool. Getting started fast doesn't equate to being done somehow; every piece of software still is a liability that requires ongoing maintenance and continued development.

I don't believe everyone will just suddenly start to replace SaaS tools with agent-built versions of them, because economically, that doesn't make sense: Even when we gloss over all human work still required in collaboration with agents, the tokens alone required to build a sufficiently complex system are more expensive over the long term than buying SaaS seats. So there's that.
by alex_fash | 2026-02-03 15:55:33+00:00
The truth is, your AI is only as good as the documentation its built on - basically, garbage in, garbage out.

Whenever RAG answers felt wrong, my instinct was always to tweak the model: embeddings, chunking, prompts, the usual.

At some point I looked closely at what the system was actually retrieving and the actual corpus its based on - the content was quite contradictory, incomplete in places, and in some cases even out of date.

Most RAG observability today focuses on the model, number of tokens, latency, answer quality scores, performance, etc. So I set out on my latest RAG experiment to see if we could detect documentation failure modes deterministically using telemetry. Track things like:

- version conflicts in retrieved chunks
- vocabulary gaps on terms that don't appear in corpus,
= knowledge gaps on questions the docs couldn't answer correctly
- unsupported feature questions

So what would it be like if we could actually observe and trace documentation health, and potentially use it to infer or improve the documentation?

I wrote up the experiment in more detail here on Substack.

I’m actually curious: has anyone else noticed this pattern when working with RAG over real docs, and if so, how did you trace the issue back to specific pages or sections that need updating?
by howznguyen | 2026-02-03 15:55:33+00:00
I kept running into the same problem with AI coding assistants — every new session starts from zero. Paste the docs, explain the architecture, remind it about conventions. Next session, do it all again.

Tried Spec Kit, tried writing long CLAUDE.md files, but specs get created and then forgotten. The AI has no way to read them back automatically.
So I built Knowns. It stores project knowledge in .knowns/ — docs, tasks, templates — all linked through references like @doc/auth-pattern or @task-42. AI resolves these automatically via MCP server. Write it once, AI reads it every session.

It's a CLI tool (TypeScript, MIT license). Also has a web UI with Kanban board for tasks. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Copilot, Gemini CLI, and others.
Still early at v0.10. I'd appreciate honest feedback on what's missing or feels off.
by buildsjets | 2026-02-03 15:55:35+00:00
Are you proposing that the base of the bullet which is exposed to the burning propellant magically remains at room temperature, and none of the lead in the base of the bullet is vaporized? What about the process of forcing the projectile into the barrel's spiral grooves at very high speed, leaving grooves in the side of the bullet. Where do you suppose that displaced and/or vaporized material ends up? What about the lead styphante that is combusted in the primer? I am not aware of any firearm that has a muzzle filter that removes primer residue from the combusted gunsmoke.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-02-03 15:55:48+00:00
The problem is, they need so much more power than a Starlink satellite that they need to be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit. The orbits that Starlink satellites need to use are nothing like the orbits that would have to be used for this rejected attempt at an Ed Wood sci-fi tribute script.

And if you accept that the duty cycle of the AI+Starlink satellites will be less than 50%, it would be much better to build the data centers in random deserts and wastelands on Earth and use the Starlink network to talk to them.
by leidenfrost | 2026-02-03 15:55:51+00:00
Try Plop Boot Manager: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanagers.html

It can boot from a floppy or from a CD drive, and it lets you chainload into a live usb even on old computers.

I used it to boot from CD from a floppy in an old Pentium MMX and it worked great (although slow, of course)
by monsieurbanana | 2026-02-03 15:56:04+00:00
Because they can produce magnitude more code than you can review. And personally I don't want to review _any_ submitted AI code if I don't have a guarantee that the person who prompted it has reviewed it before.

It's just disrespectful. Why would anyone want to review the output of an LLM without any more context? If you really want to help, submit the prompt, the llm thinking tokens along with the final code. There are only nefarious reasons not to.
by sanjayjc | 2026-02-03 15:56:10+00:00
I've collected some links for building regular slide rules ([1] & [2]) as well as a circular slide rule [3]. Someone might also like the slide rule simulator [4].

[1] https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/REF/scales/MakeYourOwnSlideR...

[2] http://leewm.freeshell.org/origami/card-slide.pdf

[3] https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Scales.shtml#YingHum

[4] http://www.antiquark.com/sliderule/sim/virtual-slide-rule.ht...
by iainmerrick | 2026-02-03 15:56:11+00:00
I can't quite tell what's being compared there -- just looks like several different LLMs?

To be clear, I'm suggesting that any specific format for "skills.md" is a red herring, and all you need to do is provide the LLM with good clear documentation.

A useful comparison would be between: a) make a carefully organised .skills/ folder, b) put the same info anywhere and just link to it from your top-level doc, c) just dump everything directly in the top-level doc.

My guess is that it's probably a good idea to break stuff out into separate section, to avoid polluting the context with stuff you don't need; but the specific way you do that very likely isn't important at all. So (a) and (b) would perform about the same.
by breakyerself | 2026-02-03 15:56:12+00:00
1. Germany industrialized 100 years before China. It's been burning large quantities of coal for far longer.

2. Germany or at least the EU can and should impose a carbon fee on imports related to a given nations carbon emissions/reductions.

3. Economically transitioning to renewables is better for a nations economy than continuing to burn fossil fuels anyway. Renewables are cheaper.

Pointing to another bad actor as an excuse to continue to be a bad actor we learn is not a moral position somewhere around 5 years old.
by km144 | 2026-02-03 15:56:14+00:00
But there is a way for even an aligned federal government to fight back against the slide into authoritarianism, even with an authoritarian president expanding the powers of the executive, and that is for the other branches to strongly advocate for their own power. The problem as I see it is that Congress literally does not care that they are ceding more power than ever before to the executive. Mostly I think this is due to the cult of personality aspect of Trumpism and the idea that you're basically either with him and in the party or against him and out of the party, so it's impossible to drum up support within the party to fight back against the wresting of power. But also it's because the Republican party has no interest in actually passing legislation because most non-budgetary directions they can go will result in incredible cross-pressure (healthcare reform, federal abortion bans, etc). They believe they are better off not doing policy and letting Trump do whatever.
by idopmstuff | 2026-02-03 15:56:25+00:00
I have been using Claude Code to automate a bunch of my business tasks, and I set up slash commands for each of them. Each slash command starts by reading from a .md file of instructions. I asked Claude how this is different from skills and the only substantive thing it could come up with was that Claude wouldn't be able to use these on its own, without me invoking the slash command (which is fine; I wouldn't want it to go off and start checking my inventory of its own volition).

So yeah, I agree that it's all just documentation. I know there's been some evidence shown that skills work better, but my feeling is that in the long run it'll fall to the wayside, like prompt engineering, for a couple of reasons. First, many skills will just become unnecessary - models will be able to make slide decks or do frontend design without specific skills (Gemini's already excellent at design without anything beyond the base model, imho). Second, increased context windows and overall intelligence will obviate the need for the specific skills paradigm. You can just throw all the stuff you want Claude to know in your claude.md and call it a day.
by ipdashc | 2026-02-03 15:56:30+00:00
PJM probably isn't a great example, it's been famously slow to approve new generation, hasn't it? And the rates aren't exactly super cheap.

We shouldn't get rid of coal without having something to replace it (ideally nuclear/solar/wind, but realistically probably gas), but I think the point was just that nobody would build a new coal plant today or keep them running for longer than they need to. They're inefficient and fairly expensive.
by verdverm | 2026-02-03 15:56:31+00:00
2. The spec / docs show people how to put code in a subdir. While you can reference external scripts, there is a blessed pattern that seems like an anti-pattern to me

3. generalize: how do I store, maintain, and distribute skills shared by employees who work on multiple repos. Sounds like standard dependency management to me. Does to some of the people building collections / registries. Not sure if any of them account for versioning, have not seen anything tied to lock files (though I'd avoid that by using MVS for dep selection)
Show HN: Turn fuzzy ideas into build-ready plans with AI
by schart01 | 2026-02-03 15:56:31+00:00
We built INVENT after watching teams struggle before development even starts — not because they lack skill, but because early planning is still manual, fragmented, and full of open questions.
INVENT uses a guided AI interview to turn early ambiguity into clear, execution-ready outputs.
If you’re a founder, PM, or engineer who’s felt this pain, I’d love your feedback.
by Hikikomori | 2026-02-03 15:56:44+00:00
>It's really easy to sit and demand evidence before regulating something. But consider that if we waited for hard evidence to accumulate before banning lead in gasoline, we likely never would have banned it because the hard evidence wouldn't exist.

We already knew lead was toxic before we started putting it in gasoline. Even the guy that invented it got sick from exposure and people died from exposure in their plants in the first years of operation. The problem is that we somehow require evidence that something is unsafe but don't require any evidence that its safe in the first place.
by grvdrm | 2026-02-03 15:57:02+00:00
Is this a tool deployed into an internal production environment? Or is it more of “dev” or “business user desktop” type app that isn’t deployed formally.

I’m working with a company now that thinks that AI is great until you need to deploy to Prod. Probably true in some cases, especially for tools built with Prod environments as targets.

But I’m using Claude Code that doesn’t absolutely require that sort of environment. It helps a company map data (insurance risk exposure data) to a predefined intermediate layout and column schema.

I know that I’ll run into resistance once I say “this could be deployed to Prod” but I think AI is a major win for Prod-like things.

My professional world largely lives in spreadsheets and relational databases. Neither going anywhere anytime soon. And spreadsheets are the currency of the business and industry in so many ways. They are very prod-like in my opinion.
by analog31 | 2026-02-03 15:57:05+00:00
When I was in high school, calculators had just hit the scene. Some teachers allowed them, others didn't.

One of our teachers allowed us to bring a single page of notes to the exam. I wrote my notes on a photocopy of a slide rule. At exam time, I tore the sheet in half.

Of course the teacher thought I was being a smart-ass, and given that the tests were written when calculators were not allowed, they were never really all that useful.

In college chemistry, at each exam, they handed out a sheet that had the periodic table on one side, and a table of logarithms on the other.
by K-udo | 2026-02-03 15:58:13+00:00
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by Cerium | 2026-02-03 15:58:51+00:00
If you wanted to pay for direct air capture of CO2 to directly "undo" your climate effect of driving, the cost would currently be about $6 per gallon. Price comes from [1], found [2] looking for a second opinion on current direct air capture cost.

[1] https://theclimatecapitalist.com/articles/gas-should-cost-13...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/phildeluna/2024/11/29/will-dire...
by zahlman | 2026-02-03 15:59:05+00:00
You can also check individual packages on pypistats, e.g.: https://pypistats.org/packages/pip

I don't know exactly when it dropped off the top 20, although of course relative downloads vary day to day. Looking at monthly data, though, there's now a fairly substantial gap between pip and Pydantic (in the monthly #20 spot at time of posting).

Pip 26.0 was just released, so the daily chart shows a recent spike, but not enough to re-enter the top 20.

Hopefully this also reflects people improving their CI setups generally, and not just the migration to uv. The huge number of setuptools downloads doesn't seem like a good sign, though.

uv still only gets a fraction of pip's downloads from PyPI, but that's misleading given that it can easily be obtained in other ways (and getting it from PyPI probably only makes sense if you don't already have it, but do have pip, perhaps indirectly via Pipx).
by drob518 | 2026-02-03 15:59:13+00:00
In Texas we lose people every year because they think they can make it across what looks like a small, shallow creek and are swept away by water that is really much deeper. You might think, “Well, those are stupid Texans,” but we even have EMS personnel die that way. A couple years ago we lost a deputy sheriff who was patrolling and trying to monitor water levels. Her car got swept away and then pinned downstream and she drowned. “Turn around, don’t drown,” is a mantra here.