MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hogehoge51 | 2026-02-01 10:31:41+00:00
The point is the wolf does not need managment. He has built up a model in his head of the problem and solution space better that a team of 1x specialists. T expose it to "managment" , "oversight" and "accountability" is to destroy it, especially for the article that shows an innnovative solution to an organizational pain point. They may be poorly managed, but they may be well managed, either way the managment style likey does not match the particular problem and/or solution the wolf is adressing. One of the key premises of The Innnovators Dillema is that well managed companies are well managed in sweet spots of operation and struggle outside of that sweet spot.

Now, the wolf may benefit from hands off managment, but they will need leadership support. The author seems to have proposed a style of leadership centered around hands off managment and letting the wolf sink or swim. I would hope thismstyle of leadershio includes him holding a life support by the sidelines. (leadership != management)
by Jamesbeam | 2026-02-01 10:32:20+00:00
Technically, you can also put diesel in a regular gas car. Is that a good idea? Nope.

Don’t try to move the goalposts here.

If those local models with 4b params could do anything useful in the broader range of having a "personal ai assistant" (your words) then why use the 20$ Claude pro subscription and not the local models?

We both know the answer.

You wanted to provide a Tutorial for a 0$ instance "working ai assistant", that could actually do things like "check email, manage files, run scripts". According to your own words.

Now please prove it that you can run a useful ai assistant at 0$ with those local models.
by goku12 | 2026-02-01 10:35:08+00:00
I buy ebooks straight from publishers like Nostarch and Leanpub. (In fact, I have an older edition of this book). There are a few books that are sold directly by the authors too. All of them DRM-free.

I actively avoid publishers and sellers who don't respect me as a consumer/reader. People need to start demanding better deals, or else we'll end up with monopolies that won't think twice about deleting books in your custody that you purchased from them.
by shakna | 2026-02-01 10:35:08+00:00
All I've done is speak where the evidence leads. They didn't live light and leave hardly a trace - they lived a very long time ago. Few weapons are designed to last millenia.

Dismissing half of academia's findings with a wave of your hand and an alternate speculation is... Leaning on speculation.

You said specifically "We have no evidence of warfare between the species."

I showed that to be incorrect. I followed the evidence, where you followed your gut.

> The vast majority of Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals would go their whole lives, generations, without even seeing a member of the other species.

This is an absolutely ridiculous assertion, and entirely speculative. We have Neanderthal DNA intermixed with our own. For it to be possible, then the numbers intermixing cannot be some one in a lifetime event - its a global phenomena.

We have evidence of war, trade, and sex. There is no great division that these people rarely met.

That's akin to saying the Chinese never meet the Americans.

But to go further than just genetic history, Tinshemet Cave and Nesher Ramla show that we traded and lived together. (Which incidentally are neither in Europe nor Asia). We built societies together. We were not nearly as isolated as you speculate.

> Theories of the "uncanny valley" and raids by women-raping, spear-throwing humans are fanciful, and say a lot more about what our psychological hang ups...

No. Flatly no. It speaks to the consistency of human history. Our ability to trace genetic legacy, is not because of a psychological hangup.

The Rape of Nanjing was not a one time moment. And machine guns are hardly spears. The Crusades through the Middle East did not leave behind no legacy. Kidnapping prizes was the norm for so very long, it was a norm of our mythology. Who was Helen of Troy? How did the Chu marry his wife?

Why did the Assyrians put record of these spoils into stone? Anyone who disregards the massive historical evidence that mankind has always raped its way through war, is one who is utterly blind to all evidence before them.

Saying homo sapiens kidnapped Neanderthal woman, and vice versa, is not a claim of intelligence. It is an understanding of historical behaviour.

... All of our evidence points towards not homo sapiens and Neanderthals doing things. Rather, it points towards people acting as people. Tribal boundaries, but not species. They made war, crime, love and trade. They were people.
by bspammer | 2026-02-01 10:35:11+00:00
There was a fun hacker news post a while back [0] about a website that had generated every solvable-without-backtracking 5x5 nonogram. I found it very addictive, and the creator has since released it as a paid mobile app. Highly recommended for commutes!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44140918
by ratg13 | 2026-02-01 10:35:16+00:00
As a petty person I would at least attempt to push this through small claims court.

Add up the amount you lost moving to another platform, value your time appropriately, and submit your claim.

A judge will decide if it’s fair, and you can be awarded ~10k in most places.

If they don’t pay for some reason you can put a lien on their property.
by mirai75 | 2026-02-01 10:38:03+00:00
I built this because AI kept messing up my document summaries.
I was generating contract summaries, and the AI would constantly get things wrong, missing party names, wrong dates, invented clauses. I'd retry 3-4 times per document until it finally worked. Annoying and expensive (all those API calls add up).
So I started writing validation rules to auto-reject the bad ones. But hardcoding rules meant redeploying every time I wanted to tweak something. And honestly, sometimes a human could just fix it in 10 seconds instead of me spending an hour writing perfect regexes.

That's why I built Check Your AI:

1. POST your AI response
2. It gets auto-approved/rejected by Lua rules, OR goes to a human reviewer
3.Webhook delivers the result

Tech stack: Elixir/Phoenix. I wanted to learn Elixir :), and LiveView made the real-time review dashboard easy, Whole thing runs on Gigalixir.

https://checkyour.ai

Would love feedback on:

- Does Lua for validation rules make sense, or would you prefer something else?

- Anyone else need human-in-the-loop for AI output?
by pseingatl | 2026-02-01 10:38:24+00:00
The lawyer can handle hallucinations by reading the underlying case. For example, "Brady exempts the prosecution from turning over embarassing evidence. See, Brady v. Maryland, 373 US 83 (1963)." If you're a lawyer, you know Brady doesn't say this at all. To be sure, you have to read the case. Errors in the citation are like typos. The must still be corrected, but an occasional typo is not the end of the werld.
by caspel26 | 2026-02-01 10:39:24+00:00
I built this to eliminate the CRUD boilerplate I was writing over and over in Django projects.

The core idea: define schemas on your Django models, register a ViewSet, and get complete async CRUD endpoints with filtering, pagination, auth, and M2M management.

Example:
```python
class Book(ModelSerializer):
title = models.CharField(max_length=120)

class ReadSerializer:
fields = ["id", "title"]

class CreateSerializer:
fields = ["title"]

@api.viewset(Book)
class BookViewSet(APIViewSet):
pass
```

That gives you 5 endpoints (list, create, retrieve, update, delete) with OpenAPI docs.

Built on Django Ninja with full async support. 98%+ test coverage. Live performance benchmarks: https://caspel26.github.io/django-ninja-aio-crud/

Happy to answer questions!

Docs: https://django-ninja-aio.com
by xcodevn | 2026-02-01 10:42:09+00:00
I do think Claude Code as a tool gave Anthropic some advantages over others. They have plan mode, todolist, askUserQuestion tools, hooks, etc., which greatly extend Opus's capabilities. Agree that others (Codex, Cursor) also quickly copy these features, but this is the nature of the race, and Anthropic has to keep innovating to maintain its edge over others
by Nursie | 2026-02-01 10:42:45+00:00
Social media is not the open internet, pretty much by definition. With a few notable, niche exceptions it’s big centralised services entirely in the control of single companies.

They’ve long been explicitly targeting human psychology for profit, it’s hardly surprising there’s a backlash. But that doesn’t mean the open internet is dead. In fact the open internet could benefit from the slaying of these centralised monsters.
by atomic_reed | 2026-02-01 10:43:23+00:00
Well I don't think this is very likely inference.

Let's consider the President's Truth Social account: the 2020 election was rigged in multiple states. If the election can rigged so broadly, why even care about election results? What is the simplest thing to do? Just ignore all of them.

Consider a 3 person vote: if two people claim that you don't deserve to live in your home, what do you do? The path of least resistance is to stay put.

So your inference is not grounded in truth.
by hogehoge51 | 2026-02-01 10:43:50+00:00
lone wolf. maybe he missed the significance of lone in that phase when he heard it first and thought it could be dropped. That is my working assumption, it happens.

Whether or not the natural world has such wolves, its a fictional archetype.

It is a particularly common theme in Japanese fiction, where the deviation from the social hierarchy requires a stong force of individual will. Interesting it is also common in Japanese technology breakthrough documentaries.

Ogami Itto - Lone wolf and cub is the first thing that comes to mind when the author says wolf.
by pseufaux | 2026-02-01 10:44:30+00:00
I really enjoyed and agree with the majority of the article, but this was my nit as well. My hatred of vacation planning is often the reason I don't go on more vacations. It seems like automating a task that is experienced by the individual as completely monotonous ( and only affects that individual) would be a great example of something worth handing off to a text generator.
by spwa4 | 2026-02-01 10:45:05+00:00
I would love to have this available in git. I know if you make mistakes you can use the reflog, but if you need 5 tries to get something right reading the reflog quickly becomes impossible. Plus there are operations, like rebase or merge, that feel the need to make 50 entries in the reflog.

I've resorted to copying the entire directory (including the .git part) and then trying on the copy. The issue is that I'm working on a C++ program that has a few gigabytes of data.
by hilios | 2026-02-01 10:45:13+00:00
In the past, protection of free speech in the EU might have been less absolute, than in the US. Given the actions of the current US administrations and the (in)action of the supreme court, free speech in the US currently doesn't even serve its most essential purpose of being able to criticize the government, without fear of repercussions (e.g. Kimmel, Colbert).

As such moving services to the EU jurisdiction is most likely also better, if you're concerned about free speech, at least for the moment.
by m132 | 2026-02-01 10:45:41+00:00
Surprising to me that (in the context of TypeScript) ECMAScript 4, ActionScript, and Google Closure were not mentioned! Especially the first two; Macromedia/Adobe and Netscape/Mozilla have been working on baking TypeScript into JavaScript proper for a whole decade before HTML5, the mobile boom, and the associated problems have emerged. ES4/AS3 even had a nearly identical syntax.

What's even more interesting is that Microsoft and Google were part of TC-39 at the time, and were the main opponents of ES4. While they had some rightful reasons to take this position, there's no way ES4 hasn't shaped TS in the end. Perhaps the lack of mention of any of this is due to that TypeScript might have been handed to Anders' team after the project vision and original design have developed (in the video, it is introduced as a continuation of "SharpScript"), but the interview still left me rather insatiated.
by jeffrallen | 2026-02-01 10:46:53+00:00
As a user of a minimal, opinionated agent (https://exe.dev) I've observed at least 80% of this article's findings myself.

Small and observable is excellent.

Letting your agent read traces of other sessions is an interesting method of context trimming.

Especially, "always Yolo" and "no background tasks". The LLM can manage Unix processes just fine with bash (e.g. ps, lsof, kill), and if you want you can remind it to use systemd, and it will. (It even does it without rolling it's eyes, which I normally do when forced to deal with systemd.)

Something he didn't mention is git: talk to your agent a commit at a time. Recently I had a colleague check in his minimal, broken PoC on a new branch with the commit message "work in progress". We pointed the agent at the branch and said, "finish the feature we started" and it nailed it in one shot. No context whatsoever other than "draw the rest of the f'ing owl" and it just.... did it. Fascinating.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-02-01 10:47:04+00:00
>You can't say we're importing the best and brightest

I didn't say that and it's about the amount.

>from scratch in order to be a doctor in the US>>>

Usually no, they have to complete a residency. They are repeating some but it's not starting from scratch and it's probably done to sure about their quality.

If you think it should be changed to make it easier for people to come over that's fine. However this isn't a counter argument to Trump reducing the amount of intelligent and valuable people coming in. I'm not even sure why you mentioned this, it only makes your support of Trump's actions more confusing because it shows me your additional concern about losing innovative, intelligent immigrants
by NalNezumi | 2026-02-01 10:47:57+00:00
No reddit is not fine.

It's simple really. Do you have a recommendation algorithm that is tuned to individual preferences to increase engagement? You're a social media that falls under the ban.

You're a messaging app that is between individuals (or group messages) with no recommendation algorithm but just for communication? You're an communication (or at worst Social network) app, you're good to go.

If I would add, I'd add a clause that says "if you can make a non-algorithms version of your product and keep it separated, you can maybe circumvent the ban"
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-01 10:48:20+00:00
You will always be able to come up with some unique combination of features you want from software that it doesn't have yet. Note that none of these social media bans would block Gemini, and most of them don't consider YouTube to be social media. You are still far ahead with Family Link, and Android is flexible enough that if there's actually real demand for these things you can implement solutions and sell them to other parents.
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-01 10:51:18+00:00
They do work. You may not feel they work perfectly, but government mandated ID verification on social media will work far worse and be far more coarse grained. You don't even have any control with government regulation, so being "coarse grained" isn't even worth discussing because with one-size-fits-all laws imposed by the providers there is no grain.
by oaiey | 2026-02-01 10:51:59+00:00
As a long term observer: definitely not a goal. But you have to be clear here: JavaScript and C# both are OO languages, both are having origins stories in Java/C++, both are facing the same niche (system development), same challenges (processor counts, ...) and so on. And then, you put teams on it which look left and right when they face a problem and then you wonder that they reuse what they like?

C# language team is also really good. They did not do a lot of mistakes in the 25+ years. They are a very valid source of OO and OO-hybrid concepts. It is not only TS/JS but also Java and C++ who often look to C#.

The story was not to transform C# code to JS but to use C# to write the code in the first place and transpile it. Not for the sake of having .NET usage but for the sake of having a good IDE.
by edentrey | 2026-02-01 10:52:43+00:00
Tailscale is the only non-self-hosted part of my setup now and this has bugged me since. I use a custom Nameserver rule to point all my subdomains to a Caddy container sitting on my Tailnet. Caddy handles the SSL and routes everything to the right containers. I skipped Tailscale Funnel on purpose; since these are just family services, I’d rather keep them locked behind the VPN than open them up to the web.
This project looks promising as a replacement for my current setup and for its digital sovereignity of self hosting the server. I'm looking to manage several embedded devices remotely via Tailscale, but I've hit a major roadblock: the 90-day maximum expiration for Auth Keys. Constantly renewing these tokens is a significant maintenance burden, so I'm searching for a more permanent, 'set-and-forget' solution for my remote hardware.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-02-01 10:53:09+00:00
>And then people will have much to criticize about what Trump is doing. But okay then, so do something better instead of all the doing nothing that was happening before.

I'm not in power and unlikely to ever be. I can criticize others actions even if I don't have a solution because doing nothing is better than making it worse.

The average person in the US has a living standard higher than the vast majority of the world.

There's no need to make radical changes without careful study as if it's an emergency.

The reason people feel the need to do this is manipulation by the Republican party and it's media supporters that makes people believe their lives are far worse than they actually are compared to other countries.
by Mindwipe | 2026-02-01 10:53:33+00:00
The EU Digital Identity Wallet isn't zero knowledge. I mean it's just not. It relies on Google Play Integrity Attestation on Android and the iOS equivalent on Apple devices because those give it a revocation mechanism, and those aren't zero knowledge.

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic...

It says that it wants to be zero knowledge, but it has no zero knowledge implementation and no plan of how it even possibly could be zero knowledge, and it never will precisely because that is incompatible with the revocation requirements set down by the EU.
by atomic_reed | 2026-02-01 10:53:48+00:00
Ok, well you are only saying this because you are scared of being whisked away. These agents and bureaucrats are fair people, especially compared to Alex Petti.

If they aren't fair, then they will gain experience over the years and eventually become good.

Now consider my attributes: I look Chinese, I will encounter agents throughout my life, and I am a free thinker (loyal only to the white in red-white-and-blue). What changes about the world if I get whisked away, and why shouldn't I sacrifice myself for the greater Good?

The law is gone for many when unenforced and also not gone for many. I am exhausted when repeating this, but law is not mathematical, it is meta-physical and Gone with the Wind, bringing us back to a romantic time of order when resources where plentiful, order was stable, yet mobility was hopeful, in the eyes of many. How harsh would it be to take that away from millions of Americans.

Yet think about how selfish your thinking is. Do you really care about the law? Or are you worried that you may be targeted next, and unwilling to handle even a tiny bit of sacrifice that millions of Americans have endured for years?
by guenthert | 2026-02-01 10:54:13+00:00
Generally Ruby ought to be a tad faster than Python [0] (neither the best choice when run-time performance is of high importance). For the latter chances are however better to find a package implementing the performance critical sections in a more suitable language. See e.g. the pidigts example [1] where the "Python" program performs quite competitively, as the heavy lifting is done there by the GNU MP library (itself implemented in C and ASM).

[0] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
[1] https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
by imtringued | 2026-02-01 10:55:44+00:00
You forgot the part where there is a bootstrap problem for any fintech.

You need the appropriate license to make money, but you can only get that license if you already have enough money.

On top of that is a requirement that basically demands that you have employees in charge that have worked and gained job experience at the established businesses.

This is good for stability, but it also means that innovation gets nibbed in the bud.
by sebasv_ | 2026-02-01 10:56:12+00:00
I feel like your comment is in itself a great analogy for the "beware of using LLMs in human communication" argument. LLMs are in the end statistical models that regress to the mean, so they by design flatten out our communication, much like a reductionist summary does. I care about the nuance that we lose when communicating through "LLM filters", but others dont apparently.

That makes for a tough discussion unfortunately. I see a lot of value lost by having LLMs in email clients, and I dont observe the benefit; LLMs are a net time sink because I have to rewrite its output myself anyway. Proponents seem to not see any value loss, and they do observe an efficiency gain.

I am curious to see how the free market will value LLM communication. Will the lower quality, higher quantity be a net positive for job seekers sending applications or sales teams nursing leads? The way I see it either we end up in a world where eg job matching is almost completely automated, or we find an effective enough AI spam filter and we will be effectively back to square one. I hope it will be the latter, because agents negotiating job positions is bound to create more inequality, with all jobs getting filled by applicants hiring the most expensive agent.

Either way, so much compute and human capital will go wasted.
Show HN: I built theme support in Tabularis – lightweight DB tool for developers
by debba | 2026-02-01 10:56:33+00:00
Hi HN,
We’ve just added theme support to Tabularis, our lightweight, developer-focused database management tool.

It already lets you:
• Browse tables and data
• Run SQL queries
• Create and edit table DDL
• Use experimental AI features (query explain / query generation)
• Expose configured DB connections via an MCP server for AI tooling

With the new UI customization features, you can now:
• Switch themes (light, dark, custom)
• Configure font family
• Adjust font size

My goal is to keep the tool fast, distraction-free, and flexible for different developer setups.

Open source and actively evolving. Feedback from developers who care about minimal, efficient database tools is very welcome.
by fc417fc802 | 2026-02-01 10:56:49+00:00
How do LLM advancements further such a view? Couldn't you have argued the same thing prior to LLMs? That evolution is a greedy optimizer etc etc therefore humans don't perform symbolic reasoning. But that's merely a hypothesis - there's zero evidence one way or the other - and it doesn't seem to me that the developments surrounding LLMs change that with respect to either LLMs or humans. (Or do they? Have I missed something?)

Even if we were to obtain evidence clearly showing that LLMs don't reason symbolically, why would we expect that to reflect on what humans do? Certainly it would be highly suggestive, but "hey we've demonstrated that thing can be done this way" doesn't necessarily mean that thing _is_ being done that way.
by eliasdorneles | 2026-02-01 10:57:15+00:00
Thanks for trying it out and thank you for the honest feedback.

That's interesting, many friends of mine tested it and nobody reported an issue with loading.
(Btw I wrote the audio loading code more than 10 years ago, it wasn't written by any LLM -- you're free to judge tho)

Yes, the +22 at the top means the remaining levels. I need to clarify that, you're the second person that seems confused by it.

Thank you again for the feedback.