MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fragmede | 2026-02-07 12:19:25+00:00
https://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-27-Gal-Tough-Storage-Tote-in...

As to why they're against them, I don't know their reason, but there used to be only one size of tote. There there was big and small. And then, for some fxcking reason, they decided to make ones that were roughly as big as the big ones. Just enough that you have to take half a second to re-eyeball-ruler measure them. But in isolation, if you've got one in front of you, you can't know if it'll tetris properly with another one until they're side-by-side and it turns out they're not.

Dumbest decision ever.

At least they come in transparent now though
by prmph | 2026-02-07 12:19:32+00:00
$ crush
Downloading https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/download/v0.... to archive-oN2VLv/crush_0.39.3_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz...
Download complete: archive-oN2VLv/crush_0.39.3_Darwin_x86_64.tar.gz
Successfully extracted crush to "/Users/prmph/Library/pnpm/global/5/.pnpm/@charmland+crush@0.39.3/node_modules/@charmland/crush/bin"
dyld: Symbol not found: _SecTrustCopyCertificateChain
Referenced from: /Users/prmph/Library/pnpm/global/5/.pnpm/@charmland+crush@0.39.3/node_modules/@charmland/crush/bin/crush (which was built for Mac OS X 12.0)
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security
in /Users/prmph/Library/pnpm/global/5/.pnpm/@charmland+crush@0.39.3/node_modules/@charmland/crush/bin/crush
by _heimdall | 2026-02-07 12:20:30+00:00
Things don't "get to exist", that implies that there's a person or people who have decided not to use some power of theirs to make all cruise ships disappear.

The GP quote also wasn't about a personal assistant use case, it was about filling a hole in personal connection. Its sad because we are more often today having less human connections and more digital, aka fake, ones.
by alzee | 2026-02-07 12:22:10+00:00
Using commas in filenames feels kind of weird to me, but I do use a comma as the initiator for my Bash key sequences.
For example:
,, expands to $
,h expands to --help
,v expands to --version
,s prefixes sudo

You put keyseqs in ~/.inputc, set a keyseq-timeout, and it just works.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-07 12:22:23+00:00
Yeah, I think at most very literal titles would be a stylistic phase. Even "The Martian" is more a play on words than just a literal title for what it's about.

Taking favourite novels which are within arm's reach: Sure "Rainbows End" is Science Fiction which doesn't involve space travel etc. but "Incandescence" is also SF but that's deeply about space travel. Banks' "Whit" and "Surface Detail" are both sat here. One of those is set in a lightly fictionalized Scotland and the other is a Science Fiction novel where the main protagonist dies but is resurrected, then is witness to several of the most significant space battles of her era. But like, if you didn't know, how would you guess which is which?

Now, Banks wasn't a hard SF writer. Unlike say Egan's "Incandescence" none of the events of his SF novels are actually physically plausible, but presumably this list is about genre SF and thus includes Banks, Bujold etc.
by lurking_swe | 2026-02-07 12:23:22+00:00
it’s only meaningful if there is progress made. the risk here, because this research is so personal, is that he spirals and spirals until he’s depressed or obsessed in an unhealthy way.

i wish him the best, truly, but i left the post feeling sad. if i was her i think i would prefer if my partner focused on being present and making the most of the situation. Stop trying to play superman.
by alance | 2026-02-07 12:23:49+00:00
Just on your first suggestion, this also means that if a person or process can drop a file (unknown to you) into your ~/bin/ then they can wreak havoc. Eg they can override `sudo` to capture your password, or override `rm` to send your files somewhere interesting, and so on.

Btw on the second suggestion, I think there's a command named `command` that can help with that sort of thing, avoids recursive pitfalls.
by krapp | 2026-02-07 12:26:23+00:00
A lot of that outrage was manufactured as part of a right-wing conspiracy theory about a cult of Satanic pedophiles within the Democratic party. That and the related moral panic around transgender "groomers" were both pushed by the Republican party and the media specifically to foment outrage at "the left" and the LGBTQ+ community.

Donald Trump bragged on tape about how he could get away with sexual abuse, and he had years of allegations even before 2016, and none of it affected him. A shocking number of people don't care until they're presented with a political narrative that demonizes the proper groups.
by burnt-resistor | 2026-02-07 12:26:35+00:00
How do you know these hypothetical cheats exist that you seem to have definitive, non-anecdotal evidence of? Are you a disability claims reviewer?

It took me 2 applications, a lawyer, and 9 years (of 11 years living unhoused) to prove disability that has to be reviewed every 2 years because somehow, magically, I will suddenly not become "disabled" anymore with permanent conditions.

The "welfare queen" myth is racist and false. There might be some people who try to cheat, but it's incredibly laborious and not very profitable to do so, and the penalties are draconian.
by imtringued | 2026-02-07 12:26:37+00:00
You got this exactly backwards.

"I'm not fond of metaphors to human intelligence".

You're assuming that learning during inference is something specific to humans and that the suggestion is to add human elements into the model that are missing.

That isn't the case at all. The training process is already entirely human specific by way of training on human data. You're already special casing the model as hard as possible.

Human DNA doesn't contain all the information that fully describes the human brain, including the memories stored within it. Human DNA only contains the blue prints for a general purpose distributed element known as neurons and these building blocks are shared by basically any animal with a nervous system.

This means if you want to get away from humans you will have to build a model architecture that is more general and more capable of doing anything imaginable than the current model architectures.

Context is not suitable for learning because it wasn't built for that purpose. The entire point of transformers is that you specify a sequence and the model learns on the entire sequence. This means that any in-context learning you want to perform must be inside the training distribution, which is a different way of saying that it was just pretraining after all.
Show HN: Open-source AI assistant for interview reasoning
by Nive11 | 2026-02-07 12:27:26+00:00
I built an open source desktop AI assistant after getting frustrated with how brittle most tools feel once questions go beyond basic Q and A.

The goal was to explore whether an assistant could reliably handle interview style interactions such as system design discussions, multi step coding problems, and deeper follow up questioning without hiding behavior behind a closed SaaS.

The assistant supports both cloud and local LLMs, uses a bring your own API key model, and is intentionally opinionated so behavior stays predictable under pressure.

Most of the work went into managing context, follow ups, and failure cases rather than optimizing for fast single shot answers.

I used Antigravity heavily during development to iterate quickly, then refined and validated the behavior manually.

Repository
https://github.com/evinjohnn/natively-cluely-ai-assistant

Happy to answer questions about design tradeoffs, local versus cloud inference, or what worked and failed while building this.
by coffeefirst | 2026-02-07 12:27:29+00:00
Not at all. I recognize the pattern. He wants to do something to control the thing he can’t control, it’s the same urge that leads people to magic diets and prayer going back to ancient times. Most of the time, your magic herb rich chicken soup is good for you and makes everyone feel a little better, even if it has nothing to do with the disease.

Be he’s trying to play oncologist on TV with a cast of AI sidekicks to encourage him. This will not work. It will make him a less effective advocate within the medical system where he needs to focus on engaging experts, and drive him crazy in the meantime.

If the author is reading this, good luck. And fuck cancer.
by rramadass | 2026-02-07 12:28:20+00:00
Your entire argument falls down due to not understanding the psychological harm caused. This sort of Secondary Trauma with symptoms of PTSD literally destroys people and families over time.

As they say, "being poor make you invisible" and therefore nobody cares on how they end up over a longer time period but only look at immediate benefits. Given that the Govt. has lots of schemes for the underprivileged, it is better to utilize those and do some other job however difficult that does not destroy one's mental health like this one does.

Quite simply, the companies are taking advantage of poverty in poorer regions of the World to pay pennies for a job which literally destroys one's mental health.

See also my other comments in this thread where i link to informative documentaries/articles on this topic.
by wscott | 2026-02-07 12:29:18+00:00
That is normal on his blog. He is a brand that he has developed over many years, and he is constantly promoting that brand.

Yes, he has done a lot of good work in the past, but he has put as much effort into self-promotion and landed a series of interesting and well-paying gigs.

I can't blame him for that. It just makes me tired to watch.
by ilamont | 2026-02-07 12:29:50+00:00
I encountered such discussions living overseas. For people who come from traditions from outside the Christian world, few know the differences between the various branches or the complex history or rites or terminology, and tend to lump them all in together regardless of the identity or faith of the person they’re speaking with. This is also true of outsiders regarding Islam, Buddhism, or other religions with long and splintered histories.

TBH it’s hard for many people who were raised in a specific Christian faith to concisely explain many of the differences themselves … I would struggle when asked “what’s the difference between Catholicism and Christianity“ or “Catholics and Baptists” back then.
by metalman | 2026-02-07 12:29:53+00:00
battle tanks dont seem to be working, playing hydraulic despot with the fuel tanks
is not working, so keeping with the tank theme and trying to come up with some idiolgical flup, to fill peoples heads with,
remotly, and wink wink got something in my eye, deniably is the obvios next step, after flashing there nazi tats in the oval office.
by lima | 2026-02-07 12:30:50+00:00
Reliable networks don't actually exist[1].

Clearly, it's possible to reduce the risk to the point where many companies are willing to accept it, but it's still a problem and comes with high operational costs. And for some use cases (like finance), even a small risk of undefined database behavior or lost writes is unacceptable.

The future are distributed databases with consensus, and unfortunately, Postgres isn't there yet.

[1]: https://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable
by Galanwe | 2026-02-07 12:31:00+00:00
There are no security implications, on the contrary.

It is objectively cleaner to keep your user scripts in your home, that way they are only in _your_ PATH, whereas putting them in /usr/[local/]bin implicitly adds them to every [service] user on the machine, which I can see creating obscure undesired effets.

Not even mentioning the potential issues with packages that could override your scripts at install, unexpected shadowing of service binaries, setuid security implications, etc.
by mptest | 2026-02-07 12:31:08+00:00
>Sure, if you're some sort of tyrant. I thought the left was against colonialism... but you guys really just one a more clever, subtle colonialism eh? Figures

Drastic misrepresentation. I made no value judgements. I simply offered reasons why the above commenter may be wrong. from different points of view. You misunderstand or are naive to the spectrum of how parasitic to symbiotic those soft power relationships can be

> What you're saying is that no cuts can or should be made, unless they are your favorite cuts first. And maybe after you get those, no others need be made at all.

Nope, just saying there's pretty clear science behind where money could be better spent besides billions in forever wars. Maybe start there? 9$ trillion on pointless wars in the middle east comes to mind? google a map of countries we've overthrown the democratic leader of if you want more examples. all the shahs men is useful too. i could go on.

> I've committed no atrocities. Going to guess that you've committed no atrocities. What atrocities did occur, most of those who committed those are dead, the rest are senile in nursing homes. I have no guilt and certainly feel no guilt for those events

It's not about that.
someone simply had to pay that debt. sorry to tell you those bills they wracked up to accumulate wealth are coming due for the rest of us right or not.
Show HN: I'm 75, building an OSS Virtual Protest Protocol for digital activism
by sakanakana00 | 2026-02-07 12:32:09+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m a 75-year-old former fishmonger from Japan, currently working on compensation claims for victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Witnessing social divisions and bureaucratic limitations firsthand, I realized we need a new way for people to express their will without being “disposable.”

To address this, I designed the Virtual Protest Protocol (VPP) ? an open-source framework for large-scale, 2D avatar-based digital demonstrations.

Key Features:

Beyond Yes/No: Adds an "Observe" option for the silent majority

Economic Sustainability: Funds global activism through U.S. commercial operations and avatar creator royalties

AI Moderation: LLMs maintain civil discourse in real-time

Privacy First: Minimal data retention ? only anonymous attributes, no personal IDs after the event

I shared this with the Open Technology Fund (OTF) and received positive feedback. Now, I’m looking for software engineers, designers, and OSS collaborators to help implement this as a robust project. I am not seeking personal gain; my goal is to leave this infrastructure for the next generation.

Links:

GitHub: https://github.com/voice-of-japan/Virtual-Protest-Protocol/b...

Project Site: https://voice-of-japan.net

Technical Notes:

Scalable 2D Rendering: 3?4 static frames per avatar, looped for movement

Cell-Based Grid System: Manages thousands of avatars efficiently, instantiates new cells as participation grows

Low Barrier to Entry: Accessible on low-spec smartphones and low-bandwidth environments

We are looking for collaborators with expertise in:

Backend/Real-Time Architecture: Node.js, Go, etc.

Frontend/Canvas Rendering: Handling thousands of avatars

AI Moderation / LLM Integration

OSS Governance & Project Management

If you’re interested, have technical advice, or want to join the build, please check the GitHub link and reach out. Your feedback and contribution can help make this infrastructure real and sustainable.
by Tehnix | 2026-02-07 12:32:27+00:00
OP here.

Really couldn't find many resources on how to actually use subsecond in your own Ruest applications for a better development experience, so thought I'd share the step-by-step I just did to get our own project up and running with it.

I'm sure there's some optimizations that could be done in order to hot-reload less of the code, but I think this is a pretty good starting point for people that are just looking to "reload my server on change, without killing it during the reload".

Let me know if you have any questions or things you'd like me to try out!
by Nive11 | 2026-02-07 12:32:59+00:00
At the moment it supports Gemini and Groq.

I started with those because they gave predictable latency and behavior while I was validating the UX and reasoning flow.

I’m planning an experimental mode that allows curl style requests so the assistant can talk to arbitrary providers or custom endpoints without being tied to a specific model. That should make it easier to plug in other hosted or local setups.

Longer term I’m trying to balance flexibility with keeping the default behavior sane and reliable.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-07 12:33:03+00:00
>trying to figure out ... fast external storage

Acasis makes 40gbps external nVME cases. Mine feels quick (for non-LLM tasks).

I also use 10gbps Terramaster 4-bay RAIDs (how I finally retired my Pro5,1).

>energy usage

This thing uses an order of magnitude -less- energy than the computer it replaced, and is faster in almost every aspect.
by doctorhandshake | 2026-02-07 12:34:49+00:00
My theory about this aligns with my theory about the disappearance of ‘futurists’ from the popular conversation - we’re living in science fiction. The future is arriving every day. It no longer feels necessary to speculate about a changed world - you need only look out the door.

I say this as someone that still loves (and writes a little) speculative fiction. Just a guess as to what’s happening.
by nickjj | 2026-02-07 12:36:34+00:00
> Why do you think that?

The OP wrote:

> As an SE, I'm exposed to everything. Customers running Kubernetes, ECS, Lambda, bare metal, air-gapped environments. AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid setups. CI/CD in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI. I have to understand their environment well enough to actually help them, so the learning is constant. The stagnation I felt in DevOps? Gone.

These are all things I deal with in my day to day as well in a DevOps / Infrastructure / Platform type of role. I mean, not literally everything like air-gapped environments since the companies I work for don't have that but it's all things in that category of line of work.

The only difference is I usually don't interface directly with the company's customers of the services being built. It's more like the company's staff are my customers because I'm working with developers, management and sometimes other parts of the business on ways to help optimize their workflows which all funnel back to helping create a better end customer experience.
by graemep | 2026-02-07 12:36:47+00:00
> I grew up in the Bible Belt around Baptists and Evangelicals and even a few Pentecostals. I assure you it isn't an illusion.

The religiosity might be an illusion, but in many cases the religion is drifting away from Christianity. It has certainly very different from traditional Christianity in the rest of the world. Many fundamentalists themselves will say that the major churches are not really Christians, which implies they are not the same religion as the major churches. Other American groups have broken with Christian theology in major ways, such as rejecting the trinity of the incarnation. Some have their own scriptures. Many have beliefs that are not taken from either Christian scriptures or tradition.

> I doubt Trump believes in God half as much as Evangelicals believe in him

Again, if he does, his beliefs are significantly different from traditional Christianity. He seems to know very little about what Christians believe - he once tweeted "Happy Good Friday"!

Then again the Bible has a lot to say about the rich, none of it good.
by alkyon | 2026-02-07 12:37:32+00:00
I also enjoyed: https://blog.szczepan.org/blog/los-alamos-primer/

Although there is small error regarding the neutron number calculation. I assume 3/4 of the neutrons are lost and then the author can multiply by 1/4 to get the result that the naturally occurring uranium is safe (as its neutron number is less then 1)
by btdmaster | 2026-02-07 12:38:32+00:00
In my experience C++ abstractions give the optimizer a harder job and thus it generates worse code. In this case, different code is emitted by clang if you write a C version[0] versus C++ original[1].

Usually abstraction like this means that the compiler has to emit generic code which is then harder to flow through constraints and emit the same final assembly since it's less similar to the "canonical" version of the code that wouldn't use a magic `==` (in this case) or std::vector methods or something else like that.

[0] https://godbolt.org/z/vso7xbh61

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/MjcEKd9Tr
by metalman | 2026-02-07 12:39:45+00:00
50/50 the thing flys
0% it lands humans on the moon
open discussions at the top to can this piece of junk now
only thing keeping it going is massive political pressure, and nobody worth there salt, especialy if they have a career ahead of them, is stupid enough to be involved to the point of signing off on mission clearance.
it is hardware poor, and has no visible high profile leader making it happen.
loosers.loser.
by manuelabeledo | 2026-02-07 12:39:47+00:00
While I agree that third party advertising is not the same as playing trailers from other same platform shows, once you are in the app, these highly promoted shows are really hard to miss, regardless of how many trailers are placed at the beginning of another show.

For Shrinking, for instance, they placed an almost full screen, auto play trailer in the main carousel. It is also first in the top ten shows, and it appears in a number of other lists.

Regardless of all this, they do play unrelated promotions for their add ons like some sports stuff or the Peacock deal.
by amiga386 | 2026-02-07 12:40:25+00:00
> How did one part decide to become the tip of your nose, and the other the tips of your toes?

Homeobox genes, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenesis

Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge...

But also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_plan#Genetic_basis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeobox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hox_gene

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_regulatory_network

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_potency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo-devo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk
by shinycode | 2026-02-07 12:41:32+00:00
Ofc people are non deterministic. But usually we expect machines to be. That’s why we trust them blindly and don’t check the calculations. We review people’s work all the time though.
Here people will stop review machine LLM code as it’s kind of a source of truth like in other areas. That’s my point, reviewing code takes time and even more time when no human wrote it. It’s a dangerous path to stop reviews because of trust in the machine now that the machine is just kind of like humans, non deterministic.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-07 12:41:56+00:00
> Anyone who’s been a developer for more than 10 minutes knows that best practices are hard to always follow through on when there’s pressure to ship.
>
But there’s more time to do some of these other things if the actual coding time is trending toward zero.

I think you'll find even less time - as "AI" drives the target time to ship toward zero.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-07 12:44:10+00:00
Everyone I know who has done it, started out as a developer, moved up to a tech lead position and while doing so learned soft skills and presentations and gut real world experience with designing systems and then moved into consulting.

It’s from my seeing the lay of the land in 2026 almost impossible to get a full time job in a consulting company starting out of a college with just an undergrad doing something technical - unless you are in one of the cheaper countries to hire from.

Most besides the WITCH companies use the business models of hire people in the US for the customer facing roles and hire people in cheaper countries for the Lower level roles.
by battlezoen26 | 2026-02-07 12:45:49+00:00
I believe these are AI-generated photos, and perhaps content.

Look at the back of Dave Compton’s shirt carefully, and you’ll notice that the left side starts to have garbled text.

It’s very impressive, though. If I’m wrong, and these are real, then I’m very interested why Dave was wearing that shirt.

Back in the day, it wouldn’t have been normal to have a custom shirt like that with different font sizes with your own name on the back stating what you’re doing in an obscure way.