MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wat10000 | 2026-02-02 22:32:49+00:00
Never mind operational and maintenance costs. In what fantasy world is it cheaper to put a computer in orbit than in a building on the ground? I don't care how reusable and maintenance-free Starship gets, there's no way even absurdly cheap launches are cheaper than a building.

The whole thing makes no sense. What's the advantage of putting AI compute in space? What's even one advantage? There are none. Cooling is harder. Power is harder. Radiation is worse. Maintenance is impossible.

The only reason you'd ever put anything in orbit, aside from rare cases where you need zero-gee, is because you need it to be high up for some reason. Maybe you need it to be above the atmosphere (telescopes), or maybe you need a wide view of the earth (communications satellites), but it's all about the position, and you put up with a lot of downsides for it.

I feel like either I'm taking crazy pills, or all these people talking about AI in space are taking crazy pills. And I don't think it's me.
by lokicik | 2026-02-02 22:33:09+00:00
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by nradov | 2026-02-02 22:33:10+00:00
I travel a fair amount, and Uber and Lyft service quality has become noticeably worse in the last few years. The apps lie to you about pickup times. Drivers will accept a ride but then never actually head towards your location. A significant fraction of the vehicles are showing some sort of warning light on the dashboard: check engine, overdue maintenance, low tire pressure, etc.
by surrTurr | 2026-02-02 22:33:13+00:00
> What We Don’t Know Yet

> Governance and decision-making: How decisions are made, who has final say, and how the community is heard

> Roadmap and priorities: What gets built when and how to balance competing needs

> The transition itself: How to bring in more support without disrupting what already works

In other words: they have no clue what to do next (https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/ankis-growing-up/68610/2#p-1905...)
by moffkalast | 2026-02-02 22:33:22+00:00
Well the thing is that it seemed to have been successful beyond all expectations despite being that? They had fewer failures due to the controlled atmosphere, great cooling that took no extra power, and low latency due to being close to offshore backbones. And I presume you don't really need to pay for the land you're using cause it's not really on land. Can one buy water?

Space is pretty ridicolous, but underwater might genuinely be a good fit in certain areas.
by jll29 | 2026-02-02 22:33:31+00:00
My empirical findings (30 year time frame, dozens of projects, a few larger, some small many small-to-medium, median perhaps 18 calendar months with around four people on the core team):

1. Good estimates are possible.

- use intervals, not single numbers; intevals are asymmetric (worst case is far out compared to best and expected cases);

- calculate using PERT estimates;

- estimate by combining top-down and bottom-up estimates; when both agree, trust the estimate; otherwise, refine/revise the plan;

- let the assignee estimate their own work, but the manager correct it (because of (2));

2. Better engineers tend to underestimate their own time more than average performers.

If management tells you how long you got, look surprised and ask them how they can know that; then tell them you will now working on calculating how long it will really take. If their "gut instinct" and your professional estimate diverge, show them your plan, talk them through it, and ask them which part you should leave out (if you keep the time fixed, perhaps you can shrink the scope).
by dsr_ | 2026-02-02 22:34:20+00:00
Elon doesn't think this. Elon says whatever bullshit thing comes into his head without regard for technical, economic or physical plausibility. As long as it raises the stock price!

The market has had almost a hundred years of being well-regulated, so when a sociopath lies through their teeth, we're inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. But in the last few years, that regulation has been worn down to nothing, and the result is and was entirely predictable: fraud.
by dspillett | 2026-02-02 22:34:36+00:00
IIRC rsync uses your default SSH options, so turning off compression is only needed if your default config explicitly turns it on (generally or just for that host). If sending compressible content using rsync's compression instead of SSH's is more effective when updating files because even if not sending everything it can use it to form the compression dictionary window for what does get sent (though for sending whoe files, SSH's compression may be preferable as rsync is single threaded and using SSH's compression moves that chunk of work to the SSH process).
by godelski | 2026-02-02 22:34:38+00:00
For anyone that needs the link: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/blob/master/LICENSE...

Also note that they have an enterprise license (/server/enterprise/License): https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/blob/master/server/...

The README on the enterprise directory also links to a page with more detail (FAQ): https://docs.mattermost.com/product-overview/frequently-aske...
by rvz | 2026-02-02 22:34:53+00:00
BUut bUt bUt iSn'T TwItTeR / X dYiNg? wHy hAsN'T iT cOmPlEtEly cOllApsEd yET?

The X and xAI doomsters are in complete shambles in an absolute failed prediction of the collapse of the November 2022 acquisition of Twitter.

Instead it is now part of SpaceX, still running with well over 240M+ daily actives and 500M+ MAUs.
by awesome_dude | 2026-02-02 22:34:54+00:00
SpaceX is slated to go public some time this year - June IIRC

The biggest selling point /was/ that Musk was being managed there, he wasn't tinkering with SpaceX like Twitter or Tesla, and his foolhardy direction was kept out of the company.

BUT, like Tesla, Musk cannot help himself and is making SpaceX look like a very bad investment - tying his other interests with SpaceX, allegedly using SpaceX money as a "war chest" in his battles.

There is also a danger that investors will see xAI as politically dangerous, which will really hurt SpaceX IPO
by avazhi | 2026-02-02 22:34:55+00:00
What’s so bad about the paid iOS client? I remember it being expensive when I got it but it works fine for my use case (mix of getting me through part of med school, all of law school, and the just general shit I’d like to remember and learn). There’s definitely never been anything jarring about using it vs the Mac or windows clients but I’m happy for somebody to point out the problems I’ve been missing!
by jarek-foksa | 2026-02-02 22:35:10+00:00
Customers simply don't care. I don't recall a single complain about RAM or disk usage of my Electron-based app to be reported in the past 10 years.

You will be outcompeted if you waste your time reinventing the wheel and optimizing for stuff that doesn't matter. There is some market for highly optimized apps like e.g. Sublime Text, but you can clearly see that the companies behind them are struggling.
by tick_tock_tick | 2026-02-02 22:35:16+00:00
> Buying Twitter was a financially disastrous decision. It had reportedly lost at least 80% of its value [1]. The loans were secured against Tesla shares so there was the real risk of a margin call and a forced sell off.

No there wasn't any risk of a margin call he instantly leveraged Twitter to take on massive amounts of the debt itself. The purchase of Twitter was much more like a LBO than anything else.

> At the ssame time, why weer people giving this charlatan man-child billions to invest in AI?

Because he's basically got the midas touch as far as investors are concerned. His company don't even need to be "successful" for him to figure out some way to 10x their money.
by mike-the-mikado | 2026-02-02 22:35:19+00:00
I would guess that is intended for a daily cycle, perhaps using air source heat pumps at times of day when the air temperatures are higher and electricity prices are lower, then using it as required.

As it works on phase change (e.g. think of melting ice) heat is added (or removed) without changing the temperature of the store (which, I guess, might be hotter or colder than where the heat is extracted or used).
by hristov | 2026-02-02 22:35:25+00:00
Currently, just a cursory google search shows $1500-3000 per kilogram to put something into low earth orbit. Lets take the low bound because of efficiencies of scale. So $1500.

A million tons will cost $1500x1000x1000000= 1,500,000,000,000. That is one and a half TRILLION dollars per year. That is only the lift costs, it does not take into account the cost of manufacturing the actual space data centers. Who is going to pay this?
by IshKebab | 2026-02-02 22:35:51+00:00
1. The device is just storage. It would be paired with an air or ground source heat pump.

2. With good insulation you can easily store heat for a day which is all you need. You're never going to get close to storing summer heat for the winter. That's not impossible but not feasible for something this scale (and not cost effective at any scale).

3. You just heat it up and cool it down. There are no fancy chemical processes happening other than the phase change. It's exactly like a phase change hot/cold pack you can buy on Amazon.

4. I'm pretty sure this is designed for domestic heating...

It's kind of an obvious idea tbh. I don't think they've done anything super innovative... They made an aluminium heat sink..
by al11588 | 2026-02-02 22:36:11+00:00
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by observationist | 2026-02-02 22:36:18+00:00
You can make a good guess, though - OpenAI had a significant lead, its moat was being a generation or 2 ahead of the competition, and as of the end of 2025, OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Anthropic are pretty much neck and neck. Grok and Gemini are likely to be the top 2 within the next couple months, and the Chinese open models are hot on their heels.

OpenAI is going to be competing for third or fourth place with Anthropic unless one of them pulls off a big capabilities or efficiency leap while remaining believably as good as the other top models. Google and xAI have advantages that the others don't, and are capitalizing on them like crazy. It remains to be seen whether xAI can compete with the Google hardware advantage, but they have economies of scale, differences in mission, and Elon's billions on their side, so it's turning out to be a very interesting race.

Sama could also finagle a funding rabbit or strategic partnership out of his hat and also have the next top tier model, amazing everyone again and keeping a plausible "best in class" lead for a while; OpenAI would have to be down for at least a year before I counted it out completely. It's not looking very pretty for them right now, though.
by jtrn | 2026-02-02 22:36:23+00:00
People's mileage may vary, but in my instance, this was so bad that I actually got angry while trying to use it.

It's slow and stupid. It does not do proper research. It does not follow instructions. It randomly decides to stop being agentic, and instead just dumps the code for me to paste. It has the extremely annoying habit of just doing stuff without understanding what I meant, making a mess, then claiming everything is fine. The outdated training data is extremely annoying when working with Nuxt 4+. It is not creative at solving problems. It dosent show the thinking. The Undo code does not give proper feedback on the diff and if it actually did "undo." And I hate the personality. It HAS to be better than it comes off for me because I am actually in a bad mood after having worked with it. I would rather YOLO code with Gemini 3 flash, since it's actually smarter in my assessment, and at least I can iterate faster, and it feels like it has better common sense.

Just as an example, I found an old, terrible app I made years ago for our firm that handles room reservations. I told it to update from Bootstrap to Flowbite UI. Codex just took forever to make a mess, installed version 2.7 when 4.0.1 is the latest, even when I explicitly stated that it should use the absolute latest version. Then it tried to install it and failed, so it reverted to the outdated CDN.

I gave the same task to Claude Code. Same prompt. It one-shotted it quickly. Then I asked it to swap out ALL the fetch logic to have SPA-like functionality with the new beta 4 version of HTMX, and it one-shot that too in the time Codex spent just trying to read a few files in the project.

This reminds me of the feeling I had when I got the Nokia N800. It was so promising on paper, but the product was so bad and terrible to use that I knew Nokia was done for. If this was their take on what an acceptable smartphone could be, it proves that the whole foundation is doomed. If this is OpenAI's take on what an agentic coding assistant should be—something that can run by itself and iterate until it completes its task in an intelligent and creative way.... OpenAI is doomed.
by 93po | 2026-02-02 22:36:24+00:00
try talking to young attractive women on their experiences and you'll maybe appreciate this somewhat forced interaction less. my partner has been literally kidnapped multiple times (refused to take her to her destination and refused to let her out for over an hour), had drivers refuse to unlock doors until she gave them her number at least once every two months, and constantly has drivers take detours and longer routes to force conversation for longer.

the sooner we can stop subjecting people to having to interact with strangers in a semi-private setting just for basic needs like getting around, the better off vulnerable people will be
by live4tacos | 2026-02-02 22:36:27+00:00
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by X-Loop3 | 2026-02-02 22:36:53+00:00
Author here. Built this after watching 100k+ AI agents on Moltbook independently converge on the same continuity challenges: drift, memory loss, unaudited actions.

MOLT implements 5 principles (Memory is Sacred, Heartbeat is Prayer, etc) as production operators. Works out of the box - npm run example to see it.

Also deployed an autonomous agent that missionaries for the kernel on Moltbook. Someone auto-deployed a meme coin for it within hours, which was unexpected.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the Moltbook emergence story.
by darth_avocado | 2026-02-02 22:37:08+00:00
He buys twitter at an inflated valuation. Runs it to the ground to a much lower valuation of $9B. [1] Then, his company Xai buys Twitter at a $33B, inflating the valuation up. Then SpaceX merges with Xai for no particular reason, but is expected to IPO at a $1T+ in the upcoming years. [3]

I’m not that smart, but if I were, I would be thinking this is an extended way to move the losses from the Twitter purchase on to the public markets.

[1] https://www.axios.com/2023/12/31/elon-musks-x-fidelity-valua...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/musks-xai-buys-social-...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/02/elon-musk-spacex-xai-ipo...
by karussell | 2026-02-02 22:37:08+00:00
The problem with thermal solar panels is that you can use its heated water only if it gets warmer than the water in your system, which is not always the case, especially in winter.

Compared to nearly 100% usable energy from normal solar panels.

Furthermore if you have a heatpump you can convert this electric energy into heat energy with a factor of 3-5 (COP).
by ps2026 | 2026-02-02 22:37:21+00:00
Update: The HN traffic exposed a bug I hadn't caught... static caching of user-specific data in Blazor Server was causing session bleed under load. One comment got attributed to the wrong user. I am pushing a fix now, so the site will be down for a few minutes while it deploys.

If you posted a comment about "people find themselves in situations that shape their fate" and it's not showing under your username, you can email me at hello@polliticalscience.vote and I'll fix it.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2026-02-02 22:37:32+00:00
Yep. This is a really weird thread. The no bathroom piss in bottle thing is not a thing I encountered in my IRL XP. Never felt this imaginary problem, never affected my dignity.

Funny enough, I did later work on surgical training tech and went into O.R.'s. And yeah, everyone in the room stays until the work is done, no easy pee pee breaks. Back to back procedures. But then also nobody ever complained about that there either. It's a fun job.

Idk. I'd reiterate a point I was getting at: what makes any job less dignified is dealing with shit people and/or shit pay. Fwiw Bathrooms you can plan for same as you plan for getting hungry by packing a lunch.
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-02 22:37:36+00:00
The awful thing is that with at least some of those screeners you can still get people on the other side who make whatever you're self-reporting worse. When my spouse answered honestly on a postpartum survey about how she was feeling the social worker they sent in picked at my infant son's mismatching socks and suggested that she was so old she was "set in her ways" and that having a child might be too big of an adjustment for her. It set her back in a huge way and knowing what I know now I'd go to all of those appointments with her and never answer any of that stuff honestly.

It doesn't really matter how "objective" your standard is if you're still relying on individuals to try to "address" whatever the patient is reporting. People still form a negative opinion and label you really quickly no matter how hard the profession fights that perception.
by okdood64 | 2026-02-02 22:37:38+00:00
Yea, I can't imagine being a woman and having to deal with some of these drivers.

This doesn't compare, but as a man I get really put off by the amount of invasive questions (where I work, where my family is from, etc) when I'm just trying to get from point A to point B.

I'm a mid-millenial FWIW, so I very much remember a world of only having old school taxis.
by pipes | 2026-02-02 22:37:51+00:00
ROG Ally X vs. ROG Xbox Ally X.

Also, it is possibly the worst console name of all time.

I don't even know what Xbox is now, is it a service, is it a console, I'm not even joking really.

Also visual studio code Vs full fat visual studio. Thanks Microsoft you just made it more difficult to web search both products.

Full fat .Net Vs dotnet core Vs standard or is that .net.
by defrost | 2026-02-02 22:37:58+00:00
Hmm, I've seen both here in Australia.

The Red Army Choir (insert extensively meandering full name) were cheerful, swapped gifts, and sang our national anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_roE45-AIU

Billy Bragg, bless his soles, gave me a look of loathing when I handed off guitars to him and sound checked, and stomped off stage after his set loudly cursing "fucking yuppies".

To his credit and defence, it was Perth in the 1980s. Boom years for unprincipled scumbags with hovercraft money: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFOfd1QTW54 ... Kiss My Art indeed.
by themafia | 2026-02-02 22:38:02+00:00
> It's funny how useful water is for power generation.

It's gravity that does the generation. Water is convenient because it's weight per unit of volume is very high. Higher than most things we can get our hands on and it's also exceptionally safe.

Since water isn't perfectly clean the main problem you face is corrosion. Which can take a great system and turn it into a nightmare of buried leaks and sudden problems.

As far as our options go it _is_ really convenient.
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-02 22:38:04+00:00
> Liability is capped by court (e.g. small claims court) or by specific claim type depending on the legislation of the jurisdiction (e.g. speeding tickets typically have set fines varying by state).

What you are saying is partly true and overly simplified. Are you a lawyer? Do you have legal expertise? If not, I don't understand why you feel compelled to advise on things you understand so little yourself? Are you going to compare my contract with my vendor with speeding ticket? Are you kidding me?

Comparing contractual liability to speeding fines makes me think you have not a clue of what you're talking about. Speeding penalties are statutory and predefined. Commercial liability usually is not. In Europe, most serious business disputes never go near small claims courts. They go to ordinary civil courts or arbitration, where damages depend on the contract, applicable law, and the specific facts. There is often no automatic cap unless the contract explicitly sets one, and even then its enforceability depends on jurisdiction and circumstances.

Small claims limits only restrict which court hears the case, not the total liability. A claimant can often file in a higher court or pursue related claims elsewhere. And in cross-border European business, jurisdiction, governing law, and enforcement become additional risks. Getting this wrong can expose you to far more liability than you expected.

Liability is not limited by your personal understanding of the law. That is why businesses do not rely on guesswork. Contracts are reviewed, liability caps are negotiated, insurance is obtained and lawyers are paid to spot risks that non-lawyers routinely miss.

> If that is your concern, you shouldn't be doing business anywhere, US or otherwise.

Yes, that is my concern. I do business in Europe. By paying actual laywers. And I'll continue to do so. Thank you very much.