MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-05 03:07:17+00:00
In hindsight, I would have been happy to spend more if I knew the quality of what I was purchasing would be high.

My Ender that I had purchased years earlier sat in the closet gathering dust because of how much of a pain it was trying to dial in the bed to level, etc. I took a second chance at 3D printing on the Bambu, but might not have if it were costly.

If someone now tells me a Prusa (or whatever) is as good as and simple as the Bambu, I would not hesitate to spend even double.
by lumost | 2026-02-05 03:08:03+00:00
The history of software has been that once it becomes cheap enough for teams to flood the market with “existing product” + x feature for y users. The market consolidates around a leader who does all features for all customers.

I’d bet that we skip SaaS entirely and go to Anthropic directly. This means the ai has to understand that there are different users with conflicting requirements and that we all need the same exact copy of the burn rate report.
by dang | 2026-02-05 03:09:00+00:00
I realize it's a distinction without a difference in this case, but the reason that guideline says "Don't be curmudgeonly" as opposed to "Don't be a curmudgeon" is precisely to avoid giving the impression of labeling the person themselves. It's a transient quality that anyone can have. But I get that it didn't land that way and I'm sorry.

Actually you put it quite nicely when you say: "No one can "be" those things since that implies an identity" - I quite agree, and that's exactly what that guideline was trying (but evidently failing) to avoid. To my ear it sounds analogous to the "Don't be snarky" guideline. If I say I was "being" snarky at a certain moment (or impatient or rude or what have you), it doesn't follow that I "am" a snarky (etc.) person. That's how I meant it anyhow - I hear your point and do not mean to persuade you out of it.

The Adderall comment was the worst bit, but 'You think too fast and have too many ideas pouring out of your "speed of thought" brain' was also crossing into personal attack, and so were the last two sentences comparing the other person to a child that failed to grow up. The trouble is that these sorts of swipes accrue like mercury in the bloodstream and the ecosystem can only handle so much.
by RealityVoid | 2026-02-05 03:10:26+00:00
Unrelated, but it seems his previous company, 1x, was initially named Halodi and was located in Norway. And eventually, it was moved with all employees in Silicon Valley. How the hell does that work? That sounds like a logistical nightmare.Do you upend all those people's lives? Do you fire those who refuse? How many norwegians even want to go to the US? Sounds crazy to me.
by Neywiny | 2026-02-05 03:10:32+00:00
Pro tip: ST actually has a free tool called CubeMX that you can use to avoid the USB mistake. I've used a few H7 parts in the past and it's never been something we missed. I'm actually surprised people were surprised. USB high speed has very different voltage levels than full and low speed, and they're not ones digital chips often use, so it's very common to need an external PHY. Just like Ethernet.

My advice is to never shoot the board before you have all your IO planned out in the tool. That's saved us a bunch of times.

Also, give the U5 series a look? Hyperram, internal HS phy, and parallel display port.

Also also I'm pretty sure pis can put out parallel display on the 40 pin header. Maybe not 24 bit, though.
by sneak | 2026-02-05 03:12:05+00:00
iMessage lock in is a huge thing. When it was new and was still e2ee I ended up buying iPhones for everyone I regularly messaged.

These days it is insecure however because they backdoored the e2ee and kept it backdoored for the FBI, so now Signal is the only messenger I am reachable on.

Blue bubble snobbery is presently a mark of ignorance more than anything else.
by username223 | 2026-02-05 03:12:47+00:00
> consumers realising the limits of "AI",

This is my guess for the demand side: most people will drift away as the novelty wears off and they don't find it useful in their daily lives. It's more a "fading point" than a "breaking point."

From the investment/speculation side: something will go dramatically against the narrative. OpenAI's attempted "liquidity event" of an IPO looks like WeWork as investors get a look at the numbers, Oracle implodes in a mountain of debt, NVidia cuts back on vendor financing and some major public players (e.g. Coreweave) die in a fire. This one will be a "breaking point."
by Nursie | 2026-02-05 03:12:56+00:00
> Imagine if Siri could genuinely file your taxes, respond to emails, or manage your calendar

> And this is probably coming, a few years from now.

Given how often I say "Hey Siri, fast forward", expecting her to skip the audio forward by 30 seconds, and she replies "Calling Troy S" a roofing contractor who quoted some work for me last year, and then just starts calling him without confirmation, which is massively embarassing...

This idea terrifies me.
by saidinesh5 | 2026-02-05 03:13:03+00:00
Good point about the pin.

I'm looking at buying https://www.amazon.in/gp/aw/d/B0D3LK3DYX/ for my living room "diy steam machine".

I was waiting for the steam controller because it would let me play point and click games using it's touchpad and also do some light web browsing and even be useful in the desktop mode (like how it works now on my deck).

But with this playstation clone controller will i get the same functionality?
by evanelias | 2026-02-05 03:13:29+00:00
The manual is still quite comprehensive, but their doc updates seemingly went off the rails during the switch to quarterly "Innovation" releases starting with MySQL 8.1, and never really recovered. They keep forgetting to update various pages at release time, for example the keywords reference or error code reference. Or sometimes omitting major changes from the release notes (which now appear to be AI generated), and then they update it retroactively, days or weeks after the release.

I used to submit doc bugs for these as I found them, and I must say the documentation team has always been very responsive and fast at fixing them, even quite recently. But I've mostly stopped submitting new doc bugs, as I can't keep spending unpaid time on this every quarter, it just isn't sustainable. They really need to have a better internal process or checklist for quarterly release doc updates.

Combined with their "closed" development process and no-longer-public worklogs (nothing under development is visible at all until the release), it becomes impossible to predict what is going to change in the next release, or what has already changed in the most recent release.

MariaDB is a lot better about everything being open/public, but they also tend to have similar delays on doc updates, occasional missing release notes items, etc. It's really strange. I mean, writing docs isn't fun, but why spend time developing a feature but then fail to mention it anywhere?
by majormajor | 2026-02-05 03:13:40+00:00
I assume the suggestion is that they need to run their bot on a machine that's up 24x7 (and they don't want to do that with a laptop since they probably carry it places and such), AND they want it to manage their texts by interacting with the Mac version of the Messages app.

But if you connect those dots you've got people trying to date by having an AI respond to texts from potential dates which seems like you're immediately in red-flag-city and good luck keeping that secret for long enough to get whatever it is you want.
by paxys | 2026-02-05 03:13:51+00:00
"Single 96GB Blackwell" is still $15K+ worth of hardware. You'd have to use it at full capacity for 5-10 years to break even when compared to "Max" plans from OpenAI/Anthropic/Google. And you'd still get nowhere near the quality of something like Opus. Yes there are plenty of valid arguments in favor of self hosting, but at the moment value simply isn't one of them.
by dizlexic | 2026-02-05 03:14:32+00:00
Tbh I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding the issue (or I am).

It’s not about some single dude disrupting the saas market. It’s about largish companies who already have internal dev teams, slowly weening their company off these ginormous one size fits all saas products and building local, tailored solutions.

It’s death by a thousand cuts from the erosion of their highest paying customers.
by lo_fye | 2026-02-05 03:14:52+00:00
Given that OpenClaw isn’t a lot of code, Apple could still build their own. After all, a hyper-personal AI Assistant is what they announced as “Apple Intelligence” two WWDCs ago. Or the could buy OpenClaw, hand it to the Shortcuts team, throw in their remaining AI devs, and Bob’s your uncle. They aren’t first to OpenClaw, but maybe they can still be the best. I know I’d like to be sure it can’t erase my entire disk just because i sneeze when I’m telling it what to do.
by theptip | 2026-02-05 03:15:49+00:00
This may be true pre-LLMs, but I think you need to account for the baseline build-vs-buy tradeoff shifting.

Companies in most cases don’t want to build SaaS because it is expensive to hire engineers to do it, not because they are allergic to owning teams.

If in-housing becomes substantially cheaper than the alternatives then companies will adapt.

But even if the new equilibrium is to hire a contract dev shop to build something custom to keep avoiding responsibility, this would have the same impact on SaaS.

So I’m pretty skeptical of this first-principles prediction expressing right level of uncertainty.
by dgrin91 | 2026-02-05 03:16:18+00:00
> When we announced these products in November, we planned on being able to share specific pricing and launch dates by now. But the memory and storage shortages you've likely heard about across the industry have rapidly increased since then. The limited availability and growing prices of these critical components mean we must revisit our exact shipping schedule and pricing (especially around Steam Machine and Steam Frame).

Oof.... sounds like they are all going to be $$$. That sucks and really steals the thunder from the steam machine. Gaming HW is going to suck for many years.
by Loudergood | 2026-02-05 03:16:59+00:00
Neo-industrialists were let off their leashes and went straight back to their old favorite, wealth extraction. Rockefeller strangled the economy by controlling the trains and pipelines undermining his competition rather than competing on quality. When they can hoard enough cash to buy any potential competitors (see Meta buying Whatsapp and Instagram) it distorts the market. VCs no longer want to build companies they want to sell them.

Fossil fuel can't compete with wind and solar so instead it spends its resources trying to kneecap them rather than innovate.

PE buys up all off an industry in an area and puts the price squeeze on the consumers.

B2B has transitioned from one time sales to a focus on MRR.

Microsoft jams copilot into everything whether it makes sense or not so that it can goose the usage numbers for investors.

Google is incentivized to push ad clicks over legitimate results because it has no real competition.

I could go on for pages and pages. Industry consolidation is what's destroying innovation.
by majormajor | 2026-02-05 03:17:13+00:00
Yeah, that definitely happens.

But I don't think Claude Code is going to prevent an org that thinks they can prompt their way to a replacement for all their SaaS from having internal political bickering that makes them end up with a extra-shitty mega-compromise to try to make all the internal stakeholders happy.

If you've got no vision and no taste, you need to find a vendor who will protect you from screwing up your internal processes and tools.

Internal tools teams have rarely cared much about UX or the day-to-day experience of their poor users. The quick-and-dirty internal-prompt-based one is likely to similarly be unimaginative and unintuitive.
by vivzkestrel | 2026-02-05 03:17:16+00:00
- It changes a lot of things dramatically. The whole "India is poor" thing is in the best case scenario looking at things with a Western lens and in a worse case scenario propaganda.

- If you dig into it, you ll find out that most people are getting by just fine.

- This year during Diwali they splurged the highest amount of money like ever https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/record-breaking-d... If everyone was really as poor as you guys describe, they wouldnt be blowing up money during diuwali for a festival

- Same for gold sales, same for car sales, same for housing, I am a bit lazy to link to these but I am sure you ll find the relevant links when you search for them
Ask HN: Are "provably fair" JavaScript games trustless?
by rishi_blockrand | 2026-02-05 03:19:20+00:00
Hi HN,

Everyone talks about “provably fair” games, raffles, and loot boxes — but in practice, most implementations still require players to trust the server.

Think about it: the server commits a seed, the player sees a hash, and after the game, the result is revealed. Technically, the house could precompute outcomes and cherry-pick them — even if it’s unlikely.

How can you make randomness truly verifiable without relying on a slow blockchain?

Is there a way to combine player input, server input, and public entropy to make it fully auditable?

And crucially, can this be done without killing real-time performance in a game?

I’m curious what people in production are doing — clever commit-reveal models, public beacon sources, hybrid systems?
I’d love to see practical approaches that actually remove trust entirely, not just add a “proof” that still requires faith.

Let’s talk solutions.
by treetalker | 2026-02-05 03:19:47+00:00
>> Imagine if Siri could genuinely file your taxes

Imagine if the government would just tell everyone how much they owed and obviated the need for effing literal artificial intelligence to get taxes done!

>> respond to emails

If we have an AI that can respond properly to emails, then the email doesn't need to be sent in the first place. (Indeed, many do not need to be sent nowadays either!)
by iancmceachern | 2026-02-05 03:20:36+00:00
I asked AI and it looks like it is true. I asked what was the tax rate percentage for the top 10 percent of income earners in the US for each of the decades from 1940 to now:

1940s: Peaked at 94% in 1944–1945.
1950s: Remained high, peaking around 91%.
1960s: Started at 91% and dropped to 70% by 1965.
1970s: Remained around 70%.
1980s: Dropped from 70% to 50%, ending at 28%.
1990s: 31% to 39.6%.
2000s: Decreased from 39.6% to 35%.
2010s: Ranged from 35% to 39.6%.
Current (2020s): 37%.

Also, in 1930 it was low as well.

So it looks like the years in which we did the things Gary wants us to do again in his essay were all done during periods of time in which we taxed the super rich heavily.

This seems at odds with this from him:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/garrytan_larry-and-sergey-can...

I agree that we should do big things for the greater good. That's an easy sell for everyone.

The real conversation needs to be about who pays for it, and how.
by LoganDark | 2026-02-05 03:21:01+00:00
> It allows you to import a Mac screen as a single window, instead of expanding the Mac interface, with its Mac power and flexibility, into the spacial world.

I've thought this too. Apple might be one of the only companies that could pull off bringing an existing consumer operating system into 3D space, and they just... didn't.

On Windows, I tried using screen captures to separate windows into 3D space, but my 3090 would run out of texture space and crash.

Maybe the second best would be some kind of Wayland compositor.
by matthewaveryusa | 2026-02-05 03:21:52+00:00
I really enjoyed reading this. it jives very well with my sentiment. When you go to a grocery store and see the stacks of sodas and chips while our country has an obesity epidemic, you need to wonder if the sale of these products should count towards or against our economic wellbeing. If products can have positive value, surely products can have negative value as well.

In an absurd way, if you were obese and bought a 12 pack of soda and a bag of chips, rationally it would be more valuable for you to throw the products away instead of consuming them. similarly an alcoholic that buys alcohol is doing a negative purchase.

gambling has zero silver lining — its straight up negative value.

And then there’s the leverage per dollar aspect of our economy. If the average american is convinced they need an enormous car, gigabit internet, and streaming services, then yes our economy will be growing, but with things that aren’t fundamentally changing our well being.

Give me child care, healthcare, great education and more leisure time, not a gambling addiction, larger screens and diabetes.

Surprisingly I tried to look at economic indicators that tried to quantify growth aligned with some subjective societal wellbeing metric and couldn’t find anything serious
by alsetmusic | 2026-02-05 03:22:08+00:00
> Stop hanging out with grungy, unwashed sex pests

And that's where you lost credibility with me. I haven't the knowledge of these topics to express an intelligent opinion and I was considering your arguments, but then you went and lowered the bar. There's no need to level rude insults.

I'm a Leftist, fwiw. While I don't know enough to speak intelligently on this, I do resent the people at the top who plunder society for their own gains so I'm spiritually supportive of anyone who's against them.
by a8m | 2026-02-05 03:22:10+00:00
Ariel from Atlas here. This setup is pretty common (declarative locally, versioned in real environments). Since migrations are auto-generated (by Atlas) on PRs, most developers never touch the versioned workflow directly.

See: https://atlasgo.io/concepts/declarative-vs-versioned#combini..., and https://github.com/ariga/atlas-action?tab=readme-ov-file#ari...
by gregjor | 2026-02-05 03:22:27+00:00
@dang Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I abandoned all other social media years ago, I stick around on HN largely because of the moderation.

You probably know that I did not actually feel insulted or attacked. One of the few advantages of getting older: I care less and less what people appear to think about me, or what they say. And I don't think you intended insult. I alert at language using forms of "to be," to the annoyance of people who argue with me.

I understand how my comment can read like a personal attack, and I could have interpreted the OP more generously, or kept my mouth shut. I will try to do better. Something about the "I have too many ideas popping into my head" and "I think too fast" -- posted daily in one form or another, or spouted in co-working spaces, sets me off. My problem, which I will blame on cognitive decline and general feeling that I have reached the end of my road in the tech industry.
by SanjayMehta | 2026-02-05 03:22:35+00:00
Simplistic answer: Excel spreadsheets.
Apparently complex answer: quants.

When we were selling our first startup, we hired an "expert" to value our company. He started the discussion with "what is the valuation you're looking for?"

Then he started playing games with his "model" in Excel.

The difference between industrial capitalism and financial capitalism is Excel.
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by keepamovin | 2026-02-05 03:23:07+00:00
Right so it's basically automating the drudgery of your life. Freeing you up for more time with the moments that matter. That is so cool.

I think the phenomena of clawdbot/openclaw is stark and epitomized by the divide between people who "get it" and who "don't". This creator (Peter Steinberger) is inspiring for his ability to create something at the edge of tomorrow, seeing the future and heading towards it, making up history as he goes along.

The fact that the thing is so useful and viral for so many, but also so many incumbent/established techos have been caught (no disparagement) with their intellectual/product-mind pants down shows the significance of this. Also the significance of moments like this: which will surely increases as AI unlocks more imaginative, future thinking creators to realize their dreams.

I think those of us who didn't get it at first, I was one, need this wake up call to see reality more clearly and ask: what is possible? Let's not be stuck in narrow views, let's remain open and just think, "We can build whatever we need."

I love it when people like this come along that are inspiring, and show us there are more possibilities than we had thought of. I hope you all embrace this as the expander that it is. AI can expand your capacilities and output, but moments like this can expand you. And that's even more valuable because everything you create ultimately has to come from you! With love from somewhere on Earth.
by nilamo | 2026-02-05 03:23:46+00:00
I hope so. We're right on the cusp of having computers that actually are everything we ever wanted them to be, ever since scifi started describing devices that could do things for us. There's just a few pesky details left to iron out (who pays for it, insane power demand, opaque models, non-existent security, etc etc).

Things actually can "do what I mean, not what I say", now. Truly fascinating to see develop.
by RiverCrochet | 2026-02-05 03:24:14+00:00
> Many songs make far more profits when they are featured in popular movies or TV shows decades or more after their first publication than they do in their first 5 years.

Pop culture has to contend with two things that strongly work against its broad memetic power: social media bubbles, and the ease at which someone can scroll or flick up and not give even 1 full second of attention to something they are not immediately in the mood for.

Social media companies make billions per year, they aren't going anywhere. So nothing's going to change any time soon.

So this means trends don't stick the way they used to. The 10 or 20 year pop-culture nostalgia cycle isn't going to be a thing in the next generation.