MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YuriGusev | 2026-02-02 20:47:16+00:00
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by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2026-02-02 20:47:34+00:00
He was under investigation for corruption. The case was very strong given the presence of some "heck yeah we'd love to do that illegal thing you suggested!" emails.

The only reason the corruption prosecution stopped is Adams made a corrupt deal with Trump. Corruption on top of corruption.

What kind of idiot would trust this openly corrupt person with their money? Who thought this was a legitimate offering in the first place?
by dwoldrich | 2026-02-02 20:47:42+00:00
Isn't Availablility the ability to connect to something? If I'm calling from region A to region A servers, and the region A servers' networks go down. Well, my client is clever and can failover to region B servers. Except, all my state and context was on region A servers, and maybe that state wasn't replicated over to region B - that replication might only happen on a nightly basis.

When I reconnect, my dating profile is missing all the pictures I uploaded of me in my new convertible with me lowering my sunglasses and winking at the camera.

The LovinHuggin.com server architecture is Available, but not Partition Tolerant. And after I upload different pictures of me in tuxedos and talking like a boss on the cellphone to region B, I've potentially created a weird "split brain" situation. Region A and region B servers have different views of me. Both views are super hot, but the client might get confused if my session returns to region A when their network heals, and the nightly region replication might be messy with reconciling the split brain. Eventual consistency is a helpful (or fraught) feature to have in the database when things like split brain happen.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-02 20:47:42+00:00
It’s funny over the years I went from

1. I like being hands on keyboard and picking up a slice of work I can do by myself with a clean interface that others can use - a ticket taking code monkey.

2. I like being a team lead /architect where my vision can be larger than what I can do in 40 hours a week even if I hate the communication and coordination overhead of dealing with two or three other people

3. I love being able to do large projects by myself including dealing with the customer where the AI can do the grunt work I use to have to depend on ticket taking code monkeys to do.

Moral of the story: if you are a ticket taking “I codez real gud” developer - you are going to be screwed no matter how many b trees you can reverse on the whiteboard
by jandrese | 2026-02-02 20:48:13+00:00
I've been keeping an eye on heat pump water heaters for awhile, but right now they mostly make sense in warm climates. The big problem is they're still specialty products and marked up like crazy, but also they tend to use cheap components which makes them loud and prone to failure. If you run A/C for the majority of the year then they pay themselves back reasonably quick, barring early failure, but in colder climates they make your house work that much harder to keep the space warm.

The most optimistic hope is that the government mandate will force enough demand that manufacturers can enjoy some economies of scale and actually try to compete on price. I don't think this will happen anytime soon.
by groby_b | 2026-02-02 20:48:13+00:00
That's a nice slogan, but how does it work?

Say, I clone sudo. Clearly, a human applying freedom zero. I use it in my projects. Probably still freedom zero. I use it in my CI pipeline for the stuff that makes me money... corporation or human? If it's corporation, what if I sponsor a not-for-profit that provides that piece of CI infra?

The problem is that "corporation or not" has more shades than you can reasonably account for. And, worse, the cost of accounting for it is more than any volunteer wants to shoulder.

Even if this were a hard and legally enforceable rule, what individual maintainer wants to sue a company with a legal department?

What could work is a large collective that licenses free software with the explicit goal of extracting money from corporate users and distributing it to authors. Maybe.
by wpm | 2026-02-02 20:48:42+00:00
Exactly, it's not like a Target going up in an area with no parking minimums is going to be like "great our massive big box store won't need any parking!" They're just going to be incentivized to build enough parking to fill their store to levels they expect based on the massive amount of data they have, and not just some gut-feeling BS from the 60s in the parking minimums regulations "department store - 20 spots per 100sqft" or some bullshit.
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2026-02-02 20:48:46+00:00
As a former Lyft driver in SF I felt kinda weird when saw the bit about urination. Like, that's just not a problem. As a driver you just plan ahead as in any other job out there where you're not allowed to disengage at a whim. Pilots and surgeons don't pee in bottles, why would drivers? It's kinda funny when people try to empathize but come up with these creative scenarios of what's challenging. The parts that are bad are same as any other thing done for a living: money and dealing with other people. The job was shit when people were shit and/or when the money was shit.

I enjoyed it as a job, not a career. But that was in 2015.
Show HN: I vibe-coded my own productivity system
by easylife_ai | 2026-02-02 20:49:02+00:00
Hi,

This started as a personal experiment.

I’ve tried most productivity tools over the years, and they all felt either:
– too rigid
– too cluttered
– or too focused on features instead of actual use

So instead of planning a product, I decided to “vibe-code” one:
build fast, trust intuition, and only keep what feels genuinely useful day to day.

The core idea:
– one system for goals, tasks, routines and notes
– work and personal live together, but never get mixed
– calm, minimal UI with as little friction as possible

This is still early.
Nothing is polished, and I’m deliberately keeping it simple.

I’m mainly looking for a few early users who are willing to:
– try it for free
– share honest feedback
– point out what feels confusing or unnecessary

If you’re curious, I’d really appreciate constructive feedback.
Happy to answer any questions about the thinking, tradeoffs, or decisions behind it.
by jakelazaroff | 2026-02-02 20:49:14+00:00
> We shouldn't use government to hurt people, and making someone's property too expensive to continue owning is definitely hurting them.

But we are using government to hurt people — we are incentivizing (or worse, requiring) land owners to harm the surrounding community by not developing their property. A land value tax would simply shift some of the cost that is already burdening the rest of the community onto the unproductive property owners.
by falloutx | 2026-02-02 20:49:31+00:00
>If you've got a gold mine and have recently built the most efficient shovels in the world, why are they not bringing in mass amounts of workers to utilize these shovels before all the neighboring mines

Because they are completely consumed by the need to increase margins, which they think they will be able to do it with AI by laying off a lot of people. But Saas economy is connected and based on per user pricing, so as layoffs continue, Saas economy is showing its biggest weakness. All of Saas companies also seem to embrace AI so much that they would rather add another summarise button rather than actually making something which cant be copied easily by competitors.
by rglullis | 2026-02-02 20:49:37+00:00
You are taking my comment way too literatlly.

The point is not that people will be using specifically Excel, but that most business only pay for software because it is the tool that gives them the most power to automate their processes. They don't need high availablility, they don't need standards compliance, they don't extensive automated tests, they won't need cloud engineeers and SRE... all you need is some tool that can get the results your are looking for right now.

Academia already works like this. Software wrtiten for academic purposes is notoriously "bad" because it is not engineerd, but that doesn't matter because it is good enough to deliver the results that researchers need. Corporate IT will also start looking like this even at mid-sized companies.
by scottious | 2026-02-02 20:49:48+00:00
That sounds like a recipe for getting a ton of cars into your city. Think of parking garages as "traffic generators". If you cater to cars you shouldn't be surprised if what you get is more cars. It's literally sending the signal to people that it's fine (and encouraged) to drive cars everywhere. After all, your tax dollars are paying for all that infrastructure

Maybe some people are fully car-pilled, but many people want to live in an area that isn't so car-dependent, it tends to make everything more spread out, noisy, polluted, and congested. It also imposes very large personal costs.
by ps2026 | 2026-02-02 20:49:59+00:00
Haha so like "guess" which way you think public sentiment leans before you submit your vote? Were you thinking like "what percent agreed" or something? You type 55% then it shows you actually 22% agree sort of deal?

That could maybe be a little optional thing to make it more "interactive". The original idea was to be dead simple, two big buttons. The issue is attracting people to come back since they hit the big button, go "that's interesting", then forget it ever existed.
by ractive | 2026-02-02 20:50:38+00:00
comparis.ch | Platform / Cloud Engineer (Senior) | Zurich, CH | Hybrid (2 days onsite)

We’re looking for an experienced platform/cloud engineer to help own and evolve our Azure-based platform. You’ll work at the boundary between infrastructure and product teams, introducing IaC and enabling developers to provision cloud services safely and independently. Together with our on-prem services, this forms the foundation of Switzerland’s largest comparison platform: comparis.ch.

Tech: Azure, Kubernetes (AKS), IaC (Terraform), CI/CD (GitHub Actions), cloud networking, observability (Prometheus, Grafana), GitOps (Argo CD)
Team: Part of the IT team, working with sysadmins and support
Location: Zurich, hybrid (min. 2 days onsite)
Type: Full-time

Apply: https://www.comparis.ch/people/jobs/detail/2452733
by wincy | 2026-02-02 20:50:44+00:00
Hah, I had a 2am conversation with a woman from Argentina about Javier Milei which is one of my Uber riding highlights.

But then another time a guy warned me not to open his glove box because his Glock was in there and he sounded deranged and it’s the one time I’ve literally gotten out of the car and cancelled my Uber.

One female Uber driver told me about how she had to go to court because a drunk man threatened to stab her with a knife (that he was brandishing), then he passed out and the police had to haul him out of her car. The .1% ruin it for everyone else.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-02-02 20:50:53+00:00
Underutilized surface area of the Earth contributes to more resource, energy, and time consumption for everyone else in society to move around it.

When ranking consumption such as large cars, flights, plastic toys, etc, space on the surface of the Earth, within an urban/suburban metro, is at the very top in terms of impact on others.

And it’s taxed the least.
by ddiinn | 2026-02-02 20:51:11+00:00
Releasing open source tools for security teams to get visibility into OpenClaw in their environments: openclaw-detect and openclaw-telemetry.

- openclaw-detect:
Shell and PowerShell scripts that detect OpenClaw installations on managed devices.
Checks for CLI binaries, app bundles, config files, gateway services, and Docker artifacts across macOS, Linux, and Windows. Deployable via MDM with docs for Intune, Jamf, JumpCloud, Kandji, and Workspace ONE.

Repo: https://github.com/knostic/openclaw-detect

- openclaw-telemetry:
A plugin for OpenClaw that captures tool calls, LLM usage, agent lifecycle, and message events.
Includes sensitive data redaction, tamper-proof hash chains, rate limiting, and log rotation. Outputs to JSONL, with optional CEF/syslog forwarding for SIEM integration (not yet tested).

Repo: https://github.com/knostic/openclaw-telemetry

Thanks! The Knostic team
by astura | 2026-02-02 20:51:21+00:00
From TFA:

>The relative leniency of Muzahir’s compound, says Harvard’s Sims, likely stems from scam operations’ sense of total control in Laos’ Golden Triangle region—a zone of the country controlled largely by Chinese business interests that has become a host to crimes ranging from narcotics and organ sales to illegal wildlife trafficking. Even human trafficking victims who escape from a compound there, Sims points out, can be tracked down relatively easily thanks to Chinese organized crime’s influence over local law enforcement. “These guys don’t have to be held in a cell,” Sims says. “The whole place is a closed circuit.”
by epistasis | 2026-02-02 20:51:23+00:00
User permission has little to do with it. Every input box has an error rate. If 1%-5% make the wrong choice, there is your data.

That's why people make apps that collect things even none of the users want them to. And if you can justify the permission box with some actual functionality, then it just increases the 1% to a far higher conversion rate.
by bloomca | 2026-02-02 20:51:26+00:00
All your thoughts are and experiences are real and pretty unique in some ways. However, the circumstances are usually well-defined and expected (our life is generally very standardized), so the responses can be generalized successfully.

You can see it here as well -- discussions under similar topics often touch the same topics again and again, so you can predict what will be discussed when the next similar idea comes to the front page.
by nonethewiser | 2026-02-02 20:51:26+00:00
I dont actually think it changes the economics of software as a service much. What's true for the small scale is true for the large scale. Sure, it's easier to build your own HR platform now but it's also easier to write and maintain it at scale with all your domain knowledge, legal infrastructure, etc. This seems true for inventory management, document signing, ecommerce, expensing, crm, training, accounting, etc. Why wouldn't the offerings from services providers get better and cheaper (relatively)?

The stuff you do in-house is probably still going to tied deeply to your internal processes. Admin dashboards, special workflows integrating with different systems, etc.
by sjdixjjxs | 2026-02-02 20:51:28+00:00
> We ultimately need optimized DSLs and aggressive use of stateless sub-modules/abstractions that can be implemented in isolation to minimize the amount of context required for any one LLM invocation

Wait till you find out about programming languages and libraries!

> It will probably change once the approach to large scale design gets more formalized and structured

This idea has played out many times over the course of programming history. Unfortunately, reality doesn’t mesh with our attempts to generalize.
by groby_b | 2026-02-02 20:51:37+00:00
You can only fix that with leverage. The sudo maintainer doesn't have it. sudo is valuable, but if Todd stepped away, you could (and would) find other maintainers because it's so important.

If you want to fix it, you need organizational heft comparable to the companies using it, and the ability & willingness to make freeriding a more painful experience.
by Xylakant | 2026-02-02 20:51:51+00:00
Thermal solar panels have the advantage of being very simple and surprisingly effective. But if you're lacking space to put up both solar cells and thermal, you can use combined panels which have a solar cell with a backing thermal system. The interesting thing is that these combined panels outperform solar cells even when it comes to electricity generated because solar panels loose efficiency as they heat up, so cooling them actually improves efficieny. Combined panels are much more expensive, though.
by TuxSH | 2026-02-02 20:52:01+00:00
In my case I've had it (Opus Thinking in CC) hit 80% of the 5-hour limit and 100% of the context window with one single tricky prompt, only to end up with worthless output.

Codex at least 'knows' to give up in half the time and 1/10th of the limits when that happens.
by SimianSci | 2026-02-02 20:52:06+00:00
I agree that people will pick the marginal value of a tool over the security that comes from not using it. Security has always been something invisible to the public.
But im reminded of things like several earlier Botnets which simply took advantage of the millions of routers or IoT devices that never configured their logins beyond the default admin credentials. The very same botnets have been used as the tools to enable many crimes across the globe.
Having several agent based systems out there being operated by non-technical users can lead to an evolution of a "botnet" being far more capable than previous ones.

Ive not quite convinced myself this is where we are headed, but the signs that make me worried that systems such as Moltbot will further enable ascendency of global crime and corruption.
by belter | 2026-02-02 20:52:07+00:00
Schlicht did not seem to have said Moltbook was built as a joke, but as an experiment. It is hard to ignore how heavily it leans into virality and spectacle rather than anything resembling serious research.

What is especially frustrating is the completely disproportionate hype it attracted. Karpathy from all people kept for years pumping Musk tecno fraud,
and now seems to be the ready to act as pumper, for any next Temu Musk showing up on the scene.

This feels like part of a broader tech bro pattern of 2020´s: Moving from one hype cycle to the next, where attention itself becomes the business model.Crypto yesterday, AI agents today, whatever comes next tomorrow. The tone is less “build something durable” and more “capture the moment.”

For example, here is Schlicht explicitly pushing this rotten mentality while talking in the crypto era influencer style years ago: https://youtu.be/7y0AlxJSoP4

There is also relevant historical context. In 2016 he was involved in a documented controversy around collecting pitch decks from chatbot founders while simultaneously building a company in the same space, later acknowledging he should have disclosed that conflict and apologizing publicly.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/chatbots-magazine-founder-accused...

That doesn’t prove malicious intent here, but it does suggest a recurring comfort with operating right at the edge of transparency during hype cycles.

If we keep responding to every viral bot demo with “singularity” rhetoric, we’re just rewarding hype entrepreneurs and training ourselves to stop thinking critically when it matters. I miss the tech bro of the past like Steve Wozniak or Denis Ritchie.
by cwnyth | 2026-02-02 20:52:09+00:00
I didn't say that to be pedantic, but to avoid that particular type of asker who isn't actually asking a genuine question here. After listing all the ways that Notepad++ (as an example here) suspects who they suspect, the asker then comes back with "Yeah, but how do you know?", as if that's some sort of gotcha. It's disingenuous. Even if the person I replied to isn't attempting this, I find it good to call out and get people to ask a better question: what's the evidence and why does that evidence point to this conclusion?
by jperaino | 2026-02-02 20:52:15+00:00
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by xl0 | 2026-02-02 20:52:29+00:00
Location: Nomadic, Colombia at the moment
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: depends
Technologies: PyTorch, Deep Learning, LLM, Diffusion models, NumPy, JAX (a bit), CUDA | SvelteKit, TypeScript, tailwind, drizzle | Linux (25 years), AWS, Docker, common sense
CV: https://alexey.work/cv?ref=hn46857487
Email: alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com

I'd love to get back into Deep Lerning (torch, cuda, etc, etc), but also cofortable with the usual "Agenetic AI", whatever you want it to mean, and :heart: SvelteKit. In my past lives: Linux kernel development, Molecular Biology masters, Electronics engineering in Shenzhen.

Some cool stuff, or just check my gh:

https://github.com/xl0/lovely-tensors

https://chat.congusto.ai/chat

https://lovely-docs.github.io/

https://pelican.alexey.work/gallery
by bgnn | 2026-02-02 20:52:30+00:00
Some European cities have car-free city centers. I live in one, which serves as the shopping center of roughly 1 million people living in the suburbs. If you want to shop in the city you need to park in one of the big underground parking lots and pay sth like more than 10 Euros/hour. Alternatively you can park just outside the city at a park & ride spot for 10 Euros/day and take the public transport included in the parking price.

It's inconvenient for people, yes. It was inconvenient to drive and park in the narrow streets of a medieval city too. This is unfortunately not easy to implement in North America, as the cities are relatively new. What we have feels very privileged.
by wpm | 2026-02-02 20:52:32+00:00
Sorry the poster didn't put a specific, individualized carve out for all of the disabled groups of people who would obviously be allowed to use whatever method in whatever imagined, hypothetical future, and not kicked to the curb like trash.

It is generally more productive to assume charity in the people you are talking to, that of course no one is going to ignore that some people need cars to get around.