MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by intellectronica | 2026-02-03 11:43:27+00:00
Looks very similar. That's good - diversity and more options are good.

But ... as the author and maintainer of Ruler I can tell you that I don't use it and I don't recommend using it (or this new tool).

In almost all cases it isn't necessary anymore - most agents support AGENTS.md (or at least a hack like `@AGENTS.md` in CLAUDE.md), and Agent Skills are the best way to customise agents and are available everywhere now.

There are some corner cases where using a tool like Ruler may still make sense, but if in doubt, you probably don't need it.
by t43562 | 2026-02-03 11:43:58+00:00
Commercial interests. Linux has benefited greatly from companies adopting it and paying developers but at the same time there has been a price to pay and this kind of thing is it.

Since it's all open source, I think we're reasonably ok because we don't HAVE to do what the commercial distros chose to do.

The problem is if we let it become too difficult. Personally I think a thing like DBUS is needed but dbus itself is undesirable as it adds another IPC type and has no connection to the filesystem or the BSD socket interface or any of the other standard ways that interfaces can be discovered and used. It has a network effect that is not easy to avoid without accepting degradation in the UI.

The more crap we end up accepting the more difficult it becomes to be a lone developer and the more the whole system will turn towards commercial interests and away from what it started out as.
by fipar | 2026-02-03 11:44:05+00:00
When traveling abroad, it always surprises me when I’m asked for my id when buying alcohol. That’s only a thing in my country when you’re in the age bracket in which it’s risky to tell your age just by your looks, but after that, I haven’t been asked for my id since at least I’m 20 or 21 (drinking age is 18 here).

Prescription drugs are different because those are tied to your name anyway, and that’s why medical information has a different protection standard.

As a parent of 2 I think it’s better to talk to your kids, check what they’re up to, and, you know, be involved in their lives. Also, as a former kid, if there’s something they want to do but you don’t want them to: they’ll do it. Better that they know they can trust you to say “I still want to do X” than have to do it in hiding and without your support if anything goes wrong.
by tecleandor | 2026-02-03 11:44:17+00:00
It's not only about destruction. It's also about reliability. Without proper shielding and error correction you're going to have lots and lots of reliability issues and data corruption. And if we're talking about AI and given the current reliability problems of the Nvidia hardware, plus the radiation, plus the difficulty for refrigerating all that stuff on space... That's a big problem. And we still haven't started to talk about the energy generation.

I think there's a very interesting use case on edge computing (edge of space, if you wanna make the joke) that on fact some satellites are already doing, were they preprocess data before sending back to Earth. But datacenter-power-level computing is not even near.

I have no idea and numbers to back it up, but I feel it would be even easier to set up a Moon datacenter than an orbital datacenter (when talking about that size of datacenter)
by ethbr1 | 2026-02-03 11:44:52+00:00
There are two forms of business software gen AI coding is 100% going to eat:

1. Simple CRUD apps
2. Long-tail / low-TAM apps

Because neither of these make economic sense for commercial companies to develop targeted products for.

Consequently, you got "bundled" generalized apps that sort of did what you wanted (GP's example) or fly-by-night one-off solutions that haven't been updated in decades.

The more interesting questions are (a) who is going to develop these new solutions and (b) who is going to maintain these new solutions? In-house dev/SRE or newly more-efficient (even cheaper) outsourced? I'd bet on in-housing, as requirements discovery / business problem debugging is going to quickly dominate delivery/update time. It already did and that was before we boosted simple app productivity.
by mlrtime | 2026-02-03 11:45:18+00:00
The more I read people saying that Claude is failing, the more I realize this is 90% a user problem. This is just an example, but I see it often.

Claude has a mode specifically for what you're talking about, it is actually very good (Opus 4.5) at planning and going through design without coding, it's called planning mode.

Listen, if you aren't constantly shift-tab or esc-esc during complex problems, and then struggling when it isn't working for you, rtfm, you'll get further and better results.
by thaumasiotes | 2026-02-03 11:45:47+00:00
> They are so unhealthy because in the quest to keep the price something that people can afford (or for greed in profits) companies are forced to turn it into processed zombie garbage

Well, sort of. That processing is generally there not so much specifically to keep the price down as to prolong the shelf life. But it's true that without the preservatives you'd be paying higher prices.
by KempyKolibri | 2026-02-03 11:45:58+00:00
By heuristic, I just mean “a rule used in decision making”.

Under that usage, the fact that the rule doesn’t provide fine-grained advice doesn’t disqualify it from being a heuristic. Eating mostly plants is a rule used in decision making when considering what to eat.

> The extreme is that it is advising people to seek treatment if they suffer from pica or bulimia.

How is that entailed?
by Alice4788 | 2026-02-03 11:46:11+00:00
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by direwolf20 | 2026-02-03 11:46:39+00:00
Courts don't have an army either. Only the executive has an army. Actually the president doesn't have an army. The generals have an army. You know we've never invented a system that stops the guys who have an army from taking over the guys who don't have an army, and we call it a coup d'etat, and it happens all over the world with some regularity. The best we can do is make sure the guys who have the army are guys who are committed to the wellbeing of the country.
by prodigycorp | 2026-02-03 11:46:40+00:00
Wonderfully expressed. I wholeheartedly agree. My biggest burnout was deciding to feel the agi for one month and try to constantly run 5 instances of Claude code at the same time, saturating my max subscription and building out features for an app. It buried me under a mountain of shit I had to review and retracing from that took me longer than the month it took me to pile that slop on. Like you said, abject misery.

The worst part of slop is that it pollutes your codebase so your grep pulls in all sorts of code you don’t understand and design decisions you never meant to express, so subsequent code sucks even more.

I literally had to tear the thing to studs.

That experience made me hate the ton of markdown summary files that Claude loves to create. It’s all just radioactive context filled with garbage that’s not worth reading
by Slartie | 2026-02-03 11:47:20+00:00
No one buys into Elon's firms because he's expecting dividends.

His investors are not investing because of his success rate in delivering on his promises. His investors are investing exclusively because they believe that stock they buy now will be worth more tomorrow. They all know that's most likely not because Elon delivers anything concrete (because he only does that in what, 20% of cases?), but because Elon rides the hype train harder tomorrow. But they don't care if it's hype or substance, as long as numbers go up.

Elon's investors are happy with his success rate only in terms of continuously generating hype. Which, I have to admit, he's been able to keep up longer now than I ever thought possible.
by noduerme | 2026-02-03 11:47:23+00:00
@defrost: I apparently can't respond directly to you. It's a mistake to ascribe a singular focus to someone you don't know. There may be one out of ten thousand people in any group who might want to cause chaos or violence, and they may very well have their own reasons. It would be absurd, though, to not acknowledge that there are some "gospels", if you will take that term in the broadest sense possible, or sub-religions, which preach that violence is a path to salvation, and which tend to recruit people for the purpose of violence. There are also some political movements which fill the same vacuum for an aimless, angry human soul without religion.

It is not that I have a singular focus on one religion nor one political movement, so much as that the evidence suggests that, currently, some movements have more violent offshoots and a more violent profile. There are a handful of political and religious ideologies in the world that lead to more suicide bombings and hijackings per year than, say, the total number done by believers in Zoroastrianism, Sikhs, Confucians, Hindus, Yazidis, Jews, Buddhists, Libertarians, Democratic Socialists, Freemasons and Christians combined.

If you had, for instance, Jim Jones's cult or the Aum Shinrikyo boarding airplanes and blowing them up on a regular basis, and your response was that a person had to be a single-minded bigot to notice the fact that most airplane bombings originated with this particular ideology, then I'd say you were ignoring facts or willfully making excuses for ideologies which brainwashed people into doing those things. Possibly for reasons related to disliking your own society, which is perfectly fair, but certainly not neutral or scientific.
by thegrim000 | 2026-02-03 11:47:39+00:00
Ooohhh I finally get it. It's another "protecting the children" guise when in actuality they want to introduce new mechanisms to control speech, classify what they don't like as "hate speech", fine/punish companies for hosting content they've decided is "hate speech", etc. How naive of me to think it was just about protecting the kids.
by gruberjl | 2026-02-03 11:47:57+00:00
I haven't set up my kids on social media. They haven't asked either. I do worry that banning kids from doing something makes it all the more intriguing to them when they are then allowed... Or makes the kids that lie and get on anyway "cool"

I do hope it works out, though. I think Social Media is one of the main reasons for depression.
by kd913 | 2026-02-03 11:48:05+00:00
I think ARM is the one to watch. Softbank only has a 10% float of their stock.

90% of their stock is being used as collateral against 33 banks for 18 billion stargate loan to OpenAI.

Given Japanese bond markets right now, 30% circular financing, if the AI narrative falls, ARM is gonna blow up.
by senko | 2026-02-03 11:49:02+00:00
> The staggering amount of money Elon Musk raised for doing AI stuff is quite a bit more than what he ever expended on the Twitter value implosion.

Total investment in xAI are around $30B-40B (including the latest E round). Twitter purchase price at $44B was more than that. Out of that 44B, ~$25B was debt financing.

> Star Link is one of those mad plans that actually seems to make sense now [...] AI data centers in space are similarly ludicrous unless you have a newly developed 100+ ton to orbit reusable launch capability at your disposal

I don't think these two are comparable. Starlink obviously makes sense if you can put thousands of satellites in LEO cheaply, which (only) SpaceX could. The challenge there was to actually build and put them there.

For data centers, even if you can launch for free, the physics and economics don't make sense. Solar is free but the amount of solar arrays (and cooling radiators) required means it's just easier and cheaper to build out the same thing on Earth, and that's without thinking about maintenance of either the data center or the required support equipment.

In theory it can be done. In practice, I humbly propose that putting the same engineering brains on solving the hard questions of keeping people alive in space (so they can, eg, get to Mars and back) would align more closely with the SpaceX mission.

> But what's the alternative if you are semi serious about controlling an armada of space craft across the solar system?

"X Combinator" for space tech (life support, stations, habitats, etc - everything that SpaceX itself isn't focusing on). Refueling depots at strategic locations that are good launching points for deep space (Mars+) missions.

Not a friggin' LLM.
by nothrabannosir | 2026-02-03 11:49:32+00:00
We people are extremely poor judges of our own emotions, particularly in hypotheticals.

Normalize having two lines; one with tsa, one without. See which airplane people actually board after a while. Let us put our time and money on the line and we’ll see what we really think. It’s the only way to tell.

I’m sure in a world with tsa for buses and trains some people would say the same things they do now about our tsa.
Show HN: HostsLab – A Mac app for managing hosts file and SSH config
by matzie | 2026-02-03 11:49:42+00:00
Hey HN! I built HostsLab, a simple desktop app for managing /etc/hosts and ~/.ssh/config on macOS.

I got tired of manually editing config files every time I needed to map a local domain or add an SSH connection. HostsLab gives you a visual interface to:

- Add/edit/disable host entries (with proper sudo handling)
- Manage SSH connections with dropdowns for existing keys
- Generate new SSH keys (Ed25519/RSA) right from the app
- Everything preserves comments and formatting in your config files

It's built with Electron + React + TypeScript, code-signed and notarized, and fully open source (MIT).

Demo: https://github.com/Matzielab/HostsLab
Download: https://github.com/Matzielab/HostsLab/releases/latest

Built this mainly for myself but figured other devs might find it useful. Feedback welcome!
by roenxi | 2026-02-03 11:50:03+00:00
And we've all heard of the linux people, as opposed to whoever is pushing these post-Cassidy OS. Linux isn't where it is because of some imperial decree, it has been winning out in a slow, protracted war for what OS programmers choose when they want to get work done.

Pike is more than entitled to an opinion, but I think there is some cause-effect reversal at work here. The linux circles aren't people driving the UNIX-love. The UNIX-love is effective in practice - especially the blend of principle and pragmatism that the linux community settled on - so the linux circles happen to be bigger than the most similar alternatives. Better alternatives are going to have to fight through the same slog as linux if they want recognition.
by nephihaha | 2026-02-03 11:50:23+00:00
I have to admit I sceptical of a lot of crime figures. A lot of crime goes unreported for various reasons. I've no idea how much crime goes unreported but I hear about it all the time, and I don't report most crimes to the police anymore. We had £750 stolen from a community group and the police would do nothing but we do know who did it because we had independent witnesses. It was stressful and pointless to report it and the perp still wanders around as if nothing happened. I'm sure this repeats over and over.
by manmal | 2026-02-03 11:50:46+00:00
That's completely wrong.

Electricity (standard): 33.34 p/kWh

Heating oil (gas oil): 10.54 p/kWh

Kerosene: 6.20 p/kWh

Mains gas: 7.68 p/kWh

https://www.nottenergy.com/advice-and-tools/project-energy-c...
by kd913 | 2026-02-03 11:50:52+00:00
Buy gold.

Current US debt to gdp is 124%, 38.6 trillion.
Japan too at 230-240%.

Bond markets in both are looking seriously unhealthy (Japan going via a Liz Truss moment at present).

If the AI bubble falls over, the US government is going to have to print 5 trillion to cover the bubble at least. The only option there is inflate away anyone holding cash.

If hte AI succeeds and people are replaced, the US government faces a massive fiscal cliff of a loss of tax receipts. They won't be able to service the debt and again will be forced to inflate away.

To service current debt projects, AI growth needs to return some 3.2-3.5%, it is currently 0.5%.

Bonds, equities, USD, and housing are all risk assets right now.
by DrScientist | 2026-02-03 11:51:00+00:00
You can get things like cheaper overnight tariffs when the demand is lower - if you have some sort of storage system - like a hot water tank - in effect the electricity company is distributing some of that smoothing function to things like hot water tanks, storage heaters or batteries.

If you have your own solar ( either direct solar water heating, or solar electricity generation ), the hot water tank is a simple, cheap, reliable energy store.

Sure capacity isn't that great - but pretty much every house in the UK used to have one, so it adds up.
by TonyStr | 2026-02-03 11:51:05+00:00
Deportation would also affect the statistics, in that it removes potential repeat-offenders, no?

The study doesn't mention repeat offenses, so I can only assume they sampled both first-offenders and repeat-offenders. If illegal immigrant offenders get deported rather than jailed, the statistics would be lower than if they were sent to prison and allowed to return to crime afterwards.
by ruhith | 2026-02-03 11:51:14+00:00
The saddest part of this isn't the technical debate. It's that a project whose entire reason for existence is to teach you how things work has concluded that one of the most fundamental components of the system is now too entangled with everything else to offer a choice. That's not a vindication of systemd or an indictment of it. It's an honest admission about what happened to the Linux ecosystem's composability over the last decade.
by scotty79 | 2026-02-03 11:51:17+00:00
There was a point in time where I though of social media as an invention that facilitates the freedom of speech.

Recent years changed that perception completely. It's a platform where russian oligarchs create discord in Europe cheaply (and the West in general) and American oligarchs profit from it.

I don't have any hopes left that the business will deliver us freedom of speech in any form. Next best bet is democratically elected government.

When you put on top of this how some things like youth suicides, youth grneral mental health decline, number of people killed in school shootings in US correlates with development of social media I will happily see it burn.
by deeringc | 2026-02-03 11:51:23+00:00
It's possible to build an identity system that can assert certain properties about a person (eg. "older than 16") without revealing any other details about that person. Similarly, it's also possible to build such a system where the identity system can attest these details without knowing which website is being accessed. That way, the social media site (or whatever other "adult" service) can validate the user is old enough, while the identity system doesnt track who is using what.
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-03 11:51:45+00:00
Ideally they don't change course every 4 years, they change only people who become more adept at maintaining course as they go along.

Quite simply the US had founding fathers who were ahead of their time, and some uncharted waters ahead of it.

This set the example for the decent navigators who took the executive positions, but momentum can only last so long.

You need decent people to come along on a regular basis to refresh the progress.

The very system that allowed for a gifted individual to have an outsized positive outcome, has always posed a real vulnerability if the decency is compromised. Whether that is a "natural" lack of decency or if compromises escalate over time, that's a weakness which is magnified when it does show up.

Different presidents have had this problem from time to time.

When you start with a country where the big advantage is being ahead of its time with an emphasis on more decency than average, it doesn't take somebody completely behind the times or absolutely disgusting to do serious damage. Even dropping the ball one time can be a major setback.

Just ask every respectable President in history.
by iamkrystian17 | 2026-02-03 11:52:05+00:00
At a glance there are a few differences:
- LNAI additionally supports permissions
- The way rules for sub-directories are defined is different. Ruler defines rules for sub-directories in the sub-directories themselves under ‘.ruler/‘. LNAI defines rules for sub-directories by using front matter ‘paths’ property and storing all rules under ‘.ai/rules’
- ruler supports more tools (I will continue maintaining and improving lnai to also support more tools / configs)
- lnai supports per tool overrides in ‘.ai/.{codex/claude/etc.}’ for more granular control while keeping a single source of truth
- ruler is a more mature package
by joseramalho97 | 2026-02-03 11:52:28+00:00
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by duskdozer | 2026-02-03 11:52:47+00:00
>I can't maintain a large and complex project supported by lots of maintainers on my own, as a fork

Do you need to "maintain" a complex project? Why can't you just add the patches you want on your fork and update as far as it suits you? Just as the upstream doesn't have to review or accept PRs, neither do you. Users can still see the network of forks, and ime there are few that are actively updated.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-03 11:52:51+00:00
Because the devices involved are mobiles? What else would you use.

Almost all end–user devices are mobiles. When everyone had a desktop you made a desktop app. When everyone has a mobile you use a mobile app. When everyone has brain implants you'll make a brain implant app.

That's if you want to reach the most people. If you want to reach the much smaller community of people who oppose the current thing, you'll make a different type of app.
by galangalalgol | 2026-02-03 11:53:27+00:00
I mostly do dsp and control software, so number heavy. I am excited at the prospect of anything that might get me a performance boost. I tried porting a few smaller tests to java and got it to c2 some stuff, but I couldn't get it to autovectorize anything without making massive (and unintuitive) changes to the data structures. So it was still roughly 3x slower than the original in rust. I'll be trying it again though when Valhalla hits, so thanks for the heads up.