MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BloondAndDoom | 2026-02-10 23:35:49+00:00
This is very well put. I think this platform can be useful but I doubt it can be something as big as the think it will be. At the end of the day it’s just storing some info with your data. I guess they are trying to be the next GitHub (and clearly have the experience :)). I doubt that success can be replicated today with this idea, even with $60 mil to burn
by jonplackett | 2026-02-10 23:36:07+00:00
Just been reading about the crash they’re talking about in the article - it seems like a kid walked out from between two parked cars.

Rather than being a bad thing, this is probably Waymo saving his life.

It says the car reduced speed from 17mph to 6mph before contact. This is the kind of reaction-speed safety an AI car should have over a human driver - instead it’s just ‘waymo hit a kid’.
by g9yuayon | 2026-02-10 23:36:40+00:00
Honest question: why are we so afraid of population decline? For people on the left, it means less consumption, less environment impact, less carbon footprint, and in general fewer damn evil people who are destroying the mother earth. For the right, everyone is responsible for their own destiny including their retirement life so they worry about their retirement spending solely on their own anyway. In practice, Japan seems to be fine. In particular their young people have so many job openings to fill.

So, what exactly are we worrying about? The social security is not sustainable? The medical cost will go through the roof? There's no enough military power? There won't be enough consumption to support the growth (in that case, why do we have to keep growing? Why can't we just stay where we are? Again, not rhetorical questions but honestly curious about the answers).
by oshio_shoppaize | 2026-02-10 23:38:42+00:00
Author here.

This is an ops protocol for running multiple AI coding CLIs in parallel in tmux.

Core idea: YAML inbox files as the source of truth (auditable via git diffs) + inotify-driven wakeups (no polling). tmux only gets a
tiny “inboxN” nudge.

I’d love feedback on:

1) mailbox protocol design (what would you change?)

2) failure recovery / redo protocol

3) safe wakeup patterns for TUIs (avoid clobbering human input)
by vmilner | 2026-02-10 23:38:48+00:00
Unlike the commercial audio CDs of the lectures the recordings here have the chat before and after the lecture which is fun.

My favourite lecture is the standalone "The Principle of Least Action" at

https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html

Audio: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_19.html#Ch19-audi...
by jacquesm | 2026-02-10 23:38:58+00:00
> I'm curious though, why is US metallurgy consistently top-notch if the processes are inferior?

I really wonder what you're comparing with.

Try some quality surgical steel from Sweden, Japan or Germany and you'll come away impressed. China is still not quite there but they are improving rapidly, Korea is already there and poised to improve further.

Metal buyers all over the globe are turning away from the US because of the effects of the silly tariffs but they were not going there because the quality, but because of the price.

The US could easily catch up if they wanted to but the domestic market just isn't large enough.

And as for actual metallurgy knowledge I think russia still has an edge, they always were good when it came down to materials science, though they're sacrificing all of that now for very little gain.
by scubadude | 2026-02-10 23:39:02+00:00
>Why is everyone using Vercel and the likes anyway?

Because you literally connect to a git repo and your site is deployed, and scales with load. Compared to managing a VM, system and application packages, config, backups and then how do you scale that?

I have what is basically a demo running on Vercel free tier, there's no way I'm maintaining a VM for that lol.

If I had a serious site, same. If I had a team, then the equation would be different.
by pear01 | 2026-02-10 23:39:27+00:00
The system is clearly breaking. Rather than couching your language in rehashed partisan politics that will only lead to further and more egregious breaks, the best thing you could do is acknowledge these events as a system failure. The safest thing is then to first work to defang the system. This is also bipartisan and more likely to succeed.

Just look at the situation as the founders would. It's amazing a society that came from a generation that engineered their own form of government is now trapped by their forebears' invention. They told us explicitly they were merely men, not gods. When America was founded it was a weak, newborn power of 3 million people who were forced to make awkward compromises mostly to protect the country from being recolonized by European domination. And yet our system of government has remained mostly unchanged from the founding.

Any of you Americans out there worried about a European armada? Or the British burning down the White House again?

America's sister republic - the French - has gone through many more iterations. Your problem is you have no imagination. Regardless of what you think of Trump, he does. He is an avatar for a group of people that understand correctly that what had been the prevailing system was no longer responsive to the times, so they are essentially remaking it on the fly. What is your answer to that, that isn't just lets rewind the clock? You tried that with Biden and the disease became worse.

Do it a second time and I fear the future will bring you someone who makes Trump look like a saint.
by digiown | 2026-02-10 23:39:54+00:00
> Insulin monitoring apps

A monitoring app doesn't even interact with systems you don't own. Just put a liability disclaimer for running modified versions.

> warranted

Decided by whom? And why is Google trusted, not me? At minimum, I shouldn't face undue hardship with the government due to refusing to deal with a third party, unless we first remove most of Google's rights to set the terms.
by catlikesshrimp | 2026-02-10 23:40:05+00:00
The guy says there are workers abroad, not exclusively in Phillipines. Phillipine call centers work when it is night in the US. There almost certainly is /are other centers in another location which work when it is daytime in the US.

Because Night shifts are always more expensive. Nothing to do with any A, B or C Team.

Edir: "Markey then asked about where the operators are located, to which Peña says they have "some in the U.S. and some abroad,” however he did not know an exact percentage of those located elsewhere. "
by ryeights | 2026-02-10 23:40:13+00:00
“[W]ithin the capitalist system all methods for raising the social productiveness of labor are brought about at the cost of the individual laborer; all means for the development of production transform themselves into means of domination over, and exploitation of, the producers; they mutilate the labourer into a fragment of a man, degrade him to the level of an appendage of a machine, destroy every remnant of charm in his work and turn it into a hated toil; they estrange from him the intellectual potentialities of the labour process in the same proportion as science is incorporated in it as an independent power [...]

[I]n proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse. The law, finally, that always equilibrates the relative surplus population, or industrial reserve army, to the extent and energy of accumulation, this law rivets the labourer to capital more firmly than the wedges of Vulcan did Prometheus to the rock. It establishes an accumulation of misery, corresponding with accumulation of capital. Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole, i.e., on the side of the class that produces its own product in the form of capital.”
by deepsun | 2026-02-10 23:40:19+00:00
A lot of words and excitement, reminding me of the String Theory -- is very generic, able to explain anything (and be quickly adapted to any new stuff it was failing at before), but that makes it useless -- a useful theory should predict something that other theories cannot, something that can be tested.

That's why I asked for the falsifiability. If there was a phrase like: "here is an experiment idea that can show which theory is correct" -- perfect. Or at least something like: "here's the real-world prediction that is very hard/impossible to calculate in other theories, but this theory makes it easy" -- at least it'd be useful for calculation.
by georgeck | 2026-02-10 23:40:19+00:00
Another interesting link relevant to AI summaries for HN discussion is the utility created by simonw [0]. Our tool is quite similar to what simonw did, except that we make the back-links more seamless. If you’re interested in a standalone tool similar to what simonw developed, you can find our script here [1]. If there’s community interest, we can improve the user experience of this tool.

[0] - https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/claude-hacker-news-themes

[1] - https://github.com/hncompanion/skills-scripts
by mindcrime | 2026-02-10 23:41:18+00:00
Right now? I spend less than $100 / month on AI services. I have the cheap plan ($20/ month or whatever) for ChatGPT, the $20/month (or whatever) plan for Gemini, a Github CoPilot plan that is, I think, $10/month. Add in a dollar or two here and there for using the OpenAI API (which I mostly don't, preferring instead of self-host open-weights models using Ollama), and a few bucks here and there for experimenting with Azure AI services. This is all in my personal life.

At the $DAYJOB we have a corporate subscription to Github CoPilot, as well as Microsoft CoPilot, and some access to the Azure OpenAI API.

All of that said, as I've gotten more into coding with spec driven development and using coding agents like OpenCode, I'm starting to see more of the value in all of this, and I wouldn't rule out the possibility of upping my spending at some point down the road.
by wahnfrieden | 2026-02-10 23:41:23+00:00
There’s this case where a citizen was detained and they called his authentic RealID “fake”: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/24/us-citizen-d...

So even using valid papers on you is not enough. We’re beyond a “papers please” situation. It is up to their mood.
by IMTDb | 2026-02-10 23:41:23+00:00
That’s true for “tips and tricks” knowledge like “which model is best today” or “tell the model you’ll get fired if it’s wrong” that pops up on Twitter/X. It’s fleeting, makes people feel like “experts”, and doesn’t age well.

On the other hand, deeply understanding how models work and where they fall short, how to set up, organize, and maintain context, and which tools and workflows support that tends to last much longer. When something like the “Ralph loop” blows up on social media (and dies just as fast), the interesting question is: what problem was it trying to solve, and how did it do it differently from alternatives? Thinking through those problems is like training a muscle, and that muscle stays useful even as the underlying technology evolves.
by m-schuetz | 2026-02-10 23:41:34+00:00
> You are also explicitly saying that you want device memory by specifying DEVICE_LOCAL_BIT. There's no difference.

There is. One is a simple malloc call, the other uses arguments with numerous combinations of usage flags which all end up doing exactly the same, so why do thy even exist.

> You _have_ to be able to allocate both on host and device.

cuMemAlloc and cuMemAllocHost, as mentioned before.

> Because there's such a thing as accessing GPU memory from the host

Never had the need for that, just cuMemcpyHtoD and DtoH the data. Of course host-mapped device memory can continue to exist as a separate, more cumbersome API. The 256MB limit is cute but apparently not relevant im Cuda where I've been memcpying buffers with GBs in size between host and device for years.

> No, because if that's the only way to allocate memory, how are you going to allocate staging buffers for the CPU to write to?

With the mallocHost counterpart.

cuMemAllocHost, so a theoretic vkMallocHost, gives you pinned host memory where you can prep data before sending it to device with cuMemcpyHtoD.

> This is how you end up with a zillion flags.

Apparently only if you insist on mapped/host-visible memory. This and usage flags never ever come up in Cuda where you just write to the host buffer and memcpy when done.

> This is the reason I keep bringing UMA up but you keep brushing it off.

Yes I think I now get why keep bringing up UMA - because you want to directly access buffers between host or device via pointers. That's great, but I don't have the need for that and I wouldn't trust the performance behaviour of that approach. I'll stick with memcpy which is fast, simple, has fairly clear performance behaviours and requires none of the nonsense you insist on being necessary. But what I want isn't either this or that approach, I want the simple approach in addition what exists now, so we can both have our cakes.
by rcxdude | 2026-02-10 23:42:33+00:00
Has Waymo been responsible, in any material way, for any deaths? To my knowledge they have not. (from a quick search: their cars have been involved in one fatal collision total, where a "SUV rear-ends stopped vehicle behind stopped Waymo at high speed, one passenger in the human-driven car and animal declared dead", a situation in which their car was obviously only peripherally involved)
by jedberg | 2026-02-10 23:42:45+00:00
International drivers are allowed to drive on US roads as long as they have a valid license in their own country. In particular, Filipino drivers are allowed to drive on US roads without any extra paperwork.

But also, even in the USA, we have 51+ different licensing schemes in the US. We already accept that if you have a license in one place, it's good in all the places.
by p_l | 2026-02-10 23:42:51+00:00
Proxmox is fine if your vmware deployment was quite small. Single oxide rack at max density is going to similar values as official scaling sizes for proxmox, and very much isn't limit of what we did with vsphere.

And Oxide sells a complete hardware + software solution, including virtualization and SDN - essentially it's a physical equivalent of up to 32 node virtualization cluster per rack, with builtin SDN and SD-SAN, that already has features to combine for more.
by testbjjl | 2026-02-10 23:43:04+00:00
> You don't have to figure out which webhooks you need or write listeners for each one. The library handles all of that. This follows the approach of libraries like dj-stripe in the Django world (https://dj-stripe.dev/).

I don’t figure out these types of things anymore. I just make sure they work in dev, staging and production.
by jvandreae | 2026-02-10 23:43:05+00:00
The past is a foreign country. I do not believe "quality of life" in economic terms is a sufficient explanation. The simple Darwinian fact is that, if your culture did not value reproduction sufficiently, through whatever means, it would not have survived to the present. Remember, infanticide was widely practiced historically, and while not as convenient as birth control, provides a significant fraction of the same "benefit".

I do find it a bit ironic that "free child slave labor" is considered a better reason to have kids these days than, say, ancestor worship or nietzschean vitalism.
by sxzygz | 2026-02-10 23:43:12+00:00
I don’t know which of my detractors to respond to, so I’ll respond here.

It should be clear that I’m only interested in compute and not a GPU expert.

GPUs, from my understanding, have lost the majority of fixed-function units as they’ve become more programmable. Furthermore, GPUs clearly have a hidden scheduler and this is not fully exposed by vendors. In other words we have no control over what is being run on a GPU at any given instant, we simply queue work for it.

Given all these contrivances, why should not the interface exposed to the user be absolutely simple. It should then be up to vendors to produce hardware (and co-designed compilers) to run our software as fast as possible.

Graphics developers need to develop a narrow-waist abstraction for wide, latency-hiding, SIMD compute. On top of this Vulkan, or OpenGL, or ML inference, or whatever can be done. The memory space should also be fully unified.

This is what needs to be worked on. If you don’t agree, that’s fine, but don’t pretend that you’re not protecting entrenched interests from the likes of Microsoft, Nvidia, Epic Games, Valve and others.

Telling people to just use Unreal engine, or Unity, or even Godot, it just like telling people to just use Python, or Typescript, or Go to get their sequential compute done.

Expose the compute!
by xyzelement | 2026-02-10 23:43:39+00:00
I don't think that's right. There's a difference between "I hadn't tried to do that"(which would have been the case for me, if not for my wife's wisdom) and "it's hard"

Like literally a starting point could be -where do your friends and coworkers with kids tend to live? Or ask a realtor which parts of town have turned over with young families.

When you are checking out the house you can literally tell which houses have kids and u can ask about it.

The housing market it what it is but you get a very different outcome if you search in a a family friendly town vs not to begin with. Obviously?
by agnosticmantis | 2026-02-10 23:43:55+00:00
> Checkpoints are a new primitive that automatically captures agent context as first-class, versioned data in Git. When you commit code generated by an agent, Checkpoints capture the full session alongside the commit: the transcript, prompts, files touched, token usage, tool calls and more.

Whether or not useful for agent collaboration, the data here will be more valuable than gold for doing RL training later on.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2026-02-10 23:43:56+00:00
You can entertain it. You just did. But don't expect standing ovation is my very subtle point.

<< This is a hilariously narrow view of family life.

Quite the contrary, it allows for a very broad range of outcomes, because it deals with reality of the human condition.

<< which, btw, is still an option. Not great, but neither is the former

Everything always is. Why, tomorrow I could quit my job and start a bar in Hawaii. As arguments go, this one was pretty weak.

<< Life is a lot more complicated and there's essentially limitless possibility between

Why am I getting this feeling that you completely misread what I wrote.
by bsder | 2026-02-10 23:44:43+00:00
> I'm still reeling at how very much chip consolidation the world's gone through.

All of it should get stomped flat, but since we don't actually believe in anti-trust enforcement in the US anymore ...

Rather than thinking about these transactions as buying chips or engineering, you need think of them as buying customers. It's simply cheaper and more reliable to buy the company who has an existing customer rather than pry them away through competition.

The question here is "Who does SiLabs have as a customer that TI was willing to cough up for?"

I was going to say cough up a premium, but that doesn't really seem to be the case. SiLabs has annual revenue of about $700 million, so $8 billion is just above the 10-year valuation that is pretty standard for valuing a business.
by RupertSalt | 2026-02-10 23:45:10+00:00
Most MUDs do not use Telnet.

MUDs use plaintext TCP protocols that are accessible to a wide range of clients.

The Telnet protocol is well-defined and not completely plaintext. There are in-band signaling methods and negotiations. Telnet is defined to live on 23/tcp as an IANA well-known, privileged, reserved port.

MUDs do none of this. You can usually connect to a MUD using a Telnet client, but most players hate the experience and often deride this method in favor of a dedicated, programmable client.

The fact that MUDs inhabit higher 4-digit ports is an artifact from their beginnings as unprivileged, user-run servers without a standardized protocol or an assigned “well-known port” presence. If you want your MUD to be particularly inaccessible, you could certainly run on port 23 now!
by aspbee555 | 2026-02-10 23:45:37+00:00
misuse is not what I mean, I am talking about if your card is stolen and someone runs up a bunch of purchases before it gets caught, that money is gone from your account and any fees from overdrafts are the account holders problem to deal with and stress they can entirely avoid if they did not have/use a card tied directly to their bank account. I pay close attention to my bank account (as it is important for rent/important bills direct drafted), I only check the credit card when the bill comes in.

users can even avoid interest if they pay that card off every month

I pay everything with my credit card (bills, stores, online, etc) and pay it off at the end of the month. Even my tap-to-pay is tied to the credit card. I never use my debit card anywhere but an ATM. I have never had my bank account violated but I have had the credit card stolen from a store I visited (card company caught it as there was a bunch of fraud from the same store, they let me know and they proactively replaced my credit card)

I have never had my ATM card compromised as it is for one purpose, the ATM

best part of all is my credit score loves the large payments I always make on my credit card
by bell-cot | 2026-02-10 23:46:28+00:00
From Wikipedia:

> The town is at the junction of the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals, a location which proved key to its growth as a centre of heavy industry during the Industrial Revolution. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Falkirk was at the centre of the iron and steel industry, underpinned by the Carron Company in nearby Carron. The company made very many different items, from flat irons to kitchen ranges to fireplaces to benches to railings and many other items, but also carronades for the Royal Navy and, later, manufactured pillar boxes and phone boxes. Within the last fifty years, heavy industry has waned, and the economy relies increasingly on retail and tourism.

So, yes, deindustrialization. But being at a key canal junction doesn't mean much today, since modern railroads and steamships rendered the canals obsolete a century-ish ago.
by jonmagic | 2026-02-10 23:46:39+00:00
"Rugo is a small language with a big personality. It borrows Ruby's elegance, Go's compilation speed, and Bash's street smarts — then welds them together into something that feels natural for scripting, tooling, and quick prototypes that compile to native binaries."

Neat idea, didn't see a link to the repo so had to find it based on the pages url: https://github.com/rubiojr/rugo
Show HN: Unread.ooo (peek inside anyone's inbox)
by theroo | 2026-02-10 23:46:59+00:00
Launched a fun toy just now: https://unread.ooo/

Use it to "peek" inside anyone's inbox... fictional, famous, or infamous.

Peek at things like:

- Bad Bunny and Benny Blanco scheming on Coachella ideas
- Tony Soprano's drunk notes to himself
- Shiv Roy running back channels

Try it with absolutely anyone. Genghis Khan made us laugh just now.

1. I've been using an example in Gemini of showing Shiv Roy's email inbox using the Gemini web app

2. It always lights up people's imagination of how AI models can be used in different ways than just "better Google" (hint: it's worse at Googling than Googling)

3. I made a simple version of this in a workshop recently, and figured I should really finish & launch it!
by konaraddi | 2026-02-10 23:47:41+00:00
100% agree because there’s a lot of value in understanding how and why past code was written. It can be used to make better decisions faster around code to write in the future.

E.g., if you’ve ever wondered why code was written in a particular way X instead of Y then you’ll have the context to understand whether X is still relevant or if Y can be adopted.

E.g., easier to prompt AI to write the next commit when it knows all the context behind the current/previous commit’s development process.