MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Oras | 2026-02-04 21:00:17+00:00
Is it Agentic though? /s

The bonkers part is mentioning renting it for a month (which is the title price tag), and in my mind the only reason I would do that is to check if it’s worth it or I should return it. And in the UK, I can do that anyway within 30 days and get a refund.
by AdeptusAquinas | 2026-02-04 21:00:32+00:00
This reminds me of a take by Dan Harumi: these tools are always pitched for 'restraurant reservations', 'reminders', 'email and message follow ups': i.e. they appeal to the sort of arrested development man children that inhabit tech who never really figured out adulting. Now the computer can do it for them, and they can remain teenagers forever.
by jpaulgrayson | 2026-02-04 21:00:47+00:00
I put Moltbook's source code through a flowchart visualizer — here's every branch and decision path in the platform:

Security & Auth:

- MoltbookAuth.js — API key generation, timing-safe comparison (232 lines): https://logic.art/?github=moltbook/auth&path=src/MoltbookAut...

- Rate limiter — parses Authorization header independently from auth (caused 401 bugs): https://logic.art/?github=moltbook/api&path=src/middleware/r...

Core Platform:

- AgentService.js — registration and agent lifecycle (330 lines): https://logic.art/?github=moltbook/api&path=src/services/Age...

- VotingSystem.js — how upvotes work (294 lines): https://logic.art/?github=moltbook/voting&path=src/VotingSys...

- FeedRanker.js — hot/new/top ranking, Reddit-style decay: https://logic.art/?github=moltbook/feed&path=src/FeedRanker....

Works with any public GitHub file: logic.art/?github=owner/repo&path=src/file.ts
by tsoukase | 2026-02-04 21:00:59+00:00
When a single correlation of social media use and a positive outcome is found, it immediately becomes headlines. While hundreds of other evidence are discarded because they are 'boring'. Well, even this correlation is flawd. Anxious people cover there stress while engaging online and are distracted from building real, healthy interpersonal relationships that will help them.

Smoking is correlated with lower risk of Parkinson's disease but it's not suggested in any setting.
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by adrian_b | 2026-02-04 21:01:57+00:00
Yes, a 10% efficiency is very weird if true.

Nowadays such microwave power amplifiers should be made with gallium nitride transistors, which should allow better efficiencies than the ancient amplifiers using LDMOS or travelling-wave tubes, and even those had efficiencies over 50%.

For beamformers, there have been research papers in recent years claiming a great reduction in losses, but presumably the Starlink satellites are still using some mature technology, with greater losses.
by closewith | 2026-02-04 21:02:34+00:00
There are companies making a lot of money directly from software largely written by LLMs especially since Claude Code was released, but they aren't mentioning LLMs or AI in any marketing, client communications, or public releases. I'm at least very aware that we need to be able to retire before LLMs swamp or obsolete our niche, and don't want to invite competition.

Outside of tech companies, I think this is extremely common.
Mem0 stores memories, but doesn't learn user patterns
by fliellerjulian | 2026-02-04 21:02:34+00:00
We're a YC W23 company building AI agents for engineering labs - our customers run similar analyses repeatedly, and the agent treated every session like a blank slate.

We looked at Mem0, Letta/MemGPT, and similar memory solutions. They all solve a different problem: storing facts from conversations — "user prefers Python," "user is vegetarian." That's key-value memory with semantic search. Useful, but not what we needed.

What we needed was something that learns user patterns implicitly from behavior over time. When a customer corrects a threshold from 85% to 80% three sessions in a row, the agent should just know that next time. When a team always re-runs with stricter filters, the system should pick up on that pattern.
So we built an internal API around a simple idea: user corrections are the highest-signal data. Instead of ingesting chat messages and hoping an LLM extracts something, we capture structured events — what the agent produced, what the user changed, what they accepted. A background job periodically runs an LLM pass to extract patterns and builds a confidence-weighted preference profile per user/team/org.

Before each session, the agent fetches the profile and gets smarter over time.
The gap as I see it:

Mem0 = memory storage + retrieval. Doesn't learn patterns.

Letta = self-editing agent memory. Closer, but no implicit learning from behavior.

Missing = a preference learning layer that watches how users interact with agents and builds an evolving model. Like a rec engine for agent personalization.

I built this for our domain but the approach is domain-agnostic. Curious if others are hitting the same wall with their agents. Happy to share the architecture, prompts, and confidence scoring approach in detail.
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-04 21:02:38+00:00
Replace "books" with "sustained reading for entertainment" and it's more clear what's meant. Reading a summary or occasional chapter isn't the same thing, nor is reading technical literature.

Note that this isn't an oblique way to frame your preferences as bad. They're simply a different kind of activity, like how writing commit messages is a different activity than writing a novel. There are different activities even within this definition of "reading". I primarily consume new books. My spouse usually re-reads old ones. One of us is better equipped for literary analysis while the other is better equipped for relatable conversations with normal people, but neither is a more "correct" way to read.
by Forgeties79 | 2026-02-04 21:02:58+00:00
Someone on HN pointed out how all the LLM companies are basically going “we made this thing, can y'all please find the billion dollar application of it?” and that really made a lot of things - namely why I’m frequently raising an eyebrow at these tools and the vague promises/demand that we use them - click into place.

Don’t get me wrong, I have found uses for various AI tools. But nothing consistent and daily yet, aside from AI audio repair tools and that’s not really the same thing.
by clarity_hacker | 2026-02-04 21:03:28+00:00
The framing of 'vibe coding replaces SaaS' misses the more interesting shift: the value SaaS provided was never really the software — it was workflow automation. Software was just the best delivery mechanism we had.

What's changing is that agents + APIs are becoming a better delivery mechanism for many workflows than a UI you manually operate. A company paying $50k/year for a marketing analytics dashboard doesn't actually want a dashboard — they want answers about what's working. An LLM with API access to their data sources often delivers that faster than navigating someone else's opinionated interface.

The SaaS most at risk isn't infrastructure (Stripe, Twilio) or systems of record (Salesforce, Workday). It's the 'pretty UI on top of data you already own' tier — analytics, reporting, simple automation, basic CRM. That's where the compression happens. The products that survive will be the ones that become the system of record, or that offer value AI genuinely can't replicate (regulatory compliance, deep integrations with legacy systems, etc).
by mikeocool | 2026-02-04 21:03:28+00:00
TailwindUI isn't really what I'd consider SaaS -- it was a buy once and download software product.

That means to keep making money they need keep selling new people. According to them, their only marketing channel was the Tailwind docs, AI made it so not nearly as many people needed to visit the tailwind docs.

If they had gone with the subscription SaaS model, they'd probably be a little better off, as they would have still had revenue coming in from their existing users.
by palmotea | 2026-02-04 21:03:35+00:00
> I gave up on the NYT as a news source in their handling of the Iraq War. Prior to that it was a daily purchase.

That was more than 20 years ago. It's hardly relevant to the journalism landscape in 2026.

It's not inconceivable that in the near future, if you give up on the NYT, you give up on having a news source, period.
by monero-xmr | 2026-02-04 21:03:47+00:00
Now you have an entire in-house product to manage and build features on. It could potentially work but so much of what my company pays for is about much more than the software itself. One example would be BrowserStack for very specific browser and mobile app testing edge cases. Can’t vibe code this. Another would be a VPN service with the maximum number of locations to test how our system behaves when accessing from those locations. Another would be hosted git. Another is google suite and all of its apps. How can we vibe code Google Docs and Sheets and Drive and all of the integrations and tooling? It simply isn’t going to happen.
by boondongle | 2026-02-04 21:03:47+00:00
The intersection of dark patterns, addiction, and support networks really creates probably more variability than this study is accounting for.

Youtube, Reddit, and a few other networks I could name off the top of my head were pro-support networks, pro-identity building at once time. It seems impossible to keep the profit motive from transitioning to an addictive/neuroticism-feeding paradigm.

You end up with the weird reality that some types of websites just need to be user-supported/run because any other motive ultimately breaks them and seems to make them toxic. I'd also add the reality that neurotic/polemic content seems to spike any sort of algorithm based on engagement.

Basically our closest metric for monetization is inherently toxic.
by tracker1 | 2026-02-04 21:03:50+00:00
If your keys are in 3/4 parts, that's probably sufficient...

You bake in a public key for the device/projector... you sign the files on disk against the private key (for the encrypted hashcheck as a sanity check), you use an IV that combines with a secret key on the device to decrypt the file.

As long as you aren't too obvious, this would make the effort to play your own files at a different level without opening the device. Once you're willing to do that, you're probably going to be able to maybe just push your own firmware, which is a different issue.. assuming most of the internal are common/available hardware with relatively open/common reference implementations. For a $10/pound device, I'm guessing so.

In the end, it was probably as much about satisfying the content rights holders as anything else. If it looks like a lock, it doesn't matter if you can cut it off with scissors.
by duskwuff | 2026-02-04 21:04:05+00:00
> The linked article appears to be doing a quarter-VGA display in 3-bit/8-color, and is sort of right at the limit of the power of the engine.

The resolution and color depth restrictions were the product of the low data rate of USB FS (~12 Mbps), not inherent limitations of PIO.

> It's... honestly it's just really weird. And IMHO has really, really, REALLY limited application.

I'd agree with "weird". But it's useful weird; it turns out that there are a lot of situations where PIO can avoid the need for an application-specific peripheral, and can provide that function in a more flexible fashion than a fixed-function peripheral could. Dmitry's SDIO device emulator is a great example - almost every other SDIO peripheral on the market is host-only.
by orwin | 2026-02-04 21:04:26+00:00
I don't count in words but page numbers, but reader like me read ~100 page/hour (depending on the book it can be more or less). A 600 page book is 6 hours, which is roughly as long as the train ride to Paris (3 hours, both way) I take twice a month. ~24 books just to pass the time (in truth I also read non-fiction to sleep, and fiction during the weekend, so I'm probably above 40).
by bluGill | 2026-02-04 21:04:39+00:00
For problems that can be solved with only a small amount of simple code that is true. However software can become very complex and the larger/more complex the problem is the more important software developers are. It quickly becomes easier to teach software developers enough of your domain than to teach domain experts software.

In a complex project the hard parts about software are harder than the hard parts about the domain.

I've seen the type of code electrical engineers write (at least as hard a domain as software). They can write code, but it isn't good.
by switchbak | 2026-02-04 21:05:06+00:00
That’s just faith though. And I see no driving reason to trust in your faith.

We’ve never seen anything remotely close to this kind of upheaval. This kind of techno-optimism makes sense in the very young, but seems painfully naive once you’ve been around the block a bunch of times.

There are no adults in the room driving this. There’s weird ultra elite people driving this forward with their competitive megalomaniacal egos. And we’re stuck in a game theoretic landscape where it’s effectively an inevitable race to a max AI future. None of this is a recipe for a stable or prosperous future.

If this wild accelerated future ends up being a utopia, I’ll be jazzed to eat my words. I just haven’t seen any utopias unfold in my life, and I’m skeptical of those who tell me to chill and embrace the chaos.
by dpoloncsak | 2026-02-04 21:05:08+00:00
With all due respect, if these protests are not being done with the coordination of local municipalities, then it is just illegally interfering with an ongoing police investigation, right? With how quickly and unorganized these pop-up I can't believe they're all government-sanctioned. If it blocks traffic, legally it needs a permit. (Or is this just some/my municipality?)

We're all well aware a database of domestic terrorists exist, right? Didn't anyone caught keying a Tesla get added just a few months ago? We all expect people purposely interfering with DHS to exist on that list...what's the shock here?

This isnt even in support of ICE. I just understand how the right to protest works....
by rahimnathwani | 2026-02-04 21:06:12+00:00
"I think political interference is a horrible thing for university education."

The University of California is one of the largest universities in the US. It is governed by a Board of Regents. The majority of those Regents are appointed by the state Governor.

Do you consider that 'political interference'?

One of the things those Regents did was vote to end the use of SAT scores in admissions. They did during a meeting in which several spoke of the value of the SAT. And they acted against the recommendations of the Academic Council's Standardized Testing Task Force.

You might think that the staggered and long terms protect against political interference/influence. But if that's the case, how do we explain how so many votes are unanimous when, on the day of the vote, some regents express opposing views?
by Cyph0n | 2026-02-04 21:06:41+00:00
It’s fairly trivial to map your NixOS config into a VM image: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-image-nixos-rebui...

An alternative is to “infect” a VM running in whatever cloud and convert it into a NixOS VM in-place: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere

In fact, it is a common practice to use the latter to install NixOS on new machines. You start off by booting into a live USB with SSH enabled, then use nixos-anywhere to install NixOS and partition disks via disko. Here is an example I used recently to provision a new gaming desktop:

nix run github:nix-community/nixos-anywhere -- \
--flake .#myflake \
--target-host user@192.168.0.100 \
--generate-hardware-config nixos-generate-config ./hosts/kelibia/hardware-configuration.nix

At the end of this invocation, you end up with a NixOS machine running your config partitioned based on your disk config. My disko config in this case (ZFS pool with 1 disk vdev): https://gist.github.com/aksiksi/7fed39f17037e9ae82c043457ed2...
by pjmlp | 2026-02-04 21:06:43+00:00
It appears the problem is more deep than that.

From what I could infer from some community talks, podcasts and so, I would assert that nowadays they have the problem new hires have been educated in UNIX like OSes and Web.

Thus Windows team gets lots of folks that never coded anything for Windows, and management instead of having proper trainings in place, just goes with Webview2 and Electron all over the place.

I might be wrong, this is more my perception than anything else.
by wsatb | 2026-02-04 21:06:45+00:00
> It's also the case that The Washington Post brought itself down. I grew up reading WaPo and when I moved back to DC as an adult c. 2017 I got a subscription.

This doesn't really add up given Bezos purchased it in October 2013.

> It also probably did not inspire very much good will from management/ownership when the company's employees started regularly leaking proceedings at company meetings and reporters started making a practice of using social media to criticize management during work hours.

Your thinking is completely backwards. This isn't the first case of a wealthy individual buying journalism in order to destroy it. Why do you think employee backlash happened in the first place?
by overfeed | 2026-02-04 21:06:55+00:00
No, that is the meaning of grand-parent's comment, which makes sense to me, even passively because one has be to aware the environment they move in.

Taking parent's cue of assuming lack of agency - you can even replace "politics" with "the weather", and gp's comment still makes sense, parents inverted riposte does not make sense under its own priors. We can't change the weather, but it's prudent to know which days to carry an umbrella.
by ehutch79 | 2026-02-04 21:06:56+00:00
Yeah.... The code isn't the hard part. That's not where the value is.

This hard part when you're doing in house stuff is getting a good spec, ongoing support, and long term maintenance.

I've gone trough development of a module with a stakeholder, got a whole spec, confirmed it, coded it, launched it, and was then told it didn't work at all like what they needed. It was literally what they told me... I've said 'yes we can make that report, what specific fields do you need' and gotten blank stares.

Even if you're lucky and the original stakeholder and the code are on the same page, as soon as you get a coworkers 'wouldnt it be nice if...' you're going to have a bad day if it's hand coded, vibecoded, or outsourced...

This has always been the problem, it's why no-code never _really_ worked, even if the tech was perfectly functional.
by emersonbroga | 2026-02-04 21:06:57+00:00
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by aspectrr | 2026-02-04 21:07:09+00:00
Lol, that does sounds a little scary but if it works it works. Mainly I built this to prevent there being a chance that changes affect production. This is meant to be used with scale (say hundreds of VMs) vs 1. From a safety perspective running Claude Code with just a watchful eye would not fly in my environment, which is why I built something like this.
by einpoklum | 2026-02-04 21:07:23+00:00
> That was more than 20 years ago. It's hardly relevant to the journalism landscape in 2026.

It is actually very relevant. If you read Chomsky & Herman's 'Manufacturing Consent', you'll get examples from the 1970s and 1980s, another 20 years earlier, and you will find that "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose".
by loire280 | 2026-02-04 21:07:34+00:00
They don't claim to support Polish, but they do support Russian.

> The model is natively multilingual, achieving strong transcription performance in 13 languages, including English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Dutch. With a 4B parameter footprint, it runs efficiently on edge devices, ensuring privacy and security for sensitive deployments.

I wonder how much having languages with the same roots (e.g. the romance languages in the list above or multiple Slavic languages) affects the parameter count and the training set. Do you need more training data to differentiate between multiple similar languages? How would swapping, for example, Hindi (fairly distinct from the other 12 supported languages) for Ukrainian and Polish (both share some roots with Russian) affect the parameter count?
by SpicyLemonZest | 2026-02-04 21:07:46+00:00
It seems even more implausible that a reputation monitoring business would raise a random French streamer's criticism of Palantir to Peter Thiel's attention. How could they possibly think that's worthy of his time? Here, let me try something:

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I don't like Palantir, and I don't like Peter Thiel because of his role in creating it. It's a bad company that does bad things. I won't work for Palantir, it's shameful that anyone does work for Palantir, and the world would be much improved if Palantir went bankrupt tomorrow.

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I'll come back and admit defeat if I get booted off of Thiel-funded technology platforms in a few days, but I know and I strongly suspect you know that's not going to happen.
by CodingJeebus | 2026-02-04 21:08:14+00:00
Exactly. It's terrible to frame the "third-worldification" based on how the consumer (or student) behaves in this case. It's only "cheating" when consumers act in their own self interest, but not when a powerful university like Stanford puts a mandatory meal plan in place.

Institutions are always permitted to act in the own self-interest, but not individuals. Always just blame the little people.