MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KronisLV | 2026-02-03 14:16:50+00:00
I disagree with your disagreement, for example HN is readable but the linked site feels too small for my eyes on a 21.5" 1080p monitor. It also doesn't respect browser preferences, unless you enforce a minimum font size (which can break display elements on other sites):

font-family: Calibri, Candara, Segoe UI, Optima, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;

If the dev wanted a similar effect by default but be more accommodating, they could do:

font-family: Calibri, Candara, Segoe UI, Optima, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 0.8125rem;

There's no reason why you couldn't have smaller font while still respecting browser scaling. However, they might also want to just leave it at 1 rem and let the folks that prefer higher information density to customize their own browser settings, since those are what most well developed sites should respect and it might be more accessible by default on most devices (for my eyes, at the very least).

As for targeting specific screen sizes for non-standard font scaling, media queries also would help!

In regards to missing information dense pages, try changing your browser font settings, it might actually be quite pleasant for you to see many sites respecting that preference!
by zoom6628 | 2026-02-03 14:16:59+00:00
In the 80s I worked on BPCS, an early ERP system, and yes it was coded in RPG2, and RPG3. Mind blowingly hard to understand the source code but I credit my efforts then with later finding AWK so easy and logical. IBM had also just brought out the baby System36 which looked like a PC beige box but was actually a minified s/36 if I recall correctly. Didn't sell well. Then there was RPG for DOS which I heard of but didn't use.

If the authors client had been using an RPG accounting system for 40 years then it might be BPCS and there were tools out there to convert RPG to other less traumatic languages.

But fascinating article nonetheless and brought back memories of being an apps programmer. I also remember those dongles. Really fun when you had multiple apps with their own dongles and only one port.
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 14:17:06+00:00
> Scaling photovoltaic production doesn't seem likely to have many broader implications on its own

Musk is suggesting manufacture at a scale sufficient to keep the Earth's entire land area
tiled in working PV.

If the maths I've just looked at is correct (first glance said yes but I wouldn't swear to it), that on the ground would warm the earth by 22 C just by being darker than soil; that in the correct orbit would cool it by 33 C by blocking sunlight.
by incomingpain | 2026-02-03 14:17:15+00:00
We had this appliance which didn't do much on our network. It went end of life and we got quotes for $300,000 + yearly support for same brand. We found some other brands, big name was a million $, no name was more like $125,000.

After lots of attempts to get budget, no go.

I understood how the original appliance worked; I decided to AI code a replacement. After about 2 weeks I had a technically in production alternative that is arguably better.

So we have this interesting situation where, do you even need to buy software anymore? I really doubt it.
by trishulasoftwre | 2026-02-03 14:17:55+00:00
StreetPack is a small, local-first dock/launcher for a handful of CLI tools, designed to keep file operations predictable and inspectable.

It focuses on safe file and directory inspection, integrity checks, and clean execution paths. The UI is intentionally minimal: no background services, no cloud dependency, and no hidden state. Outputs and receipts can be written to a user-controlled data directory so you can see exactly what happened and why.
by jfyi | 2026-02-03 14:17:58+00:00
You are arguing semantics that don't address the underlying issue of data vs. command.

While I agree that SQL injection might be the technically better analogy, not looking at LLMs as a coding platform is a mistake. That is exactly how many people use them. Literally every product with "agentic" in the title is using the LLM as a coding platform where the command layer is ambiguous.

Focusing on the precise definition of a buffer overflow feels like picking nits when the reality is that we are mixing instruction and data in the same context window.

To make the analogy concrete: We are currently running LLMs in a way that mimics a machine where code and data share the same memory (context).

What we need is the equivalent of an nx bit for the context window. We need a structural way to mark a section of tokens as "read only". Until we have that architectural separation, treating this as a simple bug to be patched is underestimating the problem.
by prophesi | 2026-02-03 14:18:23+00:00
I must have somehow missed that one; glad that ancient site without HTTPS is still up. Here are the two top results I get from searching for it from Stanford[0][1], and you can see that this section of the appendix is missing. Google's also has it missing[2]. So no, I don't think I'm crazy.

[0] http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/361/1/1998-8.pdf

[1] https://snap.stanford.edu/class/cs224w-readings/Brin98Anatom...

[1] https://research.google/pubs/the-anatomy-of-a-large-scale-hy...
by tomislav | 2026-02-03 14:18:31+00:00
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by PaulHoule | 2026-02-03 14:18:49+00:00
The difference is that the right wing version is

stupid + stupid = consistent -> wins

(feels authentic to somebody even when it is completely disingenuous)

and the left wing version is

smart + stupid = inconsistent -> loses

(feels demoralizing to the true believers, feels disingenuous to everyone else, see Kamala Harris) e.g. "woke" is really a left wing retread of right wing ideology, for instance that "defund the police" slogan cribs Reagan's "defund the left" slogan, because it is so exhausted it can only mine Thatcherism for ideas.
Show HN: EasyClaw – lightweight GUI installer for OpenClaw
by svemyh | 2026-02-03 14:18:58+00:00
We like OpenClaw, but setup was too hard for our non-technical friends. EasyClaw is a small, lightweight Rust-based desktop app that installs and configures OpenClaw, Clawdbot, and Moltbot without manual setup.

A short wizard lets you pick an AI model provider and connect chat channels like WhatsApp or iMessage. After that, you just start the gateway from the app and your agent is live.

It’s designed to be friendly for non-technical users, but fast and pleasant for developers too: clean dashboard, predictable integrations, keyboard shortcuts, and minimal overhead. No CLI or config files needed for the common case.

Built because the tools are powerful, but the setup friction was too high.
by anupamchugh | 2026-02-03 14:19:33+00:00
Following up - I built a tool "wobble"[1] to measure this: parses ~/.claude/projects/*.jsonl session transcripts,
extracts skill invocations + actual commands executed, calculates Bias/Variance per the paper's formula.

Ran it on my sessions.
Result: none of skills scored STABLE. The structural predictors of high variance: Numbered steps without clear default, Options without (default) marker, Content >4k chars (overthinking zone), Missing constraint language

[1] https://github.com/anupamchugh/shadowbook (bd wobble)
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-03 14:19:34+00:00
> What do you think the limiting factor is? I don't see why we can't scale manufacturing of satellites up as far as we want.

A reason. I'm sure that theoretically it's possible, assuming infinite money and an interest to do so. But literally, why would we? There's no practical ways to get the power back on earth, it's cheaper to build a solar field, etc.

And I don't believe datacenters in space are viable, cost wise. Not until we can no longer fit them on earth, AND demand is still increasing.
by mhb | 2026-02-03 14:20:28+00:00
Conflating the desires of the most extreme Israeli political factions as Israeli policy is disingenuous. And even they don't seek to conquer Gaza. If Israel wanted to overrun Gaza, they could do it in a week. Why hadn't they done this by October 6?

Is this you trying to say that Hamas isn't supported by a huge number of Palestinians who were seen cheering on October 7? Or that they don't explicitly seek to destroy Israel? Even though Hamas, in its wildest imagination couldn't conquer Israel, they foolishly thought it was worth a try. The parallel that you are trying to manufacture exists only in your imagination.
by pcarolan | 2026-02-03 14:20:32+00:00
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by freeopinion | 2026-02-03 14:20:38+00:00
You are missing an important element. You can decide for yourself whether AI-produced code is worth the price. You don't get to decide whether the TSA is effective enough to pay for it.

Maybe you are willing to pay 15% for AI that saves you 20%. Even if it isn't very effective, you come out slightly ahead. Or maybe you pay 85% for something you deem to be 90% effective

With TSA you pay 300% for something you might judge to be 2% effective and you don't have a choice.
by Bengalilol | 2026-02-03 14:20:41+00:00
> As an ironic footnote, a friend who worked for Steve Jobs at NeXT told me the CM-1 was the inspiration for the form of his NeXT machine.
<https://tamikothiel.com/cm/tshirt/index.html>

You can see it in action here
<https://www.paulrand.design/work/NeXT-Computers.html>
Show HN: Building a AI junior marketing team. tell me why this won't work
by vipulsharma144 | 2026-02-03 14:20:45+00:00
I’m working on a product called Blinkadz.

The short version: I think a large chunk of what small marketing agencies do can (and probably should) be software.

Not strategy. Not big-brand creativity.
But the day-to-day execution work: making ads, resizing them, posting them, following up on leads, sending reminders, reporting, etc.

Blinkadz is my attempt to automate that stuff:

Generate image/video ads from a prompt
Adapt them for different platforms
Schedule posts
Capture inbound leads
Do basic follow-ups automatically

The target user is founders or small teams who know they need marketing but can’t justify agency retainers every month.

I’m not claiming this replaces great marketers.
I am claiming that a lot of marketing work today feels like humans manually running workflows that software should own.

I’m posting here because I want real feedback, not hype:

Where does this break in the real world?
What parts of marketing don’t automate well, even with good tools?
If you’ve hired or run an agency — what am I underestimating?

Happy to answer questions or share more details if useful.
by gyulai | 2026-02-03 14:20:47+00:00
Graphical login managers are just a nightmare altogether.

Genuine use cases for multiuser desktop Linux are exceedingly rare. (Are university computer labs with desktop computers still a thing? Or is it just Wi-Fi and BYOD now?)

On an effectively-single-user system, there is very little point in distinguishing between the state where the single user has logged in and the session has been locked versus the state where the single user has not yet logged in. Dealing with the discontinuities between those two states, on the other hand, is a nightmare. (e.g. Wi-Fi might be controlled through the desktop session. Why should the computer not be connected to Wi-Fi and its network services reachable, just because the user hasn't logged in yet? What about power management? If the single user has turned off the feature to automatically suspend after x minutes of inactivity through KDE settings, why should that setting only start to apply after the user has logged in, and not yet when the greeter is still sitting idle? Those kinds of behaviours are usually not what you want) -- And, subjectively, I've found the KDE login manager to be the buggiest part of my KDE experience anyway.

I would advise anyone to set up auto login with something like sddm, and skip the whole thing. Password entry is a bit redundant, assuming the user has already entered at least one password for disk encryption, and things like ssh are governed through key pairs.
Show HN: Know what your dev team shipped, without reading code
by inferno22 | 2026-02-03 14:21:31+00:00
Gitmore connects to your GitHub/ Bitbucket/ Gitlab and sends you a plain-English report of what your team built, fixed, and is working on – daily or weekly, straight to your inbox. No dashboards to learn. No standups to sit through. Just a clear summary a non-technical person can actually understand.

See a sample report: https://www.gitmore.io/example.html

Try the demo: https://demo.arcade.software/5tZyFDhp1myCosw6e1po

Free to start. Would love feedback from founders managing remote dev teams.
by bzzzt | 2026-02-03 14:21:40+00:00
There's also 'Popochiu': https://github.com/carenalgas/popochiu
Both seem to be in maintenance mode though and are not as battle tested as AGS.

The problem with these engines is you need to become familiar with both Godot as well as the point&click extension making them less suited as a first adventure authoring platform.
by empath75 | 2026-02-03 14:21:42+00:00
Experimenting with skills over the last few months has completely changed the way I think about using LLMs. It's not so much that it's a really important technology or super brilliant, but I have gone from thinking of LLMs and agents as a _feature_ of what we are building and thinking of them as a _user_ of what we are building.

I have been trying to build skills to do various things on our internal tools, and more often then not, when it doesn't work, it is as much a problem with _our tools_ as it is with the LLM. You can't do obvious things, the documentation sucks, api's return opaque error messages. These are problems that humans can work around because of tribal knowledge, but LLMs absolutely cannot, and fixing it for LLM's also improves it for your human users, who probably have been quietly dealing with friction and bullshit without complaining -- or not dealing with it and going elsewhere.

If you are building a product today, the feature you are working on _is not done_ until Claude Code can use it. A skill and an MCP isn't a "nice to have", it is going to be as important as SEO and accessibility, with extremely similar work to do to enable it.

Your product might as well not exist in a few years if it isn't discoverable by agents and usable by agents.
by acdha | 2026-02-03 14:21:47+00:00
I note that their accomplishments tend to be in the past, prior to his Twitter addiction absorbing his attention. Tesla is a solid decade late on FSD, cutting models, and losing market share rapidly thanks to his influencer stunts. SpaceX has a solid government launch business, which is great, but they’ve been struggling with what’s been the next big thing for a while and none of that talk about Mars has made meaningful progress. Boring Company, Neurolink, etc. show no signs of profit anytime soon no matter how cool they sound.

Being ambitious is good to an extent but you need to be able to deliver to keep a company healthy. Right now, if you’re a sharp engineer you are looking at Tesla’s competition if you want to work on a project which doesn’t get cancelled (like it’s cars) and the stock price being hyped to the moon means that options aren’t going to be as competitive.
by timjulien | 2026-02-03 14:22:17+00:00
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by diego_moita | 2026-02-03 14:22:36+00:00
> The current administration is an outlier, but we all know that.

No, it isn't. This administration is a rupture. It is the beginning of a new normal. Future presidents will try to emulate this guy.

You could say "outlier" when he lost in 2020. You can't say that after he came back. The American people wants this authoritarian populism. The SCOTUS enables it. And the world shouldn't trust both the American people and its crumbling institutions.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-03 14:22:46+00:00
Yes so we are going to optimize an entire system for this mythical “working poor” business traveler?

Every contractor has to do that. That’s the price you pay for going into that business (reason #999 thet while I work in cloud consulting I work full time for consulting companies).

Even as a business traveler, I have to pay my own expenses and wait for reimbursement.
Show HN: govalid – Go validation without reflection (5-44x faster)
by sivchari | 2026-02-03 14:23:08+00:00
I got frustrated with runtime reflection in Go validators, so I built a codegen approach instead.
govalid reads struct markers and generates plain Go validation code. No reflection, no allocations at runtime, 5-44x faster than go-playground/validator. Also supports CEL for complex rules.
Feedback welcome :)
by Aurornis | 2026-02-03 14:23:29+00:00
Releasing open source software and then “demanding payment” goes against everything about open source.

If someone expects to be paid for the use of their software, releasing it as open source is not what they want.

If a maintainer of a software project starts trying to demand payment or threatening to change license terms, it’s a reasonable response for a company to fork it or build their own solution.
by footydude | 2026-02-03 14:24:07+00:00
> Heat pumps don’t work well on old, poorly insulated houses in cold climates. If they can keep up, which is a big if, the price of electricity generally dwarfs natural gas, even if the heat pump is running at 250-300% efficiency.

I've got a 1930s semi-detached house (UK, north of England) - heated solely by a ASHP for both heating and hot water.

Our Seasonal Coefficient of Performance is currently 3.47 (347% efficient) - even if limit that to just last month (coldest month of the winter so far in the UK) our COP was 3.25 (325% efficiency).

Roughly speaking if you can achieve a COP over 3.2x in the UK it should be roughly on a par with gas, assuming you go 'gas free' (i.e. you can make the saving on the gas standing charge).

Personally we're running at ~£200 annual saving vs. my estimate of what costs would be for equivalent gas boiler - that's thanks in part to being able to do all our hot-water heating at night rates.

House wise - we don't have cavity wall insulation, have 15+ year old double-glazing and probably should have more insulation in the loft (it fills the rafters but I think these days that's considered not enough).

Also with changes to ECO (energy company obligations) and RO (renewables obligations) the differential between gas and electric will reduce further

Anyhoo - added my example to show that ASHP can work perfectly fine in old, poorly insulated homes in (moderately) cold climates.

ECO/RO link - https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/11/energy-bill-c...
by matteotom | 2026-02-03 14:24:12+00:00
I've personally run Gentoo with OpenRC+glibc and OpenRC+musl on my laptop. I assure you ditching systemd was easier than ditching glibc. The OpenRC system mostly just works (tbh thanks to a lot of great work by Gentoo devs). The musl system required probably a couple dozen patches to various packages to get a basic fully working desktop (most of which were relatively straightforward, but still needed manual intervention).
by seeall | 2026-02-03 14:24:23+00:00
Author here.

My Twitter feed recently got taken over by people grinding this "retired" Anthropic performance take-home, and I finally got nerd-sniped into it.

Anthropic made it public because Claude Opus 4.5 effectively "broke" it, beating top candidates in under 2 hours. But while the AI can spit out the answer, I wanted to understand the mechanics under the hood. And AI-generated solutions carry 0 educational value.

So in the post I dug into every single detail of the accelerator architecture to see exactly where the bottlenecks were.

I cover the 3 main optimizations that took my solution from a released baseline to a 65x speedup.

It’s a deep dive, but I wrote it to be accessible. Even if you don't do low-level optimization, I’ve included visualizations to explain SIMD, VLIW, and everything — you'll enjoy it!

===

The "retirement" of a take-home is a warning sign for hiring, though. This test was retired because Opus crushed it. As we look toward Opus 5 likely solving even harder problems in 4 hours... what does a "good" take-home exam look like in 2026? How would you test the candidates?

What specific signals should we be testing for, and how do you design a task to capture that?
by ValveFan6969 | 2026-02-03 14:24:29+00:00
You don't need no equals signs when your IQ is through the roof and you got a superior attention span. What are these people even saying? Do they even know how to think for themselves or have they been completely brainwashed by their parents and the educational system into being exactly like everyone else, so much so that they're incapable of formulating an original idea?
Show HN: macOS bar for Claude Code skills performance
by jorkim32 | 2026-02-03 14:24:50+00:00
am i using the right skills?

skills are awesome though never sure if im using the best one

came up with leveraging the tessl evals and built a usage track

welcome to clone if u like it (or give feedback: github.com/fernandezbaptiste/trode)

-- adding context:

project was built with Claude Code

Claude helped in ideation and execution: project finds global skills and calls for their evals

project is free to try
by ZeroGravitas | 2026-02-03 14:25:08+00:00
Can you identify when exactly the German environmentalists did this thing you refer to? I'm assuming it's something coal related.

Total and per capita coal usage for Germany and a few other peer nations:

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-count...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-per-capi...

I can see a bump in early 1980s but I see the same in other nations, possibly a response to oil embargoes, possibly just economic growth.