MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by raahelb | 2026-02-04 14:10:02+00:00
> Anthropic is focused on businesses, developers, and helping our users flourish. Our business model is straightforward: we generate revenue through enterprise contracts and paid subscriptions, and we reinvest that revenue into improving Claude for our users. This is a choice with tradeoffs, and we respect that other AI companies might reasonably reach different conclusions.

Very diplomatic of them to say "we respect that other AI companies might reasonably reach different conclusions" while also taking a dig at OpenAI on their youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQRu7DdTTVA
by hasheddan | 2026-02-04 14:10:04+00:00
Could not agree more! And yes, though due to the lack of specifications available for the ferrite rods I purchased, it ended up being more of a calculation of their permeability based on the measured inductance. I'll have another post soon that shows measuring the resonance frequency of these inductors with various types of capacitors, which is a fun exercise in parasitic capacitance and inductance.
by lenerdenator | 2026-02-04 14:10:34+00:00
1) That's a mischaracterization of the FFL purchase process if I've ever heard one.

2) The weapons culture of the US is so obsolete that there are government officials parroting lines about it not being legal to carry a concealed weapon during a protest in Minnesota when it is, actually, very much legal. That is to say, it's not obsolete at all. Given the prior public stances of the Trump administration on firearms, this is incredibly telling, and all the more reason why you can't trust people like them.
by Oatcake21 | 2026-02-04 14:10:41+00:00
I built GovLink because verifying that a business is legitimate shouldn't require navigating 50 different Secretary of State websites.
GovLink is a simple API: send company name + state, get back official registration data (status, good standing, formation date, registered agent).

• All 50 US states
• $2.50 per lookup (10 free to start)
• PDF compliance certificates
• Built for AI agents (MCP protocol support)
• Under 2 second response time

Would love feedback on the API design and pricing.
Cheers my friends.
by papercrane | 2026-02-04 14:11:26+00:00
The thermal gradient in space is meaningless because there is hardly any matter to dump the energy into. This means you are entirely reliant on thermal radiation. If you look at the numbers given by Stefan-Boltzmann law you'd see that means to radiate a significant amount of energy you need a combination of a lot of surface area and high temperatures.

This means you need some sort of heat pump. For a practical example you can look at the ISS, which has what they call the "External Active Thermal Control System" (EATCS), it's a complicated system and it provides 70kW of heat rejection. A datacenter in space would need to massively scale up such a system in order to cool itself.
by i7l | 2026-02-04 14:11:56+00:00
obstructionist
/əb-strŭk′shə-nĭst, ŏb-/

noun
One who systematically blocks or interrupts a process, especially one who attempts to impede passage of legislation by the use of delaying tactics, such as a filibuster.

One who deliberately hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body.

Someone who systematically obstructs the actions of others.

---

As I understand it, the tool the "obstructionists" built merely tracked teams/people being laid off.

How exactly does that block/interrupt the layoffs, hinder progress, or obstruct the actions of the executives? If anything it offers transparency that leadership was unwilling to provide.

> Employees should consider a job elsewhere if they’re “working against the direction of the company” and disagree with its mission.

Knowing which teams or individuals are affected does not seem to go against the direction of the company, unless they expect unquestioning obedience above all.
by ineedasername | 2026-02-04 14:12:10+00:00
It makes sense if you want low-latency compute accessible to other things in space making use of it: Pharmaceutical research, manufacturing. These are large, non speculative areas of likely growth in the space industry. Manufacturing especially will require lots of inference compute with the AI systems currently under development for industrial robotics.

If you're looking at this and saying "Lol, no, we don't need data centers in space just to power more GPT sycophancy and some health insurance company's RAG workflows." Then you're right, so just move on from that usage and consider the things we'd like to do in space, and especially the things we're already doing but want to do more of.

I know, my gut was telling me this is ridiculous, premature at best even through the lens of expanding space industry. But then with respect to the need for data centers-- had I even thought about it a year ago, my gut would have laughed if someone had said "Buy Wester Digital, HDD's are a growth stock".
Show HN: FalseWork – Extract transferable structural mechanisms from works
by falsework | 2026-02-04 14:12:49+00:00
FalseWork is a staged LLM pipeline that analyzes existing works (films, music, legal frameworks, cryptographic protocols, games) and extracts reusable structural mechanisms - not themes, interpretations, or stylistic labels.

We often say things like "Tarkovsky sculpts time" or "Borges builds infinite regress." These sound insightful, but they're hard to apply, test, or break in another domain. FalseWork tries to make those claims concrete enough to reuse.

The goal isn’t similarity or tagging, but extracting generative rules that could plausibly reproduce the source structure under counterfactual conditions.

The pipeline runs in 7 stages:

- Structural inventory – literal components and constraints
- Internal relationships – how parts connect and depend on each other
- Tensions & contradictions – where the structure strains or destabilizes
- Mechanism validation – counterfactual checks against the source
- Generative rules – rules that would reproduce the structure
- Cognitive competency – what engaging with the work trains you to perceive
- Structural profile / "recipe" – consolidated, reusable output

Each stage uses different temperatures (≈0.3–0.6). Decomposition benefits from precision; synthesis benefits from variation. Single-pass LLMs produced unfalsifiable "vibes." The staged pipeline with validation checkpoints fixed that.

Example: Bach's Art of Fugue and Reich's Music for 18 Musicians both resolve to systematic permutation of constrained material. The system reaches this by independently extracting generative rules from each, not by analogy or tagging.

Sample profile: https://falsework.dev/structural-profile/39f92a7e-92fb-4140-...

Stack: Claude API, Next.js, PostgreSQL
73 structural profiles
140 cross-domain syntheses
280 extracted "recipes"

Domains so far: cinema, architecture, music, secured-transactions law, cryptographic protocols, MMORPG resource systems.

What I'm looking for:

- Works that resist structural analysis (edge cases, pathological examples)
- Domains I'm missing (choreography? sports tactics? rituals?)
- Anyone building adjacent systems or thinking along similar lines

Link: https://falsework.dev
by angry_octet | 2026-02-04 14:12:54+00:00
The best remedy for this is a Land Title Registry, which is a secure database of who owns a parcel of land, and a mandated verification of identity (VoI) standard. You no longer require title deeds, notaries, or title insurance. It isn't totally proof against sophisticated social engineering and gullibility of course, but it is a lot safer.

For registry titles you can also add caveats, that require sign-off from another party before transactions can occur. Unfortunately the contact address is still purely snail mail, no email or phone numbers. If you title has a bank mortgage that will appear as a caveat, requiring the debt to be discharged before it can be removed, and that also involves more ID verification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrens_title

https://www.firstlinks.com.au/why-our-torrens-title-property...
by avoutic | 2026-02-04 14:13:05+00:00
If you're using AI agents or LLM tool-use, you've probably pasted API keys somewhere you shouldn't or have them in the agent's environment.

I built Wardgate [1] because I wanted agents to access my calendar, tasks, e-mail and other services, but not by giving them my actual credentials or giving them full access.

For some services you can create API keys with limited scope, but most often API keys just get full capabilities.

Wardgate is a proxy: agents call Wardgate endpoints, Wardgate injects real credentials, enforces access rules, and logs everything. The agent never sees your keys.

Written in Go, easy to self-host. Has presets for common services (Todoist, GitHub, Gmail, etc.) and IMAP/SMTP adapters for email.

Happy to discuss the architecture or take feedback.

[1] https://github.com/wardgate/wardgate
by techblueberry | 2026-02-04 14:13:45+00:00
On a more serious note, I want the spirit behind this to be true, I think that like, there’s always been conflict between capital and labor, but it does feel like at some point, the incentives were such that like billionaire philanthropy favored initiatives that helped everyone - society and even regular joes. But Marc Andreesen talked directly about the breaking of the social contract(blaming the left/mainstream media, which is pathetic considering you clearly have the power and resources to break through the noise) and now all you have is a bunch of billionaires sitting around looking at AI thinking “sucks to be labor..”

But I think this has kind of been all of politics lately, is the politics of the negative. It seems like the tech oligarchs could put like a couple billion dollars into funding climate change and start a few universities or science museums and put out like subtle pro-tech propaganda that probably has a fair bit of truth to it! I don’t think that like reduced usage policies are the only way to solve say climate change. These could even be b-corps, they don’t even have to be non-profits they could still make money, and that optimistic, you could make the argument and have a positive view of tech was so prevalent in the 2000’s, now it’s cynical directly biasing the washington post, lobbying to Washington propaganda.

Why doesn’t Bryan Chesky start a renewable pre-fab housing b-corp. (apparently he did sign the giving pledge so credit where credit is due).

If NPR is liberal propaganda, the why not fund non-partisan institutions to compete with this American life and RadioLab.

But a pro-billionaire march? Is like the perfect example of everything people don’t like about the establishment right now.
by yladiz | 2026-02-04 14:14:17+00:00
> Let’s say you got a severance of 200,000€ at the beginning of the year.

I guess if you're at a company for a super long time you'd potentially get a huge severance, but realistically who would actually get this amount?

I get the theoretical possibility of this (and if we're being honest, if you're getting such a high severance the likelihood of moving to a job that pays "just" 50k per year is low), and maybe the author did get a 200k€ severance recently which is why they made this post, but it feels like more explaining a potential problem with the tax system that might also simply be solved by talking to a tax advisor?
Show HN: Nocterm – Flutter-inspired TUI framework with hot reload (Dart)
by norbert515 | 2026-02-04 14:14:20+00:00
Over the past couple of months I've been working on a TUI framework heavily inspired
by Flutter, written in Dart.

The API is modeled after Flutter. StatefulComponent, setState(), Row, Column,
Expanded, ListView.

There have been some discussions about performance of TUIs recently, and I think Dart is
actually a great language for writing TUIs in. It compiles down to fast native code, is
cross-platform, and has great developer ergonomics. JIT compilation for development
(which enables hot reload) and AOT compilation for production binaries.

What's really cool is stateful hot reload. If you save your file with some modification, Nocterm
will pick it up and update the TUI in real time without restarting.

Under the hood:

- Differential rendering: virtual terminal buffer, only redraws changed cells
- Declarative component model (same as Flutter): Component → Element → RenderObject pipeline
- 45+ components: layout, scrolling, text input, markdown, animations, mouse support
- Built-in test framework: pump a component, send keys, assert on terminal state
- Theming: 6 built-in themes, auto-detects terminal dark/light mode

Example:

void main() async {
await runApp(Counter());
}

class Counter extends StatefulComponent {
int _count = 0;

Component build(BuildContext context) {
return Focusable(
onKeyEvent: (event) {
if (event.logicalKey == LogicalKey.space) {
setState(() => _count++);
return true;
}
return false;
},
child: Center(child: Text('Count: $_count')),
);
}

}

I tried a couple of existing TUI frameworks but missed the Flutter DX I've learned
to love, so I built my own (for better or worse...).

I've been using Nocterm to build vide_cli (https://github.com/Norbert515/vide_cli),
a coding agent in the terminal.

There's some cool stuff coming up too, like virtual text selection in alternate screen
mode. Since TUI apps take over the terminal, normal text selection breaks. This
reimplements it at the framework level so users can select and copy text naturally.

Repository: https://github.com/Norbert515/nocterm

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, hot reload implementation, or
anything else.
by orsorna | 2026-02-04 14:14:35+00:00
That's why it doesn't seem worth it if you are not running the model locally. To really get powerful use out of this you need to be running inference constantly.

The pro plan exhausts my tokens two hours into limit reset, and that's with occasional requests on sonnet. The 5-8x usage Max plan isn't going to be any better if I want to run constant crons, with the Opus model (the docs recommend using Opus).

Good Macs are thousands but Im waiting to find someone who's showing off my dream use case to jump at it.
by stackedinserter | 2026-02-04 14:15:13+00:00
You know what? Fuck this guy. And that one who found a 4-bedroom house on his land that he haven't used for decades.

They didn't do anything with their land and doesn't have any plans for it for the foreseeable future. It's not like a snowblower that sits in your garage unused. It's land, a piece of planet. If you own it, you should use it for something. If you don't, return it back to people.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-04 14:15:53+00:00
>because most people recognize that the US has become sufficiently polarized and radicalized that "If enough people are mad at you, a complete stranger might shoot you" is not a theory of change we want to encourage.

God forbid individuals and organizations not choose paths of action that "low level piss off" millions of people such that their chance of being at the business end of some outlier who will actually do violence upon them is non-trivial.

It's not hard to not be "the thing" in any given crazy's life they choose to go out with a bang over, especially if you're not something they deal with every day. If that means that the default amount of screwage your organization applies needs to be dialed back, or that you must clean house a little better or more often then cry me a river.

>most adults in the room understand that "people being mad at you" is pretty independent of how righteous your cause is

Except it's not. The "budget" you have to wrong people and cause despair before people would be apathetic to violence done upon you is pretty directly coupled to the amount of good you do to offset your harm.
by stale-labs | 2026-02-04 14:16:10+00:00
totally agree - MCP is the sleeper hit here. apple seems to have learned from the Siri era when they tried to do everything in-house and fell behind. letting devs bring their own agent means xcode wont be stuck when the next big model drops.

also opens up interesting possibilites for folks running local models who dont want their code hitting external servers. pretty thoughtful move imo
by dccoolgai | 2026-02-04 14:16:25+00:00
I read it more as "look for the thing that was _never done_ because no one was going to hire 20 people to do it" and all the examples were pointing out how you _should not_ try to "better, faster, cheaper" AI because you will lose quickly on all those dimensions.

I realize the irony, of course, that this article is AI-generated but it provoked something close to an epiphany for me even so.
by zbentley | 2026-02-04 14:16:51+00:00
In addition to all the sibling comments explaining why this wouldn't work, the money's not there.

A grift the size of Dogecoin, or the size of "free speech" enthusiast computing, or even the size of the criminal enterprises that run on the dark web, is tiny in comparison to the footer cost and upkeep of a datacenter in space. It'd also need to be funded by investments (since criminal funds and crypto assets are quite famously not available in up-front volumes for a huge enterprise), which implies a market presence in some country's economy, which implies regulators and risk management, and so on.
by phtrivier | 2026-02-04 14:17:25+00:00
> Musk is up to something here. This could be another hyperloop (i.e. A distracting promise meant to sabotage competition). It could be a legal dodge. It could be a power grab. What it will not be is a useful source of computing power. Anyone who takes this venture seriously is probably going to be burned.

That.

Also, am I the only one to remember when SpaceX was supposed to pivot to transporting people from cities to cities, given how cheap and reusable and sure BFF/Starship was going to be ?

Or how we were all going to earn money by pooling our full self driving cars in a network of robo taxis ?

In all seriousness, what is the number of "unrealized sci-fi pipe dreams" that is acceptable from the owner a company ? Or, to be fair, what is the acceptable ratio of "pipe dreams" / "actually impressive stuff actually delivered (reusable rockets, starlink, decent EVs, etc...)" ?
by okinok | 2026-02-04 14:17:29+00:00
>all delegation involves risk. with a human assistant, the risks include: intentional misuse (she could run off with my credit card), accidents (her computer could get stolen), or social engineering (someone could impersonate me and request information from her).

One of the differences in risk here would be that I think you got some legal protection if your human assistant misuse it, or it gets stolen. But, with the OpenClaw bot, I am unsure if any insurance or bank will side with you if the bot drained your account.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-04 14:18:12+00:00
This is a bot account. Last post in 2024, then in the last 25 minutes it has spammed formulaic comments in 5 different threads. If you were not able to instantly recognise this post as LLM-generated, this is a good example to learn from, I think. Even though it clearly has a prompt to write in a more casual manner, there's a certain feel to it that gives it away. I don't know that I can articulate all the nuances, but one of them is this structure of 3 short paragraphs of 1-2 sentences each, which is a favorite of LLMs posting specifically on HN for some reason, together with a kind of stupidly glazy tone ("killer app", "always felt 5 years away", randomly reinforcing "comparison to a human assistant you've never met" as though that's a remotely realistic comparison; how many people in the world have a human assistant they've never met and trust with all of their most sensitive information?).
by some_random | 2026-02-04 14:18:26+00:00
Sorry no it doesn't prove my half joking claim it only documents a single case of a high profile terrorist plot from a small group that was led by an FBI informant, containing another 4 informants and agents, and funded by the FBI in which they had trouble convicting several defendants (despite a 95%+ conviction rate normally) for some reason no clue why.
by Dasistmeinname | 2026-02-04 14:18:59+00:00
This is misleading:
- A radiator only “sees” 3 K if it’s perfectly shielded from the Sun, Earth albedo, and Earth IR. In Earth orbit you can easily get hundreds of W/m^2 incident; without sunshields the net rejectable heat is greatly reduced.
- You have a "massive" advantage only if the radiator is allowed to run very hot: At 300–310 K with \epsilon \approx 0.9: about 400–500 W/m^2. Effective "radiative heat transfer coefficient" at 300 K: h_rad \approx 4\epsilon\sigma T^3 \approx 5-6 W/m^2K. That's orders of magnitude lower than forced convection in air (\approx 50–500 W/m^2K) or the water side of a heat exchanger (>=1000 W/m^2K).
by Aurornis | 2026-02-04 14:19:26+00:00
The currency is never the only asset or unit of trade in an economy. As long as value and wealth were being created somewhere, inflation can exist.

Gold is interesting because more of it was being mined and produced all the time. There wasn’t even a finite amount of gold.

Thinking that a gold standard means no inflation (or in practical terms, deflation as the population grows) is a modern fantasy.
by Ray20 | 2026-02-04 14:19:39+00:00
> this kind of "literacy test"

Where did I mention a "literacy test"? I'm against such tests for exactly the same reasons I'm against prisoner voting.

> If prisoners can't vote, what's stopping the party in power from preventing them from ever losing an election by just jailing everyone expected to vote against them?

Prisons, by definition, are built on the principle that prisoners are under the full control of prison administrations. If everyone who will vote against could be imprisoned, there would be no problem allowing prisoners to vote: prisoners would still vote in the manner desired by the prison administration. That's how prisons work. And I don't think there's a need to increase incentives for authorities to imprison more people to achieve the desired election results through prisoners' voting.

> any kind of tech company with any government contract.

Obviously, this shouldn't apply to "any" government contracts. But if the majority of a contractor's income comes from government contracts, then yes, employees shouldn't vote.

> Anyone living in a state which receives more money than it contributes in taxes should be banned from voting. Anyone using government resources should be banned from voting.

I don't understand why you're trying to reduce this argument to absurdity. The goal is to preserve democracy by reducing the government's ability to build a totalitarian dictatorship through its ability to control taxes. And yet you're proposing measures that would proclaim such a dictatorship.
by rsyring | 2026-02-04 14:20:02+00:00
> That said, the framing feels a bit too poetic for engineering.

I wholeheartedly disagree but I tend to believe that's going to be highly dependent on what type of developer a person is. One who leans towards the craftsmanship side or one who leans towards the deliverables side. It will also be impacted by the type of development they are exposed to. Are they in an environment where they can even have a "lump of clay" moment or is all their time spent on systems that are too old/archaic/complex/whatever to ever really absorb the essence of the problem the code is addressing?

The OP's quote is exactly how I feel about software. I often don't know exactly what I'm going to build. I start with a general idea and it morphs towards excellence by the iteration. My idea changes, and is sharpened, as it repeatedly runs into reality. And by that I mean, it's sharpened as I write and refactor the code.

I personally don't have the same ability to do that with code review because the amount of time I spend reviewing/absorbing the solution isn't sufficient to really get to know the problem space or the code.