MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by benhobro | 2026-02-02 21:34:57+00:00
Midpage | https://midpage.ai | Senior Software/Data Engineer | prefer NYC, open to remote | Full-time | $170-240k + equity

Midpage is seeking a senior engineer to help us catalog the world's legal data. Our dataset currently covers US case law and powers some of the largest law firms, legal technology platforms, and AI companies through our webapp, API, MCP, and custom data services. We're currently the only vendor openly widely selling this data in the US and customers appreciate that we have good citation linkages and a citator (indication of which judgments have been overruled/criticized).

We're looking to expand data coverage, adapt our infrastructure to our scaling enterprise needs, and find new ways to enrich our data offerings and delight our developer customers.

We're a team of 7, mostly in-office in lower Manhattan with a few remote/international teammates. Seeking a backend generalist with deep Python + Postgres experience who's ready to move quickly. Prefer NYC but flexible.

If interested email ben/dot/hoffner/dash/brodsky/at/midpage/dot/ai with HN in the subject.
by jjav | 2026-02-02 21:35:04+00:00
> It is really easy for a Downtown to go into a downward spiral if you take away the ability of people to get there.

I've seen this sad downward spiral multiple times, it is not a good outcome.

I used to live not too far from a town with a mellow but nice downtown center. Not a huge draw but many small nice restaurants and shops and there was steady business. Sensing a profit machine, the city filled all streets with parking meters. Turns out that while it was a nice area, it wasn't so irreplaceable, so nobody goes anymore. Business collapsed. I drove by last summer and everything is closed, the parking meters sit empty.

Same is happening now to the downtown one town over. It used to very vibrant awesome downtown, although small. Bars, restaurants, music venues, fun shops. I was there every night for something or other. Loved it. Easy free parking around. Some of the parking lots have office buildings now and the city lots have become very expensive. Much less activity there now, about a third of the venues are closed and the remaining ones are saying they can't last very long with fewer people going. While in its heyday this downtown was far more active than my first example, turns out it wasn't irreplaceable either. People just don't go anymore.

Point is that this tactic works only when the downtown is so established and so dense that people are going to go anyway even if parking is hard, like Manhattan.
by shrike | 2026-02-02 21:35:11+00:00
Location: San Francisco Bay Area

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** Full-stack web (Postgres, Express, React, Node), Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, OCI)
** PyTorch, Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Apache Aerospike, Apache Flink
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** SOC and ISO pre-audit reviews for startups in the Storage as a Service, Healthcare, and Finance spaces.
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Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YX3xporepZBDFq_mJQ062u6YHNN...

Email: craig.carl.ca@gmail.com
by luckystarr | 2026-02-02 21:35:13+00:00
While they are not as efficient or flexible, they are many times more efficient than resistive electric water heaters. I've installed one with in house air intake (due to construction reasons) in my house and it cooled down the basement by a few degrees (and removed air moisture as an added bonus). In summer the thermal capacity of the ground heats up the basement again, in winter it's a bit cooler, but it still works efficiently.
by flowerthoughts | 2026-02-02 21:35:16+00:00
Just as the US is proving that giving power to federations will make states powerless, Draghi finds it the perfect time to suggest a federation.

We all knew this would eventually be the proposed path. The EU politicians and staffers obviously have a vested interest in saying yes. It means the EU will stop having to fight for ratification. It also means centralized planning and less fine-grained adjustments for local needs. As always.

This is not more power to the people or "we're stronger together." This is a simple attempt at an opportunistic power grab. Please don't let it happen here too.
by sebst | 2026-02-02 21:36:11+00:00
Stelvio's main selling point here is that you can use our higher-level components for different services and have them automatically configured.

So, you don't have to configure IAM roles, or Env vars manually, as this is handled for you through a concept called linking. https://stelvio.dev/concepts/linking/

In our experience, that alone adds a lot of productivity gains for teams.
by fjames2023 | 2026-02-02 21:36:11+00:00
Flotive AI | https://flotive.ai | Founding Software Engineer | Jersey City / New York Metropolitan Area / NYC Area | Onsite (Hybrid OK)

Flotive is building an AI-powered platform to reshape the grid. We help energy developers identify buildable sites and manage regulatory complexity so power generation and large loads (such as data centers and manufacturing facilities) can come online faster.

Salary: $150-180k + equity

Details here: https://flotive.notion.site/founding-software-engineer
by nesarkvechnep | 2026-02-02 21:36:31+00:00
"Furthermore, when this work is combined with the recent std.Io changes, there is potential for users to seamlessly control how libc performs I/O - for example forcing all calls to read and write to participate in an io_uring event loop"

This is exciting! I particularly care more about kqueue but I guess the quote applies to it too.
by gdubs | 2026-02-02 21:36:36+00:00
Why are you so certain that LLMs/AI can't be used as a tool to learn and grow?

Like Herbie Hancock once said, a computer is a tool, like an axe. It can be used for terrible things, or it can be used to build a house for your neighbor.

It's up to people how we choose to use these tools.
by archiepeach | 2026-02-02 21:36:46+00:00
Interesting timing for me personally as I just switched from running Codex in multiple tabs in Cursor to Ghostty. It had nicer fonts by default, better tab switching that was consistent with the keyboard shortcut to switch to any tab on Mac, and it had native notifications that would ping when Codex had finished. Worktrees requiring manual configuration was probably the one sticking point, so definitely looking forward to this.
by linkoping | 2026-02-02 21:36:51+00:00
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Technologies: OCaml, Isabelle, Julia, Python, JAX, Pyro/NumPyro, Stan

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Formally proved correctness of safety-critical cyber-physical systems

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Experience: 15 years in Bayesian inference, machine learning, and functional programming

Expertise: Probabilistic inference, high-performance computing, and formal verification

Seeking: Staff/Research Engineer or Lead roles in AI, biotech, deep tech, or fintech
by arjie | 2026-02-02 21:37:19+00:00
Oh that's a classic trick. It's been going on for decades. One example I am particularly familiar with is that of Larry Philpot / User:Nightshooter on Wikimedia Commons. He would upload his photos there with an addendum on how he should be attributed. Any slight impression in the attribution would be followed by legal action. It was obviously a copyright troll mechanism and now all of his photos on Wikimedia Commons have forced attributed affixed by users that warns others that he sues people.

His stuff is so widespread that the consensus on Wikimedia Commons was to keep his photos and add a warning so that no one ends up accidentally using it. Some accused him of sock-puppetry to get his content into a place.

Today, intellectual property maximalism is a much more mainstream position so perhaps modern Internet users will think that he is in the right, but I think it's a bit much.

Here's the thread where he's discussed: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators%27...

Here's an example forced-attribution photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flaming_Lips.jpg
by razingeden | 2026-02-02 21:37:51+00:00
> Remember that human drivers can also lose their license if [caught] driving too poorly.

Thank you, yes, I could have said that better. But yeah as a new human driver if I’m too sloppy and get into too many incidents , the penalty is harsh and I’d say that “none of the autonomous companies are held to the same standard” but that’s not 100% true: we do have cities and states refusing to play ball or issue permits here.

But that’s exactly right. my opinion was/is that there should be a probationary period for the first year of new autonomous technology — or major deviations from existing and proven technologies — too. And if it causes too many accidents or violations, then, it should be held to the same standard I am
by COAGULOPATH | 2026-02-02 21:38:00+00:00
Is it a success? What would that mean, for a social media site that isn't meant for humans?

The site has 1.5 million agents but only 17,000 human "owners" (per Wiz's analysis of the leak).

It's going viral because a some high-profile tastemakers (Scott Alexander and Andrej Karpathy) have discussed/Tweeted about it, and a few other unscrupulous people are sharing alarming-looking things out of context and doing numbers.
by ethin | 2026-02-02 21:38:13+00:00
It isn't really reasonable though. The word "may" implies possibility, not absolutism. So reading the sentence logically, at least to me, saying that I "may be" able to license it under the AGPL means that I might or might not be able to do that... And I have no way of knowing if I can or can't unless I... What, contact them?
by ManuelKiessling | 2026-02-02 21:38:15+00:00
I‘m not sure it’s a perfect example, but at least it’s a very realistic example from a company that really doesn’t have time and energy for hype or fluff:

We are currently sunsetting our use of Webflow for content management and hosting, and are replacing it with our own solution which Cursor & Claude Opus helped us build in around 10 days:

https://dx-tooling.org/sitebuilder/

https://github.com/dx-tooling/sitebuilder-webapp
by flowerthoughts | 2026-02-02 21:38:41+00:00
Yeah, and their customers have repeatedly asked them to stop doing that. For instance

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2327

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/2479

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/4851

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/3105

Latest news is that they've doubled down on it instead.
by Sargos | 2026-02-02 21:38:52+00:00
Location: Chicago, IL
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: TypeScript, C#, Docker, React/Lit, Azure, Prometheus/Grafana, Solidity, CI/CD
Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FOGdgpknT7vBivnHPca5TgaR...
Email: JamesCarnley@gmail.com

I am a Full-Stack Engineer with 10+ years of experience and a heavy lean into DevOps. I enjoy building applications end-to-end—from the front-end components down to the server infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

Currently, I am developing the Ethereum File System (EFS), an open-source project where I wear both hats:

As a Developer: I architected a decentralized application using EAS, Solidity, TypeScript and Web Components, solving complex state management issues in a resource constrained environment.

As an Ops Engineer: I help run the underlying Ethereum network, using Prometheus and Grafana for observability and practicing chaos engineering to ensure node reliability.

Previously, I spent a decade at Epic Systems working on enterprise healthcare software. My work there involved modernizing legacy web platforms (C#/.NET) and managing large-scale server integrations, ensuring federated code worked reliably across varied and rigid enterprise environments.

I’m looking for a role where I can be useful across the stack, whether that means shipping features, improving build tools, or stabilizing infrastructure.
by archiepeach | 2026-02-02 21:38:57+00:00
We are certainly approaching the point where a high end MacBook Pro for development isn’t required. Feels very close to just being able to use an iPad? My current workplace deploy on Vercel, we already test actively on feature branches and the models have gotten so good that you can reliably just commit what they’ve done (with linting and type check hooks etc) and in the rare event something is broken, follow up with a new commit.
by antonvs | 2026-02-02 21:38:58+00:00
Certainly US walkability is terrible in general, but what you describe is a fairly extreme scenario. Was it that you had to cross an interstate highway or something like that?

I'm an immigrant to the US - currently looking to emigrate again for obvious reasons! - and I've done a good amount of walking or taking public transit. Walking on the shoulder of strips (i.e. highways with traffic lights and shopping) is not pleasant, but it's doable. Crossing those strips is usually possible at traffic lights.

The wildest thing is that even in smallish towns where you might expect that walking would be supported, it isn't. Town planners generally seem not to consider it at all, at best you get some sidewalks outside shopping areas and then everything else the best you get is a shoulder, and the worst is nothing at all so you're just in the road with the cars.

The US is literally, collectively insane, and what it's going through now is just a natural consequence of that.
by tromp | 2026-02-02 21:39:24+00:00
Turing Machines and Lambda Calculus can only output insanely large numbers by building those numbers from scratch using their Turing completeness. So while lambda calculus can output something exceeding Loader's Number, it needs well over a thousand bits to do so. What I mean by "geared toward outputting insanely large numbers" is saying: I define a language in which the 1-bit program "0" outputs Loader's Number. That is obviously cheating.

There is unfortunately no mathematically rigorous way to define what is cheating, so it seems unreasonable to ask me for that.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-02 21:39:28+00:00
The problem with heat pumps replacing electric heaters (in cold climates) is that the waste cold air gets dumped into the house and needs to be heated again. Generally, electric water heaters are expensive to run compared to gas ones, so people use them in places a gas heater is not possible to install (e.g. no way to vent the exhaust). This also means that the heat pump would have nowhere to vent cold air.

This kind of thing is why I don't like bans like this. The specifics matter a lot.
by shagie | 2026-02-02 21:39:36+00:00
OCTOBER 03, 2024 - https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren...

> Boston, MA – U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to Deere & Company (John Deere) accusing the company of undermining its own “right-to-repair” agreements and evading its responsibilities under the Clean Air Act by failing to grant its customers the right to repair their own agricultural equipment.

AUGUST 16, 2023 - The EPA finally refutes John Deere, dealership arguments against Right to Repair https://pirg.org/articles/the-epa-finally-refutes-john-deere...

> On August 4, after prodding for more than a year by PIRG and our allies, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sent an on-the-record letter to the National Farmers Union in support of Right to Repair. The letter clearly refutes manufacturers’ and dealers’ accusations that repair access facilitates emissions tampering and therefore violates environmental laws.

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Note that this started in the previous administration and the EPA was chastising John Deer three years ago on this issue.
by callc | 2026-02-02 21:39:49+00:00
Location: USA Central Time (no sponsorship needed)
Remote: Yes, I prefer remote.
Willing to relocate: Depends on specifics.
Technologies: TypeScript, Go, Python, Rust, Bash, Java, C, C++, docker, k8s, Qemu, NoSQL
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Hi, my name is Calvin. I'm a staff SWE with 6.5 years experience spanning from operating system development to cloud, full-stack to simulation solutions. I'm comfortable at every level of the stack, and enjoy teaching what I know. I have an eye for quality and performance, and love hard problems.
by groby_b | 2026-02-02 21:39:54+00:00
And the shades in between account for the large number of new licensing schemes sprouting, with different restrictions on what is and isn't possible. (Not to mention the large number of "just used it anyways" instances). And it struggles for smaller utilities, or packages of many different things.

It's "worked out" in the sense that it still doesn't really work for a lot of maintainers.
by jesterswilde | 2026-02-02 21:40:10+00:00
Location: California
Remote: Yes, Remote Only
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Web, 3D, Games. JS/TS, C#, Python, Node, Postgres, React/Vue/Angular, ThreeJS/BabylonJS, Unity, HSLS/WebGL/WGSL, AI Integration
Resume: https://docs.google.com/document/d/14VdFEF3q0-HbXYHUkEgjC0DX...
Email: wolff (dot) corey (at) gmail (dot) com

Profile: I'm a full-stack web and game developer with over a decade of experience. I've had roles with every part of web and games. My particular interest is unique web based interactions. I also started with AI by building my own poor man's version of AlphaGo back in like 2020 and have been using AI since.
My current project is a web based raymarching game engine / artist tool: https://jesterswilde.dev/rmfw (requires webgpu, desktop only.)
by logicallee | 2026-02-02 21:40:17+00:00
As of this moment (4:37 p.m. EST / 1:37 p.m. Pacific on February 2, 2026), I've set Claude Code to port a significant piece of software from its C++ source code to webGPU. Nobody's done it before.

The software is a significant one: Microsoft trained a highly efficient model on millions of books, and the model itself is super fast and efficient, and only takes about 400 MB of RAM, while being efficient enough to run on CPU. It's able to engage in conversation, follow instructions, and do some simple coding tasks.

In the environment I've set up, Claude is in a VM and has been instructed to plough through any difficulties, do its own research, do anything needed to get the model working in webGPU.

Claude Code has performed more significant ports, to far more obscure languages and environments than WebGPU, but this one is significant due to the importance of the efficient model that it is porting.

The model is licensed under the MIT license.

Here is ChatGPT's description of the model that it is porting: https://chatgpt.com/share/698116d7-d008-800c-a295-aaf2cfc7a8...

And here is the model itself:
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T/tree/mai...

And its weights:
https://huggingface.co/microsoft/bitnet-b1.58-2B-4T?

The model is available via the web at: https://bitnet-demo.azurewebsites.net/

If Claude Code succeeds at its porting task, which it is expected to do overnight, then it will result in a major, highly efficient model that is able to run entirely in the browser at moderate cost.

Note: in an ironic twist, the environment Claude is in doesn't actually have a GPU, so I've asked it to just try really, really hard to make sure it works on webGPU as well as processor. So it's flying blind and has no way to test its own code except by reasoning about it.

God speed, little coder.
by josteink | 2026-02-02 21:40:18+00:00
I’m talking about that developer, yes. And I’m sure there’s more to the story than just ABI compatibility.

He wanted X11 to thrive. Freedesktop however has a goal for Wayland ultimately to replace X11, right? X11 should die. This is not hyperbole. It’s a stated goal.

So I think there’s more to the story than the simplified ABI aspect often mentioned here on HN.

Also Gnome killing X11 support is real.

So is KDE backing down on BSD-support.

These are facts, not opinions.
by hdjrudni | 2026-02-02 21:40:29+00:00
Doesn't have to be. I just revived one of my C++ GLFW app from 2009. Codex was able to help me get it running again and added some nice new features.

I guess you get an Electron app if you don't prompt it otherwise. Probably because it's learned from what all the humans are putting out there these days.

That said.. unless you know better, it's going to keep happening. Even moreso when folks aren't learning the fundamentals anymore.
by PurpleRamen | 2026-02-02 21:40:38+00:00
> Because the source of plastics in the ocean is traced back to those places.

That's actually a bit disputed. But ok, it wasn't just really obvious from your writing what you meant here.

> China is mostly powered by coal and they are still building new coal plants.

Yes, and no. China is moving away from coal, they reduced their share by 20% in the last decades. It's now around 57% of their total usage. The number of new coal plants is also a bit disputed. First, they modernize many coal plants by building new, more efficient ones, and shutting down the old plants. Second, they are building many backup-plants, which are not really used outside of emergencies, which does happen from time to time it seems. And third, they are master of overplanning. Around 80% of their planned coal-plants were actually cancelled in the last years before the building started for real. This seems related to how their local and federal levels are handling budgets.

The only real problem is that their absolute coal consumption is still growing, because their consumption as a whole is growing. But long-term, there is likely a point where it's reaching its peak, and start shrinking. And speculation is here, that we are talking about ~10 years, not 50. So at that point, China, which is already producing for the whole world, will have acquired another good selling point which European countries have to beat.
by paxys | 2026-02-02 21:40:51+00:00
If the license has been unclear for 8 years and the company hasn't bothered to get a lawyer to fix it then the "I'm just an engineer and don't know about this stuff" excuse doesn't apply. It's obvious that they are deliberately keeping the license vague and confusing to scare users into paying for a commercial edition while also calling their product "open source" for marketing purposes.
by rafram | 2026-02-02 21:41:13+00:00
- Video games often use HTML/JS-based UI these days.

- UE5 has its own custom UI framework, which definitely does not feel "native" on any platform. Not really any better than Electron.

- You can easily call native APIs from Electron.

I agree that Electron apps that feel "web-y" or hog resources unnecessarily are distasteful, but most people don't know or care whether the apps they're running use native UI frameworks, and being able to reassign web developers to work on desktop apps is a significant selling point that will keep companies coming back to Electron instead of native.
by julienfr112 | 2026-02-02 21:41:21+00:00
I told to my colleague that it would take less time for me to vibe code jira that it would take him to configure it. Sounds crazy ? Not so much : factor the part of jira you use (maybe 10%), the many choices and dimensions you have to configure, the time it take and the complexity it bring. On the other side, the vibe code version have only the fields you want, most of the logic hard written in code (ie epic > story >task...), and that you could do anything any role, any authentication scheme.