MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by borroka | 2026-02-04 23:04:32+00:00
I do not doubt that AI and AI-powered and -native applications will become part of the fabric of our personal and professional lives.

What I don't understand is why, outside of "because I can", people need to automate parts of life I did not know the existence of.

- Why, outside of edge cases, do people have to automate the payment of bills beyond the automatic cc processing?
- How many times a month do they have to set up their barber appointment?

It seems to me that the applications of Clawd and similar tools either automate trivial stuff or work on actions and circumstances that should not be there.

As an example, the other day I had a doctor visit, and between filling forms online, filling other forms online, confirming three times I would have been there and that I filled the online forms, driving to the doctor's office, and waiting, I probably spent 2 hours of my time (the visit was 2 months after I asked for it, by the way).

The visit lasted 5-7 minutes: the doctor did not have a look at the forms I filled out beforehand, and barely listened to what I was telling him during the visit.

I worry that, since "AI" will do it, there will be more forms to be filled that nobody will read, more forms to be filled to confirm that AI or me or a guardian filled the forms, and longer wait times because AI will bombard our neurons with some entertainment.

But what I want is a visit with a doctor who listens to me, they are not in a rush, and have my problem solved. If AI helps, it's great, but I don't want busy work done by AI, I don't want, because it is not needed, busy work at all.
by sho_hn | 2026-02-04 23:04:33+00:00
This blog post is written by a product manager, not a programmer. Their CV speaks to an Economics background, a stint in market research, writing small scripting-type programs ("Cron+MySQL data warehouse") and then off to the product management races.

What it's trying to express is that the (T)PM job still should still be safe because they can just team-lead a dozen agents instead of software developers.

Take with a grain of salt when it comes to relevance for "coding", or the future role breakdown in tech organizations.
by jsheard | 2026-02-04 23:04:37+00:00
Remarkable is quite different because it uses an E-Ink Gallery display, as opposed to the E-Ink Kaleido displays found on most cheaper colour e-readers such as yours. Gallery has true CYMK e-ink pigments while Kaleido is mono e-ink with a passive RGB filter array on top.

I'm not a fan of Kaleido, as you say the colours are underwhelming, and the RGB filter attenuates light so the contrast is noticeably worse than classic mono e-ink. Gallery is way more expensive and slower to refresh though, so pick your poison.
by cal_dent | 2026-02-04 23:05:07+00:00
You'd think that by now we would stop attaching ideas around morality to corporate organisation. open ai isn't good or bad, anthropic isn't either. they function as a means to generate profit and get as much market share as legally allowed. Anthropic are going about this by pretending to be the good guys in the room but its all marketing and nothing else.

We've gone down this part so often and yet people still take it as face value. Mind boggling
by sorenjan | 2026-02-04 23:05:30+00:00
Maybe you can log all the traffic to and from the proprietary models and fine tune a local model each weekend? It's probably against their terms of service, but it's not like they care where their training data comes from anyway.

Local models are relatively small, it seems wasteful to try and keep them as generalists. Fine tuning on your specific coding should make for better use of their limited parameter count.
by cooperadymas | 2026-02-04 23:05:54+00:00
Since this thread is undoubtedly going to devolve into the usual whining about Remarkable that is entirely unrelated to the article at hand, and doesn't understand the intent of the devices, or is based on the entirely unnecessary subscription service, I'll add a positive contribution.

Since receiving the RMPP Move for Christmas, it has become my go-to daily device and other than the obtuse name, I am almost entirely pleased with it.

The writing experience is fantastic. I was skeptical of the pen change from the RM2 but it's been pleasant overall.

Its form-factor seems odd when you read the specs, but it works rather well in practice. It's easy to toss in a bag and go, and does fit in most of my pockets if I need to. It's much more convenient for traveling as an addition to the laptop.

It syncs with my RM2 with minimal issue with scale. Sometimes you have to zoom in but this is easy and natural.

The colors are a nice addition but hardly the main attraction.

The backlight makes it excellent for writing at morning or night in bed without disturbing the S.O..

The minimalism is a feature.

It does okay for PDFs, but that is far from its purpose.

I use it daily for notes, task management, and little printable logic games.

My only minor nits are: changing pens (for logic games mostly) takes more taps than on the RM2. The palm detection is somewhat lacking compared to the RM2 - it tends to change pages or change the zoom level unintentionally when writing on certain parts of the screen. This could be more about my usage of it. I really wish I could add links and/or a table of contents to notes on the device. I wish the zoom level would stick between pages or could be locked in for a document.
by seneca | 2026-02-04 23:06:29+00:00
Interesting article. The color is nice on the Pro, but could definitely use some improvement.

That aside, the Remarkable Paper Pro is one of the biggest deltas I have ever seen between hardware and software quality. The hardware feels and looks great. I was pretty excited when I unboxed it by it. That all disappeared rapidly as I started using it. Their entire user experience is terrible, and just shockingly unuseful. I don't understand who it's designed for, because it doesn't seem to do anything well.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-04 23:06:42+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_of_ma...

The n in this article is the size of each dimension of the matrix — N=n^2. Lowest known is O(N^1.175...). Most practical is O(N^1.403...). Naive is already O(N^1.5) which, you see, is less than O(N^2).
by danpalmer | 2026-02-04 23:06:43+00:00
Not necessarily, our support team kinda loved it. I used the interfaces and it was pretty good software in many ways. They just didn't seem to be very capable when it came to medium complexity email setups. Many of their setup guides literally tell you to log into support address Gmail and set up a forwarding rule to send everything to Zendesk.

I suspect the issue is that we weren't paying enough. We had maybe 10 seats. I bet if you're buying 1000 seats a bunch of Zendesk engineers turn up and configure everything for you, but with the robust email setup needing that engineering time on their side to configure... so I guess in that way it may be Enterprise shitware.
by deno | 2026-02-04 23:07:03+00:00
Sorry I explained it poorly and emphasized the wrong thing.

The way it would work is not active destruction of data just a different view of data that doesn’t include any metadata that is encrypted in second profile.

Data would get overwritten only if you actually start using the fallback profile and populating the "free" space because to that profile all the data blocks are simply unreserved and look like random data.

The profiles basically overlap on the device. If you would try to use them concurrently that would be catastrophic but that is intended because you know not to use the fallback profile, but that information is only in your head and doesn’t get left on the device to be discovered by forensic analysis.

Your main profile knows to avoid overwriting the fallback profile’s data but not the other way around.

But also the point is you can actually log in to the duress profile and use it normally and it wouldn’t look like destruction of evidence which is what current GrapheneOS’s duress pin does.
by corbinh | 2026-02-04 23:07:10+00:00
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by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-04 23:07:21+00:00
I remember in high school finding the whole nazi thing funny. They were literal losers in ww2. It was like drawing a communist hammer and sickle.

Looking back on it, I wonder if this was priming.

I didn't fall for it. They are still losers, but the encyclopedia dramatica with swastikas looks way way way less funny in 2026 than it did in 2008.
by Aloisius | 2026-02-04 23:08:09+00:00
> No. The GENIUS Act is in effect, it was signed on July 18, 2025, becoming Public Law No: 119-27.

The law itself isn't the regulations. The law authorizes and directs regulators to create the regulations.

Moreover, the GENIUS Act doesn't become effective until January 18, 2027 (18 months after it was passed) or 120 days after regulators issue final regulations, whichever is earlier.[1][2]

The regulations for it are still being developed across dozens of state and federal regulatory agencies. The only thing someone like Tether did was get an existing bank to issue it which is a basic requirement to qualify as stablecoin issuer at all.

[1] Pub. L. 119–27, § 20

[2] https://dacfp.com/the-genius-act-in-plain-english/
by InfiniteRand | 2026-02-04 23:08:18+00:00
This is a grey area, look at some countries where you’ve had protesters block aid trucks to refugee camps saying that their national is imminent danger from these people. I think a key here is the degree and length of traffic blockage. When it is being used to essentially lay siege to a place it is ambiguous whether it’s violent or non violent. Temporary limited disruption of traffic is probably pretty firmly in the non violent column
by thephyber | 2026-02-04 23:08:18+00:00
Not all kinds of programming are the same.

Web dev is low entry barrier and most web devs don’t need a very deep knowledge base.

Embedded, low level language, using optimizations of the OS / hardware require MUCH more specialized knowledge. Most of the 4 year undergraduate program for Computer Science self selects for mathematics inclined students who then learn how to read and learn advanced mathematics / programming concepts.

There’s nothing that is a hard limit to prevent domain expert autodidacts from picking up programming, but the deeper the programming knowledge, the more the distribution curves of programmers / non-programmers will be able to succeed.

Non programmers are more likely to be flexible to find less programming-specific methods to solve the overall problem, which I very much welcome. But I think LLM-based app development mostly just democratizes the entry into programming.
by shevy-java | 2026-02-04 23:08:20+00:00
Well - the easier take-away is that the general public can not trust any of those top organisations. I think when a citizen can not trust the government anymore (in any country, at the least in a democracy), this is worrying. It's then more like the novel 1984 - while that referred primarily to the Soviet Union (Big Brother referred to Stalin for the most part), one could also find so many correlations to a "strong man"-led democracy too.
by ozim | 2026-02-04 23:08:41+00:00
I like to bring up JIRA example. You could replace it in-house yeah it is just tickets with statuses. /s

But then keep in mind one who built the replacement will become the owner of an application that business doesn’t want to pay for and that person will be cost center for the company.

That person better get marketing and negotiating skills that Atlassian has on board because that person will be responsible for the app and will not be getting salary increases for working on something that is not core business of the company.

Even if you can make LLM to do the app for you.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-04 23:09:14+00:00
> Truly impressive for real-time.

Impressive indeed. Works way better than the speech recognition I first got demo'ed in... 1998? I remember you had to "click" on the mic everytime you wanted to speak and, well, not only the transcription was bad, it was so bad that it'd try to interpret the sound of the click as a word.

It was so bad I told several people not to invest in what was back then a national tech darling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie

That turned out to be a massive fraud.

But ...

> I tried speaking in 2 languages at once, and it picked it up correctly.

I'm a native french speaker and I tried with a very simple sentence mixing french and english:

"Pour un pistolet je prefere un red dot mais pour une carabine je prefere un ACOG" (aka "For a pistol I prefer a red dot but for a carbine I prefer an ACOG")

And instead I got this:

"Je prépare un redote, mais pour une carabine, je préfère un ACOG."

"Je prépare un redote ..." doesn't mean anything and it's not at all what I said.

I like it, it's impressive, but literally the first sentence I tried it got the first half entirely wrong.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-04 23:09:31+00:00
There are hard limits for how much energy we can provide to computation, but we are not even close to what we can do in a non-suicidal way. In addition to expanding renewables, we could also expand nuclear and start building Thorium reactors - this alone ensures at least an extra order of magnitude in capacity compared to Uranium.

As for the compute side, we are running inference on GPUs which are designed for training. There are enormous inefficiencies in data movement in these platforms.

If we play our cards right we might have autonomous robots mining lunar resources and building more autonomous robots so they can mine even more. If we manage to bootstrap a space industry on the Moon with primarily autonomous operations and full ISRU, we are on our way to build space datacenters that might actually be economically viable.

There is a lot of stuff that needs to happen before we have a Dyson ring or a Matrioska brain around the Sun, but we don’t need to break any laws of physics for that.
by ugotsta | 2026-02-04 23:09:42+00:00
That's what it was! I really, really wanted to use Dart because I love Flutter (only ever used it through FlutterFlow and was duly impressed) but I couldn't get around the binary size, mainly because I'm supporting WASM as a backend so it needs tiny binaries.

How did you handle the WASM backend? That part was extremely impressive to me. But aren't the binaries practically too large for WASM?

In any case, really love what you're doing and will be following progress. Outstanding work!
by realityfactchex | 2026-02-04 23:09:42+00:00
My research says that this product/tool does not exist. And I wonder why not. Is it too niche? Or too hard?

Is everyone handing their stuff off for use cases like this, to some other agent/company/tool? Or just doing the n8n configurations themselves? To me that seems like the perfect use case for AI coding - highly defined/constrained.

To be clear, I'm asking because I want it. But now I'm curious if others would want it, too. Do you want it, too?

Any/all comments are welcome.
by cj | 2026-02-04 23:09:51+00:00
What I struggle with is developers wanting to leave platforms like Datadog for open source equivalents that need to be self-hosted.

I hear all of the cost savings benefit, but I never see the team factoring in their own time (and others time) needed to set up and maintain these systems reliably long term.

Something IC’s at company often struggle to understand is the reason why companies often prefer to buy managed solutions even when “free” alternatives exist (read: the free alternatives are also expensive, just a different type of cost)
by quickthrowman | 2026-02-04 23:09:51+00:00
The weather is hell on roads in Minnesota, repeated thaw/freeze cycles really do a number on asphalt pavement. My municipality actually owns and operates an asphalt batch plant, that’s how much time and money is spent on repairing roads here in Saint Paul.

https://www.stpaul.gov/departments/public-works/street-maint...

These are just band-aids, the subsurface is usually the problem and it’s expensive to rip up and replace an entire road vs repeated mill and overlay cycles.
by mamcx | 2026-02-04 23:10:20+00:00
Even more accurate (I work in this space):

3. Bugs creep in, feature request pile up.

4. Employee continue in the company and request help (or the managers see the need):

4.1 They hire more, but if all are vibe-coders too

4.1.1 The product gets more complicated (no more complex, that good developers can manage!)

4.1.2 Bugs creep in, feature request pile up.

4.1.3 People start to get desperate, not worries! now:

4.1.3.1 Somebody vibe-code a new alternative that solves
the immediate problem

4.1.3.2 Bugs creep in, feature request pile up.

4.1.3.3 Needs to sync with the other tools

4.1.3.3.1 Somebody vibe-code the sync that solves the immediate problem

(the saga continue)

In parallel:

4.2 Eventually is obvious that need external help

THEN:

4.2.1 They ask for consultors for build tool, of course, from a company that has embraced the IA!

4.2.2 They build new shinny tool!

4.2.3 Bugs creep in, feature request pile up.

4.2.4 Needs to sync with the other tools
....

AND:

4.3.1 They ask for consultors, to teach them what to do, of course, from a company that has embraced the IA!

4.3.2 New shinny theory of how do the thing with IA is now being implemented!

4.3.3 It require a rewrite of not only past solutions but, a change of how the company behave!

4.3.3.1 Needs to sync with the other tools
.......

4.3.4 And it spark beautiful office/political debates around some philosophical whatever that also trigger changes in the structure, hiring or whatever, alienating the people that has been working there, that after months, has started getting the handle of it!

4.3.5 Employees either leaves the company or moves on to another project.

4.3.6 New employees arrive, with a wild new IA tool and different vibes that vibe-coding!

... the saga continues

5. Is now clear that it need to buy a product form a well stablished software provider

5.1 And all of them are now in the IA craze!

.............
by RandomTisk | 2026-02-04 23:10:37+00:00
Frankly it's how they insist themselves onto their potential users. When I toyed around with Edge a year or two ago, just to get the t-shirt, it was impossible to set a custom home page for first-open instead of MSN crap. New tabs could be customized, but not the initial page. Apparently they fixed it since, but I still don't see Edge as a serious browser, just another rent seeking marketing tool.
Show HN: BossDesk – Native macOS app to monitor your pg-boss job queues
by thalesfp | 2026-02-04 23:11:11+00:00
Hey HN! I built BossDesk because I got tired of writing SQL queries every time I wanted to check on my background jobs.

If you use pg-boss (PostgreSQL job queue), this gives you a native Mac app to see what's happening: live queue stats, job inspection, retry/cancel operations, and cron schedules.

It's free on the Mac App Store and open source. Your database credentials stay in your Keychain – nothing leaves your machine.

Works with pg-boss v7-v11+ and auto-detects your schema version, so no config needed.

Would love to hear what you think, especially if you're managing background jobs and have ideas for features!

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bossdesk/id6758589367?mt=12
Source: https://github.com/thalesfp/boss-desk
by starkeeper | 2026-02-04 23:11:36+00:00
Very cool. Anyone have guidance for using this with jetbrains IDE?
It has a Claude Code plugin, but I think the setup is different for intelliJ... I know it has some configuration for local models, but the integrated Claude is such a superior experience then using their Junie, or just prompting diffs from the regular UI interface. HMMMM.... I guess I could try switching to the Claude Code CLI or other interface directly when my AI credits with jetbrains runs dry!

Thanks again for this info & setup guide! I'm excited to play with some local models.
by CrazyStat | 2026-02-04 23:11:54+00:00
One of my favorite bits of my PhD dissertation was factoring an intractable 3-dimensional integral

\iiint f(x, y, z) dx dy dz = \int [\int g(x, y) dx]*[\int h(y, z) dz] dy

which greatly accelerated numerical integration (O(n^2) rather than O(n^3)).

My advisor was not particularly impressed and objectively I could have skipped it and let the simulations take a bit longer (quite a bit longer--this integration was done millions of times for different function parameters in an inner loop). But it was clever and all mine and I was proud of it.
by heisenzombie | 2026-02-04 23:12:14+00:00
I have Copilot buttons sprinkled everywhere on my work computer, and every time I have tried to use them I get something saying "Oh, I can't do that". It's truly baffling.

Copilot button on my email inbox? I try "Find me emails about suchandsuch", and get the response "I don’t have direct access to your email account.
If you’re using Outlook (desktop, web, or mobile), here are quick ways to find all emails related to...". Great, so it doesn't even know what program it's runnning in, let alone having any ability to do stuff in there! Sigh.
by ChuckMcM | 2026-02-04 23:12:17+00:00
I expect this is the crux of the problem.

There aren't any "AI" products that have enough value.

Compare to their Office suite, which had 100 - 150 engineers working on it, every business paid big $$ for every employee using it, and once they shipped install media their ongoing costs were the employees. With a 1,000,000:1 ratio of users to developers and an operating expense (OpEx) of engineers/offices/management. That works as a business.

But with "AI", not only is it not a product in itself, it's a feature to a product, but it has OpEx and CapEx costs that dominate the balance sheet based on their public disclosures. Worse, as a feature, it demonstrably harms business with its hallucinations.

In a normal world, at this point companies would say, "hmm, well we thought it could be amazing but it just doesn't work as a product or a feature of a product because we can't sell it for enough money to both cover its operation, and its development, and the capital expenditures we need to make every time someone signs up. So a normal C staff would make some post about "too early" or whatever and shelve it. But we don't live in a normal world, so companies are literally burning the cash they need to survive the future in a vain hope that somehow, somewhere, a real product will emerge.
by throwawayq3423 | 2026-02-04 23:12:35+00:00
> This quote, often phrased as "We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false," is widely attributed to William J. Casey, who served as the Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987.

> While frequently cited in literature and discussions about propaganda and media manipulation, the quote's authenticity is highly disputed and unverified.

Are you trying to be ironic?
by dns_snek | 2026-02-04 23:13:18+00:00
How would this situation be any different if BBL printers were open source?

The law doesn't care about licensing, there are just 2 groups of printers - those that follow the law and implement effective blocking technology and those that don't.

If BBL sells an open source printer that allows someone to trivially bypass proposed mandatory blocking technology, they'll be fined and held liable for any crimes that result from guns printed using their 3D printers.

So BBL, as open source as they might want to be, is not allowed to sell such a product.