MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-11 18:02:19+00:00
Real buttons are more expensive than electronic. Not sure if you care, but people make that mistake more generally.

Game engines are probably trivially cheap to produce in 2026. You forget that Toyota sells 10M cars per year. In 3 years thats 30M cars. What does it cost each buyer for the game engine? 30 cents?
by econ | 2026-02-11 18:02:55+00:00
Two things this reminds me of.

I was once part of a "traveling" community that would sign up for every new platform. A good few tech bloggers among us. We would meet again and again but the community still failed long term despite everyone artificially trying to make it work. I got one good friend out of it, whom I never talk to.

I one time tried to root in a new city, I talk with everyone, buy cups of coffee for reluctant strangers, had a ton of fun and a ton of laughs but nothing permanent grew. I made two good friends whom I never talk to.

In my home town I must have 1000 people I almost never talk to. Adds up to a lot of talk. Familiar faces everywhere.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2026-02-11 18:03:09+00:00
No, it doesn't work. Humans (at least) are very powerful metaphor users, and it is typically possible to discuss things for which there is no direct language in terms of metaphors (and analogies). We do this all the time, and it pretty much removes all bounds on what we can talk (and think) about with language.

Lots of poetry makes no sense if you consider it to be a series of words to be literally interpreted according to a grammar rules and a dictionary. But it can often hint at meanings and ideas that can't be expressed directly.

Of course, there are some things that always remain that are harder to get rid of. That's not "lack of language preventing you from thinking things", but rather "assumptions so deeply built into language that it is hard, though perhaps not impossible, to escape them".
by jamesbelchamber | 2026-02-11 18:03:26+00:00
If they think this is good/important then fine but what they've created is a grant programme, not a UBI.

Personally I would have thought this money would have been better spent getting people on the margins the stability to retrain into in-demand skilled careers (e.g. single, unskilled parents training as electricians or plumbers). That feels like it would be a more durable, multi-generational benefit.

But again, this is just a grant programme.
by ctoa | 2026-02-11 18:03:46+00:00
Most Tahoe buildings are not A-frames, 500-800" snow years are big years, not average, and also those are resort numbers, not towns where more houses are. Modern buildings in Tahoe are engineered to hold very high snow loads, typically have a lot of snow on the roof, you need to do snow removal as needed.

I live in Mammoth where the town is significantly snowier than say Truckee or lake level Tahoe. The grocery store is open and operating normally no matter how snowy it is. Including the 22/23 winter when 695" fell in town. Lots of buildings did collapse that year though and snow removal was a constant struggle.

But A-frames or other very angled roofs are not typical here, roofs have to handle 300 lbs/sq foot, and there are requirements for where a roof is allowed to shed to. Typically they will angle in one direction to control where shedding happens. Keeping the snow on the roof also provides insulation, in a typical snow year we may do basically no removal and just have a blanket of snow on the roof the whole winter.
by common_creator | 2026-02-11 18:05:03+00:00
Hi HN,

A few months ago I was applying for jobs and kept getting rejected without feedback. After digging deeper, I realized most of my resumes weren’t even reaching humans because of ATS parsing and formatting issues.

I started experimenting with different resume structures and formats. Some worked, some didn’t. Once I began getting interviews, it became clear that clean structure and ATS readability mattered more than most people realize.

I decided to turn that experience into a small product: Arzuno CV.

i Built it using nextjs, react in frontend and nodejs , express in tge backend and used claude 4.5 in some areas to make it come fast to users.

It’s a simple resume builder focused on:

* Clean structure
* ATS readability
* Minimal formatting mistakes

I added the Resume's which i researched and find out which are good at ats i searched the linkedin , x and insta for the resume templates it has some but are valuable.

It’s mainly built for students, fresh graduates, and early-career job seekers.

I’d really appreciate feedback from the HN community especially around ATS handling, resume structure, or anything you think could be improved.
by kjshsh123 | 2026-02-11 18:05:21+00:00
Classic slam dunk on economists, except I think it's a bit of a miss. They're a classic scapegoat and punching bag but there's tons of economics research on community.

Saying economics doesn’t model community is a bit like saying physics doesn’t model color because some models ignore wavelength variation. It depends which models you’re looking at and what their purpose is.
There is substantial economic research on:
Social capital (e.g., Putnam, though he’s political science adjacent; economists like Glaeser formalize it)
Network effects and network structure
Repeated games and reputation
Religious participation and club goods (Iannaccone’s work is central here)
Identity economics (Akerlof & Kranton)
Trust and informal institutions
Household bargaining models
Matching theory, where who you match with specifically matters

I think the fact that communities are not fungible is frankly obvious. Fact is communities do die, and sometimes there are long run benefits to consider.

The challenge is actually nurturing and valuing community which this post doesn't actually grapple with.

E.g. the problem with Robert Moses wasn't just development. It was the style of development which was inherently anti-community. Nurturing a community requires common space where people bump into each other harmlessly. Highways dividing neighbourhoods, for people in their private cars to get to neighbourhoods with no commercial life and large setbacks between homes.

It's not that Robert Moses didn't realize community isn't fungible. It's either that he didn't realize how bad it would be for community or that he just didn't value community in the first place.
by KempyKolibri | 2026-02-11 18:05:23+00:00
Well that would depend on what you mean by “not working”. It seems like the US regulations are generally doing a good job of keeping toxic products out of the food supply.

I’m not sure if your claim is specifically around food colouring. If it is, I’ve not seen any compelling evidence that the food colouring allowed under US regulation is actually problematic for health.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-11 18:05:30+00:00
> but I'm guessing this is based off of the user-agent presented by the scrapers and could easily be faked to shift blame

Yes, hence the "which was the only two I saw, but could have been forged".

> I'd love to see some of the web logs from this if you'd be willing to share!

Unfortunately not, I'm deleting any logs from the server after one hour, and also don't even log the full IP. I took a look now and none of the logs that still exists are from any user agent that looks like one of those bots.
by throw4847285 | 2026-02-11 18:05:55+00:00
Look, I thought the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis was great when I learned about it, too. I love the movie Arrival (and the Ted Chiang story it's based on). But if you aren't a social scientist, it can be very appealing (and self-defeating) to latch onto a specific concept you heard about and try to create some grand theory of the world. This is fine, but it's sophistry, not deep thinking.
by maxloh | 2026-02-11 18:06:09+00:00
From Allen AI's Discord:

Introducing *MolmoSpaces*: A large-scale, fully open platform + benchmark for embodied AI research

The next wave of AI will act in the physical world, but building robots that generalize across new environments rather than simply replaying learned behaviors requires far more diverse training data than exists today. That's where MolmoSpaces comes in.

MolmoSpaces brings together 230k+ indoor scenes, 130k+ object models, and 42M annotated robotic grasps into a single open ecosystem built on two foundations:

◘ Objaverse, one of the largest open collections of 3D objects

◘ Our THOR family of interactive simulation environments

MolmoSpaces is grounded in physics simulation with validated physical parameters tuned for realistic robotics manipulation, and includes a trajectory-generation pipeline for reproducible embodied AI demonstrations and imitation learning at scale. All assets, scenes, and tools are open and modular – provided in MJCF with USD conversion for cross-simulator portability – so you can plug in new embodiments, regenerate grasps, and run experiments across MuJoCo, ManiSkill, and NVIDIA Isaac Lab/Sim.

MolmoSpaces supports teleoperation via mobile platforms like Teledex, so you can collect demonstrations right from your phone, compatible with embodiment setups including DROID and CAP with no extra configuration needed.

We're also releasing *MolmoSpaces-Bench*, a new benchmark for evaluating generalist policies under systematic, controlled variation. Researchers can isolate individual factors – object properties, layouts, task complexity, lighting, dynamics, instruction phrasing, and more – across thousands of realistic scenes.

Explore MolmoSpaces today and start building—we can't wait to see what the community does with it:

Blog: https://allenai.org/blog/molmospaces

Demo: https://molmospaces.allen.ai/

⬇ Code: https://github.com/allenai/molmospaces

Data: https://huggingface.co/datasets/allenai/molmospaces

Paper: http://allenai.org/papers/molmospaces
by mlyle | 2026-02-11 18:06:11+00:00
He was a top 10 20th century physicist-- and the 20th century was full of rock stars-- and a Nobel Laureate. He also did more interesting work outside his core domain than you'd expect; the cooperation with Thinking Machines, the Rogers Commission, early use of computers as an instrument, institutional/advisory roles, etc.

I think anyone who has read his narratives realizes the dude had some personal flaws.
by neom | 2026-02-11 18:06:25+00:00
Well I'm not a coder so maybe my opinion doesn't count, but I did help build digitalocean so I know a little about them. I think the reason so many people don't feel embarrassed is simpler and less sinister than a lack of integrity... they jsut never had the relationship to craft that you have. You very clearly care about the decisions.. you care where the function goes, errors up and down stream the accumulation of small choices that make something yours!! From what I've seen that's a craftsman's relationship to work. It's valid, it's fair, and it's commendable. That said: most people who work generally, including writing code don't have that. They never did. Before LLMs they were copying from stackoverflow without understanding it, which by your own definition was already the problem. But another thing I learned in art school, at great craftsman never blames their tools, the existence of people who use a tool badly has never been a good argument that the tool is the problem. As i said earlier, film school was full of people passing off purchased presets as their own creative work. They weren't shameless because Final Cut existed. They were shameless because they were shameless!!! lol The dean told me to stop fixating on them but because it was consuming energy I could've spent on my own work. An extreme, but just like I accept gay people are gay when I'm stright, trans people are trans when I'm cisgender, I accept other people are not like me and find joy in very many divergent places, and I am nobody to judge another's joy in life.
by bluGill | 2026-02-11 18:06:27+00:00
There is only so much time in a day. Often singing in choir conflicts with playing sports because you have concerts and games on the same nights, so you have to make a choice. There are also schedule pressures - if you are going to get into college you nearly have to take math, English, science, and foreign language classes beyond what your school demands and that forces hard choices if there even is a class period free (don't forget you might be taking band to take up that space)

Finally, there are a lot of bad teachers. They are so interested in winning competition and teaching perfection - but for most music will never be anything other than a fun hobby and so they are getting the wrong teaching which turns many students off. I've seen a lot of award winning school choirs, and the next town over with the same number of students has twice the students in choir despite not winning awards - communities need to pick and often don't realize this.
by OkayPhysicist | 2026-02-11 18:06:35+00:00
The math there gets pretty bad pretty fast. A cubic foot of snow represents ~15 lbs of ice. That corresponds to at 144 BTU to melt a lb of ice, that means you need at a minimum 2160 BTU of fuel (assuming 100% of your heat goes to melting the snow). A gallon of gasoline represents about 114,000 BTU, so each gallon of gas could clear, in a best case scenario where you can capture 100% of the heat, only 50 cubic feet of snow. That's a 10-foot by 10-foot area covered in 6 inches of snow.

But even that's in the dream scenario where somehow your snow is in a sealed, insulated space. In the real world, snow tends to be outside, in the cold air, which is very eager to sink and replace any hot air you make at ground level. So you're losing any heat that warms the air at all. And all that air in the snow makes it a fantastic insulator, meaning the vast majority of your heat isn't going to penetrate.

Interestingly, this same phenomena makes melting snow from underneath much more effective (as the great insulating snow captures the heat). You still need to grapple with the kinda nuts amount of energy it takes to melt ice, but at least you're not wasting 90% of it.
by softfalcon | 2026-02-11 18:06:47+00:00
Ah, yeah. I see what you're saying. That is more of an open vs proprietary platform problem.

I am fairly sure that nVidia intentionally wants to keep addressable memory as a feature only for CUDA (among many other features).

Having CUDA be far superior to other shader code methods is good for vendor lock-in to their hardware, their software, their drivers, etc.

It is really sad seeing that the addressing is possible, but they won't open it up to everyone.
by danielmarkbruce | 2026-02-11 18:06:50+00:00
In this context scale = enough units/revenue to spread fixed costs.

I'll take your word on lifetime revenue numbers for Cray 1.

So yes, in todays dollars, $500 million of lifetime revenue - maybe 60-70 million per year, todays dollars - is not even close to the scale we are seeing today. Even 10 years ago Nvidia was doing ~$5 billion per year (almost 100x your number) and AMD a few bill(another 60-70x ish)

Even if you meant $500m in annual (instead of lifetime), Nvidia was 10x that in 2015. And AMDs GPU revenue which was a few billion that year, so it's more like 17x.

That's a large difference in scale. At the low end 17x and at the high end 170x. Gaming drove that scale. Gaming drove Nvidia to have enough to spend on CUDA. Gaming drove NVidia to have enough to produce chip designs optimized for other types of workloads. CUDA enabled ML work that wasn't possible before. That drove Google to realize they needed to move away from ML on CPU if they wanted to be competitive.

You don't need any faith, just understand the history and how competition drives behavior.
by mullingitover | 2026-02-11 18:07:15+00:00
I don't think "U.S. Jobs Disappear At Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession"[1] is vibes.

The future picture on inflation also looks bleak[2]:

> Taken individually, lagged tariff pass‑through, tightening labor supply, looser fiscal policy, and accommodative financial conditions would each push inflation modestly higher. Taken together—and interacting with increasingly fragile household inflation expectations—they create a macro environment in which inflation rising above 4 percent by the end of 2026 is not only plausible but arguably the most likely scenario.

It's common knowledge that the spending in the current economy is very K-shaped: the top 10% are the only ones staying above water.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-...

[2] https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2026/risk-high...
by Jtsummers | 2026-02-11 18:07:16+00:00
> not a UBI

Who said it is a UBI that this "rebuttal" even makes sense to appear here? The Irish government isn't calling it a UBI. The article doesn't call it a UBI. Even the FAQ for the program says it is not UBI:

>> Why this is not a Universal Basic Income

>> It is important to note that that the Basic Income for the Arts Pilot is not a Universal Basic Income. This is a sectoral intervention to support practicing artists and creative arts workers to focus on their creative practice. This policy is separate to the Universal Basic income as outlined in the Programme for Government.

https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-culture-communications-a... - C-f for "universal"
by hearsathought | 2026-02-11 18:07:19+00:00
> I use Opus 4.6 all day long and this is not my experience at all.

It's not the experience of anyone who uses AI. People have put these AI through freshman level college CS courses and the results weren't impressive at all.

> these sort of technically-light puff pieces are pretty tiresome and reflect poorly on the people who author and promote them.

These people tend to be invested heavily in AI. That's the commonality tying them all together - AI grift. They'll say anything for more money.

So for AI appears to be a useful tool that requires a bit of hand holding. Nothing more. Maybe things will change and AGI is right around the corner.
by uzerfcwn | 2026-02-11 18:08:11+00:00
Group theory entering quantum physics is a particularly funny example, because some established physicists at the time really hated the purely academic nature of group theory that made it difficult to learn.[1]

If you include practical applications inside computers and not just the physical reality, then Galois theory is the most often cited example. Galois himself was long dead when people figured out that his mathematical framework was useful for cryptography.

[1] https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/170/how-did-group-th...
by bluGill | 2026-02-11 18:08:26+00:00
I know many women who admit they "fall in love" anytime they hear a low bass. They might marry a tenor and never cheat on them, but every time their hear a low bass their heart flutters. Men know/see this and so tenors become less interested since their higher voices don't get the women (there are plenty of other ways they have).

I don't know how much this is a factor, but...
by dust42 | 2026-02-11 18:08:36+00:00
They are all just token generators without any intelligence. There is so little difference nowadays that I think in a blind test nobody will be able to differentiate the models - whether open source or closed source.

Today's meme was this question: "The car wash is only 50 meters from my house. I want to get my car washed, should I drive there or walk?"

Here is Claude's answer just right now:

"Walk! At only 50 meters (about 150 feet), it would take you less than a minute to walk there. Driving such a short distance would actually be less convenient - by the time you get in the car, start it, drive, and park, you could already be there on foot.
Plus, you'd save fuel and your car would be right there waiting for you after the wash is done."

Here is ChatGPT, also right now:

"Since it’s only *50 meters* (about 160 feet), walking makes a lot more sense.

Here’s why:

* *It’s extremely close* — you’ll get there in under a minute.
* *Driving would actually be less efficient* — by the time you start the car, move it, and park, you’re already there.
* *Cold starts aren’t great for your engine* — very short drives don’t let the engine warm up properly.
* *It saves fuel and emissions*, even if it’s a tiny amount.
* You avoid the hassle of maneuvering such a short distance.

The only time driving might make sense is if:

* The weather is terrible (heavy rain, snow, extreme cold).
* You have mobility issues.
* The car wash requires you to stay in the vehicle and you don’t want to leave it there.

Otherwise, this is a perfect “walk it over” situation.
"

Please save us all that talk about frontier and SOTA and that only the closedAI models are any good and the others are all so bad and benchmaxxed. For most purposes a Toyota is just as good as a BMW or a Merc or whatever luxury brand tickles your fancy. Even worse, the lastest 80B Qwen Next is not far from Opus 4.6 but runs on my laptop.
by pwg | 2026-02-11 18:08:39+00:00
You passed '-f root' to login (a single long string). telnetd is likely passing '-f' 'root' to login (two arguments instead of one, whether this is because it creates two, or it uses the shell (which then reparses) I don't know).

But '-f' is a valid option to login (man login):

login [-p] [-h host] [-H] [-f username|username]

...

-f Used to skip a login authentication. This option is usually used by the getty(8) autologin feature.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-11 18:09:42+00:00
> Going from GLM-4.7 to something comparable to 4.5 or 5.2 would be an absolutely crazy improvement.

Before you get too excited, GLM-4.7 outperformed Opus 4.5 on some benchmarks too - https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/glm-4-7 See the LiveCodeBench comparison

The benchmarks of the open weights models are always more impressive than the performance. Everyone is competing for attention and market share so the incentives to benchmaxx are out of control.
by didgetmaster | 2026-02-11 18:09:45+00:00
Like many technical people, my personality naturally gravitates towards introverted behavior. I am very comfortable being alone for long periods of time, and in spending my day writing code or fixing bugs with just me and my computer.

But I also enjoy interacting with other people. It just takes the right 'community' to draw me out of my shell. There have been periods of my life when I was outgoing, because I was in the right environment (college, certain jobs, sports, etc.). Other periods allowed me to retreat into my own isolated world.

There just isn't a magic formula that produces the right kind of community that we want on demand.
by w4yai | 2026-02-11 18:10:23+00:00
Synthetic is a bless when it comes to providing OSS models (including GLM), their team is responsive, no downtime or any issue for the last 6 months.

Full list of models provided : https://dev.synthetic.new/docs/api/models

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by written-beyond | 2026-02-11 18:10:36+00:00
You don't, and as long as you're comfortable with that you keep prompting to dig yourself out of holes.

The problem is unless your ready to waste hours prompting to get something exactly how you want it, instead of spending those few minutes doing it yourself, you start to get complacent for whatever the LLM generated for you.

IMO it feels like being a geriatric handicap, there's literally nothing you can do because of the hundreds or thousands of lines of code that's been generated already, you run into the sunk cost fallacy really fast. No matter what people say about building "hundreds of versions" you're spending time doing so much shit either prompting or spec writing that it might not feel worth getting things exactly right in case it makes you start all over again.

It's literally not as if with the LLM things are literally instantaneous, it takes upwards or 20-30 minutes to "Ralph" through all of your requirements and build.

If you start some of it yourself first and you have an idea about where things are supposed to go it really helps you in your thinking process too, just letting it vibe fully in an empty directory leads to eventual sadness.