MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maximz | 2026-02-02 22:52:08+00:00
Immunera | Principal Machine Learning Engineer | NYC area (hybrid) | Full-time | immunera.ai

Hey! I’m Maxim, cofounder/CEO of Immunera.

We're building blood tests that use gene sequencing and machine learning to help patients with autoimmune disease. Immunera spun out of years of research at Stanford, and our technology has been published in Science and covered by The New York Times.

We're hiring a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to shape the core models and infrastructure that power our blood tests. We are partnering with hospitals to generate training data from real patients for our language models and other biological sequence models.

This is a senior engineering role with significant autonomy at an early-stage, venture-backed startup. We're looking for strong experience building and operating ML systems in production (Python, PyTorch/TensorFlow, cloud platforms). Prior biology or healthcare experience is NOT required; we care much more about your ability to reason about data, models, and systems.

Full JD: https://www.immunera.ai/jobs

Contact: maxim@immunera.ai (subject: “HN ML job”)
by adastra22 | 2026-02-02 22:52:20+00:00
You are conflating with their rockets. They don’t go space grade in their rockets because they don’t need to. They’re not up there for very long, and the avionics can be shielded behind large rocket stages.

Starlink satellites use space-rated AMD Versal chips: https://www.pcmag.com/news/amd-chips-are-powering-newest-sta...
by antonmedv | 2026-02-02 22:52:22+00:00
Location: Costa Rica(UTC-6), work with any American TZ
Remote: Yes, remote only
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python (10+ yrs), FastAPI, Django, gRPC/HTTP/Kafka/WebSocket, Flutter (mobile), React/TypeScript (Chrome extensions), Kubernetes & cloud deployments, Postgres, Redis,
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QI1aY7MTu58huMTC8NbOP7QudY0...
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonpythonbackend/
Email: antonmedve@gmail.com

Senior backend engineer with 10+ years of Python experience. I’ve led projects and teams, set direction and goals, and delivered production systems end‑to‑end. Comfortable with communication patterns across gRPC, HTTP, Kafka and WebSocket. I can build mobile apps in Flutter for both platforms and write Chrome extensions in React/TypeScript. When needed I go full stack, from frontend to infrastructure, and have hands‑on experience configuring Kubernetes deployments and cloud environments. I’m looking for a small, fast‑moving startup with an async culture and a focus on lifestyle, health, sport or AI. I want to contribute ideas, move quickly, and help build a great product alongside a tight‑knit team.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-02 22:52:33+00:00
> Everything has to go right or it will be irrelevant before it works.

Starship is not all of SpaceX. Saying, maybe because one hates Musk, that SpaceX is going to become irrelevant is wishful thinking.

In 2025 SpaceX launched more rockets into space than the entire world ever sent in a year up to 2022, something crazy like that.

Then out of, what, 14 000 active satellites in space more than half have been launched by SpaceX.

SpaceX is, so far, the biggest space success story of the history of the human race (and GP is right in saying that SpaceX is now a national security matter for the US).
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-02 22:52:38+00:00
> > I'm tired of companies like Apple making marginal spec bumps to their phones and milking the same products for decades

At least what Apple does is real not make believe like everything Musk claims , disappear boring Apple or even boring Microsoft, Oracle, IBM etc.

And the world would come to a screeching halt, disappear all of Musk companies and people would barely notice.

You seem to be eager to be sold dreams , that's exactly what vaporware salesmen like Musk hope to find on their path
by dangus | 2026-02-02 22:52:48+00:00
Elon is a pathological liar and it’s crazy that he still gets sanewashed after all he’s done. It’s insanity that he hasn’t been kicked out of leading his companies, and it’s also insanity that he hasn’t been prosecuted by the SEC.

You’ve spent too much life force trying to even understand the liar’s fake logic.

Let’s start right here: there is no such thing as becoming power/grid constrained on earth. If you replaced just the cornfields that the United States uses just to grow corn for ethanol in gasoline just in the corn belt, you could power the entire country with solar+batteries+ wind. Easily, and cheaply.

The truth is, xAI combining with SpaceX is almost certainly corrupt financial engineering. SpaceX as a government contractor and that means Elon’s pal Trump can now siphon money into xAI via the federal government.
by trashstack | 2026-02-02 22:52:50+00:00
Location: Bay Area

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: Probably not

Technologies: React, TypeScript, Node, Python

Résumé/CV: https://www.trashstack.com/resume

Email: hackernews@trashstack.com

Experienced full stack engineer looking for interesting IC work.

AI is a reality of modern software but not a passion of mine. I'm more interested in products that solve problems than generate hype.
by ForHackernews | 2026-02-02 22:52:51+00:00
https://www.gameslearningsociety.org/why-does-china-still-us...

> Although the Flash Player app formally reached its end of life on December 31, 2020, Adobe has allowed a local Chinese company to continue distributing Flash inside China, where the application still remains a large part of the local IT ecosystem and is broadly used across both the public and private sectors.

Sounds like too many big institutional websites depend on Flash.

Apparently at least one railroad needed it to route trains https://theinternetsaysitstrue.com/2023/11/27/flash-railroad...
by wongarsu | 2026-02-02 22:53:00+00:00
Note how Musk cleverly doesn't claim that not doing maintenance drives down costs.

Nothing in there is a lie, but any substance is at best implied. Yes, 1,000,000 tons/year * 100kW/ton is 100GW. Yes, there would be no maintenance and negligible operational cost. Yes, there is some path to launching 1TW/year (whether that path is realistic isn't mentioned, neither what a realistic timeline would be). And then without providing any rationale Elon states his estimate that the cheapest way to do AI compute will be in space in a couple years. Elon is famously bad at estimating, so we can also assume that this is his honest belief. That makes a chain of obviously true statements (or close to true, in the case of operating costs), but none of them actually tell us that this will be cheap or economically attractive. And all of them are complete non-sequiturs.
by pron | 2026-02-02 22:53:04+00:00
I know that per HN's guidelines we're supposed to be "kind and curious", and "reply to the argument instead of calling names". But with some texts, engaging with individual arguments loses sight of the more important bigger picture. So while unkind, the most "thoughtful and substantive" thing I think can be said about this text is:

The man's a moron.
by magicalist | 2026-02-02 22:53:10+00:00
> I will say there's a MASSIVE cost to getting power infrastructure, land, legal stuff done on terra firma; all that just sort of .. goes away when you're deploying to space, at least if you're deploying to space early and fast.

You need both power infrastructure and structures to build within for deploying in space too. And you have to build them and then put it all into space.

Cost per square foot of land is not that high basically anywhere you could build a datacentre to offset that.
by rvz | 2026-02-02 22:53:31+00:00
Tay.ai and Zoe AI Agents probably running infra operations at GitHub and still arguing about how to deploy to production without hallucinating a config file and deploying a broken fix to address the issue.

Since there is no GitHub CEO, (Satya is not bothered anymore) and human employees not looking, Tay and Zoe are at the helm ruining GitHub with their broken AI generated fixes.
by dangus | 2026-02-02 22:53:41+00:00
The math literally works.

The US mandates by law that we grow a fuck ton of corn to mix 10% ethanol into gasoline.

If you replaced just those cornfields with solar/wind, they would power the entire USA and a 100% electric vehicle fleet. That includes the fact that they are in the corn belt with less than ideal
sun conditions.

We aren’t even talking about any farmland that produces actual food or necessary goods, just ethanol as a farm subsidy program.

The US is already horrendously bad at land use. There’s plenty of land. There’s plenty of ability to build more grid capacity.
by QuadmasterXLII | 2026-02-02 22:54:09+00:00
plenty of them are traveling, and the extent to which you see videos of people putting together stock footage indicates failure of the algorithm. although at this point, the algorithm has failed hard enough that I am down to subscriptions and chronological feed.

Although, this larger structure did create one of my favorite internet algorithm outcomes: There is obviously intense hunger for authentic mountain videos narrated in a generic minecraft youtuber voice, and the resulting incentive gradient physically yeeted a minecraft youtuber to the top of mount everest (https://www.youtube.com/@RyanMitchellYT)
by fooker | 2026-02-02 22:54:39+00:00
> in what fantasy world

It is already more expensive to performance maintenance on SOCs than it is to replace them. Remember, these machines are not for serving a database, there are practically no storage needs (and storage is the component that fails most often.)

Given that, the main challenge is cooling, I assume that will be figured out before yeeting 100 billion $ of computers into space. Plenty of smart people work at these companies.
by comex | 2026-02-02 22:54:52+00:00
That's true, but length is a good proxy for three of the biggest difficulties faced by LLMs when coding:

1. Ability to take large amounts of information into consideration, specifically large codebases (longer tasks usually involve larger codebases). LLMs struggle with this due to context window limitations.

2. Ability to make and execute on long-term plans. Also related to context window limitations, as well as what for a human would be called "executive functioning skills".

3. Consistency. If you have an x% chance to get stuck on each step of a multi-step task, then the more steps, the higher the failure rate. This is true for both LLMs and humans, but LLMs tend to have more random failures, both due to hallucinations and due to being worse at recovering if their initial attempt fails (they can have a hard time remembering what they're supposed to do differently).

These difficulties seem to generalize beyond coding to almost any kind of knowledge work. A system that could solve them all would be, if not AGI, at least a heck of a lot closer.
by lovidico | 2026-02-02 22:54:55+00:00
A trend at the moment is to just hope for the best in cubesats and other small satellites in LEO. If you’re below the radiation belt it’s apparently tenable. I worked somewhere designing satellite hardware for LEO and we simply opted to use consumer ARM hardware with a special OS with core level redundancy / consensus to manage bit flips. Obviously some problems will present for AI there… but there are arguably bigger problems with AI data centres like the fact that they offer almost no benefit with respects to the costs of putting and maintaining stuff in space!
by zamadatix | 2026-02-02 22:54:59+00:00
Nintendo is one of the three 1/3 owners in The Pokemon Company and an early investor in Niantic. I'd be curious how much was actually confusion as to who is making money vs just a normal hype cycle. I'd also be curious how much the game itself made the various owners vs what Nintendo made on the general interest in other Pokemon games/merchandise from the launch.

At the very least, the stock looks to have shot up for most of the launch month with the peak not occuring until July 18th and the stock still being significantly higher at the end of the month https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NTDOY/history/?period1=14673...
by vel0city | 2026-02-02 22:55:23+00:00
Ah, ok, I get what you're saying now. Thanks for the clarification. USDA site is confusing when it says "nearly 45 percent of total corn use".

Still, one wonders if we'd bother with so much of our fields going to grow corn if the main use was just DDGS. I wonder how the economics of everything else in the corn industry would change if we stopped requiring E10.
by spikels | 2026-02-02 22:55:26+00:00
The $44B Twitter/X buyout was not a failure. For example Fidelity has its $19M investment in the buyout - now xAI common shares - marked at $62M (up over 3X) as of 12/31/25. It was certainly valued even higher on 1/31/26 after xAI had an oversubcribed fund raise in January. All before this merger announcement.
by dheera | 2026-02-02 22:55:30+00:00
This. Even Linux is nasty. Qt and GTK are both horrible messes to use.

It would be nice if someone made a way to write desktop apps in JavaScript with a consistent, cross-platform modern UI (i.e. swipe to refresh, tabs, beautiful toggle switches, not microscopic check boxes) but without resorting to rendering everything inside a bloated WebKit browser.
by aucisson_masque | 2026-02-02 22:55:59+00:00
In France we had such api available for decades, many apps are using it and there are a lot of people using them.

I don't know if your experience is from British people but it looks like they just didn't have the mean to effectively compare fuel prices.

Once they do, there is a significant part of the British drivers that will most likely be using it.
by its_magic | 2026-02-02 22:56:15+00:00
Location: north Alabama

Remote: yes, please

Willing to relocate: for a "too good to refuse" offer, perhaps, depending on locale; otherwise no

Technologies: Linux, C, C++, Chrome/Chromium, the written word

Email: domain: killthe.net - user: dave

I built my own Linux distro from scratch, starting in 2019. It now consists of over 1,500 packages at this time and cross compiles to multiple architectures. Along the way I've patched and/or forked numerous important packages including Chromium, of which I'm currently developing a highly customized and slimmed down version. Other projects include a custom bootloader, initrd, init system, shell, libc, and window manager.

If this sort of talent is what you require for your project, please get in touch. No crypto or AI companies, please. (Unless you're developing your own proprietary or open source AI.) I am self directed and would be a great person to put in charge of something.

Anyone in the Huntsville area?
by suriya-ganesh | 2026-02-02 22:56:26+00:00
I don't know what to say.

I did my graduate in Privacy Engineering and it was just layers and layers of threat modeling and risk mitigation. When the mother of all risk comes. People just give the key to their personal lives without even thinking about it.

At the end of the day, users just want "simple" and security, for obvious reasons is not simple. So nobody is going to respect it
by pkb | 2026-02-02 22:56:44+00:00
Location: Ireland, EU
Remote: Yes (have worked exclusively remotely for past 6 years), hybrid possible
Willing to relocate: Depends on specifics
Technologies:
- Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, Gentoo, LFS)
- Virtualization (VMWare ESXi, KVM)
- Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Databases (MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL)
- Automation (Ansible, FAI)
- Scripting (Bash, Python)
- Misc (OpenAFS, NFS, Kerberos, OpenLDAP, DNS (Bind), git, iptables, OpenVPN, Zabbix, Nagios, AMANDA, Bacula, Postfix, Sendmail, Apache, Nginx, Munin, Monit, Grafana, OSSIM, OSSEC/Wazuh, AlienVault USM Anywhere, AWS, Azure)
Résumé/CV: available by e-mail
Email: pk.b@interia.pl
by jll29 | 2026-02-02 22:56:46+00:00
Installing the binary on a Mac succeeds, but then:

% msgvault init-db
dyld: Symbol not found: _SecTrustCopyCertificateChain
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/msgvault (which was built for Mac OS X 15.0)
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security

zsh: abort msgvault init-db
% msgvault add-account ****@gmail.com
dyld: Symbol not found: _SecTrustCopyCertificateChain
Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/msgvault (which was built for Mac OS X 15.0)
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security

zsh: abort msgvault add-account ****@gmail.com
by Neywiny | 2026-02-02 22:56:55+00:00
Not to be an Elon defender, but can you back up your 0.15/ton? My own searching puts ROSA orders of magnitude higher. Each array is 600kg (0.6t) and puts out 20kw (https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/irosa-1.htm) which makes 20/0.6 = 33.333 kw/ton
by Spivak | 2026-02-02 22:56:59+00:00
I mean yeah… getting cars into your city is like the whole point. Cars are filled with people and people work and spend money. Specifically outside money. This is a city that has no subway or rail, vehicles are the only means of moving people. If you rip out the parking you won't get a vibrant walkable downtown, people won't start taking the bus, demand rail or move downtown because "the downtown area" just isn't that valuable of a destination. You will get a dead downtown. In a sad twist of fate when your "business district" doesn't have the capacity to absorb workers commuting or people going out on nights and weekends you'll see commercial buildings spread out even more to areas that can. Little pockets of nightlife and office space crop up next to newly built 5 over 1 apartments with plenty of parking built adjacent to major suburbs.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-02 22:57:00+00:00
I dunno, that's always bothered me, too.

I don't buy the cost argument. It's a one-time NRE, same as the product itself. You scan the original label once, modify text as required, print a million of them. Job done.

The only explanation I can come up with is that it must be related to why spam emails are so easy to spot. They don't want to fool the guy who knows enough to rigorously test the fake and demand a refund, they want to filter for the people who don't know how to spot a fake from the label because those people are less likely to investigate and try getting a refund.

Though honestly I don't really buy that either. I dunno.
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-02 22:57:11+00:00
> And it's certainly understandable that someone who knows how to repair things based on mechanical linkages would rebel against digital electronics.

They're pretty right to be incensed that something that used to take one skill set now takes two.

>. We shouldn't really be scared by a extra sensors, a CAN bus, and an embedded controller - assuming all of these things are openly documented and usable with freedom-preserving systems

At what cost? For what benefit to the user?

>. In fact we should welcome them, as extra telemetry can help avoid downtime and effect repairs.

Oh, great, so the someone at the OEM can decide my model correlates with a higher $$ use and jack up parts cost. I don't trust you not to do this and I don't even own a tractor. Someone in middle america who's been on the receiving end of the raw deal that the "educated" classes have been peddling for the past 40yr has even less reason to allow your telemetry.
by troyvit | 2026-02-02 22:57:32+00:00
One of the things this article doesn't cover is how resistant to "non-lethal" ammunition these gas masks are. That's something to keep in mind if you want to take this article seriously. Looking at the Mira Tactical Gas Mask CM-6M referenced in the article though, they do say that their mask does comply with EN 168 impact protection, which includes that kind of ammunition. Here's a Nieman Lab article that is related: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/what-a-safety-expert-think...
by eldenring | 2026-02-02 22:57:40+00:00
Yeah the main benefits are:

1. solar is very efficient at generating energy, no moving parts, simple physics etc.

2. in space you don't deal with weather or daylight cycle, you can just point your panels at the sun and generate very stable energy, no batteries required

3. environmental factors are simpler, no earthquakes, security, weather. Main problem here is radiation

In theory its a very elegant way to convert energy to compute.
by schiffern | 2026-02-02 22:57:57+00:00
If you think the primary source of electricity is solar (which clearly Musk does), then space increases the amount of compute per solar cell by ~5x, and eliminates the relatively large battery required for 24/7 operation. The thermal radiators and radiation effects are manageable.

The basic idea of putting compute in space to avoid inefficiently beaming back the power goes back to NASA in the 60s, but the problem was always the high cost to orbit. Clearly Musk expects Starship will change that.
by Youden | 2026-02-02 22:58:06+00:00
Even LFP batteries can work out better.

I live in Switzerland where these are available. A Cowa 58 [0] costs CHF 4692 [1] and stores up to 13.5kWh. If you're heating the water with a heat pump, that's ~6kWh of electricity, so ~CHF 782/kWh.

I'm in the process of installing a 33kWh battery and the battery + inverter cost CHF 13600 in total for just the hardware, so ~CHF 482/kWh.

If you add solar panels, the inverter does double-duty producing AC from both the battery and the panels. The battery does double-duty producing both hot water and allowing you to use solar energy outside the times when the sun is shining.

That said, having ordered a heat pump recently and being in the process of having solar + batteries installed, the amount of electrical work needed for the solar/battery install is substantially higher than was needed for the heat pump and here, the labour costs quite a lot, pushing the upfront cost difference even higher.

I think that's where these heat storage things fit in: they have a much lower upfront cost. No matter how cheap the battery, for it to be useful in a Swiss residence, it needs to output a substantial amount of 3-phase power (3-phase is standard here, even in most apartments), which means you need to spend a couple thousand Francs on an inverter and electrical work. These heat storage devices are quite cheap and don't even need someone qualified to handle refrigerants, I imagine they could be installed by a normal plumber.

That reduced upfront cost makes them far more accessible than electrical batteries, at least for now.

[0]: https://www.cowa-ts.com/uploads/files/Dokumente/Datenblaette...

[1]: https://nettoheizungshop.ch/Cowa-COMPACT-Cell-58
by ggm | 2026-02-02 22:58:13+00:00
posted this at ars forum: (it should be clear I think it was a stupid move by the WH, but I am trying to think what might have "informed" it)

Steelmanning the risks, its the link to mainland as a weakness in supply chain of power, compared to onshore sources possibly. But, the construction is in close water, well inside the exclusive economic zone. You would think passage of a craft capable of causing a power shock with an anchor chain was raising hackles well before this, because it's hugely unusual for a warcraft of another nation to be that close without an explicit permit. Under the Jones act, all inshore commercial craft delivering goods to and from named ports have to be US badged, for international shipping it's clear from the baltic there's a concrete risk, but that's a matter of policing the boats, not banning the structures at risk.

A second steelman might be some belief about the intermittency. Thats easily knocked over because the system as a whole is building out storage and continuity systems, is adapting to a mix of technology with different power availability throughout the day, and of all the sources of power, wind is one of the most easily predicted to a useful window forward. You know roughly when a dunkelflaut is expected inside 48h, if you don't know exactly when, or for how long. Thats well north of the spin-up time for alternative (dirty) sources of power, if your storage capacity isn't there yet to handle it.