MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by einrealist | 2026-02-05 12:46:51+00:00
I am curious to know what he has in mind. This 'process engineering' could be a solution to problems that BPM and COBOL are trying to solve. He might end up with another formalized layer (with rules and constraints for everyone to learn) of indirection that integrates better with LLM interactions (which are also evolving rapidly).

I like the idea that 'code is truth' (as opposed to 'correct'). An AI should be able to use this truth and mutate it according to a specification. If the output of an LLM is incorrect, it is unclear whether the specification is incorrect or if the model itself is incapable (training issue, biases). This is something that 'process engineering' simply cannot solve.
by jeffcyw | 2026-02-05 12:46:57+00:00
Remember the old days where our passport is full with stamps when we travel and passing through custom? With everything going digital these days, it gets less common now and I feels like we are missing out some of these memories collection.

With this in mind, I have recently built a travel tracker that allows you to stamp on the countries/location that you've been to. And most importantly, it requires GPS verification in order for you to stamp, so all the record will be genuine. Ultimately, I would love to have travellers to be able to show off where they have been to genuinely and no cheating.

Would love to hear all of your feedback on the app!
by mike-cardwell | 2026-02-05 12:47:20+00:00
Only way I can think of protecting against this is to put a reverse proxy in front of it, like Nginx, and inject CSP headers to prevent cross site requests. Wouldn't block the NAS server side from making external calls, but would prevent your browser doing it for them as is the case here. Also would prevent stuff like Google Analytics if they have it. If you set up a proxy, you could also give it a local hostname like nas.local or something with a cert signed by your private CA that Nginx knows about, and then point the real hostname at Nginx, which has the wildcard cert.

Bit of a pain to set this all up though. I run a number of services on my home network and I always stick Nginx in front with a restrictive CSP policy, and then open that policy up as needed. For example, I'm running Home Assistant, and I have the Steam plugin, which I assume is responsible for requests from my browser like for: https://avatars.steamstatic.com/HASH_medium.jpg, which are being blocked by my injected CSP policy

P.S. I might decide to let that steam request through so I can see avatars in the UI. I also inject "Referrer-Policy: no-referrer", so if I do decide to do that, at least they wont see my HA hostname in there logs by default.
by ben_w | 2026-02-05 12:47:46+00:00
> I'm sorry, WHAT?

> I'll let you do the math on that one, because that stuff is not light weight... We're talking several kg/m minimum... Then consider payload...

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28%28%28resistivity+of...

If you're not willing to have 8 starship landings for power infrastructure, why even bother? Even with 8 landings and a magic power system, it would only be on the scale of one of the smaller Antarctic research bases.

(100 Ω is completely arbitrary, FWIW. It's a dry vacuum, so bare metal just lying on the surface could run at 1MV. Above 1.044 MV, you actually need to care about random photo-ionised electrons turning into a cascade of positron-electron pair creation events).

> You're being pretty cavalier about all the hard things... You can't just hand wave away these details because these "details" are just a fraction of what makes all of this so difficult.

I think you misunderstood me. I'm absolutely not saying "this would be easy" (nothing in space is), I'm saying "this is what my sales pitch would be".

Consider this as what I think is the MVP of being serious about the moon, that anything less than this scale is just rah-rah flag-waving.
by zotimer | 2026-02-05 12:47:50+00:00
Somehow I deleted my description when I submitted this so here it is:

I built a job application tracker that runs locally and uses Claude Code to do the tedious parts.

Paste a job posting URL, Claude scrapes the company/position/location/salary. If salary isn't listed, it searches for market data. It finds the company's HQ address too.

Tech stack:
- MCP server connects to Claude Code and acts as an app server
- Lua for all presentation and app logic (hot-reloadable with instance mutation to avoid state loss)
- HTML templates with reactive bindings (hot-reloadable, generally no code on the frontend)
- Fossil SCM for version control of your data

Everything stays on your machine in JSON + flat files. No accounts, no cloud sync.

The interesting part: because Claude Code has full access to the app's source, you can ask it to add features as you use it. "Add a field for recruiter name" or "show me applications sorted by salary": it just edits the code and it changes as you view it; normally no page refresh or backend restart needed.

Runs in the Frictionless environment (https://github.com/zot/frictionless), an MCP server for building local-first UIs with Claude Code.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture or MCP integration.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-05 12:48:36+00:00
Both my previous and current employer have some long-serving staff. One was incredibly effective because he effectively carried the entire oral history of the software system; it would have been a massive loss if he'd ever quit for some reason. Not even a union position, just has to be a "normal" company doing the normal thing of selling a product and/or service to customers rather than a stockmarket rocketship or a consultancy bodyshop.
by jmclnx | 2026-02-05 12:48:51+00:00
Not that it was already out that with past breaches. One example was the Experian breach, anyone who applied for a loan was already out there. Never mind all the other too many to count breaches that have occurred. Just now with DOGE we have 1 stop shopping.

Now that the US Gov. got to join that club we know there will be no consequences. Until execs from companies like Experian and now the US Gov. faces real Jail time, this will happen over and over.

I have not heard of a large breach from a Company for a while, are these so common that news orgs. no longer bother to report them ?
by sReinwald | 2026-02-05 12:48:52+00:00
You could, but Claude Code's memory system works well for specialized tasks like coding - not so much for a general-purpose assistant. It stores everything in flat markdown files, which means you're pulling in the full file regardless of relevance. That costs tokens and dilutes the context the model actually needs.

An embedding-based memory system (letta, mem0, or a self-built PostgreSQL + pgvector setup) lets you retrieve selectively and only grab what's relevant to the current query. Much better fit for anything beyond a narrow use case. Your assistant doesn't need to know your location and address when you're asking it to look up whether sharks are indeed older than trees, but it probably should know where you live when you ask it about the weather, or good Thai restaurants near you.
by ido | 2026-02-05 12:48:59+00:00
I honestly dont really understand age descriminating against someone in their 50s (even 59) - you've got a good chance to retire within a decade, but most people dont stay at the same job for longer than a few years anyway so why does it matter? If anything it's pretty likely you will stay for longer than average (let's say till 65-67, so 6-8 more years) cause you're less likely to want to find a new job in your 60s.
by topaz0 | 2026-02-05 12:49:22+00:00
> people simply don't care

I don't think that's right, even for laypeople. It's just that the pain of things that take 5 seconds when they could take 50 ms is subtle and can be discounted or ignored until you are doing a hundred things in a row that take 5 seconds instead of 50 ms. And if you don't know that it should be doable in 50 ms then you don't necessarily know you should be complaining about that pain.
by gcanyon | 2026-02-05 12:49:56+00:00
People have been debating what "real" development is for as long as there have been computers. "That's not real software development, you're not even controlling which registers you use!" "How can you say that's real code when you aren't even managing your own memory!" "That doesn't look like C, must not be code!" and on and on.

At the level of the old adage about whether the horse-drawn buggy-makers are in the buggy business or the transportation business, it's all telling the computer what to do in the context of providing a customized tool that you or others might use. So in this context, a customized Excel spreadsheet counts. And so does a vibe-coded app.

And of course, wringing our hands about what it looks like now totally ignores the fact that it's not going to be like this for more than a year or two at most.

How long until a user can reasonably say to Claude or similar, "I need Bob here to track production at my factory. Lay out a set of tools to do that, and make sure they're layered with help and tutorials so Bob can learn on the job because he doesn't know anything. Don't let him make any mistakes."

That's probably not coming next year, but certainly it's not ten years away.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-05 12:50:16+00:00
> You are however not allowed to give any feedback whatsoever about their processes, priorities, organization, promotion strategies, retention policies, etc.

Ironically, the only people who have social permission to do that are extremely expensive Big Name outside consultants. Who will then do one of two things: either speak to the staff, collate what they have to say, and launder it back to the boss; or produce a thinly veiled adaptation of whatever business book the CEO last read in an airport.
by jraph | 2026-02-05 12:52:15+00:00
"Meant to" may indeed not be really accurate.

However, domains and host names were not designed to be particularly private and should not be considered secret, many things don't consider them private, so you should not put anything sensible in a host name, even in a network that's supposed private. Unless your private network is completely air-gapped.

Now, I wouldn't be surprised that hostnames were in fact originally expected to be explicitly public.
by lukan | 2026-02-05 12:52:16+00:00
We have the web, we don't need ruffle, what we need is indeed a open source flash editor. Wick editor was quite close, by outputting standalone html files

https://www.wickeditor.com/

Of course, not at all on the same level like flash was, but some parts worked really nice.

Unfortunately it is abandoned. (I thought about taking it up, but would require lots of effort, basically rewriting core parts)
by null_deref | 2026-02-05 12:52:32+00:00
So that’s generally my train of thought, but from what I know there were serious vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH throughout the years, doesn’t it increase the risk for open ssh port or were the vulnerabilities discovered never touched those areas of ssh authentication. Seems to me that tools like tailscale and so on aren’t open to this sort of risk but I definitely can be wrong
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2026-02-05 12:52:41+00:00
Wow!

I've never heard of this guy before, but I see he's got 5M YouTube subscribers, which I guess is the clout you need to have Apple loan (I assume) you $50K worth of Mac Studios!

I'll be interesting to see how model sizes, capability, and local compute prices evolve.

A bit off topic, but I was in best buy the other day and was shocked to see 65" TVs selling for $300 ... I can remember the first large flat screen TVs (plasma?) selling for 100x that ($30K) when they first came out.
by Neywiny | 2026-02-05 12:52:54+00:00
This is very true and why I'm not liking that Xilinx is trying to go the other way. It really gets in the way and doesn't work. I know what's connected to what and how, but their system device tree generator doesn't and it yells really loud about that. And I don't even need a device tree, just xparameters.h
by munksbeer | 2026-02-05 12:53:01+00:00
> Came here to say this. Nobody is saying "I want to work forever", we're saying "can we not replace work while our entire global civilization is predicated on working to survive?"

This lacks imagination. If AI ever does get good enough to replace that much human work, we'll just have to drastically change, and we will. We're much better off than humans were even 100 years ago, never mind before that. Why are people so utterly pessimistic?
by llamajams | 2026-02-05 12:53:36+00:00
Same. I stopped reading after that. I get the sense that most of these people thing all code is web or mobile or something non critical. Granted im not a web or mobile guy so I cant presume the complexity, risk, cost of such things. But I assume its in a different category than safety/mission critical things. I do dev tools for ASIL-B systems devs now and even then I cant say im comfortable not reading the generated code. Some of my junior peers are though, and im very frustrated that I feel like I keep having to play AI janitor, dont think the bosses care.
by cxr | 2026-02-05 12:53:40+00:00
> Typescript is moving to go because you just cannot get performance out of javascript because of its design.

That's not an accurate summary. An accurate summary is that:

- They can't get the performance they want out of V8

- They're are moving to Go because its design is similar enough to JS that they can do a line-by-line port

These aren't similar claims (or mere quibbling) compared to what you wrote. They're very nearly exact opposites.
by subscribed | 2026-02-05 12:54:02+00:00
OS security was in the previous step:

> Intellexa also uses malicious ads on third-party platforms to fingerprint visitors and redirect those who match its target profiles to its exploit delivery servers.

-- https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/12/leaks-show-in...

Not blocking ads is bordering a self-destructive behaviour now.
by wiether | 2026-02-05 12:54:42+00:00
OVH VPS is not the same as say, AWS EC2.

It's their "Compute" under "Public Cloud" that is competing against AWS EC2.
https://us.ovhcloud.com/public-cloud/compute/

They handled the fire terribly and after that they improved a bit, but an OVH VPS is just a VM running on a single piece of hardware.
Quite not the same thing as the "Compute" which is running on clusters.
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by pjc50 | 2026-02-05 12:55:07+00:00
> agencies will gladly throw people at a problem regardless of the skills list, as long as the team learns to swim fast enough.

I did a few years at a company which was "product development consultancy", and this aspect of it was really enjoyable. We got a set of diverse challenges through the door, often "virtual startups" (CEO hiring consultants rather than staff in order to do v1 of a product). The company was basically a single room, and we had two senior guys (the founders) to review work and support us. Plus one "smartest guy in the room" who served as mathematician fire-support for things like signal processing or the rare actual DS&A problem.
by mooreds | 2026-02-05 12:55:18+00:00
> The problem is all these SaaS companies have cut costs so much that all their support has been reduced to useless offshore at best and at worst a chatbot.

Tremendous opportunity announcement!

If you are building a dev-focused SaaS, treat your support team exactly as they are: a key part of the product. Just like docs or developer experience, the support experience is critical.

Trouble is, it's hard to quantify the negative experience, though tracking word of mouth referrals or NPS scores can try.
by dahcryn | 2026-02-05 12:55:22+00:00
they somehow made it worse and use a less capable version with smaller context window.

The only potential upside for businesses it that it can crawl onedrive/sharepoint, and acts as a glorious search machine in your mailbox and files.

That's the only thing really valuable to me, everything else is not working as it should. The outlook integration sucks, the powerpoint integration is laughably bad to being worthless, and the excel integration is less useful than Clippy.

I actually prefer using the "ask" function of github copilot through visual studio code over using the company provided microsoft copilot portal
by YannBuilds | 2026-02-05 12:55:33+00:00
Fair point, and thanks for the feedback. I definitely don’t want to "trap" anyone.

The intent was to let people play with the engine and see the actual value before asking for anything. I personally find it frustrating when AI tools require a credit card just to see a preview.

I’ll look into adding a small "Free preview / $49 to export" hint near the generation button to set expectations earlier.

Regarding the price, I went with a one-time payment because, as a developer, I’m tired of every utility tool becoming a $19/mo subscription. One brand, one fee, you own the code.
by anhner | 2026-02-05 12:55:38+00:00
It certainly should have been a feature up until now. However, I think at this point anyone can clone your voice and bypass it.

But as a user I want to be able to give it permission to run selected commands even with the phone locked. Like I don't care if someone searches google for something or puts a song via spotify. If I don't hide notifications when locked, what does it matter that someone who has my phone reads them or listens to them?
by loveparade | 2026-02-05 12:56:25+00:00
But can't you do the same using appropriate MCP servers with any of the LLM providers? Even just a generic browser MCP is probably enough to do most of these things. And ChatGPT has Tasks that are also proactive/scheduled. Not sure if Claude has something similar.

If all you want to do is schedule a task there are much easier solutions, like a few lines of python, instead of installing something so heavy in a vm that comes with a whole bunch of security nightmares?
by rini17 | 2026-02-05 12:56:54+00:00
Fancy web interfaces are road to hell. Do simplest thing that works. Plain apache or nginx with webdav, basic auth(proven code, minimal attack surface). Maybe firewall with ip_hashlimit on new connections. I have it set to 2/minute and for browser it's actually fine, while moronic bots make new connection for every request. When they improve, there's always fail2ban.

That the nas server incl. hostname is public does not bother me then.
by suby | 2026-02-05 12:56:59+00:00
I would have a very hard time accepting it to be true. They don't even strongly make the claim that it is true, they are correlating areas of the brain associated with memory as growing larger, and they are associating a larger brain area with better cognition, but later in the article indicate that there are some areas of the brain which are associated with memory which actually shrink.

I think we should question research which is overwhelmingly against our common experience of life. My memory is absolutely shot when I am consuming weed regularly. It's not particularly subtle, it is noticeably worse. I suppose there is room for a situation in which it is worse while I am heavily using, but if I were to cease maybe it will rebound and settle at a point which is better than it would have been had I not consumed any cannabis... but I don't see any reason to believe this.
by laurentiurad | 2026-02-05 12:57:51+00:00
Where are all these 1000 competitors coming from?

You need to have tremendous agency/will to start competing with a public company. Plus, you need to have a lot of distribution channels, competing with sales people that do this for a living since ages, and marketing budgets that are higher than your annual Claude spending.

Regular people do not press 10 clicks daily to track their calories, and you're saying that they will start competing with Salesforce and the like?
by throw0101a | 2026-02-05 12:58:04+00:00
> The bar has been significantly lowered in the last year since the US has decided to commit bigly to unpredictability.

The yuan/renminbi is currently about 8.5% of all foreign currency transactions. That's on a similar to CAD and AUD (6%):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Most_traded_currencie...

It has a ways to go still.
by 112233 | 2026-02-05 12:59:06+00:00
actually, global jobserver is another unsolved thing that seems unvelievable nobody has done yet. You have server. Server spins N containers (kubes, dockers, multiple user sessions ...), each of them is building something. There is no mechanism to run batch of tasks in parallel in a way that uses available cores. Some special cases (make/ninja/gcc) work, but no general mechanism I know of
by pjc50 | 2026-02-05 12:59:23+00:00
> top 10 biggest and most profitable companies in human history are all preposterously wrong

There's another post on the front page about the 2008 financial crisis, which was almost exactly that. Investors are vulnerable to herd mentality. Especially as it's hard to be "right but early" and watch everyone else making money hand over fist while you stand back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889008
by lewispollard | 2026-02-05 13:00:01+00:00
I mean, I'm not an expert, but I immediately picked up on a few "tells" in your comment:

> People always claimed this as a data leak vector

Would usually be "People have always..."

> sceptical

"Skeptical" is preferred over "sceptical" in most parts of the world

> probably extremely shared among too many people

Slightly awkward grammar

> How people that you know could have written this reply?

"How many people"

These kinds of mistakes and/or writing styles are probably not as common as you might think when combined together into a stylometric profile over a lot of comments.
by codingdave | 2026-02-05 13:00:14+00:00
Can people add old trips to their map? Otherwise, this is more of a "where I took my phone since installing this app", not a full journal of lifetime travel. I'd also recommend offering a native or web app, so people who have collected photos over the years can upload them from a variety of devices, not just their phone.

I know that would conflict with your idea of a trip being "genuine", but that honestly seems like a silly feature to me. I'd love a journal/photo album organized by location and time, but having some app act as an authority to whether or not I'm lying about my travel? That simply doesn't seem important.