MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vee-kay | 2026-02-08 06:19:33+00:00
mRNA vaccines are the new dangerous experiment in Pharma.

https://www.sciencealert.com/largest-covid-vaccine-study-eve...

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/study-largely-confirms-kno...

It is awesome that India blocked these dangerous vaccines to be sold in India.

In fact, did you know?..
The Western Big Pharma companies got full indemnity in USA, UK, Europe and many other nations for their COVID vaccines. This means that they cannot be sued for any impacts (loss of life, side effect, hospitalization bills, loss of job, etc.) caused by those vaccines.

But when those Western Big Pharma companies wanted to sell their unproven mRNA-based COVID vaccines in India, the Modi government refused to give them any indemnity, because even the Indian (non-mRNA) COVID vaccine manufactures did not get indemnity.

So the Western Big Pharma finally decided not to sell their COVID vaccines in India, because they KNEW their vaccines and technology (mRNA based vaccine) were unproven and could kill or hurt (side effects).

But the cowardly Western Big Pharma had their revenge. They lobbied with the Western powers and got bans imposed on India's COVID vaccines to be sold in the Western nations.

Ironically, India is the only nation that gave its lifesaving COVID vaccines for free or at discounts to poor or developing nations!

Whereas the uber rich Western powers and their greedy powerful Big Pharma were hoarding their COVID vaccines and refused to give them freely to the poor nations.

Thus, when the world suffered one of its worst crisis ever, it was India that stood tall as a beacon of hope and support to the world.

It is no wonder that PM Modi is the most respected world leader now. He is refusing to bow down to bullies, and he is helping the weak.
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-08 06:19:37+00:00
The only situation where you'd need to type a full path is when you have a name collision. But the suggestion to not worry about collisions with unknown system binaries also said to put the script folder first. In that situation running the script doesn't need a full path, and you won't be running the unknown system binary. So you won't be typing full paths.

Please explain the non-explicit suggestion you see, because I don't see it.

It's clear that "adding your script directory in front of the PATH" means a one time edit to .bashrc or equivalent, right? In normal use you're not typing it.
by bawolff | 2026-02-08 06:20:53+00:00
> Back in 2021, a study in Nature Geosciences showed that the AMOC was the weakest it’s been in more than 1,000 years.

Out of curiosity, what happened 1000 years ago to make it so weak? 1000 years ago is still human time scales - there were people living in europe and north america at the time. We have written records from the europeans at least. Its not like this was 100,000 years ago.
by mrbeep | 2026-02-08 06:22:05+00:00
Genuine question: what does this offer that OpenClaw doesn't already do?

You're using the same memory format (SOUL.md, MEMORY.md, HEARTBEAT.md), similar architecture... but OpenClaw already ships with multi-channel messaging (Telegram, Discord, WhatsApp), voice calls, cron scheduling, browser automation, sub-agents, and a skills ecosystem.

Not trying to be harsh — the AI agent space just feels crowded with "me too" projects lately. What's the unique angle beyond "it's in Rust"?
by aqme28 | 2026-02-08 06:23:22+00:00
Yes, the title is exaggerated. But I think a lot of you are underestimating the societal impact of roughly half a billion climate refugees. That kind of destabilization could easily lead to societal collapse, world war, etc...

The Syrian refugee crisis meant something like a million people fleeing into Europe and it caused massive political upheavals.
by jaytaylor | 2026-02-08 06:23:41+00:00
(DTU creator here)

I did have an initial key insight which led to a repeatable strategy to ensure a high level of fidelity between DTU vs. the official canonical SaaS services:

Use the top popular publicly available reference SDK client libraries as compatibility targets, with the goal always being 100% compatibility.

You've also zeroed in on how challenging this was: I started this back in July (as one of many projects, at any time we're each juggling 3-8) with only Sonnet 3.5, and a lot of the work wasn't glamorous. It was a lot of grinding. Especially Slack, in some ways Slack was more challenging to get right than all of G-Suite (!), which I found surprising.

Now I'm part way through reimplementing the entire DTU in Rust (v1 was in Go) and with gpt-5.2 for planning and gpt-5.3-codex for execution it's significantly less human effort.

Imo the most novel part to this story is Navan's Attractor and corresponding NLSpec. It already has several working implementations in less than 24 hours since it was released, one of which is even open source [0].

[0] https://github.com/danshapiro/kilroy
by hibikir | 2026-02-08 06:23:59+00:00
With Claude code I live in plan mode, and ask it to hand me the implementation plan at the low level, with alternatives. It's rare for it to not give me good ones: Better than the junior dev. Then the plan it has is already limited enough that, along with its ability to maintain code style, I will see code very similar to what I would have done. There are a couple of things in the .md file to try to make it take a step or two like the ones I would on naming, shrinking the diff, and refactoring for deduplication. It's not going to go quite as fast as trusting it all to work at a large scale, but it sure looks like my code in the end.
by eastbound | 2026-02-08 06:24:57+00:00
There’s barely any debate, people don’t answer each other; It’s rather about invoking the wonder and imagination of everyone’s brain. Like spatial conquest or an economic crisis: It will change everything but you can’t do anything immediately about it, and everyone tries to understand what it will change so they can adapt. It’s more akin to 24hrs junk news cycle, where everything is presented as an alert but your tempted to listen because it might affect you.
by XenophileJKO | 2026-02-08 06:26:01+00:00
As someone that agenticly codes A LOT. Detailed specs are not required, but certainly one way to use the systems.

If you are going to do a big build out of something, spec up front at least to have a clear idea of the application architectural boundaries.

If you are adding features to a mature code base, then the general order of the day is: First have the Ai scout all the code related to the thing you are changing. Then have it give you a summary of its general plan of action. Then fire it off and review the results (or watch it, less needed now though).

For smaller edits or even significant features, I often just give it very short instructions of a few sentences, if I have done my job well the code is fairly opinionated and the models pick up the patterns well and I don't really have to give much guidance. I'll usually just ask for a few touchups like introdusing some fluent api nicities.

That being said, I do tend to make a few surgical requests of the AI when I review the PR, usually around abraction seams.

(For my play projects I don't even look at the code any more unless I hit a wall, and I haven't really hit a wall since Opus 4.5, though I do have a material physics simulator that Opus 4.5 wrote that runs REALLY slow that I should muck around in, but I'm thinking of seeing if Opus 4.6 can move it to the GPU by itself first.)

So if I were doing an interview with an interview question. I would probably do a "let's break down what we know", "what can we apply to this", "ok. let's start with x" and then iterate quickly and look at the code to validate as needed.
by Suppafly | 2026-02-08 06:26:21+00:00
It's self selected so much as you clicking "yes" when it asks if you are ok with the client submitting your data, it's not a survey in the sense that you have to take time out of your day to answer it. If anything linux is probably over represented, so seeing the number go down is concerning for anyone that hopes for linux to be a viable alternative for mainstream users.
by sandGorgon | 2026-02-08 06:26:31+00:00
Yeah...so in India, the GLP patent owners went to court. however, it was deemed as patent expired in March 2026.

In anycase, India generally doesnt honor product patents for pharma. Right now, Indian pharma cos are court empowered to churn out GLP-1.

Everyone knows that we are gonna have 10$ GLP-1 before 2027 coming out of India.
by jazzyjackson | 2026-02-08 06:28:39+00:00
IMHO it doesn't make sense, financially and resource wise to run local, given the 5 figure upfront costs to get an LLM running slower than I can get for 20 USD/m.

If I'm running a business and have some number of employees to make use of it, and confidentiality is worth something, sure, but am I really going to rely on anything less then the frontier models for automating critical tasks? Or roll my own on prem IT to support it when Amazon Bedrock will do it for me?
Show HN: Hacker Newspaper – Yet another HN front end optimized for mobile
by robertlangdon | 2026-02-08 06:29:45+00:00
I was trying to find better content (doom) scrolling sources (quit Instagram, YouTube, etc). HN was great but I couldn't read properly on my phone hence I built Hacker Newspaper -- a mobile first HN reader.

Key things:
- Mobile-first, newspaper-style UI
- Tap goes to comments, not article
- Nested threads that don't get crushed on small screens

Still WIP, would love some feedback. Thanks!
by vee-kay | 2026-02-08 06:30:49+00:00
The concept of "police" came up through "private militia" hired as.

Most of the world enjoys 5-day workweek (40 hours work per week).

But the world got this work schedule only due to workers (mostly working in mines and railways) and labor unionists who fought and died for favourable work conditions and fair working schedule.

The rich elites even sent Pinkertons to assassinate the "rebel" leaders.

It was Henry Ford who finally saw the writing on the wall, and he announced the 40-hours workweek in his company, and thus ushered in the modern era of work-life balance.
by Suppafly | 2026-02-08 06:31:09+00:00
>At that point I was looking at a costly upgrade to one of the Android flagships, or an iPhone, of which I chose the latter.

That's your personal decision though, you don't need a flagship android phone to have the latest versions of android. I pretty much never spend more than $100-150 for android phones and they always support all the normal MFA apps.
Show HN: SAA – A minimal shell-as-chat agent using only Bash
by mrvmochi | 2026-02-08 06:34:11+00:00
I wrote this purely out of frustration. Claude Code recently started making my terminal lag, Codex keeps flickering, and the Gemini CLI just spams deprecation warnings. I wanted something dead simple.

SAA (Single Action Agent) is a Go binary that turns your shell into a chat interface. It has no fancy UI and gives the agent only one tool: bash.

I started this as a half-joke PoC, but I was surprised to find that even local LLMs (running GLM-4.7-Flash UDQ4) handle "Bash is all you need" remarkably well. It keeps sessions in a hidden directory and stays out of your way.

Is anyone else building minimal ecosystems around this "shell-as-chat" concept? I'd love to hear about interesting wrapper scripts or ideas.
Show HN: 83K lines of C++ – cryptocurrency written from scratch, not a fork
by kristianXXI | 2026-02-08 06:34:48+00:00
I spent weeks writing a full cryptocurrency implementation from scratch. Not a fork of Bitcoin or any existing codebase – 83,000 lines of original C++20.

Technical choices:
- Equihash (200,9) for PoW – memory-hard, ASIC-resistant
- Keccak-256 for all hashing – chose this over SHA-256 after doing my own cryptanalysis
- UTXO model, 10-minute blocks, 21M supply cap
- Actor model for P2P networking

The SHA-256 research: I found distinguishers up to 23 rounds using differential cryptanalysis. At 17 rounds, a single-bit delta in w15 creates a 7-bit near-collision. Full diffusion only happens at round 24. This influenced my decision to use Keccak-256 instead.

Network is live with 9+ nodes across Seoul, Virginia, France. A community member in France already built a block explorer without being asked.

Built with AI assistance (Claude). Happy to answer questions about the architecture or the SHA-256 analysis.
by Nextgrid | 2026-02-08 06:36:33+00:00
The bad actors here are the social media platforms who host and promote divisive content since it generates more engagement thus ad revenue. Those are very much in reach of law enforcement and regulations can be passed to forbid such engagement-maximizing behavior. Simply moving back to chronological feeds of accounts the user explicitly chose to follow would be a big first step in curbing the spread of propaganda.
by globalnode | 2026-02-08 06:37:10+00:00
im sure the responsibility for fixing everything will fall on all of us. maybe if we get another bin with a new coloured lid we can get busy sorting all our plastics into soft, hard, transparent, semi-opaque, labelled, bought before tuesday, stored in the fridge, etc... some busywork for the masses ought to fix things up. heavy fines and moral outrage if you dont comply! carbon credits will ofc play a big role in industries' response, and gatekeepers of public policy will make a lot of money.
by orbital-decay | 2026-02-08 06:37:59+00:00
>It’s not just about non-determinism

I'm very specifically addressing prompt reproducibility mentioned above, because it's a notorious red herring in these discussions. What you want is correctness, not determinism/reproducibility which is relatively trivial. (although thinking of it more, maybe not that trivial... if you want usable repro in the long run, you'll have to store the model snapshot, the inference code, and make it deterministic too)

>A one word difference in a spec can and frequently does produce unrecognizably different output.

This is well out of scope for the reproducibility and doesn't affect it in the slightest. And for practical software development this is also a red herring, the real issue is correctness and spec gaming. As long as the output is correct and doesn't circumvent the intention of the spec, prompt instability is unimportant, it's just the ambiguous nature of the domain LLMs and humans operate in.
Show HN: A calculus course with an AI tutor watching the lectures with you
by apoogdk | 2026-02-08 06:39:43+00:00
We're two PhD students in mechanical engineering. We spent years digging through scattered textbooks and YouTube rabbit holes. We figured there could be a better way to learn.

So we wrote a multivariable calculus course entirely in code: 18 lectures, 6 languages. All content and pedagogy are ours. As everything is code, we can feed the LLM the full context of every lecture. Ask a question mid-lecture, it knows what's on the screen, and answers from the actual content.

The recent Coursera/Udemy thread echoed a lot of what pushed us to build this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301346

Would love feedback, especially on the tutor.
by YZF | 2026-02-08 06:40:20+00:00
Well, I made my predictions. Let's come back in a few years.

Netscape didn't attack Microsoft's business software, operating systems or other pieces of their offerings.

Google also didn't seriously attack Microsoft's business.

And neither had the capability to build large software very fast.

Google is both a software company and an infrastructure company as is Microsoft today. Their software is going to become more of a commodity but their data centers still have value (even perhaps more value since all this new software needs a place to run). It's true that if you're in the business of hosting software and selling SaaS you have an advantage over a competitor who does not host their own software.
by zkmon | 2026-02-08 06:41:18+00:00
As long as things gradual enough, similar to Roman empire collapse, you wouldn't even recognize the collapse. So it hardly matters.

Any change is seen as good or bad, only by the people who saw both ends of it and categorize the change as such. If a change happens through multiple generations, each generations sees only a part of the change. Specially the younger population can only see the change through the past decade or two. That explains why the youth are always merrier than the older folks who have a bigger burden of mempries.
by ryanrasti | 2026-02-08 06:41:34+00:00
I resonate strongly with your framing. LLMs as suggestion engines, deterministic layer for execution.

I'm building something similar with security as the focus: deterministic policy that agents can't bypass (regardless of prompt injection). Same principle - deterministic enforcement guiding a probabalistic base.

Would love to hear more about your use case. What kinds of enterprise workflows are you targeting? Is security becoming a blocker?
by tombert | 2026-02-08 06:42:17+00:00
I think I know this feeling well.

At the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024, I lost about 60lbs, and it was a basic calorie counting thing. For me, it wasn't too hard; I was able to get used to the hunger and after about a month the feeling of wanting to eat all the time was somewhat tolerable.

In May of 2024, I started taking Pristiq, and one of the side effects is a huge increase in appetite. Like you said, I would feel "full" in the sense that my stomach wouldn't fit anymore matter, but I was always hungry and pretty much perpetually craving sweets. I would get a whole large pizza for lunch, a large meal at Popeyes for dinner, and chase it down with snack cakes, and I would still be "hungry" the entire time.

I managed to undo all the progress I had made with my dieting and a bit extra, and it was kind of weird. It's not really "hard" to know what to do. Obviously everyone knows to eat less processed food, focus more on protein and fiber, etc, but despite me "knowing" this, it was strangely hard to actually do it.

I'm very thankful that I found out about Metformin. I'm not diabetic and never have been, but it's prescribed off-label for weight loss, and according to my doctor it can be useful in the particular case of "canceling out the appetite-increase from medication", and to my surprise it worked shockingly well. I'm still not quite down to my diet weight yet, but I'm down about 30lbs in the four months I've been taking it, and I don't really feel hungry all the time. I still enjoy eating unhealthy food, but food is considerably more transactional now: I eat food because I need energy to survive. I budget about 200 calories lower than what my smartwatch says I burn during the day. It's much easier to treat food as a more utilitarian necessity.

If anyone here is in the unfortunately situation of not having their insurance covering GLP-1 medication, I highly recommend seeing if you can get your doctor to prescribe metformin. It's been out of patent for decades and cost on the order of ~$5 a month [2] and there are very few side effects [2], so it's a relatively low-risk experiment.

[1] Not a referral link https://pharmacy.amazon.com/Metformin-Generic-Glucophage-Ext...

[2] And potential benefits apparently! https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-metformin-a-wonder-dr...
by somat | 2026-02-08 06:42:34+00:00
My finest work on the 3270 was an analog clock screensaver.

It was simultaneously the hardest and most pointless thing I have ever written.

Our interface to the mainframe was CMS/VSE on Z-OS. We never touched Z-OS and I was a little afraid to try, but on CMS there was REXX installed as a scripting language and I built an immediate mode character update library for it, mainly so I could sort of treat it like a VT instead of abusing the text editor(XEDIT if I remember correctly) as a ui toolkit like every other script there did, I never did figure out async keyboard reads, so probably had to poll like you said) and promptly did the first thing you do when you have access to an immediate mode text screen in the early 2000's, made a matrix screen saver. (no games because of the lack of async keyboard reads, so screen savers it was)

Anyhow the hard part, CMS REXX had no trig library, how was I going to do the hands on my analog clock without a trig library? So I smuggled in some printouts from the nist algorithm database(what an amazing website) on how to calculate sin, only to discover that REXX also had no exponent function, so the next night I smuggled in some printouts of how to calculate that. and some days later was the proud owner of an analog clock screen saver and perhaps the slowest most inefficient exponential and trig libraries to be found on CMS/REXX

I wish I could have saved the source, but... it was on a mainframe and really, I was just there to shuffle the tapes around, when my boss tried to warn me off of writing scripts I convinced him it was to help make our tape duties more productive, and for the most part it was.
Tech Bro Saga: big tech critique essay series
by dikobraz | 2026-02-08 06:43:04+00:00
Why Big Tech Turns Everything Into a Knife Fight - a noir-toned piece on how pressure, ambiguity, and internal competition turn routine decisions into zero-sum battles.
- https://medium.com/data-science-collective/why-big-tech-turns-everything-into-a-knife-fight-42e221944ec8

Big Tech Performance Review: How to Gaslight Employees at Scale - a sardonic look at why formal review systems often substitute process for real leadership and honest feedback.
- https://medium.com/@dmitrytrifonov/why-big-tech-leaders-destroy-value-db70bd2624cf

Why Big Tech Leaders Destroy Value: When Identity Outlives Purpose - a reflective essay on how feeling of identity overrides rationality.
- https://medium.com/data-science-collective/big-tech-performance-review-01fff2c5924d

Why Big Tech is not About Business: Power and the illusion of corporate rationality - a story about fighting for straightforward business values and still loosing.
- https://medium.com/@dmitrytrifonov/why-big-tech-is-not-about-business-a69e6a20178f
by andai | 2026-02-08 06:43:35+00:00
Haven't done much more with the boids yet (though I imagine if I continue, I will learn a thing or two!) but I have an example from another domain.

Shell scripting was something that I failed to get any real traction with for decades, and since letting AI help me write dozens of shell scripts, I find that I have gained a basic level of proficiency. (i.e. I found that I had become relatively fluent in writing them even without assistance, which surprised me!)

It ties in with the Input Hypothesis of language acquisition. More volume in = more opportunities for brain to find the patterns, and learn them naturally.

That doesn't work for the approach where you don't look at the code at all, though. Which seems to depend on your goals for the project.

For the boids thing, the math isn't something I enjoy doing manually anyway (I've done that for the last 15 years and it always felt like pulling teeth), so the main learning I'd get there would be at the applied level... How to tweak the Perlin noise to get the result I want, rather than how or why it works in the first place.
by kylehotchkiss | 2026-02-08 06:45:18+00:00
> has made it possible to design genetic sequences encoding for diverse biological applications, such as proteins

lol every time I ask Claude to whip me up a protein for this or that I hit a guardrail. I love the idea that some internet random is untrustable with an ai hallucinated amino acid sequence, as if I could encode that and stick it into my ecoli farm out back
by jasonfarnon | 2026-02-08 06:45:26+00:00
"If you are brand new to the tech world, and this is your first new product cycle, the way it works is that there is a free-cool-we're-awesomely-generous phase, and then when you are hooked and they are entrenched, the real price comes to fruition. See...pretty much every tech start-up burning runway cash."

That has indeed been the strategy, but it's not like it always or even usually works out. We've seen plenty of companies that try to raise their prices and people aren't hooked. (Though I am almost certain in this case at least professionals if not the general public will indeed be hooked.)