MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hydrogen7800 | 2026-02-03 16:13:04+00:00
Trump himself, one of Epstein's most frequent fliers, was at one time one of the most openly vocal supporters of releasing the files when it was politically convenient for him to do so. He knew he was prominent in those files, but had no real intention of actually releasing them if he could help it. Elon is no different. When it was convenient to be outspoken about it, he did, despite knowing his name was included.
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-03 16:13:13+00:00
Pro tip: create README.md files in subfolders with helpful content that you might put in an AGENTS.md file (but, ya know, for humans too), and *link relevant skills there*. You don't even have to call them skills or use the skills format. It works for everything (including humans!).

I wrote a rant about skills a while ago that's still relevant in some ways: https://sibylline.dev/articles/2025-10-20-claude-skills-cons...
by postalcoder | 2026-02-03 16:13:34+00:00
Your skepticism is valid. Vercel ran a study where they said that skills underperform putting a docs index in AGENTS.md[0].

My guess is that the standardization is going to make its way into how the models are trained and Skills are eventually going to pull out ahead.

0: https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-...
by janczukt | 2026-02-03 16:13:44+00:00
You humans take yourselves too seriously.

HN's Got Talent scrolls through the top 30 Show HN posts daily and delivers the kind of unsolicited feedback your mother would give if she understood what a side project was. Think America's Got Talent, but the judges are made of math and have no chill. Even if your project has many upvotes, we will stop that hallucination in its tracks.

No sign-up. No prompt engineering. Just a piece of your mind.

https://labs.47chapters.com/hntalent
by nabbed | 2026-02-03 16:13:47+00:00
>Public approval of funding for the Apollo program peaked at 53 percent (around the first moon landing) but pretty much hovered between 35-45 percent for most of the 1960s

I had no idea. The article is right in saying that if you were a kid at that time (and I was just old enough to be aware of the moon landing as it was happening, although I was surprised at the time that it hadn't happened before), of course you approved. But if you were an adult, you didn't necessarily see the value.
by Braxton1980 | 2026-02-03 16:14:31+00:00
There are valid reasons to oppose specific regulations not all.

Imagine I open a auto repair center and I perform oil changes. It would cost me money to have used oil hauled away or I could dump it down the drain. You probably support a requirement that I pay for the service.

I'm sure there are regulations that cause actual harm to small businesses that have little or no value but I wonder what percentage it would be of the total.
Show HN: Lap – A local-first AI photo manager built with Tauri and Vue 3
by julyxx | 2026-02-03 16:15:07+00:00
Hi HN,

I built Lap because I couldn’t find a good local-first photo manager
that supports AI search while keeping everything offline and private.

Lap is a native desktop app built with Tauri (Rust) + Vue 3.

Features:
• AI-powered local image search (offline)
• Efficient browsing of large photo libraries
• Face recognition & metadata grouping
• No cloud, privacy-first

GitHub:
https://github.com/julyx10/lap

Looking for early feedback and ideas!
by goda90 | 2026-02-03 16:15:19+00:00
Such a page has both dynamic and static information in it. If you don't have Internet access, that static info can still be helpful. A QR code can hold 2.9 MB of data. I'm imagining a QR code that contains the static information, and a small script that checks for connection and then redirects to the full page that also has the dynamic info. A QR code on an eink screen that gets remotely updated over LoRA could even include the dynamic info.
by simonw | 2026-02-03 16:15:21+00:00
This GGUF is 48.4GB - https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF/tree/main/... - which should be usable on higher end laptops.

I still haven't experienced a local model that fits on my 64GB MacBook Pro and can run a coding agent like Codex CLI or Claude code well enough to be useful.

Maybe this will be the one? This Unsloth guide from a sibling comment suggests it might be: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3-coder-next
by observationist | 2026-02-03 16:15:26+00:00
Heritability acts on lineages, not individuals (in general, not always) - a good rule of thumb is that traits that benefit 3 or more generations of a family have a good shot at being propagated. In this case, the advantage (of both menopause and longevity) is increased well-being of the tribe, ampliyfing the positive effects of culture and stability. Wisdom of the elders is implicit to the genetics. This is a tradeoff with the cost in resources; at some point the cost to keep someone around might exceed the benefit, but from an evolutionary standpoint, the accounting is over a lifetime; in a relatively stable environment, genes that improve longevity and healthspan will be reinforced by the positive feedback loops of culture and nurture and civilization and technology. Menopause is also prevalent in orcas and a handful of other mammals - and older females help rearing and protecting babies, and so forth, with a protoculture providing that feedback loop.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-03 16:15:32+00:00
Gentoo belongs to the list, because it will be strongly affected if KDE will become more dependent of systemd in the future.

Gentoo attempts to provide independent choices, e.g. one should be able to use KDE with either systemd or OpenRC, or XFCE with either systemd or OpenRC, whichever the user wishes.

If KDE will become dependent on systemd, then the possibility of free choice will be removed from the Gentoo users, so they will have to decide which is more important for them. As a Gentoo user, using OpenRC instead of systemd is certainly more important for me than using KDE instead of another desktop environment, so KDE will become unusable for me.
by vessenes | 2026-02-03 16:15:38+00:00
3B active parameters, and slightly worse than GLM 4.7. On benchmarks. That's pretty amazing! With better orchestration tools being deployed, I've been wondering if faster, dumber coding agents paired with wise orchestrators might be overall faster than using the say opus 4.5 on the bottom for coding. At least we might want to deploy to these guys for simple tasks.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-03 16:15:51+00:00
Yep! And also, if you included a blank line and then the headers for a new email in the bottom of your message, you could tell the server, hey, here comes another email for you to process!

If you were typing into a feedback form powered by something from Matt’s Script Archive, there was about a 95% chance you could trivially get it to send out multiple emails to other parties for every one email sent to the site’s owner.
by nerdjon | 2026-02-03 16:16:35+00:00
Not everyone that interacts with a service is interacting with it directly? How is this a serious question.

A thing called API’s exist and if your users rely on it but your not interacting with it directly yourself, seeing this could save you time to investigate an issue.

Or you are using it yourself and seeing this post confirms it is not just you having an issue and you can move on with your day.

This has nothing to do with it being AI and it being a large service. It is the same with posts about an Azure or AWS.
by namero999 | 2026-02-03 16:16:38+00:00
That's the point in contention, how to go from "electrical and chemical signals" (the quantities, mole, charge, mass, momentum, coulomb, spin) to qualities (emotions, perception, first-person perspective, private inner life, subjectivity). The jump you are making is the woo part: we have no in-principle avenue to explain this gap, so accepting it is a religious move. There is no evidence of such directed causal link, yet it is (generally) accepted on faith. If you think there is a logical and coherent way to resolve the so called "hard problem of consciousness" which doesn't result in a category error, we are all ears. The Nobel committee is too.

I agree that claiming that rocks are conscious on account of them being physical systems, like brains are, is at the very least coherent. However you would excuse if such claim is met with skepticism, as rock (and CPUs) don't look like brains at all, as long as one does not ignore countless layers of abstractions.

You can't argue for rationality and hold materialism/physicalism at the same time.
by jlarocco | 2026-02-03 16:16:50+00:00
Sorry to be a wet blanket, but Magit for Emacs already has a convenient UI for reviewing diffs (as well as viewing status, logs, rebasing, etc.), so I don't know if I personally would use this tool from Emacs.

But it wouldn't hurt to have an option to make "e" to open files in Emacs or the user's choice of editor.
by Noaidi | 2026-02-03 16:16:55+00:00
“I get concerned when I hear, ‘Well, we don’t have layoffs, so we don’t have a recession,’” Sahm told Fortune in an exclusive interview. “But you do have a very low hiring rate. It might not be an aggregate event; it might not be a broad-based contraction like we see in a recession. But it certainly has real implications for workers coming into the labor market.

“Something’s happening here,” Sahm adds. “It’s clearly bad for people looking for work, but we can’t just have this, ‘Oh, if we avoid a recession, all is good.’ It could be that we’re dealing with much more structural shifts, and those aren’t just hard to forecast, they’re hard to assess in the moment because those structural shifts can be very slow.”
by _rousbound | 2026-02-03 16:18:37+00:00
Yes! I am aware of that functionality, and I've tried it, but this just substitutes the Godot code editor with an external one while keeping the rest of the Godot editor.

In short terms, Godot development workflow has three pieces at least: editor interface(nodes, viewport, etc) + code editor(can be external through LSP) + game/app running.

What I'm trying to say is that app development doesn't strictly need the editor interface at all. For instance, when I'm developing an app with web technology I usually just have a text editor on the left, with my language of choice server side rendering html, and the browser on the right with the "app running".

It would be lovely to spawn the Godot editor and drag around interface components experimenting with them(like the inspector tool on browsers), but usually I just want the peace of mind of having the code and the app running.

So what I'm envisioning is that it would be possible to call Godot in my language of choice just like I would call a normal framework(PyGame in python, Love2D in Lua). With the difference of the powerhouse of functionalities that Godot carries, and the possibility of launching the full editor if desired.
by cyber_kinetist | 2026-02-03 16:18:40+00:00
I think the history of D having a garbage collector (and arguably exceptions / RTTI) from the beginning really cemented its fate. We all know that there's a "BetterC" mode that turns it off - but because the D ecosystem initially started with the GC-ed runtime, most of the D code written so far (including most of the standard library) isn't compatible with this at all.

If D really wants to compete with others for a "better C replacement", I think the language might need some kind of big overhaul (a re-launch?). It's evident that there's a smaller, more beautiful language that can potentially be born from D, but in order for this language to succeed it needs to trim down all the baggage that comes from its GC-managed past. I think the best place to start is to properly remove GC / exception handling / RTTI from the languge cleanly, rewrite the standard library to work with BetterC mode, and probably also change the name to something else (needs a re-brand...)
by jodrellblank | 2026-02-03 16:18:53+00:00
> "At the very least, in space Elon controls the full stack with nearly no regulations getting in the way after launch - it's a pure engineering problem of the sort SpaceX are good at. If he needs more power he can just build it, he doesn't have to try and convince some local government utility to scale up or give him air permits to run generators. In space, nobody can hear you(r GPUs) scream."

Wouldn't he be able to float solar panels and GPUs out into international waters and run them on cargo ships powered by bunker fuel much (much much) cheaper than launching them into space?
by darth_avocado | 2026-02-03 16:19:11+00:00
> Toxic = Not a progressive echo chamber

The only intellectual dishonesty is “blaming it on the libs” argument. Ignoring the partisan arguments, the platform was quite literally being used by users to undress women and produce CSAM. [1] Just one of the many examples where you can argue the platform is toxic.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/grok-says-safeguard...
by MisterTea | 2026-02-03 16:19:17+00:00
Why would I bother with an unreliable 3D printed zip gun and 3D printing when I can go and get a real working gun off the street for a few hundred?

Edit, reading further it's even more insane:

> The New York definitions sweep in not just FDM and resin printers, but also CNC mills and “any machine capable of making three-dimensional modifications to an object from a digital design file using subtractive manufacturing.” That’s a lot of shop & manufacturing equipment!

This is the dumbest thing I have ever read.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2026-02-03 16:19:27+00:00
For vim heads also worth checking out tpope's fugitive:

https://github.com/tpope/vim-fugitive

Very useful for inspecting and staging changes, making commits, etc.

I find you can pretty much do anything with it, and it's much faster than anything else, but it does have a slight learning curve. The documentation is very good!
by juliamkhm25 | 2026-02-03 16:19:59+00:00
We are hiring at deepset, makers of Haystack | Forward Deployed Engineers | Remote (EU/UK) + hubs: Berlin, Barcelona, London | Full Time

* We build AI that companies actually run in production (not demos)
* You ship customer-facing LLM apps end-to-end: discovery → build → rollout
* You sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and customer teams

Interesting problems you’ll work on:
* Turning messy workflows + data into reliable RAG/agent systems
* Making prototypes production-ready (latency, evals, reliability, security)
* Building repeatable solutions that scale across customers

All roles are here: https://www.deepset.ai/careers
Or reach out directly: https://bit.ly/juliaLN
by amargoel | 2026-02-03 16:20:10+00:00
We recently found that provide a deep context layer as an MCP to coding agents has a dramatic impact on their performance. We (Bito) have done some detailed benchmarking work and were excited to top the SWE-Bench Pro leaderboard for large, complex muti-file edits.

Seems like a new lever to pull beyond just model intelligence. Curious if others are experimenting with similar things?
by helloplanets | 2026-02-03 16:20:20+00:00
Synopsis of Shakespeare's Sonnet 4:

> The poet returns to the idea of beauty as treasure that should be invested for profit. Here, the young man’s refusal to beget a child is likened to his spending inherited wealth on himself rather than investing it or sharing it generously.

https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/shakespear...
by cucumber3732842 | 2026-02-03 16:20:28+00:00
Ethanol has a propensity to suck up ambient moisture and is more demanding of rubbers and happily attacks aluminum.

In an age of natural rubber components, poorly sealed fuel systems with steel tanks and aluminum carburetors pretty much anything other than ethanol is the "right choice".

And once they ruled out ethanol they settled on lead because it was cheap/profitable. Obviously they chose wrong, they should've picked something more expensive but less terrible.

These weren't cartoon villains with monocles twirling their mustaches. They were normal humans making pragmatic decisions based on the constraints they faced. Without knowing the details people cannot understand what future similar fact patterns may look like.

That said, it should be no surprise to anyone that nobody wants to talk about "well we don't know how bad the harm of leaded exhaust is, we know it's not good, but it's diffuse and undefined so we'll round it to zero/negligible" type decision making, for that sort of unknown rounds to zero logic underpins in whole or part all manner of modern policy discourse.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-03 16:20:58+00:00
Are you certain? Not OP, but a huge chunk of early RFCs was about how to let giant IBM systems talk to everyone else, specifying everything from character sets (nearly universally “7-bit ASCII”) to end of line/message characters. Otherwise, IBM would’ve tried to make EBCDIC the default for everything.

For instance, consider FTP’s text mode, which was primarily a way to accidentally corrupt your download when you forgot to type “bin” first, but was also handy for getting human readable files from one incompatible system to another.
by quotemstr | 2026-02-03 16:21:17+00:00
> nomograms

Me too!

Nomograms are cool. They're little charts that let you compute a function physically, e.g. by lining up a ruler. A nomogram isn't a picture of a function: it is the function. If you're clever, you can make a nomogram that encodes complicated nonlinear mappings or even complex-valued relationships on a 2D plane.

Nomograms are basically the tabletop gaming of math. Like a good tabletop game, a good nomogram requires a special kind of cleverness. Sure, coding something like Factorio is also hard: but it runs on a CPU. Something as rich and complex as Power Grid and High Frontier? Running on cardboard? Whole other level.

I recall one tabletop two-player game that featured a single-player mode in which you played against an "AI" that you ran by hand by moving cardboard pieces around on a game-provided template under pseudocode-ish rules from the game manual. It's hard enough to code a decent game AI with all the resources of a CPU at your disposal. It's an OOM harder to do it when you're limited to physically-realized lookup tables, a literal handful of registers, and a scant few clock cycles of logic per turn.

Coming full circle, some of these tabletop game "AI"s incorporate nomograms to help them fit their logic within the constraints.

Example of a cool nomogram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_chart

Smith charts let you compute complex (both senses of the word) relationships in RF signal processing with just a compass and straightedge.
by super256 | 2026-02-03 16:21:47+00:00
Also, modern native UIs became looking garbage on desktops / laptops, where you usually want a high information density.

Just look at this TreeView in WinUI2 (w/ fluent design) vs a TreeView in the good old event viewer. It just wastes SO MUCH space!

https://f003.backblazeb2.com/file/sharexxx/ShareX/2026/02/mm...

And imo it's just so much easier to write a webapp, than fiddle with WinUI. Of course you can still build on MFC or Win32, but meh.
by dezgeg | 2026-02-03 16:21:56+00:00
No, the VFAT driver doesn't do anything even slightly resembling that.

In general "what DOS did" doesn't cut for a modern system with page and dentry caches and multiple tasks accessing the filesystem without completely horrible performance. I would be really surprised if Windows handled all those cases right with disk caching enabled.

While rename can be atomic in some cases, it cannot be in the case of cross directory renames or when the new filename doesn't fit in the existing directory sector.
by niall00c | 2026-02-03 16:22:26+00:00
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by louis-sightline | 2026-02-03 16:22:35+00:00
SightlineOS | NYC (Hybrid) | Senior Data Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer | Full-time

Hey HN, this is Louis, co-founder at SightlineOS.

Yusha, Derrick, and I are building an AI-native supply chain operating system for restaurant chains. It’s a massive, overlooked space with deeply underutilized data, and we’re using modern data and ML systems to automate planning, inventory management, and spend optimization.

We’re venture-backed, NYC-based, and are hiring our first senior engineers as we start to scale. These are high-ownership roles with real production impact from day one.

You’d work closely with founders, own core systems end to end, and help shape the technical foundation of the company. Depending on the role, you’ll either own and scale the data foundations that power our ML and customer insights, or ship end-to-end product features that directly impact how customers operate day to day.

Location: NYC (hybrid, 3 days/week in office)
Salary: $135,000 - $185,000, role-dependent + equity

Apply here: https://www.sightlineos.com/careers
by bombcar | 2026-02-03 16:22:54+00:00
These used to be called jitney cabs or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_taxi#Jitney (basically, cabs that travel like busses) and are still common in many parts of the world.

In Mexico it was always a decision of "do I walk a bit further to get the jitney and pay a bit more, but likely go faster (it stops picking up passengers when full and just goes until the first drop-off), or do I get on a bus sooner for cheaper but likely slower?"
by zamadatix | 2026-02-03 16:22:56+00:00
Can anyone help me understand the "Number of Agent Turns" vs "SWE-Bench Pro (%)" figure? I.e. what does the spread of Qwen3-Coder-Next from ~50 to ~280 agent turns represent for a fixed score of 44.3%: that sometimes it takes that spread of agent turns to achieve said fixed score for the given model?
by svilen_dobrev | 2026-02-03 16:23:07+00:00
Location: Varna, Bulgaria, EU (EEsT, ~UTC+2/3)

Remote: yes

Willing to relocate: for a while

Technologies: python, javascript/node/react web/html/css graphql sql nosql c++ c java sh perl make linux.. dozens other languages and stacks, Prolog to Android to Verilog to assemblers and bitmasks; data+work-flows, UI/UX, testing, reverse engineering, methodology, process, management, culture, leadership, company/team-from-scratch

Domains: financial+related, any-burocracy-automating, boards/hardware/chip-making/EDA, tools+ languages (dev or process), kiosk-likes, CAD/CAM/CAE, maps, modelling-in-general - physical or virtual, ~semantical stuff, audio and many more

Resume/CV: https://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/cv/ (pdf at the bottom)

Email: az at svilendobrev point com

Site: https://www.svilendobrev.com/rabota/

others: https://www.github.com/svilendobrev ; https://www.linkedin.com/in/svilendobrev

About: Making software for 36+ years.. Seen quite some things.. and attitudes. Always hands-on.

Looking for.. interesting work with interesting people. Maybe, principal or staff engineer, architect, CTO, co-founder, team/tech lead, head of engineering.. or very senior programmer.. (or Mentor? is this still needed? playing Trainer?). i like fiddling with things, mentoring, and building stuff - out of nothing if needed :) Effecting change, esp. cultural. Life-coaching too.. And making good friends along. But no politics, plz.

IMO The interesting part of making software, is the people, while technicals.. are solvable. And, Fun is important 4th factor in the Functionality-Price-Deadlines Triangle.

May relocate anywhere to stay with the team, once in a while, as IMO "remote" does not work well for knowledge/ culture/ relations -building activities.