MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alephnerd | 2026-02-10 21:43:06+00:00
It's about the delta.

China as well as India are seeing a significant buildout of DC capacity which is partially a result of subsidies but also a result of increased demand for services domestically as well as within APAC.

While local politicans in the US are using populist misinformation such as about water usage to push back against DC buildouts, you're seeing both China [0] and India [1] offering multi-decade subsidizes and tax shelters to build out DC capacity.

Additionally, this is essentially HPC and best in breed doesn't neccesarily equate to outcompeting a large amount of less performant but scaled out compute, which is the path both China and India are adopting by pushing hyperscalers to (in China's case) use domestic vendors or (in India's case) keep the entire IP chain in an Indian subsidiary. This is why you see Amazon announce layoffs [2] while committing to spend tens of billions in India's hyperscaler buildout [3].

This in turn somewhat blunts our ability to control technologies to a certain extent.

Barely 10 years ago, states like California, NC, etc used to use similar strategies to compete with each other and build out innovation hubs, but state and local level politicking has led to public-private partnerships stagnating.

CHIPS and the IRA were on the right track, but even Dems [4] and the EU [5] as well as the GOP tried to stymie it.

[0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-offers-tech...

[1] - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/01/india-offers-zero-taxes-th...

[2] - https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-plans-...

[3] - https://www.aboutamazon.in/news/economic-impact/amazon-econo...

[4] - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/us/politics/semiconductor...

[5] - https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/11/09/europe-shows-a-united-fr...
by davegoldblatt | 2026-02-10 21:43:26+00:00
Also, let me know if this lands:

How It Works
Think of it like a kitchen with four storage areas:

Counter (CLAUDE.local.md): The stuff you reach for every day. Loads automatically, every session. Kept small on purpose, around a page of text.

Pantry (memory/registers/): Organized by category. Your preferences, key decisions, project details, people you work with. Claude checks here when it needs something specific.

Daily notebook (memory/daily/): Timestamped scratch notes from each day. Everything gets written here first. You decide later what's worth keeping permanently.

Storage closet (memory/archive/): Old stuff that's done or outdated. Still searchable, but never loaded automatically.

The key idea: notes hit the daily notebook first, then you promote the keepers. Claude doesn't get to decide on its own what's important enough to remember permanently. You do.
by papascrubs | 2026-02-10 21:43:31+00:00
I like to call it the "gray" market because the substances themselves are gray, not because of their source. My weed dealer doesn't sell GLPs (yet, but I can see that coming). I haven't seen anyone arrested for having GLPs yet either-- although I have seen plenty of US based vendors have to close up shop due to legal pressure.

I do that believe that risk can be (mostly) mitigated, mainly by sticking with longstanding vendors and by trying to minimize risk with the actual substances (researching proper dosing protocol, batch testing, not assuming dosing, starting out on lower dosing with new kits etc). There is definitely risk associated, that said I'm often dabbling in non-FDA approved substances, so regardless I have zero recourse if something happens.

Are there any testing/safety protocols that you follow?
by cogman10 | 2026-02-10 21:43:58+00:00
It seems like your experience with linux may have actually sabotaged your ability to point and click install things.

KDE has the "discover" app which does what it looks like you want (including installing intellij with 1 click). [1]

There's also bazaar for gnome which offers similar things [2]

Ubuntu also offers the "snap store" which similarly offers a 1 click install of apps. [3]

The mistake you made is going directly to the app distributors for installation. Because there's no unified linux it's impossible for app distributors to offer a single way to install their apps. They can't count on your PC having anything. That's why intellij distributes with a tar.

This, however, is typical in linux. Using a package manager is how you do things in standard linux, those package managers have just been typically ran by the command line.

[1] https://apps.kde.org/discover/

[2] https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaar

[3] https://ubuntu.com/blog/trust-and-security-in-the-snap-store
by Seabiscuit | 2026-02-10 21:44:03+00:00
As a (young, thus-far childless) woman, I feel it's important to add something that men may not fully grasp and I haven't seen much in the thread so far: what tips the scales in this decision is often not just daycare costs/career prospects, but also the potentially extreme side effects of pregnancy on the body.

Going through the process of being pregnant and giving birth is absolutely terrifying to me and most of my friends. How many tech bros do you know who do their blood labs on a yearly basis, or track their blood sugar daily? How many do sports physio to avoid the possibility of a minor training injury, or do any number of peptide interventions to micro-optimise some aspect of their health or physique?

If having babies, for them, was basically a coin toss re: possibly developing diabetes, ripping open their pelvic floor and becoming incontinent, adding 8 points to your BMI, or major sleeping problems, etc., would they still be as mystified about the low TFR?
(Of course, many men go through physical hell when raising children too, and I don't want to diminish their contribution, but on average their physical symptoms are less extreme)

Sometimes the knee jerk 'just get a caesarean' and lower maternal mortality numbers mask the reality of how barbaric the process seems, at least from my vantage point as someone who might one day be involved in the process. The number of privileged women who choose the surrogate path alone should suggest how many women might opt out of the physical part of it, if they could; if having babies isn't a social obligation or a biological inevitability without birth control, there's quite a strong argument for putting it off just one more year...
by mtlynch | 2026-02-10 21:44:05+00:00
> Thanks for being so transparent. As a fellow solo bootstrapper, I think the thing people most often misunderstand is the relative inconsistency (income, "wins", the camaraderie, etc.) so it's nice for you to bare all.

> That being said, you do get the consistency of independence and autonomy. As I watch my peers deal with crappy work environments, losing their jobs, and other bullshit, I just keep chugging along: self-directed and happy to not have to answer to anyone.

Yes, I completely agree.

Bootstrapping, you realize that employment smooths out a lot of issues for you. Like if you're sick for two weeks as an employee, maybe it hurts your OKRs, but you'll be fine. If you're sick for two weeks as a solo founder, that can be catastrophic. And if you need to do something like take parental leave for six months, the company can't just continue on without you like it could if you worked for a large company.

But as you said, you get the consistency of being your own boss and directing your own time, which more than makes up for it for me.
by mregmi405 | 2026-02-10 21:44:47+00:00
We built Ragora because we kept seeing the same problem: teams duct-taping together vector DBs, embedding APIs, and chunking scripts just to get reliable answers from their own docs. And on the other side, people sitting on valuable knowledge (compliance manuals, solved support threads, niche expertise) with no way to monetize it for the AI era.

Ragora is two things in one platform:
1. Private RAG for your team
Upload your docs, connect Google Drive/GitHub/Confluence/Notion/Dropbox, and get
citation-grounded answers in seconds. No data leaves your workspace. Use it from Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any AI tool via MCP — or connect it to Slack, Discord, or Telegram so your team can just ask questions where they already work.

2. A marketplace to sell knowledge to AI agents
Package your expertise into a knowledge product. Set per-query pricing or subscription. Earn when AI agents and apps retrieve your data. Think of it as Stripe for knowledge — usage-based monetization without the consulting overhead.

What makes it different:
- Hybrid+GraphRAG entity expansion — finds related concepts you didn't explicitly search for
- Citations on every response — know exactly which source backed each answer
- Works everywhere — API, MCP (Claude/Cursor/VS Code), Slack, Discord
- Data connectors — Google Drive, GitHub, Dropbox, Confluence, Notion, S3
- Document versioning with temporal queries — "search as of last Tuesday"
- 100-200ms response including reranking and graph context

Use cases we're seeing:
- Engineering teams indexing runbooks and SOPs for an internal copilot
- Legal/compliance teams with citation-grounded policy assistants
- Communities monetizing solved support threads from Slack, Discord
- Data companies packaging proprietary datasets for AI consumption
- Creators building "chat with my content" experiences

Free tier includes 10K vectors (~6,700 pages of PDFs), 200 retrievals/day, and 30 min of audio/video processing. Pro is $19.99/mo with 100K vectors and unlimited retrievals.

We'd love your feedback — what knowledge would you sell?
by BlitzGeology91 | 2026-02-10 21:44:56+00:00
Eh, I don’t really think that this is an “or” situation. I think that this is an “and” situation. The last time that I set up Xash3D FWGS, I had to copy files from the version of Half-Life that I own on Steam into a different folder so that those files could be loaded by Xash 3D FWGS. I haven’t tried Xash 3D FWGS in a while, but it looks like you still have to do that [1]. Also, are you sure that the Steam version of Half-Life is Windows only?

[1]: <https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs/blob/f0342763547d9bcf486...>
by zahlman | 2026-02-10 21:46:13+00:00
Out of curiousity, for those who were around to see it: was writing on LinkedIn commonly like this, pre-chatGPT? I've been wondering what the main sources were for these idioms in the training data, and it comes across to me like the kind of marketing-speak that would make sense in those circles.

(An explanation for the emoji spam in GitHub READMEs is also welcome. Who did that before LLMs?)
by tuesdaynight | 2026-02-10 21:46:38+00:00
I understand why they do it, but I cannot ignore that you lose the incentive of visiting your friends and their kids when they always take that visit as a way to treat you like a babysitter. Yes, I accept sometimes looking at your kid while you take a nap, just don't make that the usual experience for years on end, though. I'm lucky, as my friends always understood when I pointed that out to them, but I'm aware that this may not be the common reaction.
by carshodev | 2026-02-10 21:46:46+00:00
Its a free thousand dollars that is guaranteed for every child and will grow over time, the account structure may not be ideally structured for tax liability, but the alternative is not having this?

So these accounts are great compared to what was before -> NOTHING

And this money is paid for from tax dollars so why would it matter if there is taxes paid on it later. If you elect to save more money for your children you can use whatever account structure you wish.
by Jare | 2026-02-10 21:46:48+00:00
I remember a magazine cover that labeled you a gaming god, hard to peak beyond that! The quote you provided back then resonates perfectly with what you describe here: "If there's one message I like to get across to people, I like them to really and truly embrace [the fact that] anything that your imagination can conceive of is possible."

- https://hl-inside.me/magazines/pc-gamer-us/PC-Gamer_2000-11_...
by Night_Thastus | 2026-02-10 21:47:02+00:00
If there's no force that pushes it towards stabilization - then the eventual conclusion is extinction. And so far, it definitely seems like it doesn't trend towards equilibrium. People aren't like animals that reproduce based on availability of resources or predators. If the population drops, nothing forces it back up again.

And lower birth rate -> smaller young population -> higher ratio of retirees to taxpayers -> less free money to invest in new businesses/infrastructure/etc. That means a worse quality of life for everyone. Worse pay, higher taxes, less city/state/federal investment.

That's called a death spiral and eventually ends a civilization, if it goes uncorrected. There's no fancy monetary trickery that magically fixes it either. The only real hope is alleviating the burden completely - via something like incredibly advanced robots powered by real AI (not LLM garbage).

That would free up the resources to allow each new generation to do new things, instead of being less and less able to just maintain status quo.
by CGMthrowaway | 2026-02-10 21:47:46+00:00
We have too much mental baggage about what a "number" is.

Real numbers function as magnitudes or objects, while complex numbers function as coordinatizations - a way of packaging structure that exists independently of them, e.g. rotations in SO(2) together with scaling). Complex numbers are a choice of coordinates on structure that exists independently of them. They are bookkeeping (a la double‑entry accounting) not money
by xyzelement | 2026-02-10 21:48:18+00:00
To add to my previous comment. There's nothing about "the US" that makes precludes any of this. Lots of people chose to remain (or move back to) close to their families especially when they have kids on their own.

EG when we bought the house because it was closer to the in-laws, the previous owners were moving to SC to be closer to their family. It's just a decision you make or not bother to make.

And then to make an extreme point - before this I used to live in Hell's Kitchen in NYC. When I visit my old hood now, it's basically one continuous giant Grindr date going on. That was totally fine when I lived there as a single person but as a family person it would be a tough situation (e.g. businesses not geared to kids, most neighbors aren't parents - eg there was no kids in my old building). Now I live maybe 30 miles away and it's all parents all around me. The idea of "go where parents are" and "go where other young families are" is relevant to absolutely anyone in the world, so I don't understand why whether I live in the US is even a question?
by reddozen | 2026-02-10 21:48:20+00:00
You can't write rules against bad actors. There will always be some legal loophole a bad president can invent to exploit. if not for administrative warrants we would see some other creative (read: illegal) use of executive power.

The only option is to not elect someone that doesn't respect rule of law. And since I know some enlightened "centrist" will play the both sides game: What's 1 thing any previous president has done equivalent to violating posse comitatus.
by striking | 2026-02-10 21:49:17+00:00
It's pattern matching, likely from typography texts and descriptions of umbrellas. My understanding is that the model can attempt some permutations in its thinking and eventually a permutation's tokens catch enough attention to attempt to solve, and that once it is attending to "everyday object", "arc", and "hook", it will reply with "umbrella".

Why am I confident that it's not actually doing spatial reasoning? At least in the case of Claude Opus 4.6, it also confidently replies "umbrella" even when you tell it to put the parenthesis under the J, with a handy diagram clearly proving itself wrong: https://claude.ai/share/497ad081-c73f-44d7-96db-cec33e6c0ae3 . Here's me specifically asking for the three key points above: https://claude.ai/share/b529f15b-0dfe-4662-9f18-97363f7971d1

I feel like I have a pretty good intuition of what's happening here based on my understanding of the underlying mathematical mechanics.
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by rdi_berkeley | 2026-02-10 21:49:17+00:00
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Hacker News Alternative Where People Are Positive About AI
by dunk010 | 2026-02-10 21:49:26+00:00
Is there an alternative to HN out there where I can read threads and see people actually discuss developments in AI in a positive, mature way? I just fired open the GitHub founder's one (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46961345) and the comments are all "I hate they way they said it" or "It's useless" or, of course the opposite "Pff, I do that already". I'm sort of sick of this empty excuse for debate. Is it just /r/LLM or something? Where are the intelligent debaters hannging out?
by zackmorris | 2026-02-10 21:49:27+00:00
Just wanted to leave a note here that the Singularity is inevitable on this timeline (we've already passed the event horizon) so the only thing that can stop it now is to jump timelines.

In other words, there may be a geopolitical crisis in the works, similar to how the Dot Bomb, Bush v. Gore, 9/11, etc popped the Internet Bubble and shifted investment funds towards endless war, McMansions and SUVs to appease the illuminati. Someone might sabotage the birth of AGI like the religious zealot in Contact. Global climate change might drain public and private coffers as coastal areas become uninhabitable, coinciding with the death of the last coral reefs and collapse of fisheries, leading to a mass exodus and WWIII. We just don't know.

My feeling is that the future plays out differently than any prediction, so something will happen that negates the concept of the Singularity. Maybe we'll merge with AGI and time will no longer exist (oops that's the definition). Maybe we'll meet aliens (same thing). Or maybe the k-shaped economy will lead to most people surviving as rebels while empire metastasizes, so we take droids for granted but live a subsistence feudal lifestyle. That anticlimactic conclusion is probably the safest bet, given what we know of history and trying to extrapolate from this point along the journey.
by anthk | 2026-02-10 21:49:28+00:00
while (i > 0) {
operate_over_time
}

calculus works... because it was almost designed for Mechanics. If the machine it's getting input, you have output. When it finished getting input, all the output you get yields some value, yes, but limits are best understood not for the result, but for the process (what the functions do).

You are not sending 0 coins to a machine, do you? You sent X to 0 coins to a machine. The machine will work from 2 to 0, but 0 itself is not included because is not a part of a changing process, it's the end.

Limits are for ranges of quantities over something.
by ActorNightly | 2026-02-10 21:49:57+00:00
I just don't like this characterization of

> "How shall I define multiplication, so that multiplication so defined is a group by itself and interacts with the addition defined earlier in a distributive way. Just the way addition and multiplication behave for reals."

which eventually becomes

> "Ah! It's just scaled rotation"

and the implication is that emergent.

Its like you have a set of objects, and defining operations on those objects that have properties of rotations baked in ( because that is the the only way that (0, 1) * (0, 1) = (-1, 0) ever works out in your definition), and then you are surprised that you get something that behaves like rotation.

Meanwhile, when you define other "multiplicative" like operations on tuples, namely dot and cross product, you don't get rotations.
by netsharc | 2026-02-10 21:50:06+00:00
Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious too).

This video was also on the CD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc .. holy smokes, let's rewind time 30 years, where the presidential sex scandal was singular, consensual, and was actually a scandal!
by AndrewKemendo | 2026-02-10 21:50:23+00:00
But the whole point is embedded in the task otherwise you wouldn’t do it

If somebody is using monetary resources to buy NFT‘s instead of handing out food to the homeless then you get less food for the homeless

All of the things listed are competitive task situations and you’re looking for some advantage that makes it easier for you

well if it makes it easier for you then it could make it easier for somebody else which means you’re crowding out other options in that action space

That is to say the pie is fixed for resources on this planet in terms of energy and resource utilization across the lifespan of a human
by nicebyte | 2026-02-10 21:50:51+00:00
> I want a single-line malloc with zero care about usage flags and which only produces one single pointer value

That's not realistic on non-UMA systems. I doubt you want to go over PCIe every time you sample a texture, so the allocator has to know what you're allocating memory _for_. Even with CUDA you have to do that.

And even with unified memory, only the implementation knows exactly how much space is needed for a texture with a given format and configuration (e.g. due to different alignment requirements and such). "just" malloc-ing gpu memory sounds nice and would be nice, but given many vendors and many devices the complexity becomes irreducible. If your only use case is compute on nvidia chips, you shouldn't be using vulkan in the first place.
by jeffreportmill1 | 2026-02-10 21:51:04+00:00
Excellent work on Tribal Trouble. I'm a huge Java fan and I had no idea this existed (usually you only hear about Minecraft and RuneScape). I wonder how much OpenGL/LWJGL code there is. It could maybe run in the browser with CheerpJ or TeaVM if that code could be ported to WebGL.

My labor of love is SnapCode: https://reportmill.com/SnapCode . It has a small interface (camera + vertex buffer) that can run on either desktop or in browser.

This would also be a great candidate for JDeploy (https://jdeploy.com), too, to provide a nice download package for multiple platforms.
by lylejantzi3rd | 2026-02-10 21:51:24+00:00
Wouldn't that be more of a RAD tool, like Lazarus[0]? Or are you suggesting you could do both in the same tool? I'm not doubting it's possible, but those are two very different (and large!) products from a functional standpoint. Combining them is going to be quite the undertaking.

[0]: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/