MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by velocitatem | 2026-02-02 21:16:00+00:00
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by louiereederson | 2026-02-02 21:16:35+00:00
>My hot take here is that the moats previously enjoyed by SaaS companies will increasingly vanish as smaller and smaller teams can assemble "good enough" solutions that companies will adopt instead of paying giant chunks of their budget on pre-built SaaS tools that will increasingly demand more training to Onboard.

why do people pay red hat/ibm for rhel? they earn pretty good margins too. to parent's point on software/=code
by COAGULOPATH | 2026-02-02 21:16:46+00:00
If the site is exposing the PII of users, then that's potentially a serious legal issue. I don't think he can dismiss it by calling it a joke (if he is).

OT: I wonder if "vibe coding" is taking programming into a culture of toxic disposability where things don't get fixed because nobody feels any pride or has any sense of ownership in the things they create. The relationship between a programmer and their code should not be "I don't even care if it works, AI wrote it".
by greggoB | 2026-02-02 21:16:51+00:00
Ehhh, the story of Swiss multilingualism is more than a bit romanticized. A lot of people under 40 know their region's language, English at a decent level, and at best a barely passable 2nd national language (exception would be those living in the actually bilingual regions).

I think there's a strong case to be made that, while the different Swiss linguistic regions strongly prefer to associate together, in reality they draw a lot from the countries they share their languages & borders with when it comes to business and markets, etc. But between linguistic regions, there is additional friction for sure. If anything, the share competency in English has been a major boon.

Source: been living in Switzerland for 10 years and very interested in its system.
by erhankocabas | 2026-02-02 21:17:30+00:00
Bilarna is an AI visibility suite + machine‑readable website profiles for B2B SaaS. Run a fast AI visibility audit (50+ AEO signals) to get your AI Visibility Score, see how ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude/Perplexity describe and compare you, and find citation gaps where competitors win. Then convert your product, pricing, and trust info into AI‑ready dialogue profiles that assistants can parse, quote, and recommend accurately.
by Soerensen | 2026-02-02 21:17:53+00:00
The satire is great, but this actually points to a real gap in agentic architectures.

Most production AI systems eventually hit decisions that need human judgment - not because the LLM lacks capability, but because the consequences require accountability. "Should we refund this customer?" "Does this email sound right for our brand?" These aren't knowledge problems, they're judgment calls.

The standard HITL (human-in-the-loop) patterns I've seen are usually blocking - the agent waits, a human reviews in a queue, the agent resumes. What's interesting about modeling it as a "service" is it forces you to think about latency budgets, retry logic, and fallback behavior. Same primitives we use for calling external APIs.

Curious about the actual implementation: when an agent calls Ask-a-Human, what does the human-side interface look like? A queue of pending questions? Push notifications? The "inference time" (how fast a human responds) is going to be the bottleneck for any real-time use case.
by stego-tech | 2026-02-02 21:18:05+00:00
Oh, I should be more clear: I only use local models to help me accelerate non-production work. I never use it for communications, because A) I want to improve my skills there, and B) I don't want my first (or any) outreach to another human to be a bot.

Mostly it's been an excellent way to translate vocabulary between products or technologies for me. When I'm working on something new (e.g., Hashicorp Packer) and lack the specific vocabulary, I may query Qwen or Ministral with what I want to do ("Build a Windows 11 image that executes scripts after startup but before sysprep"), then use its output as a starting point for what I actually want to accomplish. I've also tinkered with it at home for writing API integrations or parsing JSON with RegEx for Home Assistant uses, and found it very useful in low-risk environments.

Thus far, they don't consistently spit out functional code. I still have to do a back-and-forth to troubleshoot the output and make it secure and functional within my environments, and that's fine - it's how I learn, after all. When it comes to, say, SQL (which I understand conceptually, but not necessarily specifically), it's a slightly bigger crutch until I can start running on my own two feet.

Still cheaper than a proper consultant or SME, though, and for most enterprise workloads that's good (and cheap) enough once I've sanity checked it with a colleague or in a local dev/sandbox environment.
by lowbloodsugar | 2026-02-02 21:18:28+00:00
All those examples were borrowing money. What you're describing as "technical debt" doesn't involve borrowing anything. The equivalent for a vacation would be to take your kids to a motel with a pool and dress up as Mickey Mouse and tell them its "Disney World debt". You didn't go in debt. You didn't go to Disney World. You just spent what money you do have on a shit solution. Your kids quite possibly had fun, even.

> term technical debt has historically been used

There are plenty of terms that we no longer use because they cause harm.
by Soerensen | 2026-02-02 21:18:42+00:00
The "dev mode" where you can change lambda code live is the killer feature here. The deploy-wait-test-repeat cycle is what makes serverless development so frustrating compared to local Flask/FastAPI development.

I see others asking about CDK/Pulumi comparison - I think you're right that it's less about the underlying engine and more about the abstraction level. CDK gives you cloud primitives. Stelvio (like SST for JS) gives you developer workflows.

The automatic IAM permission generation is underrated. I've spent more debugging hours on Lambda permission errors than I'd like to admit. The error messages are terrible ("AccessDeniedException" tells you nothing about which permission is missing) and the docs always show overly-permissive examples.

Question: How does the dependency resolution work for native Python packages (e.g., numpy, pandas)? Are you pre-building wheels for Lambda's Amazon Linux environment, or using something like Lambda layers with pre-compiled binaries? That's historically been one of the most annoying parts of Python + Lambda.
by epolanski | 2026-02-02 21:19:03+00:00
Atlassian tools for a client like mine (hundreds of employees) can easily cover the expense of internalizing it. It's Jira plus confluence mostly, it's not rocket science.

And that's just atlassian.

Start adding stuff that costs many many many yearly salaries (special software for managing inventories and warehouses) it starts making sense to prototype alternatives internally.

I came to the conclusion that if it's not Teams/SharePoint or the moat is on the extreme legal complexity side (e.g. payrolls), you can at least think of building an alternative that is good enough without needing to be perfect.
by michaelt | 2026-02-02 21:19:08+00:00
To me, this seems kinda reasonable.

The reality is licenses are all nonsense and none of it makes any sense. There could be secret patents nobody knows about. That precise wording written by American lawyers might not hold up in Chinese courts. There might be two compatible licenses, but one is 20x the length of the other; obviously some legal expert thought those extra words were needed - but are they? What's going on with linking and derivative works? Do you need to copy-and-paste the full legal blurb into every single file, or not? Why are some sections written in all caps, and does the reason for doing that apply globally? What if someone claimed to have the right to contribute code to an open project but actually had an employment contract meaning the code wasn't theirs to transfer? What's the copyright status of three-line stackoverflow answers?

The truth is nobody knows, and nobody cares. You and I won't get sued, probably, and if we do it's not like we'd have avoided it by reading the license. Might as well ignore it, like people ignore website terms of use and software click-through licenses and other legal mumbo-jumbo.

On the other hand, if you're the kind of gigantic enterprise that has policies on software licenses and a team of in-house lawyers and you can't use this software without greater license clarity? Well, you can get that licensing clarity with the enterprise version of the software.
by jow13_12 | 2026-02-02 21:19:21+00:00
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> Languages, Frameworks, and Libraries: JavaScript, Express, Ruby, Sinatra, Python, Flask, SQL, jQuery, TypeScript, React

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by arjie | 2026-02-02 21:19:46+00:00
I think the rise of the open-source redistributor groupie has been an interesting cultural revolution. I wonder if it will persist. Even 10 years ago, the idea of Free As In Speech dominated the idea of Free Software. Today, the greatest enthusiasm on Hacker News and Reddit is for something like Meta's Llama license (which cannot be used by people or corps with sufficient numbers of users). It certainly seems like someone out there could go out and propose the Microfree License which only applies to sufficiently non-rich people.

For my part, I want none of it. I find this reduction of a significant philosophy to some kind of base tax-and-distribute mechanism distasteful. I don't like communities were this stuff is big and they always want to run some taxation scheme where they redirect money to their own personal pet projects. It is fortunate that modern tools are good enough to build personal insulation from this stuff.

Imagine the farce of Apply HN repeated continuously. Simply awful.
by slightlygrilled | 2026-02-02 21:19:57+00:00
I’ve found aws s3 it’s always been painful to get any good speed out of it unless it’s massive files you’re moving.

It’s base line tuning seems to just assume large files and does no auto scaling and it’s mostly single threaded.

Then even when tuning it’s still painfully slow, again seemly limited by its cpu processing and mostly on a single thread, highly annoying.

Especially when you’re running it on a high core, fast storage, large internet connection machine.

Just feels like there is a large amount of untapped potential in the machines…
Show HN: CI That's a Cinch
by behrlich | 2026-02-02 21:20:17+00:00
Hey HN,

Not quite ready for prod because I'd like to do some more (human, me!) security review, but I figured I might be able to get some feedback on CI while you're all sitting around. This is an idea I've been working on - what if CI was just your makefile, and it ran on your own hardware, for free! The same config works on GitHub, GitLab, and Codeberg (any others I should include?).

Anyone have a side project they would be willing to try this on? Cinch has been building itself for a couple of weeks.
by dang | 2026-02-02 21:20:22+00:00
Related. Others?

The Rosenhan Experiment: On Being Sane in Insane Places - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45785783 - Nov 2025 (1 comment)

On Being Sane in Insane Places (1973) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32686098 - Sept 2022 (2 comments)

David Rosenhan’s fraudulent Thud experiment set back psychiatry for decades - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22155529 - Jan 2020 (119 comments)

Troubling discrepancies in Rosenhan's “On Being Sane in Insane Places”? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21437852 - Nov 2019 (16 comments)

On being sane in insane places - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10885181 - Jan 2016 (1 comment)

On being sane in insane places - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4371212 - Aug 2012 (2 comments)

Rosenhan experiment (1973) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1469370 - June 2010 (2 comments)
by LeFantome | 2026-02-02 21:20:27+00:00
The K3 is launched now.

Single core performance is about what you say. But multi-core performance is much better. The K3 scores higher than a 2017 Macbook Air for multi-core on Geekbench 6.

And the K3 can take 32 GB of DDR5 and run a decent-sized LLM, which is not something you are doing on an a 5-10 year old laptop. In addition to the vector instructions, the built-in video codec acceleration and hypervisor stuff make for quite a modern feature-set.

The K3 is still too slow to be a desktop system for most people but there are some of us who would already be ok with it.

As for pricing, it is hard to find info. But it seems like around $200 may be possible for the Jupiter2.

https://milkv.io/jupiter2

The Framework 13 K3 mainboard will be more:

https://deepcomputing.io/dc-roma-risc-v-mainboard-iii-unveil...
by thisislife2 | 2026-02-02 21:20:39+00:00
Is the bad publicity worth it with this kind of rug pull to "we are opensource, but not really"? I get that an open source product can get you some free (word of mouth) and good publicity. But in general, open source is also strongly associated with "free" (as in you don't have to pay money for it). So if you do want to make money from a software product, weigh the pros and cons carefully - commercial open source products do tend to be less profitable than commercial closed-source versions. If you are ok with that, go with the open source business model. Otherwise, stick to the closed-source business model from the get go. Be honest from the start - brand damage is really costly to repair.
by justinzhangmit | 2026-02-02 21:20:45+00:00
We open-sourced the toolkit we use to build verifiable TEE applications on AWS Nitro Enclaves.

Problem: TEEs provide hardware isolation, but without public attestation, users have no practical way to verify what code is actually running.

Nova Stack provides the full pipeline:

* Enclaver – build/run Nitro Enclave apps

* App Hub – CI/CD with SLSA Level 3 signed builds

* App Registry – on-chain registration with ZKP-verified attestations

* ZKP CLI – generate proofs and register on-chain

Everything is open source. We use this in production.

Happy to answer questions on TEE architecture, ZKP verification, or Nitro quirks.
by epistasis | 2026-02-02 21:21:03+00:00
Hopefully I'm not violating copyright by taking this small chunk of their LICENSE.txt, but this appears to be the language that some want clarified:

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost/blob/master/LICENSE...

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You are licensed to use compiled versions of the Mattermost platform produced by Mattermost, Inc. under an MIT LICENSE

- See MIT-COMPILED-LICENSE.md included in compiled versions for details

You may be licensed to use source code to create compiled versions not produced by Mattermost, Inc. in one of two ways:

1. Under the Free Software Foundation’s GNU AGPL v3.0, subject to the exceptions outlined in this policy; or
2. Under a commercial license available from Mattermost, Inc. by contacting commercial@mattermost.com
by Spooky23 | 2026-02-02 21:21:24+00:00
Lol. ServiceNow, Oracle, Workday, etc are not small monthly fees. That's what the market is shitting on. (Oracle is different, given the corruption and OpenAI grift angle.)

My buddy works for a company like these. He landed a $5M contract last year, which netted him almost $800k. There's alot of fat to be cooked out of this stuff, and AI will help smaller entrants attack those margins.

AI-based startups like Vanta make it much easier for companies to meet the compliance bullshit the large companies require. Again, it will drive more competition == better values for customers.
by SloopJon | 2026-02-02 21:21:26+00:00
The article links to a YouTube mini-review of USB enclosures from UGreen and Acasis, neither of which he loves.[1] I've been happy with the OWC 1M2 as a boot drive on a Mac Studio with Thunderbolt 5 ports.[2] I just noticed that there is an OWC 1M2 80G, based on USB4 v2.[3] I didn't know that was a thing, but I guess it's the USB cousin to Thunderbolt 5.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaV-O6NPWrI

[2] https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/owc-express-1m2

[3] https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/US4V2EXP1M2/
by dang | 2026-02-02 21:21:33+00:00
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. Please don't create accounts to do this with.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46860103.)
by Mabusto | 2026-02-02 21:21:33+00:00
Literally installing Arch right now as I read this. Same deal, been using windows as my daily driver all my life but have been running Linux servers since late 90s (and did daily drive RedHat back in the day).

My work env was just VS Code + WSL and I realized the most pain points came from using Explorer and trying to admin the machine with the fractured landscape of sys admin tools. For me it became very obvious that windows is only going to get more bloated and less “my” machine going forward, why stay on this platform if I’m already spending most of my day in a Linux environment (that I’m already familiar with).
by stego-tech | 2026-02-02 21:22:13+00:00
I'm frequently rotating and experimenting specifically because I don't want to be dependent upon a single model when everything changes week-to-week; focusing on foundations, not processes. Right now, I've got a Ministral 3 14B reasoning model and Qwen3 8B model on my Macbook Pro; I think my RTX 3090 rig uses a slightly larger parameter/less quantized Ministral model by default, and juggles old Gemini/OpenAI "open weights" models as they're released.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-02 21:22:15+00:00
This is promising.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/29/samsung-releases-new-...

> The South Korean giant [Samsung] said its new EHS All-in-One provides air heating and cooling, floor heating, and hot water from a single outdoor unit. It can supply hot water up to 65 C in below-zero weather.

> Dubbed EHS All-in-One, the system provides air heating and cooling, floor heating, and hot water from a single outdoor unit. It is initially released for the European market, with a Korean rollout expected within a year. “It delivers stable performance across diverse weather conditions. It can supply hot water up to 65 C even in below-zero weather and is designed to operate heating even in severe cold down to -25 C,” the company said in a statement. “The system also uses the R32 refrigerant, which has a substantially lower impact on global warming compared with the older R410A refrigerant.”
by WorldMaker | 2026-02-02 21:22:41+00:00
The complaint above was that JS was becoming too much like C#, so the steering committee of .NET isn't the one of the original concern. (Also, as pointed out, that "deliberate hobbling" case was litigated in the public square on HN at the time and then revised and "unhobbled" after the outcry.)

As far as the other direction, JS has a somewhat similar (but rather more complex) situation to Python with its steering committee being Ecma International's TC39 (Technical Committee 39).

Ecma International has similar By-Laws and Rules designed to manage conflict of interest and too much power consolidate in a single employer of committee members. Ecma is maybe even a little "stricter" than Python because its rules consider the companies themselves to be the members, and companies only get one vote no matter how many employees interact with the process.

https://ecma-international.org/policies/by-laws/

https://ecma-international.org/policies/rules/
by frankliu197 | 2026-02-02 21:22:47+00:00
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by ericmay | 2026-02-02 21:22:53+00:00
I'm not sure if they are or aren't, but I don't think that is a good argument when the premise was that revenue was preventing categories of apps and services. For example, in both of these apps Apple would still be getting services revenue through in-app purchases and such. Maybe that's not enough and so they construct their terms of service accordingly, but that's still not proof one way or the other, which is why I asked the original question that I had asked.

I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'm not sure there is evidence to support your assertion either.
by blast | 2026-02-02 21:23:20+00:00
> She was given some anti-psychotics and sent away

But that confirms the main point of the experiment, which was that people who didn't need psychiatric treatment were given it anyway.

The treatment changed from hospitalization in 1973 to drugs in 2004, but that is secondary. The primary point is that there was no objective way to determine who genuinely needed treatment. She didn't, but was diagnosed anyway.

This objection is so obvious that she must have addressed it in the book. Do you remember if she did?
by jacquesm | 2026-02-02 21:23:32+00:00
The interesting bit is this: how much of what you wrote over all those years actually did what you wanted it to do, no more, no less?

This is where testing gets interesting: I took some old code I wrote 30 years ago or so and decided to put it literally to the test. A couple of hundred lines from a library that has been in production without every showing a single bug over all that time. And yet: I'm almost ashamed at how many subtle little bugs I found. Things you'd most likely never see in practice, but still, they were there. And then I put a couple of those bugs together and suddenly realized that that particular chain must have happened in practice in some program built on top of this. And sure enough: fixing the bugs made the application built on top of this more robust.

After a couple of weeks of this I became convinced: testing is not optional, even for stuff that works. Ever since I've done my best to stop assuming that what I'm writing actually does what I want it to. It usually does, for the happy path. But there are so many other paths that with code of any complexity, even if you religiously avoid side effects you can still end up with issues that you overlook.