MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kijin | 2026-02-04 02:14:58+00:00
The lack of a well-known, well-designed package manager for Windows has always been a problem. Too many programs, including FOSS programs, are downloaded from suspicious-looking websites with tons of ads, and every app updates itself in a different way. The crappy installation and update channels are often tightly integrated with the vendors' monetization strategies, so there's a lot of inertia.

Microsoft Store could have changed this situation, had it been better designed and better received. Unfortunately, nobody seems to use it unless they have no other choice.

WinGet looks much better, but so far it's only for developers and power users.
by guiambros | 2026-02-04 02:15:01+00:00
Ha, I love this!

In a way making the cards helps a ton to learn the content and decide what's really important to retain. On the other hand, it's such a slog that I usually end up relying on community cards, or skipping it altogether. The MCP idea may be a nice middle ground. Will give it a try for an upcoming exam.
by jiveturkey | 2026-02-04 02:15:11+00:00
> that's because it was defined in decimal from the start

I mean, that's not quite it. By that logic, had memory been defined in decimal from the start (happenstance), we'd have 4000 byte pages.

Now ethernet is interesting ... the data rates are defined in decimal, but almost everything else about it is octets! Starting with the preamble. But the payload is up to an annoying 1500 (decimal) octets. The _minimum_ frame length is defined for CSMA/CD to work, but the max could have been anything.
by dietr1ch | 2026-02-04 02:15:15+00:00
I don't think of base 10 being meaningful in binary computers. Indexing 1k needs 10 bits regardless if you wanted 1000 or 1024, and the base 10 leaves some awkward holes.

In my mind base 10 only became relevant when disk drive manufacturers came up with disks with "weird" disk sizes (maybe they needed to reserve some space for internals, or it's just that the disk platters didn't like powers of two) and realised that a base 10 system gave them better looking marketing numbers. Who wants a 2.9TB drive when you can get a 3TB* drive for the same price?
by N_Lens | 2026-02-04 02:15:32+00:00
The files have some fascinating evidence:

Trump is/was owned by Putin/Kremlin.

Elon Musk wanted to go to the parties but was too cringe and didn't pass the vibe check.

Ghislaine Maxwell was a Reddit power-mod.

Epstein had Moot (Founder of 4chan) create /pol/ and shift the site far right.

Epstein got banned off Xbox-live.

Huge month for Schizophrenics!
by godelski | 2026-02-04 02:15:51+00:00
Be careful with the math there. While a 4th power is awesome you got the Stefan-Boltzman constant to consider and that's on the order of 10^-8

Radiative power is really efficient for hot things but not so great when you're trying to keep things down to normal levels. Efficient for shedding heat from a sun but not so much for keeping a cpu from overheating...
by AlotOfReading | 2026-02-04 02:16:18+00:00
That's a pretty ungenerous take. Pushing timelines back doesn't solve the fundamental issue that you don't know what you're going to get when you submit that first large order. I've seen many situations where the samples and the manufacturing are completely different, even produced in different factories.

They didn't do everything perfectly, but this looks like a normal learning curve for product manufacturing. Textile manufacturing would be even steeper.
by elamje | 2026-02-04 02:16:32+00:00
I was talking to someone about this the other day. I was part of a team at NASA that developed a cooling system for the ISS and this whole premise makes no sense to me.

1. Getting things to space is incredibly expensive

2. Ingress/egress are almost always a major bottleneck - how is bandwidth cheaper in space?

3. Chips must be “Rad-hard” - that is do more error correcting from ionizing radiation - there were entire teams at NASA dedicated to special hardware for this.

4. Gravity and atmospheric pressure actually do wonders for easy cooling. Heat is not dissipated in space like we are all used to and you must burn additional energy trying to move the heat generated away from source.

5. Energy production will be cheaper from earth due to mass manufacturing of necessary components in energy systems - space energy systems need novel technology where economies of scale are lost.

Would love for someone to make the case for why it actually makes total sense, because it’s really hard to see for me!
by stackghost | 2026-02-04 02:16:41+00:00
Even if you create a material with surface emissivity of 1.0:

- let's say 8x 800W GPUs and neglect the CPU, that's 6400W

- let's further assume the PSU is 100% efficient

- let's also assume that you allow the server hardware to run at 77 degrees C, or 350K, which is already pretty hot for modern datacenter chips.

Your radiator would need to dissipate those 6400W, requiring it to be almost 8 square meters in size. That's a lot of launch mass. Adding 50 degrees will reduce your required area to only about 4.4 square meters with the consequence that chip temps will rise by 50 degrees also, putting them at 127 degrees C.

No CPU I'm aware of can run at those temps for very long and most modern chips will start to self throttle above about 100
by IFC_LLC | 2026-02-04 02:16:58+00:00
Every time I see such an app and read their privacy notice... https://www.luffu.com/privacy-notice

It kinda scares me. Obviously right now their privacy notice is kinda empty due to just "wanting to join a wait-list", but even not it talks about saving the data. So it's another black-hole for ads, personal data collections and purposeless AI-agent integrations.

What does it solve that a group chat cannot solve? Do I actually want to share my personal information with my entire family? Am I unable to look at my dog and spot the fact that he is too fat or too slim?

And, for gawd's sake, I can't make my grandma to make a photo on a phone. Just a word VPN drives her into a panic mode. Why would anyone offer me to make her to log her medication in a group-chat app?
by econgs321 | 2026-02-04 02:17:20+00:00
Classic example of economic theory managing to dress up a kind of ahistorical theology as respectable science.

Consider this: if you take 'countries' as given (questionable), and some become rich whereas others remain or become poor, by induction you'd expect those trends to continue. A country that has remained poor for decades is likely to remain poor for decades, etc. "Bad governments" and other conditions that create poverty are not some kind of mean-reverting aberration.

The economists will carry on though, and thanks to their connections with finance and government, their prestige will never truly wink out.
by samantp | 2026-02-04 02:18:33+00:00
So true. There is a full powerful - weak spectrum. Those not at the top or bottom, in-between ones, turn a blind eye to this and accept it as a harsh reality of nature, enjoying spoils of this chain in the process. Worse, become servile to those above them and ruthless to those below. And as if this were not enough, doors of fashion philanthropy also open up for them!
by NickC25 | 2026-02-04 02:18:40+00:00
Uh, that's not "better".

If you have a huge chunk of change sitting around, you've raised too much or too early, and you've successfully diluted yourself for zero reason.

If you actually had a reason to raise a lot of money, you'd do with the money what you promised the investors (who gave you the money) you would.

I've raised before. I raised what I needed. Not a penny more because I didn't need the money.
by thaianhsoft | 2026-02-04 02:18:42+00:00
Location: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Remote: Yes (Strongly Preferred) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python (Litestar), Kvrocks (Redis on Disk), Kubernetes, IaC, Distributed Systems, LLM Agents. Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f_LfLBHg12Eh6aH7zzZFGMIfLUu...
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Intro: Self-taught Principal Engineer (7 years). I do not have a CS degree. I learned via MIT OCW in a hospital hallway to pay for my wife's delivery bills. That night, code became my survival mechanism.

Why I am an Outlier:

The "Revenge" Build (Why I built my own IaC SDK) I applied to Pulumi. They loved my technical manifesto but rejected me due to "Wrong Region." I did not give up. I built reactor-dev from scratch in 2-3 months (Drift detection, K8s reconcile loops).

The Validation: A major EV Tech Giant rejected me (no degree), yet they cloned my private repo 13 times to study the architecture. Engineers validated the code, even if HR rejected the person.

Frugal Engineering (The $5 vs $500 Mindset) I am building a social graph backend (DNA Platform) solo. I have no VC money for Cloud DBs.

Solution: I architected a custom Kvrocks + RAMDisk engine with UUIDv7 sorting.

Result: Reduced infra costs from ~$500/mo to $5/mo (100x reduction). 1000 retries dropped to 0.

Resilience I have been rejected by WorldQuant, Nvidia, and Zalo purely for "No Degree." Yet, I continue to ship production-grade distributed systems.

What I am looking for: I am not looking for a "stable job" to hide in. I am looking for a Founder/CTO who values execution over credentials. If you need an engineer who treats your infrastructure budget like their own grocery money, let's talk.
by SamDc73 | 2026-02-04 02:18:48+00:00
This is model 12188, which claims to rival SOTA models while not even being in the same league.

In terms of intelligence per compute, it’s probably the best model I can realistically run locally on my laptop for coding. It’s solid for scripting and small projects.

I tried it on a mid-size codebase (~50k LOC), and the context window filled up almost immediately, making it basically unusable unless you’re extremely explicit about which files to touch. I tested it with a 8k context window but will try again with 32k and see if it becomes more practical.

I think the main blocker for using local coding models more is the context window. A lot of work is going into making small models “smarter,” but for agentic coding that only gets you so far. No matter how smart the model is, an agent will blow through the context as soon as it reads a handful of files.
by happyopossum | 2026-02-04 02:19:14+00:00
> Is the title system in the USA decentralized or that much different than elsewhere?

As with most things both law-related and US-related, it depends. This type of scam would not work in the majority of states due to various laws, regulations, and bookkeeping (it would be nearly* impossible to sell land you don’t own in California for example).

There are other states (and countries - I’m looking at you Canada) where fraudulent documentation and virtually non-existent title checks allow this kind of fraud to persist.

[*] yes - virtually, not completely. It can happen, but the laws are set up such that the land owner will retain their land, the title fraud victim will be made whole financially by a title insurance company. What this means in practice is that title insurance companies make sure every transaction is legitimate and people don’t have to worry about it.
by k310 | 2026-02-04 02:20:14+00:00
This is really important. Loss of all freedom by a thousand cuts. A great reason to avoid tech giants (yeah, just try to do so).

Once again, Wilhoit's Law: [0]

Frank Wilhoit: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition … There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

[0] https://systemicunlearning.substack.com/p/wilhoits-law-there...
by cdf | 2026-02-04 02:21:12+00:00
The typical GPU cloud machine will have 8 H100s in a box. I didnt check your math but if a single machine needs 32 square meter radiator, 200 machines will probably be the size comparable to the ISS.

How much does it cost to launch just the mass of something that big?

Do you see how unrealistic this is?

Given that budget, I can bundle in a SMR nuclear reactor and still have change left.
by kelseyfrog | 2026-02-04 02:22:09+00:00
Parent just means "a lot" and is using 90% to convey their opinion. The actual numbers are closer to 0.083%[1][2][3][4] and parent thinks they should be 0.01-0.1% of the total build cost.

1. Assuming 500,000 USD in permitting costs. See 2.

2. Permits and approvals: Building permits, environmental assessments, and utility connection fees add extra expenses. In some jurisdictions, the approval process alone costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. https://www.truelook.com/blog/data-center-construction-costs

3. Assuming a 60MW facility at $10M/MW. See 4.

4. As a general rule, it costs between $600 to $1,100 per gross square foot or $7 million to $12 million per megawatt of commissioned IT load to build a data center. Therefore, if a 700,000-square foot, 60-megawatt data center were to be built in Northern Virginia, the world’s largest data center market, it would cost between $420 million and $770 million to construct the facility, including its powered shell and equipping the building with the appropriate electrical systems and HVAC components. https://dgtlinfra.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-build-a-data-...
by kittikitti | 2026-02-04 02:22:53+00:00
I would do this and make sure to convert to a privacy coin like Monero the first chance I get. I get audited by the IRS every year, even when I was making minimum wage in college. I hate the regulators and making it as difficult as possible for them would feel like justice.

That being said, there are slim chances I would ever be selected as a YC founder. My ideas are more like ChatGPT, nobody would dare invest in them until after it's already released, then all of a sudden chatbot startups get trillions of dollars.
by toast0 | 2026-02-04 02:23:04+00:00
It could easily be flakey hardware and different drivers. Not necessarily better or worse, but one driver cause the hardware to ocassionaly fail in exciting ways, like DMA to the wrong address if jusy the right access patterns happen.

If you've got an IO-MMU and everything aligns properly, devices can't DMA to the wrong place anymore, which might make it easier to track things down.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2026-02-04 02:23:07+00:00
Is it against the rules to say that most of the comments here (at least right now) are drastically missing the point? "Rich countries exploit poor ones!!" - ok, fine, you could argue that's been happening since the beginning of time, doesn't change anything about the conclusions of the article. "The article obsesses over GDP convergence!!" - you can argue GDP is not the perfect metric but the fact is a lot of these poor countries have not been converging on lots of quality of life metrics that matter.

The fundamental thrust of the article is that poor countries only "converged" for a short while due to the Chinese-driven commodity boom, and I think this argument is very compelling. Worse, as history has shown tons of times, commodity booms often end up being bad for a country in the long term because they don't lead to meaningful investments in other productivity-improving endeavors (e.g. Dutch disease that the article mentions).

And I think a subtext of this article is that the economic profession in general has a ton of soul searching to do. Too often economics has depicted rosy outcomes for a host of activities where it has just been flat out wrong. This article goes into detail about how "convergence" almost never happened except for a short "sugar high" driven my Chinese commodity demand. Similarly, I've seen a few mea culpas over the years arguing that the once orthodox view that globalization would be great for everyone failed to take into account how it could contribute to destabilizing democracies as the "economic losers" in rich countries started to demand more political power, one aspect in the rise of populism and some of its dangerous effects.
by deaux | 2026-02-04 02:23:48+00:00
The mistake you're making here is assuming that

> The hysteria over "assault weapons" basically outlawed guns that _looked_ scary, while not meaningfully making anyone safer.

This wasn't the goal by the congresspeople, and that them having fired a gun would've changed that goal.

That was the goal. They knew they weren't going to be able to pass any kind of legislation that actually msde people safer, but they wanted to look like they were "doing something".

This is incredibly common. It's the primary reason behind the TSA and its continuous expansion, for example.
by rtpg | 2026-02-04 02:23:48+00:00
YC companies are constantly spending the money they get from YC right? Why get money, then put it in some stablecoin, only to then immediately cash out on salaries or whatever?

How does that make any sense to the company? Who's out here wanting their salary in stablecoin? And who among those want that and can't receive dollars and then turn them into stablecoin?

There's a sliver of talent that won't have access to the US banking system, but I can't imagine that making it worth putting up with risk + txn costs of stablecoins for the whole company.
by techblueberry | 2026-02-04 02:24:25+00:00
One of the things I’ve noticed talking to Claude, is that like, one of the reasons Claude seems so genius is because of it’s ability to keep right up with me, to talk about things I want to talk about that other people may not and follow me down rabbit holes.

And having a person that keeps right up with you makes it feel like they’re very intelligent, because of course they are, they seem like scarily as intelligent as you. Because they’re right next to you, maybe even a little ahead! (I think Travis Kalanick was experiencing this when he was talking about Vibe Physics.)

But the thing is, it was ultimately an extension of your ideas, without your prompts, the ideas don’t exist. It’s very library of babel esque.

And so I wonder if coding assistants have this general problem. If you’re a good developer following good practices, prompting informatively, it’s right next to you.

If you’re not so good and tend to not be able to express yourself clearly or develop solutions that are simple, it’s right there with you.
by heavyset_go | 2026-02-04 02:25:27+00:00
Literally several times a week, I have to close PRs with docs that clearly no one read because they are blatantly wrong. This happened after LLMs. If what you're claiming is happening, I'm not seeing it anywhere.

AI is incapable of capturing human context that 99.999% of the time exists in people's brains, not code or context. This is why it is crucial that humans write for humans, not an LLM that puts out docs that have the aesthetics of looking acceptable.

If you want to see a great example of this, check out the opencode repos docs. They're byzantine and ridiculous.
Ask HN: How do you integrate design into your AI coding workflows?
by zemaj | 2026-02-04 02:25:48+00:00
I’m using AI tools heavily for coding, but I’m still figuring out the best way to incorporate product/UX design without it feeling bolted on. For those using AI in your dev workflow, how do you integrate design thinking, UI iteration, and usability checks? Do you use specific tools, prompts, or checkpoints? Would love to hear concrete workflows that have worked well.
by raincole | 2026-02-04 02:25:59+00:00
US tourists spend $177B per year abroad. When they spend their money in other countries[0], they surely experience the benefit.

The universal experience of Americans visiting Japan: how is such a developed place so affordable? Then they think Japan must do something exceptionally excellent. But the truth is it feels weirdly affordable because they are spending their American salary there.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tourism_rankings#:~:text...
by throw57990226 | 2026-02-04 02:26:06+00:00
Every human should have a country they could call home.

There are many Christian countries, and many Muslim countries, does it bother you so much if there’s one tiny Jewish country?

Every Christian country that has been around long enough has at some point persecuted and/or expelled its Jews.

Israel’s definition of Jew is not based on Rabbinic law - it’s based on who the antisemites considered Jewish enough to persecute.
by eucyclos | 2026-02-04 02:26:59+00:00
Having seen student politics with and without parties - my student union had them, my engineering society banned them - I'm convinced that it's not bad voters that ruin democracies but political parties. Parties need to simplify their messages to get buy in, and promote a 'team first' over 'issues first' mentality in their members. They're anathema to principles of honest debate and compromise.
by arcologies1985 | 2026-02-04 02:27:33+00:00
Planes are required to comply with instructions; if they don't they're committing a serious crime and the fighters are well within their international legal framework to shoot the plane down. They would likely escalate to a warning shot with the gun past the cockpit, and if the aircraft is large enough they might try to shoot out one engine instead of the wing or fuselage.
by matt-p | 2026-02-04 02:27:35+00:00
(DTC) Datacentres take electricity and turn it into low grade heat e.g 60c water. Put them anywhere where you've either got excess (cheap) energy or where you can use the heat. Either is fine, both is great, but neither is both bad and current standard practice.

It's perfectly possible to put small data centres in city centres and pipe the heat around town, they take up very very little space and if you're consuming the heat, you don't need the noisy cooling towers (Ok maybe a little in summer).

Similarly if you stick your datacentre right next to a big nuclear power plant, nobody is even going to notice let alone care.
by gordian-mind | 2026-02-04 02:27:37+00:00
Three counterpoints:

1) Kessler syndrome is a contingency.

2) This is a logistics issue, not a physical impossibility.

3) Those are different tradeoffs (solar in space). There is not really an argument there.

All in all this is extremely weak reasoning, which is quite the contrast with the definitive title.

I throw this to the "nerds need to feel smarter than Elon" pile of articles. :)
by trhway | 2026-02-04 02:28:38+00:00
It is SpaceX/Elon who bet billions on that yadda-yadda, not me. I wrote "If" for $10/kg. I'm sure though that they would easily yadda-yadda under sub-$100/kg - which is $15M per flight. And even with those $100/kg the datacenters in space still make sense as comparable to ground based and providing the demand for the huge Starship launch capacity.

A datacenter costs ~$1000/ft^2. How much equipment per square foot is there? say 100kg (1 ton per rack plus hallway). Which is $1000 to put into orbit on Starship at $100/kg. At sub-$50/kg, you can put into orbit all the equipment plus solar panels and it would still be cheaper than on the ground.
by thaianhsoft | 2026-02-04 02:28:43+00:00
Thanks for the fix!

I just followed your advice and posted my profile in the "Who wants to be hired" thread. it seem first new post

I'm shifting focus back to the code now—building the DNA Platform infrastructure in public on Bluesky (I share the deep technical engineering logs there if you're interested: https://bsky.app/profile/thaianhsoft.bsky.social).

I shared this story to leave a mark for other outliers, but now it's time to execute. Thanks for the nudge!
by markhahn | 2026-02-04 02:29:12+00:00
50MW is on the small side for an AI cluster - probably less than 50k gpus.

if the current satellite model dissipates 5kW, you can't just add a GPU (+1kW). maybe removing most of the downlink stuff lets you put in 2 GPUs? so if you had 10k of these, you'd have a pretty high-latency cluster of 20k GPUs.

I'm not saying I'd turn down free access to it, but it's also very cracked. you know, sort of Howard Hughesy.