MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 10:18:57+00:00
> From license terms you can see that any independent developer and small teams could use it without any issues

Right, until they cannot, and that choice won't be made from their own agency, and most people will try to avoid ending up there, hence not using the project in the first place.

Not saying "it's doomed to have zero users", but you'll probably find it slightly strange when people seemingly would have perfect use for your project, yet find other options anyways.

> And yes I do not want it to be "free stuff" for big corporations. I just do not know any existing license that can define such terms.

Guess BSL would fit you, but yeah, if you want any sort of restrictions, what you want is something else than Free and Open Source Software, and that's fine of course, just be aware it'll be a hard sell to developers used to FOSS. Again, a fine choice to be making and understandable.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-03 10:19:09+00:00
A few of those Unity store Assets are Copyright submarines. Where the original rights holders work was slightly tweaked to avoid detection for royalty fees in some jurisdictions.

Those assets end up being a liability later after publishing, can get your content DMCA flagged, and a firm sued (you will 100% lose in court if you don't settle.)

The Unity store does not prevent this issue, and kit bashing fun became dangerous to a publisher on the platform. It was impossible to determine what is safe with the new LLM tools, so the board banned the platform and engine.

Firms do make this mistake everyday, or just license generic Reallusion content. =3

"There is a bear in the woods. For some people, the bear is easy to see. Others don't see it at all. Some people say the bear is tame. Others say it's vicious and dangerous. Since no one can really be sure who's right, isn't it smart to be as strong as the bear? If there is a bear." (Hal Riney)
by Fumblenuts | 2026-02-03 10:19:19+00:00
Does the Wiz article read like AI for anyone else? The headings, paragraph structure, and sentence structure feel very similar to what I've seen LLMs produce. It also seems to heavily use em dashes (except the em dashes were replaced with minus signs).

Feels kinda funny reading an LLM generated article criticizing the security of an LLM generated platform. I mean I'm sure the security vulnerabilities were real, but I really would've like it if a human wrote the article; probably would've cut down on the fluff/noise.
by rgb999 | 2026-02-03 10:19:30+00:00
The fragmentation in the ecosystem is getting pretty difficult to manage. Most tools are still just passive dashboards that do not show you these lifecycle issues until your deployment actually fails.

We recently started to build Kunobi internally because we think the community needs to move beyond simple resource viewers and into tools that actually help manage the health of the cluster. It is frustrating that critical stuff like the Ingress NGINX retirement is so easy to miss with current tooling.
by keiferski | 2026-02-03 10:19:37+00:00
No, I mentioned in the grandparent comment:

> Although karma points are not equivalent to quality,

But I don't think they are totally uncorrelated to quality, either. So you'd need a way to factor karma points in without over-valuing them.

To really get specific, the only thing we're really measuring here is something like, well-written, succinct comments that are appreciated by HN users that are able to upvote. Which is not exactly super useful or insightful, but is a fun exercise.
by taurath | 2026-02-03 10:19:58+00:00
Please understand that his companies succeeding in some things doesn’t make the things that are exaggerated, overpromised, or just plain naked hype with no backing somehow practical. It’s an interesting effect of our age that for some figures to some people if any criticism is considered unwarranted then all criticism must be disregarded.

It reminds me of growing up in the evangelical church and all the pastors who’d still keep their followers even after they show up in new cars or fly first class, taking the tithes from old ladies on their pension.
by felix-h | 2026-02-03 10:20:13+00:00
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by tieanderson | 2026-02-03 10:20:59+00:00
How to Convert OST Files to PST

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by anupamchugh | 2026-02-03 10:21:20+00:00
This solves distribution well. Curious about the change propagation story though - what happens when you update your .ai/ source and tools have cached/transformed versions?

I ran into this building a spec/skill sync system [1] - the "sync once" model breaks down when you need to track whether downstream consumers are aware of upstream changes.

[1] https://github.com/anupamchugh/shadowbook
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 10:21:40+00:00
I have had a bad experience with Anki so far. Maybe someone can chime in, clearing things up for me:

When I search for HSK vocabulary Anki decks or whatever they call it, I found almost exclusively sets of words that are the wrong way around. They showed me the Chinese characters and asked me what the English translation is. I was incredulous about how many wrong decks there are and that I could not find good decks. I was starting to wonder, if people are actually just using Anki to learn to read Chinese characters, one-way learning basically, only recognition not writing. Only for reading subtitles and such, instead of writing with friends. Or perhaps they have the illusion, that they are able to write, because they can type in the Pinyin, and will get a selection of characters, which they then can recognize. But I, I want to be able to properly write the characters myself. The crucial issue was, that I did not find a simple setting to invert the direction of translation of a deck. How can such a simple thing not be among the most easy to find actions to perform with a deck? I read something about it not being possible on mobile phone, but somehow being possible on computer, but not as simple as flipping a switch.

Ultimately, I abandoned Anki and recently proceeded made my own tool for learning the characters, that is highly configurable and that can change the direction with the change of one config attribute.
by audunw | 2026-02-03 10:21:42+00:00
Do you have to bring up D in every Zig related post?

I do like D. I've written a game in it and enjoyed it a lot. I would encourage others to check it out.

But it's not a C replacement. BetterC feels like an afterthought. A nice bonus. Not a primary focus. E.g. the language is designed to use exceptions for error handling, so of course there's no feature for BetterC dedicated to error handling.

Being a better C is the one and only focus of Zig. So it has features for doing error handling without exceptions.

D is not going to replace C, perhaps for the same reasons subsets of C++ didn't.

I don't know if Zig and Rust will. But there's a better chance since they actually bring a lot of stuff to the table that arguably make them better at being a C-like language than C. I am really hyped to see how embedded development will be in Zig after the new IO interface lands.
by kruador | 2026-02-03 10:22:02+00:00
To be clear, it is currently really easy to find because major earthworks are being done, and that requires space to move in the equipment to do it, along with new roads to get to points that were previously inaccessible, being the middle of nowhere.

To see what it will look like afterwards, try to find High Speed 1, aka the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, now that it's had nearly 20 years to be landscaped and vegetation to grow back. If you don't know what you're looking for, you won't see it.
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by scott_w | 2026-02-03 10:22:52+00:00
> I’d hazard that this may be true now, but this feeling was created by the same “security measures” we’re discussing.

Slight tangent but I recall travelling within the Schengen Zone for the first time and just walking off the plane and straight into a taxi. When I explained what I did to someone she asked "but what about security? How do they know you've not got a bomb?" I don't think I had the words to explain that, if I did manage to sneak a bomb onto the plane into Madrid, I was probably not going to save it for the airport after I landed...
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by robtherobber | 2026-02-03 10:23:06+00:00
> The prosecutor's office also said it was leaving X and would communicate on LinkedIn and Instagram from now on.

I mean, perhaps it's time to completely drop these US-owned, closed-source, algo-driven controversial platforms, and start treating the communication with the public that funds your existence in different terms. The goal should be to reach as many people, of course, but also to ensure that the method and medium of communication is in the interest of the public at large.
by sandos | 2026-02-03 10:24:38+00:00
Agree, but it seems dependent on field. One day I wanted a browser extension made, and 5.2-codex-max added hundreds of lines of code several times, and for 15-20 iterations I did not change one thing, or even have an opinion on what it was doing. This is extremely uncommon for other models for me, even Opus I would say. And yes, I mostly do small green-field things and not even that works all the time, even if LLMs are clearly at their best there.
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by jacquesm | 2026-02-03 10:24:50+00:00
It's incredible that within two minutes after posting this comment is already grayed out whereas it makes a number of excellent points.

I've been playing with various AI tools and homebrew setups for a long time now and while I see the occasional advantage it isn't nearly as much of a revolution as I've been led to believe by a number of the ardent AI proponents here.

This is starting to get into 'true believer' territory: you get these two camps 'for and against' whereas the best way forward is to insist on data rather than anecdotes.

AI has served me well, no doubt about that. But it certainly isn't a passe-partout and the number of times it has caused gross waste of time because it insisted on chasing some rabbit simply because it was familiar with the rabbit adds up to a considerable loss in productivity.

The scientific principle is a very powerful tool in such situations and anybody insisting on it should be applauded. It separates fact from fiction and allows us to make impartial and non-emotional evaluations of both theories and technologies.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 10:25:12+00:00
Really prefer Hetzner in this sense because they actually talk about limits. I recently got myself a hetzner account (after shilling it for so much, hearing positivity, I felt like it was time for me to discover it)

I wanted to try out the most cheapest option out of frugality & that was actually limited (but kudos to them that they mentioned that these servers have limits) so no worries I went and picked the 5.99 euro instead of the 3.99 euro option instead.

They also have limits option itself as a settings iirc and it shows you all the limits that are imposed in a transparent manner and my account's young so I can't request for limit increases but after some time, one definitely can.

Essentially I love this idea because essentially Cloud is just someone's else's hardware and there is no infinitium. But I feel as if it can come pretty close with hetzner (and I have heard some great things about OVH and have a good personal experience with netcup vps but netcup's payments were really PITA to setup]
by boshalfoshal | 2026-02-03 10:25:14+00:00
two things:

1. ai being able to code well seems like it would also get pretty close/good at doing basically everything else you described. If coding is a game of reasoning, if you can solve that, you have effectively solved reasoning and you can likely map it to most other problems provided you have a sufficiently good harness and toolcalling setup.
2. Lets assume AI won't replace everyone as point (1) assumes - and it just replaces _most_ people. Under this assumption, we will likely see large swathes of layoffs. Many SaaS companies have a pay per seat model. Less people employed at companies = less seats being paid for = less SaaS revenue.

So not only is there a threat of companies just vibe coding various SaaS-es in house, but there is also a threat that the TAM of many SaaS products (which is typically proportional to the # of employees there are) will actually _shrink_ in size.

I think the main class of SaaS company that will remain in the medium term are the ones in legally touchy or compliance heavy industries - think healthcare, finance and security (workday for example). But even Workday will be affected by point (2) from above. Overall, I think the mid-long term outlook for SaaS, especially "SaaS", is not great.
by noduerme | 2026-02-03 10:25:52+00:00
okee yeah, and rules are rules, and there's a reason to think that. It would be nice if we lived in a world where rules could be bent in some cases for individuals if they actually posed no theeat, but we all have to deal with the lowest common denominator wanting to cause the most damage, so here we are.

I must say, one thing that this reminds me of is what happens if you board an El Al flight. They don't racially profile you, they just ask you some fairly innocuous questions and watch your responses. I assume they have some way of monitoring your blood pressure, heart rate, and pupil dilation at a distance... but this hasn't really changed since the 1980s, when those things had to be read or guessed in realtime by a trained human. They have a phenomenally safe record, for a country under constant terror attacks.

My takeaway from flying El Al is that there is a much better way to deal with security, that analyzes and addresses the potentially bad individual motives of anyone getting on a plane, and mostly lets everyone else pass. Which is to say that security in its best form should be almost transparent to people without malicious intentions. Having good intelligence coupled with treating each person as their own potential bomb threat is far superior to superficially treating everyone as a threat and having no real security, and far better than just creating security theater around certain people because they're of one race or ethnicity. But El Al's methods probably don't scale well to the size of US or European air travel, because you need highly trained people to stand there in the airport make those calls on the fly for every single passenger.

If I were to guess - I'd guess El Al would let a Sikh bring a blade if they looked him in the eye for 10 seconds and decided he was okay.
by ben_w | 2026-02-03 10:25:56+00:00
> $50k/year or ~$250k over the course of the vehicle's lifetime, instead of $5k for a singular sale event

Who will be paying Tesla $50k/year, and why?

Considering what Uber drivers take home after costs, I think this is unrealistic.

> Chinese ADAS are much better than European ones but still far behind FSD.

Not so, on both "much" and "far". Some tests put FSD ahead of various Chinese options, other tests put them behind. Tesla's FSD is still considered a level-2 system due to the failure modes it has, whereas (Europe's) Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot and (Japan's) Honda Sensing Elite are level 3. Allegedly others exist, but I'm mentally categorising those as vapourware until they ship, this is demonstrably a domain in which it's easy to fool oneself into thinking the destination is closer than it is.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-03 10:26:08+00:00
The Twitter debt is not that big in the grand scheme of things. Twitter has been absorbed into his AI company some time ago. SpaceX is a big business. And despite the decline, Tesla is also still a big business. Both generate quite a few billions in revenue.

The staggering amount of money Elon Musk raised for doing AI stuff is quite a bit more than what he ever expended on the Twitter value implosion. I think we can agree that there isn't much left of that. Also, whatever debt was issued for that was issued in dollars. We've had a few years of inflation and dollar devaluation recently. I don't think whatever Twitter debt there was is much of big headache for X at this point.

X.ai is controversial mainly because of Musk. But if you can look beyond that, it does actually have a bit of non trivial IP. Grok is not bad as a LLM. It's not necessarily best in class but it's close enough to be useful. Apple needs to license their AI from Google and OpenAI. MS outsources to OpenAI. Amazon doesn't really have their own models at all. So, as trillion dollar companies go, having your own in house developed model training pipeline that actually works isn't all that common yet.

Musk for all his failings has a talent for looking beyond the current day to day navel gazing that characterizes VC short term thinking and much of the activity in silicon valley. He clearly looks at space as a bit of underused real estate.

Star Link is one of those mad plans that actually seems to make sense now that he has proven that launching thousands of satellites into space isn't that big of a deal and can actually be profitable if you get a few million people to spend billions per month on reliable data connections.

AI data centers in space are similarly ludicrous unless you have a newly developed 100+ ton to orbit reusable launch capability at your disposal. Also, the nature of doing stuff in space is that it is a very people hostile environment. So having some in house AI capability isn't the worst idea for a space company with ambition, which like it or not SpaceX clearly has. I wouldn't call X.ai a bar gain. But what's the alternative if you are semi serious about controlling an armada of space craft across the solar system?
by cobblestone32 | 2026-02-03 10:26:10+00:00
Here's a citation about filters.

> The overwhelming majority of independent research shows that filters do not reduce the harms associated with smoking - a fact understood by tobacco industry scientists in the 1960s. In fact, filters may increase the harms caused by smoking by enabling smokers to inhale smoke more deeply into their lungs.

Also, plain common sense will tell you that inhaling toxic smoke through a small piece of paper is not much healthier than inhaling toxic smoke directly.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9340047/