MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lyu07282 | 2026-02-26 01:40:00+00:00
in 1997 people talking about it on the Slackware Usenet group:

>Question: Why do you need 500MB of swap space? You would be better of
>spending your money on more RAM than wasting it on so much swap space,
>considering that it would most likely never be used anyways.

I work with systems that have between 256MB and 1GB of RAM and
between 4GB and 16GB available for Linux. My experience with other
operating systems is that swap should be 2X to 3X RAM

...

The info that I have read about Linux is that the 2x for swap space is
only for those running less than 16mb of ram. Your swap space could be
equal to your ram

...

I know there are broken OSes out there where it's recomended to
have 2x RAM swapspace, but Linux is not broken in that way.
With Linux you should have <Max needed memory> - <RAM> swapspace,
and depending on your needs that might range from 0 to infinity
MBs of swap.

...

THIS IS CRAZY!!!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE F--K YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

It goes downhill from there..

https://groups.google.com/g/alt.os.linux.slackware/c/hWy0h_S...
by eglove | 2026-02-26 01:41:00+00:00
"I'm also the director in charge of the entire Cloudflare Workers org, almost 80+ people at this point. I'm not just an IC engineer who has to find time to justify continuing to work on this. I can literally put people on it, and I've already been talking to the team about how to do exactly that." -Steve Faulkner
https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext/issues/21#issuecomment-...
by dirk94018 | 2026-02-26 01:41:47+00:00
This is exactly right. We hit the same wall. Our solution was to re-imagine Unix at https://linuxtoaster.com, and either pipe through jq etc or just start rewriting tools that do that. A good tool shouldn't be verbose out of laziness, it should be conscious of the information that might be needed by the next step in the pipeline. If deeper information is needed, the user should ask for that, with a command line flag.
by cholantesh | 2026-02-26 01:41:59+00:00
>Having military installations in residential areas is different than housing soldiers and civilians in the same buildings

It doesn't especially matter how different they are, since Israel's rather arbitrary definition includes both of those behaviours. Just like their definition of 'soldier', which, per their use of administrative detention, includes children as young as 12, and 'base', for which a dozen rifles spread out on a prayer mat often suffices.
by alexpotato | 2026-02-26 01:42:07+00:00
Many years ago (early 2000s) I worked for a firm that would help identify people who were doing "pump and dump" stock scams on Yahoo Finance message boards.

Step 1 was to scrape all of their posts into a database.

Step 2 was to have a human analyst review all of the posts for clues about who that person was

It was amazing that you could easily figure out:

- if they were at work or home from when they posted (9am to 5pm vs 6pm to 1am)

- what city they were in (based on sports teams, mentioning local landmarks etc0

- roughly what career they had

- their age based on cultural references

and mostly b/c they would drop a crumb of information here and there over months. They probably forgot about all of these individual events but when reading all of the posts in a few hours, the details became pretty evident. You get enough of these details and you can start to venn diagram people down to a few 100 likely candidates and then use LexisNexus style tools to narrow it down even further.

Given the above, it doesn't surprise me that LLMs can do the same but at high speed and across multiple sites etc.
by jjk166 | 2026-02-26 01:42:19+00:00
In the US the invention of the cotton gin reinvigorated slavery, which prior to that point had been declining. In the Antebellum south, slavery was profitable, with average return on slaves of about 8 to 10%. Even after slavery was legally abolished, extremely similar social institutions remained for decades (share cropping + institutionalized racism). It wasn't until the 1940s that cotton picking was mechanized.

The North steamrolled the South economically because manufacturing steamrolls agriculture in terms of productivity, but an apples to apples comparison between farmers shows slave owning plantations were economically more productive than free farmers. After abolition, the South's per capita productivity dropped substantially, and remained 20% lower per capita in 1880 than it had been in 1860.

Obviously slaves were individually much worse off than if they were free, and society as a whole suffered from the suppression of human capital. Had all those people been free for all that time, imagine what could have been accomplished besides growing more cotton. But for the slave-owner, there was never a point where abolition became economically advantageous, hence why slavery was ended at gunpoint.
by anyfoo | 2026-02-26 01:42:22+00:00
I don't think that's correct. Having swap still allows you to page out rarely-used pages from RAM, and letting that RAM be used for things that positively impact performance, like caching actually used filesystem objects. Pages that are backed by disk (e.g. files) don't need that, but anonymous memory that e.g. has only been touched once and then never even read afterwards should have a place to go as well. Also, without swap space you have to write out file backed pages, instead of including anonymous memory in that choice.

For that reason, I always set up swap space.

Nowadays, some systems also have compression in the virtual memory layer, i.e. rarely used pages get compressed in RAM to use up less space there, without necessarily being paged out (= written to swap). Note that I don't know much about modern virtual memory and how exactly compression interacts with paging out.
by stockresearcher | 2026-02-26 01:42:51+00:00
… and don’t forget about the new law they’re rolling out to lure the Bears from Chicago. Read the actual drafts so far… Absolutely nothing about the Bears being required to pay a dime for the stadium, but a whole bunch of new taxes for which the revenue is “redirected” into making the Bears’ lease payments. LOL, it’s such a huge money giveaway the Bears would be crazy not to take it.
by ibejoeb | 2026-02-26 01:43:54+00:00
I'm not giving you a hard time. I'm saying that I made my choice. I'm going to stay in my home.

I don't really think those are the only three choices, though. The government can fail and be replaced with a new one that will shape things up. Then it'll be replaced by another that thinks it's too big and well off to fail, squander it, and fail. That's the typical cycle.
by richardfeynman | 2026-02-26 01:44:21+00:00
This mixes up the first 24 hours with who launched the Intifada as a sustained campaign.

Even if you think Sharon’s Temple Mount visit was provocative and Israeli police used excessive force on Sept 29, senior Palestinian figures later said the uprising was coming anyway and was planned, and Sharon was a convenient trigger.

1) Marwan Barghouti told The New Yorker: the explosion would have happened anyway; Sharon provided a good excuse.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/01/29/arafats-gift

2) PA communications minister Imad al Faluji: this intifada was planned in advance since Arafat returned from Camp David.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/02/21/history-matters/

3) Suha Arafat said Arafat decided to start an intifada (MEMRI translation; CFR discusses it too).
https://www.memri.org/tv/suha-arafat-widow-yasser-arafat-200...
https://www.cfr.org/articles/arafat-and-second-intifada

Also, it is not just Israelis saying this. Mainstream sources record these admissions and describe the outbreak as Palestinian violence following the visit.

On Oslo: it was an interim framework with later permanent status talks, not a guaranteed rapid withdrawal and state. The PLO letter explicitly renounced terrorism and other violence.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1993-2000/oslo
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-107hr3743ih/html/B...
by Bender | 2026-02-26 01:44:27+00:00
Inequality will always be a thing. I am not saying it should be, just that it will be. Different people have different skill-sets, are in the right or wrong places at the right or wrong time, have different connections with people and a million other factors. Some are born with good RNG, some with a bad roll. We as a society can barely get along with one another as this world gets more inter-connected and as more incompatible cultures are forced to mix with one another. There are too many conflicting and incompatible situations to fix before we can even get close to equality. That is the reality I can see. Perhaps if we divided ourselves up into a matrices of 512 or 1024 groups and each group populated a planet of their own then perhaps some of those planets could achieve the desired equality. Maybe. No idea how long it would last. Even the sci-fi dream of Gene Roddenberry's totally equal future came with a lot of pain, wars, chaos and after all that there was still significant inequality and this was from someone that was a staunch believe in all forms of equality.
by epistasis | 2026-02-26 01:44:51+00:00
Back during the Iraq war days and government overreach into privacy violations, the tech companies were on the side of the American people. They fought to defend the 4th amendment.

That has all changed today, except for Anthropic. You think Apple is going to stand up to an unlawful DoJ demand these days? Hell no. Tim Cook has lit Apple's reputation on fire. I've been a super dedicated Apple user for 25 years, but I'm heading for the exits now. All that trust has been burned.

Stay strong Anthoproc, you are seemingly the only really large SV company with any principles and backbone. I won't forget what happens here, either way it goes.
by vincentalbouy | 2026-02-26 01:45:27+00:00
This is interesting thank you for reporting that. I am goi t o investigate that use case deeper. The models at core are Gemini / ChatGPT / claude so you should get a similar level answer or better (because of our data) not worse. I think in the VISA, we may have to do a specific training and setup of the system prompt.

Just so I know, you asked the exact same thing in both ChatGPT and our product? no changes?

Maybe the algorithm was too pushy on venue selection and not enough focused on the understanding of your problem.
Show HN: PullMaster – Recommends code reviewers from your repo history
by justinko | 2026-02-26 01:46:45+00:00
I've been a developer for 20+ years and reviewer selection has been a recurring problem at every company I've worked at. Either you're a CODEOWNER getting spammed on every PR, or you're in Slack trying to find someone who actually knows the code you changed. CODEOWNERS is too coarse — it maps paths to people, but doesn't account for who's available, who reviewed this author before, or who actually touched these files recently.

I built PullMaster to fix this. It's a GitHub App that analyzes your repo's actual history and recommends the best reviewer for each PR. It adapts to the risk level of each change, so critical PRs surface experienced reviewers while routine ones get distributed across the team.

Install the GitHub App and comment `@pullmaster-ai suggest` on a PR to get a recommendation with an explanation, or `@pullmaster-ai assign` to also request the review automatically. No configuration needed — it learns from your repo as soon as it's installed.

It's free. I'd use it at my day job but being in a heavily regulated industry without SOC 2 makes that a non-starter, so I'm looking for early users and feedback. Happy to answer questions about how it works.

https://www.pullmaster.ai
by XCSme | 2026-02-26 01:47:16+00:00
Cool experiment, I like the idea of going deep on a micro-niche instead of chasing broad keywords.

Since you're comparing structured overviews vs blog-style content, I'd watch scroll depth and click behavior closely. I built UXWizz, and for niche hubs heatmaps and session recordings have been way more useful than raw pageviews. You can quickly see if people just grab a code and bounce or actually explore the internal links and sections.
by EvanAnderson | 2026-02-26 01:47:20+00:00
I didn't remember that they'd shipped that. I remember reading about it but I ever tried it. My hot take, after 10 minutes, is that it's frustrating and not at all a replacement for Notepad. (Fortunately you can uninstall the shitty "Windows Notepad" and the real notepad.exe takes over.)

This new "Edit" is completely tone-deaf in that it doesn't keep the keybindings from Notepad (i.e. no CTRL-H for find/replace, no F5 for the current date/time). You can't turn off the status bar or the line numbers. It doesn't follow the OS theme (instead pretending to be a text-mode application). It tries to be "helpful" with indentation.

At least they bothered to get Find Next with F3 right.

It would have been immensely better if they'd just ported the old MS-DOS EDIT / QBASIC over to Windows.
by anyfoo | 2026-02-26 01:47:33+00:00
I'm not an expert, but aren't you just reducing the choice of what pages can be offloaded from RAM? Without swap space, only file-backed pages can be written out to reclaim RAM for other uses (including caching). With swap space, rarely used anonymous memory can be written out as well.

Swap space is not just for overcommitting memory (in fact, I suspect nowadays it rarely ever is), but also for improving performance by maximizing efficient usage of RAM.

With 48GB, you're probably fine, but run a few VMs or large programs, and you're backing your kernel into a corner in terms of making RAM available for efficient caching.
by donmcronald | 2026-02-26 01:48:00+00:00
The warning says something along the lines of "Dangerous Site Ahead. Attackers on [site] may trick you into doing something dangerous..."

If I'm the only one with access to the site, they're calling me an attacker and saying that I might try to steal passwords, credit card info, etc.. If they're calling me an attacker, that seems like more than an opinion. Wouldn't they have to prove I'm a bad guy if they're asserting I'm a bad guy?
by DesaiAshu | 2026-02-26 01:48:18+00:00
It is generally understood in the industry that around half of universities are in significant debt / financial distress (started prior to Covid // the demographic peak // recent DoE cuts). Graduate underemployment is also quite high due to a lack of alignment (or perhaps slow alignment) of degree programs to career outcomes

https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/assets/working-...

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2025/aug/jobs-degrees-...

Ideas for solutions here:

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED604299.pdf
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-02-26 01:48:43+00:00
16gb.

Fwiw you’ll see technical reasons for swap being a bad idea on servers. These are valid. Virtualised servers don’t really have great ways to make swap work.

On a personal setup though there’s no reason not to have swap space. Your main ram gets to cache more files if you let the os have some space to place allocated but never actually used objects.

As in ‘I don’t use swap because i don’t use all my ram’ isn’t valid since free ram caches files on all major OS’s. You pretty much always end up using all your ram. Having swap is purely a win, it lets you cache even more.
by CWuestefeld | 2026-02-26 01:49:04+00:00
I apologise if my comment somehow seemed to defend LLMs having a biological sex

No, it didn't seem like that at all. What it seemed to do was to try to turn a technical point into a political conversation, just like I said. And your reply has confirmed it.

I feel marginalises intersex people and could have been more inclusively worded.

Well, my entire statement about this was 212 characters long. The broadest estimates I can find are that 1-2% of the population have DSDs. So if we want true proportionality, I should have made, at most, 4 of those characters devoted to them. Which characters would you choose?

There's a thing in writing about focusing on the point you're trying to make, without weighing it down with baggage extraneous to the point. Failing to follow this makes one's writing tedious and difficult to follow. I prefer to keep my writing clear over tedious and difficult.
by burkaman | 2026-02-26 01:49:11+00:00
That's true they are not new buildings. Here's one that is: https://www.appliedmaterials.com/us/en/semiconductor/epic-pl...

The Infinera one is described as a "new fab" though (https://www.nist.gov/chips/infinera-california-san-jose) and the Bosch one is adding a new type of fabrication to an existing site. If you can do all that without getting new permits then that makes California sound like a pretty lenient place to do business. I'm assuming they did have to get new permits though.
by defrost | 2026-02-26 01:49:30+00:00
"Obsolete" is pretty strong, clearly it's still limping along and hasn't quite yet succumbed to Benjamin's Franklin's expectation that it would fall to Despots if not vigoriously maintained.

But it was absolutely seen as "a good first effort" that could be improved upon in the 1890s.

Evidence of that is the new Australian Federation used the UK Westminster system and the system straight of Washington as inspiration to create what was considered "better" .. a Washminster system of government.

The current degeneration of a system founded by people opposed to Party Politics into a Hotelling's law quagmire of two parties, neither particularly broadly representative of general population, should be sound evidence that something went wrong along the way.

That's the emergant behaviour of discrete iterations of the US electoral system as was and as is for you.

Still, absolutely thumbs up for effort and intent those bold founders.

Shame it didn't scale well and got captured by corporations.
by varenc | 2026-02-26 01:49:49+00:00
Any examples of the Strong Towns finance decoder already filled in for major cities?

edit: nevermind, found lots of example here! https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1iV3NEJqsY0y8N1...

sadly lots of the big cities I was interested not included. Guessing with these it's more difficult to get the input numbers.
by vampirical | 2026-02-26 01:50:20+00:00
To me at least this appears to be a smoking gun for the creator not being able to function in good faith. Whether that's intentional or self delusion, who knows.

From the page itself, "A modern auto paint shop emits volatile organic compounds (VOCs) during primer, base coat, and clear coat application. The Bay Area AQMD makes permitting a new paint shop nearly impossible. This is THE classic example of what you can't do in CA." This point is trotted out and reframed multiple times on the page but it's literally self contradictory. It's not something you can't do in California, it's something you can't do without approval in the Bay Area Air District.

It's not a good place to be doing such an activity, as the area already can't successfully keep the air healthy enough to stay within federal limits due to environmental factors that trap particulate low to the ground. If you're at all familiar with the area you know concerns about air quality are not overblown and. Go further away from people or meet strict VOC regulations if you absolutely need to be doing that kind of work in the area, seems completely reasonable to me.
by gritzko | 2026-02-26 01:51:18+00:00
Don't forget to check the new name with Claude:

Are there revision control systems named "got"?

Searched the web
Searched the web

Yes! There is at least one notable revision control system named "Got" — specifically Game of Trees (Got), developed for OpenBSD.

Game of Trees (Got) is a version control system which prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibility.
Gameoftrees
It's actively developed — version 0.123 was released on February 25, 2026
Gameoftrees
, just yesterday.

Got uses Git repositories to store versioned data. At present, Got supports local version control operations only, and Git can be used for any functionality which has not yet been implemented in Got. It will always remain possible to work with both Got and Git on the same repository.
Lobsters

So "Got" is essentially a friendlier, simpler front-end to Git's underlying storage format, designed with OpenBSD's philosophy of simplicity and clean code in mind.
by alexpotato | 2026-02-26 01:51:27+00:00
A friend of mine was the head lab technician at a large prestigious research university.

I always assumed that the research being done at these schools was done by top tier scientists with grad students who cared deeply about the research, had excellent attention to detail and impeccable scientific process.

From talking to my friend, I realized:

- most of the grad students were people who didn't want to get a corporate job

- they wanted to extend their college experience as long as possible

- the absolute lack of discipline and rigor they showed to their experiments was astounding

- the lead academic was usually someone passionate and dedicated and often had to "herd cats" to get anything done ON TOP OF coordinating funding, lab space etc

Really opened my eyes to "how the sausage is made" when it comes to research.
by nee1r | 2026-02-26 01:51:44+00:00
we have an alignment blog post dropping soon! scaling up in the next couple of months, then hopefully opening up an API or licensing it.

Benchmarks are really fun—lots of secret ones. Our main thesis is that you should be using the same benchmarks to measure human ability to use a computer, as you would an AI model. Definitely a suite of continuous long term planning tasks (games) and things such as marking emails as spam etc.

definitely! we are looking into more interp + visualizations in general as we scale up.
by XCSme | 2026-02-26 01:51:55+00:00
Nice stack so far. Coolify + Hetzner is a solid combo once you start consolidating services.

Since you're already self-hosting Umami, you might also want to look at UXWizz. I built it, and it fits the same privacy-first, self-hosted model but adds session recordings and heatmaps on top of basic analytics. It runs fine on a small VPS and keeps you off the recurring SaaS treadmill, but it does have a one-time cost, as it comes with support too. You can use the docker-compose to set it up, and also learn more about Coolify while doing so: https://docs.uxwizz.com/installation/docker/via-docker-compo...
by bsder | 2026-02-26 01:51:56+00:00
> Do you know of any free/open-source examples that solve this problem well?

No. Sorry, I should have been clearer. None of the open source programs handle this.

> These heuristics seem like exactly the sort of thing that commercial CAD applications can afford to spend resources on, and that open-source community-driven applications would struggle with.

This seems like one of those things where "the industry" converged to a solution and the people outside of it simply don't know what it is.
by saghm | 2026-02-26 01:52:37+00:00
> He flipped a guitar upside down because he could source one more easily than a lefty model.

I've read that he claimed he played a right-handed guitar upside down because his father was superstitious and didn't like him doing things left-handed, so he'd play a right-handed guitar upside down most of the time and flip it over when he needed to play in front of his father. (I'm not sure why he didn't play a lefty guitar upside if that was the case, but I could imagine that the availability might be relevant like you mentioned, or maybe his father was familiar enough with guitars to be able to recognize a left-handed one and figure out what was going on, or maybe because he was better left-handed he could play it upside-down well enough but due to not being right-handed he would have found it more difficult to play it in the non-standard way).