MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by miki123211 | 2026-02-03 06:52:09+00:00
Don't forget vetocracy.

Every regulation, whether it's environmental, DEIA or anti-fraud, adds a few steps to each project. With enough regulations and enough steps, things just slow down to a crawl.

As governments and legal systems get older, they get into more and more situations where a bad thing happens, and the politicians must show that they've done something to stop a similar thing from happening again. Nobody can publicly admit that it's fine to letting a 5-year-old kid die once in a while, even if that would be the right call. This results in more and more layers of regulation being added, which nobody has an incentive to remove.
by rizzo94 | 2026-02-03 06:52:54+00:00
You nailed it with the 'hype smell.' The silence in your circles is likely because the churn rate on OpenClaw is massive. Most people hit that 'Day 2' wall—where the novelty wears off and the reality of securing a bot with shell access sets in—and they just quietly shut it down.

I was in that exact boat (wanted the agency, didn't want the sysadmin headache). I’ve actually pivoted to testing PAIO (Personal AI Operator) instead. It targets the same 'agentic' utility but uses a BYOK architecture and a managed security layer.

It basically solves the specific failures you linked:

Security: You aren't leaving a shell open on your local machine.

Setup: It’s a one-click integration rather than a failed sandbox install.

Cost: BYOK means you control the token burn directly, so no surprise bills from a runaway loop.

It feels like the 'adult in the room' version of these experiments. Less dramatic stories, perhaps, but it actually runs daily without me worrying it’s going to rm -rf my home directory.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-03 06:53:29+00:00
> Yeah I'm on the $20/mo Google plan and have been rate limited maybe twice in 2 months. Tried the equivalent Claude plan for a similar workload and lasted maybe 40 minutes before it asked me to upgrade to Max to continue.

The TLDR: The $20/40m cost is more reflective of what inference actually costs, including the amortised cost of the Capex, together with the Opex.

The Long Read:

I think the reason is because Anthropic is attempting to run inference at a profit and Google isn't.

Another reason could be that they don't own their cost centers (GPUs are from Nvidia, Cloud instances are from AWS, data centers from AWS, etc); they own only the model but rent everything else needed for inference so pay a margin for all those rented cost centers.

Google owns their entire vertical (GPUs are google-made, Cloud instances and datacenters are Google-owned, etc) and can apply vertical cost optimisations, so their final cost of inference is going to be much cheaper anyway even if they were not subsidising inference with their profits from unrelated business units.
by delis-thumbs-7e | 2026-02-03 06:54:11+00:00
This is unbelievably depressing. Why to learn any skills at all, since some model is going to do it pretty soon and companies only need bunch of sales people, your Musk’s and Bezos’, to sell that crap. Rest of us rotten our brains online living on goverment hand-outs and designer drugs.
by verdverm | 2026-02-03 06:54:14+00:00
meh piece, don't feel like I learned anything from it. Mainly words around old stats in a rapidly evolving field, and then trying to pitch their product

tl;dr content marketing

There is this super interesting post in new about agent swarms and how the field is evolving towards formal verification like airlines, or how there are ideas we can draw on. Any, imo it should be on the front over this piece

"Why AI Swarms Cannot Build Architecture"

An analysis of the structural limitations preventing AI agent swarms from producing coherent software architecture

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46866184
by Cloudef | 2026-02-03 06:54:52+00:00
It's completely possible to implement printf. here is my impl (not 100% correct yet) of snprintf for my custom libc implemented on top of a platform I'm working on <https://zigbin.io/ab1e79>
The va_arg stuff are extern because zig's va arg stuff is pretty broken at the moment.
Here's a C++ game ported to web using said libc running on top of the custom platform and web frontend that implements the platform ABI <https://cloudef.pw/sorvi/#supertux.sorvi> (you might need javascript.options.wasm_js_promise_integration enabled if using firefox based browser)
by Mordisquitos | 2026-02-03 06:54:58+00:00
1. Mankind never systematically lived in caves; that's just where remains and rock paintings are more likely to have survived.

2. Farming didn't evolve from a vision of "let's stay in one place, so let's find a way to do it"; it evolved from the gradual application of accumulated practical knowledge under real constraints until eventually it was possible to stay in one place. If Paleoelon had somehow convinced early humanity to abandon hunter-gathering and settle into a sedentary life because he had a vision for new markets around farming it would have led to the earliest famine.
by rizzo94 | 2026-02-03 06:55:06+00:00
The 'burner Gmail' workaround is the definition of security fatigue. If you have to migrate 10 years of email history just to feel safe, the friction kills the utility before you even start.

I completely agree that raw local installs are terrifying regarding prompt injection. That’s actually why I stopped trying to self-host and started looking into PAIO (Personal AI Operator). It seems designed to act as that missing 'security layer' you’re asking for—effectively a firewall between the LLM and your actual data.

Since it uses a BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) architecture, you keep control, but the platform handles the 'one-click' integration security so you aren't manually fighting prompt injection vectors on a VPS. It feels like the only way to safely connect a real Gmail account without being the 'crazy' person giving root access to a stochastic model.

Has anyone else found a way to sandbox the Gmail permissions without needing a full burner identity, or is a managed gateway like PAIO the only real option right now?
by asdefghyk | 2026-02-03 06:55:39+00:00
Is not generally well known but Microsoft stole the idea of product activation ( as used in Windows XP and more ) and copied the methodology of the activation parameters etc from the guy that invented and patented it . There was a big court case about it and appeals , it ended with Microsoft having to pay penalty of (I recall ) $250M USD . There is very brief info on this wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Richardson

There is a much more detailed video by Ric RIchardson around I will see if I can find it and post the link .....
by bcrosby95 | 2026-02-03 06:56:45+00:00
I think it's nearly impossible to "learn" to the same depth when someone else writes the code: it doesn't matter if its your teacher, friend, coworker, or AI writing the code. There absolutely is a difference between having to toil to come up with an answer, fail, fail some more, work through design flaws, then eventually come up with the right answer. You learn a lot in the process.

Versus someone or something giving you the, or even several, correct answers and you picking one. You are given what works. But you don't know why, and you don't know what doesn't work.

Learning from AI coding probably is somewhere between traditional coding and just reading about coding. I'm not sure which one it's closer to though.

However, it may not be necessary to learn to that depth now that AI coding is here. I don't really know.
by ashishb | 2026-02-03 06:57:01+00:00
> Any company seriously looking to replace GitHub should pay some attention the social network aspect of it.

Indeed.
And I would say it is not just social signals but even non-social authority signals.

E.g. how many other projects depend on this projects and how many downloads happen for its artifacts.

You can see some of these on package registries like npm and pypi where their authority signals help people choose between the right libraries.
by aaronpina | 2026-02-03 06:58:30+00:00
It's great that Elon has such ambitious plans, but as he keeps saying, he wants the future to look like the Culture in Iain M Bank's sci-fi series of the same name. If you read at least the first book of the series, you'll see that it's a Communist society run by AI's. I'm not really sure that's the kind of future I want to be living in. Elon's original plan just to make life multi-planetary was a much more palatable future.
by gopalv | 2026-02-03 06:58:33+00:00
> This seems very basic

Yes, this is not some sort of hard-fought wisdom.

It should be common sense, but I still see a lot of experiments which measure the sound of one hand clapping.

In some sense, it is a product of laziness to automate human supervision with more agents, but on the other hand I can't argue with the results.

If you don't really want the experiments and data from the academic paper, we have a white paper which is completely obvious to anyone who's read High Output Management, Mythical Man Month and Philosophy of Software Design recently.

Nothing in there is new, except the field it is applied to has no humans left.
by shetyemanasi | 2026-02-03 06:59:53+00:00
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by ezimedia | 2026-02-03 07:00:06+00:00
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Why this works:

Personal (“I built…”)

Offline / anti-SaaS angle (HN likes this)

Explains why it exists

Mentions paid part without pushing
by aronishchal | 2026-02-03 07:00:40+00:00
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by reverius42 | 2026-02-03 07:00:47+00:00
* no electric bill: if you use solar panels to provide your own power, you also have no electric bill on Earth.

* no cost for land: land in sunny places where crops don't grow (for instance) is good for solar power and very cheap compared to building out a datacenter

* no charge for maintenance: sorry, I really don't get this one. Why don't the computers in space need any maintenance?
by noduerme | 2026-02-03 07:01:09+00:00
Honestly, I would just give them a pass to carry a ceremonial knife, if they could prove they were Sikhs and not someone pretending to be. But I guess that's why we can't have nice things and why the same rules have to apply to everyone. I think most reasonable people understand that they can't preserve every aspect of their personal beliefs or pride in a situation involving the safety of millions of people flying daily. Carrying a weapon is certainly a bit unusual as a pillar of faith, but there are plenty others that could also be deemed antipathetic to the well function order of a modern society trying to move people safely from A to B. So if you're Amish, take a horse. If it's Shabbat, wait til Sunday.

What I mean is that even if it's reasonable for a TSA agent to wonder if a Sikh is skirting the rule, it's unreasonable to single out Sikhs. In part because there is nothing to indicate that they're a threat, but also because there's every reason to think that a guy with no religious reason for carrying is far more of a threat.
by tayo42 | 2026-02-03 07:01:17+00:00
Imo you need to struggle to learn and make things click.

I don't see why even with Ai you won't need to have a solid understanding of the parts of computing programing is built on top of.

Even if your prompting, you need to know what to prompt for. How are you going to ask it to make it faster if you don't know it can be faster, or if you waste time on trying to make something faster that can't be?

Go through something like cs classes from MIT and do the work.
by bonesss | 2026-02-03 07:01:34+00:00
I think it makes more sense if you invert the manufacturing cycle.

Automated asteroid mining, and asteroid harvesting, are potential areas where we have strong tech, a reasonable pure automation story, and huge financial upsides. Trillion dollar asteroids... If we’re sourcing metals out there, and producing for orbital operations or interplanetary shenanigans, the need for computing and automation up there emerges.

And I imagine for the billionaire investor class now is the window to make those kinds of plays. A whole set of galactic robber barons is gonna be crowned, and orbital automation is critical to deciding who that is.
by dngray | 2026-02-03 07:01:42+00:00
Not everyone mentioned in the Epstein documents is associated with kid diddling.

Also the thing about "surreptitiously giving melinda antibiotics" weren't actually written by Bill and he has since denied it.

> It’s unclear who the Boris referenced in the emails is, or if the messages were ever sent to anyone. Only Epstein is listed in the to and from fields.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/871879/bill-gates-epstein-file...

So the emails were some emails in Epstein's draft folder he never sent to anyone. This is a dude who peddled in dirt and leverage against anyone and anything, probably how he got so wealthy and why he had his island parties in the first place. There is a reason why in the Kevin Rudd related mentions he is described as a "odious character in the extreme" basically stay clear from him.
by hvb2 | 2026-02-03 07:01:45+00:00
> Dozens of new GW+ wind farms came online in the last four years.

Thats not that much is it given the size and energy demand of the country? And that's over the past 4 years, you'll only see the true impact of this in the next 6 years.

> This concerns a few projects in a few particular locations that are exposed to federal interference

Markets are driven by a lot of feelings too. If you're trying to build a wind farm now, why on earth would you do that in the US? There are just many better options.

Your private businesses will happily skip over the US if they understand markets. Don't row upstream, find a place where your investment is wanted
by kristopolous | 2026-02-03 07:01:59+00:00
Recently I made a humor evals https://github.com/kristopolous/humor-evals

I have results currently for 32 models (testing a few more right now). So far gemini-3-flash-preview is in the lead.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wLqHA0ohxukgPLpSgklz...

50 is coin-toss odds.

Task: Identify which of two jokes is funnier, using a dataset of 195,000 Reddit jokes with scores presented with pairs of jokes (one highly upvoted, one poorly rated).

Example prompt:

Which joke from reddit is funnier? Reply only "A" or "B". Do not be conversational.
<Joke A><setup>Son: "Dad, Am I adopted"?</setup>
<punchline>Dad: "Not yet. We still haven't found anyone who wants you."</punchline></Joke A>
<Joke B><setup>Knock Knock</setup>
<punchline>Who's there?
Me.
Me who?
I didn't know you had a cat.</punchline></Joke B>

This is my first crack at evals. I'm open to improvements.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 07:02:25+00:00
The ISS goes into Earth's shadow for ~45 minutes and then in the sun for 45 minutes, in 24/7 repeat;

this system would not be given such an orbit. Its trivial to decrease the cooling capacity of the radiators: just have an emissivity ~0 shade (say an aluminum foil) curtain obscure part of the radiator so that it locally sees itself instead of cold empty space. This would only happen during 2 short periods in the year.

The design issues of the ISS are totally different from this system.
by SkullTech | 2026-02-03 07:02:28+00:00
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by ILoveHorses | 2026-02-03 07:02:35+00:00
One can use AI to lead you to better sources. The issue I face is, whenever I search something I want to understand in a search engine, the first 10 links are always low-quality SEO links, or surface level AI generated tutorials. There is a treasure of high-quality blogs, books, interactive tutorials out there which don't show up when you search for it. For example, if you wanted to learn socket programming, you'd be better off following Beej's guide to socket programming instead of 100 g4g pages. Similarly, for Bash, you'd actually understand how every word you write works instead of just memorizing 20 commands if you followed TLDP's book or lhunath's guide. How do you find these resources? Use Perplexity or Reddit's AI to search for high-quality resources.
by locknitpicker | 2026-02-03 07:03:02+00:00
> meh piece, don't feel like I learned anything from it.

That's fine. I found the leading stats interesting. If coding assistants slowed down experienced developers while creating a false sense of development speed then that should be thought-provoking. Also, nearly half of code churned by coding assistants having security issues. That he's tough.

Perhaps it's just me, but that's in line with my personal experience, and I rarely see those points being raised.

> There is this super interesting post in new about agent swarms and how (...)

That's fine. Feel free to submit the link. I find it far more interesting to discuss the post-rose tinted glasses view of coding agents. I don't think it makes any sense at all to laud promises of formal verification when the same technology right now is unable to introduce security vulnerabilities.
by exodust | 2026-02-03 07:03:07+00:00
> "the optimal path is somewhere in between"

I think this is the correct answer. Also we technically never stop learning. There's always some new coding trick that alluded us until AI spits it out.

My 2 cents: Switch to chat mode from agent mode and have better chats about approaches to code. I'm constantly challenging AI to explain its code, including talking about pros and cons of this or that method, and even the history of why certain new features were brought to javascript for example. It's also fun to query the AI about performance optimisation, presuming we all want the least amount of cycles used for the given procedure.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-03 07:04:07+00:00
Deep integrations are hard and the AI companies are just winging it when it comes to eating their own dog food. Their apps are bare bones, somewhat flaky, and overall not that impressive from a UX point of view.

It's very obvious that while their AI teams are top notch, their product teams are very middle of the road. Including design. Even though they apparently engaged Jony Ive, I can't actually see his 'touch' on anything they have. You'd expect them to have a much higher level of ambition when it comes to their own products. But they seem stuck getting even the basics shipping. I use Chat GPT for Desktop. It's alright but it seems to have stagnated a bit and it has some annoying bugs and flakiness. Random shit seems to break regularly with releases as well.

Another good example of the lack of vision/product management is the #1 and oldest use case for LLMs since day 1: generating text. You'd expect somebody to maybe have come up with the genius idea of "eh, hmm, you know, I wonder if we can do better than pasting blobs of markdown rendered HTML to and/from a word processor from a f**ing sidebar".

Where's the ultimate agentic word processor? The ultimate writing experience? It's not there. Chat GPT is hopelessly clumsy doing even the most basic things in word processors. It can't restructure your document. It can't insert/delete bits of text. It can't use any of the formatting and styling controls. It can't do that in the UI. It can't do that at the file level. It's just not very good at doing anything more than generating bits of text with very basic markdown styling that you might copy paste to your word processor. It won't match the styling you have. Last time I checked Gemini in Google docs it was equally useless. I don't have MS Office but I haven't heard anything that suggests it is better.

For whatever reason, this has not been a priority (bad product management?) or they simply don't have the creativity to see the rather obvious integration issues in front of them.

Yes making those is a lot of work and requires a bit of planning. But wasn't the point of agentic coding that that's now easy? Apparently not.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-03 07:04:31+00:00
> Both Claude and ChatGPT were unbearable, not primarily because of lack of technical abilities but because of their conversational tone.

It's pretty much trial and error.

I tried using ChatGPT via the webchat interface on Sunday and it was so terse and to the point that it was basically useless. I had to repeatedly prompt for all the hidden details that I basically gave up and used a different webchat LLM (I regularly switch between ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini).

When I used it a month ago, it would point out potential footguns, flaws, etc. I suppose it just reinforces the point that "experience" gained using LLMs is mostly pointless, your experience gets invalidated the minute a model changes, or a system prompt changes, etc.

For most purposes, they are all mostly the same i.e. produce output so similar you won't notice a difference.