MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LaGrange | 2026-02-05 23:09:59+00:00
> At Citus Data, we saw many customers with solid-sized teams of Postgres experts whose primary job was constant tuning, operating, and essentially babysitting the system to keep it performing at scale.

Oh no, not a company hiring a team of specialist in a core technology you need! What next, paying them a good wage? C'mon, it's so much better to get a bunch of random, excuse me, "specialized" SaaS tools that will _surely_ not lead to requiring five teams of specialists in random technologies that will eventually be discontinued once Google acquires the company running them.

OK but seriously, yeah sometimes "specialized" is good, though much less rarely than people pretend it to be. Having specialists ain't bad, and I'd say is better than telling a random developer to become a specialist in some cloud tech and pretending you didn't just end up turning a - hopefully decent - developer into a poor DBA. Not to mention that a small team of Postgres specialists can maintain a truly stupendous amount of Postgres.
by kelnos | 2026-02-05 23:09:59+00:00
Yes, and Moore's law took decades to start to fail to be true. Three years of history isn't even close to enough to predict whether or not we'll see exponential improvement, or an unsurmountable plateau. We could hit it in 6 months or 10 years, who knows.

And at least with Moore's law, we had some understanding of the physical realities as transistors would get smaller and smaller, and reasonably predict when we'd start to hit limitations. With LLMs, we just have no idea. And that could be go either way.
by ryanyu | 2026-02-05 23:10:12+00:00
I think agents should work like real teams, with independent, distinct roles, async communication, and the ability to onboard new teammates or tools without restructuring the whole org. I built backend systems at Yahoo and TikTok so event-driven agents felt obvious. But no agent SDKs were using this pattern, so I made Calfkit.

Calfkit breaks down agents into independent services (LLM inference, tools, and routing) that communicate asynchronously through Kafka. Agents, tool services, and downstream consumers can be deployed, added-to, removed, and scaled independently.

Check it out if this interests you! I’m curious to see what y’all think.
by LightBug1 | 2026-02-05 23:10:40+00:00
Interesting perspective.

Ignorance? I'll call it assumption. Arrogance? No, just disgust.

And just like I assumed your background, so you assumed mine with the same level of precision.

I'll not call you a coward for lumping those who now suffer under your current pseudo-fascist government (because it still is your government). Ok, I will. When your fellow man or woman suffers under the same oppression you've suffered, you don't turn and run, you stand and fight, if you're able.

And it disgusts me that you look at those "white liberals" who will, and have, fought for you, and treat their deaths with pithy disdain.

Enjoy your retirement.
by stirfish | 2026-02-05 23:10:42+00:00
lol

Let's go a step further and just iterate through them on the client. I plan on having this phone well past the heat death of the universe, so this is guaranteed to finish on my hardware.

function* uuidIterator() {
const bytes = new Uint8Array(16);
while (true) {
yield formatUUID(bytes);

let carry = 1;
for (let i = 15; i >= 0 && carry; i--) {
const sum = bytes[i] + carry;
bytes[i] = sum & 0xff;
carry = sum > 0xff ? 1 : 0;
}

if (carry) return;
}
}

function formatUUID(b) {
const hex = [...b].map(x => x.toString(16).padStart(2, "0"));
return (
hex.slice(0, 4).join("") + "-" +
hex.slice(4, 6).join("") + "-" +
hex.slice(6, 8).join("") + "-" +
hex.slice(8, 10).join("") + "-" +
hex.slice(10, 16).join("")
);
}

This is free. Feel free to use it in production.
by cowboylowrez | 2026-02-05 23:10:46+00:00
>There is no difference to me that some company does it via technology.

There is a difference, the company is doing it to everyone, technology enables new things to happen and laws don't cover it. Before it was impractical for police to assign everyone a personal stalker but tech has made it practical.

By default if something is new enough it has a pretty good chance of being legal because the law hasn't caught up or considered it in advance.
by rahimnathwani | 2026-02-05 23:10:47+00:00
But it continually, wildly performs slower and falls short every time I’ve tried.

If it falls short every time you've tried, it's likely that one or more of these is true:

A. You're working on some really deep thing that only world-class expects can do, like optimizing graphics engines for AAA games.

B. You're using a language that isn't in the top ~10 most popular in AI models' training sets.

C. You have an opportunity to improve your ability to use the tools effectively.

How many hours have you spent using Claude Code?
by nomel | 2026-02-05 23:10:50+00:00
If you're getting on along with 4.5, then that suggests you didn't actually need the large context window, for your use. If that's true, what's the clear tell that it's working well? Am I misunderstanding?

Did they solve the "lost in the middle" problem? Proof will be in the pudding, I suppose. But that number alone isn't all that meaningful for many (most?) practical uses. Claude 4.5 often starts reverting bug fixes ~50k tokens back, which isn't a context window length problem.

Things fall apart much sooner than the context window length for all of my use cases (which are more reasoning related). What is a good use case? Do those use cases require strong verification to combat the "lost in the middle" problems?
by hum3hum3 | 2026-02-05 23:11:07+00:00
My son wrote this (no AI), he got the lectures tab (written by the latest Codex 5.3 rampant for 2 1/2 hours) with Codex 5.3 of which ca 70% is written by itself. It feels like the singularity is now. It is remarkable what you can get done.
by the_real_cher | 2026-02-05 23:11:33+00:00
As long as the government continues to devalue the dollar, crypto is in a great position.

Speculating out several orders:

Once the new head of the fed takes over and pushes interest rate cuts per his bosses request, borrowing will get cheaper, money will flow and inflation will go up. The dollar will devalue. Congress will never stop going into a deficit with their spending bills as no one votes for austerity, requiring more and more money to be printed. Wages will not keep up with inflation as it skyrockets and taxes take an ever greater chunk of the workers check.

If things continue as they have been, at some point, the dollar will not be a good value proposition for average normal people to use for day to day exchange, and they will start to look into other options to maintain economic normalcy.

Crypto currency is poised to take over.

If you take speculation to even further orders beyond that... once people start to switch over to crypto en masse, the government will then start to track people's crypto usage to recoup it's tax money that it's losing.

Then privacy crypto currency will be poised to take over that.

Another interesting monkey wrench. The dollar is somewhat bastioned from inflation by being the worlds reserve currency. But imagine if the world lost faith in dollar and started to use something else like a EU or BRICS currency. I wonder how that would affect the dollars value?
by SomaticPirate | 2026-02-05 23:11:48+00:00
This makes sense for HPC and ML workloads. Big batch jobs where you are pushing the hardware and having everything local is a clear advantage. Also this company sells hardware so it makes sense for them to have hardware experience.
Still think that for the majority on here, needing to make a physical phone call to their data center team (!!) to rack a server is a nutty proposition.
You think the AWS api is slow? Trying calling Steve.
If you have fixed compute costs after a year, sure, look at pulling some stuff on prem.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-05 23:12:03+00:00
Idk. I don’t have a car. I still turn my phone off for 24-48 hours at a time because I enjoyed the ways things were before cell phones existed. I applaud people who pull over to take a phone call instead of using hands free talking. I am also curious if something like this might significantly reduce deaths due to inattentive driving or not.
by turblety | 2026-02-05 23:12:05+00:00
I'm not sure if you'd call it a productivity gain, but I have to host our infrastructure on a system that runs processes entirely in Linux userland.

To bridge the containers in userland only, without root, I had to build:
https://github.com/puzed/wrapguard

I'm sure it's not perfect, and I'm sure there are lots of performance/productivity gains that can be made, but it's allowed us to connect our CDN based containers (which don't have root) across multiple regions, talking to each other on the same Wireguard network.

No product existed that I could find to do this (at least none I could find), and I could never build this (within the timeframe) without the help of AI.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-05 23:12:07+00:00
well, redis is a bit of a junk bin of random barely related tools. It's just very likely that any project of non-trivial complexity will need at least some of them and I wouldn't necessarily advocate for trying jerry-rigging most of them in postgresql like the author of article, for example why would anyone want wasting their SQL DB server performance on KV lookups?
by pkoiralap | 2026-02-05 23:12:49+00:00
I think the 'better than googling' part is less about the final code and more about the friction.

For example, consider this game:
The game creates a target that's randomly generated on the screen and have a player at the middle of the screen that needs to hit the target. When a key is pressed, the player swings a rope attached to a metal ball in circles above it's head, at a certain rotational velocity. Upon key release, the player has to let go of the rope and the ball travels tangentially from the point of release. Each time you hit the target you score.

Now, I’m trying to calculate the tangential velocity of a projectile from a circular path, I could find the trig formulas on Stack Overflow. But with an LLM, I can describe the 'vibe' of the game mechanic and get the math scaffolded in seconds.

It's that shift from searching for syntax to architecting the logic that feels like the real win.
by eek2121 | 2026-02-05 23:13:19+00:00
This really makes me want to try something similar with content from my own website.

I shut it down a while ago because the number of bots overtake traffic. The site had quite a bit of human traffic (enough to bring in a few hundred bucks a month in ad revenue, and a few hundred more in subscription revenue), however, the AI scrapers really started ramping up and the only way I could realistically continue would be to pay a lot more for hosting/infrastructure.

I had put a ton of time into building out content...thousands of hours, only to have scrapers ignore robots, bypass cloudflare (they didn't have any AI products at the time), and overwhelm my measly infrastructure.

Even now, with the domain pointed at NOTHING, it gets almost 100,000 hits a month. There is NO SERVER on the other end. It is a dead link. The stats come from Cloudflare, where the domain name is hosted.

I'm curious if there are any lawyers who'd be willing to take someone like me on contingency for a large copyright lawsuit.
by vunderba | 2026-02-05 23:13:33+00:00
Lots of us put weeks/months into our projects. As somebody who's definitely had their fair share of "Show HN"s be swallowed into the murky depths, take the "L" and just give it a few weeks before reposting again.

Now onto some feedback:

**** What I like ****

The article is well-written and I really appreciate the candid nature of the journey to see this project through to the finish line.

**** What I don't like ****

There's literally dozens of JLPT flashcard sets (online and physical).

It's a bit hard for me to understand the point of the physical card aspect of this kickstarter. It pushes SRS/Leitner/etc - but I can't even fathom anyone trying to organize and set this up with physical cards.

The "no silly mnemonics" feels like a solution in search of a problem. Most of the flashcards that I've used for Chinese and Japanese had no such thing on them.

**** Questions ****

Did you work with a native Japanese speaker to vet your cards?

How can I rely on your expertise as a non-native speaker? Did you major in Japanese? What level of the JLPT have you passed?

I see no mention of 部首, are you incorporating radicals into the learning process?

**** Constructive ****

If it were a work of art, such that I could display the cards decoratively then I think I might be more inclined to invest. For example, if you'd gotten a Japanese calligrapher to do the kanji.
by markvandegrift | 2026-02-05 23:13:37+00:00
PDM Automotive | Product Manager | US Fully Remote | Full-Time - $125-135K

Ideally looking for someone with UX design background who has moved or would like to move into product. We're well positioned to dramatically change how the automotive aftermarket operates.

https://jobs.gusto.com/postings/pdm-automotive-product-manag...
by Manuel_D | 2026-02-05 23:13:40+00:00
> If you have no raise and your neighbor have a raise, then you are poorer

This is just factually wrong. If my neighbor gets a raise and I don't, and stuff costs the same amount then I have not gotten poorer. If my neighbor doubled his income tomorrow, how would I be any poorer? In theory, you could argue that his higher income results in inflation, but that's only the case if total productivity doesn't match the increase in the money supply.

Wealth is not zero sum: inflation adjusted wealth has increased over time: more houses and cars get built, more advanced industries increase productivity, etc. Wealth is not a fixed pie, the total amount of wealth in the world increases.
by Amorymeltzer | 2026-02-05 23:15:47+00:00
>Orwell's mistake lay in thinking there had to be actual war to keep the merry-go-round of the balance of power in being. In fact, in one of the more laughable parts of the book, he goes on and on concerning the necessity of permanent war as a means of consuming the world's production of resources and thus keeping the social stratification of upper, middle, and lower classes in being. (This sounds like a very Leftist explanation of war as the result of a conspiracy worked out with great difficulty.)

>In actual fact, the decades since 1945 have been remarkably war-free as compared with the decades before it. There have been local wars in profusion, but no general war. But then, war is not required as a desperate device to consume the world's resources. That can be done by such other devices as endless increase in population and in energy use, neither of which Orwell considers.

...

>He did not foresee the role of oil or its declining availability or its increasing price, or the escalating power of those nations who control it. I don't recall his mentioning the word 'oil'.

I feel like Asimov completely misses the point here. The fact that we didn't have the kind of "general war" Orwell wrote about doesn't mean this isn't meaningful or relevant, it just means we didn't do that then. Jump forward a few decades and it's not hard to imagine e.g. the Bush years of the US in Iraq and Afghanistan rhyming with Orwell a bit.

And, perhaps it's inevitable given this is from 1980, but Asimov is stuck in the overpopulation-as-demon narrative and peak-oil stuff. Neither of those have lasted the test of time.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-05 23:16:33+00:00
I'm using AI to help me code and I love Anthropic but I chocked when I read that in TFA too.

It's all but a clean-room design. A clean-room design is a very well defined term: "Clean-room design (also known as the Chinese wall technique) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights associated with the original design."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean-room_design

The "without infringing any of the copyrights" contains "any".

We know for a fact that models are extremely good at storing information with the highest compression rate ever achieved. It's not because it's typically decompressing that information in a lossy way that it didn't use that information in the first place.

Note that I'm not saying all AIs do is simply compress/decompress information. I'm saying that, as commenters noted in this thread, when a model was caught spotting out Harry Potter verbatim, there is information being stored.

It's not a clean-room design, plain and simple.
by simonw | 2026-02-05 23:17:04+00:00
Are you a frequent user of coding agents?

I ask because, as someone who uses these things every day, the idea that this kind of thing only works because of similar projects in the training data doesn't fit my mental model of how they work at all.

I'm wondering if the "it's in the training data" theorists are coding agent practitioners, or if they're mainly people who don't use the tools.
by buzer | 2026-02-05 23:17:31+00:00
Sure, but that's in connection with SARs and such (which have legal obligations are around secrecy). What I mean are the "generic" credit card payments where payment processors & banks process the personal data for things like fraud detection. That's perfectly fine legitimate interest, but that doesn't absolve them from article 14 requirements as fraud prevention doesn't have such requirements around secrecy around the fact that it even exists. They can restrict some detailed information e.g. regarding algorithm itself by relying on trade secrets, but that is different from their obligation to inform data subject that they received the information.
by ndesaulniers | 2026-02-05 23:17:35+00:00
Yeah, my current boss spent time weeding out such hardware bugs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11519 (EDIT: maybe https://x.com/Tesla_AI/status/1930686196201714027 is a more relevant citation)

They found a bimodal distribution in failures over the lifetime of chips. Infant mortality was well understood. Silicon aging over time was much less well understood, and I still find surprising.
by everforward | 2026-02-05 23:17:40+00:00
I would still call that small, maybe medium. emacs is huge as far as CLI tools go, awk is large because it implements its own language (apparently capable of writing Doom in). `top` probably has a similar number of interaction points, something like `lftp` might have more between local and remote state.

The complex and magic parts are around finding contextual things to include, and I'd be curious how many are that vs "forgot to call clear() in the TUI framework before redirecting to another page".
by disposition2 | 2026-02-05 23:17:41+00:00
I’m not saying it is historically accurate, but I would encourage anyone who didn’t experience interactions with law enforcement pre-9/11 (in the US) to watch early seasons of Law & Order.

It is pretty informative, even in the dramatic context of the show, to see police interactions and the respect for / erosion of individual rights when you view the seasons before 9/11/2001 and after 9/11/2001.
Show HN: Askie – Child-safe AI voice chat and art creation for kids (ages 4-15)
by sbenodiz | 2026-02-05 23:17:42+00:00
I built Askie after my child asked ChatGPT about snakes and received a detailed breakdown of the world's most lethal species. Weeks of nightmares followed.

The core insight: filtered adult AI isn't the same as AI built for children. A content filter catches bad words but doesn't adjust vocabulary for a 5-year-old vs. a 12-year-old, or know when to redirect a conversation.

Askie is voice-first (kids talk, not type), COPPA compliant, and gives parents full conversation transcripts. Image generation is built on Google Gemini with child-appropriate outputs.

Tech stack: Google Gemini for voice/conversations, Google Gemini for image generation, Railway for hosting, MongoDB, RevenueCat for subscriptions.

Currently serving 2,500+ families. Would love feedback from the HN community on the approach to child safety in AI.
by salleisha | 2026-02-05 23:18:02+00:00
I wanted to share a quick story. Last month, a founder reached out to us in a total panic. He’d just opened a letter from the State of Delaware with a tax bill for $175,000. For an early-stage company, that’s not just a bill—it’s an extinction event.

The Reality of the "Default" Bill: Delaware often uses the "Authorized Shares" method by default. If you have a high share count but low assets, their system generates a massive number. It’s essentially a placeholder until you prove otherwise.

We got on the phone with the state and it turns out all they needed was to see Form 1120 to verify the actual assets. Once the form was emailed, that $175k bill didn't just drop—it completely disappeared.

The lesson for everyone here: If you get a scary bill in the mail, don't panic.

Don't forget March 01 is the deadline for Delaware franchise tax. Since there are about a dozen other deadlines like this, we built a simple way to track them.

Instead of a spreadsheet, you can go to taxhero.vc/checkin, answer a few quick questions about your startup, and it’ll generate a custom automated calendar for you.

It takes about a minute and puts everything on autopilot so you can go back to actually building your product.

Has anyone else dealt with these "phantom" bills from Delaware or other states?
by throw310822 | 2026-02-05 23:18:47+00:00
Borges famously wrote a preface to a Spanish-language edition of "The martian chronicles". Excerpt:

"Ray Bradbury has preferred (unknowingly, perhaps, and by secret inspiration of his genius) an elegiac tone. Martians, who at the beginning of the book are horrible, deserve his pity when annihilation reaches them. Men vanquish and the author is not proud of their victory. He announces with sadness and disappointment the future expansion of mankind over the red planet - that his prophecy reveals as a desert of vague blue sand, with ruins of chess-like cities and yellow sunsets and ancient ships to wander on the sand.

Other authors stamp a coming date and we don't believe them, because we know it is a literary convention; Bradbury writes 2004 and we feel the gravitation, the fatigue, the vast and vague accumulation of the past - the 'dark backward and abysm of Time' from the Shakespeare verse. Already the Renaissance had noted, by mouth of Giordano Bruno and of Bacon, that the real Ancient Ones are us, and not the men from Genesis or Homer.

What has this man from Illinois done, I ask myself when closing the pages of his book, that episodes from the conquest of another planet fill me with horror and loneliness?

How can these fantasies touch me, and in such an intimate way? All literature (I dare reply) is symbolic; there are a few fundamental experiences and it is indifferent that a writer, to transmit them, recurs to the fantastic or the real, to Macbeth or to Rascolnikov, to the Belgium invasion in August 1914 or to an invasion of Mars. Who cares about the novel, or novelry of science fiction? In this book of ghostly appearance, Bradbury has placed his long empty Sundays, his American tedium, his loneliness, like Sinclair Lewis did on Main Street."