MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ineedasername | 2026-02-03 19:13:12+00:00
> Why does 1000 still make more sense?

The author doesn’t actually answer their question, unless I missed something?

They go on to make a few more observations, and say finally only that the current different definitions are sometimes confusing, to non experts.

I don’t see much of an argument here for changing anything. Some non experts experience minor confusion about two things that are different, did I miss something bigger in this?
by Aurornis | 2026-02-03 19:13:52+00:00
> Then Anthropic started saying I’m not allowed to use my Claude Code subscription with my preferred tools

To be clear, since this confuses a lot of people in every thread: Anthropic will let you use their API with any coding tools you want. You just have to go through the public API and pay the same rate as everyone else. They have not "blocked" or "banned" any coding tools from using their API, even though a lot of the clickbait headlines have tried to insinuate as much.

Anthropic never sold subscription plans as being usable with anything other than their own tools. They were specifically offered as a way to use their own apps for a flat monthly fee.

They obviously set the limits and pricing according to typical use patterns of these tools, because the typical users aren't maxing out their credits in every usage window.

Some of the open source tools reverse engineered the protocol (which wasn't hard) and people started using the plans with other tools. This situation went on for a while without enforcement until it got too big to ignore, and they began protecting the private endpoints explicitly.

The subscription plans were never sold as a way to use the API with other programs, but I think they let it slide for a while because it was only a small number of people doing it. Once the tools started getting more popular they started closing loopholes to use the private API with other tools, which shouldn't really come as a surprise.
by wvenable | 2026-02-03 19:14:01+00:00
> The computer industry abused these definitions because 1000 is close to 1024, creating endless confusion.

They didn't abuse the definitions. It's simply the result of dealing with pins, wires, and bits. For your problems, for example, you won't ever have a system with 1 "MB" of RAM where that's 1,000,000 bytes. The 8086 processor had 20 address lines, 2^20, that's 1,048,576 bytes for 1MB. SI units make no sense for computers.

The only problem is unscrupulous hardware vendors using SI units on computers to sell you less capacity but advertise more.
by sally_glance | 2026-02-03 19:14:05+00:00
In the past these trends were cyclical though. We're coming from an expansion phase (mainly driven by the COVID IT and AI craze) and now going through stagnation towards recession (global manufacturing crisis pulling our service sector down with it). This mirrors the hiring trends (or demand for workers). I'm not sure why you wouldn't expect the pendulum to swing back at some point.
by jalapenoi | 2026-02-03 19:14:06+00:00
> Even as the government expands free nursery hours, it’s not enough to make having a child financially viable for many people. The fantasy of the one-working-parent household is no longer the norm, and parents are being destroyed by exorbitant childcare fees.

Socialism fails because it’s paid for by taxes on the youth anyway, it’s just a circular waste of money after the bureaucracy takes their cut. Stop stealing the youth’s wealth with socialism and taxes for the sake of the old.
by IhateAI | 2026-02-03 19:14:06+00:00
Hmm, I guess you technically just need to convince a notary that you're the seller and with virtual closings/ mobile notaries I guess that's probably pretty easy.

But still the scammer would never see the earnest money, unless the buyer backed out outside of an option period for whatever reason. Presumably they wouldn't if the land is cheap, and they've agreed to pay cash and put earnest money down.
by radicaldreamer | 2026-02-03 19:14:08+00:00
Due to the way Microsoft does sales to enterprises, there’s no incentive for its software to be any good or even compete directly with anyone else… as long as it ticks the right boxes, the people making purchasing decisions are fine with it (it’s bundled in with something critical like Excel anyway).

If the gov really took an expansive view of antitrust, it would break up software bundling and require ala carte pricing per app, defined as a single primary use case.

This will become all the more important as OpenAI/Anthropic start bundling all of their products together and putting existing SaaS out of business for no reason other than to get some crucial model or capability, companies have to buy the whole bundle.
by yardie | 2026-02-03 19:14:46+00:00
Yes, the problem is capital. US has loads of it and Europe does not. So a lot of European startups have 3 options: remain niche, get bought out buy US investors, move the corporate seat/brain trust to the US.

There are many small European startups who do not have infrastructure to take on large European multinationals as clients. A lot of EU labor laws have hard requirements at 50 and 100 employees so startups stay below those lines and remain tech lifestyle companies.
by dp2447 | 2026-02-03 19:14:59+00:00
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by r2vcap | 2026-02-03 19:15:12+00:00
From my years of iOS development—and based on https://xcodereleases.com typically ships two major Xcode updates each year:

- X.0 (September): bumps Swift, SDK versions, etc. It also tends to have a noticeably longer beta cycle than other releases.
- X.3 or X.4 (around March): bumps Swift again and raises the minimum required macOS version.

Other releases in between are usually smaller updates that add features or fix bugs, but they don’t involve major toolchain-level or fundamental changes.

Today’s release doesn’t bump the Swift version, which suggests the core toolchain is essentially the same as Xcode 26.2—so it makes sense that the minimum macOS version wasn’t raised either.
by pphysch | 2026-02-03 19:15:44+00:00
Privilege escalation (superuser capabilities) and RBAC ought to be viewed differently, IMO.

There's a place for true superusers, such as auditing, where no stone should be too heavy. But mostly for securing systems, we want RBAC, and sudo is abused as a pile-driver where only a mallet was needed. Polkit is more of a proper policy toolkit.
by meisel | 2026-02-03 19:15:48+00:00
My experience with AI with its predecessor, Xcode 26.2, was _really_ bad. One bug made it objectively unusable, and there were lots of fun issues/huge functionality gaps on top of that. Apple doesn't really seem to "get" agent-based coding, but I'm curious to see the results of other braver souls with 26.3.
by zephen | 2026-02-03 19:15:51+00:00
Knuth thought the international standard promulgated naming (kibibyte) was DOA.

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html

And he was right.

Context is important.

"K" is an excellent prefix for 1024 bytes when working with small computers, and a metric shit ton of time has been saved by standardizing on that.

When you get to bigger units, marketing intervenes, and, as other commenters have pointed out, we have the storage standard of MB == 1000 * 1024.

But why is that? Certainly it's because of the marketing, but also it's because KB has been standardized for bytes.

> Which is the reality. "kilobyte" means "1000 bytes". There's no possible discussion over this fact.

You couldn't be more wrong. Absolutely nobody talks about 8K bytes of memory and means 8000.
by latexr | 2026-02-03 19:16:21+00:00
> I'll concede that

In case it wasn’t clear, I wasn’t trying to “gotcha” you or anything. I took your message to be in good faith. I just knew the website used to exist on another page because I remember having it in my bookmarks and it breaking and having to search for the new one.

> but that's still several years after the law was deployed

Maybe, I do not know. I didn’t search for it before then, so for all I know it was available at some other domain too. Or maybe it wasn’t, that’s the earliest one I remember.
by 7bit | 2026-02-03 19:16:28+00:00
The issue lies somewhere in between.

I agree that businesses who unlawfully sell your data or do not implement a minimum of security measures should be punished hard.

I also agree that a flat 5000 € is problematic. Not because I believe that breaking the law shouldn't be punished. It's because you also get punished if you protect the data and respect your customers, but you don't document the thousand things you must document as a small business.

I don't know if you ever looked at GDPR, but that does not distinguish between a company with five employees and 50,000 employees.

The company with 5 employees must exactly (!!!) implement the same audit trail and processes that the 50,000 employee company has to do. Or worse, there's literally no difference between you founding a company and Facebook.

This shit gets extremely overwhelming extremely fast and that's just killing small businesses.
OpenClaw SaaS
by mikemilla | 2026-02-03 19:16:42+00:00
Who is building this or wants to build this?

I envision a saas that spins up as many openclaws as the user wants. Just make an account and pay. No buying a mac mini or spinning up a vm yourself.

Looking for someone technical but with more sales/marketing skills to build this with.

I'm an engineer of 15 years / product designer. I could build the entire thing myself, but having someone with marketing skills would be very helpful.

Just feels inevitable. Fuck it. Let's build it.

x.com/mikemiller
by pixl97 | 2026-02-03 19:16:51+00:00
>California could copy the regulations of any of the 49 other states and be much better off.

Says whom?

California has a huge population. California has a massive water shortage problem. California has wide areas vulnerable to wildfires. California has piles of small ecosystems that are fragile and can be easily wiped out.

Saying California could copy some states like Iowas regulations makes negative sense.
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 19:17:03+00:00
Thats one of the points im trying to make. Incomes have stagnated, people at the lower end already were kind of splurging, now they cant justify it at all. So further cost reductions have to go into the product. COVID also masked the ability of companies to just extract more profit out of the product due to the price shocks that never went back down.
by andai | 2026-02-03 19:17:20+00:00
When I last checked a few months ago, Anthropic was the only provider that didn't have automatic prompt caching. You had to do it manually (and you could only set checkpoints a few times per context?), and most 3rd party stuff does not.

They seem to have started rejecting 3rd party usage of the sub a few weeks ago, before Claw blew up.

By the way, does anyone know about the Agents SDK? Apparently you can use it with an auth token, is anyone doing that? Or is it likely to get your account in trouble as well?
Show HN: MyNextCamp – Search 500 beach volleyball camps in one place
by SvaleDrea | 2026-02-03 19:17:27+00:00
Hi HN,

I built MyNextCamp (https://mynextcamp.io) to solve a problem I had as a beach volleyball player: finding camps meant visiting 20+ organizer websites, comparing dates/prices manually, and missing early-bird deals.

MyNextCamp aggregates 537+ camp sessions from organizers worldwide, updates daily, and lets you:
- Compare camps side-by-side with filters (location, dates, skill level, price)
- Get alerts when spots open or prices drop
- Share selections with friends to plan group trips
- View everything on a timeline

Tech stack: Next.js 15, Supabase, Fly.io. Built scrapers to pull data daily from official sources. No ads, free to use.

This is a side project (solo founder) serving a niche community. Looking for feedback on:
1. UX/filtering - is it intuitive?
2. What features would make this more useful?
3. How to reach more players without a marketing budget?

Try it out (no signup required to browse): https://mynextcamp.io
by xpe | 2026-02-03 19:17:28+00:00
> there is no monetization built in this website lol.

First, this could change. Second, even if monetization isn't built "into" the website, it can happen via communication mediated by this website. Third, this isn't the first and won't the last website of its kind: the issues I raise remain.

> just a front-end

Facebook is "just" a website. Yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is "just" vibrations of air molecules. It is wise to avoid the mind-trickery of saying "just" and/or using language to downplay various downstream scenarios. It is better pay attention to effects, their likelihood, their causes, their scope, their impacts.

There are probabilistic consequences for what you build. Recognize them. Don't deny them. Use your best judgment. Don't pretend like judgment is not called for. Don't pretend like we "are just building technology" as if that exempts you from reality and morality. Saying "we can't possibly be held accountable for what flows from something I build" is refuted throughout history, albeit unevenly and unfairly.

It might be useful to be selectively naive about some things as a way to suspend disbelief and break new ground. We want people to take risks, at least some of the time. It feels good to dream about e.g. "what I might accomplish one day". It can be useful to embrace a stance of "the potential of humanity is limitless" when you think about what to build. On the other hand, it is rarely good to be naive about the consequences (whether probabilistic, social, indirect, or delayed) of one's actions.
by ReptileMan | 2026-02-03 19:17:57+00:00
>Most of Europe did just fine with state owned telecommunication companies which lasted well into the 1990s or even the 2000s.

Early 2000s were the times when 50Mbit in Eastern Europe when it was the wild west cost 10eur/month through lan cable and in Western Europe ADSL and ISDN cost multitude of the cost for fraction of the speed.
by vercaemert | 2026-02-03 19:17:58+00:00
Yes, I only plan/implement on fully AI projects where it's easy for me to tell whether or not they're doing the thing I want regardless of whether or not they've rewritten the codebase.

For actual work that I bill for, I go in with intructions to do minimal changes, and then I carefully review/edit everything.

That being said, the "toy" fully-AI projects I work with have evolved to the point where I regularly accomplish things I never (never ever) would have without the models.
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-03 19:18:06+00:00
>space based solar power could scale more easily than that on earth.

Actually provide an argument instead of just asserting this.

On earth, deployment of a built solar panel is screwing it into a dirt cheap frame on the ground.

To deploy a solar panel in space, you must attach it to a satellite that no one involved has even pretended to claim is designed, so you need a factory for those on the same order of magnitude as your panels, you need enough boost capacity, so a factory for rockets, and a much larger fuel industry, and then you need all the immense engineering required to do any of that at all, and then you need to spin up the industries to supply this brand new industry, and then you need to manage all those satellites in space, and then you still don't get any actual power because it's all in space so you haven't scaled SHIT

It's all absolute horseshit. No, none of this is planned. He's just going to cash in on the IPO.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 19:18:18+00:00
Was curious yet again (Please note once again that the sql query is LLM generated)

WITH
-- 1. Find the latest karma for the user
latest_user_data AS (
SELECT
id,
argMax(karma, update_time) AS current_karma
FROM hackernews_changes_profiles
WHERE lower(id) = lower('6LLvveMx2koXfwn') -- Put the username here
GROUP BY id
),
-- 2. Calculate their total word count
total_word_stats AS (
SELECT
by,
sum(length(splitByWhitespace(text))) AS total_words
FROM hackernews_history
WHERE lower(by) = lower('6LLvveMx2koXfwn') -- Put the username here
AND type = 'comment'
AND deleted = 0
GROUP BY by
)
-- 3. Join them and calculate the ratio
SELECT
k.id AS user,
k.current_karma AS karma,
w.total_words,
-- Ratio: How much karma they get for every 100 words they write
round((k.current_karma / w.total_words) * 100, 2) AS karma_per_100_words,
-- Raw Ratio
round(k.current_karma / w.total_words, 4) AS raw_ratio
FROM latest_user_data k
JOIN total_word_stats w ON lower(k.id) = lower(w.by)

user 6LLvveMx2koXfwn
karma 1288
total_words 6696
karma_per_100_words 19.24
raw_ratio 0.1924

The difference between the fact that your karma's lower/words different is that the database behind it is old from clickhouse.

Ran it on my own it's 0.0063 which makes sense because much of what I write isn't intended for pure comment-karma but rather just whatever I am thinking actually. I am still honestly just happy that this post had reached the front page of HN (looks like now its on the second page)

Finally going to sleep now. I have tried to answer to many queries/interesting things that people wanted something for. I will still see if I may have missed any & respond to them tomorrow if I might have the time tomorrow.
by Supermancho | 2026-02-03 19:18:31+00:00
Why? Because the US stable coins are an abstraction on top of US treasuries. It's effectively trading in the US debt market, not trading in crypto-hype.

The Fed is interested in converting the debt to another medium, for obvious reasons. Stablecoin looks to be the leader, since a number of the new administration have talked about it in the last decade (re: Scott Besset stablecoin speech).

I can understand why some companies want their runway in a currency that may go up during a transition (a more favorable exchange rate). There's little lossage in the exchange of USDT/USDC in the short term. Seems like a hedge strategy.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-03 19:18:37+00:00
I'm getting similar numbers on NVIDIA Spark around 25-30 tokens/sec output, 251 token/sec prompt processing... but I'm running with the Q4_K_XL quant. I'll try the Q8 next, but that would leave less room for context.

I tried FP8 in vLLM and it used 110GB and then my machine started to swap when I hit it with a query. Only room for 16k context.

I suspect there will be some optimizations over the next few weeks that will pick up the performance on these type of machines.

I have it writing some Rust code and it's definitely slower than using a hosted model but it's actually seeming pretty competent. These are the first results I've had on a locally hosted model that I could see myself actually using, though only once the speed picks up a bit.

I suspect the API providers will offer this model for nice and cheap, too.
by krackers | 2026-02-03 19:18:52+00:00
It seems like LLMs will result in "service abundance" sooner than "material abundance." Both since progress in robotics seems to be behind that of LLMs, and because the US doesn't even manufacture most stuff anymore anyway, so we aren't self-sufficient in that sense.

We'll reach a strange situation where "service jobs" are commoditized while hard labor becomes the bottleneck. Worse, the US had transitioned to a service economy and devalued hard labor, and that also seems unlikely to change. Maybe the people going on about the permanent underclass were onto something.
by input_sh | 2026-02-03 19:18:53+00:00
Worth pointing out: France is not adopting existing open source software, they're building their own software and releasing it under the MIT licence. Most of it (or all of it?) is Django backend + React frontend (using a custom-built UI kit).

Home page for the entire suite (in French) with some screenshots: https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

Code bases are on GitHub and they use English there: https://github.com/suitenumerique/

Dev handbook (in English): https://suitenumerique.gitbook.io/handbook

Not French and I can't say I personally tried deploying any of them, but I've been admiring their efforts from afar for a while now.
by Barrin92 | 2026-02-03 19:18:55+00:00
>and no significant large technology companies

I have to do my patriotic duty to remind you that SAP is the 6th/7th largest software company in the world by market cap. I know not as exiting as notepad with AI but they do exist.

That said US software giants are a disease for democratic societies. If Europe wants software sovereignty we don't need "significant large software companies" we need a hundred medium sized ones that reflect the diversity of the dozens of nations on the continent. We don't need gilded age robber barrons owning the largest communications network shaping politics. We need a democratic genuinely market respecting solution, we don't need to emulate the techno-feudalism of the US or China.

Europe needs in fact to be more ambitious than to build its own Microsoft. We need a genuinely open ecosystem which is not going to have as its goal to extract value out of its users.
by snozolli | 2026-02-03 19:18:57+00:00
only when the 8 bit home computer era started was the 1024 convention firmly established.

That's the microcomputer era that has defined the vast majority of our relationship with computers.

IMO, having lived through this era, the only people pushing 1,000 byte kilobytes were storage manufacturers, because it allows them to bump their numbers up.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-03-fi-seaga...
by johnsmith1840 | 2026-02-03 19:19:49+00:00
Opensource or local models will always heavily lag frontier.

Who pays for a free model? GPU training isn't free!

I remember early on people saying 100B+ models will run on your phone like nowish. They were completely wrong and I don't think it's going to ever really change.

People always will want the fastest, best, easiest setup method.

"Good enough" massively changes when your marketing team is managing k8s clusters with frontier systems in the near future.
by jijijijij | 2026-02-03 19:19:54+00:00
Metric prefixing should only be used with the unit bit. There is no confusion there. I mean, if you would equate a bit with a certain voltage threshold, you could even argue about fractional bits.

Approximating metric prefixing with kibi, Mibi, Gibi... is confusing because it doesn't make sense semantically. There is nothing base-10-ish about it.

I propose some naming based on shift distance, derived from the latin iterativum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_numerals#Adverbial_numer...

* 2^10, the kibibyte, is a deci (shifted) byte, or just a 'deci'

* 2^20, the mibibyte, is a vici (shifted) byte, or a 'vici'

* 2^30, the gibibyte, is a trici (shifted) byte, or a 'trici'

I mean, we really only need to think in bytes for memory addressing, right? The base doesn't matter much, if we were talking exabytes, does it?
by jjk166 | 2026-02-03 19:20:07+00:00
It's not useful. Indeed that's likely why we die of old age - there is no selective pressure to remove harmful mutations that don't reduce your ability to pass on your genes so such harmful mutations just accumulate over many generations. You might have a mutation that will cause your heart to rupture at age 150, but you'll never know it because you'll die of something else first.

It is possible though to selectively breed animals like flies for long lifespan. You wait to see how long one generation lives and cull the descendants of those that died early. It's inefficient but lifespan extensions of 50-60% have been demonstrated. One could imagine through gene editing that a species might be able to reap the benefits without the culling.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3113991/