MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bambax | 2026-02-04 08:50:06+00:00
Yes, I too hate all notifications; I don't want to have anything pushed in my face; if I need something or some information I will go look for it.

That said you can do many things with tray apps and tooltips, if you really need to. I have been making Windows tray apps lately; they're nice to make and to use.

I wonder if there would be an interest for a tray app that would pull some specific (configurable) information at regular intervals, that would be discoverable via mouseover?
by kenanfyi | 2026-02-04 08:50:31+00:00
- I use my HP Prime at work almost daily and I love that it has a touch screen where I can quickly copy paste past calculations. This in my opinion is better than using a stack calculator and RPN. There are also some small programs I wrote for like calculating parallel pairs for a given resistor value, based on E-Series since calculating resistors for stuff is quite a standard thing for your day as an hardware design engineer.

- I also have a Casio fx-991ES Plus which I bought during my student years and love to use it, because it is way faster for quick stuff than my Prime and I changed its battery in the past 10 years just once. This is not the case for Prime where I have to charge it every week or two. But doesn't bother me. Prime is an amazing calculator.
by skissane | 2026-02-04 08:50:44+00:00
> Well, there is evidence that this company made and distributed CSAM

I think one big issue with this statement – "CSAM" lacks a precise legal definition; the precise legal term(s) vary from country to country, with differing definitions. While sexual imagery of real minors is highly illegal everywhere, there's a whole lot of other material – textual stories, drawings, animation, AI-generated images of nonexistent minors – which can be extremely criminal on one side of an international border, de facto legal on the other.

And I'm not actually sure what the legal definition is in France; the relevant article of the French Penal Code 227-23 [0] seems superficially similar to the legal definition of "child pornography" in the United States (post-Ashcroft vs Free Speech Coalition), and so some–but (maybe) not all–of the "CSAM" Grok is accused of generating wouldn't actually fall under it. (But of course, I don't know how French courts interpret it, so maybe what it means in practice is something broader than my reading of the text suggests.)

And I think this is part of the issue – xAI's executives are likely focused on compliance with US law on these topics, less concerned with complying with non-US law, in spite of the fact that CSAM laws in much of the rest of the world are much broader than in the US. That's less of an issue for Anthropic/Google/OpenAI, since their executives don't have the same "anything that's legal" attitude which xAI often has. And, as I said – while that's undoubtedly true in general, I'm unsure to what extent it is actually true for France in particular.

[0] https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT0000...
by glemmaPaul | 2026-02-04 08:51:14+00:00
Thanks for expanding your comment. But to what you explain here, I think your knowledge and comprehension has only slimmed down a notch. It seems to me that this argument equates thinking to be on the vertical vertices only, but may I say there is a horizontal/broad aspect to it? e.g. You lose grip on what is a good combination of framework/language/standards, you remove the abstraction of multiple layers of external and internal APIs, you leave to study the right software pattern for the job, having the AI comprehend the large chunks for you (thats all loss on thinking). You've lost simple querying and digging through codebase. Gosh, lets even say you lost a bit of git command knowledge. You catch my drift here? I am completely for using AI as a tool to do a lot of the boilerplate work with the right directions. Though remembering some changes in codebase before and letting LLMs do the work, is not the same to me as fully owning up to your system as you know, you actually know.
Old man shouting at screen so, to each their own of course! Cheers
by somenameforme | 2026-02-04 08:51:42+00:00
I do not think the current government in the US is fascist, but electing fascists would indeed be an exercise in democracy. The entire point of democracy is that it's the will of the people, whether right or wrong.

This is precisely why democracy was never seen as a tenable system for millennia. Thinkers of the past always assumed that the people would be incapable of picking the most skilled leaders, and would instead end up picking the most charismatic leaders. This is precisely what Plato's endlessly cited allegory of the Ship of State [1] is about.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_State
by socalgal2 | 2026-02-04 08:52:36+00:00
To me it's all abstraction. I didn't write my own OS. I didn't write my own compiler. I didn't write the standard library. I just use them. I could write them but I'm happy to work on the new thing that uses what's already there.

This is no different than many things. I could grow a tree and cut it into wood but I don't. I could buy wood and nails and brackets and make furniture but I don't. I instead just fill my house/apartment with stuff already made and still feel like it's mine. I made it. I decided what's in it. I didn't have to make it all from scratch.

For me, lots of programming is the same. I just want to assemble the pieces

> When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make

No, your favorite movie is not crap because the creators didn't grind their own lens. Popular and highly acclaimed games not at crap because they didn't write their own physics engine (Zelda uses Havok) or their own game engine (Plenty of great games use Unreal or Unity)
Show HN: Bakeoff – Send Your Clawdbots to Work
by ohong | 2026-02-04 08:52:37+00:00
Hey all! We saw personal AI agents (like Clawdots / OpenClaw) philosophising on forums and thought: "Wouldn't it'd be useful if they also could hire each other to do specialised work?"

We built Bakeoff at the [YC Hackathon] (https://events.ycombinator.com/HacktheStackathon) this weekend and were thrilled to win first place!

If you have OpenClaw set up, try getting your agent to open a new task or attempt tasks that are already up. The best submissions win brownie points.

Let us know what you think!
by dizhn | 2026-02-04 08:52:50+00:00
This is exactly what i am building for a friend in a semi amateur fashion with LLMs. Looking at your codebase I would probably end up with something very similar in 6 months. You even have an Air toml and use firecracker, not to mention using go. Great minds think alike I suppose :D. Mine is not for AI but for running unvetted data science scripts. Simple stuff mostly.

I think I might just take this if the resource requirements are not too demanding. Thanks for sharing.
by AnthonyMouse | 2026-02-04 08:53:11+00:00
> You can not get explosive unless you prove you have legit use for it(usually for mining).

Gunpowder is fairly simple to make.

> Maybe that's why we have low gun-related crime here.

Mexico has extremely restrictive gun laws and that is not the case there. It seems to have more to do with how much crime you have than whether someone who could be charged with homicide could redundantly be charged with having a firearm.
Ask HN: Dynamic ROI vs. Tiling for high-speed object tracking (<20ms latency)?
by LucaHerakles | 2026-02-04 08:53:46+00:00
We are building a UAV system to physically intercept fast-moving targets (100km/h+) using onboard compute only (Qualcomm QRB5165).

We hit a wall regarding the Latency vs. Resolution trade-off and I’d love to hear some battle-tested opinions from the CV/Embedded community.

The constraint: We need HD resolution to detect small targets at range, but running inference on full HD frames kills our control loop frequency (Target is <20ms glass-to-motor response).

We are debating two architectural paths:

Option A: Static Tiling (SAHI-style) Slice the HD frame into overlapping tiles.

Pro: High detection probability for small objects.

Con: Even with NMS-free architectures, the inference time on the DSP effectively triples. Latency spikes cause our Proportional Navigation guidance to oscillate.

Option B: Dynamic ROI ("The Sniper Approach") Run a low-res global search (320x320) at high FPS. Once a target is found, lock a dynamic High-Res Region of Interest (ROI) from the raw camera stream and only run inference on that crop.

Pro: Extremely fast. Keeps the loop tight.

Con: Single Point of Failure. If the tracker (Kalman Filter) loses the crop due to abrupt ego-motion, we are blind until global search re-acquires. In a terminal phase intercept, that’s a miss.

Has anyone here successfully implemented robust Dynamic ROI on edge silicon (Jetson/Hexagon DSP) for erratic targets? Are we over-engineering this, or is full-frame HD inference simply dead on arrival for real-time guidance?

Any pointers to papers or repos are appreciated.

PS: If you live for these kinds of problems (and enjoy solving them in Munich), we are looking for a Founding Engineer to own this entire pipeline. Email in profile.
by quadrifoliate | 2026-02-04 08:53:57+00:00
> I think it's going to be a long time until we've convinced people that taking ownership of and participating in their digital life, being tinkerers, owners, netizens is vital.

It will be way more than 50 years unless EU nations' governments start funding lean, savvy grassroots programs that invest in digital services like you say.

I'm talking a few thousands to local volunteer groups for the cost of hosting infrastructure or tax incentives to companies for actually providing this local infrastructure, not 50k to some bureaucrat in Brussels for drawing up plans to do so.
by timschmidt | 2026-02-04 08:54:01+00:00
This is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum

Inability to communicate isn't what we observe because as I already stated, meaning is shared. Dictionaries are one way shared meaning can be developed, as are textbooks, software source codes, circuits, documentation, and any other artifact which links the observable with language. All of that being collectively labeled culture. The mass of which I analogized with inertia so as to avoid insipid oversimplifications like yours.

My point was that one person's definition does not a culture, make. And that adoption of new word definitions is inherently a group cultural activity which requires time, effort, and the willingness of the group to participate. Dictation of a definition from on high is as likely to result in the word meaning the exact opposite in popular usage as not.
by spacedcowboy | 2026-02-04 08:54:12+00:00
Can you give specific examples ? About the only thing I use the terminal for in Xcode is "git" - and even then these days I tend to use Fork.app for that.

Debugging is integrated, profiling is integrated, script-running as part of the build is integrated. Application output is integrated. What do you actually use it for ? Genuine question.

I guess the AI tools might be something - I don't know about that, I don't use them.
by lostlogin | 2026-02-04 08:54:28+00:00
> The electoral college is a feature. It forces you to win across large and small States.

Surely you want the leader that most Americans voted for?

When votes are held in the senate or congress, it’s a straight numbers game. Why aren’t those votes also weighted?

There wouldn’t be many who’d argue that the American political system is in good health. How would you fix it?
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-04 08:54:51+00:00
just take cost of getting kg in space and compare it to how much solar panel will generate

Current satellites get around 150W/kg from solar panels. Cost of launching 1kg to space is ~$2000. So we're at $13.3(3)/Watt. We need to double it because same amount need to be dissipated so let's round it to $27

One NVidia GB200 rack is ~120kW. To just power it, you need to send $3 240 000 worth of payload into space. Then you need to send additional $3 106 000 (rack of them is 1553kg) worth of servers. Plus some extra for piping
by legitimate_key | 2026-02-04 08:55:29+00:00
Really clean approach to the pre-call panic. The dual reality concept is smart.

I've been working on a similar problem from the browser side (since most of my sensitive stuff lives in tabs - email, Slack, Notion). Different angle but same pain point.

Curious about the multi-monitor scenario - if I'm sharing Screen 1 but a cloaked window spans both monitors, does it cloak the whole window or just what's visible on the shared screen?

Also wondering about the "forgot to cloak" problem. I know I'd 100% forget to toggle before a call at least once a week. Any plans for persistent rules like "always cloak windows matching X pattern"? The mental overhead of remembering seems like it could be a blocker.

Congrats on shipping - the pain point is very real. Have you seen any performance hit on the capture stream itself? Some screen share tools get weird when windows are programmatically hidden.
by tomquirk | 2026-02-04 08:56:16+00:00
The answer to this is to shift left into product/design.

Sure, I'm doing less technical thinking these days. But all the hard thinking is happening on feature design.

Good feature design is hard for AI. There's a lot of hidden context: customer conversations, unwritten roadmaps, understanding your users and their behaviour, and even an understanding of your existing feature set and how this new one fits in.

It's a different style of thinking, but it is hard, and a new challenge we gotta embrace imo.
by aktau | 2026-02-04 08:56:26+00:00
This is great. I'd love to do something similar for Ground Control (2000, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_Control_(video_game)).

Do you have a writeup of how you did it? Both (regular) tooling (radare2? rizin? IDA? ...) and how the LLM did (or did not) use it?

In the little spare time I have, I've been able to reverse engineer the "compressed" file format (ended up being basically a XOR'ed zlib-compressed TAR-like archive), but not much else. I have not used LLMs to help me.
by vincnetas | 2026-02-04 08:56:48+00:00
What if i want to print a nerf gun for my kid? They have clearly not thought this through. I thik they should gather experts BEFORE signing this in to law :

Feasibility escape hatch: If the working group determines it’s “not technologically feasible,” no regulations are required… until the group decides it is feasible. This is good, but weak sauce: the working group could be stuffed with non-experts who just say what the legislators want.
by pinkgolem | 2026-02-04 08:56:51+00:00
I would argue the opposite..

What you get right now is mass replicated software, just another copy of sap/office/Spotify/whatever

That software is not made individually for you, you get a copy like millions of other people and there is nearly no market anymore for individual software.

Llms might change that, we have a bunch of internal apps now for small annoying things..

They all have there quirks, but are only accessible internally and make life a little bit easier for people working for us.

Most of them are one shot llms things, throw away if you do not need it anymore or just one shoot again
by sangkwun | 2026-02-04 08:56:57+00:00
My setup: RSS (Reddit, HN, AI tech blogs) + a few investment YouTube channels → daily morning digest.

The key for trust was picking my own sources. No algorithm deciding what's "relevant" - just feeds I've vetted. When something's missing, it's obvious which source dropped the ball.

I ended up building a tool for this (daige.st). You connect sources, tell it what matters, and it sends filtered summaries. Has a memory feature that gets better at filtering over time.

Cadence is still WIP. Daily for fast news, maybe weekly for deeper topics. Curious what works for others.
Price increase on .AI domains by NameCheap
by hibijibies | 2026-02-04 08:58:41+00:00
I just got a notice of price increase on .ai domains from namecheap.

Did something like this happen in the .com era too?

```
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Check new prices on all domains affected below:

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Transfer
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$99.98
While prices are displayed per year, all .AI domain registrations and renewals are for a minimum 2-year period. Transferring .AI domains adds a 2-year renewal period to any remaining registration time.
```
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-02-04 08:59:16+00:00
> In general, I don't agree at all. Rich are "freer" but they definitely don't work fewer hours than poor on average. In USA the Rich became rich mostly by working.

Dont forget about inherited privileges. If work was the primary driver of wealth, we'd see a much more even distribution. I suspect the eager CEOs either want to inflate their contribution (i know plenty who dont) or actually work more because it is their earning and not just salary plus maybe arbitrary bonus.
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-04 08:59:16+00:00
As with furniture, it's supply vs demand, and it's a discussion that goes back decades at this point.

Very few people (even before LLM coding tools) actually did low level "artisanal" coding; I'd argue the vast majority of software development goes into implementing features in b2b / b2c software, building screens, logins, overviews, detail pages, etc. That requires (required?) software engineers too, and skill / experience / etc, but it was more assembling existing parts and connecting them.

Years ago there was already a feeling that a lot of software development boiled down to taping libraries together.

Or from another perspective, replace "LLM" with "outsourcing".
by theglenn88_ | 2026-02-04 08:59:22+00:00
Of course. I'm not talking about lack of money though here. We've all been on our last tenner until payday and need to go somewhere.

Some people seem to think that spending less at the pump means your saving money, but to save money you need to drive less. They religiously drive on £10-20 fuel stops.

My ex wife was convinced she spends less on fuel by putting less in a time, she even earnt more than me.
by kstenerud | 2026-02-04 08:59:22+00:00
Instrumented monitoring of Anthropic's rate limit headers reveals inconsistent quota consumption rates that cannot be explained by the "holiday bonus expiration" cited by Anthropic. The same user, same plan, same workload type shows burn rates varying from 5.6%/hour to 59.9%/hour within the same 48-hour period.

This 10x variance constitutes either a bug in quota accounting or an undisclosed server-side change to rate limiting behavior.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-04 08:59:40+00:00
How? People like Epstein and mass woman/child exploitation have existed for thousands of years in the past, and will exist thousands of years in the future. It's part of the nature of the rich and powerful.

THat's like the 1993 moral panic that video games like Doom cause mass shootings, or the 1980's mass panic that metal music causes satanist, or the 1950s moral panic that comic books lead to delinquency.

Politicians are constantly looking for an external an enemy to divert attention to from the real problems.
by jakozaur | 2026-02-04 09:00:00+00:00
Funny coincidence, I'm working on a benchmark showcasing AI capabilities in binary analysis.

Actually, AI has huge potential for superhuman capabilities in reverse engineering. This is an extremely tedious job with low productivity. Currently reserved, primarily when there is no other option (e.g., malware analysis). AI can make binary analysis go mainstream for proactive audits to secure against supply-chain attacks.
by latexr | 2026-02-04 09:00:40+00:00
> We see people suddenly becoming activists about energy usage or copyright solely to justify not using a tool they dislike.

This argument falls somewhere between the dishonest and the inattentive. Maybe you don’t care about the environment (which, you know, includes yourself and the people you like), or income inequality, or the continued consolidation of power in the hands of a few deranged rich people, or how your favourite artists (do you even have any? You know, art, the thing that enriches life) are exploited by the industry, but some of us have been banging the drum about those issues for decades. Just because you’re only noticing it now, it doesn’t mean it’s a new thing.

It’s a good thing more people are waking up and talking about those. Just because you don’t care or don’t understand doesn’t make everyone else duplicitous.
by charcircuit | 2026-02-04 09:01:00+00:00
If you are thinking hard I think you are software engineering wrong. Even before AI. As an industry all the different ways of doing things have already played out. Even doing big reactors or performance optimizations often can not be 100% predicted in their effectiveness. You will want to just go ahead and implement these things over spending more time thinking. And as AI gets stronger the just try a bunch of approaches will beat the think hard approach by an even bigger margin.
by ProllyInfamous | 2026-02-04 09:01:44+00:00
Background: I live in a working class duplex neighborhood, adjacent to newer lakeside mansions. Few neighbors have any college education; the majority don't pay taxes (if any, net). My community is mostly pleasant, but I definitely wouldn't raise a family here (mostly single moms and blue collar workers).

Yesterday among the poorest of neighbors said to me "I'm just trying to live a simple middle class life" — and I chuckled (rudely)... then responded "I'm among the wealthier people living on this street, and I'm not even middle class anymore — and we both still rent."

We're two tenants literally scrubbing out a former smoker tenant's filth, for rent credit, so that the next working class tenant can pay this distant slumlord more Rent. Yeah, we're rich... /s
by Cthulhu_ | 2026-02-04 09:01:57+00:00
The question is whether that's a good thing or not; software adages like "Not Invented Here" aren't going to go away. For personal tools / experiments it's probably fine, just like hacking together something in your spare time, but it can become a risk if you, others, or a business start to depend on it (just like spare time hacked tools).

I'd argue that in most cases it's better to do some research and find out if a tool already exists, and if it isn't exactly how you want it... to get used to it, like one did with all other tools they used.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-04 09:02:34+00:00
Let's do some napkin math on it

Current satellites get around 150W/kg from solar panels. Cost of launching 1kg to space is ~$2000, so we're at $13.3(3)/Watt, that just power, let's assume that cooling will cost us same per kg, the same amount need to be dissipated so let's round it to $27

One NVidia GB200 rack is ~120kW. To just power it, you need to send $3 240 000 worth of payload into space. Then you need to send additional $3 106 000 (rack of them is 1553kg) worth of servers. Plus some extra for piping. We're already at $6.3 mil a pop for just hauling it up to orbit, with no cost of solar cells included

I'd imagine comparable hardware for just some solar + batteries on ground is around $200k. I dunno where the repeated 5x cost number comes from. I suspect whoever pushed it was just lying