MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blockmarker | 2026-02-08 20:22:03+00:00
I will not read anything the Cato Institute puts out, they are disingenuous partisans. They do not include the cost caused by the children, such as education and healthcare, they do not even include the cost of welfare to the children or to the household, since the children are legally citizens. It's very easy to say that immigrants are good for the economy when the greatest expenses are attributed to non-immigrants. Do not listen to Cato or read their articles, you would just be feeding yourself lies.
by saltwatercowboy | 2026-02-08 20:22:08+00:00
This is so cool. How are you going to simulate Michel's longing for Provence? Seriously though I adore the trilogy. I started a Mars storymapping project which incorporated Underhill, Senzeni Na, the Moholes etc. a little while back too:

https://saltwatercowboy.github.io/marsinplace/
by robotnikman | 2026-02-08 20:22:29+00:00
Other news sources:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/07/delive...

https://www.theverge.com/tech/875475/amazon-delivery-drone-c...

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/us/video/amazon-drone-deliver...
by dietr1ch | 2026-02-08 20:23:19+00:00
I don't want an address, they should be cheap, meaningless (sans routing, the longer the common prefix, the closer geographically you should be) and not conflated with identifiers.

I just want a way to do public-key based discovery. I'm not sure if wireguard + DHT would do though as it'd also mean that it's easy to track your PK (and maybe you through your devices/services announced with PKs).

Maybe you can announce your IP in a neat encryption scheme that adds some privacy without increasing costs too much?
by roughly | 2026-02-08 20:23:30+00:00
Yeah, so - the whole Calm Technology(™) feels like someone looked at the dopamine casino of modern tech and said "well, this is all wrong" - which, yes - and then proceeded to try to treat it like a design problem, which it is emphatically not. Not only are the people who made the dopamine casino aware of what makes "calm technology"(™), they're experts in it, because the entire design process of most modern tech is explicitly designed not to be "calm," because the entire economic incentive structure is pushing dopamine casinos. People aren't building "uncalm" technology by mistake, they're building it because the modern tech business structure and environment rewards addictive software.

If the "Calm Tech"(™) people/institute/whatever actually wanted to move the needle, they'd be lobbying for regulations, building tools for consumers to fight back, or trying to do anything at all that actually shifts the underlying institutional and incentive structures. As it sits, they're the equivalent of a recess monitor suggesting maybe the bully would be happier if he shared the toys with the other kids - and frankly, given the degree of branding around the whole thing, it all starts to smell more like "influencer" than "genuine attempt to improve technology."
by ninkendo | 2026-02-08 20:24:03+00:00
One thing that distinguishes macOS here is that the mach kernel has the concept of “vouchers” which helps the scheduler understand logical calls across IPC boundaries. So if you have a high-priority (UserInitiated) process, and it makes an IPC call out to a daemon that is usually a low-priority background daemon, the high-priority process passes a voucher to the low-priority one, which allows the daemon’s ipc handling thread to run high-priority (and thus access P-cores) so long as it’s holding the voucher.

This lets Apple architect things as small, single-responsibility processes, but make their priority dynamic, such that they’re usually low-priority unless a foreground user process is blocked on their work. I’m not sure the Linux kernel has this.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-08 20:24:05+00:00
I cannot read the whole article, but the abstract says nothing about ALA.

The abstract only partitions the omega-3 acids in DHA and non-DHA.

While non-DHA includes ALA, without any concrete evidence that ALA has some direct role, it is more likely that the correlation seen with non-DHA refers not to ALA, but to the other long-chain omega-3 fatty acids besides DHA.

Humans can elongate ALA into useful long-chain acids, but the efficiency of this is typically lower in males than in females and lower in old people than in young people. Usually pregnant women have the best conversion efficiency.

Unless you monitor your blood composition, you cannot know if eating ALA (e.g. flax seeds or oil, or walnuts) can be sufficient for you. If you are an older male, it is very likely that eating ALA cannot be enough for avoiding deficiency.
by ahhhhnoooo | 2026-02-08 20:24:24+00:00
Lovely series. One of the first science fiction series I read that gave a proper anarchist culture a shot. (A big thing most people don't understand about anarchism is that it's not a violent, crime ridden, disorderly society without rules, but rather a society built on the idea that everyone deserves care, and we should all put in some effort to achieve that in a self organizing way.)

Loved seeing things like gift economies, self organization and free association, and a general care for both the people and the planet in those books.
by pornel | 2026-02-08 20:24:49+00:00
Trillion-dollar surveillance advertising companies will not go down without a fight.

Obviously nobody wants the stupid banners. But if adtech companies can't track invisibly, the next best thing for them is to argue "but what about user choice!?!?", use malicious compliance to make a mess, and enjoy how pro-privacy lawmakers get blamed for the fruits of their lobbying.
by PunchyHamster | 2026-02-08 20:25:29+00:00
There are clearly uses where it can be very useful, if you just want to prototype some solutions having AI-throwaway code that you don't understand is entirely fine

But if you commit that and turn it into production project... that's basically starting with massive tech debt from the get go, and you can't do "just let AI write it from scratch again" trick too many times while growing features
by r2vcap | 2026-02-08 20:25:30+00:00
I tested it a bit yesterday, and it looks good—at least from a structural perspective. Separating the LLM invocation from the apply step is a great idea. This isn’t meant to replace our previous deterministic GitHub Actions workflow; rather, it enables automation with broader possibilities while keeping LLM usage safer.

Also, a reminder: if you run Codex/Claude Code/whatever directly inside a GitHub Action without strong guardrails , you risk leaking credentials or performing unsafe write actions.
by seszett | 2026-02-08 20:25:49+00:00
Honestly it's not free but it's really not that expensive. With RIPE it's about 75€ per year for the ASN and being multihomed is not really a problem, there are multiple services that will let you announce through them for free or very cheap. You don't have volume minimums.

I do agree it should be simpler, but it is accessible to individuals today.
by nomel | 2026-02-08 20:25:51+00:00
I think your perspective is an instantaneous one, which is fine, because that's where facts about behaviors of systems (that are swapped out every few months) must come from. Since we can't know the performance of architectures that will be released in the near future, we can only form opinions and speculate about them. Not wanting to speculate, and framing everything on what exists right now, is fine. Listening to people guess is usually boring. And, knowing the practical outcome of ongoing research is hit or miss.

But, if your perspective is immediate, you need to be more precise with your words, to not confuse the reader into thinking that you're extending your observations, that apply only to the present, into the future.

I personally don't find discussions on current capabilities, about something that was fiction some years ago, and has shown a fairly steady rate of increase in utility, all that interesting. I'm an engineer at heart and live and enjoy the iterative process of improvement. As a consequence, I think the present is the boring place, because that's where iteration dies! I don't think we'll entertain each other. ;)
by ergonaught | 2026-02-08 20:26:08+00:00
Some people want the thing done more than they want to do the thing. That gets to extremes of exploitative parasitic behavior, but it's true at much less obnoxious scales: ever used a programming language's standard library instead of inventing your own _whatever_? Probably a yes.

That can extend to arbitrary absurdity. You are probably not growing your own food, mining your own ore, forging your own tools, etc etc etc.

It's all just a matter of where you rely on external tools/abstractions to do parts of the work you don't want to do yourself.
by johnnyanmac | 2026-02-08 20:26:59+00:00
And how many people do you think use these 3 lnks compared to the base URL? That's the clever little ways to censor. You don't need everyone to be unaware, just as many as possible.

That's why I tend to search top in the last day and week. Specifically to catch flagged articles like this, since at least the votes don't get undone.
by metalman | 2026-02-08 20:27:20+00:00
Running a preheater loop for the heat pump from the systems than need to be cooled, inverter and motor that run better cold,and other optimisations could likely supply cabin heat with very little battery draw, solar pv blended into the exterior could zero that out on an average basis,but 40 below is nothing to play with unless you know exactly what you are doing, even if they say it will still work.

https://electrek.co/2026/02/05/first-sodium-ion-battery-ev-d...
by alephnerd | 2026-02-08 20:28:43+00:00
> Hiring in our industry is already feeling the brunt of AI

AI isn't what is driving us to slow hiring down in the US. There are other reasons I have brought up multiple times on HN.

> I’m too old to learn XYZ skill if I get laid off

Sadly, you will have to.

My dad is in his 60s and has been programming and soldering since ZX Spectrums and apple ][s roamed the earth, yet he still keeps abreast on the latest CNCF projects, prompt engineering, A2A, eBPF, and other modern stacks.

Meanwhile I'm seeing people half his age flaming out and kvetching that spending some time further studying A2A, MCP, and other design patterns is insurmountable.

Software Engineering is an ENGINEERING discipline. If you do not keep abreast on the changes happening in our industry, you will fall behind.

And in fact, having years of experience is a net benefit because newer innovations themselves build on top of older fundamentals.

For example, understanding Linux internals helps debug GPUs that communicate via Infiniband that are being used to train models that are being orchestrated via K8s and are operating on segmented networks.

Our PortCos and I are not hiring you to be a code monkey writing pretty looking code. If we want a code monkey we can offshore. We are paying you $200k-300k base salaries in order to architect, translate, and negotiate business requirements into technical requirements.

Yes this will require EQ on top of technical depth. That is what engineering is. The whole point of engineering is to build sh#t that works well enough. It doesn't have to be pretty, it will often be MacGyvered, and it will have glaring issues that are tomorrow's problem - but it is solving a problem.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-08 20:30:12+00:00
Because the autonomous agent deal is new to me, this thread's blog post piqued my interest. I thought about trying to replicate the experiment. But I'm lazy :)

Instead, I ended up getting a coding agent to run through a thought experiment [1] based on the method described in the blog post.

The AI's critique sounds kinda harsh to me. So, I'm quoting only a snippet of it here…

———

…Running this specific recursive loop without a higher-level architectural constraint or a "convergence metric" will likely result in a specific type of technical debt known as _Ravioli Code_ (the inverse of Spaghetti Code)…

…

The prompt provided optimizes for _local code metrics_ (file length, shallow SRP) at the expense of _global architectural cohesion_.

In your specific $A \to B(C)$ scenario:
_$A$ stops being a class that "does something" and becomes a class that "configures things that do things_."

The eventual system is one where every piece is perfectly unit-testable, perfectly mockable, and adhering to strict SRP, yet the system as a whole is incomprehensible to a human reader because the "story" of the code has been shredded into a thousand paragraphs scattered on the floor…

———

Again, those are the words of the automaton; not mine. I simply pointed it at the blog post and this thread. I asked it what it thought of the approach and final results discussed in the blog post.

Then, in the vibe coders' vernacular, I "let it rip" ;)

Today I noticed a follow up blog post [2]. That one noted a number of things that resonate with my relatively lightweight experience with agentic coding…

> …
> We're not there yet…
> …
> If you want the agent to tackle a
> specific architectural smell, you
> need to name it…
> …
> You need to give direction. The
> refactoring principles are specific
> to each project's goals and technology choices.
> …

[1] https://g2ww.short.gy/TIL2Ralph

[2] https://frederic.vanderessen.com/posts/unsupervised-refactor...
by 9rx | 2026-02-08 20:30:50+00:00
> Both of these methods have an undesirable side effect for me, which is that it immediately pops up the passcode dialog saying that a passcode is required to activate Face ID.

Must be an iOS 26 thing? I haven't dared upgrade yet. No immediate passcode dialog on iOS 18 if you follow the instructions above. It does pop up like you describe if you press the cancel button on the screen, but if you are whipping out your phone to play with the screen you're not exactly acting inconspicuously anyway.
by adrian_b | 2026-02-08 20:30:53+00:00
The "algal" omega-3 is not extracted from any algae, but it is extracted from certain cultivated strains of a fungus-like organism, Schizochytrium.

The cultivated strains have been selected and/or genetically engineered to have enhanced production of certain long-chain omega-3 fatty acids.

The composition of an "algal" oil ("algal" is the adjective derived from "alga", "algae" is the plural of "alga") depends on the particular strain that the vendor has used in production.

The first cultivated strains produced only DHA, but in recent years most vendors use strains that allow them to sell oil that has a mixture 2:1 of DHA and EPA, with minor quantities of other long-chain omega-3 fatty acids.
by ghostcash | 2026-02-08 20:31:02+00:00
I’m Nemanja, the builder behind GhostCash AI.

The idea came from a painful pattern I kept seeing — founders don’t usually run out of money suddenly.
They slowly bleed cash… unnoticed.

GhostCash AI monitors your cashflow and flags silent money leaks before they turn into real problems.

We just opened a private waitlist and I’d love early feedback from founders and finance-curious folks here.

What’s one expense or cashflow blind spot you wish you had caught earlier?
by coldtea | 2026-02-08 20:31:09+00:00
>This is the most handwaving per paragraph I've ever seen.

Yes: "I think a fair summarization of your point is "LLM generated programs work well enough often enough to not need more constraints or validation than natural language" if a fair summarization of my point.

Not sure the purpose of "whatever that means" that you added. It's clear what it means. Thought, casual language seems to be a problem for you. Do you only always discuss in formal code? If so, that's a you problem, not an us or LLM problem :)

>Most people who have built, maintained, and debugged software aren't ready to accept the premise that all of this is just handled well by LLMs at this point.

I don't know who those "most people are". Most developers already hand those tasks to LLMs, increasingly so.

(I'm not saying it's good or good enough as a quality assessment. I'm saying it's "good enough" as in, people will deem it so to be used and shipped).
by toddmorey | 2026-02-08 20:31:37+00:00
Maybe. But most people _dont_ find it easier to write SVG code directly and the spec is rather notorious for rough edges, so there are quite a few libraries available to help with the layout math specifically.

Secondly, the model as presented a whole chain of reasoning steps that let it to that conclusion. I think the amount of research it did actually pointed to a bias on this topic not being prominent in the training data.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-08 20:31:46+00:00
Generative AI is completely in line with the rest of the industrial milieu; pumping out product as quickly and as cheaply as possible. "Good enough" is often the standard, even before the industrial mode, but the industrial mode allows "good enough" to compound exponentially until you've got an edifice of trash that continues tumbling downhill on sheer momentum and we all scramble to fix the thing in situ.

This is how our world works and until it hits the proverbial wall, this is how it will continue to work because it's too big to be detoured or course-adjusted
by port11 | 2026-02-08 20:31:47+00:00
From my (limited) experience, that magic is incredibly linked to autonomy and ownership.

Some research around British government workers found higher job satisfaction in units with hands-off managers. It resonates with my own career. I’m really excited and want to go to work when I’m on a small, autonomous team with little red tape and politics. Larger orgs simply can’t — or haven’t — ever offered me the same feeling; with some exceptions in Big 3 consulting if I was the expert on a case.
Show HN: Aicpm – Verifiable AI provenance labels for web content
by chttadude | 2026-02-08 20:31:57+00:00
AICPM (Authenticated AI Content Provenance Marking) is an open, provable way to label AI-generated text inside documents using signed chunk-level provenance.

Many current approaches (watermarks, detectors, platform labels) are brittle, unverifiable, or proprietary. AICPM uses provider-signed manifests and offline verifiers to produce transparency without central control or guessing.

Features:
- Provider-signed chunk provenance with signatures
- Deterministic verification (offline, browser-native)
- Test vectors + reference verifier included
- Browser extension shows “AI %”, verified/edited breakdown
- Editor demo + mock provider for experimentation

Repo: https://github.com/Chattadude/aicpm
Demo: (optional link to your demo video if you make one)

This is a reference architecture, not a detector or policy tool. It’s designed to support tool and platform adoption with clear verification semantics.

Happy to answer questions or clarify design tradeoffs.
by cherry_tree | 2026-02-08 20:32:03+00:00
Volvo xc60 has an estimated 25 mpg overall (https://www.volvocarsrichmond.com/volvo-xc60-mpg.htm)

It has an 18.8 gallon fuel capacity (https://www.volvocars.com/lb/support/car/xc60/article/dfc6f0...)

That’s a max range of 470 miles. You would need much greater fuel efficiency above 34 mpg to get to 650 miles on an 18.8 gallon tank.
by gruez | 2026-02-08 20:32:08+00:00
>The iPhone automatically goes into BFU (Before First Unlock) after 72 hours of inactivity (it actually reboots the phone). This can’t be disabled.

But if the threat is from law enforcement, as the beginning of the article implies, how does that help? They just have to scan your face with your phone when they seize it, and slurp up all the data they want.

>In addition, there are additional restrictions where your passcode will be required. For example, if the passcode has not been used to unlock the device in the last six days and Face ID has not unlocked the device in the last eight hours, then you must use a passcode to access the device (in other words, biometric unlock is automatically disabled).

The conditions for triggering this is so unreliable that it probably exists more to prevent people from forgetting their pins, than meaningfully increase security.
by Zetaphor | 2026-02-08 20:32:46+00:00
My understanding (so far, I'm halfway through the second of your recorded presentations) is that the data in the network is ephemeral, held only by active peers who are hosting a contract (and thus its state).

Does that mean that if all peers hosting a given contract go offline is the state completely lost? Now what happens if a formerly offline peer starts hosting the contract with an outdated state? Does that just become the new state?

I guess I'm not 100% clear on how data persistence works. Do we entirely forgo databases and instead encode everything into the contract state?

Some more examples of comparisons to existing application infrastructure would be immensely helpful to fill in the gaps of understanding. I'll likely be writing a few articles myself once I better understand everything.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-08 20:34:35+00:00
> Please engage with the substance of the argument put in front of you.

Back at you bub. My original comment was addressing why a quote from the guy who would be most affected by drug prices changing is hog wash, and you skillfully dodged my whole point to talk about R&D, investments and revenue. I didn't write my comment to dive into those things, I wrote it to point out that Pfizer's CEO would say anything if it means his company will get more money.
by whynotmaybe | 2026-02-08 20:34:49+00:00
Having worked some time in huge businesses, I can assure that there are many corporate copilot subscribers that never use it, that's where they earn money.

In the past we had to buy an expensive license of some niche software, used by a small team, for a VP "in case he wanted to look".

Worse in many gov agencies, whenever they buy software, if it's relatively cheap, everyone gets it.
by tstrimple | 2026-02-08 20:34:52+00:00
A fairly easy role to help bridge that gap is to work in a consulting company as a technical IC. The sales team is always looking for technical folk to help build more robust and achievable projects as well as provide a more accurate estimate for number of resources and amount of time the project will take. They need someone who can push back on impossible client demands and help the sales team understand what those are and why. Ideally in these scenarios a senior tech person would be helping build out the proposal and plan for a project they will actually run and execute on. This gives the client continuity throughout the process and in the course of working within the client environment you’re in a great position to spot other problem areas the client struggles with and help build proactive proposals to help the client address them.
by joozio | 2026-02-08 20:34:56+00:00
Thanks! The investment angle is interesting — I hadn't thought about it that way, but it makes sense. If you're seeing the gap firsthand, you have an information edge most investors don't.

What strikes me most is how different the conversation is depending on where you are. Reddit investment subs, Twitter AI circles, and actual workplaces — three completely different realities about the same technology.

I think the key thing that's hard to convey to non-users is the compounding effect. Once you hit a certain depth, every new tool or workflow multiplies what you already know. My neighbor who codes with Gemini is one "aha moment" away from a completely different relationship with AI — but that moment hasn't happened yet for most people.

The gap you're betting on seems real to me. Whether it closes in months or years is the interesting question.