MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by utopiah | 2026-02-05 10:22:36+00:00
"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" Eric Schmidt - Google CEO in 2009

193 files for Eric Schmidt according to https://www.wired.com/story/epstein-files-tech-elites-gates-...

314 files for Larry Page

294 files for Sergey Brin

Interesting rhetoric. It's always the people you suspect the most?
by krige | 2026-02-05 10:22:49+00:00
Extremely easy to convince population that state X is an evil, looming threat if state X is actually doing evil, looming, and threatening things for decades on no end.

Russia could have stopped at any moment. Can still stop at any moment. They could have single-handedly undermined Europe's trust in the States, years before the orange-in-charge did, merely by not starting an invasion. Their choice. Their FA, now they FO.
by mrweasel | 2026-02-05 10:23:54+00:00
The writing style is rather interesting. Epstein seems borderline dyslexic, but almost none of the emails I've seen are written in a coherent way, regardless of the sender.

Either people on that level rarely write anything on their own and have completely forgotten how to construct proper sentences or maybe that just how they communicate. Sort of language internal to the group.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-02-05 10:24:14+00:00
> a leftist president endorses indiscriminate murder of ICE agents

Comparing the rhetoric today, this might never happen. There are qualitative differences between both political geoups, so grouping them together as a single horseshoe is 'unhelpful for analysis'.

That said, you cant fully rule out leftist led atrocities aswell and maybe thats the reason why the right is escalating in violent rhetoric, they want this as a self fullfilling prophecy to justify more violence.

When Kirk was shot, all the "this needs to stop" commentary, as if it was an organized mass phenomenon, was sending shivers down my spine. We all know how the far right envisions stopping this 'mass' violence.
by piva00 | 2026-02-05 10:24:20+00:00
Which is why I exactly pointed out that "finding the line" should be a iterative process, it's just natural the pendulum will swing for correcting past mistakes.

I don't know why you assumed I'm stating as if finding where these regulations lie to be a static thing, I thought I left a lot of nuance so this tired line wouldn't be played against the core of my argument... I didn't assume the current regulations are perfect, nor that there can be a perfect line, but that the process of finding this should exist, and that the answer will never lie in either extreme.

Hope it's even clearer now.

Edit: and also, "ideological" is a non-sequitur, even the criticism of it as you've done is ideological in nature...
by its-summertime | 2026-02-05 10:25:20+00:00
(Noting that, as stated in another thread, it only applies to headers, so the premise I raised doesn't apply either way)

Except that you are asking for the result of it, "Hey Bobby LLM, what is the value of X" will have Bobby LLM tell you the real value of X, because Bobby LLM has access to the real value because X is permissioned for the domain that the LLM is accessed through.

If the cashier turned their screen around to show me the exchange of money, then I would certainly see it.
by cutecatarya | 2026-02-05 10:25:52+00:00
I’m building a data pipeline that needs to ingest GitHub metadata at scale (repos/issues/PRs/commits across many orgs). I’m not hitting the primary hourly limits as often as I’m hitting secondary limits / “abuse detection”-style throttling (403/429 + Retry-After).

I’m looking for practical patterns that actually work in production:
• Do you prefer REST or GraphQL for bulk ingestion? (GraphQL “cost” model vs REST call count.)
• How do you structure incremental sync? (ETag / If-None-Match, Last-Modified / If-Modified-Since, checkpoints, etc.) I read that conditional requests returning 304 don’t count against the primary rate limit.
• What’s a sane concurrency + backoff strategy that avoids secondary limits? Do you implement global token buckets per token/org/endpoint? And do you always honor Retry-After?
• Any “gotchas” with pagination strategies (per_page sizing, link header loops) that reduce calls meaningfully?
• For long-running ingestion, do you rely on webhooks/events to reduce polling? How do you handle missed events/backfills?

Constraints: must be compliant (no scraping HTML), and we can use auth tokens / GitHub Apps if needed. I’m mainly trying to avoid patterns that look abusive while still keeping throughput high.
by elliotec | 2026-02-05 10:26:00+00:00
Are you serious? You said “dozens of CEOs” have been jailed for their role in the 2008 crisis. That is categorically false.

The article you posted is about a banker convicted in 2013 for fraud committed in 2011 that has nothing to do with contributing to the 2008 crisis. No CEOs were jailed for that.

Take your anger somewhere else because the truth is that it’s still zero, just like it was 5 minutes ago and 18 years ago. What would you possibly have to gain from lying about stuff like this?
by viraptor | 2026-02-05 10:28:55+00:00
You're mashing together two groups. One claims having swap is good actually. The other claims you need N times ram for swap. They're not the same group.

> Memory is limited either way; whether it’s RAM or RAM + swap

For two reasons: usage spikes and actually having more usable memory. There's lots of unused pages on a typical system. You get free ram for the price of cheap storage, so why wouldn't you?
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-05 10:29:18+00:00
The framing is a bit dramatic but the underlying shift is real. What AI actually kills is the "wrap an API in a UI" SaaS model. If the value is just presenting data nicely or doing simple transformations, an agent can replace that.

What survives: products with proprietary data, strong network effects, or deep domain expertise baked into the workflow. The moat moves from "we built a UI" to "we understand this problem better than anyone."

I run 4 side projects and the ones getting traction aren't the ones with the fanciest AI features - they're the ones solving specific problems people have repeatedly (meal planning, meeting search). The AI is the engine, not the product.

The real risk for B2B SaaS isn't that AI replaces your product - it's that your customers can now build a "good enough" internal version in a weekend with Claude Code.
by nutanc | 2026-02-05 10:29:20+00:00
Lets break this down. There is very little in newness in what Anthropic announced. Claude had skills for a long time. They have added one more layer of abstraction and called it plugins. This mainly comes with a set of integrations.

Thats the pitch.

But, what are Claude plugins?

Plugins=Commands+Skills+Integrations.

Commands are specific to Claude code. But commands and skills are nothing but prompts at their basest level.

So what is the main differentiator?

Integrations.

But what are you integrating with?

SaaS companies.

And what is the stock market doing?

Dumping SaaS stocks.

How do they think Claude cowork will work without the integrations. Without the system of records.

If anything, these SaaS products have become more important. If I was a trading guy, I would go to the github of claude plugins, see the default integrations and buy the stock of those companies.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-05 10:30:29+00:00
Probably more of a gimmick than a strategy. In the grand scheme of things in cars a pretty minor one too. Replacing a panel and a bolt vs. replacing more complex components that have proprietary firmware, wiring harnesses, 3d printed/molded components with very complex design and tolerances, etc. A lot of that is business as usual across the industry.

The key issue here is that repairability is currently not really factored into the sales value of the car. That's a bit naive of course because it actually does impact the second hand value of a car. For example, MG makes nice cars but they have a bit of a reputation for needing lots of repairs under warranty. That reduces their second hand value and therefore also impacts their new value. You can get some really good deals on second hand ones. But the repairs might add up. That's why the second hand value is so low.

Lease companies buying new BMWs to lease them out to high salaried executives expect to be able to sell these things on 3-5 years later and get a decent second hand value. If the car then has a reputation for being a bit difficult and expensive to work on (like MG), that is going to reflect in the second hand price. And the lease price. Mostly lease companies just pass that on in the lease price. That works for BMW until more competitive vehicles show up that can be leased at a lower cost.

A few quirky bolts won't move the needle here. They aren't going to get rich selling them or the tools that go with them. It's just a bit of minor friction for car repair shops. If they see enough BMWs in their shop, they'll get the damn screws and tools. It's not that different than Apple using custom screws on their devices. Every phone repair shop has the tools now.
by utopiah | 2026-02-05 10:31:51+00:00
Tinkered with RM1, have RM2 then RMPPro since they are out.

If you care about colors, do NOT buy that or any other e-ink devices IMHO. The colors are washed out.

If you NEED colors in some situations (e.g. reading research papers with important graphics, charts) or enjoy some hints of colors (e.g. manga covers) then why not. It's way WAY better than black&white for colored contents.

Finally, and that's THE #1 use case, if you take notes or sketch diagrams, and would like a dash of color here and there, then it's literally another dimension.
by Rygian | 2026-02-05 10:33:12+00:00
I suffer from the same behavior, ever since I moved from Ubuntu to Debian.

An interactive system that does not interact (terminal not reactive, can't ssh in, screen does not refresh) is broken. I don't understand why this is not a kernel bug.

On my system, to add insult to injury, when the system does come back twenty minutes later, I get a "helpful" pop-up from the Linux Kernel saying "Memory Shortage Avoided". Which is just plain wrong. The pop-up should say "sorry, the kernel bricked your system for a solid twenty minutes for no good reason, please file a report".
by well_ackshually | 2026-02-05 10:33:27+00:00
Oh no, they would. I would.

I'd have the decency to know and tell people that it's a steaming pile of shit and that I have no idea how it works though, and would not have the shamelessness to sell a course on how to put out LLM vomit in public though.

Engineering implies respect for your profession. Act like it.
Show HN: LocalCoder – Tell it your hardware, get the exact local AI model to run
by JoseOSAF | 2026-02-05 10:33:32+00:00
Hey HN — I built this after seeing the Qwen3-Coder threads here. Every thread had the same questions: which quant for my GPU? How much VRAM do I need? Ollama or llama.cpp? What context window can I actually use?

LocalCoder answers all of that in one page. Pick your platform (Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, CPU), select your chip and memory, and it gives you:

- The best model + quantization for your setup
- Expected speed (tokens/sec) and context window
- Copy-paste Ollama commands to get running in 60 seconds

The recommendation engine is a curated config matrix built from HN benchmarks, Unsloth docs, and llama.cpp test data. No AI inference on the backend — it's all client-side.

Free tier gives you the top pick + Ollama commands. $9 one-time unlocks alternatives table, llama.cpp commands, and IDE integration guide.

Would love feedback on the recommendations. If your hardware isn't covered or a rec seems off, let me know — I'll update the matrix.
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-02-05 10:33:38+00:00
Traditional oil extraction (drilling a well, not things like the oilsands or fracking) is actually relatively eco-friendly compared to other building products like concrete or steel; the problem is that burning it isn't great for the environment, and the heavy demand due to burning most of it means that lots of it is extracted using the less eco-friendly methods. So I think that the current plan is to continue extracting it more-or-less forever, just in much lower volumes than right now.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-05 10:34:06+00:00
Given how all that vanished once Trump won, the propaganda having served its purpose, it seems my decision to write it off as chaff was vindicated.

Remember "lock her up?" Remember how that vanished as well and there was not, in fact, any effort to lock her up?

(the problem of submarining stuff into Wikipedia is real though, and a by-product of it being the most trusted reference)
by ch_123 | 2026-02-05 10:34:20+00:00
Because of cost - particularly given the current state of the RAM market. In order to have so much memory that you never hit memory spikes, you will deliberately need to buy RAM to never be used.

Note that simply buying more RAM than what you expect to use is not going to help. Going back to my post from earlier, I had a laptop with 8GB of RAM at a time where I would usually only need about 2-4GB of RAM for even relatively heavy usage. However, every once in a while, I would run something that would spike memory usage and make the system unresponsive. While I have much more than 8GB nowadays, I'm not convinced that it's enough to have completely outrun the risk of this sort of behaviour re-occuring.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-05 10:35:15+00:00
That's why I'm asking a question. For me the difference between then and now is then, 2015 it was still a thing that I saw hanging in the future, the OPM hack is what prompted me to write this. But if I had not written this then I would probably be writing it today on account of the ICE article currently on the front page.

All of those big tech companies have willingly given in to Trump and his band of goons and are cooperating at a scale that dwarfs anything the Germans could have ever wished for. The article shows the damage that one single field in one single file could do. Now multiply that by a couple of 1000.

The potential for an epic disaster is definitely there and even HN is apparently not immune to having its share of bootlickers and bootwearers.
I've created a tool to make your Discord server indexable on Google and AI
by jackota | 2026-02-05 10:36:06+00:00
I've built this tool to make your Discord server indexable on Google and AI

I've always been a big fan of SEO and GEO (SEO in LLMs). You get the best leads and customer from there.

But honestly creating content for SEO and GEO is a pain in the ass. So basically I thought: why can't I use content created by others in my Discord server and use them to position for SEO?

I worked for a while and created this https://comly.app

Basically you plug it, and makes your entire Discord server (and slack asap too) indexable on Google and AI, so if anyone look up for a specific question or keyword, it appears as first result your community.

Let me know what you think, open to any feedback or question :)
by lenkite | 2026-02-05 10:36:17+00:00
What is even the point in open sourcing code now unless it is being done specifically for the government or for a public standard? You don't get attribution, you don't get bugfixes, your human product used as a training set to make billionaires richer and permit a proliferation of LLM generated copies with README's filled with emojis and fake soundbites.

The Claude Fans here should not be overly surprised if the number of human-coded OSS projects falls off a cliff in the next couple of years. AI Companies might need to actually being paying humans for writing code to prevent model collapse.
by JamesTRexx | 2026-02-05 10:36:51+00:00
I use zswap, which is a non-fixed intermediate layer between RAM and swap and worked great on my old laptop which had a max of 4GB RAM. Even use it now on my current 32GB laptop.

Full compression would be nicer, but I'd also like to see ECC emulation (or alternative) as a cheaper alternative to the real hardware, although with current prices that might be less so.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-02-05 10:36:52+00:00
Intel has been making GPUs since the early 1980s, starting with the 82720, or the 82716 if you want to be picky and require a pure-Intel design. They announce a new GPU effort every few years, at about the time it's clear that the previous one has failed.

Again being picky, in theory their integrated graphics are a "success" in that they sell well, but that's because vendors get them for free with the CPU and so don't have to go through the expense of adding a discrete one.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-05 10:37:11+00:00
How much does your single site go down?

On cloud it's out of your control when an AZ goes down. When it's your server you can do things to increase reliability. Most colos have redundant power feeds and internet. On prem that's a bit harder, but you can buy a UPS.

If your head office is hit by a meteor your business is over. Don't need to prepare for that.
by Lucasoato | 2026-02-05 10:37:27+00:00
I wouldn't say that AI is killing B2B SaaS, let's analyze the situation: AI is shifting the boundaries of the Build VS Buy decision.

If software is cheaper... building it seems a much better option but...
...the fact that software is cheaper means that SaaS companies will be able to be more competitive with price, offering more features, integrating them much better with the newest agentic tools and frameworks that are getting released.

Sure, the market will adjust, some will be pushed away, others will find businesses that weren't possible before... but we're far away (I hope) from the AGI revolution, don't forget to see this crysis as an opportunity too.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-05 10:37:33+00:00
I literally quote a person attributing the thermal insulation capabilities of vacuum flasks mono-causally to the lack of gas. I didn't imagine this, its right there to verify. Reminding people of laws of nature that have been known for 150 years and have withstood the test of time of investigation by physicists isn't "dunking on" anything, just reminding people of how the universe works.

The original vacuum flasks were made of glass, and a lot of laboratory grade vacuum flasks and Dewars are still made of glass. The consumer level Thermoses eventually switched to stainless steel.
by reactordev | 2026-02-05 10:37:44+00:00
Replace “tech” in this scenario with “ammunition”.

Does your argument still hold up?

>”employees are making the actual thing that inflicts harm while consumers' actions are completely diffused and many steps removed from the harm they cause.”

“employees are making the actual thing that inflicts harm while consumers' actions directly cause deadly harm.”

I’m not arguing that we shouldn’t be voting with our wallets and supporting these people but your initial argument is flawed. They produce goods precisely because consumers buy them…
by jacquesm | 2026-02-05 10:38:04+00:00
Interesting, I'm right in the middle of this, so very timely, thanks for posting.

As a surprise to me, the price of variable capacitors (which you can pair with an inductor as described to get a particular resonance) has gone completely through the roof because apparently nobody uses them any more. So what used to be a 20 ct part is now $7,50 quantity one and quantity 50 as well!

You can see a couple in the picture of the regency radio, the circles with a screw in the middle. The ones in the other radio are adjustable coils, they have a split ferrite element that screws up and down to extend the length or contract it.

As for stripping the conductor of the enamel: the best and safest way is not to scrape or sand (which will affect the conductor by reducing its strength as well as its cross section) but to simply boil off some of the enamel in a bit of solder stuck to the tip of your soldering iron.

That way you only strip just as much as you need to and there is no mechanical damage. You also should not twist the two wires the way it is done in TFA because these coils will pick up LF noise as well and that will end up rubbing the wiring to the point that you can get a short. The easier way is to just put a drop of superglue on the paper that you're going to use as coil body and then to stick the winding end in it and wait for it to dry (which should be really quick). After that you can start winding.

Wind nice and tight and make sure to not leave any air between the coil body and the ferrite, this will result in 'microphony', your core will end up modulated by sound waves!

If you need to cut ferrite realize that the stuff is super hard. It is easier to score it using a grinder wheel (a big one, or one on a dremel) all the way around and then to snap it off. After that you will still need to dress the ending, the fragments are super sharp so be careful you don't cut yourself.

Finally, I hotmelt a little piece of perfboard onto the ferrite and then solder the coil wires onto that and exit using thin silicone wiring. That gives a very flexible interface which will result in fewer broken coils.
by thinkindie | 2026-02-05 10:38:47+00:00
I have few sticks in the sand in my thinking framework:

* writing code has always been the easiest part of building software, deciding what to do and what not to do is something else that takes forever sometimes

* there are several open source projects that can replace commercial SaaS and still people prefer to purchase commercial SaaS. These are available immediately, deployed immediately etc etc.

* along the same line, some of those open source projects offer self-hosting and cloud version: I would always personally go for the cloud version because in a small team I don't want to operate something that other people built and I don't know how to operate. That's not my job not my team job

* people are underestimating how draining is operating and maintaining software, which is something that goes beyond the adrenaline rush you get after "building" something with Lovable or similar tools. Also, I find it extremely easy to get 80% done quickly but excruciatingly slow to get things done right.

* I still see huge value in using tools like Lovable to build a working prototype and validate assumptions so that you get quickly build the right thing right solving the right problem in the right away avoiding waste

* camcorders have been around for ages but you don't have millions of directors around just because you make a tool more accessible

* same can be said for other things like restaurants, where sometimes it's more convenient (although expensive) to buy vs build.
by kace91 | 2026-02-05 10:38:48+00:00
>"nobody is illegal"

This is completely orthogonal to the conversation, but I think you misunderstood that slogan. It does not mean “immigration rules must not be enforced”.

It means differentiating between a potentially illegal action (illegal entry/overstaying) and the person itself. You never talk about an illegal driver, or an illegal drinker, but people talk about illegal immigrants, with the implication that the person itself is illegal.

It’s subtle but it’s a step towards dehumanizing a person, or making infractions to their rights “count less” in the public eye.
by theSIRius | 2026-02-05 10:39:15+00:00
That's a pretty cool project. But with it living in the grey area of not being really supported by Remarkable, I would be skeptical if Remarkable does not block it down the line.

Supernote has full-fledged Linux support in the official pipeline. It has gotten postponed quite recently, so the devices still run on their customized Android distribution only. But even in the current state, I feel more ownership over my HW and SW than I would with Remarkable.