MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by trueno | 2026-02-05 11:12:19+00:00
the itch of curiosity can take someone to great heights... and glorious useless rabbit holes. us nerd programmers should be intimately familiar with this. i sort of do get a little irked at how a lot of the things discovered at the furthest reaches of our universe are just simply just trying to figure out that for the sake of figuring that out. don't get me wrong i'm a huge proponent of sciences in general im mostly just bewildered at the widespread collective belief that science can only be beneficial if you let it move at a glacial pace with lots of time and resources spent answering questions that should potentially be deprioritized.
even writing software im constantly compelled to shake off the wild goose chases that are just me trying to find an answer to that and get back to doing something else, and i'm constantly hungry for ways to add my capacities to something that is beneficial for at least a handful of people.

we tend to give sciences a huge sort of "let them cook" pass about many things even though sometimes it's just resources spent on some giga niche corner of science to get to an answer that settles a 25 year old argument or theory no one knows or cares about. i don't think it hurts to get back occasionally to "ok guys let's try to focus on something of importance" and acknowledging even a little bit that some of the goose chases have been utterly pointless. is there some kind of unspoken rule that scientific discovery should only come from one giant leaky bucket exercise but the bucket is never ending? aligned research goals with some outcomes that aren't some super autistic itch-scratch only one or two people on earth understand are.. not a bad thing.

scientists of some levels sometimes terrify me. human, sure, but the relentless pursuit of finding that has throughout history caused many scientists and researchers to cross moral boundaries. sometimes i wonder if people looking the traces of hundred billion year old invisible invisible gamma stinky fart rays at the edge of our universe give any shits about the world and the people in it at all. its just harder now than ever to care about their laundry list of meaningless discoveries when we're in desperate need of here and now discoveries to solve problems we face today. in some respects staring at a scope into the edge of the universe is sometimes not any different than the kid who's just trying to escape the noise of life by throwing a video game on. i get it, i do. but i don't always wrap it in nobility because the sciences are filled with humans who are as imperfect as you and i, and sometimes they straight up aren't cooking much and seem a little directionless.
by Schlagbohrer | 2026-02-05 11:12:26+00:00
Unfortunately we experienced an issue where our Slurm pool was contaminated by a misconstrained Postgres Daemon. Normally the contaminated slurm pool would drain into a docker container, but due to Rust it overloaded and the daemon ate its own head. Eventually we returned it to a restful state so all's well that ends well.

(hardware engineer trying to understand wtaf software people are saying when they speak)
by OutOfHere | 2026-02-05 11:13:15+00:00
This site is an unfair hit-piece because OpenAI had to do what was necessary to survive. A few tens of million isn't that big a deal compared to the billion that the fossil fuel industry donated.

By all means, one should not become too dependent on OpenAI, and actually should use open models too. I just don't think that other commercial players are going to be much cleaner.
by itay-maman | 2026-02-05 11:13:51+00:00
This is brilliant. I'm pretty sure I'll use it when the need arises.

One point: the pricing model wasn't immediately clear. I was a bit perplexed by "own this brand for $49" — I get why this is the business model, and it makes sense. But getting a hint about it earlier in the process would have helped set expectations.
by andix | 2026-02-05 11:14:07+00:00
OpenClaw is not broken, it is just not designed to be secure in the first place.

It's more like a tech demo to show what's possible. But also to show where the limits are. Look at it as modern art, like an episode of Black Mirror. It's a window to the future. But it also highlights all the security issues associated with AI.

And that's why you probably shouldn't use OpenClaw on your data or your PC.
by vga42 | 2026-02-05 11:14:27+00:00
Great question. Force of habit that I really should get better from.

USA used to be cool (or so I thought) back when I started participating in this place. They have sunk very low in the last 15 years.

Let's make this actionable. This is the last time I read or write here. Bye. You guys won't lose much but I will gain a lot.
by jacquesm | 2026-02-05 11:14:42+00:00
NP, I considered adding it but then again, I know HN tends to interpret that as 'old news' and in this case it is anything but. The rules are there for a reason, even so these are strange times and I figure the more people are aware of this the better.

I could have updated the post date but I would have considered that cheating so I purposefully posted it as it was but left out the date.

But don't worry, it'll get flagged off the homepage soon enough because way too many people find this sort of thing uncomfortable.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-05 11:15:03+00:00
My automatic “red flag” was btree tests. As soon as I saw one of those, I knew I was wasting my time.

I was especially annoyed by recruiters that couldn’t do math. They loved all my experience, but ghosted me, as soon as they realized it came with gray hair. I guess the place is crawling with 35-year-olds with 30 years of experience.

As it turned out, I ended up giving up, and just retiring. I had the means, but wanted to keep working for at least another decade. I really enjoyed adding value. I was especially interested in helping small companies get on their feet, as my particular skillset would have been almost ideal for that, and my “nest egg” gave me a pretty good risk tolerance, along with a willingness to take a lower base.

Turns out that these were the exact companies that didn’t want me, though.

Also turned out that I really loved being retired. I have been doing more work in the last eight years, than in a couple of decades previously. I just don’t get paid for it, and I’m fine with that. In fact, I actively resist pursuing a paycheck, as I don’t want to deal with knuckleheads, anymore.

I just had to have my hand forced. I would not have voluntarily done this.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2026-02-05 11:15:30+00:00
I find enjoyment in everything you mentioned (been reading since the Slate Star Codex days!) and I read a good mix of all book types, so I want to offer some gentle push-back. Reading fun fantasy books allows you to take your inner child and imagination out to play, not everything needs to be serious, intellectually challenging, or highly stimulating. Sometimes you have to let your imagination run free and just have fun. Holding space for your imagination to run free also opens yourself up to receiving inspiration or new unexpected ideas.

At the start of this year I read through Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being. This book wasn't telling me anything new, but it reminded me of a lot of things that I had forgotten while making me hold space for those ideas related to creativity.

Sometimes I encounter criticism of Newton for having "wasted" time studying and learning alchemy, and people lament how much more he could've gotten done if it wasn't for those distractions. But we don't know if those alchemy-related detours are load-bearing for his achievements!

The sweetest of fruits is fertilized by mountains of shit.
by simianwords | 2026-02-05 11:15:34+00:00
I agree with everything you are saying except that the left is aggressively anti business that hurts broader society. The balance is clearly on the wrong end. What I mean is that, there seems to be an ideological push (and not a practical one) to curtail businesses without understanding the consequences of it.

Where you probably disagree is that you think the left is broadly on the correct side of this issue.

As an example, take the anti data centre push by the left.

This is just fake morality disguised as "moral capitalism" broadly coming from the black and white ideology that dictates all businesses are bad and require push back.

You and I agree that there is a balance to be made.
by vidarh | 2026-02-05 11:16:29+00:00
It honestly tempting to point a camera at my workstation so AI can "watch over my shoulder" while I'm working on systems that are pointlessly excessively locked down.

I don't do, but it is tempting, and I bet people will do it.

Too much security makes people seek insecure workarounds...

Or to quote Star Wars, “The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers”.
by aadilghani | 2026-02-05 11:16:48+00:00
i was sick of pushengage and onesignal with their weird experience for push notifications. I wanted the resend like experience and i did not want the nasty app reviews, so best of both worlds, pushary was born christmas 2025 where you can send notification flows that helps you upsell as a founder. (without an app by the way for both ios and android)
Show HN:I made CyberChecker after finding exposed Stripe keys in production
by aiseoscan | 2026-02-05 11:17:10+00:00
I made CyberChecker after finding exposed Stripe keys in production apps 73% of the time

I was doing security audits and kept finding the same issues: API keys in JavaScript bundles, missing CSP headers, exposed .env files, Supabase anon keys without RLS. Basic stuff that's trivial to exploit but somehow everywhere.

Built an automated scanner that runs 50+ checks in ~60 seconds: SSL/TLS config, security headers, OWASP Top 10, secrets detection, SQL injection patterns. Free scan shows vulnerability count, $39 for the full report with exact locations + copy-paste fixes.

Tech stack: Next.js, Supabase for storage, custom scanners (no third-party APIs), Vercel edge functions.

The scary part: 94% of sites I've scanned have at least one critical vulnerability. Most are completely unaware.

https://cyber-checker.com
by vanillameow | 2026-02-05 11:18:12+00:00
Yeah I mean idk, my takeaway from OpenClaw was pretty much the same - why use someone's insane vibecoded 400k LoC CLI wrapper with 50k lines of "docs" (AI slop; and another 50k Chinese translation of the same AI slop) when I can just Claude Code myself a custom wrapper in 30 mins that has exactly what I need and won't take 4 seconds to respond to a CLI call.

But my reaction to this project is again: Why would I use this instead of "vibecoding" it myself. It won't have exactly what I need, and the cost to create my own version is measured in minutes.

I suspect many people will slowly come to understand this intrinsic nature of "vibecoded software" soon - the only valuable one is one you've made yourself, to solve your own problems. They are not products and never will be.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-05 11:18:13+00:00
> > What actually happened?

Who the hell cares?

This is the middle ages fallacy:

"Oh he cheated on his wife so he's gonna cheat on the country"

If anything the Halloween files are more of a preoccupation as it pertains to the foundation and the ability to keep its mission intact or the fact that of course it's very autocratic when one guy has all the money and everybody else is an employee
by shenberg | 2026-02-05 11:18:50+00:00
Location: Paris, France (US citizen, EU resident)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Not until 2027

Technologies:

ML / DS: PyTorch, CUDA, distributed training & inference, performance profiling/optimization (audio & speech focus, some LLM inference acceleration)

Systems: C/C++/asm, low-level performance work, reliability/scale engineering

Backend / Infra: Python/Java/C# prod services, ETL / data pipelines, k8s (incl. operator work)

Roles: Tech Lead, Research Engineer (training and/or inference of large models)

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roeeshenberg/

Email: roee.shenberg@upai.dev

I’m a hands-on engineer who’s spent the last 6 years doing freelance ML + data science, primarily in audio/speech, and before that 10+ years in startups building and scaling production systems.

I’m looking for where research meets real systems: training and/or inference for large models, especially roles that value end-to-end ownership. Open to freelance engagements or full-time roles.
by adamcharnock | 2026-02-05 11:20:26+00:00
To put it plainly: We deploy a Kubernetes cluster on Hetzner dedicated servers and become your DevOps team (or a part thereof).

It works because bare metal is about 10% the cost of cloud, and our value-add is in 1) creating a resilient platform on top of that, 2) supporting it, 3) being on-call, and 4) being or supporting your DevOps team.

This starts with us providing a Kubernetes cluster which we manage, but we also take responsibility for the services run on it. If you want Postgres, Redis, Clickhouse, NATS, etc, we'll deploy it and be SLA-on-call for any issues.

If you don't want to deal with Kubernetes then you don't have to. Just have your software engineers hand us the software and we'll handle deployment.

Everything is deployed on open source tooling, you have access to all the configuration for the services we deploy. You have server root access. If you want to leave you can do.

Our customers have full root access, and our engineers (myself included) are in a Slack channel with you engineers.

And, FWIW, it doesn't have to be Hetzner. We can colocate or use other providers, but Hetzner offer excellent bang-per-buck.

Edit: And all this is included in the cluster price, which comes out cheaper than the same hardware on the major cloud providers
by joshstrange | 2026-02-05 11:21:34+00:00
Unless you know what you are walking into ahead of time I would not recommend Synology to someone who wants to host a bunch of stuff and also wants a NAS. I don’t touch any of the container/apps stuff on my Synology(s), they are simply file servers for my application server. For this purpose, I find Synology rock solid and I’ve been very happy with them.

That said, I’ll probably try out the UniFi NAS offerings in the near future. I believe Synology has semi-walked-back its draconian hard drive policy but I don’t trust them to not try that again later. And because I only use my Synology as a NAS I can switch to something else relatively easily, as long as I can mount it on my app server, I’m golden.
by man8alexd | 2026-02-05 11:23:53+00:00
Swap is not a replacement for RAM. It is not just slow. It is very-very-very slow. Even SSDs are 10^3 slower at random access with small 4K blocks. Swap is for allocated but unused memory. If the system tries to use swap as active memory, it is going to become unresponsive very quickly - 0.1% memory excess causes a 2x degradation, 1% - 10x degradation, 10% - 100x degradation.
by pelagicAustral | 2026-02-05 11:24:17+00:00
I mean, in not vibecoding it yourself you are already saving tokens... Personally, I see no benefit in having an instance of something like this... so, I wouldn't spend tokens, and I wouldn't spend server-time, or any other resource into it, but a lot of people seem to have found a really nice alternative to actually having to use their brains during the day.
by fer | 2026-02-05 11:24:28+00:00
>people are underestimating how draining is operating and maintaining software

Yep. Many SaaS have an edge because they factorize the struggle of many customers, if a SaaS has 1000 customers, each customer vibing their way into a home-built solution will require dedicated efforts at maintaining it. Even with AI, those efforts aren't negligible.

Most companies don't even operate any IT infrastructure, cloud or otherwise, themselves, beyond office connectivity, AI replacing SaaS will require someone in charge of that at the very least.
by atmanactive | 2026-02-05 11:24:56+00:00
The idea is really good, and I would be the first to use it for all my IT infrastructures, BUT, judging by the site and the documentation, this is just one half of the equation. The other part that's sorely missing, in my humble opinion, is an AUTOMATED import & sync engine. If I need to build the whole infrastructure in your editor, then, it is just a game, like milion other games on Steam. To make this thing really useful, I would need to feed it raw data (a router export, an SNMP walk, a terraform/AWS config...) and it would need to build the city on it's own, and then allow me to monitor/sync by hooking up to metrics. In other words, the source of truth needs to remain in one place, while your engine needs to be able to digest/hook into that source of truth.
by cjav_dev | 2026-02-05 11:25:56+00:00
What do the wreken files look like?

The Stainless docs platform does some chunking and indexing by default and also gives per endpoint code snippets for different languages. This is more for companies who want to improve the agent experience for devs than for individuals working directly from an open api spec.

E.g. https://docs.sendblue.com/api/typescript/resources/messages/...
by victorbjorklund | 2026-02-05 11:25:59+00:00
Instead of using the Cloud's own Kubernetes service, for example, you just buy the compute and run your own Kubernetes cluster. At a certain scale that is going to be cheaper if you have to know how. And since you are no longer tied to which services are provided and you just need access to compute and storage. you can also shop around for better prices than Amazon or Azure since you can really go to any provider of a VPS.
by input_sh | 2026-02-05 11:26:27+00:00
> YOU NEED THOSE PEOPLE TO MANAGE CLOUD TOO.

Finally, some sense! "Cloud" was meant to make ops jobs disappear, but they just increased our salary by turning us into "DevOps Engineers" and the company's hosting bill increased fivefold in the process. You will never convince even 1% of devs to learn the ops side properly, therefore you'll still end up hiring ops people and we will cost you more now. On top of that, everyone that started as a "DevOps Engineer" knows less about ops than those that started as ops and transitioned into being "DevOps Engineers" (or some flavour of it like SREs or Platform Engineers).

If you're a programmer scared into thinking AI is going to take away your job, re-read my comment.
by chadwebscraper | 2026-02-05 11:26:30+00:00
First off, really sorry to hear that it didn't work.

Was the first response not what you were looking for? It looks like it dumped the API initially and then failed after trying to refine it. Currently, it doesn't do post-processing of API data because it varies so much.

I'd love to get feedback on what was wrong with the initial pass + fix it for you. Thanks for the feedback & hate to hear that it wasn't what you expected
by sumitkumar | 2026-02-05 11:26:47+00:00
It is not about making it yourself but a tradeoff between how much it can be controlled and how much has seen the real world. Adding requirements learned by mistakes of others is slower in self-controlled development vs an open collaboration vs a company managing it. This is the reason vibe-coded(initial requirements) projects feels good to start but tough to evolve(with real learnings).

Vibe-coded projects are high-velocity but low-entropy. They start fast, but without the "real-world learnings" baked into collaborative projects, they often plateau as soon as the problem complexity exceeds the creator's immediate focus.
by GuB-42 | 2026-02-05 11:28:27+00:00
I think that "nothing to hide" is a strawman.

No one really says that in an absolute sense, it is always in context, what it usually means is "I trust a particular institution with the data they collect", not "I will give my credit card number to everyone who asks".

For example, let's say you approve of the police installing security cameras monitored by police in your residence, if you say "I have nothing to hide" what you are actually meaning is "there is nothing these cameras can see that I would want to hide from the police". I think it is obvious that it doesn't mean you approve of having the same cameras installed in your bathroom.

The real question is one of trust and risk assessment. Are the risks of revealing a piece of information worth it? how much do you trust the other party? not the literal meaning of "nothing to hide".
by Joeboy | 2026-02-05 11:28:46+00:00
In the context of the Epstein files, I think Schmidt's actual quote looks pretty good ("If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place").

The problem is that even if Schmidt didn't do anything wrong (I don't know but all the link says is he may have been invited to a dinner but probably didn't attend), he nevertheless had something to fear.
by dgxyz | 2026-02-05 11:29:52+00:00
I got an HR meeting a couple of years back where they selected me to be laid off because I wasn't closing as many tickets off as the rest of the team. Every single ticket had been through another engineer first and they had failed to resolve it.

I was absolutely fine with this and didn't defend it because the enhanced payment I was going to get was huge. But alas they worked it out in the end and here I am fixing arcane shit still that no one else has a clue about or is defeated by.
by itay-maman | 2026-02-05 11:31:21+00:00
There's another angle here: in the LLM era, markdown files in a public repo actually are apps.

When Google announced free turn-by-turn navigation in 2009, Garmin dropped 16% and TomTom dropped 21% — in a single day[1]. Investors weren't irrational; they recognized Google was giving away for free what others charged $150+ for.

Same dynamic here. Haiku/Sonnet/Opus are the hardware, Cowork is the operating system, and those markdown files are the apps. Together they deliver real utility that previously required paid SaaS or billable hours — at near-zero marginal cost. The market's read may have been hasty, but the underlying concern is real.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/29/9634146/google-MAPS-kill...
by vanillameow | 2026-02-05 11:31:54+00:00
I do see the potential in something like OpenClaw, personally, but more as a kind of interface for a collection of small isolated automations that _could_ be loosely connected via some type of memory bank (whether that's a RAG or just text files or a database or whatever). Not all of these will require LLMs and certainly none of them will require vibecoding at all if you have infinite time; But the reality is I don't have infinite time, and if I have 300 small ideas and I can only implement my like 10 of them a week by myself, I'd personally rather automate 30 more than just not have them at all, you know?

But I am talking about shell scripts here, cronjobs, maybe small background services. And I would never dare publish these as public applications or products. Both because I feel no pride about having "made" these - because, you know, I haven't, the AI did - and because they just aren't public facing interfaces.

I think the main issue at the moment is that so many devs are pretending that these vibecoded projects are "products". They are not. They are tailor-made, non-recyclable throwaway software for one person: The creator. I just see no world at the moment where I have any plausible reason to use someone else's vibecoded software.
by voxadam | 2026-02-05 11:32:43+00:00
kernel docs: https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/mm/zswap.html

early intro: https://lwn.net/Articles/537422/

general usage docs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zswap

code: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
by andix | 2026-02-05 11:32:55+00:00
Like I said: sandboxing doesn't solve the problem.

As long as the agent creates more than just text, it can leak data. If it can access the internet in any manner, it can leak data.

The models are extremely creative and good at figuring out stuff, even circumventing safety measures that are not fully air tight. Most of the time they catch the deception, but in some very well crafted exploits they don't.