MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aed | 2026-02-02 17:41:04+00:00
I've done something similar. I don't know if it counts as a "serious task" as OP is requesting, but it's super helpful for me.

A few things:

1. Each week my son's school sends an "At A Glance" email with the schedule for the week and upcoming weeks. It includes things like fields trips, dress down days, early dismissals, etc. OpenClaw looks for that email each Sunday evening then finds things relevant to my son and adds them to the family calendar. It's really great!

2. I registered my kids for a weekend program. Sent OpenClaw a screenshot of the dates (via Telegram) and asked it to add the dates to the family calendar.

3. The way I "bookmark" things is to add them to an #inbox channel in my personal Slack. I even use an iOS shortcut to add them from Safari on my iPhone. This morning I had OpenClaw roll through and categorize everything I saved in January so I can revisit anything I'd like to and I also posted a quick blog post with things I saved in January 2026.

It feels so powerful but like others I'm nervous about giving it too much access, so I'm treading carefully. I have it running on an exe.dev VM and it talks to me through telegram and a personal slack account. Currently RO access to email, write access only to the family calendar, plus my personal Slack.
by brandomica | 2026-02-02 17:41:06+00:00
I spent 30+ hours manually checking brand names across a dozen sites. Every name meant opening Namecheckr, GoDaddy, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Instagram, App Store, Google Play, npm, ProductHunt... then repeating for the next name.

Existing tools are fragmented. Namecheckr doesn't show pricing. Instant Domain Search only does domains. Nothing checks app stores or SaaS channels. None give you the full picture in one place.

So I built Brandomica. Type a brand name and in ~10 seconds you get:
- Domains across 5 TLDs with actual prices
- Social handles — Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Instagram
- App stores — iOS App Store, Google Play
- SaaS channels — npm, ProductHunt, GitHub org
- Availability score (0-10)

No signup. No paywall. Paste a name and know if it's worth pursuing.

Stack: Next.js + Tailwind on Vercel. Domain checks via Vercel Domains API, GitHub via PAT, social via APIs with fallback links, app stores via iTunes Search + Google Play scraping.

Try it: https://brandomica.com

Would love feedback on what channels to add or what's missing.
by ljm | 2026-02-02 17:41:08+00:00
That's demand driven and organic, at least, and it's not the first thing that comes to mind with hypergrowth, it's just scale.

Instead, I think of hypergrowth as a supply-side attempt to capture a larger market in a highly inorganic way and to also capture the absurdly high valuation that comes with it. Usually through VC.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-02-02 17:41:14+00:00
And it takes resources, slower than native and lets developers lolligag about upgrading their apps.

I’m well aware of emulation parts of PPC MacOS - including the operating system was running 68K code until OS X came out 8 years after the PPC was introduced. Intel Macs ran PPC code under emulation for a few years.

So should the ARM Mac have emulations for Intel 32 bit/64 bit, PPC and 68K?

Should the iPhone have emulators?
by sublinear | 2026-02-02 17:41:18+00:00
WebMCP is on track to be a W3C spec, and I think it solves all of this in a very straightforward manner.

For frontend devs, this can be as simple as writing some new markup that exposes their controls as tools to the browser. Then when the LLM engages a registered tool, the UI hides navigation controls and expands the content. Not a ton of work, but huge payoff to stay relevant.

MCP tool descriptions aren't just functional, but ultimately the new hyperlinks in a new kind of SEO that digs into every facet of a site or app's design.

https://github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp?tab=readme-ov-f...

TL;DR Imagine a web with less junk on the screen and more dynamic and accessible UI.
Prediction: Claude 5 will be a major regression
by cadabrabra | 2026-02-02 17:41:25+00:00
At this point it should be completely obvious to everyone that there’s what is approximately a linear relationship between model cost and model performance. Anthropic is claiming that Claude 5 Sonnet will cost about half as much as their current SOTA models. Therefore, expect about half the performance. This is Anthropic’s version of GPT-5, i.e. a way to fool their customers into using a less compute intensive model, almost purely for the benefit of the company. But as usual, they will rig the benchmarks and make it appear as though the model is better at certain things, like coding.

It’s an illusion, folks. You’re being played. Wake the hell up.

Also, I can’t believe that people still talk about SWE-Bench when there is a paper proving that the benchmark is completely useless because models regurgitate memorized answers.

Again, please, wake up.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12286
by jama211 | 2026-02-02 17:41:32+00:00
Reading this article seems outdated and therefore quaint in some areas now, the “we’ve all felt that moment of staring at a small bit of simple code that can’t possibly be failing and yet it does” - I so rarely experience this anymore as I’d have an LLM take a look and they tend to find these sort of “stupid” bugs very quickly. But my earlier days were full of these issues so it’s almost nostalgic for me now. Bugs nowadays are far more insidious when they crop up.
by flufluflufluffy | 2026-02-02 17:42:16+00:00
> We install them without a second thought. They're in the official marketplace. They have thousands of reviews. They work. So we grant them access to our workspaces, our files, our keystrokes - and assume they're only using that access to help us code.

Who is this “we”? I don’t, and don’t know anybody else who does this.

Also, was this article itself written by an AI assistant? If the author is that carefree regarding these extensions, I guess probably.
by dataviz1000 | 2026-02-02 17:42:35+00:00
I use TimescaleDB every day.

Being able to ask questions to an LLM copilot about patterns across several billion rows, 140GB of time series data, like how the market reacts 15 minutes, 1 day, and 1 week after Federal Reserve press releases, using time_bucket() and other aggregation functions with compressed chunks, and having the copilot generate the queries and run them fast, is going to be game changing. I can ask to write a script to scrape the press releases, to run them through another agent to classify them (hawk, dove) and use that information in the time series analysis.

Even though that exploration has not produced any actionable, tradable results for me, which is why I am sharing it, eventually TimescaleDB will be one of the most important tools in fields like medical research. A researcher will be able to ask in natural language for statistically significant patterns in the data, and LLM agents will query it quickly while taking advantage of all the TimescaleDB optimizations.
by cirrusfan | 2026-02-02 17:43:36+00:00
Huh? What prevents you from installing them "all at once"?
The downside is obviously a long stretch of no sun, and for Europe winter being both low solar production and high energy demand due to heating which the soon-to-be-cheap grid scale batteries don’t really fix. The logistics of PV don’t seem difficult though - it seems by far the easiest of the power generation methods, even if the synchronization can get a bit tricky in a large grid.
by dragonflytech | 2026-02-02 17:43:36+00:00
Dragonfly | www.askdragonfly.com | Remote first (frequent trips to London) | Full-time

We’re an early-stage startup at the intersection of system design, cloud infra, and AI, enabling companies to adopt the latest in GenAI, including agentic frameworks.

Backed by Tier 1 VCs, we’ve recently launched publicly and are already partnering with 20+ global brands.

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by tverbeure | 2026-02-02 17:43:39+00:00
I'm just surprised that my blog post from almost 6 years ago suddenly made it to the HN front page...

That said: only when I need it the same day and it's not too complicated will I use protoboard. Otherwise it's JLCPCB every time, even if it's just a small debug interface board. I recently bought a cheap wire-wrapping tool and that's so much faster than messing around with enamel wire.

The board that is featured in this blog post was the first prototype of a skunkworks design for work that was on the shelves of Best Buy 7 months later. It was started just a week or two before COVID shutdown. I created PCBs soon after. Another month or 2 later and you'd have had a really hard time getting any PCB out of JLCPCB due to the supply chain disruption.
by bityard | 2026-02-02 17:43:42+00:00
I think the whole concept of testing confuses a lot of people. I know I was (and still sometimes am) confused about the various "best practices" and opinions around testing. As as well as how/what/when to test.

For my projects, I mainly want to Get Shit Done. So I write tests for the major functional areas of the business logic, mainly because I want to know ASAP when I accidentally break something important. When a bug is found that a test didn't catch, that's usually an indicator that I forgot a test, or need to beef up that area of functional testing.

I do not bother with TDD, or tests that would only catch cosmetic issues, and I avoid writing tests that only actually test some major dependency (like an ORM).

If the organization you are in does not value testing, you are probably not going to change their mind. But if you have the freedom to write worthwhile tests for your contributions to the code, doing so will probably make you a better developer.
by nathan_douglas | 2026-02-02 17:44:02+00:00
Location: US/Ohio
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Backend / DevOps / Infra / Platform
Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nug-doug/
GitHub: https://github.com/ndouglas/
Email: smooth.gift2502 AT tenesm DOT us

Pretty boring dude, 14+ years of experience in various areas of engineering. I'm looking to switch jobs only because I intend to move to Europe in ~2.5 years and that's a no-go with my current employer. I'm very interested in science and research.

My professional work's covered in my résumé, but that's mostly boring. I've also written a NES emulator [1], an ECS-based Lisp machine/rule engine [2], a self-organizing gossip mesh that learns to play Flappy Bird [3], and ported _Zork_ to Clojure for no good reason [4]. I also started working on a Math/CS educational site late last year to combat a wave of depression [5].

I'm a bit of an odd duck and don't fit what many teams are seeking, but I'm always growing and getting better, usually in the weirdest possible way. If you're interested, I'd love to hear from you.

[1] https://github.com/ndouglas/greenstone [2] https://github.com/ndouglas/longtable [3] https://github.com/ndouglas/whispers [4] https://github.com/ndouglas/clork [5] https://bit-wit.com/
by triceratops | 2026-02-02 17:44:34+00:00
> Claim: people will just choose to not invest capital at all

No. Claim: People will have less capital to invest.

Most portfolios are not cash-heavy. They own assets. If they want to invest in something they borrow against the assets or sell them and get cash. If the assets' prices crash they can't get as much cash for those assets.

Cost of borrowing - which is what you're referencing from the ZIRP era - is another factor into how much people can borrow against assets. But if the assets themselves trade at an average P/E of 20 instead of 40 then people can only borrow half as much money at 1% interest rates.
by reactordev | 2026-02-02 17:44:41+00:00
Ballmer hasn’t been around for a long long time. Not since the Red Ring of Death days. Ever since Satya took the reins, MBAs have filled upper and middle management to try to take over open source so that Sales guys had something to combat RedHat. Great for open source. Bad for Microsoft. However, Satya comes from the Cloud division so he knows how to Cloud and do it well. Azure is a hit with the enterprise. Then along comes AI…

Microsoft lost its way with Windows Phone, Zune, Xbox360 RRoD, and Kinect. They haven’t had relevance outside of Windows (Desktop) in the home for years. With the sole exception being Xbox.

They have pockets of excellence. Where great engineers are doing great work. But outside those little pockets, no one knows.
by jritchie | 2026-02-02 17:44:48+00:00
Location: Edinburgh, UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Machine learning, statistics, deep learning, data science, Python, PyTorch, Numpy, scikit-learn.
Résumé/CV: https://jmsrt.ch/docs/james_ritchie_cv.pdf
Email: hnhired@james.jmsrt.ch
Website: https://jmsrt.ch

I'm interested in machine learning and data science roles. I have expertise in machine learning and statistics having completed a PhD applying Bayesian inference to difficult scientific modelling problems using deep learning. I also have multiple years of experience working in startups as an engineer and data scientist across a range of industries.
by Sharlin | 2026-02-02 17:45:22+00:00
Plays at ~3fps and with a ~1s latency on all interactions on Firefox, MBP2015 :( Slightly better on Chrome, but the menu is still incredibly laggy and the placement grid lags way behind the mouse cursor. Got to say that the performance isn't exactly that of Rollercoaster Tycoon, famously written by Chris Sawyer in lovingly hand-crafted assembly!
by rijavecb | 2026-02-02 17:45:28+00:00
Location: Romania & Serbia (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PHP, Laravel, Inertia, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://rijavecb.com/cv.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

Hi, I'm Branko. I am looking for a part-time or contract position in a small team where I can wear multiple hats: building features (Frontend/Laravel), handling support tickets, writing documentation, and improving SEO.

I have an engineering degree in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks (links on website).

If you need someone who is just as comfortable handling support and documentation as they are writing code, I'd love to chat.
by hubraumhugo | 2026-02-02 17:45:32+00:00
Kadoa | Multiple roles | Remote | Full-Time | https://kadoa.com

Web scraping hasn't changed in decades: engineers still write brittle scripts that constantly break. Kadoa automates the entire web data pipeline with AI agents that build, maintain, and validate scraper code themselves.

All 3 founders have spent years in the trenches writing web scraping and ETL software and still do it almost every single day. We’re making sure every team member can do the best work of their career at Kadoa.

We are growing fast, have a drama-free and distraction-light environment, and try to minimize the distance between the code you ship and the customers who use it.

We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, web scraping, and AI.

Open roles:

- Senior Frontend Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/frontend-engineer

- Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-software-engineer

If that sounds like you, please email me at (adrian at kadoa dot com) and mention HN in the subject line.
by 348512469721 | 2026-02-02 17:45:39+00:00
Hermes Health | ONSITE | Venice, CA | Backend Engineer | Full-time | hermeshealth.com

Hermes Health is building a platform to connect identified medical data sources. We are looking for a Rust backend engineer. Our backend is is entirely Rust, via Rocket, and our frontend is (currently) TS via React/Next. However, we are moving the frontend to Rocket via maud+Datastar (similar to HTMX) in order to adopt a "microlith" architecture. Familiarity with event sourcing is recommended, but not required.

This is an in-person position, although we WFH on Fridays and are very flexible on other days as needed. Healthcare and dental available. We are also a startup and have just wrapped up our seed round, we have 2 years of runway and already have paying customers. Happy to discuss more details on this if you'd like.

If you are interested, send an email with your resume to adler@hermeshealth.com
by nelsonfigueroa | 2026-02-02 17:45:41+00:00
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA

Remote: Remote preferred, I'm ok with going into an office a few times a week if it's nearby.

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, Ruby, Rails, Python, Bash, Go, HTML, CSS, MySQL, PostgreSQL.

Résumé/CV: Check out LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonfigueroa1/, or my personal site: https://nelson.cloud/about. Happy to send over a PDF via LinkedIn as well.

Email: nelsonfigueroa07@gmail.com

I'm looking to get back into a more typical Software Engineering role rather than my current customer-facing position as a "Customer Support Engineer". I would describe myself as a mid-level engineer, but the goal is to reach a senior level title at a company with a high bar.
by palmotea | 2026-02-02 17:45:55+00:00
> I don't think most devs will go into acceptance stage until later this year when Blackwell-class models come online and AI undeniably write better code than vast majority of humans. I'm pretty sure GPT5.2 and Opus 4.5 were only trained on H200-class chips.

We can only hope! It's about time all those pompous developers embrace the economic rug-pull, and adopt a lifestyle more in line with their true economic value. It's capitalism people, the best system there is. Deal with it and quit whining.
by dangus | 2026-02-02 17:46:11+00:00
I don’t plan on using the feature and I don’t plan on using Windows much longer in the first place, but I find that going beyond the ragebait headlines and looking at the actual offering and its privacy policy and security documentation makes it look a lot more reasonable.

Microsoft is very explicit in detailing how the data stays on device and goes to great lengths to detail exactly how it works to keep data private, as well as having a lot of sensible exceptions (e.g., disabled for incognito web browsing sessions) and a high degree of control (users can disable it per app).

On top of all this it’s 100% optional and all of Microsoft’s AI features have global on/off switches.
by munificent | 2026-02-02 17:46:20+00:00
Also, with a three ball pattern, most of the time there's only a single ball in the air. With four, there are almost always two. The odds of a mid-air collision increase significantly, and go up as the number of balls increases.

That also forces you to have much more consistent throws which, as you note, gets harder because you also have to throw higher which scales up any error in the force you're applying.
by catapart | 2026-02-02 17:46:38+00:00
sarcasm is easy, but I'd be willing to hear any earnest objections you have. my assumption is that you don't have any that aren't themselves hypocritical or contradictory, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong about that!

ETA: in case it's unclear - this is not me trying to platform OP's bullshit in good faith, this is me calling OP's bluff. I don't think ne can articulate an actual problem that isn't self-defeating, which is why ne retreated to sarcastic implication rather than outright accusation.
by Aarekaz | 2026-02-02 17:47:06+00:00
Location: United States
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Python, SQL, TypeScript , AWS
Résumé/CV: https://www.anuragd.me/api/resume
Email: hey@anuragd.me

An obsessive builder in the ML/AI space. Previous YC ML engineer. 3 years as a Data engineer. Love startups and looking to work somewhere where there is a biasness of shipping. website : anuragd.me
by cf100clunk | 2026-02-02 17:47:14+00:00
This is a mindblower. To quote Bruce Dubbs:

''As a personal note, I do not like this decision. To me LFS is about learning how a system works. Understanding the boot process is a big part of that. systemd is about 1678 "C" files plus many data files. System V is "22" C files plus about 50 short bash scripts and data files. Yes, systemd provides a lot of capabilities, but we will be losing some things I consider important.

However, the decision needs to be made.''
by marssaxman | 2026-02-02 17:47:25+00:00
> Microsoft really needs to get a better handle with the naming conventions.

They really won't, though; Microsoft just does this kind of thing, over and over and over. Before everything was named "365", it was all "One", before that it was "Live"... 20 years ago, everything was called ".NET" whether it had anything to do with the Internet or not. Back in the '90s they went crazy for a while calling everything "Active".
by nh2 | 2026-02-02 17:47:52+00:00
This is not a feature of rsync, but of your shell.

So the question "does rclone have that" doesn't make much sense, because it usually wouldn't be rclone implementing it.

For example, zsh does it here for rsync, which actually invokes `ssh` itself:

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/3e72a52e27d8ce8d8be0ee...

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/3e72a52e27d8ce8d8be0ee...

That said, some CLI tools come with tools for shells to help them implement such things. E.g. `mytool completion-helper ...`

But I don't get rclone SSH completions in zsh, as it doesn't call `_remote_files` for rclone:

https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh/blob/3e72a52e27d8ce8d8be0ee...
by cluoma | 2026-02-02 17:48:14+00:00
Location: Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, Canada/US/Germany

Technologies: C, R, Python, Multiple flavours of SQL

Resume/CV: Link in bio

Email: colin.luoma (at) gmail.com

I have several years experience as a data analyst, mostly in the video games industry and, more recently, in public service. A large part of this has been data engineering work which I've always found I tend to enjoy more than the analysis side. I've also always maintained a personal interest in programming working on side projects, and so, I am looking to transition into a development/data engineering role.

Lately, I have been spending my time in the embedded space working on retro game console accessories which has been very rewarding. I would love carry some of this experience into a professional role.
by bityard | 2026-02-02 17:48:18+00:00
Location: Ann Arbor, MI

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: no

Technologies: Linux, Open Source, Python, Storage, Git, CI/CD, Ansible, Virtualization (and now getting into self-hosted AI)

Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-ulrich-a1b415266/

Email: charles.hnjorb@bityard.net

Hi, I'm Charles and I have decades of experience with Linux administration, with some cloud and orchestration thrown in for good measure. I am passionate about open source and making people's lives easier. My strengths are clear communication and methodical troubleshooting. I am proficient in Python and Bash, intermediate in Javascript. I love learning new things and hope for a job that exposes me to more coding, cloud, orchestration, and AI development.

I am considering a change of employment, but only for remote W-2 positions at this time. May consider an on-site job in or around Ann Arbor if the culture is right. Regardless, I'm always happy to talk to anyone about anything so absolutely feel free to reach out for a chat.