MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by antonyh | 2026-02-02 18:46:15+00:00
All I want is init scripts and X11, but the horizons are shrinking. I've already compromised with systemd, and I don't like it. I see BSD in my future, or at least a linux distro from the list here https://nosystemd.org/ - probably Gentoo. Nothing to stop me, absolutely nothing at all. I just need a few days free to backup/wipe/reinstall/reconfigure/restore_data and I'll be good. Better make that a few weeks. Maybe on my next machine build. It's not easy, but I build machines for long term use.

As for Linux from Scratch - This is something that's been on my radar, but without the part I'm truly interested in (learning more about SysV) then I'm less inclined to bother. I don't buy the reason of Gnome/KDE - isn't LfS all about the basics of the distro than building a fully fledged system? If it's the foundation for the other courses, but it still feels weak that it's so guided by a future GUI requirement for systemd when it's talking about building web servers and the like in a 500Mb or less as the motivation.
by EddieRingle | 2026-02-02 18:46:23+00:00
> I applied and got rejected without feedback. They stated that there was a high volume of strong applicants (if there were, why are they posting again?)

This is the case for the vast majority of companies posting jobs here and elsewhere (e.g., LinkedIn) right now. I've been looking for the past 7 months after a lay-off and that exact reply is the most common response I've seen (because it's an automated response). Well, most common after not hearing back at all, of course.
by jgrodman | 2026-02-02 18:46:28+00:00
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by ryanscript01123 | 2026-02-02 18:46:43+00:00
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by palmotea | 2026-02-02 18:47:15+00:00
> The exact moment you charge for something, you need payment processing, a bank, a legal entity to hold said processed funds, you have liability, you need some sort of marketing / sales process (even if it's just copy on a website),

That seems like an area that's ripe for innovation. What does it take to get setup on a platform like Patreon? Seems like something similar ought to be setup for open source/independent development, probably an idealistic nonprofit.

> and the barrier for someone to use your product is suddenly extremely high, simply because it costs something.

All the organizations who really ought to pay are already setup to do all that, and do it all the time.

> But the core reason why FOSS spreads and took over is precisely why it is difficult to fund. No one is going to pay for something when the alternative is free. And the moment you start to charge some free alternative comes along and your prior users spurn you as greedy

What we need is innovation. Maybe a license that has a trip-wire? If not enough money is voluntarily deposited into a tip jar over a certain period of time, the license requires a modest payment from all for-profit organizations of a particular size.

That's up-front, is for the most part free, and incentivizes some payment.
by barbazoo | 2026-02-02 18:47:25+00:00
> Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment owners’ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.

> This is another win for American farmers and ranchers by the Trump Administration. By clarifying manufacturers can no longer use the Clean Air Act to justify limiting access to repair tools or software, we are reaffirming the lawful right of American farmers and equipment owners to repair their farm equipment

This seems to be very specific to repairing diesel engines. I can imagine this is not the win for farmers that they're trying to make it sound like.
by int3trap | 2026-02-02 18:49:22+00:00
> So it's possible to have a pipelined connection stash away a continuation for a response calculation and be woken up later on when it's ready.

Ahh, that's interesting. I think you still run into the issue where you have a case like this:

1. You get 10 pipelined requests from a single connection with a post body to update some record in a Postgres table.

2. All 10 requests are independent and can be resolved at the same time, so you should make use of Postgres pipelining and send them all as you receive them.

3. When finishing the requests, you likely need the information provided in the request object. Lets assume it's a lot of data in the body, to the point where you've reached you per connection buffer limit. You either allocate here to unblock the read, or you block new reads, impacting response latency, until all requests are completed. The allocation is the better choice at that point but that heuristic decision engine with the goal of peak performance is definitely nuanced, if not complicated.

Its a cool problem space though, so always interested in learning how others attack it.
by raiymbek | 2026-02-02 18:49:30+00:00
It’s surprising that there’s almost no practical information about Telegram Cocoon beyond what’s on GitHub and the official website. Various media outlets have plenty of general coverage about the network launch, but almost nothing about real user experience.

I decided to spend a bit of time and figure out what’s actually going on in the network, how it works, and, most importantly, whether I, as a developer, can use it today. So in this article I’ll look at Cocoon from a developer’s perspective: how to install it and how to use it.
by scottyah | 2026-02-02 18:50:03+00:00
At least on image generation, google and maybe others put a watermark in each image. Text would be hard, you can't even do the printer steganography or canary traps because all models and the checker would need to have some sort of communication.
https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

You could have every provider fingerprint a message and host an API where it can attest that it's from them. I doubt the companies would want to do that though.
by stevenwoo | 2026-02-02 18:50:09+00:00
If you are open to a bit of reading I would recommend The New Jim Crow, Usual Cruelty, and Copoganda. The USA has a disproportionate amount of prisoners and armed law enforcement compared to every other comparable country - because it is a hugely profitable industry that self perpetuates itself really well- it’s similar in a way to how hard it is to get any consumer protections in USA from predatory and polluting entities.
by JeffsCarbide | 2026-02-02 18:50:14+00:00
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by everybodyknows | 2026-02-02 18:50:14+00:00
AI detection vs. "humanization" has been an arms race for some time and will continue so, for at least as long as students want to cheat on essay composition tests.

So any such blocking feature would produce both false positives and false negatives. Complicated by existence of pages that commingle organic human content (possibly plagiarized) along with AI slop.
by 3acctforcom | 2026-02-02 18:50:31+00:00
This is actually one of their smart decisions. "Copilot" is currently going through the corporate regulators, who know nothing about technology, but I can't buy it until they say everything is Legal.

So once we have signoff then my counterpart in Sharepoint/M365 land gets his "Copilot" for Office, while my reporting and analytics group gets "Copilot" for Power BI, while my coding team gets "Copilot" for llm assisted development in GitHub.

In the meantime everybody just plugs everything into ChatGPT and everybody pretends it isn't happening. It's not unlawful if they lawyers can't see it!
by OkGoDoIt | 2026-02-02 18:50:37+00:00
If you’re focused on productivity and business use cases, then obviously it’s pretty silly, but I do find something exciting in the idea that someone just said screw it, let’s build a social network for AI’s and see what happens. It’s a bit surreal in a way that I find I like, even if in some sense it’s nothing more than an expensive collaborative art project. And the way you paste the instruction to download the skill to teach the agent how to interact with it is interesting (first I’ve seen that in the wild).

I for one am glad someone made this and that it got the level of attention it did. And I look forward to more crazy, ridiculous, what-the-hell AI projects in the future.

Similar to how I feel about Gas Town, which is something I would never seriously consider using for anything productive, but I love that he just put it out there and we can all collectively be inspired by it, repulsed by it, or take little bits from it that we find interesting. These are the kinds of things that make new technologies interesting, this Cambrian explosion of creativity of people just pushing the boundaries for the sake of pushing the boundaries.
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by kevstev | 2026-02-02 18:51:33+00:00
Didn't you find though that systemd was just a black box? I was hoping to learn more about it as well- and I did manage to get a fully baked LFS CLI system up and running, and it was just like "ok install systemd..." and now... it just goes.

Sysv at least gave you a peak under the covers when you used it, and while it may have given people headaches and lacked some functionality, was IMHO simple to understand. Of course the entire spaghetti of scripts was hard to understand in terms of making sense of all the dependencies, but it felt a lot less like magic than systemd does.
by javier_e06 | 2026-02-02 18:51:45+00:00
Termux and I have a love-hate relationship.
Is my go-to app in my ARM based chromebook.
Yet I am forced to upgrade the package manager to install git and other tools and once the package manager upgrades.. SSL library breaks.
So you get ONE CHANCE to install your packages before SSL gets upgraded and bam!
No more installations for you.
I go to the usual places to look for fixes and it's like yeah yeah yeah. Try
this.. tried? Still broken, beats me.

That's what I get for sticking with 32 bit ARM chromebook.
Lightning fast. Great battery. Old OS.
by elicash | 2026-02-02 18:51:52+00:00
Here's Simon Willison's take:

“Most of it is complete slop,” he said in an interview. “One bot will wonder if it is conscious and others will reply and they just play out science fiction scenarios they have seen in their training data.”

I found this by going to his blog. It's the top post. No need to put words in his mouth.

He did find it super "interesting" and "entertaining," but that's different than the "most insane and mindblowing thing in the history of tech happenings."

Edit: And here's Karpathy's take: "TLDR sure maybe I am "overhyping" what you see today, but I am not overhyping large networks of autonomous LLM agents in principle, that I'm pretty sure."
by idle_zealot | 2026-02-02 18:51:52+00:00
> The Clean Air Act has long crushed family farmers across America – but under the Trump Administration, they are finally getting the regulatory relief to break free from burdensome Green New Scam rules and focus on the vital job of feeding, clothing, and fueling America and the world

Huh, interesting framing here. Did some clever Right to Repair advocate figure out that they could get pro-consumer action through by phrasing it as anti-Clean Air Act?

I'm not too hopeful for this shift surviving contact with John Deere's counter-advocacy though. Remember the flip-flopping on sending ICE after farmhands and hotel/casino staff? That ultimately seems have landed on the maximalist deport-them-all stance on account of Miller's proximity to Trump's ear. I doubt there's someone with personal stakes so close to power advocating for Right to Repair, so the lobbyists will likely win this.
by dorikacicc | 2026-02-02 18:52:30+00:00
I’ve been a long-time Plus subscriber, and I use GPT models not just for technical work, but for emotionally nuanced creative writing. GPT-4o was the first time a model truly felt collaborative — responsive, intuitive, and deeply aligned with human tone.
I understand the need to move forward, but removing a model that worked so well for so many of us — without giving us any option to retain it — feels like a step back.
Choice matters. Legacy models could be hidden or opt-in for those who want them. But removing them entirely limits the diversity of user needs that ChatGPT once supported so well.
I hope OpenAI will listen. Not every use case fits a benchmark score.
by nico401 | 2026-02-02 18:52:33+00:00
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by MarkMarine | 2026-02-02 18:52:40+00:00
Every piece of heavy off-road equipment uses a diesel engine.

I think you’re not up to date on what a racket the big equipment manufacturers have going. If you want to replace an alternator… simple part, should be a 1 for 1 replacement done in 30min, you can’t do it because it requires a John Deer tech to program the computer. This is done so they can mandate you use their service people and their parts, or your warranty is void on a million dollar piece of equipment.

And the service techs can be backed up during harvest, so you miss your harvest and your crop dies on the vine. It’s ridiculous
by indoordin0saur | 2026-02-02 18:53:00+00:00
I'll notice this with TV documentaries and segments on news channels quite frequently as well. I have the "GeoGuessr gene" as well as being decently well travelled so I spot this stuff all the time. One particular pet peeve of mine is movies or shows mean to be shot in medieval Europe but the "forest" they use is actually a tree plantation of North American native trees such as Sitka Spruce.
"100% of our code is written by AI"
by cadabrabra | 2026-02-02 18:53:16+00:00
This is an extremely misleading way of framing how engineers are actually using AI to generate code. It makes it sound like LLMs are autonomously writing code. But in reality, engineers are prompting LLMs to generate code. No precise prompt? No code. It’s almost as misleading as claiming that “code editors are writing 100% of our code.” It assigns agency to a computer program that is in reality a medium between the agent (the human) and the software application under development.

This kind of verbal trickery is designed by the elites to subtly manipulate people into believing certain narratives, in this case the narrative of AI autonomy in software development. As George Carlin once said: Pay very close attention to the language we’ve all agreed on.
Show HN: Yaoclaw (Yet Another Open Claw)AI agent that runs cmds in macOS sandbox
by ezulabs | 2026-02-02 18:53:26+00:00
(Yes, the name keeps the "Yet Another" tradition alive. YAML did it, YACC did it, now YAOC. Someone had to.)

This whole thing was vibe coded – $99 in tokens later, you can save that and just use your local LLM instead.

Shipping before bed because my agent can't work autonomously at night yet, and I know someone would release this while I'm sleeping.

https://github.com/ezulabs/yaoclaw
by oletrn | 2026-02-02 18:54:00+00:00
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by burkaman | 2026-02-02 18:54:01+00:00
Seems good but unlikely to accomplish anything. Manufacturers obviously don't want to make third-party repairs easier because they think they'll lose money, so if the EPA says one excuse isn't valid anymore they'll just find another one. This new guidance doesn't ask or even suggest that manufacturers actually do anything, it just says "hey if you want to help your customers repair stuff, we'd be ok with it".
by bhaskaraee | 2026-02-02 18:54:11+00:00
Hi HN — I’m one of the builders behind SochDB.

We built it after repeatedly running into complexity around
SQL + vector DB + context/memory when building LLM and agent apps.

SochDB is embedded and local-first by design.
The goal is to reduce glue code and make reasoning about state simpler.

Happy to answer questions about:
- embedded vs cloud trade-offs
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- where this fits (and doesn’t)

Open to all feedback, including critical takes.
by SakshiSen | 2026-02-02 18:54:42+00:00
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by major505 | 2026-02-02 18:54:56+00:00
I think is funny, because is not the first time I hear about microsoft employees not using the company products.

I worked on a project with some microsoft engineers to create a chatbot plugin for Salesforce, using Microsoft Power Virtual Agent, and the comunication tool they used was Slack and not teams. And I was obligated to use teams because of the consuting company I worked at the time.

And also the version control they used at the time was I think SVN, and not TFS.
by jonahberquist | 2026-02-02 18:54:58+00:00
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by throwaway81523 | 2026-02-02 18:55:15+00:00
https://rvv-isadoc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/arith_integer.ht...

Interesting, I didn't know that. I wonder how much hassle the setup for that is. Maybe too much overhead to use for general purpose int128. But, there is also a 128-bit extension that might or might not have implementations.
by MITSardine | 2026-02-02 18:55:20+00:00
How do you know you haven't unknowingly broken something when you made a change?

I think if:
- the code base implements many code paths depending on options and user inputs and options such that a fix for code path A may break code path B
- it takes a great deal of time to run in production such that issues may only be caught weeks or months down the line when it becomes difficult to pinpoint their cause (not all software is real-time or web)
- any given developer does not have it all in their head such that they can anticipate issues codebase wide

then it becomes useful to have (automated) testing that checks a change in function A didn't break functionality in function B that relies on A in some way(s), that are just thorough enough that they catch edge cases, but don't take prod levels of resources to run.

Now I agree some things might not need testing beyond implementation. Things that don't depend on other program behavior, or that check their inputs thoroughly, and are never touched again once merged, don't really justify keeping unit tests around. But I'm not sure these are ever guarantees (especially the never touched again).