MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cess11 | 2026-02-11 08:22:36+00:00
In large parts of the nordic countries we have either killed off all the trees or dug down the cables, making power interruptions uncommon except when someone with an excavator cuts a line by mistake or bad maintenance leads to a fire or short.

In the population wise very small county here I live in Sweden we haven't come that far yet, so when the storms a while ago did their thing some people were without power for several days. Mine was out for some six hours or so. The forests around here look like "plukkepinn" and tore down many, many above ground power lines.

When I grew up in the late eighties, early nineties further south we had interruptions at every other thunderstorm and most regular storms. This is one reason why we had a wood stove and self-circulation for heating rather than a heat pump. Around the turn of the millenium they buried the power lines and since then my family there see almost no interruptions.
by bcantrill | 2026-02-11 08:23:41+00:00
There's a lot of confusion here about the way VC operates (or companies, for that matter), but just to clarify one point: an IPO is not an "exit" -- it is a public offering. That is, an Oxide IPO, were we to be so lucky, would be a milestone towards being the generational company that we aspire to be.
by handoflixue | 2026-02-11 08:23:48+00:00
Citation desperately needed? Last I checked, humans could not hold the entirety of Wikipedia in working memory, and that's a mere 24 GB. Our GPU might handle "2.5 petabytes" but we're not writing all that to disc - in fact, most people have terrible memory of basically everything they see and do. A one-trick visual-processing pony is hardly proof of intelligence.
by lelanthran | 2026-02-11 08:24:48+00:00
> The number of occupants of a room must be positiv and a child must be accompanied by at least one adult. My type Occupants has a constructor Occupants(int adults, int children) that varifies that condition on construction (and also some maximum values).

Or, you could do what I did when faced with a similar problem - I put in a PostgreSQL constraint.

Now, no matter which application, now or in the future, attempts to store this invalid combination, it will fail to store it.

Doing it in code is just asking for future errors when some other application inserts records into the same DB.

Business constraints should go into the database.
by Tor3 | 2026-02-11 08:25:03+00:00
This is about _tankless_ toilets. They only work with electricity-powered flush pumps. That's why the author wrote about having to physically dump water into the toilet to flush it.

For our new home we're making we have two toilets (always practical). One of them is tankless, but we made sure the second one is a traditional cistern toilet with no electrical requirements. Just in case.
by pyrale | 2026-02-11 08:27:12+00:00
> without having to through the effort to twist the arm of US entities every time they want to do that?

Right now, it's more like US corpos are try to twist the arm of EU governments [1][2], pushing heavy propaganda to manipulate our elections [3], allying with the US government to do so. And the US government has been threatening EU govts with invasion [4], leveraging US corpos to harm lawful individuals doing their jobs in the EU [5], and sanctioning elected officials for performing their duties [6], or threatened to [7].

Sure, there's an hypothetical risk of the EU turning sour. On the other hand, when it comes to US corpos, the risk has materialized.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly930y90lro
[2]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0589g0dqq7o
[3]: https://www.politico.eu/article/twitter-faces-renewed-scruti...
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_crisis
[5]: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/11/19/n...
[6]: https://www.brusselstimes.com/1931733/eu-parliament-blasts-u...
[7]: https://www.politico.eu/article/us-accused-threats-eu-diplom...
by 1718627440 | 2026-02-11 08:27:26+00:00
It does agree with what I intended to say. The values a type needs to be able to represent are very much part of the intent of a variable. What the programmer doesn't need to specify, is with what bit pattern and what exact bits these values are going to be represented. There are use cases where you in fact do want to do that, but then that implies that you actually care about the wrapping semantics and are going to manipulate bit patterns.
by stubish | 2026-02-11 08:27:54+00:00
I don't see an alternative to Visa and Mastercard being discussed in the article. I just see ways of making bank transfers easier. Banks generally don't provide ways to dispute transactions, which is why fraudsters generally use bank transfer mechanisms. Once your money leaves your account, it is possibly gone, and once it leaves the country it is definitely gone. Banks here are now inserting delays on transfers in an attempt to combat the problem. Without a consumer focused and consumer friendly way of disputing transactions, consumers will keep using Visa, Mastercard and Paypal.
by leethargo | 2026-02-11 08:28:09+00:00
In particular, the core disagreement seems to be about whether the automorphisms of C should keep R (as a subset) fixed, or not.

The easy solution here would be to just have two different names: (general) automorphisms (of which there might be many) and automorphisms-that-keep-R-fixed (of which there are just the two mentioned.

If you make this distinction, then the approach of construction of C should not matter, as they are all equivalent?
by 1drop100soap | 2026-02-11 08:28:09+00:00
Discord really became big because it had 0 obstacle onboarding. In an age of Skype, Ventrillo, Teamspeak and Mumble, all "installation" software with "server addresses" and "setup your user config", Discord shows up, says "press this link", and done, you're ready to go. Install link? No, it's in the browser. Account? No, you literally got a temp account made for you. You just talked. Yes, with a button in the corner that says "Claim this account" which just wants an email and a name, but point is, you didn't even have to do that much. This is why the comparison to it is IRC despite the two being so far apart, IRC was the only other chat software with this small of a barrier to entry.

Everything else about the featureset was copy pasted from Slack. No one cares about that part.
by grey-area | 2026-02-11 08:28:29+00:00
Not sure I agree, the only axis on which Bitcoin is non-deterministic is that of time - the time to confirmation is not set in stone. Outcomes are still predictable though and follow strict rules.

It’s a fundamentally different product, LLMs are fuzzy word matchers and produce different outcomes even for the same input every time, they inject variance to make them seem more human. I think we’re straying off topic here though.
by dlcarrier | 2026-02-11 08:28:29+00:00
My parents have underground power lines, and they've lost power multiple times, from vulnerabilities in the infrastructure. The transformers are still above ground, in big green boxes, and occasionally someone will drive into one and knock out power. The substation is also above ground, and once they lost power because a mylar balloon landed in the substation and shorted some lines.

They've also lost power from rolling blackouts due to not having enough power plants, but that's a California thing, at least compared to first-world countries. In a similar vein, a substation in the city my dad grew up in was once taken out by a sniper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack
by cess11 | 2026-02-11 08:28:57+00:00
I prefer military boots, they have no branding and are typically designed and tested for decent longevity and comfort. My current ones are Bundeswehr surplus, I believe Meindl produced them. They cost about 60 euros or so, never been used.

Pick a size larger than you would usually do, unless they're explicitly designed as winter boots. In cold weather you'll want wool socks as well as regular socks and that requires some extra space.
by utopiah | 2026-02-11 08:29:00+00:00
No mention of GNU Taler (cf https://www.taler.net ) which is a bit of shame, especially knowing that "The NGI TALER project is funded under Horizon Europe (Pilots for the Next Generation Internet) with the aim of bringing GNU Taler to market across Europe." cf https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html
by carefree-bob | 2026-02-11 08:29:11+00:00
> It’s copium to think that LLM code is more buggy than your median to slightly above median developer or that’s all that most companies need - median developers.

You are not understanding the point. AI has to be properly supervised because it makes mistakes. Now if you are making more or as many mistakes as the AI, then you should look for a new career. You should understand the code better than the AI, because the AI has a limited context window, and for a large codebase, you should know that codebase better than the AI.

Now, you can use AI to help you understand code that someone else wrote. You can use AI to check your code. You can use AI to write unit tests. You can use AI to debug. You can use AI to summarize code. There are so many uses of AI.

But you -- you as a developer -- need to understand your codebase. If you do not understand the codebase, you can't properly supervise the AI. And there is one efficient way for you to understand a big complicated codebase. The most efficient way possible for you to learn it. That is by you writing code in that codebase, and debugging that code, and learning how to code in that codebase.

If you don't do that, then you are not qualified to supervise the AI. Now you are letting the AI loose on a codebase much larger than its context window, and you will fill the codebase with bugs.

It's like a student. Sure you can use AI to help you study, to explain things to you, but the moment you let the AI do your homework, then you are no longer learning. The homework is the practice of solving problems in that area, and as a developer, you need to write code in a codebase otherwise you have no value and the AI has no value.
by mekod | 2026-02-11 08:29:15+00:00
Hello HN,

I built Ledger because I felt like a "guest" on every writing platform I used. Notion is a hotel; comfortable, but they own the keys. Medium is a billboard; they own the traffic.

I wanted a house where I held the deed.

So, yes, it is another blogging platform. But here is the difference:

It stores absolutely nothing. I have no database. (Actually, it exists if you want.)

Bring Your Own Database (BYOD): It connects directly from your browser to your Supabase project via LocalStorage.

The Philosophy: It is effectively a "Serverless SQL Client" designed specifically for long-form writing.

The Aesthetic: The design is "Bureaucratic Brutalism," inspired by Franz Kafka. I wanted a UI that feels less like "tweeting" and more like filing an official document into an archive.

There are no likes, no metrics, and no "Forgot Password" button. As the quote on the dashboard says: "I am free and that is why I am lost."

Repo:https://github.com/MEKOD/franzkafka
by stefan_ | 2026-02-11 08:29:18+00:00
I watched one of those Out Of Spec videos on an earlier Rivian and it was full of praise and raving. Then there was a later video where they almost on the side mentioned when it came out of the factory it felt legitimately unsafe to drive on the highway and had already spent days at service including a total powertrain shutdown, essentially a lemon. These things happened already in the time before their first video yet were never mentioned. That entire YouTube review industry is more rotten and bought than the same show on Cable TV ever was..
by zetamax | 2026-02-11 08:31:04+00:00
I think perhaps more people are attempting this path then back in the late 60s through 70s. However, as opposed to the mainstream vs counterculture, we have influencer culture mixed in, e.g. vanlife or travel bloggers.

It's sort of conceptually hard to be an independent thinker/doer, and also emulate others, even if emulating someone like Steve. For all those that drop out of the mainstream yet still let themselves be known via social media, probably even fewer probably drop out completely; I suspect there are still many. I hunt for obscure artists on Spotify/Youtube, and if I find a small concert, this sort of community still seems within reach.

Ultimately, it's the devices Steve had a hand in innovating that are obscuring aspects of the old school vibes of being off the grid in the present. However, perhaps our current variation of hippie vibes will feel event more quaint to those looking back from 2060 or so.
by qingcharles | 2026-02-11 08:31:23+00:00
I just learned first hand what to do with frozen pipes. Couldn't stop it this year as it went so far below zero. On the last day before it warmed up one of the pipes split and put about 2ft of water into the basement. Amazing to see the damage to the CPVC pipe that broke -- like it literally exploded, which it probably did.
by sReinwald | 2026-02-11 08:31:35+00:00
You are essentially amortizing a single dose over 6 months by micro-dosing and receiving a clearly sub-therapeutic dose. While that may work for your specific usage, it doesn't change the unit economics for someone who needs the standard therapeutic dose, which in my case at 10 mg is roughly €400 every 4 weeks.

It’s a bit like arguing that a Porsche GT3 RS is an 'affordable' car because the monthly payment is low, provided you finance it over 30 years. The sticker price hasn't changed, you've just engaged in extreme creative accounting to make it fit a monthly budget.
by tupilaq | 2026-02-11 08:31:39+00:00
How did I not know about this until now!

We've spent over a year creating a delivery platform based on ArgoCD that bundles a git server and a registry (for air-gapped clients) so that we can deliver our products into various customer environments. This pretty much does it all, but with bells and whistles on top! Nice!

Curious why the pricing page doesn't seem to allow Euros and yet its an option?
by Stratoscope | 2026-02-11 08:32:44+00:00
It really is something.

Of course, large commercial kitchens often have walk-in refrigerators and walk-in freezers.

In Yakutsk, you have an open-air walk-out freezer.

There are a few months in the summer when temperatures are similar to the Bay Area. I could probably wear my usual aloha shirts!
by jval43 | 2026-02-11 08:32:45+00:00
Sounds very grim. I live in a snowy part of Europe and very little of this applies, except the stay dry and warm part. Here are 2 things I learned:

1. Do what everyone else does, when they do it. And don't, when they don't. You could die.

There is usually a reason even if you don't understand it right now. You don't want to find out why when you're out in the cold and freezing.

2. Buy gear locally.

There's sometimes reason a certain item is on the shelf and not the stylish one from California, or the super heavy-duty one from Norway. Unfortunately, often this is only obvious in hindsight. Does not depend on price, but it does apply across the board from clothing to cars.
by silisili | 2026-02-11 08:33:22+00:00
Thanks for sharing.

I feel a big part of what you experience is based on where you live. Having a family seems incongruous to the fast paced corpo world, sadly.

I moved to a small, uninteresting town years ago, mainly to escape the hustle and crowds. Honestly, I don't like it much, it's a bit too small and dull for my tastes. But more on point, the people here have all been so mind bendingly kind and patient with the kids that it makes it really hard to leave.

I wish every place were so patient, but there's probably a pretty direct negative correlation between that and 'getting ahead', whatever that means.
Show HN: DriftProof – Specification for preventing LLM behavioral drift
by redwine13 | 2026-02-11 08:33:31+00:00
I just published DriftProof Specification v1.0 – a patent-pending architecture for preventing behavioral drift in LLM systems.

The problem: LLMs don't fail loudly. They drift. Mission reinterpretation, constraint erosion, format collapse. Traditional monitoring catches it after divergence.

DriftProof prevents drift through six structural invariants:
- Identity Lock (role can't be redefined)
- Mission Lock (purpose stays fixed)
- Constraint Cage (boundaries are immutable)
- Format Lock (output structure is deterministic)
- Interpretive Invariance (context can't override core properties)
- Operator Sovereignty (authority hierarchy enforced)

Repo includes: published specification (normative requirements), reference implementation (deploys in 5 seconds), security model, compliance checklist.

Patent: US 63/905,582
License: MIT (code) + CC-BY-SA (spec)

Looking for feedback from people building production LLM systems. Early pilots available.
by a_t48 | 2026-02-11 08:33:48+00:00
Is registry OOM protection the only advantage your registry has for large layers? Robotics has a need for Docker tooling that handles large layers/images gracefully. Even if you've done the "right" thing and sideloaded your ML models with some other management system, CUDA layers and such are gigantic.

Edit: looking at this, this is very adjacent to some problems w/ robotics deployments. Fleet management, edge deployment, key management. Neat.

I'd be curious about the multi-artifact support. Can I declare a manifest that binds together multiple services (or a service and an ML model?) Do you support ML models as an artifact?
by anovikov | 2026-02-11 08:33:57+00:00
Well, it's only those who were caught.
I think it's not as much about age but simply because markets for most things have matured and you almost can't get ahead without scamming someone - and it gives small businesses a leverage because large corps can find themselves at receiving end of expensive lawsuits because they have money to grab off them, so they usually won't do outright fraud (and they also have too many people so high chances someone will blow the whistle).
by c420 | 2026-02-11 08:34:40+00:00
"A person familiar with the notices, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, said the action to close airspace over a major U.S. for security reasons over extended period hasn’t happened since immediately after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001."

https://elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/unexplained-faa-order-s...

City Councilman Chris Canales:
"Hi y’all. This is real, but reason at all to panic. We’re all trying to work out why this crazy NOTAM was issued by the FAA. What I know so far (as of 12:56 AM local time Wednesday):

• It isn’t a typo or an error. FAA issued this NOTAM intentionally as written.

• Nobody local got advance notice — neither civilian nor military leadership.

• Military does not have carte blanche exemption. Army seems to be fretting about their flights tomorrow just as much as everyone else.

• Local air traffic controllers didn’t get advance notice.

• Albuquerque Center (regional air traffic controllers) also did not get advance notice.

I’ll share more updates here as I’m able."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElPaso/comments/1r1qw1j/comment/o4r...
by netsharc | 2026-02-11 08:34:48+00:00
> An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files.

From https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20... (there are many collapsible elements on this page, and they're also just for term definitions, sigh)

What a fucking terrible page for someone unfamiliar with the site. the "Learn More" links will allow you to learn what the terms "CWE", "CVSS", "Product Status" mean, but not to learn more about this vulnerability...

Anyway, it's not related to CoPilot, but because Notepad makes links clickable now...
by freetime2 | 2026-02-11 08:34:51+00:00
And by far the biggest cost of car ownership (for new cars at least) is depreciation. And EVs depreciate rapidly - enough to offset the costs of oil changes I imagine.

That being said, if you're in the market for a used EV right now, that depreciation actually works in your favor. I was looking at prices on used luxury EVs recently, and have to admit I was pretty tempted.
Show HN: Copy-and-patch compiler for hard real-time Python
by Saloc | 2026-02-11 08:34:51+00:00
I built Copapy as an experiment: Can Python be used for hard real-time systems?

Instead of an interpreter or JIT, Copapy builds a computation graph by tracing Python code and uses a custom copy-and-patch compiler. The result is very fast native code with no GC, no syscalls, and no memory allocations at runtime.

The copy-and-patch compiler currently supports x86_64 as well as 32- and 64-bit ARM. It comes as small Python package with no other dependencies - no cross-compiler, nothing except Python.

The current focus is on robotics and control systems in general. This project is early but already usable and easy to try out.

Would love your feedback!
by hansmayer | 2026-02-11 08:35:01+00:00
For the huge amounts of capital already burnt, and another 1T in CapEX RPO being announced last few weeks and months, isnt that too many of "potentially" and "ultimately" unspecific qualifiers you are throwing around here? Reminds a lot of Sam Altmans classic lines of unspecific statements like "Codex is so good" or "I can only imagine how good it will get" by the end of 202x (insert year of the decade according to your own preference). After 10+ years of OpenAI and 4+ years of ChatGPT, why is the potential not materialising ?
by Fiveplus | 2026-02-11 08:35:12+00:00
We have officially reached the logical conclusion of the feature-bloat-to-vulnerability pipeline.

For nearly thirty years, notepad.exe was the gold standard for a "dumb" utility which was a simple, win32-backed buffer for strings that did exactly one thing...display text. An 8.8 CVSS on a utility meant for viewing data is a fundamental failure of the principle of least privilege.

At some point, they need to stop asking "can we add this feature?" and start asking "does this text editor need a network-aware rendering stack?"
by dgfl | 2026-02-11 08:35:19+00:00
“There’s plenty of space at the bottom” only really took off in popularity decades later. Feynman’s accomplishments are undeniable, Nobel prize and all, but his celebrity status is given by other aspects of his personality. No Feynman equivalent I can think of is alive today. Perhaps Geoffrey Hinton and his views on the risk of AGI? He’s far from the only one of course.
by Pitskhela | 2026-02-11 08:35:46+00:00
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Flutter, Java, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, React Native

Web Technologies: React.js, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Angular, Grails, Express.js

Backend, Tools & Other: REST APIs, GraphQL, Docker, Fastlane, Shorebird, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, GIS, Firebase, Sentry, Kochava, Amplitude, Meta SDK

Résumé/CV: https://pitskhela.github.io/

Email: mailto:pitskhelauri.elene@gmail.com
by shmel | 2026-02-11 08:35:46+00:00
I grew up in Siberia where it gets cold down to -40C (coincidentally it's also -40F). I don't recall power going out for more than a few seconds. 24h without power or heating sounds batshit crazy for me. If it's a regular occasion it means either the infrastructure is outright non-existent or it gets literally blown up like in Ukraine. Same goes for shoveling snow. Yeah, I did it. Probably about 5 times in 20 years.
Show HN: A Guided Learning LLM
by hirako2000 | 2026-02-11 08:35:53+00:00
I was disappointed with the Guided learning feature of Gemini. So I built a truly guided learning LLM for all academic knowledge.

After a cold start, it converges fast by tracking already explored topics within a topic and provide linear coverage of entire fields.

Feedback would be most welcome as this is an interesting POC to improve still.