MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jimminyx | 2026-02-01 23:22:25+00:00
Fixed, thanks. Claude Code likes to insert itself and anthropic everywhere.

If it somehow wasn't abundantly clear: this is a vibe coded weekend project by a single developer (me).

It's rough around the edges but it fits my needs (talking with claude code that's mounted on my obsidian vault and easily scheduling cron jobs through whatsapp). And I feel a lot better running this than a +350k LOC project that I can't even begin to wrap my head around how it works.

This is not supposed to be something other people run as is, but hopefully a solid starting point for creating your own custom setup.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-01 23:23:13+00:00
Empirical evidence doesn't support this. IIRC the bounty for an Android exploit is 500k more than an iphone... Let alone the number of people killed from an Android exploit is... 0? Iphone is at least at 1... Let alone the 1000 other VIPs.

Induction says, its dangerous to have an iphone. There is no deduction based answer here that has been validated by experiment.
by instig007 | 2026-02-01 23:23:17+00:00
> What you want is guarantees that correct programs typecheck quickly.

In practice there's wealth of lemmas provided to you within the inference environment in a way standard library functions are provided in conventional languages. Those act like a memoization cache for the purpose of proving your program's propositions. A compiler can also offer a flag to either proceed with ("trust me, it will infer in time") or reject the immediately undecidable stuff.
by araes | 2026-02-01 23:23:19+00:00
Thanks, had almost no idea what I was even looking at with the reference. Originally thought maybe it was some weird academic variant of Linux.

After a bit of searching, apparently it's part of the L4 OS family. (More Unix) Wikipedia has a summary in the L4 microkernel family article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#L4Ka::Pi...
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-01 23:23:48+00:00
Agreed, which is why I build everything from source, but even that is not sufficient as there's no way to audit all that code at this time or for many years to come.

The X11 keylogger problem is a serious issue, however, I do not agree with transitioning to a completely new and different system (especially one designed like Wayland is) rather than just doing a backwards-incompatible "version 2.0 protocol" type fix and moving on.

We could have done this in 2005 and been long past this by now. Why not? Failed leadership. Same thing with 64-bit time, and plenty of other stuff.
by braginini | 2026-02-01 23:24:17+00:00
There is a dedicated page explaining the difference between selfhosted and cloud versions: https://docs.netbird.io/selfhosted/self-hosted-vs-cloud-netb...

You can also use profiles and set management URL in the settings through the UI. You can even switch between self hosted and cloud versions: https://docs.netbird.io/client/profiles
by rafaelmdec | 2026-02-01 23:25:19+00:00
I think that, for the first time in tech history, we have the tools to step away from ineffective app installs and menu cluttering and memorization and that is a rather big thing.

If you don't agree, take a step back and tell me how many people prefer navigating a terminal window using a keyboard instead of a graphic interface using a mouse.

The future belongs to a more frictionless, no keyboard, voice activated UI, IMHO.
by palata | 2026-02-01 23:25:22+00:00
I never understood why some people really, really want others to switch to Linux. I don't really care if many people switch to Linux. If anything, a lot of beginner switching to Linux may well make Linux worse for me.

I see a lot of "if you want to convert Windows users, you have to...". I really don't want to convert Windows users. I did not move to Linux to please those who like Windows.

Said differently, if a distro managed to please all Windows users, it most definitely wouldn't please me. I don't see why I should hope for that.
by lrvick | 2026-02-01 23:25:55+00:00
If you put them in airplane mode they are no longer permitted to contact cell phone towers by law and it is easy to form confidence the baseband modem is actually off because your battery life is so much better. Or pull out an SDR and prove it if you are extra paranoid. This turns them into wifi tablets.

I started out doing this for a couple years before abandoning mine.
by bri3d | 2026-02-01 23:25:58+00:00
> Or, rather, MiniMax is! The good thing about offloading your work to an LLM is that you can blame it for your shortcomings. Time to get my hands dirty and do it myself, typing code on my keyboard, like the ancient Mayan and Aztec programmers probably did.

They noticed a discrepancy, then went back and wrote code to perform the same operations by hand, without the use of an LLM at all in the code production step. The results still diverged unpredictably from the baseline.

Normally, expecting floating-point MAC operations to produce deterministic results on modern hardware is a fool's errand; they usually operate asynchronously and so the non-commutative properties of floating-point addition rear their head and you get some divergence.

But an order of magnitude difference plus Apple's own LLM not working on this device suggests strongly to me that there is something wrong. Whether it's the silicon or the software would demand more investigation, but this is a well reasoned bug in my book.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-02-01 23:26:38+00:00
I don't see how any of these relate to what I was saying.

On the topics of race based inferiority as a biological construct, and on whether slavery was ever legal, the party alignment has never changed.

Democrats still argue that black people are inferior. What's changed is that now they want to help them because they are inferior whereas before they wanted to exclude them because they are inferior.

Republicans continue to argue that black people don't deserve any reparations or special treatment because they are not inferior.

The above take is based solely on what these people argue in court.

Do you disagree with that?
by furyofantares | 2026-02-01 23:26:59+00:00
Hmm. The only button on the screen is ([Apple Logo] Send me a download link). When you scroll it off screen it's replaced with ([Apple Logo] Try Kiki) and a collage of macOS screenshots.

They could certainly put it in the FAQ, which is below the ([Apple Logo] Get the App) button, I don't actually disagree with you, but it is somewhat of a funny complaint to me given the actual content of the page.
by mancerayder | 2026-02-01 23:27:10+00:00
I can relate to this very much. A city guy, no one could understand my (also) 20 years of complaining about neighbors with loud music, slamming doors, making noise after midnight, etc etc. I lived on top floors, and I even spent a fortune living in a luxury building that was newly built, hoping sound insulation was higher end. The problem is that bass music travels through everything. I suffered from being woken up in the night by party goers, and early morning by door slammers. Once I wake up, it takes me a long time to fall back asleep. On weekends, when I want to stay at home and just play a game or read, people play music in the afternoon and often I would stress over some sort of party nearby beginning that evening, forcing me to find somewhere to go just to avoid the noise. Eventually I purchased a home in the woods.

What's happening to make us a minority here is at the minimum:

- Younger people are less sensitive to noise, go out more, and generally don't understand how distressful it can be

- Some people are light sleepers as well as get cognitively overloaded, needing relatively quiet environments to relax. People like me are in a tiny minority.

- Cities are the future, they're the greener option, and you're supposed to prefer the dense apartment life instead of the car one, on ethical grounds.

So when I detailed my suffering several times here on HN, and suggested dense cities are not mentally healthy for many people such as myself, I got downvoted. There's a bit of politics behind city living that folks who don't have cognitive sensitivities around noise just won't relent from.
by nine_k | 2026-02-01 23:27:23+00:00
I bet that various niche paid software may have access controls like that.

It should not be very hard to write though, given that processes have predictable names, and executables have predictable signatures. Replacing the executable until the next time slot comes would additionally help.

Deploy a rootkit to make certain that the user cannot get rid of this software.

It might be easier and cheaper to have a dedicated device for that special thing, kept under a lock and key. Maybe the very insanity of such a setup would help reason overcome the addiction.
by decimalenough | 2026-02-01 23:27:39+00:00
My TL;DR is that they tried to run an on-device model to classify expenses, it didn't work even for simple cases ("Kasai Kitchin" -> "unknown"), they went deeeeeep down the rabbit hole to figure out why and concluded that inference on their particular model/phone is borked at the hardware level.

Whether you should do this on device is another story entirely.
by derelicta | 2026-02-01 23:28:55+00:00
Imo, trustworthiness is all about which side represents best your material interests. As a worker, the Epoch Times, the Business Insider, or the Washington Post are diametrically opposed to my interests, because they are owned by and represent the interests of the Bourgeoisie. What's important is thus finding a source from your own class. CGTN, The Morning Star, or Mintpress being a workers-funded, they represent my class interests best, and are therefore trustworthy sources. To determine this is a bit tricky ofc, because 1) you have to know on which "side" you are, and 2) you have to follow the money and understand how those sources are funded.

TL;DR iranintl is a rag (if you are a worker!) because it's by and for the Saudi aristocracy. But if you are a powerful aristocrat, then I'd say its an adequate news website.
by hebejebelus | 2026-02-01 23:29:17+00:00
I think these days if I’m going to be actively promoting code I’ve created (with Claude, no shade for that), I’ll make sure to write the documentation, or at the very least the readme, by hand. The smell of LLM from the docs of any project puts me off even when I like the idea of the project itself, as in this case. It’s hard to describe why - maybe it feels like if you care enough to promote it, you should care to try and actually communicate, person to person, to the human being promoted at. Dunno, just my 2c and maybe just my own preference. I’d rather read a typo-ridden five line readme explaining the problem the code is there to solve for you and me,the humans, not dozens of lines of perfectly penned marketing with just the right number of emoji. We all know how easy it is to write code these days. Maybe use some of that extra time to communicate with the humans. I dunno.

Edit: I see you, making edits to the readme to make it sound more human-written since I commented ;) https://github.com/gavrielc/nanoclaw/commit/40d41542d2f335a0...
by collinmcnulty | 2026-02-01 23:29:56+00:00
I’ve seen this argument in a couple places online. Some variation on “both are actually bad so little guy has no one to cheer for”. This misunderstands the system.

You can temporarily ally with the soulless corporation that happens to represent your interests right now even if you’re certain that if they had the chance, they’d be a monopolist themselves. They are using their corporate coffers to take action that helps level the playing field a bit, what an opportunity! Make the alliance, take the win, get the case law on the books, celebrate it.

If you ally only with angels, you fight alone.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-02-01 23:30:26+00:00
The same as gravity? I wouldn't go that far. Gravity can be measured repeatedly and no objections have even been made to its effect. The theory is sound because it accurately makes predictions about the universe.

Theory is just an explanation for what we observe and I think this theory explains some things better than others. The two items I listed are are clear contrast to the theory.

Let's say it's not a unified theory of American politics, at the least.

I'll edit here for Thurman, I have to go read... Back soon to update.

Edit: I wasn't and still am not familiar with Storm Thurman. From a brief skim of the Wikipedia page, I gather he was a political "spy" of sorts, working from the inside to further the opposing party's goals.

You may need to elaborate a bit for me to see the tie in.
by atif089 | 2026-02-01 23:30:52+00:00
For someone who has no idea about light engineering or electronics if I stack two 25k Lm lamps next to each other does it make 50k Lm light?

I recently changed my car's headlamps to Chinese LED which claims to be about 37kLm and I don't know how much it is probably less than that.

Two of those lamps costee me around $24 on Amazon US (pretty sure under $10 in China).

What makes this $800+ ?
by samrus | 2026-02-01 23:31:09+00:00
Wrong. The problem with bitcoin is its volatility itself. If it doubled in value, that means its undergoing hyper deflation, which makes it a terrible store of value.

Bitcoin's proponents are its own biggest liability. People who see it as a speculative asset rather than a currency that needs to be a stable store of value. It, like all currency, has no ingerent value and its stupid to speculate on it
by jonhohle | 2026-02-01 23:31:14+00:00
What is Apple’s QA process? Do they rely on some random set of manual tests that may or may not get run each release? There have been so many things that seem like one of the most valuable companies in the world would include in tests, but yet break or remain broken.

As an experiment, open Console and filter just errors and faults. Dozens to hundreds of “errors” will scroll by representing the normal operation of the system. (Either they’re not really errors and no one cares or they really are errors and Apple just leaves their systems broken). How can anyone think this is OK?

I haven’t upgraded to Tahoe. I have been a Mac power user for over 20 years, and it becomes less interesting every release. I came for Unix, the script ability, and 3ᴿᴰ party applications. Unix is an afterthought, script ability is all gated behind security gates, and modern apps seem like such a huge regression.
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-01 23:31:16+00:00
Nah, a citation wouldn't be helpful. See, the mechanisms of science have been quietly hijacked by the corporations while nobody was paying attention and just blindly trusting. Now you can't trust any research at all from anyone. No authorities to lean on here. Nope, it's down to whatever one can figure out for themselves, or find out from others.

Yours is an interesting data point that may change my analysis. But whatever the final conclusion is reached, it certainly isn't in favor of the Official Story, as I know too well how they are all lies.
by sysworld | 2026-02-01 23:31:16+00:00
"The only thing that helps against horrible neighbors is moving. If you've never learned that lesson, you've never had horrible neighbors."

Having lived next to a terrible neighbour for over 20 years, I can confirm a horrible neighbour never changes into a considerate one. And often they're the ones that never sell or move (why would they, they're having a great time..).
Almost all the neighbours properties around here have been sold a few times, but not him.

Lucky we've been lucky with our other neighbours who are (currently, and most of the owners of the past too) all very nice people.

We'd love to move, but we really like the location, house and garden. That and anything similar is priced out of our range.

We used to think we got really lucky with the price of our place, but maybe no one bought it because they knew the neighbour that lived there.

But yeah, if you can move, move. Don't hang around hoping things will get better, they usually don't.
by ChadNauseam | 2026-02-01 23:31:47+00:00
The idea that we would A/B test handwritten vs typed to see what would improve retention is focusing on the wrong thing. It's like A/B testing mayo or no mayo on your big mac to see which version is a healthier meal. No part of the school system is optimized for retention. It's common for students to take a biology class in 9th grade and then never study biology again for the rest of their lives. Everyone knows they won't remember any biology by the time they graduate, and no one cares.

We know what increases retention, it's active recall and (spaced) repetition. These are basic principles of cognitive science have been empirically proven many times. Please try to implement that before demanding that teachers do A/B tests over what font to write the homework assignments in.
by matheusmoreira | 2026-02-01 23:32:55+00:00
> You don't "teach" your neighbors and you don't program them in a pavlovian way.

Sure you do. Punishment of bad behavior is a basic social rule. Words were exchanged. All they had to do was listen, understand and stop the bad behavior. Had they done that, things would not have escalated beyond a polite conversation. Unfortunately, people often choose overt disrespect instead. They choose to challenge the other guy to do something about it.

If anything they should be glad the punishment was as civilized as this. There are many places in this world where it could easily escalate to actual violence.
by jandrese | 2026-02-01 23:32:58+00:00
One problem is that they often couldn't be daisy chained, the connector on the back was only useful for an actual printer. So if everybody started doing it you would have to swap them constantly which is a headache. So they're mostly used for software where it's going to be the only thing running on the box.

I find it interesting that they didn't make it into the USB era where you could easily have something that does some actual processing on the device that makes it a serious challenge to reverse engineer.
by adsteel_ | 2026-02-01 23:33:20+00:00
My romantic views of wood smoke hit reality when I first camped in Canada's Banff-Jasper national parks, where you could buy unlimited firewood for the night for $5. Everyone bought it, it seemed. Trying to breathe downwind of a campground was a rude wakeup call. It should definitely be restricted in denser residential areas. I can't imagine some of the towns in Germany or Poland where residents depend on wood fires for heat.
by gljiva | 2026-02-01 23:33:24+00:00
You haven't mentioned that they:

a) are aware that their smoke isn't dispersed enough by the breeze / open space to be unnoticeable.

b) know there is someone close enough who isn't like them and other smokers, and is really bothered by the smoke.

They do, however, go smoke on their balconies since they were made aware smoking inside is bad for their roommates/family.

So, many of them are more likely than not reasonable people. They _could be_. While you _proved_ that you aren't, by not communicating it (or at least not mentioning it as if it isn't the most important reason why they are "awful people"), just judging them and holding a grudge.

In this very comment you again showed that you don't care enough to understand others who you might disagree with, because I am just rephrasing what I already wrote, since you replied like I didn't.
by ErroneousBosh | 2026-02-01 23:33:41+00:00
> Time to get my hands dirty and do it myself, typing code on my keyboard, like the ancient Mayan and Aztec programmers probably did.

https://ia800806.us.archive.org/20/items/TheFeelingOfPower/T...

I should think I'll probably see someone posting this on the front page of HN tomorrow, no doubt. I first read it when it was already enormously old, possibly nearly 30 years old, in the mid 1980s when I was about 11 or 12 and starting high school, and voraciously reading all the Golden Age Sci-Fi I could lay my grubby wee hands on. I still think about it, often.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-01 23:34:07+00:00
Atari Corp was doing the same thing around the same time as Commodore was, with their own branded SysV fork. Both were trying to get into the later stages of the workstation market because it was seen as a new revenue source at a time when the "home computer" market was disappearing.

http://www.atariunix.com/

and the background:

https://web.archive.org/web/20001001024559/http://www.best.c...

But I distinctly remember an editorial in UnixWorld magazine (yes, we had magazines like that back then you could buy in like... a drug store...) with the headline "Up from toyland" talking about the Atari TT030 + SysV. Not exactly flattering.

The reality is by 1992, 93, 94 the workstation market was already being heavily disrupted by Linux (or other x86 *nix/BSD) on 386/486. The 68k architecture wasn't compelling anymore (despite being awesome), as Motorola was already pulling the rug out from under it.

And, yeah, many people just ran NetBSD on their Atari TTs or Falcon030s anyways.
by lrvick | 2026-02-01 23:34:13+00:00
I gave up my phone as a lead security engineer at a vc funded company, and continued this when I quit to run my consulting firm full time as single proprietorship. Now we are a team of five running a consulting firm and a PaaS.

I spent most of my career as an infrastructure engineer so high redundancy, self healing you can trust, infrastructure-as-code, and follow-the-sun shifts, are healthier for everyone than expecting people to be available to work 24/7.
Show HN: Cut Your Pinecone Bill by 50% (Open Source Cost Auditor)
by billycph | 2026-02-01 23:34:27+00:00
Hey HN, I'm an ex-AWS S3 engineer. I spent years building data evacuation tools for massive storage lakes.

I noticed a pattern in the AI space: everyone is shoving 100% of their embeddings into expensive 'Hot RAM' (Pinecone/Milvus), even though 90% of that data is rarely accessed (like old chat logs or seasonal inventory).

I wrote a simple, open-source CLI tool to analyze your vector index. It samples your metadata to find 'Zombie Vectors' (data >30 days old) and calculates how much you'd save by moving them to S3.

It runs locally, doesn't steal your keys, and supports Pinecone
by dunham | 2026-02-01 23:34:36+00:00
Back when I was a kid in the 80's. I cracked one of the Ultima games. I had it on my hard drive and didn't want to stick a floppy in every time I ran it.

The code decrypted itself, which confused debuggers, and then loaded a special sector from disk. It was a small sector buried in the payload of a larger sector, so the track was too big to copy with standard tools. The data in the sector was just the start address of the program. My fix was to change executable header to point to the correct start address.
by verdverm | 2026-02-01 23:34:43+00:00
Jumping from someone using a word to assigning a pejoritve label to them is by definition a form of bigotry

Democratization, the way I'm using it without all the bias, is simply most people having access to build with a tool or a technology. Would you also argue everyone having access to the printing press is a bad thing? The internet? Right to repair? Right to compute?

Why should we consider Ai access differently?