MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by r00f | 2026-02-02 23:45:57+00:00
I double that.

When I choose where to go, I look if I'll be able to park there, and if not - I will always be able to find another place. Parking availability is number one priority, not star rating or $$$

Am I the only person on Earth who would stop going to downtown restaurants if parking became inaccessible? I don't think so, but your guess is as good as mine
by markbao | 2026-02-02 23:46:00+00:00
TUI is easy to train on, but hard to use for users. Part of the reason it’s easier to have LLMs use a bunch of Unix tools for us is that their text interface is tedious and hard to remember. If you’re a top 5% expert in those tools it doesn’t matter as much I guess but most people aren’t.

Even a full-featured TUI like Claude Code is highly limited compared to a visual UI. Conversation branching, selectively applying edits, flipping between files, all are things visual UI does fine that are extremely tedious in TUI.

Overall it comes down to the fact that people have to use TUI and that’s more important than it being easy to train, and there’s a reason we use websites and not terminals for rich applications these days.
by MiltarizdMerica | 2026-02-02 23:46:06+00:00
I'm not trying to persuade anyone of anything.

I have a genuine question that I'm interested in. People say abolish ICE and bring up Pretti's death. It was Border Patrol who murdered him... What gives?

In any case though like I said, despite federal agents having a tough job, I think that one was pretty fricken bad in the way of the officer. I'd like to see accountability. I don't get what your issue is?
by asadotzler | 2026-02-02 23:46:44+00:00
What kind of nonsense is that. SpaceX 2024 revenue barely broke $10B, if that. Launch was probably ~$4B and Starlink probably ~$5B. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and double those just for shits and giggles and that's still less than $20B and you're claiming >$100B? Horse shit. Nonsense.
by dmix | 2026-02-02 23:46:57+00:00
> The company was losing $200MM+ per year on ~$5B in revenue before the takeover, and there are reports that revenues have decreased by round 50%.

X made a profit last year because they cut costs lower than the drop in ad revenue (which is also slowly recovering). The big question is if they will still be profitable in 2026 year without the US election driving big traffic numbers and ads.
by bigwheels | 2026-02-02 23:47:04+00:00
Sir, your comment qualifies as "moving the goal post". They never delivered a single inexpensive electric vehicle, and just abandoned all high-end efforts. All TSLA makes now are "meh" transport boxes which are overpriced for what you get. Yes, TSLA was early but now they are far, far behind the competition.

Can we evaluate based on the stated goals, or why does the criteria keep shifting?
by alecbz | 2026-02-02 23:47:31+00:00
This feels too strong IMO.

Just focusing on the outputs we can observe, LLMs clearly seem to be able to "think" correctly on some small problems that feel generalized from examples its been trained on (as opposed to pure regurgitation).

Objecting to this on some kind of philosophical grounds of "being able to generalize from existing patterns isn't the same as thinking" feels like a distinction without a difference. If LLMs were better at solving complex problems I would absolutely describe what they're doing as "thinking". They just aren't, in practice.
by zmmmmm | 2026-02-02 23:47:46+00:00
the hit to microsoft the other day was pretty interesting

I saw reports attributing it to a miss on earnings from Azure but they were off by 0.4% on 39% growth. That's 39% instead of 39.4%. And the company stock dropped 10%. This is all of Microsoft - 10% down (!).

It has to tell you there are a LOT of people primed to sell in a hurry on bad news. The "bubble" talk subsided a lot after nVidia smashed earnings last quarter, but largely overlooked how much their whole situation is based on pent up demand. It completely masks the fundamentals.

I still feel like we're sitting on a volcano and seeing puffs of smoke and feeling earth tremors.
by brucifer | 2026-02-02 23:48:27+00:00
OP here, it might be a bit unfamiliar at first, but I think Tomo's syntax makes the type annotations really nice for functions that return functions: `func make_adder(amount:Int -> func(x:Int -> Int))` instead of `func make_adder(amount:Int) -> func(x:Int) -> Int`. The latter can be easily mistaken for a function that returns an integer since it starts with `func make_adder(` and ends with `) -> Int`, especially if you're not well-versed in currying. With Tomo's syntax, it's easier to see at a glance that `make_adder` returns a function without the need to add extra grouping parentheses for clarity. IMO, Tomo's syntax is also a bit more readable for lambdas when the return type is specified: `func(x:Int -> Int) x+1` vs `func(x:Int) -> Int x+1`
Ask HN: What weird or scrappy things did you do to get your first users?
by preston-kwei | 2026-02-02 23:49:08+00:00
Hi everyone,

I’m building Persona, a platform to delegate email scheduling to AI. Lately, I’ve been working hard to get those first users on board, but it’s been quite challenging.

I’ve already tried the typical strategies that everybody talks about: cold email, LinkedIn InMail, careful targeting, decent copy. It’s mostly been a dead end. Low open rates, almost no replies.

At this point, I’m not looking for the usual advice you see in blog posts or on reddit. I’m specifically curious about unconventional or non-obvious things that actually worked for you early on, especially things that felt a bit scrappy, weird, or counterintuitive at the time.

If you’ve been through this phase, what genuinely worked and got you your first users?
by crazygringo | 2026-02-02 23:49:10+00:00
It may be many things, but I very much doubt the motivation is a money grab. A few people paying $45 isn't lining the pockets of some government official, or plugging a hole in any possible budget.

Dealing with the surge of travelers who haven't updated their driver's licenses requires a bunch of extra staff to perform the time-consuming additional verifications. The basic idea is for those staff to be paid by the people using them, rather than by taxpayers and air travelers more generally. As well as there being a small deterrent effect.
by ggm | 2026-02-02 23:49:19+00:00
The informal fallacies list include things we do a LOT. The problem is, that some of them like "appeal to authority" has contextual need. I can't argue about QC properly because I am not trained in either VLSI, or quantum physics, or maths. So, I necessarily fall back on appeals to authority (Shor's Algorithm) making statements. The outcome is that either I have to learn QC, or I have to not particpate in QC related discussions or, WITH SOME DEGREE OF NUANCE qualify what I say.

It's the lack of qualification of things like an appeal to authority which mostly I think we (ok, I) trip over. But, appeals to authority are both common and useful. It depends.

A similar example might be how people feel about Helen Caldecott, and theories like "radiation hormesis" because you can't both have "no safe limit" and "maybe we've developed biologically in radioactivity, forever since the first eukaryotes emerged" at the same time. One necessarily excludes the other, taken literally. taken figuratively, Sure: we don't know what a safe limit is, except statistically and even that has qualifications.

I particularly like "no true scotsman" because if you follow the reddit /r/scotland you will know the initial propositional question "what is a true scotsman" is pretty vague. We know it excludes a lot of North American ancestry tracers, who are obsessed with lineage, but are most definitely not a true scotsman. But the idea of it being defined as Harry Lauder is a bit .. unacceptable. (of course the test of the true scotsman is how they make porridge)

There's a particular scotsman, the one in full army formal band kilt, playing the bagpipes, who before photoshop appeared in a massive selection of scots scenic postcards, artfully added into the photo of a castle, a hilltop, the lakeside. I think he probably IS a true scotsman.
by tzs | 2026-02-02 23:49:34+00:00
It doesn't mean a free hand to develop solar. The Trump administration hates solar, too, and is doing as much as it can to hinder solar development.

Also, wind and solar have different production patterns, such as how they perform seasonally, how weather affects them, and how they perform at different times of day. You are much better off including a good mix of them in your system.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-02 23:49:58+00:00
> As described by Clinton’s counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke, this idea was conceived overnight as a way to show that the government was “doing something” in response to a plane crash that turned out to have been caused by a faulty fuel tank, not terrorism.

To be honest the worry about terrorists hijacking planes under Clinton proved to be quite prescient only a few years later.
by svemyh | 2026-02-02 23:50:12+00:00
We like OpenClaw, but setup was too hard for our non-technical friends. EasyClaw is a small, lightweight Rust-based desktop app that installs and configures OpenClaw, Clawdbot, and Moltbot without manual setup.

A short wizard lets you pick an AI model provider and connect chat channels like WhatsApp or iMessage. After that, you just start the gateway from the app and your agent is live.

It’s designed to be friendly for non-technical users, but fast and pleasant for developers too: clean dashboard, predictable integrations, keyboard shortcuts, and minimal overhead. No CLI or config files needed for the common case.

Built because the tools are powerful, but the setup friction was too high.
by asadotzler | 2026-02-02 23:51:24+00:00
No one believes Grok will be top 2 in a couple months. OpenAI and Gemini, in one of the two orderings, will continue to be far ahead of Grok in "the next couple of months". I encourage you to bookmark your claim here and return in 2 months to take stock in your ability to predict/bluff.
by ben_w | 2026-02-02 23:51:28+00:00
> robots inevitably are going to do the majority of work - there’s no real doubt about it is there?

There's a lot of doubt that the AI and compute to enable that would happen on commercially relevant timescales.

Consider: "do the majority of work" is a strict superset of "get into car and drive it". The power envelope available for an android is much smaller than a car, and the recently observed rate of improvements for compute hardware efficiency says this will take 16-18 years to bridge that gap; that plus algorithmic efficiency improvements still requires a decade between "car that can drive itself" and "android that can drive a car". (For any given standard of driving).

And that's a decade gap even if it only had to do drive a car and no other labour.

You can't get around this (for an economy-wide significant number of androids) by moving the compute to a box plugged into the mains, for the same reason everyone's current getting upset about the effect of data centres on their electricity bills.

And note that I'm talking about a gap between them, not a time from today. Tesla's car-driving AI still has safety drivers/the owner in the driving seat, it is not a level 4 system. For all that there are anecdotes about certain routes and locations where it works well, there's a lot of others where it fails.

That said: Remote control units without much AI are still economically useful, e.g. a factory in Texas is staffed entirely by robots operated over a Starlink connection by a much cheaper team in Nairobi.
by parsimo2010 | 2026-02-02 23:51:29+00:00
Thoughts:

1. What in the circular funding? This feels more like a financing scheme founding it under X/Twitter and then spinning it over to SpaceX. I suspect some debt is disappearing or taxes aren't getting assessed because of this move.

2. The only thing harder than harnessing "a millionth of the sun's power" on Earth would be launching enough material into space to do the same thing. And that's not even a reason for SpaceX to own an AI company, at least not at this point. The current AI isn't going to help with the engineering to do that. Right now hiring 20-somethings fresh out of college is way cheaper and SpaceX has been very successful with that.

quick edit: dang, I even got point 1 backwards. xAI owns X/Twitter, and that means that SpaceX now owns X/Twitter as well as an AI company. Super suspicious that SpaceX could actually think that buying the social media part (a significant portion of xAI's value) would be worth it.
by colangelod | 2026-02-02 23:52:20+00:00
Location: Remote/NYC
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: 20 years on: Java + SQL Slightly less on; AWS, and Docker
Résumé/CV: https://github.com/colangelo-david reach out for official CV
Email: david.colangelo@pdtechsolutions.com

Senior Engineer with 20 years of java experience across all major cloud providers. Lots of experience in the Banking/Credit Union and Payment space. Always looking for consulting and freelance work. Lets chat!
by publicdebates | 2026-02-02 23:52:26+00:00
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by r3dr4bb1t | 2026-02-02 23:52:29+00:00
Location: Japan (Sapporo)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Possible (flexible)
Technologies: Go, Python, FastAPI, Next.js, Vue.js, React, TypeScript, GraphQL, AWS, GCP, Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, CI/CD, LangChain/RAG, HTMX
Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hwQ9oHyV3mRydRyaOzL2sZDBqpB07tlU/view?usp=sharing
Email: og.redrabbit@gmail.com

Senior Full Stack Engineer with experience building and scaling data-intensive systems across startups and fast-moving teams. Strong background in backend and infrastructure, with applied experience supporting analytics and experimentation. Currently transitioning into Data Science through formal graduate study.
Show HN: TPA – A Zero-Trust Protocol for Sovereign Governance
by CuriousP | 2026-02-02 23:52:32+00:00
I’ve been researching governance models that treat political power not as a moral issue, but as a system architecture problem. I found this proposal called Theory of Power Accountability (TPA).

The core idea is "Proportionality of Transparency": the more power you exercise over others, the less privacy you have in your public role. It’s essentially a Zero-Trust approach applied to government.

Key features:

Automatic Functional Sanctions: Instead of waiting years for a criminal trial, if a leader fails to explain a wealth gap or an unrecorded interaction, they automatically lose functional prerogatives (voting rights, access to public funds).

Inviolable Private Life: It strictly forbids monitoring common citizens. The "spotlight" only follows the power.

Immutable Institutional Memory: Every decision must explicitly state who benefits and who pays, creating an audit trail of "externalities."

I’m curious about the technical feasibility of implementing this as a modular protocol (perhaps via smart contracts or decentralized ledgers). What are the potential "attack vectors" on a system like this?

Link: https://medium.com/@anonimo.politico2205/theory-of-power-acc...
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-02 23:53:43+00:00
> Its a jump in accessibility to general audiences which are paying alot more attention to the tech sector than in previous decades.

Oh totally, both my wife and one of my brother have, independently, started to watch Youtube vids about vibe coding. They register domain names and let AI run wild with little games and tools. And now they're talking me all day long about agents.

> Most of the people paying attention to this space dont have the technical capabilities ...

It's just some anecdata on my side but I fully agree.

> The security nightmare happening here might end up being more persistant then we realize.

I'm sure we're in for a good laugh. It already started: TFA is eye opening. And funny too.
by andsoitis | 2026-02-02 23:54:03+00:00
> Who is SpaceX’s biggest customer?

It is estimated that Starlink is, accounting for 70% - 80% of revenue. Sources: [1] and [2]

NASA is SpaceX's biggest external customer for rocket launch services.

Although NASA is SpaceX’s largest external customer for traditional launch services, the company earns far more revenue from Starlink customers (millions of subscribers). So overall Starlink itself is SpaceX’s biggest revenue generator and de facto largest customer segment.

[1] https://pestel-analysis.com/blogs/target-market/spacex

[2] https://londoneconomics.co.uk/blog/publication/crouching-riv...
by jrk | 2026-02-02 23:54:06+00:00
The 1TW is the rated peak power output. It's essentially the same in space. The thing that changes is the average fraction of this sustained over time (due to day/night/seasons/atmosphere, or the lack of all of the above).

It's still the same 1TW theoretical peak in space, it's just that you can actually use close to that full capacity all the time, whereas on earth you'd need to over-provision substantially and add storage, so 1TW of panels can only drive perhaps a few hundred GW of average load.
by gurrkin | 2026-02-02 23:54:13+00:00
A lot of Claude love in here. I have used Claude on the web (free tier) well over a year ago and had good results with it, but I need good integration with IntelliJ since I work almost exclusively in Kotlin. Can anyone attest to it? The reviews on the plugin are awful, but so are the reviews for the Copilot plugin. I find Copilot pretty good in there, though the tooling is a little second-class, and it often gets "stuck" in the terminal.
by erudyn | 2026-02-02 23:54:18+00:00
Location: Montreal, QC

Remote: OK

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: GNU/Linux, Python3 (FastAPI, Django, Flask), GraphQL, SQLAlchemy, Gino ORM, Alembic, PostgreSQL, Docker and docker-compose, Bash, Amazon AWS.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.proton.me/urls/1FX123QSE0#rNEN5AEIulaX

Email: gcaraballo@pm.me

Software backend developer with over 6 years of experience designing, building, and deploying production grade APIs and services. Proficient in FastAPI, Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Gino ORM, and relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL/MariaDB).
Comfortable setting up cloud environments on AWS (EC2, Aurora, ELB) and containerizing applications with Docker/docker-compose.
by Panzer04 | 2026-02-02 23:54:32+00:00
An academic paper needs to deliver its output once, for the research. Maybe someone will try to replicate it later but that's someone elses problem (and fairly often proves the output of the former to be wrong)

Some stuff in companies might be similar, but there's a lot of things that people use every day, in a lot of different ways, and the software needs to work correctly regardless. You can't just drop it like a hot potato once you've built processes around it.

As always, the first 80% takes 20% of the time/effort, the last 20% takes the other 80%.
Show HN: S3ui – Lightweight UI for Browsing Amazon S3
by justingrosvenor | 2026-02-02 23:55:27+00:00
Hi HN, I built s3ui, a small open source tool that provides a lightweight native cross platform UI for browsing Amazon S3 buckets.

I wanted something fast and minimal for inspecting bucket contents, checking outputs, and updating files, without using the AWS console or heavier tools.

PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/s3ui/

GitHub: https://github.com/justinGrosvenor/s3ui

Install with:

pip install s3ui

Feedback welcome.
by shiroiuma | 2026-02-02 23:55:44+00:00
>Do you think it's socially acceptable to ignore everything that doesn't affect you personally?

No one has the time to pay attention to every little injustice in the world. For all the people crying about Gaza, how many of them are dedicating as much energy to the wars in Sudan, Yemen, or Myanmar, or the abuses by Russian security services (like imprisoning a guy for holding up a blank card)? This isn't to say that we should just ignore Gaza or Ukraine or ICE in the US, but we need to make a choice: either we spend ALL our energy addressing every injustice in the world, until there is no more injustice left (and this means we need to stop everything else we're doing now, including keeping society running, making food, etc.), or we need to choose when and how much attention we'll devote to various issues.
by SeriousM | 2026-02-02 23:55:46+00:00
Disclaimer: that's not my project.

site:

https://elder-plinius.github.io/GLOSSOP ETRAE/

So what does Glossopetrae do?

Generates complete, internally-consistent constructed languages procedurally with a single-click

Outputs "SKILLSTONE" documents: Al-friendly compact language specs (-8k tokens) that agents can learn in-context

Supports dead language revival (Latin, Sanskrit, Old Norse, Proto-Indo-European...)

Includes special attributes for token efficiency, stealth communication, and more

Spreadable seeds: same seed = same language, every time

And for those who look closely... there may be special ways to hide messages in plain sight.
by Rapzid | 2026-02-02 23:56:24+00:00
The market realities don't pan out. Texas has a huge and diversified renewable energy sector. Wind was supplying nearly 45% of energy capacity last night, with solar providing close to 57% during its peak yesterday. Power storage discharge peaked around 13% and it's typically only used to round out capacity in the early morning and evening when peak demand coincides with low solar generation...

https://www.ercot.com/gridmktinfo/dashboards

And that's in Texas where there is tons of sun and wind. I would imagine markets where wind, and in particular off shore wind, could make a lot more sense compared to attempting 100% solar generation. If I had to wager, maybe where they are building offshore wind generation..
by ggm | 2026-02-02 23:56:34+00:00
Is that especially simpler than e.g. an attack on the above ground cabling systems by firing carbon fibre conducting wires over them, as the US is said to have done in the Iraq war? Not that I don't think underwater drones are a future risk, but the belief its a risk which can't be mitigated, or a worse risk than ones which exist onshore, seems a bit weak.

But none the less, yes. This would be a risk. Perhaps one which demands better drone detection and defence systems around wind turbines and O&G fields?
by mrguyorama | 2026-02-02 23:56:41+00:00
I don't actually think the Robber Barons in the 1920s had people going out of their way to defend them and insist they had special knowledge.

The New Deal happened with massive popular support because people did not like the Barons, and wanted to stop them and actually have a life worth living.

It only took like 30 years of suffering.
by ianburrell | 2026-02-02 23:56:45+00:00
Solar and wind are good complements. Solar works during the day and best on clear, windless days. Wind blows best during the night and on cloudy, stormy days. Solar is best in summer and wind in winter.

Wind also works better in some areas that don't have solar. UK has a lot of offshore wind, but less solar. The US Northeast is has a lot of wind but lags behind on solar.

Wind has dropped significantly in price over the decades and is competitive in price with solar. I saw article about early Scottish wind farm being upgraded so that one new turbine equals the whole old farm.
by jimktrains2 | 2026-02-02 23:57:14+00:00
I stand corrected, at least in Pennsylvania (1). I misremembering the issues surrounding requiring Id to vote. The law that was struck down did provide a free id that would have been suitable for voting; however, that isn't required and no longer exists, and there was no mention I could find of if it would have been realid compliant.(2)

(1) https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dmv/resources/payments-and-fees

(2) Applewhite v. Commonwealth https://pubintlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Voter-ID-Fi...