MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zem | 2026-02-03 00:47:17+00:00
I was away from home without my laptop one night when I got an email from a friend I was collaborating on a project with. saying he needed some data crunching done that night if possible, because he needed to send the results out. I was able to download termux, git clone our project, run it, and write a ruby script to generate the figures he needed from the raw output, all within half an hour of somewhat painfully tapping my phone screen. would not even have been ten minutes had I had a bluetooth keyboard. I cannot think of how I would have done it at all without termux.
by DoctorOetker | 2026-02-03 00:47:35+00:00
When a physicist says arbitrarily large it could even be in a dimensionless sense. It doesn't matter how small or large the solar panel is:

for a 4 m x 4 m solar panel, the height of the pyramid would have to be 12 m to attain ~ 300 K on the radiator panels. Thats also the cold side for your compute.

for a 4 km x 4 km solar panel the height of the pyramid would be 12 km.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-03 00:47:35+00:00
You're misunderstanding. What's preventing me from finding someone on Facebook who looks kind of similar to me, finding out their address and phone number, and then claiming I'm them but forgot my ID? Or if I'm a serious criminal planning ahead, applying for a legitimate driver's license in that other person's name with easily-forgeable documentation that less strict DMV's accept when they aren't RealID?

That's what they're guarding against. There's is no secure enough visual or computational ID check that takes a second when you're not already carrying a RealID or passport, that's the point. They have to start getting a bunch of information from databases, determining if it seems like a real person, and quizzing you on information you should know if you're the real you, and seeing if it all adds up or not.
by ps2026 | 2026-02-03 00:47:47+00:00
Hey, you are not wrong. That is technically true. So the way I format the questions are always a statement (not a question) otherwise the response is really Yes/No more so than Agree/Disagree. I prefer agree/disagree because it makes the user take a stance more so than answer a question.

I also always word them in the affirmative. X should Y or X was right to Y or X is Y. This is so users understand the flow and are not tripped up by X should "not" Y.

It doesn't always look clean depending on the topic, but it is focused on sentiment of the statement rather than the specifics (the discussion section could be for that).
by okr | 2026-02-03 00:47:56+00:00
Nope. The first thing i do in the warm car, is to turn the music on, making a stop at my favourite coffee shop and then i hit the road, humming my favourite songs. I barely drive anyways, its all automatic.

In mass-transit facilities all the people look at their screens, using headphones, waiting to be coughed on, scared to be not talked to, anxiety all around. Nope, not for me. Never looking into a dirty public toilet again, while the society yells: "but its free!".

Progress, folx, not regress. Come out of your bubbles, ignore the voices, that tell ya, hundreds of human bodies efficiently transported in an iron can is progress! Live! Expand! Use everything!
by sandworm101 | 2026-02-03 00:48:54+00:00
I theory yes, but grid storage favors solar. Solar can be placed much closer to consumption, literally on the roof of the consumer. Wind exists in large farms away from cities. They are not perfect partners.

The rich/old paticularly hate wind because they do not like looking at it. (The link to golf courses is not by accident. Wind farms and golf course tend to appear together due to them both gravitating towards areas with shallow waters.) We still here stories about blinking shadows interupting sleep cycles, even causing cancer. So perhaps we let them alone for another decade and allow solar+storage to take up the slack. Then, when the nimby people are no longer in power, we bring back wind.

(Shallow sea means no commercial traffic/ports. That means cheap land for non-industrial things like yacht clubs and big houses, which give rise to golf courses. So the rich/old dont like seeing the wind farms that, inevitably, want to live just offshore of their yacht/golf clubs. See Nantuket.)
by its_magic | 2026-02-03 00:48:55+00:00
Who's the guy with Firefox 147 32-bit x86 who downloaded a patch? Nice to see there's still at least a few 32-bit users left out there. My system cross compiles to i686, and builds as multilib (both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries) for x86-64 as well, FYI.

Some of these User Agents have to be fake. Android 6.0.1 with Chrome 144, really? lol
by dangus | 2026-02-03 00:49:48+00:00
Why would you doubt it’s a money grab? Isn’t the conventional wisdom to “follow the money?”

$45 to process a passenger (probably takes less than 2-5 minutes) at airport scale for everyone that doesn’t have a real ID is a huge amount of money.

We can argue that it’s an incentive structure to use real ID but TSA could just deny entry and that would be an even better incentive.
by fluoridation | 2026-02-03 00:49:58+00:00
No. Imagine if your computer was in space instead of being under your desk. Would that solve anything?

Orbit is a very inconvenient environment. It's difficult to reach so maintenance is a nightmare, it's moving all the time, there's nowhere to sink waste heat into, you have a constrained power budget, you have a constrained weight budget. The only things you want to put in orbit are things that absolutely can't go anywhere else.
by joegibbs | 2026-02-03 00:50:16+00:00
The Xbox One.

"Oh you mean the original one?"

No the one that came after the 360.

"The third one?"

No that was the second one, the One was the third.

"OK what are they on now?"

The Series series.

"The Series series?"

Yeah the X and S. Don't confuse that with the Xbox One X or S, or the 360 S.

"Right but what's the difference?"

The X is better than the S because X is a bigger letter. But they run the same games, but they're different. They're the same though.
by hutao | 2026-02-03 00:50:40+00:00
Over the past few years, OCaml has seen an abundance of new language features and standard library additions. OCaml 4.08 added let-binding operators (syntactic sugar for continuation-passing style and monadic programming), OCaml 5 implemented a multicore runtime and effect handlers, OCaml 5.3 finally added dynamic arrays to the standard library, and OCaml 5.4 added labeled tuples.

With unboxed types, I believe OCaml would achieve similar granularity over memory allocations as C#: garbage-collected, but supporting "structs" which are allocated on the stack (or inline the same heap allocation when part of a reference type). I think there is an unexplored space for "soft" systems programming languages that retain a garbage collector by default, while also allowing the programmer to tightly control memory allocations in performance-critical code.

If OCaml hits this sweet spot in abstraction, what domains would adopt it? Could OCaml potentially compete with C#, or Swift?
by crawfordcomeaux | 2026-02-03 00:50:40+00:00
I once had a vivid dream that AI robots had taken over & were keeping humans around because they'd not yet mastered comedy. All of human culture globally was a comedy arms race with 24/7 open mic comedy jams on every corner.

They (the machines) had billboards/signage everywhere showing the estimated time left for humanity. A really good joke would lead the timer to grow (until they figured out how to produce the general patterns needed to both create and appreciate the joke).
by leptons | 2026-02-03 00:51:34+00:00
>a quarter of the smartphone market (leader)

Android is by far the leader.

>half of the tablet market (leader)

Half does not make someone a "leader"

>a tenth of the global pc market (2nd place)

2nd place?? They're last place, by a wide margin.

>6th of the usa/europe market (2nd place)

Also last place.

I guess the reality distortion field is still alive and well.
by mandeepj | 2026-02-03 00:51:39+00:00
> And don't get me started with all the paid express security lanes. Because of course only poor people can weaponize shoes and laptops.

It wasn't just pay for play! TSA-PreCheck and Global Entry approval requires a thorough background check of your residential, work, and travel history, also in-person interview. Unfortunately, some Privacy activists prefer not doing that over occasional convenience.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tsa+precheck+eligibility
by tdb7893 | 2026-02-03 00:51:44+00:00
Are you talking about that people could just click on the link then not actually read it? The thing is that clicking on the link then closing is serves as both a slight barrier to entry targeted at the people who comment without reading and also a reminder that there is an actual article to comment on. It's not going to fix discourse but the theory behind it is to be a small nudge to get people who don't click to at least consider reading the article before while being invisible to people who actually read the article, not magically fix everything.
by mothballed | 2026-02-03 00:51:53+00:00
... and the law in most states requires only that you give your name and possibly your DOB to the authorities upon detainment. So as a purely academic exercise, what can they even do if you refuse to answer beyond that? Obviously in practice they will fuck with you or just straight up violate the constitution, but theoretically I'm unsure how they can continue to seize you after that.
by SLWW | 2026-02-03 00:52:10+00:00
Only white pilling for me sir. I believe in the morning light after a dark night. I just know that the tide comes in and out reliably.
If you believe protesting is the way forward then go for it; just don't get shot while doing it.

Anyway; I like Zig a lot btw.. loving what you guys are doing.
by watersb | 2026-02-03 00:52:17+00:00
Esoteric programming language developed for the superconducting super collider, Glish, was picked up by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which used it well into the 2000s.

Glish supported networked remote procedure calls, made then almost transparent to the program. Otherwise, Glish was roughly similar to Tcl or Lua.

I don't know what other bits and pieces got salvaged from the SSC project.
by ehasbrouck | 2026-02-03 00:52:39+00:00
Unlike other service providers, a common carrier by definition cannot refuse service to anyone willing to pay the fare in the tariff. Common carrier laws are some of the oldest consumer protection laws, enacted to protect travelers and shippers of goods against predatory and discriminatory pricing. Federal law recognizes the "public right of transit" by air, and requires boith airlines and Federal agencies to respect it.
by jacobgkau | 2026-02-03 00:53:34+00:00
It's hardly proof of address. At best, I'd say it's proof of state residency.

I've moved several times since getting my Colorado driver's license (a REAL ID). Technically, you are supposed to submit a change-of-address form to the DMV online within 30 days of moving. They don't send you a new card when you do that; the official procedure is to stick a piece of paper with your new address written on it to your existing ID yourself, and then just wait until your next renewal to actually get a card with the new address on it. The change of address form does not require utility bills or any other proof of the new address-- that's only required when you initially get the driver's license.
by osigurdson | 2026-02-03 00:54:02+00:00
Hi all. I'm wondering if people would appreciate this data added to Nthesis such that recruiters can search / chat with the posts here? It would be the same idea https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring (used for the HN Who is hiring page). I don't mind but won't bother if there isn't any interest.
by rngfnby | 2026-02-03 00:54:43+00:00
"once you get past the range of a tank of gas or two."

This is like the folks who say flying is more carbon friendly than driving. It's wrong, you're comparing a vehicle running cost with one passenger vs a full vehicle normalized by its capacity.

No one flies 30 mi commutes.

Few drive 600+ mi empty or alone.
by rogerrogerr | 2026-02-03 00:55:29+00:00
Your understanding is wrong; see page 2 of https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20200001093/downloads/20.... That’s a log plot!

The backing table is on page 8. Falcon 9 is (was, in 2018! It’s only cheaper now.) at $2700/kg to LEO. No one else is below $4k, except… Falcon Heavy.
by generichuman | 2026-02-03 00:55:49+00:00
This is very exciting for zig projects linking C libraries. Though I'm curious about the following case:

Let's say I'm building a C program targeting Windows with MinGW & only using Zig as a cross compiler. Is there a way to still statically link MinGW's libc implementation or does this mean that's going away and I can only statically link ziglibc even if it looks like MinGW from the outside?
by rglullis | 2026-02-03 00:55:59+00:00
What software engineers are being hired to work on:

- A facilities management company
- A bar/restaurant with a staff of 8
- An Architecture office
- A Law Firm with 10 associates
- A day care
- A car repair shop
- A cement factory
- A family-owned hotel
- A conference/event organizer
- A video production crew
- A roofing company
by mikkupikku | 2026-02-03 00:56:05+00:00
Have you read the paper itself, not just summaries of the idea? It's obvious from the way he wrote it, dripping in sarcasm. Talking about "Malthusian principles" and "Lebensraum", while hand waving away any common sense questions about how the mass of Jupiter would even be smeared into a sphere around the sun, just saying that he can conceive of it and therefore we should spend public money looking for it. He's having a lark.

Also, he literally said it was a joke, and was miffed that he was best know for something he didn't take seriously.
by dmix | 2026-02-03 00:56:05+00:00
You're right, wrote that from memory.

> Despite a revenue drop from $5 billion in 2021 to roughly $2.7 billion in 2024, the EBITDA margin surged from 13.6% to 46.3% due to drastic cost-cutting measures and restructuring

https://x.com/ekmokaya/status/1887398225881026643
by RomanPushkin | 2026-02-03 00:56:11+00:00
I've seen it all. 20 years as software engineer. 11 of them in Silicon Valley. Now I haul junk.

I have decent experience, my own projects, GitHub with thousands of stars, I spoke at tech conference in 2025. I wrote a book about Ruby (printed).

I've sent my resume thousands of times. 200+ hours of interviews in last 8 months, with no offers.

Now I haul junk. AMA.
by namelosw | 2026-02-03 00:56:24+00:00
It's essentially asking application developers to wipe ass for OS developers like Microsoft. It's applaudible when you do it, understandable when you don't.

Even though OpenAI has a lot of cash to burn, they're not in a good position now and getting butchered by Anthropic and possibly Gemini later.

If any major player in this AI field has the power to do it's probably Google. But again, they've done the Flutter part, and the result is somewhat mixed.

At the end of the day, it's only HN people and a fraction of Redditors who care. Electron is tolerated by the silent majority. Nice native or local-first alternatives are often separate, niche value propositions when developers can squeeze themselves in over-saturated markets. There's a long way before the AI stuff loses novelty and becomes saturated.
by lm28469 | 2026-02-03 00:56:26+00:00
If you solved this problem apply at nasa because they still haven't figured it out.

Either that or your talking out of your ass.

FYI a single modern rack consumes twice the energy of the entire ISS, in a much much much much smaller package and you'll need thousands of them. You'd need 500-1000 sqm of radiator per rack and that alone would weight several tonnes...

You'll also have to actively cool down your gigantic solar panel array
by CuriouslyC | 2026-02-03 00:56:41+00:00
This is a good line: "It found that smarter entities are subjectively judged to behave less coherently"

I think this is twofold:

1. Advanced intelligence requires the ability to traverse between domain valleys in the cognitive manifold. Be it via temperature or some fancy tunneling technique, it's going to be higher error (less coherent) in the valleys of the manifold than naive gradient following to the local minima.

2. It's hard to "punch up" when evaluating intelligence. When someone is a certain amount smarter than you, distinguishing their plausible bullshit from their deep insights is really, really hard.
by crazygringo | 2026-02-03 00:56:49+00:00
Sure. But it's not "pretend". It's genuine regulatory policy they've created because they believe it's necessary for security, and this has been a decades-long project. The article is arguing they don't ultimately have the legal authority to make that regulatory policy. Maybe that'll go to court and be tested, maybe they'll win and maybe they'll lose. If they lose, maybe Congress will pass explicit authorization the next day, and maybe that'll be brought to court, and the Supreme Court will have to decide if it violates the 14th amendment or not. But it's not "fake work", it's actually doing a thing.
by babyzergling | 2026-02-03 00:56:57+00:00
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by dTal | 2026-02-03 00:57:07+00:00
This is one example of a more general complaint about systemd and related projects: they force policy, rather than simply providing mechanisms.

I recently did a deep dive on my laptop because I was curious about an oddity - the /sys file to change my screen backlight (aside, why /sys and not /dev anyway?) was writable only by root - yet any desktop shell running as my user had no problem reacting to brightness hotkeys. I wondered, how did this privilege escalation work? Where was the policy, and what property of my user account granted it the right to do this?

It turns out the answer is that the desktop shells are firing off a dbus request to org.freedesktop.login1, which is caught by systemd-logind - or elogind in my case, since I do not care for systemd. A login manager seemed an odd place for screen brightness privilege escalation, but hey if it works whatever - it seemed like logind functioned as a sort of miscellaneous grab bag of vaguely console-related stuff. Generally speaking, it consults polkit rules to determine whether a user is allowed to do a thing.

Not screen brightness, though. No polkit rules. Nothing in pkaction. logind was unilaterally consenting to change the brightness on my behalf. And on what grounds? It wasn't documented anywhere so I had to check the source code, where I found a slew of hardcoded criteria that mostly revolve around physical presence at the machine. Want to change screen brightness over ssh? Oh but why would you ever want to do that? Hope you have root access, you weirdo.

I removed elogind. A few odds and ends broke. But nobody tells me what to do with my machine.
by zer00eyz | 2026-02-03 00:57:23+00:00
> Consumer can eat all the GPUs they have and more if we stop trying to force B2B

You should really crunch the numbers on buying and then running enough compute to run a leading edge model. The economics of buying it (never mind running it) just dont add up.

You still haven't factored in "training", the major problem right now that every one remains head in sand about.

I dont need a model to know who Tom Cruise is or how to write SQL if I am asking it "set up my amazon refund" or "cancel xyz service". The moment someone figures out how to build targeted and small it will take off.

And as for training, well having to make ongoing investment into re-training is what killed expert systems, it's what killed all past AI efforts. Just because it's much more "automated" doesn't mean it isnt the same "problem". Till a model learns (and can become a useful digital twin) the consumer market is going to remain "out of reach".

That doesn't mean we dont have an amazing tool at hand, because we do. But the way it's being sold is only going to lead to confusion and disappointment.
by Enginerrrd | 2026-02-03 00:57:23+00:00
>... has there ever been verified science that shows exercise is unhealthy?

Yes, the extremes of endurance have certainly been shown to have a negative effect on heart health, and possibly also colon health, but the amount of exercise required to get into the danger zone here is so high almost no one that isn't a competitive athlete would achieve it. (Although, amateur marathon runners might.)
by rubyn00bie | 2026-02-03 00:57:23+00:00
There’s quite a bit of evidence to say there are still millions without one, especially depending on the state, this article is from 9 months ago:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/real-id-deadline-weeks-away-mos...

I personally have a hard time believing that a “Real” ID that does not verify citizenship or residency is meaningfully different from my current one. I certainly do not believe there are increased costs associated with my existing ID, that would be alleviated with a Real ID. At no point have I ever heard Real ID exists to reduce costs (though if that’s true, I’d love to read how). IMHO it may not be a “cash grab,” but it’s certainly punitive. And, for what it’s worth, there have been no extra steps I’ve had to take or increased screening when using my existing ID for the past year. Same photo machine, same scanner, as everyone else.

I will personally just renew my passport to avoid the fee until I need to renew my drivers license.
by gopalv | 2026-02-03 00:57:39+00:00
> Making models larger improves overall accuracy but doesn't reliably reduce incoherence on hard problems.

Coherence requires 2 opposing forces to hold coherence in one dimension and at least 3 of them in higher dimensions of quality.

My team wrote up a paper titled "If You Want Coherence, Orchestrate a Team of Rivals"[1] because we kept finding that upping the reasoning threshold resulted in less coherence - more experimentation before we hit a dead-end to turn around.

So we had a better result from using Haiku (we fail over to Sonnet) over Opus and using a higher reasoning model to decompose tasks rather than perform each one of them.

Once a plan is made, the cheaper models do better as they do not double-think their approaches - they fail or they succeed, they are not as tenacious as the higher cost models.

We can escalate to higher authority and get out of that mess faster if we fail hard and early.

The knowledge of how exactly failure happened seems to be less useful to the higher reasoning model over the action biased models.

Splitting up the tactical and strategic sides of the problem, seems to work similarly to how Generals don't hold guns in a war.

[1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14351