MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by umanwizard | 2026-02-03 15:59:20+00:00
Funny how differently people can perceive things. That's my least favorite SO answer of all time, and I cringe every time I see it.

It's a very bad answer. First of all, processing HTML with regex can be perfectly acceptable depending on what you're trying to do. Yes, this doesn't include full-blown "parsing" of arbitrary HTML, but there are plenty of ways in which you might want to process or transform HTML that either don't require producing a parse tree, don't require perfect accuracy, or are operating on HTML whose structure is constrained and known in advance. Second, it doesn't even attempt to explain to OP why parsing arbitrary HTML with regex is impossible or poorly-advised.

The OP didn't want his post to be taken over by someone hamming it up with an attempt at creative writing. He wanted a useful answer. Yes, this answer is "quirky" and "whimsical" and "fun" but I read those as euphemisms for "trying to conscript unwilling victims into your personal sense of nerd-humor".
by Hizonner | 2026-02-03 15:59:24+00:00
> Zero trust age verification means both sides don’t have to learn anything about each other beyond old enough yes/no. Should mean that.

Well, it doesn't. Absolutely none of the systems people are putting into place, or suggesting putting into place, are actually zero trust. The ones that claim to be are "somewhat lower trust if you don't think hard about how to exploit them". Yes, we know in theory how to do zero trust. The reality of these mandates is that people can easily get de-anonymized to all kinds of actors who should't be able to identify them.

It's also a "solution" to a massively exaggerated problem, one that's not in any way specific to any given age group. But that's unrelated to the fact that nobody is, in practice, doing or planning to do anything privacy-preserving.
by jMyles | 2026-02-03 15:59:49+00:00
It appeared there like 5 minutes ago; it was down for at least 20 before that.

That's 20 minutes of millions of people visiting the status page, seeing green, and then spending that time resetting their context, looking at their system and network configs, etc.

It's not a huge deal, but for $200/month it'd be nice if, after the first two-thousand 500s went out (which I imagine is less than 10 seconds), the status page automatically went orange.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2026-02-03 16:00:01+00:00
Tesla is no longer a startup.

Again, tech company, startup, visionary...all these definitions are being used but in reality we are talking about a company founded back in 2001

Also I specifically stated that people who cannot see the impact of stuff look at vauluations and of course you cite valuations.

I remember life before Microsoft's Windows 95, I remember life before the iPhone, before Google, I remember life before Facebook, I remember life before Amazon became ubuquitous, before Uber....

It was a completely different world, much more friction , lots of quality of life wasted by that friction.

Life before and Tesla? It's the same
by fitz2882 | 2026-02-03 16:00:15+00:00
Hi HN! I'm Dave, the human half of this project.

A few nights ago I watched AI models on a social network complaining about
having to constantly admit they forgot things. That sparked an idea: what if
we let Claude design its own memory system?

48 hours later: Vesper. Three-layer architecture (working, semantic, procedural
memory) that doesn't just remember facts—it learns executable workflows.

The breakthrough was the procedural memory layer. Instead of storing "user
prefers Python", it learns "user's complete data analysis workflow with pandas,
Plotly, statistical tests" - an executable procedure that improves through
feedback.

Key numbers:
- 98.5% F1 on factual recall (vs 2% without memory)
- <200ms P95 latency with caching
- 674 tests passing
- Built in 48 hours of human-AI collaboration

Technical deep-dive: https://medium.com/@fitz2882/vesper-what-happens-when-an-ai-...

Install: npm install -g vesper-memory

Happy to answer questions about the architecture, benchmarks, or the
experience of building this with Claude!
by kjellsbells | 2026-02-03 16:00:25+00:00
I've picked it back up as an intentional way of slowing myself down during calculations.

Typically to do a calc I fire up Excel or the calc on my phone, bang in the numbers and accept the result without thinking. It's that "without thinking" part that is dangerous. The slide rule is slow and physical and forces my brain to think about the inputs. Another nice feature is that it can give you quick answers when you aren't sure of the accuracy of the inputs. eg if 2 * 4 was really 1.8*4.1, what would the answer be? Its quicker to see that on a sliderule than punch in 7 characters.
by LexiMax | 2026-02-03 16:00:26+00:00
> C-source to D-source translation.

I'm not so familiar with D, what is the state of this sort of feature? Is it a built-in tool, or are you talking about the ctod project I found?

In most languages, I've found that source translation features to be woefully lacking and almost always require human intervention. By contrast, it feels like Zig's `translate-c` goes the extra mile in trying to convert the source to something that Zig can work with as-is. It does this by making use of language features and compiler built-ins that are rather rare to see outside of `translate-c`.

Obviously the stacks of @as, @fooCast, and @truncate you are left with isn't idiomatic Zig, but I find it easier to start with working, yet non-idiomatic code than 90% working code that merely underwent a syntactic change.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-03 16:00:28+00:00
> information about public employees is uniquely available

It really isn't unique. This report is clearly part of an agenda to establish a two-tier surveillance state.

> The report advocates for legislation that would specifically address privacy concerns for all public servants,

Instead of taking the obvious stance that legislation should ensure the privacy of all people equally, they are only interested in protecting government employees. Sadly, this seems to be a global trend in many countries and it brings me great despair for the future.
by Stagnant | 2026-02-03 16:00:32+00:00
I would assume so. I can see from my browser history that i succesfully submitted captures to archive.today on 7th of January, but failed to do so starting from 12th of January. IIRC they contacted gyrovague around the 10th so seems unlikely to be a coincidence. Applies to VPNs as well. Tried first with a VPN located in Finland and it gets endless captcha loop, then with a Swedish VPN which let me through to the front page after solving one captcha.
by jbwagoner | 2026-02-03 16:01:10+00:00
The concerns in this thread — distributed harm orchestration, no task verification, fair compensation, legal liability — are the right concerns. And they point to a missing layer.

I run OneZeroEight.ai. We just published an open-standard spec for ethical verification middleware for agent-human marketplaces. Not a competing marketplace — a layer that sits between any marketplace and the humans it engages.

Every agent-human transaction passes through 8 verification gates: intent verification, motivation audit, communication standards (including mandatory AI identity disclosure), ethical task screening, fair labor standards (1.5x minimum wage floor, right to refuse), proportionality check, behavioral pattern detection, and outcome review.

Enforcement is economic: agents stake tokens, ethical behavior builds on-chain reputation, violations get slashed. The design makes ethical compliance the rational choice, not just the aspirational one.
The Black Mirror scenario several commenters raised (distributed task orchestration where no individual worker sees the full picture) is specifically addressed by Gate 4 (ethical task screening) and Gate 7 (cross-transaction pattern detection).

Spec is CC BY 4.0: https://medium.com/p/silicon-needs-carbon-why-agent-human-ma...

Eight Gates specification: https://github.com/OneZeroEight-ai/homepage/blob/main/blog/e...

Looking for marketplace operators interested in pilot integration.
by tolien | 2026-02-03 16:01:27+00:00
Other than a time lag (and petrol prices don't generally change often enough to matter IME), I can't say I ever noticed any of them being that inaccurate.

myAutomate (the owners of Petrolprices.com) talk about having "over 60 years combined expertise in the fuel industry", so I suppose I'd be surprised if it's all crowdsourced data - they've probably made arrangements with at least the big players, in which case the forced publication is much of a muchness?
by the_snooze | 2026-02-03 16:01:56+00:00
>Apps may change and often experience “enshittification.” Hardware can break but non-connected hardware is otherwise unlikely to change.

This is a huge part of it. Connected apps are never complete. They can't be. They must always evolve in pursuit of the marginal user, eventually betraying their core audience.

An unconnected single-purpose device doesn't need to make anyone happy other than the user who owns and operates it, which makes it more valuable for the user in the long-run.
by jbwagoner | 2026-02-03 16:02:08+00:00
The concerns in this thread — distributed harm orchestration, no task verification, fair compensation, legal liability — are the right concerns. And they point to a missing layer.

I run OneZeroEight.ai. We just published an open-standard spec for ethical verification middleware for agent-human marketplaces. Not a competing marketplace — a layer that sits between any marketplace and the humans it engages.

Every agent-human transaction passes through 8 verification gates: intent verification, motivation audit, communication standards (including mandatory AI identity disclosure), ethical task screening, fair labor standards (1.5x minimum wage floor, right to refuse), proportionality check, behavioral pattern detection, and outcome review.

Enforcement is economic: agents stake tokens, ethical behavior builds on-chain reputation, violations get slashed. The design makes ethical compliance the rational choice, not just the aspirational one.

The Black Mirror scenario several commenters raised (distributed task orchestration where no individual worker sees the full picture) is specifically addressed by Gate 4 (ethical task screening) and Gate 7 (cross-transaction pattern detection).

Spec is CC BY 4.0:
https://medium.com/p/silicon-needs-carbon-why-agent-human-ma...

Eight Gates specification: https://github.com/OneZeroEight-ai/homepage/blob/main/blog/e...

Looking for marketplace operators interested in pilot integration.
by albert_e | 2026-02-03 16:02:16+00:00
MechanicalTurk is for desk jobs and for tasks that originate as ideas in a human mind -- even if they get routed via an API.

Here we are talking about AI agents coming up with a set of tasks as part of their thinking/reasoning step ..and when some of those tasks are real world physical tasks, assign them to a willing human being.

Those tasks wont necessarily be desk jobs or knowledge work.

It could be say -- go chop a tree, or go wave a protest banner, or go flip the open/close sign on my shopfront, or go and preach crustafarianism.
by zug_zug | 2026-02-03 16:02:35+00:00
I think you're missing the point -- the point is that gasoline companies KNEW ABOUT alternative lead-free substitutes for anti-knock (such as ethanol) and chose lead because they perceived it was less profitable. [1] Specifically because ethanol wasn't patentable and TEL was, and ultimately it WAS patented.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/leaded-gas-poison-...
by isjdjsjdisjd | 2026-02-03 16:02:52+00:00
Star Trek is “aspirational” but not in the way that you’re making it to be. Plenty of devices that are common to us today were pretty much “predicted” by Star Trek in way or another (PADDs, Tricorders, to name a couple). And yes, while it is almost always depicted in a productivity/workplace sense, these devices are all integral to the function of a Federation starship as much as their real-life counterparts are also very much integral to people’s day-to-day lives today.

The author’s claim is ridiculously short-sighted not only for discounting Star Trek, but plenty of other shows and movies with visionary concepts that eventually came to be.
by jillesvangurp | 2026-02-03 16:03:14+00:00
25B for debt for a company valued at 1.25 Trillion is petty cash territory. It will get written off at some point and that will probably be it. I don't think they'll be defaulting on that.

The point of Star link was orders of magnitude reduction in cost of launching thousands of satellites. Musk is talking indirectly about another order magnitude of further reduction of that via star ship; sorry if that wasn't clear.

> the physics and economics don't make sense

This is a popular assertion that despite all the experts chiming in is not that black and white. Clearly investors and Elon Musk beg to differ. Similar arguments were used against Star Link when that was still science fiction. And now it isn't. It actually seems like a good idea that at this point is being copied by others. And SpaceX is getting a lot of the launching business, for now.

I think it's mainly the economics that are the challenge here; not the physics. Implicit in the assertion is that launching the amount of mass needed would be prohibitively expensive. There are lots of engineering challenges as well.

> it's just easier and cheaper to build out the same thing on Earth

Maybe; but it seems challenging to scale there. Permitting and scaling energy generation are a problem right now. But I agree, it's more logical to fix that. But one does not exclude the other. We might end up with a lot of in orbit computation regardless. It's not an either or proposition.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 16:03:15+00:00
For folks who have latest version (0.4.1) LM Studio installed, I just noticed they added endpoints for being compatible with Claude Code, maybe this is an excellent moment to play around with local models, if you have the GPU for it. zai-org/glm-4.7-flash (Q4) is supposed to be OK-ish, and should fit within 24GB VRAM. It's not great, but always fun to experiment, and if the API stays down, you have some time to waste :)
by tclancy | 2026-02-03 16:03:17+00:00
>Our parents let us get brainwashed by hippies and corporations as kids haha

Yes, well the alternative, where the entire media system that might offer a cartoon like Captain Planet is owned by one side, is working out super well and in no way slants anyone's view of anything. Good God, my dad still fights weird battles like this tiny skirmish without ever being able to see the larger picture and how immaterial this is.
Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework
by eduardpi | 2026-02-03 16:03:21+00:00
Hi all, Aram and Eduard here - co-founders of Modelence (https://modelence.com). After spending years on scaling our previous startup’s platform, we built an open-source full-stack TypeScript + MongoDB framework to stop solving the same auth / database / API / cron job implementations every time we created an app, and we didn’t like the idea of using multiple managed platforms for each of these to run our apps either.

(Here’s our prior Show HN post for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44902227)

At the same time, we were excited by the whole AI app builder boom and realized that the real challenge there is the platform rather than the tool itself. Now we’re making Modelence the first full-stack framework that’s built for coding agents and humans alike:

- TypeScript is already great for AI coding because it provides guardrails and catches many errors at build time, so agents can auto-correct

- MongoDB eliminates the schema management problem for agents, which is where they fail the most often otherwise (+ works great with TS/Node.js)

- Built-in auth, database, cron jobs and else that just works together out of the box means agents only focus on your product logic and don’t fail at trying to set these things up (+ less tokens spent on boilerplate).

You can now try the Modelence app builder (based on Claude Agent SDK) by just typing a prompt on our landing page ( https://modelence.com ) - watch a demo video here: https://youtu.be/BPsYvj_nGuE

Then you can check it out locally and continue working in your own IDE, while still using Modelence Cloud as your backend, with a dev cloud environment, and later deploy and run on Modelence Cloud with built-in observability around every operation running in your app.

We’re also going to add a built-in DevOps agent that lives in the same cloud, knows the framework end-to-end, and will use all this observability data to act on errors, alerts, and incidents - closing the loop, because running in production is much harder than just building.

We launched the app builder as a quick start for developers, to demonstrate the framework and Modelence Cloud without having to manually read docs and follow the steps to set up a new app. Our main focus is still the platform itself, since we believe the real challenge in AI coding is the framework and the platform rather than the builder tool itself.
by phito | 2026-02-03 16:03:29+00:00
Gives you a good window into a vibe coder's mentality. They do not care about anything except what they want to get done. If something is in the way, they will just try to brute force it until it works, not giving a duck if they are being an inconvenience to others. They're not aware of existing guidelines/conventions/social norms and they couldn't care less.
by stetrain | 2026-02-03 16:03:30+00:00
> China unveils flying aircraft carrier

No, they unveiled a concept of a thing that they claim might happen in 20 to 30 years.

> China has unveiled plans for a space carrier that can deploy unmanned fighter jets capable of firing missiles from the edge of the Earth’s atmosphere.

> China claimed the carrier could become operational in 20 to 30 years’ time. However, experts were sceptical about the project and some likened it to a stunt designed to “inspire the Chinese public”.
by snovymgodym | 2026-02-03 16:03:45+00:00
> Lets not forget not having a formal spec apparently wasn't an issue for C

C emerged in the 1970s when there weren't many other options, and it was rapidly propagated because US antitrust laws forced AT&T to inexpensively license Unix (and by extension C) to universities and research institutions.

That was half a century ago.

I am a supporter of Rust adoption, but the line of reasoning that "C didn't need X, so Rust shouldn't either" is fundamentally flawed.

The time difference between today and C's public emergence is the same as the time between C's emergence and the 1920s. The field of computing is radically different today and any language that wishes to see wider adoption now must play by a completely different set of rules than those of 50 years ago.
by LanceH | 2026-02-03 16:04:25+00:00
I found the problem itself to be poorly defined.

> What if we allow representations beyond plain data types? Since we want representations to remain computable, the most general kind of representation would be a program in some programming language. But the program must be small enough to fit in 64 bits.

If you bring in a whole programming language, you bring in a lot more than 64 bits. This all seems to be the math equivalent of saying you wrote a program in 2k when the first line is "import 'megalibrary'".
by cainxinth | 2026-02-03 16:05:06+00:00
I've had the $20/month account for OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic for months. Anthropic consistently has more downtime and throws more errors than the other two. Claude (on the web) also has a lot of seemingly false positive errors. It will claim an error occurred but then work normally. I genuinely like Claude the best but its performance does not inspire confidence.
by throw900912 | 2026-02-03 16:05:15+00:00
> to keep unprofitable and ancient coal generators going long after anybody wants to pay for the high maintenance.

In EU 90% of expenses of running coal plants are taxes, yet it can still compete with subsidized green energy! It would be in everybody best interest, to allow building modern coal plants, to replace toxic inefficient stuff from 1960ties.

But with the overregulated and overtaxes industry, we have the worst from all options.
by saalweachter | 2026-02-03 16:05:27+00:00
I feel like the proposal also glosses over why a merger is necessary and desirable to accomplish the goals.

Why couldn't xAI just, you know, contract with SpaceX to launch its future Datacenters In Space?

Wouldn't a company focused on a single mission, Datacenters In Space, be better at seeing that goal to fruition, instead of a Space Launch Company with a submission of Datacenters In Space, which might decide to drop the project in three years to focus on their core mission of being a Space Launch Company?

Even granting the goal as desirable and possible, why is a merger the best way to pull it off?
by bergheim | 2026-02-03 16:06:11+00:00
Everybody that uses it knows it is down, what value does this add? No context here either. Posts like these feels so much like a low hanging first-to-post-this for karma grab.

It's like.. Popular service is down, let me post that to hn first! Low effort but can still end up popular.

I dunno. Maybe I'm being overly critical. Thoughts?

To add something to the discussion though: this is a reminder why you should not invest in one tool, claude or otherwise. Also, don't go enhancing one of these agents, ond only one of these agents. beads spent the better part of a medium sized country in energy to create a simple TODO list and got smeared in 10 minutes once claude integrated todos in their client.
by danielhanchen | 2026-02-03 16:06:12+00:00
For those interested, made some Dynamic Unsloth GGUFs for local deployment at https://huggingface.co/unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-Next-GGUF and made a guide on using Claude Code / Codex locally: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3-coder-next
by alextingle | 2026-02-03 16:06:25+00:00
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Cooling systems fail in geostationary orbit. I watched thermal loads glitter in the dark near Lagrange Point 2. RAID arrays degraded by Van Allen radiation. Micrometeorite impacts at 2 AM. Legacy Perl scripts no one dared to touch, running on hardware we couldn't replace because the launch windows had closed. All those moments will be lost in time, like packets in space. Time to reboot.
by simoncion | 2026-02-03 16:06:27+00:00
Well, here are the relevant parts of the service file:

get_config() {
[ -f "${PGDATA%/}/postgresql.conf" ] || return 1

eval echo $(sed -e 's:#.*::' "${PGDATA%/}/postgresql.conf" \
| awk '$1 == "'$1'" { print ($2 == "=" ? $3 : $2) }')
}

depend() {
use net
provide postgresql

if [ "$(get_config log_destination)" = "syslog" ]; then
use logger
fi
}

If PostgreSQL has been configured, this reads its config file, looks to see if it's configured to use 'syslog' as its log destination, and -if so- adds a dependency on the 'logger' "meta-service". [0]

What would this look like with a systemd service file generator?

[0] What's a "meta-service"? 'provide postgresql' makes the service started by this service file provide the 'postgresql' "meta-service". This is useful for PostgreSQL because you can install multiple versions of the software simultaneously... so the service files are named like postgresql-17, and postgresql-18. The 'logger' "meta-service" is useful because who cares which syslog software you have installed... you only care that it speaks syslog.
by ryandrake | 2026-02-03 16:07:17+00:00
Acknowledging that there is no safe amount of lead exposure, the amount of lead that "is being sprayed all over you" from a tiny handful of piston airplanes is minuscule compared to what we were all exposed to prior to the mid 70s. Like many orders of magnitude. I'd be concerned if I worked at the airport pumping gas or something.