MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jraph | 2026-02-05 06:46:11+00:00
> any sensitive info is pushed to the URL Path

This too is not ideal. It gets saved in the browser history, and if the url is sent by message (email or IM), the provider may visit it.

> Definitely uninstall whatever junk leaked your domain though, but it's really nothing.

We are used to the tracking being everywhere but it is scandalous and should be considered as such. Not the subdomain leak part, that's just how Rachel noticed, but the non advertised tracking from an appliance chosen to be connected privately.
by Fricken | 2026-02-05 06:46:55+00:00
Open AI the hare had an exciting sprint and is now a bit winded. Google the tortoise is going to keep plugging along.

LLMs give me flashbacks to the self-driving car race 9 years ago. Uber, Tesla and other flashy companies were drawing a great deal of attention to themselves and burning a lot of investor capital making it appear as though real progress was being made.

Google (rebranded Waymo) ducked the hype, stayed the course, and kept their nose to the grindstone, and now they're the only western company that matters.
by the_harpia_io | 2026-02-05 06:47:22+00:00
Interesting approach for cost management, but one angle nobody seems to be discussing: the security implications.

When you fall back to a local model for coding, you lose whatever safety guardrails the hosted model has. Claude's hosted version has alignment training that catches some dangerous patterns (like generating code that exfiltrates env vars or writes overly permissive IAM policies). A local Llama or Mistral running raw won't have those same checks.

For side projects this probably doesn't matter. But if your Claude Code workflow involves writing auth flows, handling secrets, or touching production infra, the model you fall back to matters a lot. The generated code might be syntactically fine but miss security patterns that the larger model would catch.

Not saying don't do it - just worth being aware that "equivalent code generation" doesn't mean "equivalent security posture."
by YZF | 2026-02-05 06:47:29+00:00
This only works assuming somebody cares what works and what doesn't. Often nobody does. Most organizations do not tend to reward the good decision that made everything easy. They reward things that look hard and projects that take forever as long as they can somehow be spun as successes.

I've been pretty successful but my advice is almost always ignored. Where it matters is the stuff I do or the stuff I have control over (e.g. teams I lead).
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-05 06:48:21+00:00
Considering there are hundreds or thousands of users on this site who have taken cash—either directly or indirectly—in exchange for building the world's most egregious examples of privacy-abusing software that were formerly only memes in 80s sci-fi movies. Yet they choose to focus their energy on getting upset over things they don't understand and can't control—like immigration enforcement.

No, my conscience is clean.
by anonnon | 2026-02-05 06:48:37+00:00
I'm not one to sell generative AI short at this point, but this seems at odds with the longer-term trend towards more centralized, off-the-shelf solutions, like Shopify, Salesforce, Squarespace, over the "bespoke," in-house alternatives that many companies developed in previous decades. Perhaps AI is making the TCO of "rolling your own" so low that it makes sense to go back to that over SaaS?
by buddylw | 2026-02-05 06:48:42+00:00
I have one as a watch bezel that I use in a pinch. Anything you need to scale, divide, or multiply in the real word doesn't need more than 2 significant digits of precision so it works. For example, I've used it to calculate how many grams of coffee will give me a 1:16 to the amount of water/coffee I want.
by yieldcrv | 2026-02-05 06:49:02+00:00
> or AI will be good enough to unvibe it

it already is

just point Claude Code at a Claude Code codebase you forgot about for a few weeks with no plan.md or agents.md or memory.md implemented

configure the session correctly this time and put it in plan mode, it will deal with your whole database schemas, migrate, tie everything to the new models correctly, make a backend deployment script, and fix your UI/UX
by ithkuil | 2026-02-05 06:49:25+00:00
This doesn't match my experience with that term.

My son is diagnosed with ADHD and high IQ and labeled "gifted". He's very immature, has absolutely no method, is very impulsive and can't maintain focus for more than 20 minutes. He seems very much less mature than his peers in anything.

Yet, he just understands and remembers every single thing at school much better and faster than his peers. So I guess technically that makes him "gifted" but it's not a very useful gift. It just creates problems at school because he gets bored quickly but cannot be given more work to do because he gets exhausted quickly too!

I read recently a title of an article that said "gifted children are special needs children" and that marched my experience.
by lp4v4n | 2026-02-05 06:49:28+00:00
As I see it, reaching meaningful progress is a very complex, uncertain and non-deterministic process of which being a high capacity individual is only one of the inputs.

A very intelligent individual can spend decades working on a product doomed to fail. Many bright mathematician might be working right now on a proof of a problem that in the future may be shown to be undecidable. Einstein, according to himself, was almost never the brightest mathematician and yet gave the world a super-extraordinary contribution.

In my opinion, the humbling lesson that child prodigies give us is that we should value as much as possible all the humans involved in the often ungrateful task of trying to advance science. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be the case and society seems obsessed with trying to discard and disqualify the human factor.
Show HN: A system that monitors portfolio risk and warns when it gets dangerous
by NoahJiang | 2026-02-05 06:49:35+00:00
I built this after realizing how hard it is to understand portfolio risk once you have multiple brokerage accounts.

Most tools show returns and charts, but risk tends to creep up quietly (concentration, drawdowns, volatility) unless you actively monitor it.

This system connects to broker accounts via OAuth, continuously syncs holdings and transactions, computes risk metrics, and triggers alerts when thresholds are crossed. It also sends a simple weekly summary so you don’t have to check dashboards daily.

The hardest parts were normalizing data across brokers, handling historical positions correctly, and deciding which metrics actually matter in practice.

Feedback welcome.
by vlovich123 | 2026-02-05 06:50:31+00:00
It’s a mix of “they’ve done it many times before” and these days AI. But remember the “they’ve done it many times before” just means that in a technical and popular forum you’re likely to find the handful of people who have done so regularly enough to remember the one liner. Also this is probably easily searchable as well so even prior to AI not super hard.
by deaux | 2026-02-05 06:51:36+00:00
Hey there, I quit a job over similar concerns, knowing it would lead to a >70% decrease in comp. Without a significant nest egg or wealth, whether personal or through family.

Now let me say the same: But those tools buy Teslas and $8 donuts and cardboard apartments in trendy neighborhoods for people too young to understand how money works.

There, now there's no longer a high horse concern.
by Muromec | 2026-02-05 06:52:15+00:00
I work in a place where we have (former) COBOL developers and the actual mainframe. One co-worker worked here for 25 years until they retired last year (does it sounds like trade union propaganda already?). We also have a lot of 20 years old for whom it may be the first job.

Somehow it's consistently no drama and no nonsense place. Compared to the frat house atmosphere of the usual tech startup, it's really different.
by roenxi | 2026-02-05 06:52:18+00:00
> It cost the taxpayers nothing (in fact it made us money)

Pull the other one, it has bells on it. If the government is involved in a financial transaction it is because nobody in the private sphere with money wants to be involved. That means either the return wasn't commensurate to the risk or there was dodgy accounting going on that nobody would actually thought represented a reasonable real return. If there was actually a prospect of making a reasonable return, money would have been found. Even the creditors might have been willing to make deals.

I bet the average taxpayer would much rather have the money given to them in their capacity as an individual and would have profited off it more than the hypothetical return the US government may claim it made.

> What part of that are people mad about, and why?

The gross unfairness of it all. I mean, it is bad enough that the failures in charge of the banking system got bailed out despite being incompetent at their jobs, but the average person had to guarantee them their high status role in society? It is a sick joke.

It is a terrible idea to be printing money to prop up asset owners. If that is the basic plan anyway, it shouldn't be mandatory to have incompetents mediating the handout process.

And it isn't like bankruptcy is that terrible. All the physical assets still exist. There is still food. Maybe set up a special welfare system for people who lost their life savings if something has to be done, but for heavens sake, taking (and I repeat myself) known, verified incompetents and guaranteeing them ongoing control of the financial system is wildly stupid. It is on par with a scheme like mandating people all buy in to cryptocurrencies.
by Opus_Warrior | 2026-02-05 06:53:02+00:00
We built enterprise memory infrastructure for AI systems. Not a wrapper around a vector database. Five purpose-built memory systems that work together:

- CASCADE – 6-layer temporal memory with natural decay. Memories fade unless they matter. Sub-millisecond access via RAM disk.
- PyTorch Memory – GPU-accelerated semantic search. 2,500+ vectors at <2ms on consumer NVIDIA hardware.
- Hebbian Mind – Associative graph where edges strengthen through co-activation. No manual linking. The more you use it, the smarter it gets.
- Soul Matrix – Hebbian conductance graph in Rust. Pre-retrieval gating at ~270 microseconds. Shapes what surfaces before your LLM spends tokens.
- CMM – Unified search across all backends. One query, synthesized results, not concatenated.

Everything runs on MCP (Model Context Protocol). Works with Claude, or any MCP client. Docker, Linux native, or Windows native install paths.

No subscriptions. No per-query fees. No metered API. One purchase, you own it, run it on your hardware forever. Source code included.

We built this because we needed it. AI agents fail in production because they have no memory architecture. The industry spent $40B on AI in 2025 and 95% saw no
production ROI. The gap between demo and production is memory management – agents that can't remember yesterday can't improve tomorrow.

Free tier available: cascade-memory-lite on GitHub (MIT). Enterprise products start at $400. Full stack is $1,500. 90-day money-back guarantee on everything.
by youarentrightjr | 2026-02-05 06:53:54+00:00
> Yes, yes, everyone is a sycophant except you and your friends... For the record, you are lying about the quoted people having a financial interest in Elon.

Let's go through them:

- Jim Cantrell: SpaceX founder

- Garett Reisman: astronaut, former SpaceX employee, current SpaceX "consultant"

- Joshua Boehm: former SpaceX head of SQA

- Carmack: maybe this one is genuine, however, Carmack is also an industry outsider who founded his own aerospace company, so there might be some projecting going on there

> Using your free expression to smear without admitting counterevidence

Interesting take when you came in here telling me (in your now flagged comment) that my friends are imaginary and I'm a liar, who's rejecting counterevidence again?
by josh3736 | 2026-02-05 06:53:56+00:00
Let's Encrypt has nothing to do with this problem (of Certificate Transparency logs leaking domain names).

CA/B Forum policy requires every CA to publish every issued certificate in the CT logs.

So if you want a TLS certificate that's trusted by browsers, the domain name has to be published to the world, and it doesn't matter where you got your certificate, you are going to start getting requests from automated vulnerability scanners looking to exploit poorly configured or un-updated software.

Wildcards are used to work around this, since what gets published is *.example.com instead of nas.example.com, super-secret-docs.example.com, etc — but as this article shows, there are other ways that your domain name can leak.

So yes, you should use Let's Encrypt, since paying for a cert from some other CA does nothing useful.
by blindriver | 2026-02-05 06:55:38+00:00
No.

My friend's child is profoundly gifted (160+ IQ). He is 12 years old and finishing Calculus and next year will be taking college math courses. His friends are a year younger than him and have qualified for AIME since they were 8 years old.

Giftedness is very real, and it's not just "maturity". Their brains are different. Seeing them squabble over math problems, it's like watching people talk a different language.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-05 06:56:06+00:00
Discipline is not the most correct word. Motivation is a better description for the behavior.

As the smartest child in the room you live in a world where the answers always came easy, at least the answers to questions and expectations on above average terms. This sets the elite children up to try less hard on everything because they know in advance they are always going to cross the finish line well before everyone else without effort or preparation.

I can remember being one of these kids myself. My motivation was just wanting to be productively employed and not bored in class, for example employed in a minimum wage high labor job instead of sleeping through honors advanced chemistry. At least then I was challenged.

I also remember leaving visible signs of accomplishment to the attention starved sociopaths. That attention seeking behavior always felt beneath me, infantile even.

I do remember occasionally, very rarely, encountering other elite children who were also not interested in attention seeking behavior. The greatest commonality was excessively low neuroticism. You had no fear, even in very physical terms, which resulted in thrill seeking activities. Many of these people would end up joining the military even after attaining access to elite universities.

These people were never without extended focus or discipline but about half the time were poor performing at academics, as is the case with certain learning disorders like dyslexia.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-05 06:56:27+00:00
TL;DR - Climate change denier thinks AI concerns are a power grab

I don't understand how a serious paper can push something like this, does anyone sane still deny climate change? Sure it's taking a while for the worst to come to pass but that's because it's a slow process.

At least they labelled it as opinion.

I was expecting this to be about the climate impact of AI data centres but instead it was just baseless conspiracy theories.
by Aurornis | 2026-02-05 06:56:50+00:00
The people angry about the 2008 bailout usually have little interest in the facts. I’ve had countless conversations where I’ve tried to tell people that the bailouts were a net positive or that people were, in fact, sent to jail. Outside of people familiar with finance, most people refuse to believe it.

A lot of people I’ve talked to about it weren’t even adults when the bailout happened. They weren’t watching the news and didn’t care at the time. They only know it through pop culture and from fiery speeches from politicians and influencers.

The idea of a bailout has become synonymous with the government handing hard-earned tax dollars over to banks, no strings attached. The facts don’t really matter.
by oblio | 2026-02-05 06:56:57+00:00
> Half of $30k/mo trivially pays for an engineer you hire to only manage such a cluster for you and just works an hour a week unless a pager goes off if you truly need that level of peace of mind. If you’re hiring for such a position I have a few rock star level folks who would love such a job.

1 person? Is that person always on call?
by twotwotwo | 2026-02-05 06:58:07+00:00
Yeah, this(-ish): there are shipping models that don't eliminate N^2 (if a model can repeat your code back with edits, it needs to reference everything somehow), but still change the picture a lot when you're thinking about, say, how resource-intensive a long-context coding session is.

There are other experiments where model designers mix full-attention layers with limited-memory ones. (Which still doesn't avoid N^2, but if e.g. 3/4 of layers use 'light' attention, it still improves efficiency a lot.) The idea is the model can still pull information from far back in context, just not in every layer. Use so far is limited to smaller models (maybe it costs too much model capability to use at the high end?) but it seems like another interesting angle on this stuff.
by easterncalculus | 2026-02-05 06:59:21+00:00
> Committing to no ads.

No one who believes this should be in any position of authority in the AI space. Anthropic's marketing BS has basically been taken as fact on this website since they started and it's just so tiring to watch this industry fall for the same nonsense over and over and over again.

Anthropic is younger. That's why they're not doing ads. As soon as they actually reach the spending to (not) reach their AGI goals they will start running ads and begging the taxpayer for even more money.
by oblio | 2026-02-05 07:01:28+00:00
> Surely all the engineers that existed 20 years ago haven’t simply retired?

20 years ago we had 5 times fewer engineers. And most of those have moved into management, other fields, retired, work calm jobs for the government or boring companies, etc.

How many 40+ year old engineers do you see, especially when compared to 20-30 year old engineers?
by k310 | 2026-02-05 07:02:30+00:00
I just did so yesterday. I was discussing with the ophthalmologist how to estimate when a very opaque bottle of eye drops was near-empty. (I find this user-hostile)

I've been weighing the bottle on a kitchen scale, and the tare weight is 8 grams, (from the previous bottle) while a full bottle is 23 grams, (from the next bottle) agreeing with the 15 gram (milliliter) stated contents. Assume density of 1.0 g/ml.

So, the fun part was estimating the droplet volume. From the measured rate of decline (7 grams in 40 days) the drop size was 45 microliters. (4 drops per day) Easy slide rule math, but the important thing is that the slide rule requires you to understand orders of magnitude (we had a whole bunch of lessons on this in high school) and units.

The latter two are winners.

Internet lookup only to check results, of course.
by cgsmith | 2026-02-05 07:02:40+00:00
I used to colocate a 2U server that I purchased with a local data center. It was a great learning experience for me. Im curious why a company wouldn't colocate their own hardware? Proximity isnt an issue when you can have the datacenter perform physical tasks. Bravo to the comma team regardless. It'll be a great learning experience and make each person on their team better.

Ps... bx cable instead of conduit for electrical looks cringe.
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-02-05 07:03:09+00:00
The difference is if they are willingly ready to lose money on a personal level. If folks in the company are not willing to sacrifice their comp for good, they are not "good" guys.

For Anthropic and lot of startups with very high growth(even including OpenAI 4 years back or Google or Amazon), they don't have to lose anything to be good as they can just raise money. But when the growth stops that's when the test starts.
by n_u | 2026-02-05 07:04:21+00:00
> It cost the taxpayers nothing (in fact it made us money)

I was surprised to learn that the "bailout" was in fact a loan that was repaid with interest for a "net profit of $121 billion" [1] rather than just giving the banks money. After learning this, I polled many people around me and few had understood the terms of the transaction. So I think there may be significant public misunderstanding there.

Even if people do understand it was a loan, there's an argument to be made that the money could have been spent in better ways (e.g. early education improvement, preventative healthcare etc. that also give long term returns in preventing crime and reducing healthcare costs). If you believe not giving the loans would have caused the total collapse of the economy and worsened of all of those things (crime, healthcare, education etc.), then it seems a worthwhile investment. But not everyone may share that perspective.

> What part of that are people mad about, and why?

Another element of the controversy was the payment of $218 million of bonuses to the executives of AIG which was being bailed out and effectively run by the federal government [2]. Apparently the government allowed the bonuses because Geithner said there was no legal basis for voiding the bonus contracts.[3]

Some people think controversy over government mortgage relief spawned the Tea Party movement based on this speech by Rick Santelli [4] about his dissatisfaction with the government's bailing out the "losers" who couldn't afford their mortgages.

Some people also feel there could have been more regulation of the financial sector or breakup of big banks [5] or more stipulations attached to the loans.

Just some suggestions based on my understanding of the history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program#...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIG_bonus_payments_controversy

[3] https://youtu.be/uYJLyGoWbzY?si=geM87strQlH7EURN&t=1079

[4] https://youtu.be/5v1EtiEuSEY?si=055bAuiZiIq-YHXy&t=3023

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%E2%80%93Kaufman_amendmen...
by Dylan16807 | 2026-02-05 07:04:50+00:00
To be clear, when I said "delay" in my last post I meant the per-file penalty, not the round-trip latency.

Radxa Orion O6/.DS_Store, 6KB at 4.8MBps, that means it took 1.3ms to transfer

Radxa Orion O6/Micro Center Visit Details.pages, 141KB at 9.8MBps, 14ms

Radxa Orion O6/Radxa Orion O6.md, 19KB at 1.9MBps, 10ms

We know the link can do well over 100MBps, so that time is almost all overhead. But it doesn't seem to be a simple delay. Perhaps a fresh TCP window scaling up on a per-file basis? That would be an unfortunate filesytem design.

Since the two 4MB files both get up to ~100MBps, the same speed as the 250MB file, it seems like the maximum impact from switching files isn't much more than 15ms. If the average is below 10ms then we're looking at half a minute wasted over 3564 files. If the average is 20ms then switching files is responsible for 71 seconds wasted.

By that estimate the file-level serialization is a real issue, but the bigger issue is whatever's preventing that 250MB file from ramping up all the way to 10Gbps.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-05 07:05:07+00:00
I missed 3 months of 4th grade. When I came back, the teacher told my mom that I could not continue, because I'd missed 3 months of education. I'd have to finish out the year in 3rd grade.

My mom would have none of that, and demanded I be put back in 4th grade.

And so I was, and it was like I wasn't gone for a single day. The class had not advanced at all.

This was quite unlike university, where I didn't dare miss a single lecture.