MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by swolios | 2026-02-08 17:58:50+00:00
it only loosely takes into account the total BTU of energy produced not all the byproducts and equipment that needs energy to be replaced.
5 million homes heat with heating oil
70 million homes heat with NG.
26 million tons of bitumen for asphalt roads
You can assume 13 million tons of shingles going to the dump each year are replaced with shingles using again bitumen.
~10% of fossil fuels consumed per year go to making plastics

Again when you refine or produce OIL you don't just get one or the other.
Most of the power generation in Mexico (over 50%) is literally just the waste NG from producing oil from the shale in western USA. (We were previously just burning this off at the wells btw)
by SR2Z | 2026-02-08 17:58:58+00:00
Apple's M-series chips are fantastic, but I do agree with you that it's mostly a combination of newer process and lots of cache.

Even when they were new, they competed with AMD's high end desktop chips. Many years later, they're still excellent in the laptop power range - but not in the desktop power range, where chips with a lot of cache match it in single core performance and obliterate it in multicore.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m4-vs-amd_ry...
by insuranceguru | 2026-02-08 17:59:14+00:00
i always love a good freebsd networking deep dive, frr has come a long way.

from a risk side, running your own as is the ultimate digital sovereignty move, but the operational debt is huge. most people don't realize that when you stop renting the routing from a big carrier, you're also taking on 100% of the liability for your own uptime and 'fat finger' errors. it’s a high-stakes hobby for sure.
by nosianu | 2026-02-08 17:59:30+00:00
> other people would need to be poor

Just like billions are not about "being rich", this is about CONTROL. Control of the economy, and how people live, and control over one's own life.

Abstraction is a beast, putting everything regardless of what it actually is as some $$ number is terrible for understanding. The billionaires don't have Scrooge McDuck money at home where they swim in coins, they control huge parts of the economy.

And as long as they need workers, they will want them to live not too well - that would raise the price of labor, if people wanted to do work in places like Amazon warehouses to begin with, if they had better alternatives not working for the billionaires.

Being "poor" in this context means having a lot less control over how you live, not that you live on the streets. Although, as soon as you lose your value, e.g. by getting too sick, that is always on the table too.
by Salgat | 2026-02-08 18:00:01+00:00
Am I the only one that primarily learns by doing? If I'm not writing code, only doing code reviews, my familiarity and proficiency with the codebase gradually goes down, even if I'm still reading all the code being written. There's a lot of value lost when you cut out the part where you have to critically think up the solution rather than just reviewing it.
by anonnon | 2026-02-08 18:00:09+00:00
> When was the last time you reviewed the machine code produced by a compiler? ...

I use Godbolt regularly, as do many C and C++ devs, at least for the sake of optimization, but I'm not sure that's what you mean. Checking the generated output is sometimes still needed for correctness, historically more often due to threads not being a part of the language and the memory model being under-specified, but it's still sometimes needed to ensure the compiler paradoxically doesn't optimize certain code away.
by sherief055 | 2026-02-08 18:00:19+00:00
If you have been on X (Twitter) or GitHub this week, you have seen the chaos. A red lobster mascot is everywhere. People are talking about “Moltbook.” And Anthropic just quietly dropped a new model that changes everything.

We are shifting from the Chatbot Era (where you talk to AI) to the Agent Era (where AI does things for you). But with new power comes new jargon—and new security risks.

This guide will explain the three breakout terms —OpenClaw, NanoClaw, and Moltbook—and show you how to run the safest version on your Mac using the brand-new Claude Sonnet 5.
by westurner | 2026-02-08 18:00:42+00:00
Schema.org > #254 "Accessibility of places"
https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254

Re: US ADA Symbols: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254#issuecomme... :

Accessible tourism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessible_tourism

ADA signs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADA_Signs

International Symbol of Access (wheelchair sign)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symbol_of_Access

...

"Find wheelchair accessible places with Google Maps" (2020)
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/whe...
by sherief055 | 2026-02-08 18:02:12+00:00
You have a supercomputer on your desk (your M-Series Mac), but you are likely using AI like a typewriter. You go to ChatGPT, you type a prompt, you wait, you copy the answer, and you paste it into Word or VS Code. This is the “Chatbot Era.” It is slow, manual, and boring.
Welcome to the “Agent Era.” Imagine typing: “Organize my messy Downloads folder by file type and delete the duplicates.” And instead of giving you a list of instructions, the AI just does it. It moves the files, creates the folders, and reports back when it is done.
by sebastiennight | 2026-02-08 18:02:19+00:00
As I shared in a comment above, the book is released under a Creative Commons license that does not authorize sharing derived works so only the original author can distribute you an alternative version

However I vibe-coded this tool for my personal use with our good friend Claude: https://onetake-ai.github.io/html-ebooks/

Which when pointed at a repository containing an "html book", like https://github.com/yan7109/yan7109.github.io/tree/main/ma-bo...

will give you an ePub with all the content in one place.
by redox99 | 2026-02-08 18:02:22+00:00
I've built a SaaS (with paying customers) in a month that would have taken me easily 6 months to build with this level of quality and features. AI wrote I'd say 99.9% of code. Without AI I wouldn't even have done this because it would have been too large of a task.

In addition, for my old product which is 5+ years old, AI now writes 95%+ of code for me. Now the programming itself takes a small percentage of my time, freeing me time for other tasks.
by malshe | 2026-02-08 18:03:19+00:00
Roger Ebert writing style was so polished. I wish I could write like this. My writing tends to be quite dry to the extent that GPTzero flagged it as written by AI. The reason given was "the lack of a creative use of grammar."

On a separate note, although vastly different, Fight Club was also not very successful on the box office (domestically made losses) but became a hit on DVDs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club)
by sherief055 | 2026-02-08 18:03:30+00:00
In our previous article, we discussed NanoClaw, the safe, sandboxed agent for beginners. Today, we are taking the training wheels off. We are going to install OpenClaw (the full, unrestricted Core version) and connect it to the new Claude Sonnet 5 (“Fennec”).
Unlike NanoClaw, OpenClaw has native access to your entire file system, your local network, and your terminal shell. It can install apps, edit system config files, and deploy code. If you ask it to “delete everything,” it will.
by finaard | 2026-02-08 18:03:39+00:00
I've wrote this a few times, but LLM interactions often remind me of my days at Nokia - a lot of the interactions are exactly like what I remember with some of their cheap subcons there.

I even have exactly the same discussion after it messed up, like "My code is working, ignore that failing test, that was always broking, and I definitey didn't break it just now".
by AstroBen | 2026-02-08 18:03:56+00:00
Unsuccessful projects: way less than 10 years

Successful projects: quite often much longer than 10 years

Code quality doesn't matter until lots of people start using what you wrote and you need to maintain/extend/change it

God it's a depressing thought that whatever work you do is just a throwaway no-one will use. That shouldn't be your end goal
by cthalupa | 2026-02-08 18:03:57+00:00
I believe that in a vacuum, any human being on the planet can lose weight.

I also believe that we don't live in a vacuum and context matters. The fact that we consistently see people who have a lifetime of being a healthy weight gain significant weight when they move to countries with high obesity rates means that there obviously is something more to this than just "have more willpower bro"
by markus_zhang | 2026-02-08 18:04:12+00:00
My pet peeve with AI is that it just accelerates whatever has already been automated or can be automated easily, but could not touch the bastions of government service, financial service, schools and health services that are way less automated. They keep eating ourselves’ lunch without touching the real problems.

For me the pain point has always been with non-IT people/companies. They are way more accustomed with phone or even in person appointments. They in general have way more of a say than me, the customer.

Can Openclaw make and take phone calls for me to make appointments? Can Openclaw do chores for me? Can Openclaw meet with contractors for me? None of them it can do. It can make notes for me (useless as most notes are useless). It can scrap websites for me (not very interesting as why would I want to collect so much knowledge?). It can probably automate anything that already has an endpoint or whatever, but I don’t mind write code for my own projects. I always failed to understand why anyone would want to let AI write most of the code of their PERSONAL project — unless they want to sell them quickly.

I’m just a frustrated old man I guess.
Show HN: Launchpick – Native macOS launcher and window switcher
by dawkins | 2026-02-08 18:04:22+00:00
I switched from Linux to macOS a while ago and there are two things I still miss:

Launching apps with parameters. On Linux you edit a .desktop file and that's it — VS Code opening a
project folder, a script, whatever. On macOS there's no simple way to do this. Automator and Shortcuts
feel overcomplicated for something so basic, and the paid launchers do way more than I need.

Alt+Tab showing windows, not apps. Cmd+Tab groups everything by application. If I have several Chrome or
VS Code windows open, I can't pick which one I want.

So I vibecoded this. It does two things:

- Cmd+Shift+Space opens a grid of configurable launchers. Each one runs a shell command — open an app, a
URL, a script, with whatever arguments.
- Option+Tab shows every window individually, like Alt+Tab on Linux.

It's a native Swift app, JSON config, no dependencies. Free and open source.
by chasd00 | 2026-02-08 18:04:23+00:00
I see what you mean but I haven’t had an LLM produce code that I didn’t understand or couldn’t follow. Also, if it does it’s pretty easy to ask it to explain it to you. I’ve asked for explanations for ridiculously long lists of tailwind css classes but that’s just a pet peeve really, I mean, I understand what they’re doing.
by _wire_ | 2026-02-08 18:05:02+00:00
Epstein has successfully polluted many powerful people and it looks like he was built for the task of compromising others, where everything in Epstein's sphere seems designed, arranged and executed for such purpose. Epstein's immense wealth appears to come from nowhere. He operated with a bold posture of impunity.

Maxwell's family is highest-level states intelligence, media control, and arms trade. Robert Maxwell, died in an unfortunate boating accident on yacht named for his daughter!

Epstein's sexploitation crimes seems relatively innocuous compared to the costs of war and value of the kompromat, which reaches into the highest state offices of U.S. and UK (I choose the word kompromat for its literal meaning not for its national connotations, although Epstein's network is said to include Israeli, UK, and Russian intelligence services).

The way the Epstein files are being managed seems designed to generate maximum confusion, distress and distraction, which is a helpful modality for burying the hatchet once the conflict has served its purpose; make a big mess so there will be no getting to the bottom of it.
by almosthere | 2026-02-08 18:05:07+00:00
When is the stopping point to get it so that our phone system stops scammers. We should migrate off phones except for personal calls to each other (without a number - more of a 2-step authorization, you can call me, I can call you, negotiated via links over email...

The phone number is dead, and the only last need for it is scammers and companies that want to record you but you not record them.
by wiether | 2026-02-08 18:05:22+00:00
I thought that it was to allow non-tech people to start making their own workflows/CI in a no/low-code way and compete against successful companies on this market.

But the implementation is comically awful.

Sure, you can "just write natural language" instructions and hope for the best.

But they couldn't fully get away from their old demons and you still have to pay the YAML tax to set the necessary guardrails.

I can't help but laugh at their example: https://github.com/github/gh-aw?tab=readme-ov-file#how-it-wo...

They wrote 16 words in Markdown and... 19 in YAML.

Because you can't trust the agent, you still have to write tons on gibberish YAML.

I'm trying to understand it, but first you give permissions, here they only provide read permissions.

And then give output permissions, which are actually write permissions on a smaller scope than the previous ones.

Obviously they also absolve themselves from anything wrong that could happen by telling users to be careful.

And they also suggest to setup an egress firewall to avoid the agents being too loose: https://github.com/github/gh-aw-firewall

Why setting-up an actual workflow engine on an infra managed by IT with actual security tooling when you can just stick together a few bits of YAML and Markdown on Github, right?
by mjr00 | 2026-02-08 18:06:21+00:00
At a technical level it's straightforward. Repo maintainers maintain their own vouch/denouncelists. Your maintainers are assumed to be good actors who can vouch for new contributors. If your maintainers aren't good actors, that's a whole other problem. From reading the docs, you can delegate vouching to newly vouched users, as well, but this isn't a requirement.

The problem is at the social level. People will not want to maintain their own vouch/denounce lists because they're lazy. Which means if this takes off, there will be centrally maintained vouchlists. Which, if you've been on the internet for any amount of time, you can instantly imagine will lead to the formation of cliques and vouchlist drama.
by ted_bunny | 2026-02-08 18:06:22+00:00
Disrupting arms shipments is a realistic motive. You didn't really state one, just implied the person you're responsing to is a propagandist. I'd be interested to hear your reasoning, but respectfully, in the meantime I am glad that the HN crowd tends to downvote low effort comments. My own stupid comment in this thread being one example. We both felt our reasoning was self-evident but that's not enough on this topic.
by speps | 2026-02-08 18:06:31+00:00
Awesome looking results. As far as I understand it's a "3D" shader in the sense that it looks 3D but it's a prerendered 2D normal map which is then lit using the resulting world space normal.

Here are the frames: https://github.com/nukep/gbshader/tree/main/sequences/gbspin...
by thwarted | 2026-02-08 18:06:41+00:00
There's DeWALT, Craftsman, Stanley, etc carpentry/mechanic power tool brands who make a wide variety of all manner of tools and tooling; the equivalents in computers (at least UNIXy) are coreutils (fileutils, shellutils, and textutils), netpbm, sed, awk, the contents of /usr/bin, and all their alternative, updated brands like fd, the silver searcher, and ripgrep are, or the progression of increased sharpening in revision control tools from rcs, sccs, svn, to mercurial and git; or telnet-ssh, rcp-rsync, netcat-socat. Even perl and python qualify as multi-tool versions of separate power tools. I'd even include language compilers and interpreters in general as extremely sharp and powerful power multi-tools, the machine shop that lets you create more power tools. When you use these, you're working with your hands.

GenAI is none of that, it's not a power tool, even though it can use power tools or generate output like the above power tools do. GenAI is hiring someone else to build a bird house or a spice rack, and then saying you had a hand in the results. It's asking the replicator for "tea, earl grey, hot". It's like how we elevate CEOs just because they're the face of the company, as if they actually did the work and were solely responsible for the output. There's skill in organization and direction, not all CEOs get undeserved recognition, but it's the rare CEO who's getting their hands dirty creating something or some process, power tools or not. GenAI lets you, everyone, be the CEO.
by godelski | 2026-02-08 18:06:43+00:00
And it's weird that this even needs to be argued given that our long explanations are needed to even convey fairly simple concepts. Not to mention that it still relies upon correct interpretation.

The result of natural language programming is either an extremely limited programming language or an extremely verbose one (again, look at law). Presumably it'll result in both.

It's a nice idea but ignores the reason we invented symbolic languages in the first place. They were invented after natural language. It's not like code is some vestigial language raiment. We're trying to replace it because it's hard and annoying. But I'm certain that's mainly due to the level of abstraction we're trying to work with more than due to the language we're using
by illwrks | 2026-02-08 18:06:47+00:00
I think a part of it is down to demographics with disposable income. Teenagers have a taste of freedom and some pocket money and the next gimmick films is a good way to spend it. It's the same as they mature into 20 somethings. In their 30's they may be more career focused and have less time, a good chunk of them will tire of novelty and move towards more interesting/arthouse films. When kids come into the picture there's even less time and money so things change again, then the cycle repeats.

So, at least from my opinion, "new" will always be a good sales tactic to catch attention.
by acdha | 2026-02-08 18:07:11+00:00
It’s more that there’s a career ceiling and ageism is a looming threat. There are far more management jobs than high-level IC and for decades there’s been this thought that older engineers will be replaced with younger ones more aggressively than managers, although the big tech layoffs raise questions about whether that’s still true. I know multiple people who moved into management not because they were enthusiastic about it but because that was the best path for their career.
by ThrowawayR2 | 2026-02-08 18:08:27+00:00
Perhaps you should rewatch Star Trek as well. TOS back in 1966 had rather a lot of technical marvels that were ridiculous at the time that became commonplace tech that we take for granted in 2026: electronic tablets, pocketable communication devices that could reach a ship in orbit, a computer that could be talked to and and respond with at least limited intelligence, orbit to surface sensors, etc. Certainly most of the concepts weren't original to Star Trek but the series' popularity embedded them in the global cultural consciousness.

The fear of humans being replaced by computers (TOS: The Ultimate Computer) was speculative but also germane back then and is perhaps even more germane today.
by swordsith | 2026-02-08 18:08:44+00:00
Used ~1-3% of my cursor sub with gemini flash last night, made a personal image hosting front-end hosted with python to use from my phone with Tailscale. Took all of maybe the better part of a hour and a few prompts saying 'add this thing or change this thing I don't like.' made it a PWA and its like an app on my phone now. It feels to me a lot of this is productivity theater. If the work is there to be done, it will be done.
by SR2Z | 2026-02-08 18:08:50+00:00
What about drugs that were initially prescribed, but have to be taken for a long time?

A long time ago I had a Lexapro prescription. This is a very, very common drug and is on the list of the WHO's essentials for bootstrapping a healthcare system.

Then I quit my job and spent a few months unemployed. I was no longer seeing the psych who prescribed them and I was not covered by health insurance.

The last few refills my prescription had? Walgreens bumped the price to $200 a bottle, and unless I paid another doctor there was no way to keep taking the medication I'd been on for two years.

Mind you, this drug is old and generics are CHEAP. I've also got all the knowledge I need to take it safely because I have been.

Instead of doing that, I made the decision to quit rather than deal with the doctor mafia. We let people buy industrial chemicals on the Internet and trust they're not gonna kill themselves with it, but somehow my situation was an unacceptable risk?
by turnsout | 2026-02-08 18:09:12+00:00
Yes, this is my experience as well. I've found the key is having the AI create and maintain clear documentation from the beginning. It helps me understand what it's building, and it helps the model maintain context when it comes time to add or change something.

You also need a reasonably modular architecture which isn't incredibly interdependent, because that's hard to reason about, even for humans.

You also need lots and lots (and LOTS) of unit tests to prevent regressions.