MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by SketchySeaBeast | 2026-02-09 16:09:41+00:00
> There are exceedingly few things we can claim to apply everywhere, and even fewer we can "prove" to each other.

Yes, this is why hard and fast rules don't make sense, and why they should have "generally", "normally", or "mostly" attached to them.

If you have two categories of birds, one with those that fly and one that doesn't, having that second list doesn't make the first stronger. At some point that second list dilutes that first one so much that it doesn't make sense anymore.

If my rule is that "white guys are named Dave" does my building a list of every example of a Dave and non-Dave make my rule stronger? When does the "strong" nature of the rule get watered down sufficiently? Honestly, a list of hundreds of birds tells me that it's a weak rule and that the "birds fly" rule is wrong.
by dandellion | 2026-02-09 16:10:11+00:00
Not just roads! I made a small train game for a game jam, and I used splines for the tracks to get them done quickly. It did the job, but they looked wrong to me. So I revisited it a few weeks later and looked into arcs and clothoids as well. I replaced the splines with some basic code using arc and the result looked so much better.
by NetMageSCW | 2026-02-09 16:11:03+00:00
But most of the EVangalists who post seem to have a very unrealistic viewpoint that says 33% of the (US) population is an edge case and that no one needs more than 200 miles of range because there are chargers every ten miles and no one goes on long trips anyway, especially unplanned (since they only have 80% of their range even when plugging in every night).
by AnimalMuppet | 2026-02-09 16:11:34+00:00
Maybe? I mean, if I believe that all lives have value, and I'm talking to someone who believes that their peoples' lives are more valuable, then I can go further back. Why do any lives have any value? What's your basis for saying that any life has value? All right, starting from there, can you keep that without also extending it to those who are not part of your group?

Note well that this may not work to persuade them. But you can at least have the conversation.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-09 16:11:37+00:00
Automatic Garbage Collection in a kernel probably won't work:

I vaguely remember hearing about someone trying to use .Net in the Windows kernel.

The big problem is garbage collection: If I remember correctly, the fact that "any" operation can fail with an out of memory exception was a huge problem. Another problem was that random pauses for garbage collections in the kernel had major stability issues.

In short, I hope that the js kernel is for amusement and education; otherwise it would need a much more advanced garbage collector then earl 2000's .Net.
by ltbarcly3 | 2026-02-09 16:11:47+00:00
Is this AI? It's like a combination of Reddit posts trying to wax poetic about GLP drugs.

It just makes me eat less. I enjoy food every bit as much as I did before, just less often and in lower amounts. I still get hungry eventually and still want to eat and food tastes the same and if anything has a stronger emotional appeal than it did before because I eat so little.
by bookman10 | 2026-02-09 16:11:51+00:00
Not yet and it's a little messy now to be honest.

The pipeline itself is in node.js and uses mostly pdf-lib (https://pdf-lib.js.org/) and ebook-convert (https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/ebook-convert....)

For epubs, I split the book into chapters and run ebook-convert on each chapter individually, adding an extra page if needed to make the number of pages even. Then I combine all the chapters and do a custom scheme for numbering (because you don't want numbers on blank pages, you want the numbering to start at chapter 1, etc)

For html books from Project Gutenberg for example, I make sure they have text in <p> and chapters in <h2>. Then do a similar logic with ebook-convert.

For pdf books, I just use pdf-lib to draw the pages directly.

I also shift odd pages to the right and even pages to the left so there is a larger inner margin than outer margin.

If you're looking to do custom books, I would just use ebook-convert by itself, it just won't be quite as pretty though because it lacks those improvements.
by komali2 | 2026-02-09 16:12:17+00:00
In the PRC, like many countries, the law is nothing more than a tool wielded by the State to protect its interests. Said interests sometimes, but often don't, align with the needs of the people within the borders of the State.

The actions of the State always align with the needs of those who hold the most power in that State.

It doesn't matter if you follow the law or not if someone powerful decides your existence is inconvenient.
by notpushkin | 2026-02-09 16:12:53+00:00
It’s not inevitable – the sticker packs (as currently implemented) live on your homeserver. So in a sense, it is decentralized already, and it’s only a matter of designing and building an interface to manage those packs (and hopefully making stickers link back to the packs, for better discoverability).

For now, you can override which server to use for the stickers. There’s an implementation that downloads Telegram sticker packs (but you have to specify which packs you want before deploying it).
by bunderbunder | 2026-02-09 16:13:04+00:00
For me one unexpected factor is how much it strains my executive function to try and maintain attention on the task at hand while I’m letting the agent spin away for 5-10 minutes at a stretch. It’s even worse than the bad old days of long compile times because at least then I could work on tests or something like that while I wait. But with coding agents I feel like I need to be completely hands off because they might decide to touch literally any file in the repository.

It reminds me a bit of how à while back people were finding that operating a level 3 autonomous vehicle is actually more fatiguing than driving a vehicle that doesn’t even have cruise control.
by plainspeech | 2026-02-09 16:13:05+00:00
AI speeds things up at the beginning. It helps you get unstuck, find answers quickly without jumping through different solutions from internet, write boilerplate, explore ideas faster. But over time I reach for it faster than I probably should. Instead of digging into basic code, I directly jump to AI. I’ve been using it for even basic code searches. AI just makes it easier to outsource thinking. And your understanding of the codebase can get thinner over time.
by randycupertino | 2026-02-09 16:13:40+00:00
List bc paywall: Milvexian, Inclacumab, Troriluzole, Anselamimab, Simufilam, Astegolimab, Repibresib, Itepekimab, Monlunabant, Setrusumab

Trends: Gene and cell therapy continue to struggle in humans, and a lot of late stage failures in big expensive phase 2 and 3 trials that fail to meet their primary endpoints, especially in tricky complex diseases- CNS/Neuro, Immunology/Inflammation.

I'd add Navacaprant, Rocket Pharmaceuticals gene therapy, Novo Nordisk semaglutide for Alzheimers and Sarepta's Elevidys gene therapy to the list of biggest failed trials last year.
by leoedin | 2026-02-09 16:14:09+00:00
If anyone is saying "yeah, but this time will be different", just look at our society now.

Arguably the only jobs which are necessary in society are related to food, heating, shelter and maybe some healthcare. Everything else - what most people are doing - is just feeding the never ending treadmill of consumer desire and bureaucratic expansion. If everyone adjusted their desired living standards and possessions to those of just a few centuries ago, almost all of us wouldn't need to work.

Yet here we are, still on the treadmill! It's pretty clear that making certain types of work no longer needed will just create new demands and wants, and new types of work for us to do. That appears to be human nature.
by Goofy_Coyote | 2026-02-09 16:14:52+00:00
A simple HN-like web app that indexes security (and security adjacent) write-ups.

Imagine you, as a security researcher (or any other persona in the security field), wanted to see what prior works are available around bypassing v8 sandbox using webasm, or if what’s been done or found targeting deserialization in Go.

Using this web app, you can search the indexed and tagged write ups.

Also adding MCP support to it so your agents can search too.

Hopefully going live soon.

P.S: I said HN-like, but tbh it’s just the UI that looks a bit like HN (I’m not a good designer, so got heavy inspiration from HN listing style), otherwise there’s no other overlap in functionality yet.
by vagrantstreet | 2026-02-09 16:15:02+00:00
How about using LLM's to improve developer experience instead? I've had a lot of failures with "AI" even on small projects, even the best things I've tried like (agentic-project-management) I still had to just go back to traditional coding.

Not sure if everyone shares this sentiment but the reason I use AI as a crutch is due to poor documentation that's out there, even simple terminal commands don't show use examples for ls when you try to type man ls. I just end up putting up with the code output because it works ok enough for short term, this however doesn't seem like a sustainable plan long term either.

There is also this dread I feel because what I would do if AI went down permanently? The tools I tried like Zeal really didn't do it for me either for documentation, not sure who decided on the documentation format but this "Made by professionals, for professionals" isn't really cutting it anymore. Apologies in advance if I missed out on any tools but in my 4+ years of university nobody ever mentioned any quality tools either, and I'm sure this trend is happening everywhere.
by ZpJuUuNaQ5 | 2026-02-09 16:15:07+00:00
Cross-platform book management and reading application: https://github.com/Eoic/Papyrus.

This isn't a serious project by any means, but rather a prototype. Also, I really got carried away using Claude Code, although my initial goal was simply to glue a quick proof-of-concept and see how it could look like.
by llm_nerd | 2026-02-09 16:15:10+00:00
Nothing I said was rude or adversarial, so not sure why you decided to be rude and adversarial here.

My sarcasm was to the purported original goal, when it has always, since day one, been a fake Googlebot known, again since day 1, as a circumvention of paywalls for sites that cloak.
by Uehreka | 2026-02-09 16:15:14+00:00
Last night I tried out Opus 4.6 on a personal project involving animating in Gaussian Splats where the final result is output as a video.

In the past, AI coding agents could usually reason about the code well enough that they had a good chance of success, but I’d have to manually test since they were bad at “seeing” the output and characterizing it in a way that allowed them to debug if things went wrong, and they would never ever check visual outputs unless I forced them to (probably because it didn’t work well during RL training).

Opus 4.6 correctly reasoned (on its own, I didn’t even think to prompt this) that it could “test” the output by grabbing the first, middle and last frame, and observing that the first frame should be empty, the middle frame half full of details, and the final frame resembling the input image. That alone wouldn’t have impressed me that much, but it actually found and fixed a bug based on visual observation of a blurry final frame (we hadn’t run the NeRF training for enough iterations).

In a sense this is an incremental improvement in the model’s capabilities. But in terms of what I can now use this model for, it’s huge. Previous models struggled at tokenizing/interpreting images beyond describing the contents in semantic terms, so they couldn’t iterate based on visual feedback when the contents were abstract or broken in an unusual way. The fact that they can do this now means I can set them on tasks like this unaided and have a reasonable probability that they’ll be able to troubleshoot their own issues.

I understand your exhaustion at all the breathless enthusiasm, but every new models radically changes the game for another subset of users/tasks. You’re going to keep hearing that counterargument for a long time, and the worst part is, it’s going to be true even if it’s annoying.
by kspacewalk2 | 2026-02-09 16:15:22+00:00
In my experience, a very significant proportion of self-reported "anti-fascists" and "anti-imperialists" turn out, upon closer scrutiny, to actually be anti-US-fascism and anti-US-imperialism. They ignore, downplay, deny and ridicule all allegations of fascism and imperialism when perpetrated by others, like China or Russia.

In a somewhat related vein, there are entirely too many "anti-colonialists" in what is now fashionably called The Global South who, when push comes to shove, reveal themselves to be actually kind of okay with colonialism as long as it's not perpetrated against them. When a colonialist war of aggression is perpetrated against these white folks called "Ukrainians", and perpetrated by Russia, a country they really rather like, then what's a little colonialism between friends? Heck, Russia shows up with a colonialist militia to prop up dictators and mine for diamonds and gold all over the Sahel and it's like, heck yeah, thank for your kicking out the French. Really interesting logic.
by skicoachapp | 2026-02-09 16:15:51+00:00
That’s a great framing “the intensity of indifference” really resonates.

What I’m struggling with is less the idea that hustle is required
and more the scale of it.

When even a finished product requires a ream of paper,
10 variants, repeated exposure, coordination, timing —
it starts to feel like the signal isn’t “this exists”
but “this has already broken through elsewhere.”

At that point, shipping feels necessary but almost irrelevant
without an external amplifier.

Do you think that indifference has increased,
or that the cost of breaking through has just grown beyond
what individual builders can realistically do alone?
by stronglikedan | 2026-02-09 16:16:02+00:00
> Most people have no idea how to hunt, make a fire, or grow food. If all grocery stores and restaurants run out of food for a long enough time people will starve.

I doubt people would starve. It's trivial to figure out the hunting and fire part in enough time that that won't happen. That said, I think a lot of people will die, but it will be as a result of competition for resources.
by forgotaccount3 | 2026-02-09 16:16:40+00:00
> many telecoms are reluctant to do it.

This really buries the lede. Telecoms are reluctant to do it because 'doing' it isn't aligned with their priorities.

Why would a telecom risk bankruptcy by investing heavily into a system that their competitors aren't?

If you want a back-door to exist (questionable) then the government either needs to have strong regulatory compliance where poor implementations receive a heavy fine such that telecoms who don't invest into a secure implementation get fined in excess of the investment cost or the government needs to fund the implementation itself.
by BrandiATMuhkuh | 2026-02-09 16:16:43+00:00
Location: Linz/Austria/EU
Remote: OK (Any timezone OK)
Willing to relocate: NO
Technologies: AI (LLM, RAG, Agents, Voice, AI-SDK, Mastra), Typescript, React, Next.js, Supabase, Firebase, Postgres, GCP
Résumé: https://brandstetter.io/Resume_Brandstetter_Jurgen.pdf
Email: j@brandstetter.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/j-brandstetter
Salary: USD 150k / year

I'm an AI engineer and senior full-stack developer with an aspiration for a team/product lead or CTO-like position. For ~7 years, I was co-founder and CTO of an ed-tech company called amy.app. My co-founder and I scaled the company to about 25 employees. Before that, I earned a PhD in Human-Robot Interaction in NZ and Oxford. I've used the past year contracting, after winding down my company, to learn and apply as much as possible about AI solutions. I'm talking; Agentic enterprise RAG Search, LLM based email automation, AI call agent, invoice processing.
Currently, I'm designing and working on an agentic enterprise search engine for the AEC industry and with a YC company on IMS automation.

I'm very product/customer-focused and pragmatic. I like to move super fast (not only because of Cursor :D).

My dream environment is an early-stage, fully remote startup.

PS: I have a family, which means the main compensation via shares isn't an option for me.
by bigstrat2003 | 2026-02-09 16:17:01+00:00
I'm in the latter group. I've had little to no weight loss from Ozempic because my issue is having a sweet tooth, not eating too much regular food. Yeah I fill up faster, but by the time I would fill up on cookies or something that's still a crazy amount of calories. So it hasn't really helped me to curb my weight. It has helped my A1c though, which is the main thing.
by SolubleSnake | 2026-02-09 16:17:01+00:00
Hi I'm a big surfer (or have been most of my life but doing less now at 40!) also building a mobile game in Unity/C# right now although it's not surf related like yours it's actually based on Chinese Wuxia cinema from 5 years spent in China. I considered building a surf one and was looking at potentially trying to 'gamify' a slightly different element of the 'surfing' experience which was to focus on predicting/catching and then staying on a wave at a busy break...so top down early GTA style graphics initially waves would come almost breaking in random spots in relation to previoius waves/sets, but never identical, and you'd have to kind of 'guess' ahead of other AI controlled surfers where to place yourself then paddle for position then try to dodge others on the way in....I thought it could be kind of fun in an arcadey way and not require so much of the physics you're describing, which is no doubt really hard to code...I'd love to see your game though!
Show HN: I made a tool that finds customers who already want your product
by Tafita | 2026-02-09 16:17:06+00:00
Here's the problem: I launched two products. I wrote blog posts. I posted on X, built in public. I tried running ads. And you know what actually got me customers? Replying to someone on Reddit who asked, "What's the best tool for this?"
One reply. Three signups. I felt like an idiot for not doing it sooner.
But here's the issue: I don't have time to refresh Reddit all day looking for these posts. I have products to build. Bugs to fix. Emails to answer. Life to live.
So I built Overlead to do the searching for me.
Overlead scans Reddit, Quora, and Hacker News (and many more to come) for threads where people are actively asking for tools, complaining about competitors, or describing problems you solve. Then it hands you the best matches so you can jump in, be helpful, and turn questions into customers.
by mholt | 2026-02-09 16:17:16+00:00
Of course they're down while I'm trying to address a "High severity" security bug in Caddy but all I'm getting is a unicorn when loading the report.

(Actually there's 3 I'm currently working, but 2 are patched already, still closing the feedback loop though.)

I have a 2-hour window right now that is toddler free. I'm worried that the outage will delay the feedback loop with the reporter(s) into tomorrow and ultimately delay the patches.

I can't complain though -- GitHub sustains most of my livelihood so I can provide for my family through its Sponsors program, and I'm not a paying customer. (And yet, paying would not prevent the outage.) Overall I'm very grateful for GitHub.
by Galanwe | 2026-02-09 16:17:56+00:00
Where are you from?

The US shifted from "China is an economic power we should worry about" to "China is a military power we should worry about", but to me it seems to be a recent mind shift serving the current administration narrative.

As a European, I don't think there is much hostility against China here. Sure, people don't like the overall humanitarian situation with Uyghurs; and there are the usual issues with lobbying, intelligence, and currency manipulation, but overall the general public sentiment is rather neutral I would say.
by solomonb | 2026-02-09 16:18:10+00:00
Still working on my LPFM radio station, www.kpbj.fm. We launched our regular online stream and have secured a site for our transmitter.

The transmit site is in the Verdugo hills and will need to be off grid. We're going to need about $20k to get the entire transmit system setup (including a solar/battery backup system).

I've also been working on our web infrastructure. The site is built with Haskell and HTMX. The stream is Icecast, and stream scheduling is done using an internal schedule system in the web app and LiquidSoap (so no external tools like airtime, libretime, or azuracast).
by cortesoft | 2026-02-09 16:18:13+00:00
Strangely, I feel that using Claude helps me stay MORE focused on what I am actually trying to accomplish.

In the prior 30 years of my programming life, so much time was spent "yak shaving"... setting up all the boilerplate, adding basic functionality you always have to do, setting up support systems, etc. With Claude, all of those things are so quick to complete that I can stay focused on what I am actually trying to do, and can therefore keep more of the core functionality I am caring about in my head. I don't have to push the core, novel, parts of my work aside to do the parts that are the same across other projects.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-02-09 16:18:38+00:00
When you try to use the law (or the threat of legal action) to force people to "do something" about anonymous, unsupervised kids on the public internet using their free platform, this is the type of solution you're going to get: the cheapest, most scalable one they can get away with.

Previously that was a checkbox or a line in their ToS saying "I'm over 18". Now that lawmakers are pushing to make that no longer sufficient, "AI face scanning" is the next step up.
Show HN: An AI-agent-friendly CV site (llms.txt, schema.org, case studies)
by vassilbek | 2026-02-09 16:18:42+00:00
I built a small GitHub Pages CV site and optimized it for both humans and AI/search systems.
Site: https://vassiliylakhonin.github.io/

Goal: make professional profiles easier to parse, trust, and act on.

What I implemented:

Clear one-page CV + downloadable PDF
llms.txt, robots.txt, and sitemap.xml
Structured data (ProfilePage/Person JSON-LD)
Two short case studies with measurable outcomes
*Direct contact path (email + LinkedIn)

I’d love feedback on:

What signals matter most for AI-agent discoverability?
What would you simplify/remove?
What would you add to improve credibility for PMO/compliance roles?
by ankit219 | 2026-02-09 16:18:48+00:00
(author here) great paper to cite.

What i think you are referring to is hidden state as in internal representations. I refer to hidden state in game theoretic terms like a private information only one party has. I think we both agree alphazero has hidden states in first sense.

Concepts like king safety are objectively useful for winning at chess so alphazero developed it too, no wonder about that. Great example of convergence. However, alphazero did not need to know what i am thinking or how i play to beat me. In poker, you must model a player's private cards and beliefs.
by kdheiwns | 2026-02-09 16:19:25+00:00
I mean, they were blowing up buses of civilians in China. Then looking up those Brave Uyghur Peace fighters, Wikipedia says they had child soldiers and they were allied with various Islamic state groups (the white text on black flag types, of which they also had their own) and wanted to impose strict sharia law.

I'm pretty confident that most women in Xinjiang are pretty happy that that group was smeared out. You can think Xinjiang and Uyghurs shouldn't be oppressed without supporting actual, unironic terrorist groups who want total theocratic control and full on jihad. I'm more amazed they're removed from the terrorist list. Seems like a weird political decision.