MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JosifA | 2026-02-03 12:17:47+00:00
Location: Lithuania (EU) / Ukraine (I split my time between the two)
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: C++, Embedded Linux, Networking, Concurrency, Docker, Github Actions, Pytorch, CUDA, OpenCL, Image Processing, Video I/O (codecs, containers).
Resume: https://tulon.github.io/assets/CV_Josif_Arcimovic.pdf
Website: https://tulon.github.io/
Email: joseph <dot> artsimovich <at> gmx <dot> com

I am a seasoned C++ developer with 23 years of experience in the industry. I have experience in Desktop, Embedded and Mobile development. I also did some back-end work and even some reverse engineering, though that was a while ago. I also have some ML experience (PyTorch) - also a while ago, but not that much. Most recently I've doing 3D graphics (simulation and later maps). My Linear Algebra is quite decent - I use it regularly.

My preferred next career move is independent contracting. 6-12 months contracts ideally. I will also consider permanent fully remote positions, but only quite senior ones - Staff Engineer / Architect level.

I've been fully remote since 2018 and I intend to keep it that way.
by graemep | 2026-02-03 12:17:51+00:00
Lots of things.

The US seems to restrict the ability of minor parties to stand for election far more than the UK does. It varies by state but from what I have read you need thousands of signatures just to stand in many states.

FTTP does also favour parties with a geographically concentrated base such as the Scottish and Welsh nationalists and the NI parties. Geographical variations in the US seem mostly to be about which of the two big parties people back.
by IshKebab | 2026-02-03 12:18:01+00:00
Right but unless everyone is drawing large amounts of power at the same time it doesn't matter if you use 1kW for 10 hours or 10kW for 1 hour. To the grid they look the same.

One interesting case where "at the same time" actually does happen is overnight car charging. Some chargers are configured to start charging exactly when a cheaper tariff kicks in, which causes big transient issues for the grid. I think modern chargers have a random delay to help with that.
by rocqua | 2026-02-03 12:18:29+00:00
Feels quite power-law like to me, but checking this roughly it seems to decay more quickly than a power law, but with a fatter tail. At least in the top 1000

The top 3 with 4,000,000 words have about 20 times as many words that the 0.14% percentile (at rank 1000) with 200,000 words.

In between (at rank 500) your at about 450,000 words, so its not a true power law. Because a drop of a factor 9 per 500 ranks would suggest that rank 1000 were at about 50000 words.
by kybernetikos | 2026-02-03 12:18:44+00:00
It seems that all of the comparisons with computational systems are either not really true (the supposed sharp distinction between hardware and software depends on whether you're considering the system as a software engineer, a firmware engineer or a hardware engineer. Computer systems are embodied just as much as any biological creatures) or contingent - if it were regarded as essential to consciousness that an organism have a source of true randomness for example, then we would simply add such a source to our systems (assuming consciousness was something we actually wanted them to have).
by cobblestone32 | 2026-02-03 12:19:51+00:00
> The user never specify the goal clearly enough for AI system to work.

This is sort of a fundamental problem with all AI. If you tell a robot assistant to "make a cup of tea", how's it supposed to know that that implies "don't break the priceless vase in the kitchen" and "don't step on the cat's tail", et cetera. You're never going to align it well enough with "human values" to be safe. Even just defining in human-understandable terms what those values are is a deep existential question of philosophy, let alone specifying it for a machine that's capable of acting in the world independently.
by afavour | 2026-02-03 12:19:52+00:00
I’m sure Musk is going to say this is about free speech in an attempt to gin up his supporters. It isn’t. It’s about generating and distributing non consensual sexual imagery, including of minors. And, when notified, doing nothing about it.
If anything it should be an embarrassment that France are the only ones doing this.

(it’ll be interesting to see if this discussion is allowed on HN. Almost every other discussion on this topic has been flagged…)
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by srinath693 | 2026-02-03 12:19:57+00:00
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by jeenuv | 2026-02-03 12:20:21+00:00
Location: UK/India.

Remote: Yes/mostly. Can travel to London semi-regularly or on a need-basis.

Willing to relocate: open.

Technologies: C++, C, Python, Rust, Java, Javascript, Typescript, Haskell, Elm, React, Shell script.

Resume: https://is.gd/jeenuv_resume

Email: See resume.

Headline: Strong system software (primarily ARM architecture) and low-level background. Currently works in low-latency/high-frequency trading. Interests: low-level programming, functional programming, distributed systems, formal modelling, web UI tooling, command-line. Open to opportunities in system software or anything adjacent to my expressed interests.
by zekenie | 2026-02-03 12:20:39+00:00
The increased review burden is also happening inside companies. It’s genuinely hard to keep up with the volume. I was a little surprised to see my comment downvoted. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be able to delete slop PRs. Of course we should! I’m saying that the pr should change at least _somewhat_ in response to how much programming is changing.

Also worth stating that I have been ranting about contract first reviews for 10 years and it’s not just in response to llm written code.
by Markoff | 2026-02-03 12:20:57+00:00
Well COVID green pass didn't work out to save us all from deadly flu with 0.31% fatality rate[1][2], so now they are trying it to save our children with digital ID...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187603412...
[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-03 12:21:02+00:00
Hetzner is a dedicated server (meaning monthly contract, 1 month setup fee and up to 1 week delivery time) company that branched out into cloud, so it's not that surprising they treat cloud a bit like that. While Amazon wants you to think they have an infinite capacity pool, and any failure to get a server is an unexpected error, Hetzner seems to not hide they have a finite number of servers in a finite number of racks, since that's how their main business works.
by nicbou | 2026-02-03 12:21:34+00:00
I work around German bureaucracy, and the loss of efficiency is real. Every state creates its own bureaucracy and its own software. Different people, departments and offices that rarely combine efforts, barely talk to each other, and never share data.

I was told that this decentralisation of power was a deliberate effort after Nazism, but as far as I know such issues were endemic in the Nazi government and military. Germany really is a union of small states, and perhaps never fully changed that.

This is slowly changing though. There is a visible effort to build software and processes at the federal level.
by lucb1e | 2026-02-03 12:21:34+00:00
I forgot about that station! Now that you mention it, indeed I remember they were building it before I moved away

Looking at the track layout in OSM, I'm very surprised that the regional train from Roermond literally cannot reach the platform and passes within like 1-2 meters of the stop. That means that 99% of destinations in NL require you to first take a train into Maastricht and then backtrack (pay double) for the path north. Not sure I'd recommend that over Bunde (3km further, also free parking) unless your destination is one of the tiny towns towards Heerlen. Even if you want to hop onto the tri-country train (BE-NL-DE), which stops at the previous and next stations (Maastricht and Meerssen) and could simply stop at this platform, Maastricht Noord is useless to you O.o who is that rich person living somewhere along this track who funded that incapacitated station such that they can be its only user? xD

Edit: you are correct, btw! https://hn.algolia.com/?query="nuth"&type=comment
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-03 12:21:46+00:00
Tesla was a decent car with a very good computer in it.

They never bothered to improve on the car part, causing Teslas across the western world to fail inspections at staggering rates when the very basic car bits couldn't handle the torque of an EV.

Now old manufacturers have caught up on the computer front and China is blowing past at crazy rates and Tesla is legitimately in trouble.

The very high profile CEO cosplaying as an efficiency edgelord with the american president didn't help the company's image at all either.
by xg15 | 2026-02-03 12:22:14+00:00
I'm just wondering why this problem shows up now. Why do lots of people suddenly post their old emails with a defective QP decoder?

> For some reason or other, people have been posting a lot of excerpts from old emails on Twitter over the last few days.

On the risk of having missed the latest meme or social media drama, but does anyone know what this "some reason or other" is?

Edit: Question answered.
by mohas | 2026-02-03 12:22:42+00:00
the system works for several days, weeks or months before a bug happens to surface it is complete nonsense not those you missed something simple bugs, it is deep within the infrastructure of your system, you call your friend to cancel that event you were planing only to find out he is also wrestling with a sudden bug, you bang your head but can't solve it, the next day you compile the project and it works again. if astrology can't explain this I don't know what can?
by cbeach | 2026-02-03 12:22:54+00:00
> when notified, doing nothing about it

When notified, he immediately:

* "implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8gz8g2qnlo

* locked image generation down to paid accounts only (i.e. those individuals that can be identified via their payment details).

Have the other AI companies followed suit? They were also allowing users to undress real people, but it seems the media is ignoring that and focussing their ire only on Musk's companies...
by stinkbeetle | 2026-02-03 12:22:59+00:00
Those things were pretty clear well before 2-3 years.

Social media is seen as a driver for people having opinions deemed a threat to the status quo. Western governments have been fighting a long battle to use these tools to control domestic influence and at times have probably thought they were winning, but recently things seem to be turn a bit.

"Think of the children" is obviously the oldest and most pathetic trick in their playbook. We know it's a bald faced lie because data and studies on social media harms on children has been coming out for well over a decade by now, and not a finger was lifted for years. So we know that is not the reason, and we know they are lying about the reason. Therefore we know the real reason is seen as unpopular with the electorate. And curbing foreign (including US government) influence and access to data is not unpopular anywhere.
by mapt | 2026-02-03 12:23:28+00:00
A growing part of me doesn't care, and doesn't want to coddle fascist mental illness.

If it was "Glass Iraq or make people take off their shoes", then I'll take the shoes...

But honestly? Fuck these people. We have extended them unlimited credit to make social change, and they always want more and worse changes. Their insecurities are inexhaustible. We need to declare them bankrupt of political capital. We need to bully them and make it clear their views aren't welcome, frankly.

We are 25 years deep into "Letting the terrorists win", and I'm fucking sick of it.
by sutaniese | 2026-02-03 12:24:22+00:00
Hey everyone,
We’ve all been there. You have a cool idea for a model or a RAG pipeline, but before you can do anything interesting, you’re stuck in "Data Hell" for three hours.
You’re jumping between tabs to find a dataset, manually checking for missing values, realizing the schema is a mess, and praying there’s no PII (emails/phones) hidden in the CSV. It’s tedious, repetitive, and frankly, it’s the reason many projects die before the first training run.
I decided to fix this by building Vesper.
It’s a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that turns your AI into a full-stack data engineer. Instead of you writing cleaning scripts, you just tell your AI what you need.
Here is what Vesper actually does:
Universal Search: Query thousands of datasets across HuggingFace, Kaggle, and even specialized sources like UCI, GitHub, World Bank, and NASA simultaneously.
Deep Quality Analysis: Runs automated audits to detect outliers, duplicates, and schema anomalies (like numbers stored as strings).
Multimodal Support: Beyond tabular data (CSV/Parquet), it handles images, audio, and video, including automated annotation and quality checks.
Self-Healing Pipelines: Automatically generates a cleaning plan to impute missing values, remove outliers using IQR, and encode categorical data.
JIT Ingestion & Performance: Instantly downloads data and uses Dask or Spark for distributed processing of massive datasets.
Privacy & Compliance: Vesper never sees your data, everything is local.
Async Job Management: Long-running tasks run in the background with live progress bars streamed directly to your chat interface.
Developer Collaboration: Features self-versioning, personalized recommendations, and easy export to Jupyter Notebooks or Git.
I’m opening a Waitlist today because I need feedback from people who actually deal with messy data every day. I want to know which "janitor" tasks you hate the most so I can refine the engine.

(sorry for using lovable. I used it to spin up a waitlist quickly for validation while I focus on the tech)
I'll be hanging out in the comments to answer anything technical!
Thanks!
by lossyalgo | 2026-02-03 12:24:51+00:00
The problem is that they promise to delete IDs but then don't, and get hacked, and then all that personal information is published to the dark web for nefarious purposes. If you need evidence, it just happened again to 70,000 Discord users: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo
by titzer | 2026-02-03 12:25:13+00:00
This mofo threw a Nazi salute and danced around on stage like an idiot with a chainsaw. Then he illegally downloaded the entire US treasury payment database and ran it through his AI and faced zero consequences. After promising to find a trillion in fraud and abuse, he left after less than half a year and declared there wasn't that much fraud after all.

To most normal people this long history of overblown claims and complete failures would disqualify him from serious consideration. To most normal people, a massive illegal siphoning of US government data would be beyond the pale and worthy of jail time.

But in today's age, there's enough smoke and mirrors that such a charlatan can just float on a sea of adulations right on past any consequences.
by greatgib | 2026-02-03 12:25:36+00:00
It's like the good old time of Windows. You asked users, they would say that Windows is great, they don't have problems, works better than Linux. Oh do I get some error popups and crashes sometimes? Indeed just I forgot, I'm so used to close them without reading the message...

Systemd and co broke so many many things and so often that it is hard to count. A lot of things possible before are not anymore because of this giant ball of mud. It is just like the Windows monolith now.

Is it totally bad, no, for sure there are some advantages , but nowadays you will have issues, like network issues such as the one you describe and people will not know it comes from that.

Actually, before you almost never had to reboot or reinstall for anything. In case of boot issues and co, you would just need a console to be able to fix it. Systemd got even advanced users to be used to reboot and reinstall in case of problem as deep issues are often unfixables.
by keybored | 2026-02-03 12:25:47+00:00
Notice something curious. The correlation with discussions around regulating businesses, freedom, and social media attention.

There is a strong correlation between someone making money and someone arguing that people being able to make money is about freedom.

And here we are a few centuries into capitalism and people say that they are conflicted because personal freedom = making money off people. Effectively.

Yet there are many freedoms that are not profitable. We just have to sit down in a chair and think it through for ten minutes. Preferably without the corrupting influence of a scren.
by cope123 | 2026-02-03 12:26:14+00:00
I didn’t realize how much metadata stays embedded in images by default until recently.

Most photos include EXIF data like GPS coordinates, timestamps, and device info. Even after uploading or sharing, that data often remains unless explicitly removed.

I’ve been trying to understand how different people handle this in practice.
Do you strip metadata yourself, rely on platforms, or use scripts/tools?
by atq2119 | 2026-02-03 12:26:22+00:00
The challenge is that this doesn't really work for community-developed software.

Let's say somebody uses this scheme for software they wrote. Would anybody else ever contribute significantly if the original author would benefit financially but they wouldn't?

Mediating the financial benefits through a non-profit might help, but (1) there's still a trust problem: who controls the non-profit? and (2) that's a lot of overhead to set up when starting out for a piece of software that may or may not become relevant.
by ahartmetz | 2026-02-03 12:26:44+00:00
I think the main problems of Unix today is that it's not Unix-style enough. Too many namespaces with too many non-composable separate APIs on them instead of "everything is a file". Plan9 is more Unix than Unix and that's indeed better. Redox OS, too.

The Unix security model is mostly useless today, but it seems like something better is possible as an incremental change, and there are projects that do that, like RSBAC.
by DyslexicAtheist | 2026-02-03 12:26:55+00:00
> To me LFS is about learning how a system works.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Linux plus systemd, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Linux/systemd.

Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, systemd daemons, and vital systemd components comprising a full OS as defined by Poettering.

-- https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom/116002799114521341
by fch42 | 2026-02-03 12:27:05+00:00
Except funding is not everything that's needed for long term projects. There are other resources - workforce, supply chain integrity, legal entitlements and approvals, etc, that are all contributing to "plannable delivery" of long-term projects. And quite a few of these are very much subject to the vagaries of democracy.

Unless, of course, you assume (the ideal to be) an entirely anarchist business environment where whoever-with-resources can do whatever. Democracy, though, is not that.
Show HN: FastAPI-Turnkey – batteries-included starter
by trubbleshooter | 2026-02-03 12:27:19+00:00
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- JWT/OAuth2 auth + email verification
- PostgreSQL + SQLModel + Alembic
- Docker Compose + one-click Railway/Fly deploy
- Async-ready + OpenAI/Claude stubs
- Rate limiting, logging, tests

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Feedback, stars, or feature requests welcome — what would make your FastAPI workflow 5x faster?
by liveoneggs | 2026-02-03 12:27:20+00:00
This is how email work(ed) over smtp. When each command was sent it would get a '200'-class message (success) or 400/500-class message (failure). Sound familiar?

telnet smtp.mailserver.com 25

HELO

MAIL FROM: me@foo.com

RCPT TO: you@bar.com

DATA

blah blah blah

how's it going?

talk to you later!

.

QUIT
by tallanvor | 2026-02-03 12:27:59+00:00
No, why would it? When I take the bus, subway, or train, nobody is checking IDs - at most they check if I have a valid ticket, which can be bought with cash.

I've flown many times within the EU/EEA without showing an ID, so I fail to see why traveling within the US should be any different. I've spent most of my life in the US, but the only times I've been in close proximity of terrorist events have been in Norway (Breivik's bomb went off two blocks away from where I worked at the time, and more recently the shooting outside London Pub that killed two and injured multiple others).

I wish I understood why the US feels the need to overreact to everything.
by kergonath | 2026-02-03 12:28:11+00:00
Not in general, but in this case, somewhat. It does not make sense to you because you are seeing it through the wrong prism. That it is better from a sovereignty point of view to use a German company than one from outside the EU is the whole point of the EU. It’s not an aberration or merely a byproduct. Your point of view is quite common and we see if regularly all across the internet, but it’s still missing the point.
by LinguaBrowse | 2026-02-03 12:28:21+00:00
The thing about Hacker News is that it's a real fight for life to get any engagement. Just showing the humble project you're working on doesn't cut it. You need to time your submission just right and impress like you're doing a product launch, otherwise you get no visibility and no comments. Social media shouldn't have to be so exhausting and competitive.