MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kukkeliskuu | 2026-02-05 14:57:10+00:00
My company has been working for some years now on usm.tools (https://usm.tools/public/landing/), based on very similar approach.

USM tools is based on Unified Service Management (USM) method, which provides the necessary concepts to the the vision one step further. The core idea is similar however: everything a company does is a service, and services can be defined as data. The surprising finding from USM is that in practice it is possible to define a service only through five types of processes.

As services are data, you can have multiple views on that data. And as all data is in standardized format, it becomes possible to make generic cross-references between USM and for example ISO27K as rules that refer to your data, and those rules can be evaluated. As a result, you can see your ISO27K compliance on a dashboard in real-time.
by sumtechguy | 2026-02-05 14:57:40+00:00
This happens all the time.

Basically build vs buy. The problem is on the 'buy' portion of looking at things the company failed. So they took who they had on hand and built something. It took a fresh perspective to say 'hey have you tried this' and looks like they did not want to hear it. I would say the right choice was made to move on.

This is wildly common. At that point they were committed to the wrong path at 'above my pay grade levels'. Once you get that buy in you better do it that way. Most companies will not pivot unless the champion for whatever is going on is removed in some way.

At 'my paygrade' I can prototype tech but I better make a good case why I need everyone else to do it too. If I dont I will be summerly ignored at best, at worst 'the guy with the lets rewrite the system hahahaha' guy. I might even be right about it. But the probelm is a jr level guy is not going to have the political cover to make it happen. Even if they are right.

But if you can get 'the higher ups' to buy in. Then it is quite dramatic how much better somethings putting that sort of tech in. Then other times it can be a total disaster. So you have to pick your hill to die on.
by Joel_Mckay | 2026-02-05 14:58:24+00:00
There is nothing "wrong" with passwords, but they have trade-offs like anything. The actual LUKS key is usually wrapped in a password protected record(s) commonly on the storage media by default. That method is usually weaker than the key itself.

Note 10000 GPUs can brute force passwords rather quickly (a pre-sharded search space is fast), and key exfiltration for targeted individuals/firms still happens.

Options like modern TPM include anti-brute force features, but has other attack surfaces. Everyone has their own risk profile, and it is safer to assume if people want in... they will get in sooner or later. ymmv =3
by user2342ca | 2026-02-05 14:59:04+00:00
A 119-Module Neurosymbolic Cognitive Architecture Blueprint 119 Modules Simulated Thought, Symbolic Memory Reflective Processes Version with Tool Mapping and Buildability Notes

A 119-Module Neurosymbolic Cognitive Architecture Framework
Theoretical Design, Module Specifications, and Practical Tool Mapping (2026)
This document presents a conceptual neurosymbolic cognitive architecture consisting of 119 modules. The framework integrates symbolic reasoning, latent representations, visual simulation, reflective processes, memory composability, safety mechanisms, perception, autonomy, self-improvement, and multi-agent coordination.
Purpose and Scope
The design is intended for theoretical exploration, academic research, and human-guided sandbox simulation only. It is not intended for autonomous deployment or operational use in real-world systems.
Key features include:

Explicit symbolic memory and pegging mechanisms
Low-resolution visual thought substrate for grounding
Perpetual reflection and meta-cognition loops
Layered safety, alignment, and ethical controls
Bridging between symbolic and latent representations
Tool mapping to 2026-era libraries and frameworks

Module Structure
The architecture is organized into 119 modules grouped as follows:

Core human-like modules (1–42)
Advanced lab-inspired modules (43–90)
Collaboration and culture modules (91–99)
Symbolic-latent hybrid bridges (100–101)
Extended autonomy and persistence modules (102–109)
Deployment, robustness, and maturity modules (110–118)
Implicit-to-visible projection and self-observation layer (119)

Practical Implementation Notes
A dedicated section maps the modules to realistic 2026 tools (e.g., LangGraph, Neo4j, VQ-VAE, DeepProbLog, Brian2, KONA, Lobster GPU acceleration) and includes runtime flow diagrams illustrating perception-action cycles and internal control flow.
Important Disclaimers

This is a theoretical framework only. No claims are made regarding the achievement of artificial general intelligence, consciousness, or operational viability.
All safety, alignment, and ethical mechanisms are integral and must be preserved in any derivative work.
Use is strictly limited to research, academic discussion, and controlled simulation environments.
Deployment in autonomous systems is explicitly not supported or recommended without comprehensive external validation, governance oversight, and ethical review.

Licensing
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
All derivatives must prominently cite the source as:
“A 119-Module Neurosymbolic Cognitive Architecture Framework: Theoretical Design and Tool Mapping (2026)” by Derek Van Derven.
This work is offered in the spirit of open academic inquiry and transparency.
by dbshapco | 2026-02-05 14:59:10+00:00
I'm agnostic, but ...

"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

For a more modern take, paraphrasing Hannah Arendt.

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”

We live in a an age where for many media is reality, uncritical, unchecked. Press releases are about creating reality, not reporting it, they are about psychological manipulation, not information.

> As we've seen at a national scale: if you just lie lie lie enough it starts being treated like the truth.

This actually happened in reverse with the spread of social media dynamics to politics and major media. Twitter made Trump president, not the other way around.

* No LLMs were harmed in the making of this comment.
by infecto | 2026-02-05 14:59:55+00:00
To be frank I don’t think your worldview is directionally accurate. OpenAI is certainly trying to sell something but every incremental update to these models there are more avenues of value generation being unlocked. For sure it’s not as it was hyped up to be as all the talking heads in the industry were spouting, but there is a lot of interesting ways to use these tools and it’s not for generating slop.
by keshav_nayyar | 2026-02-05 15:02:01+00:00
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by rajish | 2026-02-05 15:02:28+00:00
Some technical details:

Polls the same API endpoint Claude Code uses to check your quota. Reads
OAuth tokens directly from macOS Keychain (written by Claude Code on login).
Token refresh is automatic — handles the full OAuth flow in the background.

Historical data is stored locally in SQLite for the sparkline. The sawtooth
pattern is interesting — you can clearly see the 5h window resets.

What I'm working on next: a full analytics window with a three-band
breakdown of your headroom — separating what you actually consumed, what
the weekly limit blocked (not your fault), and what you genuinely left
on the table. Turns out a lot of "wasted" capacity was never really
available to you.

Built the whole thing using the BMAD methodology with Claude Code as
the dev agent. Happy to answer questions about either the app or the process.
by WilcoKruijer | 2026-02-05 15:02:34+00:00
The DSL described in this post really resonates with me. I recently worked on a programming language that uses similar structures [0]. It lets the user define entities and their shape (Role, OrganisationalUnit, Person in this post) and entries for those entities. It contains a small scripting API that can be used to derive information from these "facts". Company as code could definitely be implemented on top of this.

[0] https://thalo.rejot.dev/blog/plain-text-knowledge-management
by analog31 | 2026-02-05 15:02:37+00:00
Michael Jackson is another. And there were child stars in the movies.

One difference is how popular music is produced today. The members of the band are not just performers, and in fact, they're often mediocre instrumentalists and singers. They're expected to create their own material, which probably requires a certain level of social development and experience. The emphasis is on other skills such as creating songs that resonate with the audience, performing on stage, etc.
by infecto | 2026-02-05 15:02:45+00:00
I think that’s sort of right. Said differently and the way I process these tools. You have mundane tasks that a human does where there are clear guidelines on acceptance. The underlying tools being used have clear APIs for automation. You can use natural language to automate said task without a full blown engineer in the loop. For non business engineers this sounds silly but it can save a lot of time for business users.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC | 2026-02-05 15:02:55+00:00
And then some person realizes that government ids can be faked, so they set up a system of doing a retinal scan of the person dropping off the car and then comparing it to the retinal scan of the person picking it up.

Then they realize that one person may be bribed so they require at least two people to verify at pickup and drop off.

Meanwhile, a car has never ever been stolen this way.
by zackmorris | 2026-02-05 15:03:48+00:00
Or maybe a conscious decision, as neoconservative Robert Kagan writes:

"President Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was and has weakened America's ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive. Wait until they start paying for what comes next,"

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/04/nx-s1-5699388/is-the-u-s-head...
by vel0city | 2026-02-05 15:03:52+00:00
> you can fairly closely replicate the experience of Aurora

Nobody doubts one could build something similar to Aurora given enough budget, time, and skills.

But that's not replicating the experience of Aurora. The experience of Aurora is I can have all of that, in like 30 lines of terraform and a few minutes. And then I don't need to worry about managing the zpools, I don't need to ensure the heartbeats are working fine, I don't need to worry about hardware failures (to a large extent), I don't need to drive to multiple different physical locations to set up the hardware, I don't need to worry about handling patching, etc.

You might replicate the features, but you're not replicating the experience.
by jstanley | 2026-02-05 15:03:55+00:00
Maybe $48k is a bit much, but this is so obviously a crazy thing to do.

Passengers are allowed to use their phones and your jammer won't discriminate. People can take hands-free calls and your jammer won't discriminate. Pedestrians can use their phones and your jammer won't discriminate. People who have broken down might want to call the AA. And so on.

What was this person thinking?
by simonsarris | 2026-02-05 15:04:04+00:00
A company is just a group of people. Anything a group of people can believe, a company can believe.

A company with investors is a little more suspect, its true. But even massive public companies like Costco still stake out some claims with values beyond the economic and then pursue them. It's not an impossibility.

I also think, despite dropping the motto, that Google did not in fact ever become anything close to evil. I think people are being somewhat unfair (and hyperbolic at best) by claiming otherwise.
by glasss | 2026-02-05 15:05:25+00:00
The people committing TARP fraud may have been the same people that caused regular working people to lose their homes, businesses, and retirement funds, but unless that venn diagram is pretty clearly overlapped I think you're misunderstanding what the general public was / is upset about.

I know there were some really large settlements in 2012 and onward, but for everyone I know who lost their business or their home or their investments, I don't know anyone who received any of this settlement money.
by andix | 2026-02-05 15:05:55+00:00
Hostnames are not private information. There are too many ways how they get leaked to the outside world.

It can be useful to hide a private service behind a URL that isn't easy to guess (less attack surfaces, because a lot of attackers can't find the service). But it needs to be inside the URL path, not the hostname.

bad: my-hidden-fileservice-007-abc123.example.com/
good: fileservice.example.com/my-hidden-service-007-abc123/

In the first example the name is leaked with DNS queries, TLS certificates and many other possibilities. In the second example the secret path is only transmitted via HTTPS and doesn't leak as easy.
by levi-turner | 2026-02-05 15:06:00+00:00
The main under appreciated influence in all this is how much talent can reinforce work. There are outliers on either side (pure talent, pure work) if you squint, but ultimately the best of the best are the ones who are extraordinarily talented but put in an incredible amount of work (and are intelligent enough / discerning enough to find the right coaches to work on the right things). From the outside we look at the work as superhuman, but for many "common" people, we all spend ridiculous amounts of time on things we enjoy. The academic finding that I always found the most illustrative of this was that the correlation of IQ to outcome increases after age 18. The environmental influence of your parents goes away, both the overeager parents who push their kids when the kids don't care and the dreadful parents who drag down their kids success.
by Atlas667 | 2026-02-05 15:06:17+00:00
By chance I was reading about this yesterday, only in the context of unemployment.

In Das Kapital, Section 5: The Strife Between Workman and Machine, Marx talks about how the automatic looms caused some of the very first waves of mass unemployment under nascent capitalism.

He tells how in some German states they banned the use of looms, burned them, some say even drowned or strangled their creators. Both the state and the textile workers did this in order to preserve order.

Later, states allowed them but the textile workers formed sabotage units in order to destroy machines and keep their jobs.

At the end it ends with this: "It took both time and experience before the workpeople learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production (the machine), but against the mode in which they are used."

Very relevant in the face of progress, especially of AI.

Ps: and a quick reminder that communism is about developing production for human needs not profits. The ills of unemployment would be unnecessary with added efficiency.

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm...
by insuranceguru | 2026-02-05 15:06:19+00:00
The own vs rent calculus for compute is starting to mirror the market value vs replacement cost divergence we see in physical assets.
Cloud is convenient because it lowers OpEx initially, but you lose control over the long-term CapEx efficiency. Once you reach a certain scale, paying the premium for AWS flexibility stops making sense compared to the raw horsepower of owned metal.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-05 15:06:51+00:00
Good.

I spend time in the "third world" where they honk all the time and don't care about road laws (i.e. lane lines are merely suggestions, no requirement to buckle your seat belt), non existent road law enforcement.

It's amazing. Every type of vehicle shares the road in relative harmony. It's the ultimate "mixed use/complete streets" liberal wet dream of transportation infrastructure. It maximizes the utility of the roads. There's also far fewer lifted trucks and similar which harms the visibility of the highly alert drivers.

Everyone is still on their phones, but because they are used to a far more chaotic roads, they pay FAR better attention. Furthermore, the average health is infinitely better (almost no obesity), so even their 80 year old grandmas are far healthier and thus more fit to drive.

Unironically deregulate the roads. We need to radically increase speed limits, significantly reduce penalties for meme stuff "i.e. california stopping at stop signs", and yes go after "do-gooders" who think that risking jamming ambulances is worth getting their "slightly safer roads"

Unironically, put Tullock's spike in every car.

Traffic cops are road marauders/parasites. Many tickets shouldn't exist. And no, I don't have any driving tickets.
Show HN: Logic Mill – Visualizing and sorting codebases
by Slydite | 2026-02-05 15:06:54+00:00
I built a tool called Logic Mill that parses codebases with Tree-sitter to visualize and topologically sort functions and classes.

The core idea was an experiment: What if code files were ordered like mathematical proofs, where definitions always precede their usage?

Interactive Visuals

Visuals for Three.js and Preact.js are available on the blog (Open on Desktop - The graphs are heavy):

Logic Mill (the tool itself):
Symbols Graph: https://slydite.com/content/posts/toposort/codesorter/symbol...
Layered Sort: https://slydite.com/content/posts/toposort/codesorter/layere...
Global Sort: https://slydite.com/content/posts/toposort/codesorter/global...

GitHub: https://github.com/slydite/Logic-Mill
Show HN: Fault – a Rust-CLI to inject network and application faults
by sylvain-h | 2026-02-05 15:06:58+00:00
Hey HN,

Let me introduce "fault". A Rust-CLI to help engineers rapidly explore their reliability as close to the code as possible. Hopefully with a bit of fun while doing it.

Its features at glance:

- Native networking faults: latency, bandwidth, packet loss...

- Native support to change DNS or LLM responses

- OpenAPI scenario generator and runner with basic load test support builtin

- Easy command to inject itself into GCP, AWS or Kubernetes against a running application

- eBPF optional support for seamless interception

- LLM-based review of results with a system prompt leaning on SRE-analysis

- MCP server for AI-agents

- Fully Open Source and written in Rust

The premises are simple: a TCP proxying that you can configure to play on inbound and outbound streams.

For instance, injecting 300ms latency:

$ fault run \
--proxy "9090=127.0.0.1:7070" \
--with-latency --latency-mean 300

Point your client to it and see how it behaves.

This is a small tool that is handy to have under your belt I believe. A bit of low-friction Chaos Engineering.

Would love to hear how you guys handle reliability so I know how to keep improving it.
by deanc | 2026-02-05 15:06:59+00:00
It's absolute negligence for anyone to be installing anything at this point in this space. There is no oversight, hardly anyone looking at what's published, no automated scanning and there is no security model in place that works that isn't vulnerable to prompt injection.

We need to go back to the drawing board. You might as well just run curl https://example.com/script.sh | sudo bash at this point.
by AtlasBarfed | 2026-02-05 15:07:03+00:00
1) in the Microsoft days I would have a lot of available ram, bur windows still would aggressively swap, and I would get enraged when changing to an app that would have to swap in while I had 4gb of memory free

2) the os tried to be magical, but a swap thrash is still crap... I would much rather oom kill apps than swap thrash. For a desktop user: kill the fucking browser or electron apps, don't freeze the system/ui.
by goodmythical | 2026-02-05 15:07:45+00:00
I've never understood why people separate some mystical magical "market psychology" from the traditional supply and demand model.

Like...what do y'all think demand is? From tulips and cabbage patch kids to meme coins and nfts, the price fluctuates based on semi flexible supply and highly flexible demand.

You could say "ah well, according to my analysis of the market psychology of this asset, I believe price will collapse in the medium term." but I just don't see how that's any more useful than saying "I believe demand will decrease soon" or "People aren't going to want this thing forever"
by evanelias | 2026-02-05 15:07:48+00:00
Not sure what that means, but it's named partially as a nod to Skee-Ball. The town I grew up in was actually the home of the factory where all Skee-Ball machines were made.

I was using a location-related naming scheme in general at that time; similarly my automation library was called Go La Tengo because I was living in the town where the band Yo La Tengo was from.
by mknaw | 2026-02-05 15:08:44+00:00
Location: Southeast US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Rust, Kafka, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, AWS, Terraform, event-driven architectures, data lakes (iceberg & friends)

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Platform engineer / systems architect. I design cross-service architecture and build event-driven systems, optimize slow/expensive things, and care about observability. Recently: Kafka streaming platforms, data lakehouses, LLM / agentic automation of dev tooling.

Interested in distributed systems, performance-critical work, finance domain.
by johaugum | 2026-02-05 15:09:02+00:00
As you mentioned, that depends on what you mean by planners.

An LLM will implicitly decompose a prompt into tasks and then sequentially execute them, calling the appropriate tools. The architecture diagram helpfully visualizes this [0]

Here though, planners means autonomous planners that exist as higher level infrastructure, that does external task decomposition, persistent state, tool scheduling, error recovery/replanning, and branching/search. Think a task like “Prompt: “Scan repo for auth bugs, run tests, open PR with fixes, notify Slack.” that just runs continuously 24/7, that would be beyond what nanobot could do. However, something like “find all the receipts in my emails for this year, then zip and email them to my accountant for my tax return” is something nanobot would do.

[0] https://github.com/HKUDS/nanobot/blob/main/nanobot_arch.png