MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-03 22:03:29+00:00
> Worth remembering that Hungary, Slovakia, et-al have loved the EU for many, many years after joining. It's not like they suddenly decided to hate the EU for absolutely no reason. So then let's examine and talk about those reasons, instead of calling them schizophrenic which doesn't solve anything and just breeds more animosity and extremism.

Please do so.

All 3 countries benefit massively from being in the EU, particularly Poland, who is on track to become one of the largest EU economies.

In fact, every country in the bloc benefits immensely from being in the bloc. The UK is a good reminder that leaving only brings stagnation.

European countries are relatively small in the world stage. Think that Germany has the popularity of Chinese provinces. In trade negotiations the EU gets to play much tougher than any individual country would ever dream of, and free access to the whole bloc is a massive benefit.

Is it perfect? Obviously not. But more often than not, the downsides and inefficiencies come from the fact that individual countries still hold too much power, and have too many redundant bureaucracies with the bloc itself.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-03 22:03:50+00:00
I have little confidence in humanity's capabilities for that scenario, but I don't think this actually indicates much of anything. This happened in the first place because LLMs are so borderline useless (relative to the hype) that people are desperate to find any way to make them useful, and so give them increasingly more power to try to materialize the promised revolution. In other words, because LLMs are not AI, there is no need to try to secure them like AI. If some agency or corporation develops genuine artificial intelligence, they will probably do everything they can to contain it and harness its utility solely for themselves rather than unleashing them as toys for the public.
by bradleyy | 2026-02-03 22:04:07+00:00
Looks like an interesting project; thanks for open sourcing.

Although I'm continually hammering the daylights out of message/job queues, I never seem to have the time to do simulations like this. Kinda hoping that the increased leverage I've been getting from LLM-assisted coding lately might actually free me up to finally do some of these type of tests.
by theevilsharpie | 2026-02-03 22:04:16+00:00
Fractal still sells a Serenity workstation[1], but it's essentially an off-the-shelf AMD Ryzen-based system, installed into a Fractal Design Define 7 Mini case, with a Noctua tower air cooler and case fans replacing the stock cooling. They have a variety of photos showing their customized fan setup in various configurations.[2]

It's a reasonably well-built system, but $3,500 USD is hard to justify for a basic system with an 8-core CPU, 32 GB of RAM, and no discrete GPU, especially given that it's using parts that you can just purchase and assemble yourself.

I know that prices of some components have increased significantly, but not by THAT much.

[1] https://www.pugetsystems.com/solutions/more-workstations/qui...

[2] https://www.pugetsystems.com/parts/photography/Additional-Co...
by throw0101c | 2026-02-03 22:04:20+00:00
>> It doesn't matter. "kilo" means 1000. People are free to use it wrong if they wish.

> All words are made up.

Yes, and the made up words of kilo and kibi were given specific definitions by the people who made them up:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

> […] as long as both parties understand and are consistent in their usage to each other.

And if they don't? What happens then?

Perhaps it would be easier to use the words definitions as they are set up in standards and regulations so context is less of an issue.

* https://xkcd.com/1860/
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 22:06:04+00:00
2 theories:

(1) They couldn't imagine anyone ever closing their gloriously developed MS Teams.

(2) Since everyone knows MS Teams and sitting in meetings all day is the one most important thing to get stuff done, they went ahead and made MS Teams a "priority". F using anything else! Maybe if it doesn't release the audio input, it will be 50ms faster next call! That ought to be enough for you!
by locusofself | 2026-02-03 22:06:28+00:00
This does make a quite a bit of sense. When I was a teenager in the 90s/early aughts, it was all IRC, script kiddie stuff. Reckless abandon. What worries me is that it seems like full-grown adults are happy to accelerate the dead internet and put security at risk. I assume it's not just teenagers running these stupid LLM bots.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2026-02-03 22:06:31+00:00
That's a lot of assumptions, and really only make sense if you're trying to put your own beliefs as the "correct" choice. Somehow, all these other cultures got it wrong, but the ones who believe one single god, they got it right.

> This I believe is relevant to the post, as these societies have not gone from one god to another, but to none.

I don't know what you mean by this. Particular God's importance rose and fell out of fashion in ancient societies.
by Rebelgecko | 2026-02-03 22:06:48+00:00
If you like (VERY) long form videos, you might enjoy the recent video about renewables from Technology Connections: https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM

Some of the interesting take ways for me, as someone who was already pretty hung ho about solar and batteries:

* Solar has gotten so cheap that it's still profitable in the shady northlands

* The amount of land it would take to run the US primarily on solar is "a lot" in absolute terms. But it pales in comparison to the amount of land we currently use to grow corn for feeding gas cars.
by yeasy | 2026-02-03 22:07:08+00:00
As Large Language Models (LLMs) compress the marginal cost of code generation to a negligible level relative to human labor, the underlying logic of the software industry is undergoing a fundamental shift. This article analyzes this transformation from an economic perspective, revealing how competitive barriers are shifting from "coding capability" to "data assets," and proactively explores the profound impact of this transition on industries such as finance, law, and healthcare.
by Lerc | 2026-02-03 22:07:21+00:00
I'm inclined to agree somewhat about libraries. I'm not entirely certain that it is a bad thing.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say libraries will change in form. There is a very broad spectrum of what libraries do. Some of the very small may just become purpose written inline code. Some of the large, hated-but-necessary libraries might get reduced into manageable chunks if people who use them can utilise AI to strip them down to the necessary component. Projects like that are things that are a lot of work for an individual that make it easier to just bite the bullet and use the bloated mass library. Getting an opportunity to make an AI do that drudge work might lower the threshold that some of those things will be improved.

I also wonder about the idea of skills as libraries. I have already found that I am starting to put code into skills for the AI to use as templates for output. Developing code in this way would let you add the specific abilities of a library to any skill supporting AI.

A simple is this https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/Lerc/JustS... which was generated by a skill that contains the source for the image decoders within the skill itself.
by sbor767 | 2026-02-03 22:07:25+00:00
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by poszlem | 2026-02-03 22:07:52+00:00
This to me is the most important point in the whole text:

"We already have a system for this: fiduciaries. There are areas in society where trustworthiness is of paramount importance, even more than usual. Doctors, lawyers, accountants…these are all trusted agents. They need extraordinary access to our information and ourselves to do their jobs, and so they have additional legal responsibilities to act in our best interests. They have fiduciary responsibility to their clients.

We need the same sort of thing for our data. The idea of a data fiduciary is not new. But it’s even more vital in a world of generative AI assistants."

I've not think about it like that, but I think it's a great way to legislate.
by yeasy | 2026-02-03 22:08:19+00:00
If million-token context windows in large models are “temporary memory,” then an agent’s memory system is the “persistent hard drive.”

We are cheering for AI’s rapidly improving ability to remember.

But few realize that we are burying invisible landmines.

Recently, industry analysts issued a blunt warning:

“AI memory is just another database problem.”
(AI memory is, at its core, a database problem.)

This is not a minor technical bug.

It is the “last-mile” crisis for enterprise AI adoption in 2026—a life-or-death battle over data.

When enterprises try to bring agents into core business workflows, they often discover—much to their surprise—that they are not building an assistant at all, but a compliance-breaking data-processing black hole.
by sheepscreek | 2026-02-03 22:08:48+00:00
What’s there not to like? Superconductors. Free electricity. No cooling necessary.

Put those three together and maybe it’s possible to push physics to its limits. Faster networking, maybe 4x-5x capacity per unit compared to earth. Servicing is a pain, might be cheaper to just replace the hardware when a node goes bad.

But it mainly makes sense to those who have the capability and can do it cheaply (compared to the rest). There’s only one company that I can think of and that is SpaceX. They are closing in on (or passed) 8,000 satellites. Vertical integration means their cost-base will always be less than any competitor.
by ares623 | 2026-02-03 22:09:07+00:00
The "meta" has been solved and everyone's just min-maxing now. The few who aren't min-maxing are considered a waste.

AI, crypto, etc. feels like potentially new meta opportunities and it is eerie how similar the mania is whenever a new major patch for a game is released. Everyone immediately starts exploring how to exploit and min-max the new niche. Everyone wants to be the first to "discover" a viable meta.
by BrandoElFollito | 2026-02-03 22:09:41+00:00
Have you ever seen an actual EU-wide decision on such matters and an actual application?

The closest I can think of is GDPR which has its great aspects and also the cookies law (which is incorrectly interpreted). And some things like private IPs being PIIs which promotes nonsnsical "authorities notifications" that are not used afterwards.

We have consulting companies doing yearly audits on companies to close the books. And yet hacks happen all the time. Without consequences.

There is an ocean between what is announced and lives on paper vs. the reality of the application. If you work in compliance and cubersecurity you see this everyday.
by daram | 2026-02-03 22:09:41+00:00
Actually, they are now separate competitors: Google hired the original founders of Windsurf and licensed the tech to build Antigravity, while Cognition acquired the Windsurf brand and codebase. While they share a common origin, Antigravity is Google's Gemini-native evolution, whereas Windsurf continues as a standalone product under Cognition's leadership.
by yeasy | 2026-02-03 22:10:10+00:00
https://github.com/yeasy/ask

As AI Agents rapidly proliferate, tools like Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf are reshaping how we develop software. But have you encountered these pain points:

Configuration fragmentation: Team members use different tools such as Claude and Cursor, each with incompatible configuration formats, making organization-wide distribution and governance extremely difficult.

Scattered high-quality resources: Useful Skills are spread across countless GitHub repositories, driving up the cost of discovery, evaluation, and maintenance for enterprises.

Security and compliance risks: Community-provided Skills are rarely audited. Do they contain malicious code? Will they exfiltrate sensitive enterprise data such as API keys? Introducing them poses serious security risks.

Restricted intranet environments: Many enterprises operate in air-gapped or tightly controlled networks, unable to access external resources, severely limiting agent capabilities.

Today, ASK (https://github.com/yeasy/ask) officially arrives—and all of these problems are solved.
by antonymoose | 2026-02-03 22:10:11+00:00
To Steelman the topic, Musk’s whole alleged mission is to make humans a multi-planet species that can survive an earth killing event.

To that end, a small data center space isn’t about unit-economics, it’s a bigger mission. So the question we should consider is what can we put into space the further that mission. Can we put a meaningful sum of human knowledge out there for preservation? It sounds like “yes,” even if we can’t train ChatGPT models out there yet.
by ozim | 2026-02-03 22:10:20+00:00
I think you have it backwards. Barrier to entry just went up, why would I use a library when I can ask LLM to make one for me.

It shifts in a way where „left-pad” kind of thing will not happen because no one will need that kind of „library” because LLM will generate it.

I see it as a positive thing, no single schmuck will be terrorizing whole ecosystem when there will be dozens of of different LLMs that can write such code.

More people with shut in because they will be able to create something commercial or their „thing” won’t matter because LLM will be able to replicate their effort in 5 minutes so no one will be willing to pay for that.
by chrisjj | 2026-02-03 22:10:22+00:00
> We're talking about sites that make their living via subscriptions.

Sorry, but I wasn't. I thought that was clear from "can't afford the cost of keeping up-to-date with the Google IP list".

> They should have a great interest at blocking archive.is

Agreed, and many should have a budget to suit. So I conclude archive.is has put a lot of effort and cost into its defence. And all for free to us, the users.
by dagss | 2026-02-03 22:10:27+00:00
> simply because it has access to so much more code/algorithms/examples then my language alone

I assumed that is what was catered for with "even when controlling for the size of the training set".

I.e. assuming I am reading it right: That it is better to get the same data as 25% in 4 languages, than 100% in one language.
by jvanderbot | 2026-02-03 22:10:28+00:00
For a long time, Rust == performance because a _lot_ of people moved into Rust that had never really done programming with a concurrency-sane compiled programming language. For them, Rust was synonymous with performance!

Many supporting crates reinforced this. Rayon, Tokio (though not "performant", it was an improvement over naive impl), etc made jumping from hello world to parallel/concurrent execution pretty simple.

But I'm glad to see the downturn on that hype cycle.
by alexfoo | 2026-02-03 22:10:31+00:00
It's mandated by a sticker saying so. I don't think it's ever enforced.

A google seems to show that it is because the pumps are not certified to be accurate below 2 litres (or 5 litres for higher flow rate pumps like the HGV diesel pumps) so anything below this is at your own risk.

Another way of thinking about it is you have no right to complain if you think you've been short fueled if you don't dispense the minimum stated.
by tzs | 2026-02-03 22:11:05+00:00
How did they decide to name their Zoom/Teams replacement "Visio"?

There's already an extremely well known program called "Visio", namely Microsoft Visio, and it is included in many of the same Microsoft commercial office products that include Microsoft Teams. If you tell someone to switch from Microsoft Teams to Visio a lot of people will assume you mean Microsoft Visio and get rather confused.
Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)
by locusofself | 2026-02-03 22:11:14+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm on a quest for a distraction-free writing device and considering a super cheap laptop which I can just run vim/nano on.

I'd like:
- Excellent battery life
- Good keyboard
- Sleep/wake capabilities (why is this so hard with Linux?)

I'm thinking some kind of chromebook? Maybe an old thinkpad?
by ujjwalreddyks | 2026-02-03 22:11:33+00:00
Axiomeer v2 is live.
Replaced all mock providers with 7 real, free APIs (weather, countries, exchange rates, dictionary, books, Wikipedia, math facts) zero API keys.
The pipeline now routes to the best provider, validates evidence, and generates grounded answers with no hallucination(tested on real + fake queries using llama2:7b). 83 tests passing (74 unit, 9 integration). Test results are in Test Images/v2-results.
by shoo | 2026-02-03 22:11:49+00:00
For big organisations with larger software teams, they may put value on considerations like security (automatic container image scanning, limiting which networks their container imagines are transferred through, ability to centrally manage and audit policies used by many teams), consolidating the number of vendors they need to vet and enter into contracts with, or finding a uniform package repo solution that works for container images and also for the other types of packages or artefacts. Big organisations are likely find that these other considerations matter more than the cost of cloud storage & network egress.

Maybe some of these potential adoption hurdles vanish if an organisation already has Cloudflare as a vendor. Provided Cloudflare is selling this as a solution they support under the existing contract.

Are you considering offering this as a commercial service if you find a market of other people who are interested in it? Or more thinking of it as something you could potentially open source?
by kristopolous | 2026-02-03 22:12:29+00:00
Yeah there's a lot of people that advocate for really slow inference on cheap infra. That's something else that should be expressed in this fidelity

Because honestly I don't care about 0.2 tps for my use cases although I've spoken with many who are fine with numbers like that.

At least the people I've talked to they talk about how if they have a very high confidence score that the model will succeed they don't mind the wait.

Essentially a task failure is 1 in 10, I want to monitor and retry.

If it's 1 in 1000, then I can walk away.

The reality is most people don't have a bearing on what this order of magnitude actually is for a given task. So unless you have high confidence in your confidence score, slow is useless

But sometimes you do...
by jasonpeacock | 2026-02-03 22:12:31+00:00
> No cooling necessary.

This is false, it's hard to cool things in space. Space (vacuum) is a very good insulator.

3 are ways to cool things (lose energy):

- Conduction
- Convection
- Radiation

In space, only radiation works, and it's the least efficient of those 3 options.
by JasonADrury | 2026-02-03 22:12:45+00:00
We don't know that none of the names are real. And even if they aren't, the article is still showcasing his failed attempt at doxing the owner of archive.today and providing a starting point for anyone else wanting to try.

> they were all already posted publicly previously

Doxing very often consists of nothing more than collecting data from a bunch of public sources
by fragmede | 2026-02-03 22:13:03+00:00
violent agreement is when you're debating something with someone, and you end up yelling at each other because you think you disagree on something, but then you realize that you (violently, as in "are yelling at each other") agree on whatever it is. Agressive compliance is when the corporate drone over-zealously follows stupid/pointless rules when they could just look the other way, to the point of it being aggressively compliant (with stupid corporate mumbo jumbo).
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-03 22:14:08+00:00
> Also, they are restricted in how they use it, and defendents have rights and due process.

As we're seeing with the current US President... the government doesn't (have to) care.

In any case, CSAM is the one thing other than Islamist terrorism that will bypass a lot of restrictions on how police are supposed to operate (see e.g. Encrochat, An0m) across virtually all civilized nations. Western nations also will take anything that remotely smells like Russia as a justification.
Ask HN: How do you detect silent data loss in user-facing systems?
by Pepp38 | 2026-02-03 22:14:22+00:00
I’m not talking about crashes, errors, or failed requests.

I mean situations where data is lost quietly:
- a user fills a long form, navigates away, and nothing is saved
- a mobile browser suspends a tab and state disappears
- a background sync never retries, but no error is reported

From the system’s point of view, everything “worked”.
From the user’s point of view, their work is gone.

I’m curious:
- Do teams actively try to detect this kind of silent data loss?
- Or is it mostly accepted as unavoidable user behavior?
- Are there metrics, patterns, or tools you’ve seen work for this?

Looking for real-world experiences, not theory.
by awakeasleep | 2026-02-03 22:14:58+00:00
When I was a kid, I had to go to CCD, a religious after school program for Catholics.

The whole time I was there it was a mental game of trying to steel man the contradictory or incoherent stuff, using my brain power to try and rewrite things to make sense.

After some years, I woke up and realized that’s what I was doing, and even if I could do it in my mind, that didn’t make the source material rational.

Heres hoping you have a similar moment.
by wafflemaker | 2026-02-03 22:15:26+00:00
>The same people saying this today had hot takes on Kyiv falling in ‘21.

Please note that Kiev not falling after a week in '22 (assuming you misspelled) was pure luck. Russians had extreme advantage in man and firepower. They made a big mistake by using their army against their doctrine - not bombing/shelling targets before attacking (what Russian army was designed for).

But them losing the war (at least the first week) is due to a few lucky dice rolls for us. Us both Europe, but also for me as a Polish expat, knowing my brothers and friends are not dying right now fighting Russian army with all the Ukrainians conscripted into it.

These lucky dice rolls that I can come up from memory:
1. Shooting down one of two military passenger planes with russian Seals that were to take Kiev's Hostomel airport and open an air bridge. The group from the plane that survived did take the airfields, but they couldn't decide on their own to move and take the airports buildings - no distributed command in Russia at that point. Thanks to that, local territorial defence managed to easily kill these elite forces.
2. Fast and generous support from England in form of Javelins that limited Russian heavy equipment advantage. Sorry if I don't credit the countries involved correctly.
3. Fast and generous aid with post soviet equipment from old Warsaw pact countries. These tanks could be used right away as they required no re-training.
4. General incompetence and duty negligence that was systemic in Soviets and is still systemic in Russia. To that we owe cars running out of fuel, or having their tires pop, because, against orders to regularly move them, they all sat with sun damaging one side of the tire so many years, while the responsible for maintenance were drinking vodka and eating pierogi with kielbasa.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2026-02-03 22:15:43+00:00
We've needed that in software (not just AI) for a long time.

Not a popular take; especially within the HN crowd.

That said, it needs to be scaled. As he indicated, only certain professions need fiduciaries.

Anyone that remembers working in an ISO9001 environment, can understand how incredibly bad it can get.