MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by saurabhkamboj | 2026-02-03 02:05:11+00:00
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: TypeScript, Ruby, Python; applied LLM systems (RAG, evals, vector DBs); React; Postgres/pgvector, Mongo; AWS (ECS/Batch/Lambda/S3); Docker

Résumé/CV: https://saurabhkamboj.github.io/resume/resume.pdf

Email: saurabhkamboj@icloud.com

Software engineer building full-stack products, including applied LLM systems (RAG, evals, infra), co-creator of Chunkwise (https://chunkwise.github.io/
); strong in JavaScript/TypeScript, and Ruby; comfortable owning things end-to-end, strong communicator with customer-facing experience.
by skydhash | 2026-02-03 02:05:19+00:00
Programming languages can be a thinking tool for a lot of tasks. Very much like a lot of notation, like music sheet and map drawing. A condensed and somewhat formal manner of describing ideas can increase communication speed. It may lack nuance, but in some case, nuance is harmful.

The nice thing about code compared to other notation is that it's useful on its. You describe an algorithm and the machine can then solve the problem ad infinitum. It's one step instead of the two step of writing a spec and having an LLM translate it, then having to verify the output and alter it.

Assembly and high level languages are equivalent in terms of semantics. The latter helps in managing complexity, by reducing harmful possibilities (managing memory, off-by-one errors) and presenting common patterns (iterators/collections, struct and other data structures, ....) so that categories of problems are easily solved. There's no higher level of computing model unlocked. Just faster level of productivity unlocked by following proven patterns.

Spec driven workflow is a mirage, because even the best specs will leave a lot of unspecified details. Which are crucial as most of programming is making the computer not do the various things it can do.
by tavavex | 2026-02-03 02:05:34+00:00
From what I've heard, the no-ID process does indeed feature additional screening. I think the passenger would fill out a form and the TSA would cross-check it with their information. This was free prior to the new ID push, but since now people need a special ID to fly instead of using their normal one, I'm guessing they made the process cost extra to disincentivize people from sticking with their IDs and just doing the free manual process every time. I'm not saying that's a good thing, I'm just saying that this is probably why they decided to try this.
by jonstewart | 2026-02-03 02:05:39+00:00
I just finished Annals of the Former World. It's essentially a 700 page-long ode to geology, using scientific terms for their prosody as much as their meaning. I once saw someone else remark that "Rising from the Plains" was the greatest western ever written.

I used to think geology was a dumb science, but this book single-handedly made me obsessed with the topic. Geology is really more like "earth history" and it's a startlingly young field, a dynamic which plays out across the volumes.
by kinduff | 2026-02-03 02:05:52+00:00
Supabase is aware of this and they actually put big banners stating this flaw when you unlock your authentication.

What I think it happens is that non-technical people vibe-coding apps either don't take those messages seriously or they don't understand what it means but made their app work.

I used to be careful, but now I am paranoid on signing up to apps that are new. I guess it's gonna be like this for a while. Info-sec AIs sound way worse than this, tbh.
by bdangubic | 2026-02-03 02:06:33+00:00
> I'm gonna be honest, I really don't see how these opinion pieces are relevant. There are a lot of smart people working at these companies and I'm sure they have done a lot of research and work into determining that this is a viable thing to try.

Like "robo"taxi, right? A lot of smart people have been working on this at same company for decade+

> I am going to put more faith into that than somebodies opinion online.

There are opinions and then there are things you can review that are factual and based on laws.
by treetalker | 2026-02-03 02:06:39+00:00
Mochi has really come a long way and has some wonderful built-in functionality. The automatic text-to-speech template options are high quality and randomize a variety of voices in each language. It's also doing some cool things with dynamic cards and LLMs.

Impressively, Mochi now offers FSRS (beta but still available in the app's main settings) and both the type of scheduler (Mochi default or FSRS) and the schedulers' settings are configurable on a deck-by-deck basis.

The developer is very responsive to folks on the forum and often quickly adds requested features.

Overall the app is well-designed and fun to use. I appreciate the swipe left/right to fail/pass cards on iOS. My one complaint is that the web clipper only works with Chrome and Firefox, but not with Safari (surprisingly). It would also be useful to have a global hotkey/palette to quick-add cards to various decks, similar to how OmniFocus lets you quickly add items to the OF Inbox.
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-02-03 02:07:19+00:00
> It(Solar) works, but it isn't somehow magically better than installing solar panels on the ground

Umm, if this is the point, I don't know whether to take rest of author's arguments seriously. Solar only works certain time of the day and certain period of year on land.

Also there is so limited calculations for the numbers in the article, while the article throws of numbers left and right.
Ask HN: What's your competitive intelligence workflow as a small team?
by VoderAI | 2026-02-03 02:07:27+00:00
I've been researching how founders track competitors and the tooling landscape is interesting. Enterprise teams use Klue/Crayon ($20K+/yr), mid-market uses Competitors.app ($15-20/competitor/mo), and everyone else seems to use... Google Alerts and hoping for the best?

Curious what actually works for small teams:

- Do you actively monitor competitors, or just check in occasionally?
- What signals matter most? (pricing changes, feature launches, hiring, funding?)
- Is the raw data useful, or do you need someone to interpret "competitor X changed their pricing page" into "here's what this means for you"?

I keep hearing founders say they got blindsided on sales calls by competitors they didn't know existed. Wondering if this is a real pain point or just something people complain about but don't actually prioritize.
by angled | 2026-02-03 02:08:18+00:00
But what of the culture? For years now the art and music has felt like poor cousins to what is in the west, similar to what we see generated by AI now, and consumed be people doomscrolling on WeChat moments while they wait for their didi to deliver their food from the shop down the street.

Every time I visit SZ now it feels like the scooters are misrouted neurons firing in any which direction, with no respect for pedestrians, parking, or the rest of the city.
by wing-_-nuts | 2026-02-03 02:08:40+00:00
I mean there's also a cost to not expanding too, in that you're leaving money on the table. I doubt they've really been able to resist the siren call of basically being able to print more money, but if the AI bubble collapses and they're left selling most of their production to consumers, they're gonna have a lot of stranded capital. Here's hoping they're smart enough to build a big war chest to weather the storm, but in my experience, companies rarely do.
by bdangubic | 2026-02-03 02:09:06+00:00
The shared study notes represent shared understanding of the topics at hand. Different people grasp concepts in different way and seeing how other people think/understand/deduce/... (at least for me) makes a world of difference.

Like seeing a PR and going "holy s**, would never have dreamed of doing it that way" - I have learned A LOT in a looooong SWE career from that...
by ps2026 | 2026-02-03 02:09:50+00:00
I'm based in the US and trying my best. I'll have some more broad polls at some point. At one question per day, I'll have a hard time getting everything and everyone included.

A lot of the statements are "general" sentiment as well. Social media, drinking age, phones and children at school, death penalty as a whole (even if it does say remain legal), etc...

Any particular international topics you'd find interesting as a poll statement?
by dryarzeg | 2026-02-03 02:10:53+00:00
> but even the best driver can make a mistake

Well, if you put it this way... even the best programmer in the world, who doesn't use AI at all, can also make a mistake. Of course, their mistakes would probably be less frequent, but I guess they wouldn't blame IDE for poor syntax highlighting (if it's good enough, of course) or the compiler or interpreter for failing to spot the logical error unrelated to syntax rules. They would say "it was my mistake". The problem with AI-generated code, though, is that those who generate it almost never take responsibility for it. They'll say something like, "AI made a mistake here and there." I have never seen someone who has generated flawed code using AI to take responsibility for it. And that's the main problem.

It doesn't matter whether you're a bad driver or the best driver. If you cause an accident, you must be held responsible. As simple as that.

> Like cars, it's an inherently flawed piece of technology

Sorry, but what exactly do you mean? I'm just curious to know what you mean when you say that cars are "an inherently flawed piece of technology".
by Fogest | 2026-02-03 02:10:57+00:00
> Like "robo"taxi, right? A lot of smart people have been working on this at same company for decade+

I'm a bit confused what you're trying to imply here. They have launched RoboTaxi's and recently have been removing the human safety monitors in them. Are you trying to imply this didn't take a lot of work from a lot of intelligent people?
by mbivert | 2026-02-03 02:11:04+00:00
> Less corruption

there's been, in 2025, 983 000 people receiving disciplinary sanctions[0]. then:

1. either there's no corruption, and people are getting sanctioned for no reason

2. there's corruption

> Less incompetency

one thing they seem to do correctly in China, is to select their leaders not based on pure political skills, but on actual thinking skills: many of them come from technical backgrounds, and have been trained to think rationally.

furthermore, in my experience, Asian people, and Chinese in particular, also have better working habits − stronger wills − than most Westerners.

I'd still be careful about assuming they're really _that_ more competent. intellectual theft, propaganda, rushed work, all could contribute to a temporary illusion of superiority.

> Less freedom for stuff like protesting

this is a watered-down description of the actual situation.

you can get jailed, beaten up, tortured, killed, etc. religious groups seem to be the main target of the most violent treatments[1]. there's really no reason to target peaceful people, via such extreme means.

[0]: https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/01/30/investigations-in...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_China
by sinisamikulic | 2026-02-03 02:12:25+00:00
Senior Frontend Engineer. I've helped startups go from pre-revenue to Series A.

I've been building web products for 14 years, usually as the first or lead frontend hire. Was onsite in SF and Berlin earlier in my career, been remote from Europe for the past six years.

- Glean AI - built international payments and the features that got the company to first revenue

- Credit Karma - worked on marketplace search for financial products

- Movieo.me (co-founded it) - got to the front page of Product Hunt and HN; 500K visits in the first month with no marketing spend

I do my best work with founders and product leaders, owning the frontend and thinking about what actually moves the business. I'm self-managed, communicative, and easy to work with (happy to share references).

Most interested in early-stage SaaS and FinTech, but I'm open if the team and product are right. Part-time, fractional, or full-time with flexible contracts.

Let's jump on a call.

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Location: Zagreb, Croatia (Europe)

Remote: Yes (US or EU time zone)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, TailwindCSS, GraphQL/REST API, Turbopack/Vite, Ruby on Rails, Docker, AWS

Website/Portfolio: https://smikulic.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinisamikulic

Email: sinisa@codewell.studio
by ttul | 2026-02-03 02:12:53+00:00
I had been procrastinating putting in the effort to find a decent web designer to redesign our company’s website because I couldn’t stomach the hours I would need to put in to educate them about our messaging and to slowly go around and around iteratively to get the design nailed.

Last week, I decided to try building the site myself using Codex (the terminal one). I chose Astro as the framework because I wanted to learn about it. I fed it some marketing framework materials (positioning statements and whatnot) and showed it some website designs that we like. I then asked it to produce a first cut and it one-shotted a pretty decent bit of output.

AGI is definitely a few more years away, because I’ve since invested probably 30 hours of iteration to make the site into something that is closer to what I eventually want to launch. But here’s the thing: I never intended for Codex to produce THE final website. But now I’m thinking, “maybe we can?” On my team, we have just enough expertise and design know-how to at least know what looks good and we are developers so we definitely know what good code looks like. And Codex is nailing it on both those fronts.

As I said, we’re far from AGI. There’s no way I can one-shot something like this. It requires iteration with humans who have years of “context” built up. But maybe the days of hiring a designer and just praying that they somehow get it right are behind us.
by ferg-in-japan | 2026-02-03 02:12:58+00:00
Location: Nagano, Japan

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (within Japan)

Technologies: Python (Django), JavaScript, PHP, Linux, HTML/CSS, Docker, Git + interested in Go and Emacs/Elisp

Resume/CV: https://ferg.jp/feargal-south_resume.pdf

Email: me [at] ferg.jp

British citizen living in Japan. I am a translator looking to transition to a new role owing to challenges affecting the industry as a whole (AI). Most recently, I have been running my own business as a freelancer. I have also been studying programming (focus on web development) and building websites and side projects for several years. My professional experience of software development is limited, but I am a hard worker and quick learner. You won't regret giving me an opportunity.

I prefer remote work but am open to hybrid work if your company has an office in Japan. I may consider relocation within Japan, depending on the role.
by skydhash | 2026-02-03 02:13:01+00:00
The issue is the revelation. It's always individual at some level. And don't forget our senses are crude. The best way is to store "insights" as information until we collect enough data that we can test it again (hopefully without a lot of bias). But that can be more than a lifetime work, so sometimes you have to take some insights at face value based on heuristics (parents, teachers, elder, authority,...)
by fsckboy | 2026-02-03 02:13:12+00:00
you can't invest in US equities without lots of exposure to the USD.

not investing in US equities would be... a strange investment strategy

exchange rates, interest rates: the best way to think of them is making all the other numbers balance. GDP, productivity, these sorts of things measure value creation. after all that is said and done, exchange and interest rates simply make sure the system balances out and bulgaria doesn't buy all the cars in the world by printing money. you're subject to them, but mostly you should ignore them.
by jasomill | 2026-02-03 02:14:10+00:00
Sort of reminds me of the DEC PAKGEN tool to generate licenses for the VMS license management facility, which DEC distributed so third-party software vendors could issue licenses for their own software.

To prevent vendor A from creating licenses for vendor B's products, each DEC-issued PAKGEN license only authorized license generation for a specific named vendor's products.

As with all other DEC-supplied VMS software, PAKGEN was licensed through the VMS license management facility.

Thus if you could somehow get a PAKGEN license for the vendor name "DEC", you could use it to generate licenses for arbitrary DEC products.

Including PAKGEN itself.

And you could therefore generate licenses authorizing PAKGEN to generate licenses for arbitrary vendors' products.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-03 02:14:53+00:00
The AI will also have to be trained to be diplomatic and maybe even cunning, because, as I can personally attest, answering questions from an AI is an extremely grating and disillusioning experience.

There are plenty of workers who refuse to answer questions from a human until it’s escalated far enough up the chain to affect their paycheck / reputation. I’m sure that the intelligence is artificial will only multiply the disdain / noncompliance.

But then maybe there will be strategies for masking from where requests are coming, like a system that anonymizes all requests for information. Even so, I feel like there would still be a way that people would ping / walk up to their colleague in meatspace and say “hey that request came from me, thanks!”
by nebula8804 | 2026-02-03 02:15:05+00:00
The magic is not money or subsidies. Boeing got far more and they produced bupkis. Its organizational excellence. I don't know if that would survive. I guess if they can keep Falcon 9 stable then its still worth something but I imagine the star employees who grind themselves to dust getting this stuff to work do it for the mission and would depart if this occurred. Would Falcon 9 fall apart of that happens?
by cranberryturkey | 2026-02-03 02:15:08+00:00
The parallelism advantage of rclone is real but undersold here. rsync's single-stream design made sense when networks were the bottleneck. Now with high-bandwidth links (especially to cloud storage), the bottleneck is often the round-trip latency of per-file metadata operations.

rclone's multi-threaded transfers effectively pipeline those operations. It's the same principle as why HTTP/2 multiplexing was such a win — you stop paying the latency tax sequentially.

One thing I'd add: for local-to-local or LAN sync, rsync still often wins because the overhead of rclone's abstraction layer isn't worth it when latency is already sub-millisecond. The 4x speedup is really a story about high-latency, high-bandwidth paths where parallelism dominates.
by scosman | 2026-02-03 02:15:20+00:00
I make a project for evals and fine-tuning and our default example task is a joke generator. It's a fun demo, but more importantly it's a really good use case to show how evaluating and optimizing LLMs is hard.

- There are a dozen plus common failure modes. How you split setup/punchline. Tropes. Toxicity. Template reuse. Each one needs a good eval.

- Datasets are hard: there's not much off the shelf, and as this author points out scraping gets a weird mix of quality.

- Models are really bad out of the box at humour.

At the end of the day it's just a hard problem that takes a lot of work and still isn't solved. GEPA prompts help, if you have good evals. Supervised fine-tuning works a little bit, but only if you training on a chain-of-thought thinking phase. We have a new evaluation builder that uses examples of edge cases for alignment, and jokes require the most iteration and feedback for refinement.

If you want to try it: https://github.com/kiln-ai/kiln
by zhivota | 2026-02-03 02:15:21+00:00
Heat pump dryers work at a much lower heat as well since much of the heating of a traditional dryer is lost out of the vent. The heat pump condenses the water out of the hot air so you don't lose the heat.

I've stopped needing to sort my clothes out as a result, I used to hate putting synthetics in a regular dryer because they get worn out so fast that way.
by einsteinx2 | 2026-02-03 02:15:43+00:00
Not if they gave me a legal document explicitly stating I didn’t need to give them anything…and I could get an infinite amount of the cookies with no extra work or money on their part…

And I would probably suggest to them that if they were interested in profiting from their cookies they should stop giving them away for free and make them commercial instead. They might then tell me they don’t want to spend the effort and money to commercialize their cookies, or maybe they prefer it as a hobby with no obligations to customers, or maybe they tell me they have a philosophical belief that they should give their their cookies away for free for anyone to do as they please with them, including commercializing them as long as they aren’t legally responsible for anything done with the cookies which is why they handed me that legal contract explicitly stating that when they gave them to me in the first place.
by tavavex | 2026-02-03 02:15:59+00:00
I think the comparison to the propiska system is incorrect. This Soviet system heavily controlled internal migration and was what ultimately dictated where someone was permitted to live. You couldn't relocate without one, and having this permission was tied to all sorts of local services. This system anchored people to where they were, and usually barred them from moving unless they had a good reason to.

The US currently has freedom of movement. You don't need the government's permission to live somewhere or to move somewhere else. An ID with your address listed isn't propiska. At best, you could compare it to the 'internal passport' that the USSR and most post-Soviet countries had, which acted as a comprehensive identity document and was the ancestor to modern national ID cards that are used in many countries.
by pama | 2026-02-03 02:16:00+00:00
I use headless mode (-p) and keep my named shell histories as journals (so no curses/TUI or GUI). But session management or branching could improve at the tool level and allow seamless integration with completion tools, which could be a simple fast AI looking at recent sessions or even be visual, say for navigating and extending a particular complex branch of a past session. It is not too hard to work with such shell-based flows within Emacs for me, but it would be nice if there was some standardization effort on the tool fronts and some additional care for future automation. I dont want my AI clicking buttons if it can be precise instead. And I certainly want multithreading. I think of AI more as an OS; it needs a shell more than it needs windows at this point in time.
by himujjal | 2026-02-03 02:16:45+00:00
I don’t mind someone doing politics stuffs. Heck I am in for privacy and no enterprise model of software. Big Stallman fan here.

But I would really suggest keeping politics out of Zig stuffs.

I don’t even know what ICE is. Just read about it.

This is a show of power.

Like: “I am an American and since I am building the software, I am going to push MY politics into your throat”.

That means, to show similar power, I need to build a software as influential as Zig so that I can push my agendas of my country down your throats.

Heck let me do just that.

Keep politics to politics forums, keep code to code.
by TheDong | 2026-02-03 02:16:48+00:00
I think there is one more possible framing for this.

Recently xAI has been in the news for Groq's revenge-porn-like "undress them" feature, which seems pretty legally questionable.

Musk has also been in the news for his own Epstein-related activities.

If he can move Groq and X into space, well, there's not very many age-of-consent or revenge-porn laws in space as far as I know, so maybe he'll be able to do some sort of legal leverage where the space data-center can produce otherwise legally questionable AI responses with impunity.