MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yencabulator | 2026-02-11 18:29:41+00:00
> Your quote, for instance, is used in the context of reading old logs using a typed schema if that schema changes. But that's a non-issue in the FP languages mentioned above since they tend towards the use of unstructured data (maps, lists) and lambdas

The application that assumes that key "foo" is in the map, and crashes if it's not, is just as brittle[1] as the one that assumes that the data deserializes into a struct with the field foo present.

[1]: In practice, it's more brittle because the crashes are more unexpected and at runtime. Javascript has a legacy of this...
by afro88 | 2026-02-11 18:29:57+00:00
Apologies, I did jump the gun here. There has been more and more lazy LLM replies on HN lately and yours raised a flag in my mind because I can't remember someone commenting that deeply while also agreeing with me (normally if it's a lengthy response it's because they are arguing against my point).

There are some enlightening points here about LLM writing style for me. Trying to write like an LLM being impossible (at least for a non-trivial length of text) is such a good point. Run on sentences as another hint that it's not an LLM is also useful. Thanks!
by epistasis | 2026-02-11 18:30:33+00:00
This is new information on top of yesterday's stories on this refusal to review:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968407

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968424

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968800

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46969571

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970166

This is basically hair-on-fire, house-on-fire, everything falling apart story for BioTech, a disastrous corruption of an already difficult review process.

There's a general feeling that if Moderna had donated a few million dollars to the new White House Ballroom, they could have rescued the massive cost of the flu vaccine trial. Which is an admission that the US government is plainly and openly corrupt. It's doubtful that the board of Moderna would have ever allowed that sort of donation though, due to its naked corruption.
by NitpickLawyer | 2026-02-11 18:30:34+00:00
The difference is in scaling. The top US labs have oom more compute available than chinese labs. The difference in general tasks is obvious once you use them. It used to be said that open models are ~6mo behind SotA a year go, but with the new RL paradigm, I'd say the gap is growing. With less compute they have to focus on narrow tasks, resort to poor man's distillation and that leads to models that show benchmaxxing behavior.

That being said, this model is MIT licensed, so it's a net benefit regardless of being benchmaxxed or not.
by jltsiren | 2026-02-11 18:30:43+00:00
It's misleading because it focuses on actions that are clearly not working. People on the average are increasing their consumption, not reducing it. That means the actual problem — the waste at the end of the pipeline — is growing every year.

Waste management is the actual problem that needs to be solved. "Reduce and reuse" can be a part of the solution, but people are not doing enough voluntarily to make it a major part.
by Lapsa | 2026-02-11 18:30:58+00:00
unknown entity is harassing me (my guess - local Latvian secret service which has been grabbed by the balls by internal conflict of Russian secret services (GRU, FSB and whatnot)) via audible microwave radiation (using Frey effect - similar shit Venezuelan guard brains got cooked but on lower intensity and different signal processing) voice message transmissions. effectively - society spits out, neutralizes and isolates unwanted elements and marks them as schizophrenics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957619
Show HN: Visualizing How Books Reference Each Other Across 3k Years
by farcaster | 2026-02-11 18:31:23+00:00
There are two parts for this project:

1) The LLM-powered pipeline to extract citations (books + authors) from books and resolve them using both Wikipedia and Goodreads with offline copies I have. The result is data associating Books/Authors to other Books/Authors with accurate bibliographical information spanning centuries.

2) A WebGPU + D3.js powered visualization tool written by Claude Code so I'm able to deal with all this data on the browser on a more or less comfortable experience for the viewer.

I spent some months on a off with this project, and definitely the most challenging part was dealing with accurate bibliographical information across centuries, with original publication dates and etc. For that I wrote what is now a very complex pipeline with LLMs (I used DeepSeek V3.2) wired on offline Goodreads and Wikipedia databases + a fallback that actually uses the internet.

Hope you enjoy it! Open to suggestions on how to improve the system :)

Code is here: https://github.com/ThiagoLira/bookgraph-revisited
by caseysoftware | 2026-02-11 18:31:28+00:00
> In other words most of the US outside of a major metro area.

Not just outside, I spent 15 years in/around Austin and it got to be ridiculous.

2020 - cleared out the stores at covid.. alright, few people were prepared, none had done it before

2021 - cleared out the stores for the blizzard, lost power for 45min and water for 5 days.. almost no one was prepared, despite the year before

2023 - cleared out the stores for the blizzard, lost power for days due to heavy icing.. some were prepared but not at scale

Some people just don't learn.

Luckily after '20, we prepared. Then in '21, we moved to rural Texas and got solar+battery backup so 2023 wasn't even a blip.
by dathinab | 2026-02-11 18:31:36+00:00
Part of this isn't just relevant for "heavy snow" places but also for rear emergency situations you anyway should be prepared for.

This winter we had a power hick up _and then_ a multi day power outage.

> You have a lot of batteries, flashlights, shelf stable food, warm clothes, and drinking water stored, right? Good.

I hadn't. Luckily the power outage was quite local so I could take a bus for ~30min to get to some shops, including ones with flashlights.

Also no propane heater or similar, you don't expect to need it where I live. I would have loved having had it even if just for a bit.

I also had a 1kWh battery.

But some annoying surprise:

- 1kWh is a bad size, to big (but still possible) to nice by food carry somewhere where you can recharge it but too small to use it for a lot of things

- Turns out even if you blanked is theoretically insulating enough to handle very cold temperatures, if it's cooled down, you bed is cooled down, and you yourself are cooled down you need quite a time to warm it up with body head. Doesn't matter that it can handle the temperature or having very warm clothes it will be a huge pain. Having some way (e.g. heat blanked run by battery) to slightly heat up your blanked _before_ you enter it makes an enormous difference when sleeping at ~10C.

- In general learn about winter camping tips they help you if you need to bridge 1-2 days in a very cold apartment. Also having a winter camping sleeping bag can be nice.

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The 3rd point is just general good advice, at least skim the manual it might have surprisingly important things in it. And sometimes random but useful tips.

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> build up and make the fallen snow denser and tougher

fun fact: this is how glaciers are formed, from non melting snow fall pilling up over years and by wight compressing the snow to ice
by moon2 | 2026-02-11 18:32:24+00:00
That's what capitalism does – it isolates individuals and destroys communities. No wonder why so many people are befriending AIs and there's a "loneliness epidemic" going around.

When it comes to physical communities (e.g. neighborhoods), I think about some neighborhoods in São Paulo that are being destroyed by buildings and construction sites everywhere [1]. So many neighborhoods full of stories and friendships and people who took care of each other, now becoming part of this massive verticalization, speculation and isolation. Neighbors have to leave due to construction companies' harassment. The ones that decide to stay have to live without their friends around, in neighborhoods that grow more dangerous, with worse traffic, with less small businesses and without knowing who are their new neighbors (which aren't even long term living). Their houses look exactly like Carl Fredricksen's house from Pixar's Up.

When it comes to digital communities, I can only be reminded of how Orkut and MSN defined lots of adolescences in Latin America. Orkut literally had the concept of communities, where people gathered around similar interests (just as the early web's forums). I made a lot of friends in Orkut and MSN Messenger, some of them are still my friends after more than a decade. Facebook tried to recreate the idea of communities (with their groups), but Facebook is pretty much dead for younger people. And Instagram is just so isolating. It has a whole lot of standardized and algorithmically curated content that alienates you from other human beings.

I believe the reason why Orkut (owned by Google) was killed was that they wanted more users, maybe to compete with Facebook. But Orkut was too localized, it basically talked to Brazil and some other countries in Latin America, and India, where it was created. After killing Orkut, Google invested a lot on Google+ (do you remember that fiasco??).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCIQoN0fUE0
by tonymet | 2026-02-11 18:32:42+00:00
The concept of Recycling ( nearly all the materials can be reused with little cost or impact) is a myth. There are relatively few consumer products or materials that are readily recycled.

It's not so much that electronics are unrecyclable, it's that nearly everything is unrecyclable.

Recycling is nearly a fantasy. For the most part it has been a campaign for waste management firms to charge customers double while demanding they separate their own garbage, and punish them for doing it wrong. The charade lasted so long because much of the "recycling" was dumped in Asia and ended up in the ocean from there.
Show HN: Birdy: TUI for X
by uncanny_guzus | 2026-02-11 18:32:50+00:00
Birdy is TUI for X. It internally uses claude code + bird cli developed by Peter Steinberger. Also I added multi-account support for preventing rate limits.

It's now my daily driver for monitoring AI news and market sentiments, since X is the great source when tracking realtime events.

Birdy summarizes the home feed of yours, and answers every question by agentically searching and browsing twitter.
by reactordev | 2026-02-11 18:33:13+00:00
Merely pointing out that the US administration is operating like a cartel now a days.

I doubt Mexicans see the Mexican cartels as “theirs” in the same way. Cartels have only been interested in paying off politicians and (as far as I’m aware) weren’t interested in being politicians. However, our politicians here… would LOVE to be Cartel members and make millions it seems. Because they definitely don’t give a shit about law and order.
by ndesaulniers | 2026-02-11 18:33:32+00:00
Was looking at the llvm case with the dead store to the stack.

https://godbolt.org/z/Kb736onb4

\*\* IR Dump After Expand memcmp() to load/stores (expand-memcmp) \*\*
; Function Attrs: mustprogress nofree norecurse nounwind willreturn memory(argmem: read) uwtable
define dso_local noundef zeroext i1 @isAllZeros(ptr noundef nonnull readonly align 4 captures(none) dereferenceable(8) %0) local_unnamed_addr #0 {
%2 = alloca %"struct.std::array", align 8
call void @llvm.lifetime.start.p0(ptr %2)
store i64 0, ptr %2, align 8
%3 = load i64, ptr %0, align 4
%4 = load i64, ptr %2, align 8
%5 = icmp ne i64 %3, %4
%6 = zext i1 %5 to i32
%7 = icmp eq i32 %6, 0
call void @llvm.lifetime.end.p0(ptr %2)
ret i1 %7
}

It looks like expand-memcmp in the backend converts a call to bcmp to multiple loads/stores. Perhaps expand-memcmp should then do a round of store-to-load forwarding.

Filed https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/180991 which I think is what the author should do in cases like this (rather than a blog post).
by ottah | 2026-02-11 18:33:34+00:00
Let's just be plain as possible because online commenters are some of the most obtuse people.

1. Vaccines are good, everyone should get the fucking flu shot

2. There will be new vaccines targeting current strains of influenza available this season from other manufacturers using older methods

3. I have no fucking clue if an mRNA flu vaccine is good or bad, but I also don't care

4. I get mrna vaccines can be developed faster, we might be better served, but we are not losing existing capabilities

5. If we are short on vaccines produced with older methods that is likely poor business planning and not an actual technical limitation

6. I hate you
by noupdates | 2026-02-11 18:33:35+00:00
Quite frankly, most seasoned developers should be able to write their own Claude Code. You know your own algorithm for how you deal with lines of code, so it's just a matter of converting your own logic. Becoming dependent on Claude Code is a mistake (edit: I might be too heavy handed with this statement). If your coding agent isn't doing what you want, you need to be able to redesign it.
by bluGill | 2026-02-11 18:33:52+00:00
> with pensions being better managed than your average human would do.

Only if they are. Some pensions are well managed. Some are not. Some seem well managed for years, but in fact they are not. Some have been well managed for a long time, but someone incompetent gets in power. Can you tell the difference.

Oh, and if you can tell the difference, can you convince everyone else and thus get this fixed? Or will voters be happy with the mismanagement because it is returning great results now on low investment leaving more money to spend on other things now?
by griffzhowl | 2026-02-11 18:34:04+00:00
If you're into atomic physics and getting a feel for the intricate structure of the basic processes, the best find I had recently is this MIT course by Wolfgang Ketterle. The first lecture is an informal overview, and he gives vivid and detailed descriptions of the phenomena they can create and control now, like why we see different kinds of thing happening at very low temperatures: the atoms are moving past each other so slowly that it gives their wavefunctions time to overlap and interact, using intersecting lasers to create arrays of dimples in the electromagnetic field to draw in and hold single atoms, this kind of thing. It gives a more tangible insight into the quantum aspects of matter that can otherwise seem inscrutable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agu68RGaoWM&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...

He also got the Nobel prize in the 90s for making a Bose-Einstein condensate iirc.
by mbgerring | 2026-02-11 18:35:19+00:00
Here are some easy ones:

- End H1B abuse and demand limits on offshoring

- Compensation transparency

- “Value capture,” as called out in the article. If new tools make engineers 10x more productive, that should be reflected in compensation

- End employment law workarounds like “unlimited PTO,” where your PTO is still limited in practice, but it’s not a defined or accruing benefit

- Protection against dilution of equity for employees

- A seat at the table for workers, not just managers, in the event of layoffs

- Professional ethics and whistleblower protections. Legally-protected strikes if workers decide to refuse on pursuing an ethically or legally dubious product or feature.

I could go on. There are a lot of abuses we put up with because of relatively high salaries, and it is now abundantly clear that the billionaire capital-owning class is dead set on devaluing the work we do to “reduce labor costs.” We can decide not to go along with that.
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by ramon156 | 2026-02-11 18:36:07+00:00
All my information about this is being based on feels, because debugging isn't really feasible. Verbose mode is a mess, and there's no alternative.

It still does what I need so I'm okay with it, but I'm also on the $20 plan so it's not that big of a worry for me.

I did sense that the big wave of companies is hitting Anthropic's wallet. If you hadn't realized, a LOT of companies switched to Claude. No idea why, and this is coming from someone who loves Claude Code.

Anyway, getting some transparency on this would be nice.
by iberator | 2026-02-11 18:36:33+00:00
Fun fact: NetBSD supports VAX 70/380 system from 1978/79!

That's the oldest known architecture that can run modern Unix. 32 bit, MMU, multi cpu: ahead of it's time.

So if you travel back in time: that's a safe platform if you would like to do some system programming with modern knowledge.
by afro88 | 2026-02-11 18:37:00+00:00
Right, prompting for depth of field will never work (with current models) because it treats it as a style rather than knowing on some level how light and lenses behave. The model needs to know this, and then we can prompt it with the lens and zoom and it will naturally do the rest. Like how you prompt newer video models without saying "make the ball roll down the hill"
by dathinab | 2026-02-11 18:37:05+00:00
It's pretty much a "countries with bad infrastructure" problem.

But it can happen anywhere, so you should be prepared anyway. Like I'm living in a city and had a surprise 5 day power outage this winter. And it's not a place with bad infrastructure I can't remember any noticeable power outage in the last 8+ years. But unusual shit happened and power was gone for days.

Luckily it wasn't too cold. But at the last night before power was returned it was 10C in my room. Not too bad if you are prepared, very much bad if you are not (as it was the last day I was kinda half prepared, that night did suck).
by Schmerika | 2026-02-11 18:37:08+00:00
> At this point, you have two basic scenarios: something like UBI, or (if the machines are less cooperative) John Conner.

Well, there is a third basic scenario; where the billionaires who control the AI use it to help get rid of all the poors once they're no longer necessary.

If that were true though, we'd probably see them all frantically scrambling to control AI, buying private islands and blackmail networks, getting heavily involved in pandemic preparedness programs, genetic engineering, virus research, instigating massive wars, buying up all the media and politicians, creating massive surveillance programs and building deep underground bunkers. Stuff like that.

So, nothing to worry about.
by jeffbee | 2026-02-11 18:37:24+00:00
Good explanation. I think it's sad that people find it easier to adopt imaginary theory of why labor statistics are flawed than they are to simply go read their methodology. People don't want to believe that there are BLS statisticians working the phones and knocking on doors. They don't want to know that there are hundreds of USDA employees tasked with writing down the retail price of carrots in every major American city every day. They aren't interested in how Census takers judge the population by counting gas and electric meters. They'd rather believe that bureaucrats are evil and incompetent.
by MiguelHudnandez | 2026-02-11 18:37:32+00:00
I think it's worth correcting the record here because drone warfare is pretty different from what actually happened. What they identified and shot down was a mylar party balloon.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airspace-closure-followed-spat-...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-military-shot-down-party...
Show HN: StickyWall – visual notes with no signup or cloud
by leonidahacker | 2026-02-11 18:37:37+00:00
I built StickyWall as an experiment: what’s the minimum interface needed for quick thinking?

Most note apps add structure — folders, lists, tags, and reminders. I wanted the opposite: a blank wall where thoughts can be placed visually with no setup, no hierarchy, and no friction.

Design constraints I imposed:

* no signup
* instant interaction
* visual spatial layout instead of lists
* no required organization system

It’s basically meant to feel like grabbing a Post-it and sticking it somewhere, but in a browser.

I’m curious whether removing structure actually helps thinking, or just feels nicer.

Would love feedback on:

* usability
* missing primitives
* whether it’s useful or just aesthetically satisfying

App:
https://stickywall.app/
by martiniturbide | 2026-02-11 18:38:14+00:00
Hello. ArcaOS has Qt4 and Qt5 ported. There is an version of OpenOffice available for it. It has ACPI, ACHI and USB support. It is not only a retro-computing novelty, there are people, like me, that still runs it everyday and believe in it. I invite you all to visit OS2World.com if you really want to see the community.
by MicKillah | 2026-02-11 18:38:46+00:00
This comes up from time to time and although my experience is anecdotal, I see clear degradation of output when I run heavy loads (100s of batched/chunked requests, via an automated pipeline) and sometimes the difference in quality is absolutely laughable in how poor it is. This gets worse for me as I get closer to my (hourly, weekly) limits. I am Claude Max subscriber. There’s some shady stuff going on in the background, for sure, from my perspective and experience during my year or so of intense usage.
by bradfa | 2026-02-11 18:38:49+00:00
Yes and no. There are many not-trivial things you have to solve when using an LLM to help (or fully handle writing) code.

For example, applying diffs to files. Since the LLM uses tokenization for all its text input/output, sometimes the diffs it'll create to modify a file aren't quite right as it may slightly mess up the text which is before/after the change and/or might introduce a slight typo in text which is being removed, which may or may not cleanly apply in the edit. There's a variety of ways to deal with this but most of the agentic coding tools have this mostly solved now (I guess you could just copy their implementation?).

Also, sometimes the models will send you JSON or XML back from tool calls which isn't valid, so your tool will need to handle that.

These fun implementation details don't happen that often in a coding session, but they happen often enough that you'd probably get driven mad trying to use a tool which didn't handle them seamlessly if you're doing real work.
by kube-system | 2026-02-11 18:38:50+00:00
> The fact that we tolerate creating waste because it's "economical" is frankly disgusting.

I don't think anyone here is suggesting we "tolerate" it, but describing the economic incentives that exist.

> The disposal fees for e waste should make it uneconomical to dispose of boards.

I can't think of any number that you could pick that wouldn't either be ineffective, or cause unintended effects. At $10, that's a drop in the bucket compared to labor costs of component level repair. At $100, you're going to see the local lake filled with obsolete cell phones, which is even worse than them being in a landfill.