MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Rochus | 2026-02-05 10:39:19+00:00
I'm not particularly sure what the autor's claim has to do with Wirth, but there is a quote which he could have added to the article: "To hell with AI" (see https://inf.ethz.ch/people/faculty/emeriti/niklaus-wirth-quo...). Wirth distrusted AI mostly because of the "grandiose promises" its proponents made at the time (see https://bertrandmeyer.com/2024/01/16/niklaus-wirth-importanc...).

Besides that, I don't think that the "appeal to authority" the author makes in his article works. Wirth was a pragmatist, not a luddite. His "Lean Software" philosophy was about determinism and understandability, i.e. building systems where the engineer comprehends every instruction cycle. He criticized software that was written poorly (from his very own perspective).

The author implies that because we ignored Wirth’s warnings about OS bloat in the 90s, we were culturally primed to accept the "ultimate bloat" of LLMs in the 2020s; that's pretty wild logic. The author essentially criticizes that using LLMs for simple tasks is overkill. This is another concern than writing bloated software.

LLMs have demonstrated that they are able to generate both, lean and bloated software. When I use an LLM to review my code, it often finds logic reductions and possibilities for minimization which were not obvious. Ultimately, it once again comes down to the question of how tools are used. In the case of LLMs, they can obviously be used in line with or contrary to Wirt's recommendations.
by wolvoleo | 2026-02-05 10:39:23+00:00
I think this American exceptionalism is getting old. The country is a lot more capitalist and that stimulates certain industries, especially venture capitalism which is basically gambling with investor money.

But a lot of the companies that came out of this like Google, Meta, Microsoft are also a big net negative in the world and causing societal decay with their attention-driving algorithms and hard business practices used to establish their monopolies.

It's not surprising the more ethical business models come from the EU like GOG without its DRM. And valve isn't really one of the worst companies out there, but gog is a lot better and I always buy there if a game is available.

Europe has its issues but look at the state America is in right now. A lot of all that hate is fuelled by people who have been drawing the short end of the capitalism stick for decades. And are now mobilised by the people making things worse for them.
by wtcactus | 2026-02-05 10:39:36+00:00
I keep seeing posts about OpenClaw (I still didn’t try it myself) but I don’t get the constant references to the Mac Minis.

Why are people needing the Mac Minis? Isn’t OpenClaw supposed to run locally in your laptop?

And if it actually should run as a service, why a MacMini and not some docker on the local NAS for instance?
by pclmulqdq | 2026-02-05 10:41:15+00:00
I am referring to the "using a heat pump to make the radiator hotter than the GPU" as "creating a thermal gradient." No matter the technology, moving heat like this is always pretty expensive in power terms, and the price goes way up if you want the radiator hotter that the thing it's cooling.

Can you point to a terrestrial system similar to what you are proposing? Liquid cooling and phase change cooling in computers always has a radiator that is cooler than the component it is chilling.

You can do this in theory, but it takes so much power you are better off with some heat pumping to much bigger passive radiators that are cooler than your silicon (like everything else in space).
by bandrami | 2026-02-05 10:41:16+00:00
Sorry: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2015/09/02/b...

https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/former-president-and-ceo-...

https://oig.federalreserve.gov/releases/news-bekkedam-senten...

That's literally just from the first page of Google results, which you are also free to use if you want to learn more about this.

And btw "it's just TARP fraud" is an idiotic thing to say: the fraud was in misrepresenting the banks' positions prior to the crash during the TARP audit.
by heyyeah | 2026-02-05 10:41:33+00:00
This week: look at Qwen3 Coder Next and GLM 4.7 but it's changing fast.

I wrote this for the scenario you've run out of quota for the day or week but want a back up plan to keep going to give some options with obvious speed and quality trade-offs. There is also always the option to upgrade if your project and use case needs Opus 4.5.
by copywriterfilip | 2026-02-05 10:41:57+00:00
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by nopurpose | 2026-02-05 10:42:33+00:00
Is there a good tool for background migrations?

For example add temporarily nullable column to a large table, deploy new code which starts writing to the new column, in background populate that column for existing rows in batches and finally alter column to be mandatory non-nullable.

Another example of non-trivial schema management case is to make schema change after new version rollout completes: simple migration at the start of the container can't do that.

It must be a solved problem, but I didn't see a good tool for it which would allow expressing these imperative changes in a declarative way which can be comitted and reviewed and tested along the app code. It is always bunch of adhoc ugly scripts on a side and some hand waving deployment instructions.
by Symbiote | 2026-02-05 10:42:59+00:00
I don't think I've ever seen a non-hot-swap disk in a normal server. The oldest I dealt with had 16 HDDs per server, and only 12 were accessible from the outside, bu the 4 internal ones were still hot-swap after taking the cover off.

Even some really old (2000s-era) junk I found in a cupboard at work was all hot-swap drives.

But more realistically in this case, you tell the data centre "remote hands" person that a new HDD will arrive next-day from Dell, and it's to go in server XYZ in rack V-U at drive position T. This may well be a free service, assuming normal failure rates.
by man8alexd | 2026-02-05 10:42:59+00:00
You are right, it is not a rule of thumb, and you can't determine optimal swap size right away. But you don't need "extensive runtime analysis". Start with a small swap - a few hundred megabytes (assuming the system has GBs of RAM). Check its utilization periodically. If it is full, add a few hundred megabytes more. That's all.
by saghm | 2026-02-05 10:43:20+00:00
As others have stated, people are upset at the lack of prosecution for causing the crisis, not literally the lack of any CEO committing any financial crime related to the crisis at all. From your own link:

> Goldsmith Romero said it’s wrong to say that bankers now in prison only came from small banks. She said that that some banks had assets of as much as $10 billion and were very big players in the states where they were based. But she said it is true that top executives at the so-called “too big to fail” banks have avoided any criminal charges, even as their banks paid tens of billions of dollars in fines to settle charges of wrong doing leading up to the financial crisis.

> “I certainly understand the frustration of the people who want to see accountability for those who brought on the financial crisis,” she told CNNMoney. But she said even when the big banks admitted to wrong doing, investigators were not able to prove criminal action by the banks’ executives.

Five minutes ago I was unhappy there were no apples, and you're showing me a stack of oranges and then acting like it's irrational for me to not consider all fruit equivalent. I imagine you'd claim this is goalpost moving, but when you're apparently getting into conversations about this often enough to have formed your own narrative about so many people being irrational, it's worth considering that maybe it's more likely that you as an individual have been misunderstanding what everyone else has been saying rather than large swaths of people all suffering from a massive delusion that you alone have managed to see the real truth about.
by vga42 | 2026-02-05 10:44:41+00:00
Gabe is pretty cool and Valve is an amazing company that has done great things for both PC and Linux gaming. But this is not enough to counter the absolute shitshow that is USA right now.

But hey, they have midterms coming up this year. That's a great opportunity to redeem some of their earlier sanity. That is, if the democracy still exists then. It's not just the left that is worried -- many american centrists have started to wonder.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/america-fascism-tr... -- https://archive.is/Maalh
by throwawayqqq11 | 2026-02-05 10:44:48+00:00
Since i cant reply to your flagged comment above, ill do it here.

> And I gotta ask, you think it's just two oceans, and what your experience is in the intelligence community field? Are you just assuming without knowing the inner workings?

This depicts the distribution of refugees caused by iraq and afghan wars. Which, to remind you, were proudly based on lies.

> https://www.unhcr.org/news/press-releases/iraqis-afghans-and...

> As a region, Europe received 75 percent of all asylum applications although the United States remained the single largest recipient country with an estimated 13 percent of all applications

Are you still proud making the world a better place? Maybe you are too busy fighting terrorists to reply.
by ehnto | 2026-02-05 10:45:19+00:00
Without getting into the weeds, I don't think it would be commercially viable, but that doesn't seem to be a prerequisite for funding these days.

I would also note that the ISS is a very expensive long term project, a greenfields space station like Tiangong from my understanding was about a 10th of the cost. One of these billionaires could pay for the whole thing out of pocket.
by doublerabbit | 2026-02-05 10:46:07+00:00
I colocate in London, a single server / firewall comes to around £5k a year. I also colocate two other servers in some northern UK location in some industrial estate for £2k as my backups.

I've never enjoyed the cloud and dedicated server's have their own caveats too. Budget hosts such as Hetzner/OVH have been known to suddenly pull the plug for no reason.

My kit is old, second hand old (Cisco UCS 220 M5, 2xDell somethings) and last night I just discovered I can throw in two NVIDIA T4's turn it in to a personal LLM. Quite excited.
by saubeidl | 2026-02-05 10:47:29+00:00
ICE as an institution is fundamentally evil.

It's using immigration as a pretext to build an unaccountable group of thugs that disappear people into camps, murder political opponents and surveil the populace (as seen in OP). It's recruiting primarily from far-right militias, regularizing them into a paramilitary force of the regime.

There is no justifiable reason to have them terrorize an entire city like they have been doing in Minneapolis.

The brownshirts needed to be abolished in the 1920s, a pinky-swear they wouldn't do the thing they were designed to do wouldn't have been enough.

The same applies to their modern equivalent.
by dart200 | 2026-02-05 10:48:08+00:00
for profit software is pretty gross tho. it can be made indefinitely complex, and people can make and sell tools to patchwork the complexity together, but then u need more tools to patchwork all the tools together ...

and u end up in aggregators aggregated aggregators type situation where optimal solutions never arise because we don't actually cooperate enough to produce them

ai is fitting into the notion that this is all bullshit ... even if not in the correct way
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-02-05 10:50:34+00:00
My guess would be that this was designed to be printed on smaller sheets of paper, like used in paperback novels and similar. But for some reason (possibly to make it more convenient to print on standard paper), the PDF was produced with Letter dimensions.

I don't think that it's for taking notes like the other reply [0] suggests, because if that were the case, I would expect for the cover to take up the whole paper width (since nobody would ever take notes on the cover), and I would expect the margin width to alternate between pages (since it's really hard to write on the inner margin in a bound book).

Using the example given in the other reply [0], the SCOTUS opinions are so narrow because they're printed on a bizarre paper size of 6 1/8" by 9 1/4" [1] [2], not to leave room to take notes.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46887595

[1]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/casehand/guidetofilingpaidcases...

[2]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrules/2023RulesoftheCo...
by keyringlight | 2026-02-05 10:52:42+00:00
I think PC gaming has some advantage because it casts a huge net over a lot of factors: games big and small, lots of genres, lots of input types, ancient weak hardware to the latest extreme can all be viable, can be tinkered with, developers of all types can produce on it, shared with non-gaming usages. The only way I could see console claiming more of that is if it standardized something similar to a CD/DVD/BD player device, under a consortium and not 'owned' by a single company (or at least easier to license).
by karolisram | 2026-02-05 10:53:05+00:00
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by YannBuilds | 2026-02-05 10:53:15+00:00
I built this because I’m a vide coder, not a professional designer.

When I’m building, the "vibe" and the flow are everything. But every time I start a new project, I hit the same wall: the "branding tax." I’d lose 2 hours on tedious tasks—finding a color palette that isn't boring, wrestling with SVG vectorizers that are full of ads, and resizing favicons.

It kills the creative momentum.

So I built OneMinuteBranding to automate the stuff that usually gets in the way of shipping. It handles the boring parts:

Native SVG logos: No pixelated PNGs.

Code-first output: Generates tailwind.config.ts and variables.css directly.

Full Favicon set: Ready to drop into /public.

AI Context: It even exports a CLAUDE.md file so my AI tools (Cursor/Claude) know the brand guidelines from line one.

I also released the internal tools I built for this (PNG to SVG and a clean Favicon generator) as free standalone tools for the community.

I'd love to hear how other makers handle this. Do you spend time in Figma for every side project, or do you have a way to skip the "design phase" to stay in the flow?
by pjc50 | 2026-02-05 10:55:04+00:00
There was a cartoon on bluesky with the dialogue:

"we've listened and we're going to keep offering Animate" (crowd cheers)

".. but we're not going to make any changes to the software" (crowd cheers louder)

"wait why are they still cheering"

.. the joke being that the customers don't want the software to materially change, just so long as it continues to run.
Ask HN: Hire academic researchers and train them up to be good SWEs?
by tdsone3 | 2026-02-05 10:55:22+00:00
Hi HN!

we are struggling with the following: there's a few people in the world whose domain expertise we need (e.g. 5y in an academic lab working on a particular topic that requires wet-lab, hardware and computational bio expertise) but who mostly happen to be pretty bad at SWE. The intersection of domain expertise required and good SWE skills unfortunately seems to be 0 in some cases.

We're now considering two options:
1. hire the person and train them up to be a good SWE
2. hire a decent SWE with outstanding drive and intellect to pick up the domain expertise

1. seems more achievable because the resources required to train someone up are lower than sending 2. into a wet lab and have them fuck things up for half a year.

I wonder if anyone has experience with this situation and advice/stories to share.

Ty!
by Schlagbohrer | 2026-02-05 10:55:30+00:00
Can someone explain 2 to me. How is a managed private cloud different from full cloud? Like you are still using AWS or Azure but you are keeping all your operation in a bundled, portable way, so you can leave that provider easily at any time, rather than becoming very dependent on them? Is it like staying provider-agnostic but still cloud based?
by dizhn | 2026-02-05 10:55:33+00:00
I applied for my first credit card at a desk they had set up in front of the school. No SSN. When I entered my income (non existent), guy went "no man.. come on. put this amount. hey'll never give you a card with that". Week later I received the card with my name misspelled and everything. (I still see that misspelled name EVERYWHERE when I search for my name)
by giaour | 2026-02-05 10:55:53+00:00
Just because some people who say "no one is illegal" also say "no more borders," that does not automatically mean that the former implies the latter. If that were the case, we could paint everyone who agrees with Nick Fuentes on any point as a antisemite.

The grandparent post accurately captured what I have understood people to mean by "no one is illegal" -- it is meant to protest a dehumanizing way to describe a class of people.
by hikkerl | 2026-02-05 10:55:58+00:00
Reasonable comments engaging in discussions on HN are frequently downvoted and flagged by the hivemind, causing the account to be shadow banned (ie. any comment is immediately 'dead', invisible to others).

I make a new account at least every week to get around this. This is my only account. Don't like it? Encourage your comrades to engage in good faith and tolerate perspectives that they personally disagree with.
by piva00 | 2026-02-05 10:57:01+00:00
Thought-terminating clichés are quite boring, and don't foster any discussion, I'd like to see more thought instead so curiosity could live and perhaps this comment thread could go somewhere where we both give into each other's argument but alas seems it's not possible to extract that from you, only tiresome one-liner platitudes.

It is sad though, this is the kind of discussion I do enjoy having with clever people.
by heresie-dabord | 2026-02-05 10:57:09+00:00
Nadella himself wrote:

“We have moved past the initial phase of discovery” of AI, Nadella wrote in a December blog post, adding that the industry was entering a phase where “we are beginning to distinguish between ‘spectacle’ and ‘substance.’”

Customers are not buying the spectacle and investors are wondering why there is no substance.
by pjc50 | 2026-02-05 10:57:31+00:00
The problem is circular. The risk is that your counterparty goes bust. Therefore nobody wants to make any moves until they can be sure that (mostly) every other player is stable. But because no moves are happening, that in itself is destabilizing.

That is, the big risk is "what if the state doesn't intervene?"

Correspondingly, the state has a special move that only it can play, because "what if the state doesn't intervene" is not a risk to the state itself. The act of intervening makes the risk go away. That's part of the privilege of being the lender of last resort with the option to print currency.

(which is why this was a much more serious problem for Greece and Ireland, which as Eurozone members were constrained in their ability to even contemplate printing their way out of the problem!)
Show HN: ReFrame – Linux remote desktop that supports Login on Wayland/TTY
by AlynxZhou | 2026-02-05 10:58:07+00:00
Hi, in the past few months I make a new Linux remote desktop that supports remote login on Wayland as my part-time project. The reason is that existing Linux remote desktops have different problems about this: some only supports remote login on X11, some supports Wayland but you cannot login, some supports remote login on Wayland but only with RDP on specific desktop environment. On the contrary, mine uses VNC, supports remote login on both Wayland and X11, and should work with all general desktop environments.

The main idea is grabbing monitor content via DRM/KMS, and then I get the following features:

- Works with Wayland, X11 and even Linux TTY.
- Supports Intel, AMD and NVIDIA GPU, even works with a Raspberry Pi 2B, I happen to have all those kinds of devices to test.
- Smoothly transition between login session and user session, so you don't need things like auto-login before accessing your desktop.
- With Linux kernel parameters, you can use it headlessly, so you don't need a actual monitor.
- You can connect to it with any normal VNC clients, technically there should be no difficult to support RDP, just because I use VNC personally and I spend my time on other features.

The expected experience should be the same as you are sitting in front of your real monitor. I've use it on my Linux home server for a long time so I could access its desktop on a laptop when needed. Now I'm feeling OK with it and I want to introduce it to you to hear more from more users.

Welcome to the GitHub repo for details!
by gucci-on-fleek | 2026-02-05 10:58:16+00:00
> Same deal with things like SCOTUS opinions. (Random example: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/24-624_b07d.pdf)

I don't think that that's quite right. SCOTUS opinions do indeed use a narrow text size (4 1/8" by 7 1/8" [0]), but that's because they're designed to be printed on unusually narrow paper (6 1/8" by 9 1/4" [0]), not to leave room for taking notes. This paper size actually only leaves 1" margins on either side, which leaves less room for taking notes than most other documents.

[0]: https://www.supremecourt.gov/filingandrules/2023RulesoftheCo...