MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by codingdave | 2026-02-01 15:49:04+00:00
Well, now you are including cultural acceptance as a requirement for creativity, which is definitely not a given. As you were saying, many new works take time to gain acceptance, but that does not mean they were not creative works.

I think we're talking about two different types of "creative". One is the re-hashing of existing ideas and content into existing structures. That styles is the kind you see in marketing, design, the corporate world, and even much of the artistic world. It is also the kind in the links you shared, which specifically are measuring performance on "well-defined tasks". And there is nothing wrong with that type of creativity. But there is a second kind - the kind where people bring unique ideas to the world that do not match what has come before. We don't even need to stick to art for that, we can take a fairly obvious example of someone like Einstein, who was able to devise new theories based on existing knowledge - theories that were not re-hashes of the current ideas, but completely new ways to approach the same information.

If LLMs can do that - take the same body of information, from any subject area, and devise novel ideas that do not match pre-existing structure, building something more than the sum of the parts, that is the more interesting style of creativity to measure
by braginini | 2026-02-01 15:49:31+00:00
Would you mind sharing more about the issue? We have enterprises running NetBird with thousands of users with near zero issues. Apparently it is usually other way around - people migrating from Twingate to NetBird because of the former solution instability. Well, that is from our experience.

I suggest trying NetBird cloud to eliminate a potential misconfiguration of the self-hosted instance.
by JasonADrury | 2026-02-01 15:49:45+00:00
I think the distinction spills into comedy when the discussion focuses on whether or not Epstein or R Kelly or whoever was a pedophile. It doesn't really matter because obviously they were terrible people regardless of that.

It's a far more sensible point to consider when we're discussing the people around these individuals. If the girls surrounding Epstein had been prepubescent, that'd be a much worse look for the people around him.
by vedadburgic | 2026-02-01 15:50:21+00:00
Built a comprehensive fitness calculation library because every existing npm package was either abandoned or incomplete. Zero dependencies, ~20KB, full TypeScript, 85 tests.

Covers: BMI, BMR (3 formulas), TDEE, macros (6 diet presets), one-rep max (7 formulas), body fat, heart rate zones, calorie burn (30+ activities), running pace, race predictions, ideal weight, water intake, and unit conversions.

All formulas sourced from peer-reviewed research.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@finegym/fitness-calc
GitHub: https://github.com/finegym-io/fitness-calc
by throwaway150 | 2026-02-01 15:50:59+00:00
> Or am I crazy?

You are not. The entire post is LLM slop. I am as baffled as you are how something like this could be on the front page of HN.

The senseless bolding of random words in the text, numbers that are way off and don't make any sense are the clues that the post is LLM generated and the blogger didn't even bother to proofread it.
by y0eswddl | 2026-02-01 15:51:44+00:00
it always cracks me up how we love to treat random pieces of paper with ink sprinkled across them as some sort of material cosmological constant.

as explained in that wonderful d20 clip...

the only laws or rights that exist are those for which other people are willing to commit violence to uphold.

aka a law isn't real if no one enforces it.

there's nothing universal about law - it is merely a threat from a powerful group to a weaker one to enforce desired behaviors.
by accidentallfact | 2026-02-01 15:51:57+00:00
You're wasting your time. These people are stupid people who think they are "spreading the light" by making things "intelligible", which means ruining things that worked well, but are too hard for them to understand, and replacing them with something that they do understand, even though it doesn't work. They call that "progress".

People like Elon Musk are evil, "reactionaries" and "obscurantists", because they do what works, but they can't understand how.
by init0 | 2026-02-01 15:51:57+00:00
TCP/IP took nine years to deploy. MCP moved to the Linux Foundation in one. That contrast explains everything about how protocol development has changed.

I've been tracking the explosion of AI Agent protocols over the last 18 months. The contrast with history is staggering:
- TCP/IP: 9 years from paper to "Flag Day."
- OAuth 2.1: 5+ years and still counting.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): <1 year from launch to Linux Foundation.

It’s not just MCP. In 2025 alone, we saw:
- Google's Agent2Agent (50+ partners),
- Universal Commerce Protocol (20+ retailers)
- AP2 (Payments) all ship.
- Agent Protocol, UTCP and few more.

We are entering an era of "Room Consensus": where a few giants agree on a spec and ship it to billions, bypassing the slow deliberation of the RFC era.
Is this efficiency? Or fragility?

I break down the landscape of the new agent protocols and what this means for developers in my latest post.
by Rury | 2026-02-01 15:52:10+00:00
Yeah, I personally believe it mostly stems from a lower caloric intake. Studies have long suggested that reducing caloric intake can be one of the best things you can do for health and extending lifespan. And this has been shown true across many species including: yeast, worms, flies, mice, monkeys, fish, and others.

We also observe that larger animals tend to live longer than smaller animals, but intra-species it tends to be the opposite (e.g. small dogs tend to live slightly longer than large dogs). It also makes some sense biologically speaking, as we now know that most genetic mutations and errors happen during cellular reproduction when DNA is copied, and cellular reproduction rates correlate with nutrient uptake, alongside mutations with age.

Of course too much caloric restriction can be detrimental, but seems to me this could explain much of the difference in life expectancy between men and women.
by linsomniac | 2026-02-01 15:52:23+00:00
I'd say no, but it really depends on what your use is. The biggest barrier is that it doesn't have a HA story that I'm aware of, but you might be able to get one by carefully replicating the sqlite and using something like pacemaker to fail over and fail back.

That said, I've been using headscale on 220 devices for ~3.5 years now and it's been quite reliable.
by MarsIronPI | 2026-02-01 15:52:36+00:00
I may be the odd one out here, but I actually prefer Nix (the language) to the Guile libraries and DSLs I've seen in Guix. And it's not that I hate Lisps; my favorite language is Common Lisp. But IMO the Guix libs/DSLs are more awkward to use for declaring a system than Nix. I think it's because Nix's module system is more intuitive for me, or that I find it more elegant. Maybe if Guix were designed more along those lines.

Also flakes: a declarative distro without a flakes equivalent makes little sense to me.
by rk06 | 2026-02-01 15:52:57+00:00
OP is talking about different things which is also mentioned in manga.

to be more precise, OP says L should use the fact that Light selects criminals only when they appear on Japanese TV.

In the manga, L did track down earliest of murders to Japan and therefore started his "world" broadcast from one region in Japan.

Light got angry at broadcast's message.and lost his cool, and fell into the trap of "world broadcast"
by 9rx | 2026-02-01 15:53:39+00:00
> Your example worsens your position.

Worsens what position?

> Worse, because they believe only they’re able to know what’s best.

Well, you certainly wouldn't hire a contractor if you knew better, would you? That would be pointless. The whole reason for hiring a contractor, instead of hiring the same laborers the contractor will go on to hire on you behalf anyway, is because the contractor brings the expertise you lack. If you can't trust them to know better than you, why bother? It just becomes an unnecessary expense and a waste of another person's time.
by buildbot | 2026-02-01 15:54:03+00:00
Wow you know it’s a fun party when the first result needs to specify it’s _not_ radioactive

Oh I see - Uranyl Acetate is radioactive and this replaces it. Fun!

This seems like a friendly chemical too -
“ The chemical properties of Osmium Tetroxide are such that use and handling of the chemical is often considered daunting. Although its volatility and toxicity certainly makes it a dangerous chemical, but when following the proper procedure and taking the necessary precautions, Osmium Tetroxide can be used to its full potential with limited risk to the user.

This is more toxic than glutaraldehyde and has a higher vapour pressure. Particular care must be taken to avoid breathing the vapour or allowing it to affect the eyes. ”
by smashed | 2026-02-01 15:54:41+00:00
I think the desktop client can authenticate to an IdP by opening a browser window and doing a login flow.

If the user is forced to authenticate to start the VPN session, would that make it zero trust?

I think once the VPN is on, it's on, and the remote service cannot get identity info from the network layer.

Seems like what you want to achieve can only be built on the application layer?
by MarsIronPI | 2026-02-01 15:54:42+00:00
Well, it makes it much harder to build the system from a simple assembler.

Guix is AFAIK the only distro with a well-paved bootstrap path from a simple assembler to a fully-working distro[0]. Adding the JVM or even GraalVM (which is what Babashka is based on) makes the bootstrapping that much harder.

[0]: https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2023/the-full-source-bootstrap-...
by parineum | 2026-02-01 15:56:04+00:00
> I don't think Lockheed Martin or Raytheon are doing this, it's the awful pilots and intercept operators launching missiles into Palestinian homes.

Missiles have a lot of legitimate and good uses. They sold to the only entity that can buy them, the government, then redistributed from there.

Missiles will be created because there is financial incentive to do so. If you really want to make the point you're trying to make, at least blame the people who create the financial incentive or the people giving orders. You've omitted the obvious most responsible party.
by 2b3a51 | 2026-02-01 16:00:02+00:00
It's more completing book length works that are published by a publishing house. Therefore subjected to content editing, copy editing and finding an audience. Quite a complex multi-stage process.

What criteria are you using to evaluate writing? Can you point to an example that you think is good writing?

(I say all this as someone who is still working on stringing words into sentences)
by binnacle | 2026-02-01 16:01:27+00:00
DNS resolution failures occurred inconsistently—sometimes due to browser caching when accessing web resources, but often for no apparent reason. For some users, restarting or reconnecting Netbird resolved it; for others, it didn't. The fact it worked flawlessly for some users while barely functioning for others suggests client-side issues. We also saw sporadic failures in cron jobs (like DB exporters) that never happened with Twingate. We followed the Helm chart configuration exactly and properly configured the Network Load Balancer with appropriate timeout settings.
by svcrunch | 2026-02-01 16:01:42+00:00
Hi there, thanks for writing and sharing your experiences. I'm one of the builders of GoodMem (https://goodmem.ai/), which is infra to simplify end-to-end RAG/agentic memory systems like the one you built.

It's built on Postgres, which I know you said you left behind, but one of the cool features it supports is hybrid search over multiple vector representations of a passage, so you can do a dense (e.g. nomic) and sparse (e.g. splade) search. Reranking is also built in, although it lacks automatic caching (since, in general, the corpus changes over time)

It also deploys to fly.io/railway and costs a few bucks a month to run if you're willing to use cloud-hosted embedding models (otherwise, you can run TEI/vLLM on CPU or GPU for the setup you described).

I hope it's helpful to someone.
Show HN: I built an app to connect with content creators
by bytet3ch | 2026-02-01 16:01:46+00:00
Cold DMing creators on IG and TikTok was getting almost no replies when trying to grow my apps.

What I noticed:
Creators get spammed constantly and most outreach is generic or misaligned.

What I built:
A matching app where UGC creators swipe by niche and goals, then chat instantly when they match.

Who it’s for:
People trying to get distribution through creators without cold outreach.

Would love feedback from others here.
by Melonai | 2026-02-01 16:01:47+00:00
I mean I kind of get your frustration, but I don't think innovating the user interface is not really the goal of this project, the opposite actually, it's moreso trying to provide a well-known user interface to devices where that was previously hard, so the goal is to be similar.

I would like to see some fresh ideas in UI though, everything is the same nowadays... :(
by smashed | 2026-02-01 16:02:11+00:00
We tried netbird but could not get the client to register to a self hosted server. It ignored the setting or failed.

Good chance it was user error on our part.

Most of their documentation is very unclear about what is a cloud offering feature and what is possible using self-hosting. There are features not available on the community edition and you have to be very careful reading their doc.

Just putting it out there so people do not think it's an easy solution. It will require appropriate planning.

I do think its a more promising solution than headscale if you want to self host as it is a complete package, unlike tailscale where you need to modify registry keys to change the cloud URL and headscale is a simplified, non-multi-tenant signaler.
by RunningDroid | 2026-02-01 16:02:29+00:00
This image from the OpenStreetMap Wiki seems to be the best match for the type of mini roundabout you're talking about:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Mini-rou...

It seems like most of the examples on the mini roundabout page‡ are larger mini roundabouts for some reason though

‡: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmini_round...
by nik3212 | 2026-02-01 16:02:34+00:00
Swift Concurrency has fundamentally changed how we write asynchronous code, making it more readable and safer.
However, the real world is still full of legacy APIs and SDKs that rely on completion handlers and delegates. You cannot simply rewrite every library overnight. This is where Continuations come in. They act as a powerful bridge, allowing us to wrap older asynchronous patterns into modern async functions, ensuring that our codebases remain clean and consistent even when dealing with legacy code.
by notepad0x90 | 2026-02-01 16:02:42+00:00
For starts for science itself. If transporting things to space wasn't so costly, so much more experimentation would better be done in space.

Yes it's cool, but that isn't why. It's because of resources and human progress.

I want mirrors in space that direct/magnify sun light to destinations on earth for example.

So many of human problems today have to do with resource scarcity. The "old" world had this, and the discovery of the "new" world in the west solved lots of problems.

Every tech we have to day, every advancement in medicine, industry,etc.. from steam engines to the internet and AI is a result of the discovery of the americas. the center of trade and commerce shifted to western europe, and western europeans used lots of means including conquest of the americas by force , enslaving africans,etc.. to get gold and riches from the americas back to europe. The improvement in the quality of life for western europeans meant they could focus less on subsistence and survival, and focus on science, industry and reformations.

Space is extremely hostile to humans. You're not wrong about that, but it isn't beyond humans' capability to conquer it. Solving the obstacles in the way of space expansion requires solving things that have the ability to improve humans' lives greatly. It means we could also conquer the polar zones and tundras much more easily, and be more resilient to climate change. Like how western europe benefited from the Americas, and how they pillaged gold from the americans, so is there gold and riches in space to be pillaged and improve the lives of the world on earth. Back in the 1800s, the west was a hostile (no comparison to space of course) place people with no options went to, space could be that for a while.

Humanity can't survive in a stagnant way. We will always need more space and more energy.
by technothrasher | 2026-02-01 16:03:14+00:00
I believe the poster you're replying to understands that. They're noting that the complaint about panther was curiously because they had already listed tiger, which is practically never called a panther, and not because they already listed leopard, which is a cat that is often called a panther. The statement about meaning "any big cat" I would guess to be a confusion based on the name Pantherinae for the subfamily of Felidae of which all these big cats are part. Though the puma, which as you note is also called a panther, is in the different subfamily, Felinae.

I personally just tend to avoid the word panther, because it very often causes confusion as to which cat you're talking about.
by epistasis | 2026-02-01 16:03:54+00:00
Russia is close to falling, which is the true source of many of the mental viruses that are destroying democracies. And now, Russia's biggest win, the US, is proving that instead of heading towards fascism, that the people will actually stand up and fight back. Six months ago, the outlook was far more uncertain and if the US had not resisted, or Trump had picked a softer target than Minnesotans (never invade a winter people in winter), I would probably be feeing far different.

Things in the US are going to get far worse from here, and there will be a political war, but at least there will be a political war against the fascism. A lower bound has been established for badness that at least allows saving democracy in the US. I have not been this hopeful since October 2024.
by taravision | 2026-02-01 16:04:01+00:00
Hi HN, I built taracode because I wanted an AI coding assistant for DevOps work that doesn't send my infrastructure code, credentials, or prompts to third parties.

It runs entirely on your machine via Ollama (I recommend gemma3:27b) and has 58 built-in tools for the stuff I deal with daily:

- Kubernetes: kubectl, helm
- Terraform: plan, apply, state management
- Docker: build, compose, logs
- Cloud CLIs: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Security: trivy, gitleaks, tfsec, kubesec

No account required. No usage limits. MIT licensed.

Some features I'm proud of:
- Multi-agent system with specialized agents (Planner, Coder, Reviewer, DevOps, Security)
- Project memory that persists context across sessions
- Screen monitoring that watches for errors and suggests fixes (macOS)
- MCP support for connecting external tools

Written in Go, single binary install via Homebrew or curl.

I'd love feedback, especially from folks working with K8s/Terraform daily.

What tools or workflows would make this more useful for your setup?
by panarky | 2026-02-01 16:04:05+00:00
Because life would be so much better if people still had to spin wool and weave cloth by hand, and grow their own food by digging in the earth with no tools.

Use whatever means necessary to stop powerful people from exploiting you and stealing the fruits of your labor. If that struggle involves monkeywrenching their machines, so be it.

But like any tool, the machines themselves can be used for good or evil. Breaking the machines shouldn't be an end in itself.
by mittermayr | 2026-02-01 16:04:08+00:00
I have one VPS node that I use as a connector, where the headscale app is installed. I have this on a domain (for convenience), so think something like:

hs.mygreatplace.com

Now, when I install Tailscale client on any device (phones, tablets, Linux machines, proxmox nodes, etc.), I simply say: don't use the tailscale network for this, please route this over my own network, so you point it to hs.mygreatplace.com as a connectivity server, which is compatible to Tailscale, and that's it. It's officially supported by Tailscale, so that's great and makes it all work.

Then, when pairing for the first time, you'll get a link/code, click it and/or enter it on the hub basically (hs.mygreatplace.com) and it's paired.

That connection is up and will stay up now. So while that new device may be behind a firewall, I can always connect to it. You open Tailscale and see all your paired devices. They basically now get an additional internal ip (100.0.0.1, etc.) and you use that to ssh or connect to it.

I have a beefy Proxmox machine, and used to route many of these services out to the public internet through port mapping, but now I just leave them cut off entirely and only surface them inside of my private network. When connecting to these nodes (from iPhone, Laptops, etc.), there's zero configuration once it is set up, it auto-routes correctly and just acts like those nodes are on the internet, it's a dream.

It also automatically adds the node as a subdomain, so if you pair a proxmox node that runs grafana, and maybe has a hostname "grafana", it will show up and be always reachable as: grafana.hs.mygreatplace.com

It doesn't get much easier than that.

All that said, I HIGHLY recommend Tailscale for anyone who hasn't done much with private networking, just to try out first, and get used to it. Their free tier is very generous and I think they've got a fantastic next-to-zero-config product, truly wonderful. However, my concern was to be trapped with a $160m dollar VC-funded (US-based) company, when the inevitable rug gets pulled (as it always does, and as anyone should come to accept, if you've been on the internet for a minute).

So I was looking for alternatives, and headscale immediately worked out. Of course, Tailscale ever killing their client's ability to use your own infra will lead to a similar end result (dead end), but I am sure those things can eventually be sorted out by open source attempts and clients (which headscale has, I just haven't tried them out yet, https://headscale.net/0.25.0/about/clients/).

I had a Wireguard network before (which this essentially also is, but in a much nicer packaging), but always ran into config problems with the shared profiles and IPs and so forth, so this was just a simpler step.

Worst case, it all goes back to Wireguard.
by xXSLAYERXx | 2026-02-01 16:04:18+00:00
I'm trying to understand this workflow. I have just started using codex. Literally 2 days in. I have it hooked up to my githbub repo and it just runs in the cloud and creates a pr. I have it touching only UI and middle layer code. No db changes, I always tell it to not touch the models.
by kohlschuetter | 2026-02-01 16:04:24+00:00
I got me one of these adapters (RTL8127AF TXA403, with SFP+ cage); I haven't properly benchmarked it yet.

There's no driver support on macOS, and for Linux you'd need a bleeding edge kernel. Just trying to physically connect it (along with a connected SFP28 transceiver) to my Mac's Thunderbolt port using an external PCIe-to-TB adapter, macmon tells me a power draw of around 4.3 W, so it's not significantly less for half the bandwidth, but the card doesn't get hot at all.