MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nephihaha | 2026-02-01 21:40:56+00:00
I've been blogging on and off for a number of years but don't do so much nowadays. I think there are several concerns for me:

* It has little audience nowadays, thanks partly to search engines sidelining blogs in their results.

* I was producing a large amount of content without being paid for it. I had set up the blog to promote a book, which has sold reasonably well, but the book also renumerates me for the time I had put into researching the topics. I felt like the blog was work, and it now runs into tens of thousands of words, but people wanted that off me for free.

* Now it also faces the issue of scraping, and while I was delighted to bring certain facts and stories to wider attention, I didn't do so in order to benefit predatory tech corporations.

On the flipside, it has brought me into contact with a handful of other people who provided me with more info on some subjects and were often complimentary. (If I suffered abuse and trolling, it was via social media, often by people who only looked at a thumbnail link.)
by roadbuster | 2026-02-01 21:41:11+00:00
> [Synology] comes with dedicated Time Machine support

Your umbrance is with Synology, not Apple.

Apple raised security default configurations in Tahoe. That led to a config breakage with NAS devices which rely on relaxed security configurations.

I agree Apple should publish a technical note / changelog of config changes such as this one, but Apple has never implied to users they'd carry a support burden for any/all third-party hardware vendors. To the contrary, they've notified users that you're meant to consult with your NAS vendor for configuration steps:

> Check the documentation of your NAS device for help setting it up for use with Time Machine

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102423
by mrcwinn | 2026-02-01 21:41:11+00:00
I know people are rightly amazed by Woz’s engineering prowess, but it’s fascinating to see Steve’s fingerprints all of Apple I. Look at the product commitments and they’ll ring a bell:

- It’s all in one
- Hassle free to set up
- Something that usually doesn’t work (cassette board) now just works

They rightly identified the hobbyist market (I want to tinker) was actually the smaller market within a larger one. Seems obvious in hindsight. It wasn’t obvious then.
by jval43 | 2026-02-01 21:42:27+00:00
I had to take some literature classes in high school, and had a truly exceptional teacher who facilitated great and interesting discussions. Really opened up my mind and I only later realized how lucky I was.

Those summaries always existed, in the past you could buy them as little books for most of the classic literature we read. Thing is they were always the same trite points even back then.

Our teacher would see right through any BS, but never call it out directly. Instead there would be 1 precise and nicely asked follow-on question or even just asking their opinion on a talking point. Not details, but a regular discussion question.

If someone hadn't read the book they'd stutter and grasp at straws at that point and everyone knew they hadn't actually read it.

On the other hand if you had read the book the answer was usually pretty easy, and often not what the common summaries contained as talking points.

So cheating not only didn't work, the few regular cheaters we had in our class (everybody knew who those were) actually suffered badly.

Only in hindsight did I realize that this is not the normal experience. Most other literature classes in fact do just focus on or repeat the same trite points, is what I've heard from many others.

It takes a great teacher to make cheating not "work" while making the class easy, intellectually stimulating and
refreshing at the same time.
by deathanatos | 2026-02-01 21:42:31+00:00
None of your examples is what is meant by "Shouting fire in a crowded theatre." The quote is expressly about falsely shouting fire, not as part of the play, not as an honest act of attempting to alert people to a dangerous situation. The quote with more context is clear: "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic..."

> If there is actually a fire in the theater, can they punish you for telling people? What if there isn't actually a fire but you believe that there is?

(IANAL) Law usually takes circumstance into consideration, and AIUI, usually comes to reasonable conclusions in this case. The Wikipedia article on this quote[1] goes into that:

> Ultimately, whether it is legal in the United States to falsely shout "fire" in a theater depends on the circumstances in which it is done and the consequences of doing it. The act of shouting "fire" when there are no reasonable grounds for believing one exists is not in itself a crime, and nor would it be rendered a crime merely by having been carried out inside a theatre, crowded or otherwise. If it causes a stampede and someone is killed as a result, then the act could amount to a crime, such as involuntary manslaughter, assuming the other elements of that crime are made out. Similarly, state laws such as Colorado Revised Statute § 18-8-111 classify knowingly "false reporting of an emergency," including false alarms of fire, as a misdemeanor if the occupants of the building are caused to be evacuated or displaced, and a felony if the emergency response results in the serious bodily injury or death of another person.

(It continues with other jurisdictions and situations.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
by qingcharles | 2026-02-01 21:42:41+00:00
They're also sweeping VB.NET under the rug.

If I had to bet, I would guess VB.NET was the more popular .NET language at first. Everyone I know was converting all their ASP pages and VB apps to VB.NET.

I didn't switch from VB.NET to C# as my main language until 2021. (the 90s was all C/C++/Java for me)
by lxgr | 2026-02-01 21:42:43+00:00
> "we'll figure out all the problems later, I want my cake now now now now!" Maximum velocity! Full throttle!

That is indeed the point. Moltbot reminds me a lot of the demon core experiment(s): Laughably reckless in hindsight, but ultimately also an artifact of a time of massive scientific progress.

> Is that gatekeeping of a sort? Maybe, but I'd rather have that

Serious question: What do you gain from people not being able to vibe code?
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-01 21:43:18+00:00
Maybe they are just discussing it but even that leads to buy in, and right now buy in looks a little premature. In Australia this ban is viewed as an experiment - even by the politicians that championed it. My guess is it will take at least a year to figure out it if it is workable. Surely it would be prudent for Finland too let us wear the first mover pain before doing something themselves.

Speaking personally, I'd be much happier with it if they rolled out some zero knowledge proof of age infrastructure so the platforms could verify ages without all the PPI age identification currently requires flying around. It would remove a major criticism - government monitoring of consenting adults. Even if that aspect doesn't concern you in Australia had numerous leaks of identify documents in the past few years. Both my wife and I have had to replace our drivers licences due to leaks.
by a1ff00 | 2026-02-01 21:45:48+00:00
This is incredible. It
never occurred to me to even think of marrying memory gather and update slash commands as a mindmap that follows the appropriate node and edge. It makes so much sense.

I was using table structure with column 1 as a key, and col 2 as the data, and told the agents to match key before looking at Col 2. It worked, but sometimes it failed spectacularly.

I’m going to try this out. Thanks for sharing your .md!
by ejcho | 2026-02-01 21:45:49+00:00
I think with the advent of the AI gold rush, this is exactly the mentality that has proliferated throughout new AI startups.

Just ship anything and everything as fast as possible because all that matters is growth at all costs. Security is hard and it takes time, diligence, and effort and investors aren't going to be looking at the metric of "days without security incident" when flinging cash into your dumpster fire.
The foundation powering modern AI agents
by edihasaj | 2026-02-01 21:46:21+00:00
after 10+ years of building apps, I noticed something frustrating. every project started the same way.

building login, signup, password reset, setting up payments and subscriptions, creating the admin dashboard, finally, the actual product.

I kept rebuilding the same foundation. and I kept making the same mistakes before remembering the lessons from previous projects.

so I built http://starterbase.dev. not a complex framework. a clean starting point that reflects how I actually structure production apps after years of learning what works.
Ask HN: How can I get decent internet speeds in my apartment?
by nobody_nothing | 2026-02-01 21:46:33+00:00
I feel like I’m going crazy.

I live in a dense metropolitan area (Hollywood, Los Angeles), surrounded on all sides by buildings with fiber and high-speed cable. Yet I can’t get any wired internet service in my small, old 5-unit building.

Right now I’m forced to use Verizon 5G Home Internet. Download speeds are fine, but latency is bad and upload speeds are abysmal (5 Mbps), which is a real problem for my work (large uploads, remote collaboration, etc).

Things I’ve tried:

- AT&T / Frontier / other major players — none service my address

- Starry — does not service my address

- Spectrum — They claimed they service my address. The technician showed up and searched around the building for ~1 hour. Then said they’d need approval from their boss to install a box. The next day, their boss calls and says it won’t be possible — something about construction being too expensive / not feasible. (This is who recommended I try Starry)

As far as I can tell, I have:

- No fiber

- No cable

- No DSL

Is there any realistic way to pressure or incentivize an ISP to wire a small building? Or is there a creative solution I’m overlooking?

It feels absurd to have to move homes just because I’m stuck with cellular internet in 2026 in the middle of Los Angeles.
by zkmon | 2026-02-01 21:46:39+00:00
> We found that independent multi-agent systems (agents working in parallel without talking) amplified errors by 17.2x

The paper sounds too shallow. The errors data doesn't seem to have a rationale or correlation against the architecture. Specifically, what makes the SAS architecture to have lowest error rates while the similar architecture with independent agents having highest error rates? The conclusion doesn't seem well-grounded with reasoning.
by jltsiren | 2026-02-01 21:47:08+00:00
In my experience, if your C++ or Rust code does not perform as well as Java, it's probably because you are trying to write Java in C++ or Rust. Java can handle a large number of small heap-allocated objects shared between threads really well. You can't reasonably expect to meet its performance in such workloads with the rudimentary tools provided by the C++ or Rust standard library. If you want performance, you have structure the C++/Rust program in a fundamentally different way.

I was not familiar with the term "object flattening", but apparently it just means storing data by value inside a struct. But data layout is exactly the thing you should be thinking about when you are trying to write performant code. As a first approximation, performance means taking advantage of throughput and avoiding latency, and low-level languages give you more tools for that. If you get the layout right, efficient code should be easy to write. Optimization is sometimes necessary, but it's often not very cost-effective, and it can't save you from poor design.
by randcraw | 2026-02-01 21:47:26+00:00
You can certainly make it harder to cheat. AIs will inevitably generate summaries that are very similarly written and formatted -- content, context, and sequence -- making it easy for a prof (and their AI) to detect the presence of AI use, especially if students are also quizzed to validate that they have knowledge of their own summary.

Alternately, the prof can require that students write out notes, in longhand, as they read, and require that a photocopy of those notes be submitted, along with a handwritten outline / rough draft, to validate the essays that follow.

I think it's inevitable that "show your work" soon will become the mantra of not just the math, hard science, and engineering courses.
by avaer | 2026-02-01 21:47:29+00:00
The links have been posted to HN if you search.

https://moltroad.com/ comes to mind. The "top rated" on there describes itself as "trading in neural contraband".

That's in addition to all of the actual hijacking hacks that have been going on.

I'm not saying any of this is successful, but people are certainly trying.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-01 21:50:01+00:00
This is a misquoting of my tiny quote blurb so it is clear that your are discussing this topic in bad faith.

The key demand for India, Japan, Vietnam, South Korea, and other Asian nations adjacent to the PRC is that the PRC negotiate in good faith and frankly, drop demands over Ladakh/Arunachal, Senkaku, Hoang Sa, the Yellow Sea, and other disputes.

This means mutually discussing how to develop an offramp. And as I mentioned elsewhere, Asian states already began building an ExChina supply chain for critical minerals processing and magnet manufacturing in the 2011-17 period.

The issue is the PRC under the current administration has not negotiated from a position of good faith, which has forced all neighboring nations to start building their own supply chains and ecosystems independent of PRC.
by globalnode | 2026-02-01 21:51:29+00:00
It only struck me recently how geared universities are towards careers and many of the requirements are set by industry, not necessarily by whats good for the student. If you want to enjoy learning for its own sake or enjoy a particular subject I'd suggest ditching uni and going for self learning. Ofc if you need a job you probably need certification, but not if you're learning for fun. Also if you want to make sure you're well rounded, browse uni websites and have a look at the syllabus / reading list and filter out any obvious industry requirements if they don't suit you.
by trimethylpurine | 2026-02-01 21:51:29+00:00
I'm familiar with this theory and on some issues maybe it's relevant but what I'm referring to here is that Democrats today still seem to be in agreement with Democrats of old on the topic of whether the founders meant to abolish slavery.

Republicans say they absolutely did, just as they always have.

Democrats say they absolutely didn't, just as they always have.

I would argue that realignment occurred geographically, not on the basis of morality. Under slavery, the southern states were rich and mostly Democrats, now the northern states are more largely rich and leaning Democrat.

The stance on issues of whether people are naturally born inferior and deserving of special treatment, good or bad, remains a largely Democrat ideal, just as it always has.

Republicans on the other hand argue that all man is created equal not equitable, and they used that rhetoric to free slaves, stop Jim Crow era horrors, etc.

All of this was and is documented in many SCOTUS cases, old and new.
by Refreeze5224 | 2026-02-01 21:51:31+00:00
I am anti-capitalist and exploitation. And I don't think any anti-capitalist person can be pro-AI, not the way it's currently constructed. But people on a startup forum tend to lose their minds if you say you're against either :)

Being anti-AI is not a straw man, it's the logical conclusion of being against exploitation and hierarchical domination. Discussing that nuance here is difficult, to say the least, so it's simpler to say anti-AI.
by burnerToBetOut | 2026-02-01 21:52:19+00:00
I probably need to read your reply a couple more times.

Going on my skimming over it, I'm wondering if you and I are on the same page.

What I tried to describe is something very similar to like being influenced by my siblings. Or kids in the neighborhood that I grew up with. Or teachers/professors I studied under. Or people I've dated.

I find that if I spend a certain amount of time with someone IRL who impresses me in some way, then stuff like their accent, their vocabulary, their way of seeing things will start rubbing off on me.

Are you talking about that kind of thing, too?
by caminante | 2026-02-01 21:52:39+00:00
You're editorializing the headline, aside from your vague phrasing for "margin" (actually gross margin) and "Services [segment]" which has had gross margins >66% since FY20.

Better to reflect the actual headline and then add a comment.

edit:

This is the SaaS division. Similar at GOOG, MSFT, CRM, etc. have similar gross margins.
by benoau | 2026-02-01 21:53:00+00:00
Not a huge surprise, there's an iCloud antitrust alleging a 78% gross profit margin:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.42...

The Epic legal case ruling cites a 75% profit margin on App Store fees:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.36...

And of course, their 36% share of Google Ad revenue revealed in Google's antitrust has to be approximately 100% profit:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/google-pays-apple-36percent-...
by anton-stigg | 2026-02-01 21:53:02+00:00
We kept hitting the same problem while building AI features: token spikes, unpredictable costs, and customers asking for budget controls we couldn’t easily give them.

So we built AI Usage Management at Stigg: a real time usage governance layer you embed directly in your product. It lets you meter AI usage, define limits, set alerts, allocate budgets to users or teams, and enforce policies at the moment of consumption instead of discovering it on the bill later.

Think:
- low latency metering
- allocation per user, team or feature
- alerts and enforcement
- credit or outcome based models
- drop in admin UI or use your own

If you’re shipping AI features and need to keep spend predictable or meet enterprise governance requirements, early access is open.
Show HN: Smith – A visual control room for managing parallel coding agents
by tomhr | 2026-02-01 21:53:44+00:00
I was running 3-5 Claude Code sessions in parallel using worktrees and tmux. I kept losing track of which agent needed input and which was stuck on permissions.

So I built Smith: one screen to see all your agents, their status, and jump to whichever one needs you.

If this sounds useful, sign up for early access.
by VeryVito | 2026-02-01 21:53:56+00:00
> Overall, it appears this tool is in the same space as Postman, Insomina, etc. which has been plagued with rug-pulls and everything I've seen says it's likely to happen here too.

How so? Even without the tool itself, you've still got a collection of useful markdown files that perfectly describe your APIS. They're not magic nor proprietary, and now this tool makes them even more useful: If the developers are trying to rip anybody off, they're doing a terrible job.

This tool is for those who DON'T want to be locked into yet another cloud service: Its power lies in the formatted Markdown files which can be thought of us as a collection of souped-up `curl` statements that you may already be collecting anyway. This just lets you use them without copying and pasting them into yet another proprietary tool or platform -- and now that it's open-sourced, perhaps we'll see its magic spread to other tools, too.
This format-over-product concept is ideal for development teams that already keep their projects in git repositories.

By open-sourcing the project, the creators have made the rug-pull scenario all but impossible (which is the point of today's announcement, I think). Regardless, it's in the wild now, and there's no pricing page because the tool is free and open source.
by anton-stigg | 2026-02-01 21:54:17+00:00
We kept hitting the same problem while building AI features: token spikes, unpredictable costs, and customers asking for budget controls we couldn’t easily give them.
So we built AI Usage Management at Stigg: a real time usage governance layer you embed directly in your product. It lets you meter AI usage, define limits, set alerts, allocate budgets to users or teams, and enforce policies at the moment of consumption instead of discovering it on the bill later.

Think: - low latency metering - allocation per user, team or feature - alerts and enforcement - credit or outcome based models - drop in admin UI or use your own

If you’re shipping AI features and need to keep spend predictable or meet enterprise governance requirements, early access is open.
by mstaoru | 2026-02-01 21:55:41+00:00
We moved into a new flat with really bad lighting and I decided to buy those "AmazeFun" (or whatever generic named CN brand) "smart" LED ceiling lights. Bought one for each of four rooms.

Installed, tested them with the app, all works, great!

Got out the remotes since pulling out the phone to use the app every time you want to turn on the light in the room is a bit much for me. Pressed Power, boom, the whole house is powered on. Dimmer, light temperature, everything syncs between all four lights. Power off turns them all off.

Wrote to "AmazeFun" support, turns out it's "normal behavior". Right.
by irl_zebra | 2026-02-01 21:56:08+00:00
imo the app store thing is very niche and only affects a small, vocal group that tends to sit on hacker news and pay attention to these things. Can almost guarantee that 95% of the iphone-having population does not know/care about the app store "issue." I do think the general decline in quality and uptick in bugs will bite them slowly, at least once there's an iphone competitor of note.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-01 21:56:23+00:00
> They're talking to China too, to be clear. The EU hosted talks in October. However, the Chinese position on the matter is pretty clear: they're happy to export these minerals for civilian applications, but they don't want to supply foreign militaries, and they're going to enact whatever restrictions are necessary to ensure that stops happening.

This is also why the EU signed a Defense Pact with India [0] and Vietnam [1] last week - critical mineral sourcing from India and Vietnam leveraging Japanese [2] and Korean [3] technology partnerships in both countries drove both deals. Additonally, both Indian and Vietnamese component and defense vendors are now elligible to participate in Rearm Europe/Readiness 2030 along with their Japanese and Korean partners.

[0] - https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/security-and-defence-eu-and-...

[1] - https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/eu-and-viet-nam-upgrade-rela...

[2] - https://trei.co.in/

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/rare-earths-magn...
by xquce | 2026-02-01 21:56:57+00:00
That's interesting!
However I would argue Jobs sadly won that argument, as there really didn't come any open source os for neither phones or major push on PCs in the almost 30 years since that exchange.

While yes some software have come in that format, it took the big 3 to push the server Linux based clouds, Google to push it on phone, tablets and laptops and now Steam to make a push for the average gamer.

This is not to discredit the work being done outside those lab's which very much build on the work for free or by foundations, however the first versions just don't capture a majority of the available markets which the OSes Jobs mention very much did and the others by the billion dollar labs since.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-01 21:56:59+00:00
If the building management is amenable to it, and somebody nearby has fiber near the building already, if you get enough residents to sign up for it, they will usually extend to the building and build out at no cost to the building (recouping the fixed costs as part of monthly service). If this is not an option, do you have clear line of site to a building that could service with fixed wireless?