MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hdivider | 2026-02-03 20:42:54+00:00
This space race is different for one core reason: China is more stable than the Soviet Union was in the 1960s.

If we beat the Chinese somehow, I don't think they'll just dismantle their space program and focus on Earth. They'll keep going, and they have the economic base to expand their program.

I think we're seeing the beginning of a new kind of space race. It's likely to be much longer term and grander in scale over time, as we compete for the best spots on the Moon and the first human landing on Mars in the decades to come.
by jeffbradberry | 2026-02-03 20:42:57+00:00
I have four now, and even go out of my way to use them a bit.

My favorites from my collection are a little Dietzgen No 1773, which is surprisingly featureful for something that can fit in a pocket, and a Faber-Castell Novo-Biplex 2/83N, which is kind of one of the big guns for slide rules.
by luke5441 | 2026-02-03 20:43:07+00:00
- ACH fees are pretty small, depends on the payroll provider of course, so USD ACH transfer to Wise is pretty much free

- I bet with whatever way I can convert the stable coin to my local currency (EUR), that it will be more expensive than Wise. Certainly Paypal is really expensive (as in SWIFT transfer would be better)
by wolfgames | 2026-02-03 20:43:17+00:00
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by mothballed | 2026-02-03 20:43:37+00:00
That is exactly what I did when I built a house, except with tradfi. I bough commodities ETFs in the wood and commodity materials I needed in advance for each stage so I knew I could actually buy them when I needed them. Some of them nearly doubled in price by the time I sold the ETF and bought the physical materials with the proceeds. Because the dollar is now an entirely unpredictable currency, and commodities prices were fluctuating wildly.
by Jamesbeam | 2026-02-03 20:43:42+00:00
That’s not a subject.

His name is Jon and he seems to be a compassionate American citizen that cares for other people even if they are not having the same passport or skin color. Show some damn respect for the man, he is not a thing and has a name.

In return for a reasonable and simple plea, Jon got targeted by the government that is clearly overreaching in this case.

Everything Jon did was all protected under the First Amendment.

If you do this to an American citizen making use of his rights, you are no better than the guys the D-Boys blew up, shot, stabbed, drowned or ran over with an old Toyota every Friday in Iraq who gathered intel on Iraqi citizens in the shadows and then later were directly responsible for the capture and torture of them and their families, simply because they stood up against the terrorists that were treating their friends and neighbors like dogs.
by j45 | 2026-02-03 20:43:59+00:00
Seems to be a regularish occurrence far beyond the podcast/tech crowd in many areas.

Blind doubting of things can be as bad as blindly believing they're safe, if we don't know who's, or if anyone is keeping the safety honest. Capitalism can too often lean towards optimizing profit.

Testing for lead, etc can be done independently pretty easily and consistently enough to get a statistically high enough correlation of what's going on.

I get the stereotypes - but consuming anything in an unbalanced way will lead to being out of balance. Food, caffiene, alcohol, supplements.
by ianbutler | 2026-02-03 20:44:06+00:00
All models released from those providers go through stages of post training too, none of the models you interact with go from pre-training to release. An example of the post training pipeline is tool calling, that is to my understanding a part of post training and not pre training in general.

I can't speak to what the exact split is or what is a part of post training versus pre training at various labs but I am exceedingly confident all labs post train for effectiveness in specific domains.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-03 20:44:07+00:00
Leaded gasoline for cars started phasing out 52 years ago. It was fully banned 30 years ago. If there was any urgency behind getting rid of leaded avgas it would have been gone in that timeframe.

The FAA started looking at it 14 years ago. They planned to finish phasing it out in 2023. Three years after that, leaded avgas remains ubiquitous, and there's a plan to finish phasing it out in six years. (The 2030 date excludes Alaska, which is planned for 2032.) That's not what urgency looks like.
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-03 20:44:26+00:00
> Theyt are paid by the EU to tell how much they hate this institution.

Correction: They're paid by the EU taxpayers. And as politicians, there's a chance their vociferation of hate towards the EU is just parroting the opinion their voters have towards the EU, which means they're doing their job as politicians.

>some are in schizophrenia mode (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia mostly) [...] but hate it

Why is the EU treated like a sacred cow that people shouldn't be allowed to hate?

People's happiness with the EU is directly tied to their QoL and purchasing power and you don't need to be a scientist to see that the poorest people in the EU have been hit hardest by the energy price hikes caused by Germany's stupid anti-nuclear pro-Ruski gas decisions, the inflation caused by the ECB's excessive COVID money printing, the support of mass illegal migration, and the EU's response to the war in Ukraine, leading to a massive decline in QoL and purchasing power, so of course they're not gonna be happy with the EU when their decisions negatively affected them.

The problem with the EU is that it pushes for blanket policies and solutions across the hugely diverse union so different members get negatively impacted differently be one policy, some more some less, but the point is there cannot be a one size fits all solution that favors all EU members at the same time, leading to winners and losers with a widening inequality. So of course those drawing the short stick are gonna hate it.
by vladvasiliu | 2026-02-03 20:44:33+00:00
Just get the logitech competition. I've had multiple G series mice, they all have on-board memory. I have a cooler master which behaves the same.

You can program them from a VM, then toss that away and the mouse remembers its settings, even multiple "profiles". You don't have to put up with electron slop-ware or whatever the crap dev platform du jour is. They just work.
by wwolffrec | 2026-02-03 20:44:37+00:00
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by soneil | 2026-02-03 20:44:50+00:00
> with the context mostly being HDD manufacturers who want to inflate their drive sizes

This is a myth. The first IBM harddrive was 5,000,000 characters in 1956 - before bytes were even common usage. Drives have always been base10, it's not a conspiracy.

Drives are base10, lines are base10, clocks are base10, pretty much everything but RAM is base10. Base2 is the exception, not the rule.
by RcouF1uZ4gsC | 2026-02-03 20:45:05+00:00
Open source and free software was the largest transfer of wealth in the form of techne freely from the craftspeople to the business people.

Knowing how to write a database could make one fabulously rich. Now the person who knows how to make and promote a simple crud app backed my MySql becomes the rich one, while the db people beg for donations.

Linux killed Sun/Solaris and SGI Irix

Developers have voluntarily moved further down in the chain of value - now just describing themselves as primarily a business liaison who can translate to code. All the computer whispering necessary to do all this is freely available and digestible for free.

LLMs are just the expected endpoint of this.
by niemandhier | 2026-02-03 20:45:10+00:00
Gather evidence against employees, use that evidence to put them under pressure to testify against their employer or grant access to evidence.

Sabu was put under pressure by the FBI, they threatened to place his kids into foster care.

That was legal. Guess what, similar things would be legal in France.

We all forget that money is nice, but nation states have real power. Western liberal democracies just rarely use it.

The same way the president of the USA can order a Drone strike on a Taliban war lord, the president of France could order Musks plane to be escorted to Paris by 3 Fighter jets.
by senko | 2026-02-03 20:45:18+00:00
Article author here. I used trial and error - manual inspection it is.

This took me a few minutes but I feel more in control of what's being exposed and how. The AI recommended just exposing the entire /etc for example. It's probably okay in my case, but I wanted to go more precise.

On the network access part, I let it fully loose (no restrictions, it can access anything). I might want to tighten that in the future (or at least disallow 192.168/16 and 10/8), for now I'm not very concerned.

So there's levels of how tight you want to set it.
by chrneu | 2026-02-03 20:45:21+00:00
AI coding sort of reminds me of when ninite originally came out for windows. It was like a "build your own OS". Check boxes and get what you need in a simple executable.

AI coding is kind of similar. You tell it what you want and it just sort of pukes it out. You run it then forget about it for the most part.

I think AI coding is kind of going to hit a ceiling, maybe idk, but it'll become an essential part of "getting stuff done quickly".
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 20:45:27+00:00
> China is more stable than the Soviet Union was in the 1960s

Xi literally just purged “the country’s top military leader, Gen. Zhang Youxia, and an associate, Gen. Liu Zhenli” [1].

This is the mark of a dictator. Not the Soviet Union at its finest.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/china-xi-mili...
Show HN: Real-world speedrun timer that auto-ticks via vision on smart glasses
by tash_2s | 2026-02-03 20:45:30+00:00
I built a hands-free HUD for smart glasses that runs a real-world speedrun timer and auto-splits based on what the camera sees. Demo scenario: making sushi.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuOVlyr-e1w

Repo: https://github.com/RealComputer/GlassKit

I initially tried a multimodal LLM for scene understanding, but the latency and consistency were not good enough for this use case, so I switched to a small object detection model (fine-tuned RF-DETR). It just runs an inference loop on the camera feed. This also makes on-device/offline use feasible (today it still runs via a local server).
by agentcoops | 2026-02-03 20:45:46+00:00
Yeah, this is certainly the correct take. There's an alternate timeline where the Scala community focused during the peak on making it a better language for numeric computing/ML rather than the Nth category theoretic framework, but here we are. At a job almost a decade ago, we made some progress on an open source dataframes (and unfortunately proprietary data visualization) library for Scala, but we didn't get far enough before the company closed and the project died [1].

Still my favorite language I had the privilege to work with professionally for over a decade. However, in this post-JVM world, I'm actually excited to see a lot more OCaml discussion on here lately. The Jane Street work on OxCaml is terrific after a long period of stagnation with the language. I'm using it for most of my projects these days.

[1] https://github.com/tixxit/framian
by phainopepla2 | 2026-02-03 20:45:47+00:00
He didn't escape, he sentence was reduced from 8 to 3 1/2 by a Swiss judge. The reasoning was that his mental state was properly accounted for. Who knows if lobbying from Russia played a part in that. Also, not only did he face no consequences at home, he was celebrated and given a high-level job.

Maybe it's my American-ness showing, but it's pretty shocking to me that 8 years was considered too harsh for someone who stabbed a man to death in front of his family.

On the other hand, I suppose one could argue that the perpetrator was highly unlikely to commit a similar act in the future, if only because his motivation was the death of his own family, who would no longer be around to inspire him to violence a second time.
Show HN: Tenuo – Capability-Based Authorization (Macaroons for AI Agents)
by niyikiza | 2026-02-03 20:46:06+00:00
I've been working on a different authorization model for AI agents, motivated by a simple problem: once agents start delegating work to other agents, identity-based permissions and prompt guardrails break down fast.

Tenuo makes authority task-scoped. A manager agent starts with a signed capability ("warrant") and can delegate to workers, but delegation can only attenuate. Each step gets narrower authority, and it disappears when the task ends.

Even if an agent is prompt-injected, it can't take actions outside its warrant. Every tool call requires proof-of-possession, and arguments are validated against explicit constraints before execution.

This is inspired by systems like Macaroons / Biscuit / UCAN, but adapted for AI agents processing untrusted input:

- signed, ephemeral capability tokens

- mandatory proof-of-possession

- constraint checking on tool arguments

- fail-closed by default (no warrant = no action)

Implementation details:

- Rust core, Python SDK

- ~27μs verification per call, offline

- integrations for LangGraph, OpenAI SDK, MCP, A2A, etc.

Repo: https://github.com/tenuo-ai/tenuo

Launch post (2025): https://niyikiza.com/posts/tenuo-launch/

Happy to answer questions or hear where this breaks down.
by kathleen4152579 | 2026-02-03 20:46:26+00:00
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by bonsai_spool | 2026-02-03 20:46:28+00:00
Yes, I think you're right—I have a hard time imagining how we avoid such an outcome. If it matters to you, my suggestion is to read as widely as you're able to. That way you can at least recognize which constructions are more/less associated with an LLM.

When I was first working toward this, I found the LA Review of Books and the London Review of Books to be helpful examples of longform, erudite writing. (edit - also recommend the old standards of The New Yorker and The Atlantic; I just wanted to highlight options with free articles).

I also recommend reading George Orwell's essay Politics and the English Language.
by umvi | 2026-02-03 20:46:47+00:00
> no longer any need to use a library at all

As someone who works on medical device software, I see this as a huge plus (maybe a con for FOSS specifically, but a net win overall).

I'm a big proponent of the go-ism "A little copying is better than a little dependency". Maybe we need a new proverb "A little generated code is better than a little dependency". Fewer dependencies = smaller cyberseucity burden, smaller regulatory burden, and more.

Now, obviously foregoing libsodium or something for generated code is a bad idea, but probably 90%+ of npm packages could probably go.
by Der_Einzige | 2026-02-03 20:46:55+00:00
I did not claim that post training doesn't happen on these models, and you are being extremely patronizing (I publish quite a bit of research on LLMs at top conferences).

I claimed that OpenAI overindexed on getting away with aggressive post-training on old pre-training checkpoints. Gemini / Anthropic correctly realized that new pre-training checkpoints need to happen to get the best gains in their latest model releases (which get post-trained too).
by scosman | 2026-02-03 20:46:55+00:00
All of this could be avoided if their CLIs worked reliably and well. Instead the randomly fail (you fix them by running the same task from Xcode), and output 5k lines of useless unstructured output (tools like xcbeautify try to help but it’s an uphill battle).

I feel like Xcode knows how to work around xcodebuild’s shortcomings, and instead of fixing them they just wrapped Xcode in an MCP server.

Better than nothing I guess, but reliable CLIs would allow a whole ecosystem of tools.
by jauntywundrkind | 2026-02-03 20:47:00+00:00
And looks badass!!

> The cooler's dissipation ability is impressive enough, but the liquid that goes out of it is claimed to be at 60 to 80°C, making it easy to recover and use in other heating networks for a double-whammy. The report claims these figures are superior to standard datacenter cooling that whisks away heat at lower temperatures, making it harder to reuse.

Two immediate thoughts, first, how much hotter are the chips then? But second, how do we rate it consider this, what is the figure of metric or unit of measure that represents outlet temperature?

My gut says that yeah, we want to use as much of the thermal potential as we can, dissipate as much heat into the water as possible. And the idea of maybe possibly recuperating some of this energy also feels like it would go up.
by nsm | 2026-02-03 20:47:06+00:00
Can people give examples of how they use pre-commit hooks that _cannot_ be replaced by a combination of the following?

* CI (I understand pre-commit shifts errors left)

* in editor/IDE live error callouts for stuff like type checking, and auto-formatting for things like "linters".

Do you run tests? How do you know _which_ tests to run, and not just run every test CI would run, which could be slow?
by jajuuka | 2026-02-03 20:47:08+00:00
I don't think this is it. I can only find one tweet from an Apple employee who said that they can't work on OSS and was looking for new maintainers. I am not sold that this is the whole truth.

I think the bigger issue is contributing to OSS for putting Linux on a Macbook for example could be considered leaking company secrets since you would have access to internals. I find it hard to believe that Apple would go after someone for making a open source calculator app.
by Bengalilol | 2026-02-03 20:47:57+00:00
Could you elaborate?
<https://nextcloud.com/blog/press_releases/digital-sovereignt...>

On a side and more general note:
"Global Innovation Index 2025"

"Europe hosts 15 economies ranked among the global top 25, including six in the top 10. Switzerland (1st) retains the global lead, followed by Sweden (2nd), the United Kingdom (6th) and Finland (7th). Thirteen out of 39 European economies covered moved up the ranks, marking a notable increase from nine last year.

Notable movers include Ireland (18th), Belgium (21st) and Norway (20th), which breaks into the top 20.

Eastern European economies also show solid momentum. Lithuania (33rd) leads globally for unicorn valuation and digital innovation – with leading positions in app creation, ICT use and Knowledge-intensive employment.Europe is also home to dynamic innovation clusters, led by Germany with seven clusters and the United Kingdom with four, including Cambridge and Oxford. However, European innovation clusters trail the US in venture capital strength."

<https://www.wipo.int/pressroom/en/articles/2025/article_0009...>
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-03 20:48:26+00:00
> One was coloniser and another one was a colony

This is an America-centric geopolitical model with zero predictive power.

China annexed Tibet in 1951 [1]. Xinjiang has been fighting colonization from the Qings, Soviets, Nationalists and PRC for over a century.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_China
by marssaxman | 2026-02-03 20:48:29+00:00
Assuming by "job in CS" you mean "job developing software", of course you can, and many people have - I am one of them, and I have met many others over the 33 years of my career so far.

You need something that will give you credibility and get you in the door, and for most people that's a degree. If you can find some other way of getting practical work experience onto your resume, you can get hired without one, and after a few more years nobody will care at all how you got into the field.
by heltale | 2026-02-03 20:48:31+00:00
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by Aachen | 2026-02-03 20:49:05+00:00
Information on Discord visible only if you sign up for it (and afaik, in some countries, upload identification)... that does seem rather in line with the deep web architecture that AnkiHub uses. Maybe this would be good in a ticket or the Anki forums, since it's relevant to the people using and contributing to the app. Here on HN it's now also findable in web searches as a side effect of copying it I guess