MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by joe_mamba | 2026-02-03 09:12:15+00:00
>You can have a functional democracy and still do long term planning

Sure, but that's contingent on

1) the voters being well educated and not easily brainwashed by various types of propaganda pushing them to vote against their own interests (see the Germans being anti-nuclear and pro-Russian gas since the 80s) and >

2) the voters being trusted and having an actual ownership in the country so that their votes affect them directly and also having a say in how their country is run, because if whoever gets voted into power just does the opposite of what the voters want "for their own good", then you're not a democracy anymore, you're just a well functioning state (if that).

Other than Switzerland, and maybe Denmark, I don't know any democracies that constantly function well and aren't plagued with issues.
by tuetuopay | 2026-02-03 09:12:18+00:00
Pedantic but systemd is inspired by MacOS launchd, not by Windows services. It has nothing akin to the registry, which even microsoft admits is a pain on windows.

Oh, and usually people shit on windows for many reasons, but some of the very core features of the OS are robust and the Linux crowd could take a hint. Like, you know, the notion of service at the OS-level and not some random bash script that nohup'd a binary. Oh wait, that's what does Windows, MacOS and Linux with systemd.
by trhway | 2026-02-03 09:12:35+00:00
>Getting rid of the copious amounts of heat that data centers generate might also be a challenge

at 70 Celsius - normal for GPU - 1.5m2 radiates something like 1KWt (which requires 4m2 of panels to collect), so doesn't look to a be an issue. (some look to ISS which is a bad example - the ISS needs 20 Celsius, and black body radiation is T^4)
by colin_jack | 2026-02-03 09:12:59+00:00
I've started using LLMs to help with card creation, and reviewing historic cards. Its been increasingly successful, I still end up with cards tailored to me, and the card quality has gone up (as I've asked the LLM to look for other views/sources and to do associate research to produce high quality cards).

Having ability to bake some of that into the tool in a configurable way would be ideal, and I hope thats sort of path they go down.

I realise in meantime plugins are an option, but I've found the quality of plugins very mixed.
by swagtricker | 2026-02-03 09:13:08+00:00
Of course, he left out the fact that the $40,000.00 USD worth of computer time was stolen from a US government owned computer on loan to one of his professors. He didn't actually PAY $40k USD or even raise funds to cover the equivalent value of the stolen computer time. Gates is a thief, and this was just his first big heist. I was always of the opinion that he US government should have gotten a cut of MS BASIC since it couldn't have been built without the modified emulator handling the ALTAIR 8080 assembly instructions.
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-03 09:13:11+00:00
OK, so what are they?

Scaling photovoltaic production doesn't seem likely to have many broader implications on its own. At best, it makes it easier to change the grid to renewable power, if you ignore the intermittency problem that still exists even at huge scales. PV fabs aren't really reusable for other purposes though, and PV tech is pretty mature already, so it's not clear what scaling that up will do.

Scaling rocketry has several fascinating implications but Elon already covered many of them in his blog post.

Scaling AI - just read the HN front page every day ;)

What are we missing here? Some combinatoric thing?
by tomashubelbauer | 2026-02-03 09:13:32+00:00
I am using GPT-5.2 Codex with reasoning set to high via OpenCode and Codex and when I ask it to fix an E2E test it tells me that it fixed it and prints a command I can run to test the changes, instead of checking whether it fixed the test and looping until it did. This is just one example of how lazy/stupid the model is. It _is_ a skill issue, on the model's part.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2026-02-03 09:13:38+00:00
Author here. That's actually why I had written this for myself (although compared to you, my karma's comparatively low)

I felt as if I had written quite a lot on HN and I was always referencing my past comments. I just usually write what I am thinking so I do have quite a filler words in my HN comments, but still, I wanted to see how many words have I written in the first place & I wrote this thought in another comment & thought that its pretty interesting, let's do it. Maybe others would be curious too :)

But essentially, some part of me wanted to write blog too to quickly reference it and be part of the indie-web.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46828331

This is something that I wrote in that comment

"I guess I can write it but I already write like this in HN. The procastination of writing specifically in a blog is something which hits me.

Is it just me or is it someone else too? Because on HN I can literally write like novels (or I may have genuinely written enough characters of a novel here, I might have to test it or something lol, got a cool idea right now to measure how many novels a person has written from just their username, time to code it)"

So you aren't alone in having the procastination around making a personal blog. This is literally why I had made this idea so if this project (or discussion) helps you in making a personal blog & helps atleast a single person (meaningfully). I would consider my project to be success :)

Have a nice day and good luck for your personal blog!
by samuel-freeman | 2026-02-03 09:14:19+00:00
Proton (https://proton.me) | Privacy & productivity | Full-Time | Europe, hybrid ONSITE, visa sponsorship | Scale-up, bootstrapped, profitable

I am listing mostly Mail desktop related positions, but there a lot more on the site. New rust based client architecture: https://proton.me/blog/next-generation-proton-mail-mobile-ap...

1. Senior Software Engineer | London (UK), Geneva (Switzerland), Barcelona (Spain) | Windows, Linux, Rust, Mail | https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4766179101

2. Software Engineer | London (UK), Geneva (Switzerland), Barcelona (Spain) | macOS, Windows, Linux, Rust, Mail | https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4585460101

3. Staff QA Automation Engineer | London (UK), Geneva (Switzerland) | Mobile, Desktop | https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4653905101

4. Senior Product Designer | London (UK), Paris (France), Barcelona (Spain) | Mobile, Desktop, Mail | https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4606437101

5. Senior Product Manager | London (UK), Paris (France), Barcelona (Spain), Geneva (Switzerland) | Mobile, Desktop, Mail | https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/proton/jobs/4364312101
by 72deluxe | 2026-02-03 09:14:44+00:00
I used wxWidgets to build a native GUI for Windows + Mac 10+ years ago and implemented all GUI-drawing (it was an audio signal processor control software so included meters, faders, knobs, audio spectrum and I even incorporated Horde3D OpenGL interface for visualising an arena [sadly never fully finished to full potential as my modelling abilities in Blender simply wasn't good enough]). I wrote that, and another guy wrote the network library in C that sent signals to the network devices, and received them. I responded to the incoming network info to draw appropriate parts of the UI like meters/scopes at 50ms minimum.

The fact that we did this as a 1-man team for the GUI and that I can still compile it today (if I had the code) against wxWidgets, to then run on macOS and Windows simply shows the lazy nature of (most/all?) desktop apps by big companies these days.

I utterly detest using them, but it seems customers think an app that takes 5 seconds to launch with a spinning whirly wheel and horizontal gradient animation over list views for 5+ seconds before content is loaded is perfectly acceptable. Quality with a capital K!
by theknarf | 2026-02-03 09:14:48+00:00
React Native is able to build abstractions on top of both Android and iOS that uses native UI. Microsoft even have a package for doing a "React Native" for Windows: https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows

It's weird that we don't have a unified "React Native Desktop" that would build upon the react-native-windows package and add similar backends for MacOS and Linux. That way we could be building native apps while keeping the stuff developers like from React.
by rstuart4133 | 2026-02-03 09:15:16+00:00
Quote from the article:

> Cars sold in China will be required to have mechanical release both on the inside and outside ... The crackdown follows several high-profile incidents, including two fiery Xiaomi Corp. EV crashes in China where power failures were suspected to have prevented doors from opening, leaving people — unable to escape or be rescued – to die.

I'm not sure the "hidden door handles" in the title comes from. Tesla's handle is banned because it's purely electronic, but I would not call it hidden.
by parable | 2026-02-03 09:16:07+00:00
This likely means nothing, but the .is webmaster seems to have some sort of existing issue with Finland (where gyrovague is from), see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011955. I thought I would point it out.

Also, as someone interested in OPSEC and OSINT as a hobby, I find the measures taken by the .is webmaster, especially the dedication to setting up countless fake accounts for each persona, to be very intriguing. I spent about an hour looking into the Nora Puchreiner persona and all the accounts registered to it that I could find. It appears that "Tomas Poder" is another alter-ego used by the .is administrator. Nora also seems to have a sister: "Sara Puchreiner". Again, all very interesting and I can't seem to make a clear picture of the situation.
by hvb2 | 2026-02-03 09:16:45+00:00
> Are these the _only_ new projects that could _possibly_ be built in that time frame?

No, but a lot of the coastal waters are federal land (water? :D) which is why this is a problem to begin with. Wind at sea has a lot of benefits, no neighbors, nothing to interfere with the wind, typically very predictable power generation. So yes, you can build a lot on land, the US has plenty of space for that but that'll be subject to a LOT more pushback from the general public.

> The feelings of those with money not of the general population

And those with money are the ones making the investment decisions, no?

> You just said. "The size and energy demand of the country." Or are you proposing that no one would build unless we remove absolutely all risk for them? I'm not sure you and I mean the same thing when saying "private business."

You've followed all the rules, got all the permits, you're building and have invested x amount. And NOW the rug is pulled from underneath you? That's not a very comforting world to be investing in.

Or to put it in more general public sense. You want to build a house in city X. You get a plot of land, get an architect to draw up what you'll build, you get all the permits and are halfway through construction and THEN the city revokes your permit. You tell me, but I wouldn't try building anything there again because they are just unreliable. You go to the city next door.

> I believe this is a worn out trope. Please show some evidence this has actually occurred.

Happy to, compare these 2 charts.

USA: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-st...

Europe: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-st...

The US is basically just switching to gas power. And if you look at % of energy mix you'll see that wind is mostly flat as a % of the whole electricty generation. So yes, much much more money/investment is going into renewables in Europe. And as unpredictable as policy can be there too, they typically have the understanding to only change rules for NEW projects not existing ones.

> Ah.. the "amazonification" of America. "Businesses shouldn't compete or take risks!" You seem to say. We must bend over and make them happy before they can deign to take our dollars. Perfectly modern and utterly ridiculous.

Businesses should take risks and be rewarded for them. But take the building a house example above, would you agree that in general rules shouldn't be changed during the game/on existing projects?
by HelloNurse | 2026-02-03 09:16:59+00:00
A worrying choice of words.

"Losing sleep" implies an actual problem, which in turn implies that the mentioned mitigations and similar ones have not been applied (at least not properly) for dire reasons that are likely to be a more important problem than bad QoS.

"Infrastructure" implies an expectation that you deploy something external to the troubled application: there is a defective, presumably simplistic application architecture, and fixing it is not an option. This puts you in an awkward position: someone else is incompetent or unreasonable, but the responsibility for keeping their dumpster fire running falls on you.
by gitaarik | 2026-02-03 09:17:24+00:00
But who do earns money from the clicks?

I would like to give this to people who argue that you shouldn't use ad blockers because ads help the website's owners financially and that's a way to support the owner. If this extension would send the money to the owner of the site where the ad is displayed, then I could refer them to this plugin so they can have ads everywhere and help all website owners ; )
by tinco | 2026-02-03 09:17:59+00:00
The Falcon Heavy is $97 million per launch for 64000 kg to LEO, about $1,500 per kg. Starship is gonna be a factor 10 or if you believe Elon a factor 100 cheaper. A single NVidia system is ~140kg. So a single flight can have 350 of them + 14000kg for the system to power it. Right now 97 million to get it into space seems like a weird premium.

Maybe with Starship the premium is less extreme? $10 million per 350 NVidia systems seems already within margins, and $1M would definitely put it in the range of being a rounding error.

But that's only the Elon style "first principles" calculation. When reality hits it's going to be an engineering nightmare on the scale of nuclear power plants. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd spend a billion just figuring out how to get a datacenter operational in space. And you can build a lot of datacenters on earth for a billion.

If you ask me, this is Elon scamming investors for his own personal goals, which is just the principle of having AI be in space. When AI is in space, there's a chance human derived intelligence will survive an extinction event on earth. That's one of the core motivations of Elon.
by Bishonen88 | 2026-02-03 09:18:08+00:00
My bad then. I meant that it's "Crazy Good" as in that the free tier gave me a tremendous amount of tokens.

What I didn't realize though, is that the limit doesn't reset each 5 hours as is the case for claude. I hit the limit of the free tier about 2 hours in, and while I was expecting to be able to continue later today, it alerts me that I can continue in a week.

So my hype for the amount of tokens one gets compared to claude was a bit too eager. Hitting the limit and having to wait a week probably means that we get a comparable token amount vs the $20 claude plan. I wonder how much more I'd get when buying the $20 plus package. The pricing page doesn't make that clear (since there was no free plan before yesterday I guess): https://developers.openai.com/codex/pricing/
by bayindirh | 2026-02-03 09:18:30+00:00
> It uses Curve25519 for key exchange and ChaCha20-Poly1305 for symmetric encryption.

For now.

> There aren't many hardware primitives that would speed it up,

For now.

> although AVX2 and similar would help process ChaCha20.

So, there's at least a bullet point for experimental branching.

Also, the WireGuard Tunnel Manager on macOS is far from done.
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-03 09:19:23+00:00
In theory you can do HVDC over long distances. In practice that doesn't help much. Power would normally want to run north to south (not gonna do HVDC across the oceans anytime soon), and so the terminator hits you at the same time everywhere. It's got to be batteries if you want PV at scale.

The practical difficulties aren't really long distance transmission though. They're political and engineering. Spain had a massive blackout recently because a PV farm in the south west developed a timing glitch and they couldn't control the grid frequency - that nearly took out all of Europe and the power wasn't even being transmitted long distance! The level of trust you need to build a giant integrated continent-wide power grid is off the charts and it's not clear it's sustainable over the long run. E.g. the EU threatened to cut Britain's electricity supplies during Brexit as a negotiating tactic and that wasn't even war.
by austin-cheney | 2026-02-03 09:19:30+00:00
There used to be many excellent web development communities, but almost all of them have died more than 10 years ago. You can still find some good on topic conversation on IRC.

These communities died because experienced developers wanted to talk about product and emerging capabilities. People entering web development just wanted to just talk about frameworks and trends. The experienced people stopped contributing once everything becomes about tool literacy and conversations about framework literacy are boring to everyone so even the conversation killers would stop showing up once it’s apparent the scene is killed.
Show HN: Browse Bot, a page-aware AI browser assistant
by ProtosGalaxias | 2026-02-03 09:19:58+00:00
Hello HackerNews community,

I wanted to share with you my side project - a browser extension called Browse Bot.

It’s an intentionally simplified AI assistant designed to act as a smart layer on a web page for the user.

It can handle on-page interactions (summaries, UX fixes, information extraction) and low to middle difficulty agentic-like tasks (multistep shopping research, data consolidation). Helps you stay in context and speed up browsing experience.

Available for Chrome and Firefox, no account or personal details needed. Works with multiple providers, including OpenRouter, OpenAI, Ollama, LM Studio.

Here is the GitHub repo with all the info and links: https://github.com/Protos-Galaxias/Browse-Bot

I would be happy to hear any feedback here or on my Discord server: https://discord.gg/tv3qufet

Thanks in advance!
by hyperman1 | 2026-02-03 09:20:37+00:00
Indeed, the post-Trump period will have a choice to make. Either they continue the chosen path and dont regain trust no matter the next president, or congress and court add some serious limitations to the presidential powers so future dems and reps will never go Trump again.

I wonder if both parties see the need for that at this point. There still seems a lot of 'but we are the good guys' in both partys blocking deep reform. If I'm honest, it took 2 world wars to partially whack that attitude out of Europe, and it's slowly coming back.
by alex-moon | 2026-02-03 09:20:38+00:00
I am kind of surprised no-one has mentioned the obvious: Hacker News. Unless I've misunderstood your question, the bulk of web dev discussion happens in technical posts on personal and business blogs, which are then aggregated right here. It's a big part of why I'm on here.

If you're talking more about chat, the more messy "pair programming" side of web dev, I have always found this happens in actual dev teams who are working on the same product or for the same business. You do absolutely get chat like this at conventions - I have been to DjangoCon and PyCon back in the day and there were enormously useful discussions at those - but devs need to have something in common to talk about. As someone else has said here already, web dev is a far far broader topic than you might think - I have often found speaking to other devs I did not understand what it was they were doing. Alberta Tech did one on this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBSpm2CNuGF/?igsh=NGttZzk5NzB...
Show HN: ClientDock – a local-first CRM for freelancers and small teams
by agispace | 2026-02-03 09:20:46+00:00
Hi HN
ClientDock is a lightweight, privacy-first CRM that runs locally. It’s designed for freelancers and small teams who want simple client tracking without subscriptions, logins, or cloud sync.
Highlights:
Local-first (data stays on your machine)
Fast, minimal UI
Client notes and follow-ups
No SaaS, no per-seat pricing
It’s currently in beta, with features like bulk import coming soon.
I’d love feedback on usefulness, missing features, or UX.
Link: https://github.com/CraftIndie/clientdock-releases/tree/maste...
Thanks for checking it out
by mistachkin | 2026-02-03 09:20:51+00:00
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by joe_mamba | 2026-02-03 09:21:14+00:00
This is EXACTLY where I was getting at. People raise their fists at big-tech and big-finance for creating a bubble whose splash damage will hurt everyone, but it's ultimately the government's job to monitor, regulate and prevent this.

The reality is even worse than this. It's not that the government is asleep at the wheel, it's that all financial crises were caused by government intervention to begin with (2009 subprime government backed mortgages, 2020 covid money printing, etc). The big banks, corporations and wall street were only taking advantage of the situation the government helped create in order to enrich themselves.

Average people would have also loved to have taken advantage of it to enrich themselves, if they could understand the system well enough to game it, and some do, so it's not like the blame is only on one participant, but pretty much everyone is to blame:

- the government for creating asset bubbles and closing an eye as it is inflating

- corporations and super wealthy for being greedy and exploiting the system created and run by the government

- the voters for being uneducated and stupid and not seeing the government rob the blind, or for being greedy and complicit on the asset bubble for personal gain, and not holding the government accountable
by 2b3a51 | 2026-02-03 09:21:27+00:00
Yes, NetBSD and OpenBSD work fine on the 2005 T42 but as you say video performance is low. Recent OpenBSD versions have had to reduce the range of binary packages (i.e. outside of the base and installed with pkg_add) on i386 because of the difficulty of compiling them (e.g. Firefox, Seamonkey needing dependencies that are hard to compile on i386, a point the poster up thread made).
by mysterypie | 2026-02-03 09:21:33+00:00
There's something about the numbers I can't figure out. Look at the top three HN contributors by karma[1]:

username words karma
1. tptacek 4,310,896 416351
2. jacquesm 3,841,209 237961
3. ingve 2,273 215283

How did ingve get to #3 with just 2 thousand words, whereas tptacek and jacquesm authored 3-4 million words? Looking at his 14-year history, it's true that he hasn't written that much. I suppose one possibility is that his writing is 1000x better at earning karma. But I'm going to hazard a guess that it's the quality of his 3-4 submissions per day that brings up his karma when one of his submissions is a hit (I think that submissions do count toward karma).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders