MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hansonkd | 2026-02-03 20:02:28+00:00
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by dehugger | 2026-02-03 20:02:37+00:00
i love the assumption by default that "ai generated" automatically excludes "human verified".

see, i actually read and monitor the outputs. i check them against my own internal knowledge. i trial the results with real trouble shooting and real bug fixes/feature requests.

when its wrong, i fix it. when its right, great we now have documentation where none existed before.

dogfood the documentation and you'll know if its worth using or not.
by kstrauser | 2026-02-03 20:02:47+00:00
I'm sticking with power-of-2 sizes. Invent a new word for decimal, metric units where appropriate. I proposed[0] "kitribytes", "metribytes", "gitribytes", etc. Just because "kilo" has a meaning in one context doesn't mean we're stuck with it in others. It's not as though the ancient Greeks originally meant "kilo" to mean "exactly 1,000". "Giga" just meant "giant". "Tera" is just "monster". SI doesn't have sole ownership for words meaning "much bigger than we can possibly count at a glance".

Donald Knuth himself said[1]:

> The members of those committees deserve credit for raising an important issue, but when I heard their proposal it seemed dead on arrival --- who would voluntarily want to use MiB for a maybe-byte?! So I came up with the suggestion above, and mentioned it on page 94 of my Introduction to MMIX. Now to my astonishment, I learn that the committee proposals have actually become an international standard. Still, I am extremely reluctant to adopt such funny-sounding terms; Jeffrey Harrow says "we're going to have to learn to love (and pronounce)" the new coinages, but he seems to assume that standards are automatically adopted just because they are there.

If Gordon Bell and Gene Amdahl used binary sizes -- and they did -- and Knuth thinks the new terms from the pre-existing units sound funny -- and they do -- then I feel like I'm in good company on this one.

0: https://honeypot.net/2017/06/11/introducing-metric-quantity....

1: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news99.html
by latexr | 2026-02-03 20:02:54+00:00
You make it seem like disagreeing with one of your arguments (you made more than one) somehow means I believe all of them are invalid. That’s not true at all. I also don’t see what was imprecise about your language, the argument seems quite clear.

I do agree the GDPR is not enforced enough. I disagree that “criticism of the EU always gets downvoted here”. I don’t know about unpaid fines, but doing a web search I can’t find information either way, so perhaps if you know they aren’t paid you could provide the source for that claim?

You don’t need to take it to heart. Disagreeing with your point isn’t an insult to you. We’re all wrong about some things and right about others. Saying that “X always happens on HN” is typically incorrect (I have yet to find the situation where it is true).
by deathanatos | 2026-02-03 20:02:57+00:00
> Exactly! Therefore, use IEC 60027 prefixes like kibi-, because they are the ones that reflect the binary nature of computers. Only use SI if you genuinely respect SI definitions.

You have to sort of remember that these didn't exist at the time that "kilobyte" came around. The binary prefixes are — relatively speaking — very new.
by arjie | 2026-02-03 20:03:00+00:00
It is good that the old ways have not been forgotten. We used to argue about tabs vs. spaces, GPL vs. BSD, Linux vs. BSD, FreeBSD vs. NetBSD, BSD 2 clause vs BSD 3 clause. It's important to complain about things pointlessly. Builds character.

Anyway, here's my contribution to help make everything worse. I think we should use Kylobyte, etc. when we don't care whether it's 1000 or 1024. KyB. See! Works great.
by SimianSci | 2026-02-03 20:03:05+00:00
The answer is and always has been "paperclips."

without human influence or directive, capital ceases to be become anything meaningful beyond [insert data type] at which point, it spreads like a cancer, ie: universal paperclips

Capitalism is revered due to how it has significantly impacted the living standards of populations that participate in it. But increasing the living standards of populations was never the purpose of capitalism, it was a simply a side-effect.
by tyre | 2026-02-03 20:03:23+00:00
It’s in the US’s best interests to be a rule follower. It maintains our status as a global reserve currency. It gives our passports access to almost every country without visas. It attracts foreign investment.

As a US citizen, it is incredibly in my selfish interest for the US to not be a shitty friend. Just as it is in our selfish interest to promote democracy, less corruption, and free markets.

While I agree with those things, morally, they are also in the pure self-interest of the United States.
by mathgladiator | 2026-02-03 20:03:25+00:00
I'm just getting started to be honest. I freaked out when I realized how much I was spending with OpenClaw for the conversations. Right now, I'm building tools that integrate AI, and I'm going to continue down this route.

The crazy thing is that i had ralph analyze all my existing documentation and blogs (which never got any traction), and it told me I was barking up the wrong tree but that my platform would be great with AI agents. So, I'm very new to this whole space, but it is fascinating.
by trgn | 2026-02-03 20:03:26+00:00
somewhat tangential, but most interesting phenomeon is the phaseshift non-boomers will undergo when they're around 45, surveying what's left, realizing how much they have paid into the system already, and desperate to claim the same rewards. it's a perpetuum mobile. if it needs to end, the young will have to wrestle it from their seniors _now_, because that gap closes fast.
Show HN: Threds.dev – Git-style branching/merging for LLM research chats
by benjaminfh | 2026-02-03 20:03:28+00:00
Hi HN — I built threds.dev (aka ResearchTree): git-style branching/merging for human-led LLM research chats.

I use LLMs a lot for research and idea iteration where I want to remain in the loop to learn/absorb. Linear chats felt wrong for how I think: I want to build strong context, spin off side questions (“side quests”), then merge useful results back into the main line without polluting it.

Concretely: each workspace is a versioned reasoning tree with explicit branch/merge semantics.

Highlights

- Branch from an assistant reply (entire reply or a highlighted section; can run in the background)

- Edit an earlier user message and continue exploring on a new branch

- Merge useful results back into another branch

- Live graph view of the reasoning DAG to jump between nodes

- Per-branch model/provider settings (incl. “thinking” content where available)

- Quote replies for quick line-by-line markup

- Share workspaces with other users by email

- Postgres backend (Supabase or local adapter); an older local git backend is mostly deprecated now

- Electron desktop shell for local workflows

- Code: https://github.com/benjaminfh/researchtree

Note: the hosted app currently requires signup (workspaces are persisted + shareable). If you prefer not to create an account, the repo supports running locally (including an Electron build: npm run desktop:package with a local Postgres instance which is quick to spin up using, e.g., https://postgresapp.com/).

Feedback I’m hoping for: does branch/merge for context match how you actually work with LLMs? Where does the branching/merging UX feel awkward?

This started as an experiment in two parts:
- are trees the right data structure for context for humans? For agents? (See also: Pi, which is awesome!)
- how far I could get with a PRD (PM_DOCS/ARCHIVE/PRD.md if you're curious) + Codex doing all of the code and me reviewing and thinking about architecture only. Answer: very far.
by 4corners4sides | 2026-02-03 20:03:36+00:00
This one touches on the metaphysical union of all prior minds and the implicit “natural” element to “artificial” intelligence. Yes, indeed sometimes reading LLM written text you cannot help but wince and cringe at the “contrastive framing” writing style (it’s not X, it’s Y) but these models did not arise from some kind man-hating void in space. They arose by learning from everything that can possibly be learned from that humans have made available digitally. Antirez says that “Pre-training is, actually, our collective gift that allows many individuals to do things they could otherwise never do, like if we are now linked in a collective mind, in a certain way”. This is borderline cultish but I can’t help but agree with it.
by moffkalast | 2026-02-03 20:03:47+00:00
Yeah well, I'm sure you know what's also a massive expense in aviation? Everything. If a regulation was made that required it, people would do it regardless of how much it costs and it would finally become a reliable option if it was widely available. No regular car gas station would stock lead free if it wasn't mandated.

And well it's fine by me if you want to literally breathe lead every time you fly, you do you, but who the fuck gives you the right to poison everyone else around you? Like if anyone did what you do they'd justifiably spend their life in prison.

I find it horrid that there is even a debate around lead free alternatives. Oh woe is me, my 80s engine will last 100 hours less! Jesus fucking christ. You sound like an 3M laywer advocating for PFAS. "The alternatives are inconvenient and expensive so we're gonna keep poisoning everyone until they aren't because we can."

> I guess we just shouldn't train new pilots then.

There are literally countless options man. There's even electrics now, you don't exactly need long range for training and small turboprop jet-a options for long hauls. I know the lead is making it hard to think, but for the sake of people breathing your exhaust please do try.
by hobofan | 2026-02-03 20:03:55+00:00
> unwilling to call a product "done"

Unlike modern physical products, software often has a contiguous lineage, with less individual hard cuts between releases, that e.g. necessitate setting up a new production line for each iteration.

Of course you can call individual releases "done" but then you also have to accept that the same realities apply to it that it's utility will decay over time same as e.g. household appliances do, where you also wouldn't use one that's 40 years old.

Calling a software project as a whole "done" (and claiming that it doesn't have bugs and doesn't need maintenance) would be akin to Apple saying the iPhone (the whole product line/smartphone niche) is "done".
by Rayhem | 2026-02-03 20:04:03+00:00
The physics prof who gave me my start would always get this kind of fond, nostalgic look in his eye whenever anyone mentioned "the days of punch card programming". So, naturally, I took an old slide rule and mounted it in a shadowbox with lettering that said "IN CASE OF EMERGENCY BREAK GLASS" when I got ready to graduate. He got a tremendous kick out of it.
by pwdisswordfishy | 2026-02-03 20:04:04+00:00
> classic 3.5 inch floppy disks

90 mm floppy disks. https://jdebp.uk/FGA/floppy-discs-are-90mm-not-3-and-a-half-...

Which I have taken to calling 1440 KiB – accurate and pretty recognizable at the same time.
by wat10000 | 2026-02-03 20:04:09+00:00
What false dichotomy? At no point did I even suggest that cooling by convection/conduction on the ground or cooling by radiation in space are the only two possibilities. I am not, despite what one might think, a complete moron. I know that there are more things. You could cool by radiation on the ground. You could cool in space by launching blocks of ice into orbit. You could put your computers on a balloon floating in Neptune and use its atmosphere for cooling.

The reason I'm talking about computers on the ground using the atmosphere for cooling is because that's how things are done right now and that's the obvious alternative to space-based computing.

Why does it matter what I prefer? I'd love to see all industry in space and Earth turned into a garden. I'm not talking about what I want. I'm talking about the economics. I'm asking why so many people are talking about putting data centers in space when doing so would be so much more difficult than putting data centers on Earth. If your argument is that it's more difficult but it's worth the extra effort so we don't "shit where we eat," great, but that's the first time I've ever seen that argument put forth. None of the actual players are making that case.
by ifwinterco | 2026-02-03 20:04:35+00:00
Yep but while that is true at the level of the overall grid, actually the nearest part of "the grid" might be a local transformer that only serves 10-100 houses.

At that scale, it's definitely possible that you all plug in your electric cars and turn on your heat pumps more or less at once on a cold evening after work and start cooking your local transformer. Not my day job but I think it is a potential issue when everything is sized assuming ~2kW average demand or something
by rhgraysonii | 2026-02-03 20:04:44+00:00
The anticompetitive move would be not running their software if ‘which codex’ evaluated to showing a binary and then not allow you to use it due to its presence. Companies are allowed to set pricing and not let you borrow the jet to fly to a not approved destination. This distortion is just wrong as a premise. They are being competitive by making a superior tool and their business model is “no one else sells Claude” and they are pretty right to do this IMO.
by chuckadams | 2026-02-03 20:04:57+00:00
I use exactly one such hook, and that's to add commit signoff because of a checklist-compliance item called DCO that fails all PRs unless they have the sign-off trailer added by `git commit -s`. I've long argued that we should be enforcing actual signed commits instead, but compliance has never been about doing the sensible thing.

It's as simple as a script with a cp command that I run after any clone of a repo that requires it; certainly doesn't require anything as elaborate as a hook manager.
by Draiken | 2026-02-03 20:05:10+00:00
I don't get why so much mental gymnastics is done to avoid the fact that locking their lower prices to effectively subsidize their shitty product is the anti competitive behavior.

They simply don't want to compete, they want to force the majority of people that can't spend a lot on tokens to use their inferior product.

Why build a better product if you control the cost?
by robocat | 2026-02-03 20:05:13+00:00
> when most still heat with fossil fuels

Christchurch doesn't use much fossil fuels. Coal, Coal gas[1], Coke, and LPG were used in the past for home heating. Electricity generation can come from coal when hydro lakes get dry. Utility Solar will replace that usage.

I use firewood for heating when I'm using the living area but I'm not sure I'd replace the current woodburner. I currently use gas for hot water for showers but LPG is getting more expensive so when the gas califont fails it will be replaced with electric heating.

I have access to free trees, but I've been slowly finding that my "free" firewood is expensive (because I value my time highly). I'm not sure how to account for the risks of hurting myself, or the benefits of exercise!

We had a massive problem with smog, and although the regulations definitely have some bad side effects, the regulations have worked.

[1] https://www.engineeringnz.org/programmes/heritage/heritage-r...
by jandrese | 2026-02-03 20:05:36+00:00
Email is one of those cursed standards where the committee wasn't building a protocol from scratch, but rather trying to build a universal standard by gluing together all of the independently developed existing systems in some way that might allow them to interoperate. Verifying that a string a user has typed is a valid email address is close to impossible short of just throwing up your hands and allowing anything with a @ somewhere in it.
by ATechGuy | 2026-02-03 20:05:50+00:00
I will ask what I've asked before: how to know what resources to make available to agents and what policies to enforce? The agent behavior is not predefined; it may need access to a number of files & web domains.

For example, you said:
> I don't expose entire /etc, just the bare minimum
How is "bare minimum" defined?

> Inspecting the log you can spot which files are needed and bind them as needed.
This requires manual inspection.
by KPGv2 | 2026-02-03 20:05:51+00:00
In fairness, Python as an ecosystem doesn't make it clear, either. I used to write a ton of Python back in the v2 days. I came back to Python to write a web crawler in summer 2025 and couldn't believe how it was still a bunch of arcane commands to create a virtual environment and install dependencies and capture the dependencies. Yes, an IDE like Pycharm handles this (thank goodness), but jiminy crickets, why doesn't "pip" refuse to even work until you've done "pip init" which generates a requirements.txt and then every pip install should check for a requirements.txt in the PWD. If it doesn't exist, refuse to install the dep. If the file does exist, append the version of the dep to that file.

It's 2026. Even JavaScript can do this.

pip is the de facto manager for the entire language. It should be better. With Node Package Manager for JS, the installation default is at the project level. You have to do a command line override to install globally.

PIP is the opposite. In fact, the only way to install at the project level is to create a virtual environment and trick PIP into thinking it's installing at the global level!

What language operates like this in 2026? Maven installs at the project level. Unison at the project level. Haskell at the project level. JS/TS at the project level.
by Bender | 2026-02-03 20:05:52+00:00
I'd wager this routinely happens several times a year.

I totally get where you are coming from. I think this time is different. Trump is pushing testing their resolve in ways we never have before. Other admins have made idle threats but this time we have already bombed them. I think Iran knows our navy is not ready to take on their massive underground cities of anti-ship missiles and there is literally nowhere nearby to reload our missiles that contain a stockpile of missiles for a prolonged engagement from sea. The ships are required to sustain air combat. I think people near Trump are telling we have more capabilities than we actually do. That leaves only boots on the ground or nuclear. We have to retain a percentage of soldiers for all the other countries we are pissing off. Either way I hope they reach a deal or that we back off.
by anjel | 2026-02-03 20:06:16+00:00
The trick with title theft is they target property not closely watched as the author noted, but also worth roughly the legal costs the rightful owner will incur undoing the fradulent transfer.

Prison is crime university and ID theft and related crimes are high yield low risk crimes.

The system doesn't care and such title thefts have been increasing for 15-20 years already
by dehugger | 2026-02-03 20:06:16+00:00
Whats with this assumption that there's no human involvement? I dont just say "hey scan this 2m loc repo and give me some docs'... that would be insane. T

he AI is there to do the easy part; scan a giant spaghetti bowl and label each noodle. The humans job is to attach descriptions to those noodles.

Sometimes I forget that people on this site simply assume the worst in any given situation.
by 0xy | 2026-02-03 20:06:27+00:00
It's always surprising that political bias can infect even the most technically experienced person on HN and force them to claim that inherently insecure electronic voting machines are totally legit and should be used and expanded.

Not only are these machines actively a security nightmare with dozens of blatant security holes, ANY form of electronic voting or tallying is inherently exploitable.

A paper trail prevents innumerable amounts of tampering, human error or fraud and is prevalent in most democracies that value accurate elections.

Before 2016, it was common for media to report on the inherent insecurity of these machines. Now, they claim that questioning a machine running EoL-ed Windows 7 with an exposed USB port and a "abcde" password is verboten and against democracy. [1] [2] [3]

Even a theoretical open-source electronic voting machine (doesn't exist, by the way) with cryptographically provable results should be looked at with extreme skepticism.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/new-election-systems-u...

[2] https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/researchers-at-def-con-r...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/15/virginia-hac...
by 4corners4sides | 2026-02-03 20:06:36+00:00
From my perspective he seemed to go through a lot of trauma to end up with an otherwise regular linux install (NVIDIA driver failure, KDE plasma failure, extremely slow downloads, solution speeds). Though at some point I should trial one of these declarative OSes for development be it Nix or guix.

As a recovering emacs user I had a pretty visceral reaction to seeing a “cons” cell in code. In all my ramblings about a post-syntax world and chasing higher and higher abstractions seeing the level of abstractions of “cons” cells, a linked list implementation detail, mingled in with the orchestration of a whole operating system just feels like a despicable and cruel joke. It’s like studying system design and hearing some peanut brain in the other room say something like “let’s use a for loop” - not the level that one should be thinking at.
by tjohns | 2026-02-03 20:06:39+00:00
There definitely is urgency to phase out leaded aviation gasoline. The FAA is proposing that we phase it out by 2030 - just 4 years from now - even though we still haven't agreed on which of the 3 competing gas blends to standardize on, the pumping infrastructure only exists at a small number of airports, and even though there's still open concerns about them causing engine damage.

They just published a draft version of the transition plan here: https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/draft_docs/draft_unleaded_avgas...
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-03 20:06:51+00:00
Yeah I got 35-39tok/sec for one shot prompts, but for real-world longer context interactions through opencode it seems to be averaging out to 20-30tok/sec. I tried both MXFP4 and Q4_K_XL, no big difference, unfortunately.

--no-mmap --fa on options seemed to help, but not dramatically.

As with everything Spark, memory bandwidth is the limitation.

I'd like to be impressed with 30tok/sec but it's sort of a "leave it overnight and come back to the results" kind of experience, wouldn't replace my normal agent use.

However I suspect in a few days/weeks DeepInfra.com and others will have this model (maybe Groq, too?), and will serve it faster and for fairly cheap.