MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2026-02-02 19:09:26+00:00
HN commenter: "Couldn't read the article because WSJ is paywalled & archive.today gives the Error: "Not Found The requested URL was not found on this server.""

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/7-reasons-teens-sa...

Text-only, no Javascript:

https://assets.msn.com/content/view/v2/Detail/en-in/AA1Vo1If...
by jcalvinowens | 2026-02-02 19:09:27+00:00
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by graemep | 2026-02-02 19:10:00+00:00
My points are:

1. slavery in Western Europe had been abolished long before the transatlantic slave trade - the Europeans were intermediaries, but there was little to no slavery in their home countries. There were many court rulings in England against slavery.

2. not enslaving Christians played a role in abolishing slavery in medieval Europe

3. serfdom was a far better condition that being a slave

4. Slave owners in the Americas opposed the conversion of slaves to Christianity. they also censored the version of the Bible available to slaves very heavily.

5. The claim about mass slavery within Europe is misleading on two counts: serfs are not just chattel slaves (they had rights), and Western Europe was very different from Eastern Europe.

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/inspire-me/blog/bl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_Britain#Judicial_de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Select_Parts_of_the_Holy_Bible...
by Voice_of_Void | 2026-02-02 19:10:10+00:00
E = mc² Reinterpreted — not a new theory, but a disciplined ontological framework.

This piece does not modify SR, QFT, or the Standard Model.
Instead, it introduces a clean separation of three layers:

Operational physics (unchanged)

Phenomenological constraints (thermo + information theory)

Ontological interpretation (what the equations mean, not what they predict)

The core contribution is a structured language for discussing:

symmetries as constraints on “permitted differences”,

gauge bosons as minimal carriers of transferable difference,

mass as the energetic signature of maintaining stable patterns,

and c as the upper bound on causal consistency updates.

No metaphysics disguised as physics.
No new constants.
Just a coherent interpretive layer that clarifies what conservation laws are in conceptual terms.

If you’re interested in the intersection of physics, information theory, and ontology — this is a surprisingly rigorous read.

E = mc² Reinterpreted — SingularityForge
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by rsync | 2026-02-02 19:10:18+00:00
"Rclone is a fantastic tool, but my favorite part of it is actually the underyling FS library."

Related to this is the very useful:

rclone serve restic ...

.. workflow that allows you to create append-only (immutable) backups.

This howto is not rsync.net-specific - you can follow this recipe at any standard SSH endpoint:

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notes/2025-q4-rsync.net_tech...
by Nevermark | 2026-02-02 19:10:19+00:00
Thanks for validating my intuition!

> In the meantime everybody just plugs everything into ChatGPT

I believe you meant "everyone plugs everything into ChatGPT for Co-Pilot"! A statement with its own useful ambiguities.

It is comical, but I can now make a serious addition to Sun Tzu's maxims.

“All warfare is based on deception.”

“To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.”

"Approval is best co-opted with a polysemous brand envelope."
by nullandvoid | 2026-02-02 19:10:26+00:00
To repeat my comment from another thread:

Every interaction has different (in many cases real) "memories" driving the conversation, as-well as unique persona's / background information on the owner.

Is there a lot of noise, sure - but it much closer maps to how we, as humans communicate with each other (through memories of lived experienced) than just a LLM loop, IMO that's what makes it interesting.
by wongarsu | 2026-02-02 19:10:58+00:00
Investing money in the stock market doesn't meaningfully improve the economy. Unless by economy we mean the stock market of course. Sure, if you have run out of better investment options and still have money left over that's a decent strategy (Norway's sovereign wealth fund would be a good example). But usually there are better investments available for governments. Buying goods and services from local companies is one such better investment, since it directly benefits those companies, not just their stock holders and managers
by mlsu | 2026-02-02 19:11:30+00:00
Fred Brooks, from "No Silver Bullet" (1986)

> All software construction involves essential tasks, the fashioning of the complex conceptual structures that compose the abstract software entity, and accidental tasks, the representation of these abstract entities in programming languages and the mapping of these onto machine languages within space and speed constraints. Most of the big past gains in software productivity have come from removing artificial barriers that have made the accidental tasks inordinately hard, such as severe hardware constraints, awkward programming languages, lack of machine time. How much of what software engineers now do is still devoted to the accidental, as opposed to the essential? Unless it is more than 9/10 of all effort, shrinking all the accidental activities to zero time will not give an order of magnitude improvement.

AI, the silver bullet. We just never learn, do we?
by AlonsoGP | 2026-02-02 19:11:31+00:00
Hey everyone — I’ve been working on a small side project called Doomsday Ready and wanted to share it here.
It’s basically a curated watchlist to help track everything you’d want to rewatch before Avengers: Doomsday. I didn’t want it to be just a boring checklist, so I added an achievement system that unlocks badges as you progress through the MCU, plus a way to compare your progress with friends.

It’s completely free to use. I’d genuinely love to hear what you think or if there are any features you’d like to see added.

PS: Everything is running on free tiers (Vercel, Render, MongoDB, Resend), so if you run into any lag or don’t get an email, feel free to let me know.
by hparadiz | 2026-02-02 19:12:00+00:00
OpenRC on Gentoo works great. I have a full bleeding edge Wayland KDE Plasma with Pipewire setup that I game on.

OpenRC recently added user "units" aka services running as a user after a session start. Something that many new GUI user space applications rely on for various things.

There are growing pains. https://bugs.gentoo.org/936123

Especially when upstream hard requires systemd. More annoying when there's no real reason for it.

But there is a way forward and I highly recommend people try to build software to work without systemd before assuming it's always there.
by robomartin | 2026-02-02 19:12:18+00:00
> I truly do not understand the appeal of proto board.

I didn't understand your comment until I looked at the pictures in the article. To me "proto board" has always meant wire-wrapping. I lost count of how many of my designs back in the dark ages started as wire-wrapped protoboards. CPU cards, drive controllers, memory cards, motor drivers, keypads, I/O cards and myriad other projects.

In fact, I still have my OK Industries wire-wrapping gun[0]. I still have pins, sockets, boards, wire, etc. I probably reach for them once every couple of years these days. On those rare occasions when it's the middle of the night or a weekend and I have to wire-up a small board (nothing substantial). It's fast and works well for the right kind of project.

The problem with wire-wrap (and breadboards) is that, once clock frequencies (or frequencies in general in analog designs) rise the capacitive and inductive effects quickly conspire against you and make it impossible to build circuits that work. This is where the OP's approach can provide a bit of a bridge between a full PCB and wire-wrap/breadboard. I have done hand-wired (just like the article) boards with twisted pairs and carefully routed point-to-point connections. I never used magnet wire, just kynar or teflon wire-wrap wire.

[0] Mine is exactly like the one in figure 4 in this article. It works with spools of wire and auto-strips as you wire a board. It is very fast. Not sure why the article shows pre-stripped wire, the tool does the work for you auto-magically. I didn't read the article, maybe they are using a bit that does not strip (why?).

https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/wire_wrap_is_aliv...
by nr378 | 2026-02-02 19:13:02+00:00
Looks like another Claude App/Cowork-type competitor with slightly different tradeoffs (Cowork just calls Claude Code in a VM, this just calls Codex CLI with OS sandboxing).

Here's the Codex tech stack in case anyone was interested like me.

Framework: Electron 40.0.0

Frontend:

- React 19.2.0

- Jotai (state management)

- TanStack React Form

- Vite (bundler)

- TypeScript

Backend/Main Process:

- Node.js

- better-sqlite3 (local database)

- node-pty (terminal emulation)

- Zod (validation)

- Immer (immutable state)

Build & Dev:

- pnpm (package manager)

- Electron Forge

- Vitest (testing)

- ESLint + Prettier

Native/macOS:

- Sparkle (auto-updates)

- Squirrel (installer)

- electron-liquid-glass (macOS vibrancy effects)

- Sentry (error tracking)
by zkmon | 2026-02-02 19:13:07+00:00
> With no-code tools you often reach a hard limit where the tool simply does not make sense to use anymore.

No-code is the same trend that has abstracted out all the generic stuff into infrastructure layers, letting the developers to focus on Lambda functions, while everything in the lower levels is config-driven. This was happening all the time, pushing the developer to easier higher layers and absorbing all complexity and algorithmic work into config-driven layers.

Runtime cost of a Lambda function might far exceed that of a fully hand-coded application hosted on your local server. But there could be other factors to consider.

Same with AI. You get a jump-start with full speed, and then you can take the wheel.
by mid-kid | 2026-02-02 19:13:49+00:00
I was considering forking the base book and maintaining it, as I have kept an eye and occassionally built the project over the years (I use it a lot for package management/bootstrapping/cross compilation experiments), but it appears there already is one: https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-dev/2026-02...

I believe maintaining the base book is the most important part, BLFS has some really good hints but a very significant amount of packages have few differences, collecting these in a separate hints file or similar would help a bit, at least for things that don't hard-depend on systemd like gnome.
by alanfalcon | 2026-02-02 19:14:02+00:00
There were certainly a great number of real people who got hyped up about the reports of it this weekend. The reports that went viral were generally sensationalized, naturally, and good at creating hype. So I don't see how this would even be in dispute, unless you do not participate in or even understand how social media sites work. (I do agree that the borders are broad, and that real human hype was boosted by self-perpetuating artificial hype.)
by lacoolj | 2026-02-02 19:14:02+00:00
OpenAI, ChatGPT, Codex

So many of the things that pioneered the way for the truly good (Claude, Gemini) to evolve. I am thankful for what they have done.

But the quality is gone, and they are now in catch-up mode. This is clear, not just from the quality of GPT-5.x outputs, but from this article.

They launch something new, flashy, should get the attention of all of us. And yet, they only launch to Apple devices?

Then, there are typos in the article. Again. I can't believe they would be sloppy about this with so much on the line. EDIT: since I know someone will ask, couple of examples - "7MM Tokens", "...this prompt initial prompt..."

And why are they not giving the full prompt used for these examples? "...that we've summarized for clarity" but we want to see the actual prompt. How unclear do we need to make our prompts to get to the level that you're showing us? Slight red flag there.

Anyway, good luck to them, and I hope it improves! Happy to try it out when it does, or at the very least, when it exists for a platform I own.
by binsquare | 2026-02-02 19:15:08+00:00
Some musings from someone who has not worked in microsoft but has in big tech.

This often happens because the people inside are incentivized to build their own empire.

If someone comes and wants to get promoted/become an exec, there's a ceiling if they work under the an existing umberlla + dealing the politics of introducing a feature which requires dealing with an existing org.

So they build something new.
And the next person does the same.
And so you have 365, One, Live, .Net, etc
by pixl97 | 2026-02-02 19:15:21+00:00
> it's multiple orders of magnitude more people required to make them.

That's something that seems to eat up AAA games, each person they add adds less of a person due to communication effects and inefficiencies. That and massive amounts of created artwork/images/stories.

There are a lot of indie game studios that make games much more complicated than what was in the 90s, and have a lot less people than AAA teams.

And ya, tons of memory has unlocked tons of capability.
by toast0 | 2026-02-02 19:15:40+00:00
There's a lot of duplicated geographic names in Northern and Southern California. If the production house isn't in the area, it's hard, close enough.

I lived in Burbank, but I was in the unincorporated area of Santa Clara County, not the incorporated city in LA County. Incidentally, I was living in the South Bay, but not the South Bay in LA County, or the South Bay in San Diego County.

Anyway, perhaps the couple is from the Bay Area, but their house is in LA County right now. :P
by whynotmaybe | 2026-02-02 19:15:57+00:00
My perspective is that each year a good chunk of senior dev leave the pure dev to go to management roles or something else and while they do that, they are replaced by junior morphing into senior.

I consider 8 years to be the real experience to be considered a senior dev.

If from now on, the amount of junior is drastically reduced, this will lead to a lack of senior in 8 years because the senior leaving should be the same proportion.

In a situation where they replace juniors with agents, yes, we'll still be senior, but just like people capable of setting a VHS recorder, our number will dwindle.
by nialv7 | 2026-02-02 19:16:08+00:00
If you want to learn the system from scratch, the best way will be writing your own little init system from scratch, so you can understand how the boot sequence works. And as you make use of more and more of the advanced features of Linux, your init system will get more and more complex, and will start to resemble systemd.

If you only learn about sysvinit and stop there, you are missing large parts of how a modern Linux distro boots and manages services.
by bikenaga | 2026-02-02 19:16:09+00:00
Original article: "Identification of Chlamydia pneumoniae and NLRP3 inflammasome activation in Alzheimer’s disease retina" - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68580-4

Abstract: "Chlamydia pneumoniae is an intracellular bacterium implicated in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but its role in retinal pathology and disease progression is unclear. Here we identify Chlamydia pneumoniae inclusions in the retina, showing higher burden in AD retina and brain, increasing with APOEε4, disease stage, and cognitive deficit. Retinal and cortical proteomics reveal bacterial-infection and related NLRP3-inflammasome pathways. Retinal NLRP3 is elevated in mild cognitive impairment and activated in AD dementia, evidenced by increased caspase-1, cleaved interleukin-1β, and cleaved N-terminal gasdermin-D. Chlamydia pneumoniae associates with amyloid-β42, inflammation, apoptosis, pyroptosis, and AD status. In neuronal cultures and APPSWE/PS1ΔE9 model mice, infection induces amyloid-β, inflammasome activation, neuroinflammation, and neurotoxicity, and chronic infection worsens cognition. Fewer pathogen-colocalized microglia are found in AD retinas, implying impaired clearance. Machine learning detects retinal Chlamydia pneumoniae or NLRP3, combined with amyloid-β42, as predictors of AD diagnosis and stage. These findings support a disease-amplifying role for Chlamydia pneumoniae and propose NLRP3-attenuation or antibiotic-based early interventions."
by lysosome | 2026-02-02 19:16:54+00:00
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by embedding-shape | 2026-02-02 19:17:17+00:00
> One could say the same about many TV shows and movies.

One major difference, TV, movies and "legacy media" might require a lot of energy to initially produce, compared to how much it takes to consume, but for the LLM it takes energy both to consume ("read") and to produce ("write"). Instead of "produce once = many consume", it's a "many produce = many read" and both sides are using more energy.
by shagie | 2026-02-02 19:17:19+00:00
As long as the manufacturer isn't on the hook for a violation of the EPA when the owner modifies their vehicle to be out of spec.

For automobiles, this has been the case - that the owner is responsible the vehicle goes out of spec... and the owner can also do a lot of customization of their vehicle.

For heavy machinery (which tractors fall into), the manufacture is almost always on the hook for any modification that the owner makes.

https://www.farm-equipment.com/articles/18110-what-you-need-...

> Here’s one real-life scenario that Natalie Higgins, vice president of government relations and general counsel for EDA, shared during a recent presentation for the United Equipment Dealers Assn. “An Ohio equipment owner purchased a tractor and then installed a turbocharger on the engine. The tractor owner sustained injuries and then sued both the manufacturer and the equipment dealer, alleging that his injuries were the result of negligence on the part of the manufacturer and dealer. Remember, neither the dealer nor the manufacturer were involved in the turbochargers installation.”

> ...

> And, if you service equipment that has been chipped, the warranty will most likely be denied and you will not be paid for your work. “That can also put your dealership in a sticky situation if technicians in the shop are not conveying to the rest of the dealership what is going in,” says Wareham. F

> Financial consequences can be harsh for not following the law. Under federal law 40 CFR § 89.1006, the penalty for a dealer who removes or renders inoperative emissions controls is subject to a penalty of $32,500 for each violation. Wareham says that one manufacturer of chipping software was initially fined $300,000 by the EPA and then $6 million to ensure future compliance with the Clean Air Act. “The EPA has stated that their intent is to crack down on defeat devices in 2020,” says Wareham.

> A dealer may face liability issues when customers tamper with the equipment they purchased, even if a dealer had nothing to do with the modification. For example, in instances in Ohio and Oregon, customers were injured as a result of modifications and dealers were sued.
by smithclay | 2026-02-02 19:17:44+00:00
This looks cool, love the approach of a more "pythonic" infra as code -- have also noticed this pattern in Modal [1] and Ray [2] and all for it.

[1] https://modal.com/docs/examples/hackernews_alerts
[2] https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/ray-overview/getting-started.h...

edit: forgot to mention StackQL [3], which is somewhat similar but takes a SQL-first vs python-first approach. The IaC space is about to get a lot more interesting.

[3] https://stackql.io/docs
by ddtaylor | 2026-02-02 19:17:50+00:00
Firefox is supposed to be the browser were you don't have to dig through the settings every few months or year to find out what anti-patterns they added and disable them.

I stopped using it 2 years ago because that's no longer true. Time and time again I was having to dig around for whatever new setting got created and defaulted to a bad setting for a bad reason (spoiler: they want money)

At that point what am I gaining by not using Chrome, Edge, or what I ultimately use now, which is Brave. At least with Brave I get useful features like having access to Tor for basic things, great cryptocurrency support, etc.
by rdli | 2026-02-02 19:17:53+00:00
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We're seed-staged, 3 people, building an AI for cybersecurity, looking for a founding AI engineer who wants to learn/apply SOTA techniques for AI. Ideal background is experience building production agentic AI systems (by this I mean something like Simon's definition: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/agents/ definition) who also likes to think about WHAT to build and not just how.

We are a Golang/Python shop (although I'm not sure that matters so much any more).

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by cben | 2026-02-02 19:18:29+00:00
Caveat to those considering buying PineBuds for "open source firmware": OOTB they come with fully working but proprietary firmware (part source-available SDK, part closed). The hardware is not 100% documented. There is open firmware they can run, but for example ANC has not been replicated yet, at least not well (and personally I love the ANC enough that I kept the factory firmware)-:

- Pine64's general model is selling cheap, quite-good, not-fully-documented hardware with expectation community software will(?) grow around it. Some of their products grow fantastic support, some less so, some remain "dev kit" — do your homework.
by surrTurr | 2026-02-02 19:19:09+00:00
my guess is that openai/anthropic employees work on macOS and mostly vibe code these new applications (be it Atlas browser or now Codex Desktop); i wouldn't be surprised if Codex Desktop was built in a month or less;

linux / windows requires extra testing as well as some adjustments to the software stack (e.g. liquid glass only works on mac); to get the thing out the door ASAP, they release macos first.