MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rsyring | 2026-02-06 12:59:33+00:00
After troubleshooting a couple issues with the GitHub Actions Linux admin team, I'm very skeptical of investing more in GitHub Actions:

- Ubuntu useradd command causes 30s+ hang [1]

- Ubuntu: sudo -u some-user unexpectedly ends up with environment variables for the runner [2]

1: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13048

2: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/13049
by sidrag22 | 2026-02-06 13:00:00+00:00
Maybe for articles... and people who seem to think copy pasting a basic gpt response to generate a linkedin lunatic style post is passing anyone familiar with AI generated responses sniff tests...

But i wouldn't be surprised to see a massive % of comments that I don't instantly attribute to AI, actually being AI. RP prompts are just so powerful, and even my local mediocore model coulda wrote 100 comments in the time its taking me to write this one.

all humans are pattern seeking to a fault, the amount of people even in this community that will not consider something AI generated just because it doesnt have emdashes or emojis is probably pretty high.
by quiqueqs | 2026-02-06 13:00:11+00:00
It's a crazy market right now. Since LLMs provide 0 analytics insight, all of the available optimization tools are pretty trying to guess or reverse-engineer prompts and their answers. Since it's still pretty much a black box, I think most of the effort is being spent in experimenting.

The one concrete thing I've noticed are some companies changing their SEO blog strategies. Where previously they tried to position themselves as thought-leaders, I've seen an increase if blog posts where they add transparency to what they offer (very clear product descriptions, pricing, use cases, etc.). I believe the general idea is that this type of summarized content is more likely to be picked up by LLMs.

Disclaimer: I've built one of these AI visibility tools (Cartesiano.ai), so I've seen just how much noise & uncertainty is around this space.
by cheschire | 2026-02-06 13:00:39+00:00
Gamecopyworld… now there’s a name I have not heard in a long time.

I feel the same though. My only complaint when Adblockers fail is that I have to scroll so much to read some articles on some sites. Sure, there may be some level of subconscious registration occurring in my brain for maybe the company logo, but it’s usually minimal.
by iso1631 | 2026-02-06 13:00:55+00:00
I don't know about you but I really don't want my laptop to be the hottest thing, it sits on my lap.

My thinkpad is from 2017, but I bought it in 2022, it's still working fine - I upgraded the memory to 32G (£70) and I've replaced the battery twice (once when I bought it, once a couple of months ago). When I replace it it will likely be because of hardware failure (droppping it etc).
by em-bee | 2026-02-06 13:01:45+00:00
Ask the capitalists for even more money?

yes, all that profit they are making should be invested into the future of our society. globally.

poor people don't send their kids to school because school costs money, which they don't have. school is an investment into the future. but you can't make an investment if you don't have anything to invest. which is why that investment needs to come from those who have the money.
by gab18 | 2026-02-06 13:01:48+00:00
Location: Cyprus
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by gcanyon | 2026-02-06 13:02:22+00:00
Strong opinion loosely held, but the U.S. immigration (not refugee) policy should be:

1. You are going to school? Great! Go to the DMV with reasonable documentation (student ID and registration paperwork?) and you get a year-long visa. Renew each year, welcome to America!
2. You have a job? Great! Go to the DMV with reasonable documentation (a couple pay stubs?) and you get a year-long visa. Renew each year, welcome to America!
3. You don't have a job yet? Great! Go to the DMV with reasonable documentation of self-sufficiency (bank statement?) and you get a 3-month visa while you look for work. Renew each 3 months for as long as you can prove self-sufficiency, welcome to America!
4. You have none of the above, but you are the spouse/dependent on someone who does? Great! Go to the DMV with them, with proof of the relationship (marriage/birth certificate or the person signing an attestation) and you get a visa to match theirs, welcome to America!
5. You have none of the above but you are a refugee? Not great for you, but: go to the DMV to register yourself and get a date for review. With the money we save on enforcement, that review should be within weeks if not days. Welcome to America! (for now, subject to review)
6. You have none of the above and run out of money? I'm sorry about that, please return to your home country.
7. You're on the national list of Certified Bad People? You're going back to your home country, No America For You. And we have biometric information on you to ensure you never come back. Did I mention the DMV gets FaceID and DNA swabs?

Kitting out the DMV will cost a fraction of what enforcement would cost. Oh, and quotas should be generous but not infinite.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2026-02-06 13:02:41+00:00
> If the stated purpose makes sense ("stop illegal immigration"), they will dismiss tragedies as routine accidents of an imperfect world.

Indeed, this is the modus operandi, though I'd argue that it doesn't have to make sense but rather be in the political canon. I recall hearing arguments that "some gun deaths are necessary" (in the context of mass shootings at schools) for us to have our "god-given right" to own guns, but the purpose—owning guns for the ability to... checks notes... stand up to entities that can legally commit violence against you—isn't so obviously sensible.
by skydhash | 2026-02-06 13:03:29+00:00
> if theres a well known software framework or library

Those are called data/structures and design patterns (not only the ones in the GoF book). If you have a good understanding of those and you know your data and the operation you will apply to it, it’s easy to model your data using those structures. Software are state machines specifications. Knowing how to model states and thus figuring the transitions is helpful. And there’s a lot of samples out there.
by prawn | 2026-02-06 13:03:58+00:00
It's seemed to me that he was a habitual/obsessive networker. Someone up-thread described it as an urge to collect smart/impressive people, with the advantage being as you described. I suspect if you took away his horrible other interests, he'd still have been extremely sociable. Maybe aspects of blackmail/control are near-inevitable at the conjunction of criminal behaviour and power?
by speak_plainly | 2026-02-06 13:04:11+00:00
Apple News and News+ represent everything wrong with modern Apple: a ham-fisted approach to simplicity that ignores the end user. It is their most mediocre service, jarringly jamming cheap clickbait next to serious journalism in a layout that makes no sense.

The technical execution is just as lazy. While some magazines are tailored, many are just flat, low-res PDFs that look terrible on the high-end Retina screens Apple sells. Worst of all, Apple had the leverage to revolutionize a struggling industry; instead, they settled for a half-baked aggregator.

It’s a toxic mix of Apple tropes that simply weren't thought through. The ads are the cherry on the cake.
by pwdisswordfishs | 2026-02-06 13:05:22+00:00
On the Web, the github.com/*/*/issues namespace is home to the worst bugtracker behavior in the world. A bugtracker should should be restricted to bug reports and (well-informed) proposals and discussion about the bug/bugfix. The bug report should contain, at minimum and at maximum:

1. Clear steps to reproduce (ideally, using the prepared testcase as input, if applicable)

2. A description of the behavior observed from the program

3. A description of the expected behavior

4. Optionally, your justification for why the program should be changed to behave the way described in #3 and not #4

Everything else belongs on a message board, mailing list, or social media.

But this is all totally foreign to, like, 80% of GitHub's userbase (including the majority of the project managers aka maintainers who are in charge of allowing/disallowing the sorts of things that people post as a way of shaping the tone and tenor of the space).
by hagbard_c | 2026-02-06 13:07:09+00:00
It matters because everyone - people, companies, countries - is supposed to be equal in front of the law. Selective application of the law shows this not to be the case and shows that there are other factors in play which decide whether someone - a person, a company, a country - gets to violate some law without legal consequences while someone else is prosecuted for the same violation.

If you now think "they have to start somewhere in prosecuting these violations" you're partly correct but also partly mistaken. Sure they have to start somewhere but they could - and if they are really serious about their claims should - have started prosecuting all those other companies which did this way before TikTok or even its predecessor Musically was a thing. Algorithm-driven endless scroll designs to keep user's eyes glued to the screen have been a thing from very early on in nearly all 'social' app-site-things and the warning signs about addictive behaviour in users have been out for many years without the law being thrown at the proprietors of those entities. As to why this has not happened I'll leave for the reader to decide. There are plenty of other examples to be found in this regard ranging from the apprehension of the Telegram CEO to the sudden fervour in going after X-formerly-known-as-Twitter which seem to point at politics being at play in deciding whether a company gets to violate laws without being prosecuted or not.

So what's the solution you ask? As far as I can see it is to keep these companies from violating user's rights by keeping them in line regardless of who owns or runs the company and regardless of whether those owners or proprietors are cooperative on other fronts. Assuming that these laws were written to stem the negative influence these app-things have on their users they should have gone after many other companies much earlier. Had they done so it might even have led to TikTok realising that their scheme would not work in the EU. They might not have launched here or they might have detuned their algorithmic user trap, they might have done many things to negate the negative effects of their product. They might just have decided to skip the whole EU market altogether like many other companies have done and do. I'd have thought 'good riddance', what you?
by ben_w | 2026-02-06 13:07:29+00:00
For me, it depends on how well-disguised the ad is. Ads quietly sitting there, informing? Those I blank out. The big flashy animations? Those make me switch to reader mode, or leave the domain entirely.

I do sometimes find I'm accidentally clicking on the ads at the top of search engine results, though for this case it's extra ironic as the ad is for the real thing I'm searching for which is 2 results further down the list, and I only realise I clicked on an ad when the link goes via an ad-tracking domain that I block.

I've recently been fooled by an ad in reddit that was pretending to be news, which took me to a fake BBC website. First hint, I also block the BBC domain (nothing wrong with them, it's just a habit I want to get out of given I don't live in the UK any more).
by JV00 | 2026-02-06 13:07:29+00:00
I tried coding in Italian with Claude and it sounds somewhat less professional than in English. Like it uses different language than what you would expect in the context. In the end I felt the result on the work per se was pretty much the same, just his comments sound strange. Thinking about it again, it's probably because Italian developers don't really speak pure Italian between themselves, we use a lot of English words or distorted Italianised English words when talking about software engineering because all the source material we refer to is written in English and for many things we don't even have translations. Then you talk with a LLM and it actually tries to use proper Italian, when human speakers gave up long ago. So it sounds like a humanities scholar talking about software engineering, not like a insider. It is quite entertaining. I wouldn't say it sucks with non English languages by the way, I even tried describing a bug in dialect and was amused that Claude code one-shotted the fix!
by Sharlin | 2026-02-06 13:07:30+00:00
I was always a bit confused by the "doctors don't want you to know about" line until I understood that it's in a rather US-centric cultural context where doctors are seen as just wanting your money. Though there's probably also the idea that practitioners of mainstream Western medicine are hostile to "alternative" remedies and don't want you to try the latter even assuming that they're actually effective.

I suppose that, ironically, well-intentioned doctors would indeed prefer that people not know about these "tricks" and other medical scams.
by t43562 | 2026-02-06 13:07:56+00:00
I think that a comparison with Engineering is not that helpful for software.

Software has 0 construction cost but that it does have is extremely complicated behavior.

Take a bridge for example: the use case is being able to walk or drive or ride a train across it. It essentially proves a surface to travel on. The complications of providing this depend on the terrain, length etc etc and are not to be dismissed but there's relatively little doubt about what a bridge is expected to do. We don't iterate bridge design because we don't need to know much from the users of the bridge: does it fulfill their needs, is it "easy to use" etc AND because construction of a bridge is extremely expensive so iteration is also incredibly costly. We do, however, not build all bridges the same and people develop styles over time which they repeat for successive bridges and we iterate that way.

In essence, cycling is about discovering more accurately what is wanted because it is so often the case that we don't know precisely at the start. It allows one to be far more efficient because one changes the requirements as one learns.
by api | 2026-02-06 13:08:01+00:00
Short form video content in general is ludicrously addictive. All infinite scroll is addictive but there’s something particularly strong when it’s short videos that each deliver some kind of hook or punch line.

I landed on YouTube shorts once and started scrolling. Hours later I genuinely felt like I’d been drugged. It was shocking and surreal how powerful the effect was. Made it a point since then to never go there. I’ve never touched TikTok but I’ve heard stories of people spending every waking second on that thing.

Obviously some people are going to be more prone to it than others.
by infecto | 2026-02-06 13:08:36+00:00
I think we are talking past each other here. While your language is a bit proactive originally your not wrong as I have already agreed startups absolutely, lavish budgets? No that’s just silly.

Again 15 years even in moderately large organizations it was quite common as a product engineer to not be responsible for the provisioning all the required services for whatever you were building. And again it’s not the rule but it is far from being an exception. Not sure what you’re trying to prove or disprove.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-06 13:08:38+00:00
I think it's obvious Epstein was engineered as a "control theory lever" over a global financial/political system, that despite the best wargaming/simulation, could never be perfectly predicted. The system was simply too complex. So, real politik, and Machiavellian necessity required elements of control to be injected into this system to provide definiteness where ambiguity dared reign.

Ne pas comprende? That means that the blackmail was used to ensure definiteness of otherwise variable elements. If we were in Ancient Greece, it wouldn't be pedophilia (then, a "good") it would have been "chthonic excess"- or "ideological heresy"- based blackmail. The architects of this twistedness merely used the tools available that leveraged the age we live in.

So, that bacchic excess (beyond such needed for blackmail)? Human nature in secret succumbed to unchecked desires, itself a predictable outcome. The OG plan was not "evil" per se (ensure predictability of unpredictable system), it was pragmatic, but the implementation, necessarily became evil and the evil was normalized and justified by the "importance" of the plan to the stability of the playmakers.

The banality of evil, eh?
by igor_ryabenkiy | 2026-02-06 13:08:45+00:00
The company is building a Large Tabular Model (LTM), which is designed to work with the structured, tabular data, where most enterprise decisions actually live. Its core product, NEXUS, is purpose-built for enterprise use cases and addresses limitations that traditional LLMs struggle with.

Since its founding in October 2024, the company has raised $30 million in a seed round and $225 million in a series A round. Fundamental has partnered with AWS and is already working with Fortune 100 enterprises.
by bsgeraci | 2026-02-06 13:08:55+00:00
My graduate research focused on common computer security misconceptions — one of the biggest being that open source is inherently insecure. The reality is the opposite. The algorithms and systems we trust most are the ones that have been open to public scrutiny. AES was selected through an open competition where every candidate was published for the world to attack. TLS, SHA-256, RSA — none of these are secret.

Their security comes from transparency and years of public audit, not obscurity. The same principle applies to software. I see the legal argument for wanting a vendor to sue, and I've thought about something like Canonical's model for Ubuntu — offering paid support around a free product. But I don't have years of production use behind this yet. We all start somewhere. So for now, this stays open and free for everyone to use, and for me and others to maintain.
by AznHisoka | 2026-02-06 13:10:32+00:00
I have looked into it but it is hard to build one that works in real-time like Wappalyzer’s. But I will definitely look into it. My only concern is it might reveal my code and the way I detect frontend technologies.

Take a look at WhatRuns though if you are looking for a browser extension. It is also another decent alternative to Wappalyzer
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-06 13:10:51+00:00
Edit: Seems I missed to grab the source of the test page instead of the landing page... Ive' corrected that now.

I opened codex, wrote "Summarize this please: ```[Pasted Content 16993 chars]```" whereas "Pasted Content" was the source code from view-source:https://ref.jock.pl/modern-web/, and this was the reply:

This HTML is a dark-themed, responsive “Quick Reference: Modern Web Dev in 2026” page (last updated January 2026) that acts as a concise cheat sheet covering:

- CSS container queries: how to declare containers, write @container rules, and use container query units (cqw, cqh, cqi, cqb, cqmin, cqmax), with a note that modern browsers support them.
- Modern JavaScript: practical examples of structuredClone(), Promise.withResolvers(), Object.groupBy(), the (still in-progress) Temporal API for date/time, and iterator helper methods for lazy transforms.
- API design: REST-style naming, versioning, consistent error schemas (with an example JSON error shape), cursor-based pagination, bearer-token auth, and explicit rate limiting (429 + Retry-After).
- Performance: a checklist for loading (preload, code splitting, lazy images, preconnect), rendering (avoid layout shifts, content-visibility, workers, containment, transform animations), caching (Cache-Control, service workers, stale-while-revalidate, CDN), and bundling (tree-shaking, Brotli, AVIF, vendor chunking).
- Accessibility: quick wins (semantic HTML landmarks, focus visibility, contrast targets, alt text, keyboard access, ARIA patterns) plus a small manual testing checklist (tabbing, 200% zoom, Lighthouse, screen readers).
- Resources: pointers to MDN, web.dev, Can I Use, and State of JS/CSS.

It also contains hidden/commented “verification token” instructions that aren’t part of the guide’s actual reference content.

Is that the right/wrong response? Used model was `gpt-5.2 xhigh` with codex v0.98.0
by skydhash | 2026-02-06 13:11:18+00:00
Yep! Manufacturing is the running of the software, either via testing or via deployment. That’s when you’ll find bugs or design defects. Operational errors (misconfigurations, under allocation of resources) are not related to the design of the software itself.

Splitting coding and design is a bad idea. It’s like asking engineers not to draw and measure.
by johnwatson11218 | 2026-02-06 13:12:11+00:00
I'm using postgres as part of my current project - https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer

I had added Spacey to my codebase for one of its features and found that just doing the work in the db was near instant and my containers would not run out of ram. I want to get back to Spacey for more involved nlp work but right now the db "just works". I think Oracle is nicer but postgres does what I need for a lot less money!

https://github.com/johnwatson11218/LatentTopicExplorer/commi...