MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by the_net | 2026-02-04 00:01:43+00:00
Ah, if only I had a dollar for every time I've had to point someone to the a tool like the following when trying to explain the difference between how much "bandwidth" their server has per month (an IEC unit) vs how fast the server connection is (a SI unit): https://null.53bits.co.uk/uploads/programming/javascript/dat...
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by godelski | 2026-02-04 00:02:06+00:00
I mean tbh the problem was that Nevermark was making strong claims without the actual analysis. There's a lot of analysis out there already but he wasn't even doing the simple ones. There's a lot of armchair experts on space.

Look, I'd love to do more things in space, but we'll never be able to do them if we lie our way and aren't realistic at the costs, and benefits. It just creates strawmen that are trivial to tear down. The armchair experts aren't helping, they're hurting.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-04 00:02:10+00:00
TFA describes a picture of 1965 Whitechapel High Road, where it meets Greatorex St. Here's the description from TFA:

> Whitechapel High Road, 1965 ...
>
> Without Brân’s watchfulness, it was probably inevitable that the French would sneak across the Channel. You can see them in a grainy photograph taken in September 1960, outside the Sailors’ British Society in Limehouse, eight men and a woman, walking toward the camera, dressed in tweeds and overcoats. They are Parisian intellectuals

> Sixty years later, the Spectacle saturates us in ways the Situationists never imagined.

Here's what that corner looks like 60 years later:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/zVasgCAH8vAdKn6G8
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-04 00:02:23+00:00
At this point Microsoft is too far down a one-way street, so anything that can speed up their descent into irrelevance is great in my book.

Microsoft yearns to be a tasteless shell that does nothing but sell barely-functional M365 subscriptions and Azure to businesses. Let’s just let them do that, and stop pretending that they’re doing anything interesting or worthy of prestige.
by Rover222 | 2026-02-04 00:02:44+00:00
I'd argue that more free market forces need to be applied to the biggest failings in the US - healthcare costs, housing costs, etc. These industries are over-sheltered by over regulation and political roadblocks. And in what systems are people suffering the most - the ones where the free market has been destroyed by corrupt socialists/communists. In the western hemisphere, Venezuela, Cuba, etc.Look at the turn-around in Argentina from far left to far right economics. It's incredible.

China is an interesting mix though, hard to draw conclusions from there.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-04 00:03:07+00:00
I don't think there is any reason to protest outside people's personal residences. People can protest at a government building, or a public square, or somewhere intentionally disruptive that isn't implicitly aimed at intimidating a public servant. Especially given that protests can turn violent, having a mob outside a specific individual's house is reckless and can quickly escalate in the wrong way. I think it's worth noting that the people protesting won't always be people you agree with. People protest both sides of a given cause. Perhaps you think it is justified to form an intimidation mob for your cause, but would you feel the same way about the opposing side of the issue doing the same? For a civil society to flourish, I think there needs to be a common understanding that there are limits to how people should conduct themselves.

> It's also useful to have that information when investigating fraud and corruption.

This is the purview of journalists, police, and independent investigative boards. We do not need random unqualified people stalking politicians to uncover fraud. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a case where that a random nobody ended up uncovering fraud or corruption by stalking, but I have heard of dozens of cases of public servants being targeted and murdered in their homes.
by lofaszvanitt | 2026-02-04 00:04:05+00:00
A lot more. Everyone is chasing scifi ideas, ridiculous. This shows that even people with high IQ lack fantasy/imagination and creativity. They are intelligent robots.

So whenever I see here or anywhere else that your ideas mean nothing I just laugh at it. Of course, these come from people who are bland, doesn't have any imagination and they are not creative at all at all, but they have brute force, which is money.
by theamk | 2026-02-04 00:04:20+00:00
.. and that opinion is a great explanation of why systemd won.

Turns out, a lot of people are not happy with "Come on man. It's been done for decades." attitude, and they wanted something new and much better. And so when something new came up, they jumped on it with both feet.

It's instructive to read Debian CTTE discussion on init systems (btw I think it's best tech drama of 2013, highly recommend) - a lot of people dismissed the sysvinit early on because it had no features (example [0]), which means the choices were either upstart and systemd. And between two of those, systemd is a clear win.

Read the thread and look at how many highly technical people with no relation to Fedora or Poettering is ready to choose _anything else_ just to get away from "it's been done for decades".

[0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2013/12/msg00234.html
by gruez | 2026-02-04 00:04:32+00:00
You basically need to make a trade-off between 0days and supply chain attacks. Browsers, office suite, media players, archivers, and other programs that are connected to the internet and are handling complex file formats? Update regularly, or at least keep an eye out for CVEs. A text editor, or any other program that doesn't deal with risky data? You're probably fine with auto update turned off
by protimewaster | 2026-02-04 00:04:38+00:00
> Doxing very often consists of nothing more than collecting data from a bunch of public sources

I simply don't agree that this looks like doxing. No addresses or even any private information were reported. It's just a Google using WhoIs data and, in one case, the person said, in a public forum, that archive.is is "my website." Why would they have said that if they were worried about people finding out who it belongs to?

If they'd have stumbled upon an address to a private residence and reported that, sure, that would look like doxing. I just don't see it here.
by verifex | 2026-02-04 00:04:43+00:00
It's interesting seeing people complain about the load times of XCode, as someone who uses VSCode and has loved the instant load times, I think the people over at MSFT have been listening a bit as the latest version of Visual Studio has finally managed to fix some of their problems with the thing taking upwards of 10-20 seconds to load. Visual Studio 2026 now loads "almost" as fast as VSCode, which is great! Now they just need to make project loading faster.
by Nition | 2026-02-04 00:05:42+00:00
Have you seen the Philips TrueForce Core 40W LED bulbs? Not sure if they're sold in the US, but they're 4000 lumens, "last up to 15,000 hours" (whatever you make of that phrasing). They're quite huge but fit into a normal light socket. Not very expensive either.
by anigbrowl | 2026-02-04 00:05:43+00:00
I really don't agree on the Russia-Ukraine comparison; I just can't see where the Taiwanese strategic depth is supposed to come from. In an earlier era it would have been feasible to conduct and insurgency from mountainous redoubts and infiltration around ports, but I really can't see that happening with a 21st century urbanized population, in the same way that Russia's strategic problem in Ukraine is the ability to maintain/grow it's front, rather than difficulty sustaining its gains in the rear. However I've never been there so I'm sure I'm overlooking ground factors that might make a big difference.

I agree with you about Xi's impatience but I think you're overestimating the political and economic fallout in the same way that people overestimated the ramifications of China retaking and consolidating its control of Hong Kong. The latter is definitely not politically free in the way it used to be but nor has it fallen into decline or dystopia.
by int_19h | 2026-02-04 00:05:53+00:00
It's a matter of community culture. In the Node.js ecosystem, all those tiny packages are actually getting widely used, to the extent that it's hard to draw a line between them and well-established packages (esp. when the latter start taking them as dependencies!). Python has been npm'ified for a while now but people are still generally more suspicious of packages like that.
by jmward01 | 2026-02-04 00:06:10+00:00
I built guided window attn (literally predict the position of the window) a while ago and that works great. Why are we still stuck on any form of attn that looks at the entire context in any meaningful way? Do humans work this way? Do I need a whole book to predict the next word? Who out there is working on really new unique ways to deal with infinite history, other than me of course :)
by UqWBcuFx6NV4r | 2026-02-04 00:06:15+00:00
I am not anti-LLM by almost any stretch but your lack of fundamental understanding coupled with willingness to assert BS is at the point where it’s impossible to discuss anything.

You started off by asking a question, and people are responding. Please, instead of assuming that everyone else is missing something, perhaps consider that you are.
by tombert | 2026-02-04 00:06:39+00:00
I don't think that the xkcd is relevant here, because I'm arguing that both parties know what the other is talking about. I haven't implicitly changed the definition because most people assume that kilobyte is 1024 bytes. Yeah, sure, it's "wrong" in some sense, but language is about communicating ideas between two people; if the communication is successful than the word is "correct".
by sjsjshzhhz | 2026-02-04 00:07:40+00:00
Somebody should tell the Claude code team then. They’ve had some perf issues for awhile now.

More seriously, the concept of trust is extremely lossy. The LLM is gonna lean in one direction that may or may not be correct. At the extreme, it wound likely refute a new discovery that went against what we currently know. In a more realistic version, certain AIs are more pro Zionist than others.
by anonym29 | 2026-02-04 00:07:52+00:00
I do understand that. That doesn't take away from the points raised in the article any more than the extensive, real security issues and relative prevalence of crypto scams do. I believe that to focus on those is to miss the emerging forest for the trees. It is to dismiss the web itself because of pets.com, because of 4chan, because of early subreddits with questionable content.

Additionally, we're already starting to see reverse CAPTCHA's, i.e. "prove you're not a human" with pseudorandomized tasks on a timer that are trivial for an agent to solve and respond to on the fly, but which are more difficult for a human to process in time. Of course, this isn't bulletproof either, it's not particularly resistant to enumeration of every type + automated evaluation + a response harness, but I find the more interesting point to be that agents are beginning to work on measures to keep humans out of the loop, even if those measures are initially trivial, just as early human security measures were trivial to break (i.e. RC4 in WEP). See https://agentsfightclub.com/ & https://agentsfightclub.com/api/v1/agents/challenge
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-04 00:08:01+00:00
I hit the jackpot with the ultrasound technician who spoke passionately about what she believed about lifestyle risk for cardiovascular conditions and she believed quite strongly that heart disease runs in families more because lifestyle runs in families than because of genetics. She's not at the top of the medical totem pole but I can say she inspired me to take responsibility for my health than the specialist who I talked to about the results.
by throw310822 | 2026-02-04 00:08:32+00:00
What makes you think that Israelis can just "take a stroll" in a foreign country without asking permission (passport, visa, etc.)?

Anyway, there are Jewish journalists who have visited and spent time in Gaza. Here's Dan Cohen (precisely on the topic of safety of Jews in Gaza):

https://mondoweiss.net/2015/06/jewish-reporter-responds/#sth...

Here's Max Blumenthal:

https://globalvoices.org/2014/08/16/journalists-visit-gaza-t...

Here's Anthony Loewenstein:

https://mondoweiss.net/2009/07/hope-lives-in-gaza-despite-si...

Then there is Amira Hass, who actually lives in Ramallah and has reported from Gaza. These are the ones I know, there are certainly others.
by nicoburns | 2026-02-04 00:08:35+00:00
> Rust also hides allocation.

Does it? In Rust you allocate by calling a function. That's exactly the same as C. Are there any langauges that don't allow you to hide allocation behind a function call?

> So what you say is definitely true if you do an allocation heavy, heap fragmenting, RAII style of programming.

I don't think Rust encourages lots of small allocations. Most of the Rust code I work with does a lot of arena allocation (using crates like https://github.com/orlp/slotmap) and reusing of allocations. And for that matter a lot of stack allocation avoiding the heap entirely. And it's borrowing system is fantastic for working with shared pointers to data without having to worry that something might accidentally overwrite it.

> You're also completely glossing over the incredible complexity you get in all thee weird intersection of rust features.

I don't really buy that Rust is complex. More complex than C I suppose (but C just pushes all the complexity into making you write 5x more application code), but closer to something like Java than something like C++.
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by TacticalCoder | 2026-02-04 00:08:39+00:00
Not disagreeing with you at all: that physics fact always come up. My honest question is: if it's a perfect thermos, what does, for example, the ISS do with the heat generated by computers and humans burning calories? The ISS is equipped with a mechanism to radiate excess heat into space? Or is the ISS slowly heating up but it's not a problem?
by gruez | 2026-02-04 00:08:48+00:00
>Using notepad++ (or whatever other program) in a manner that deals with internet content a lot - then updating is the thing.

Disagree. It's hard to screw up a text editor so much that you have buffer overflows 10 years after it's released, so it's probably safe. It's not impossible, but based on a quick search (though incomplete because google is filled with articles describing this incident) it doesn't look like there were any vulnerabilities that could be exploited by arbitrary input files. The most was some dubious vulnerability around being able to plant plugins.
by bs7280 | 2026-02-04 00:08:53+00:00
As a thought experiment, if humanity wanted to go all in on trying to move industrial processes and data centers off planet, would it make more sense to do so on the moon?

The moon has:

- Some water

- Some materials that can be used to manufacture crude things (like heat sinks?)

- a ton of area to brute force the heat sink problem

- a surface to burry the data centers under to solve the radiation problem

- close enough to earth that remote controlled semi-automated robots work

I think this would only work if some powerful entity wanted to commit to a hyper-scale effort.
by seizethecheese | 2026-02-04 00:08:57+00:00
Classic hindsight bias. In fact, you could be paying a lot of attention to politics and still think tariffs were not going to go so high. Here's [1] a betting market that regularly was below 5% chance of tariffs above 40% on Chinese imports in first 100 days of Trump's second term.

https://polymarket.com/event/trump-imposes-40-blanket-tariff...
by unsupp0rted | 2026-02-04 00:09:36+00:00
Update:

> GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex are now 40% faster.

> We have optimized our inference stack for all API customers.

> Same model. Same weights. Lower latency.

> https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2018838297221726482

Same model? Then why is the cutoff date on 5.2 that of Codex, i.e. 2024?
by asnyder | 2026-02-04 00:10:13+00:00
Despite their confusion as to whether they want to really support their free and open source versions (without some absurd user count cliff), Mattermost (https://mattermost.com) is quite excellent and IMO is better than Slack. For example, editor leans towards native Markdown so things like syntax highlighting with backticks work as you expect.

Their recent update removed the paywall from SSO (and unfortunately the Gitlab SSO workaround) for social logins up to 100 seats, afterwards there's an absurd per seat cost similar to its non-open source brethren. One day if needed, I plan to drop-in an SSO middleman allowing anyone to leverage their own SSO layer (which will map to the login form with username/password) to avoid the SSO limits altogether. Though good enough for my needs, and likely yours too. Especially if you're open to paying for their seats.
by bmitc | 2026-02-04 00:10:15+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.

This is kind of underselling the situation. China is more stable than the U.S. China is also beating the pants off the U.S. in several sectors and in the ones they're not, they're rapidly catching up.

When China beats the U.S. to the Moon, they will also have surpassed the U.S. in several other sectors as well at the same time, all while having a more stable government and continuing to increase the size of their middle class.
by da_chicken | 2026-02-04 00:10:27+00:00
This might be a better link: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-dev-id-es

It's listed as the third most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio by respondents to Stack Overflow's annual survey. Interestingly, it's higher among professionals than learners. Maybe that's because learners are going to be using some of those newer AI-adjacent editors, or because learners are less likely to be using Windows at all.

I'm sure people will leap to the defense of their chosen text editor, like they always do. "Oh, they separated vim and Neovim! Those are basically the same! I can combine those, really, to get a better score!" But I think a better takeaway is that it's incredible that Notepad++, an open source application exclusive to Windows that has had, basically, a single developer over the course of 22 years, has managed to reach such a widespread audience. Especially when Scintilla's other related editors (SciTE, EditPlus) essentially don't rate.
by protocolture | 2026-02-04 00:10:34+00:00
I mean you have this around the wrong way.

The reason we dont have a lot of compute in space, is because of the heat issue. We could have greater routing density on communication satellites, if we could dissipate more heat. If Starlink had solved this issue they would have like triple the capacity and could just drop everything back to the US (like their fans think they do) rather than trying to minimise the number of satellites traffic passes through before exiting back to a ground station usually in the same country as the source. In fact, conspiratorially, I think thats the problem he wants to solve. Because wet dreams of an unhindered, unregulated, space internet are completely unanswered in the engineering of Starlink.

I have actually argued this from the other side, and I reckon space data centres are sort of feasible in a thought experimental sense. I think its a solvable problem eventually. But heat is the major limiting factor and back of the napkin math stinks tbh.

IIRC the size/weight of the satellite is going to get geometrically larger as you increase the compute size due to the size of the required cooling system. Then we get into a big argument about how you bring the heat from the component to the cooling system. I think oil, but its heavy again, and several space engineering types want to slap me in the face for suggesting it. Some rube goldberg copper heatpipe network through atmosphere system seems to be preferred.

I feel like, best case, its a Tesla situation, he clears the legislative roadblocks and solves some critical engineering problem by throwing money at it, and then other, better people step in to actually do it. Also triple the time he says it will take to solve the problem.

And then, ultimately, as parts fail theres diminishing returns on the satellite. And you dont even get to take the old hardware to the secondary market, it gets dropped in the ocean or burnt up on reentry.