MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jmye | 2026-02-06 01:23:11+00:00
You vote for my friends to be directly physically harmed, and you think it’s scary that some people respond to your violence with their own?

You’re not “better” because you vote for political violence, my man, though I get that brings up conflicting feelings for you.

It’s actually weird how often people try to pretend that their shitty actions (vis-a-vis making sure Grok can create CSAM, or that Facebook can more effectively give teenage girls depression) are morally neutral because they’re second order effects. You’re still a pretty shitty human being if you directly enable it, even if you’re not the sole cause. Some of y’all need to stop sniffing your own farts (or Elon’s/Thiel’s/etc.) and learn that.
by bravetraveler | 2026-02-06 01:23:20+00:00
Based on the policy I have to assume some business partner failed to maintain the 'ca-certificates' equivalent for Windows (or NTP) and was rewarded in their insane demand for plaintext. Now we're all enjoying risk.

So easy to fix, just... why? My kingdom for an 's'. One of these policies are not like the others. Consider certificates and signatures before categorically turning a blind eye to MitM, please: you "let them in", AMD. Wow.
by bdangubic | 2026-02-06 01:25:08+00:00
wouldn’t hire one for $15/month…

with the US salaries for SWEs $1000/month is not a rounding error for all but definitely for some. say you make $100/hr and CC saves you say 30hrs / month? not rounding error but no brainer. if you make $200+/hr it starts to become a rounding error. I have multiple max accounts at my disposal and at this point would for sure pay $1000/month for max plan. it comes down to simple math
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 01:25:09+00:00
The original comment was hyperbolic nonsense. Just because you agree with it doesn't make it any less silly!

You "come on". I expect reasonable discourse here, not blind acceptance of nonsense arguments just because you happen to agree with their conclusions or premises.

I made it clear at the start I'm not a fan of Flock.

I'm also not a fan of the hyperbolic nonsense people are trying to use to demonize them. It makes it too easy for them to respond in kind, and be right.

Don't give them that out.
by JoshPurtell | 2026-02-06 01:26:08+00:00
Just like codex or opencode provide strong oss implementations of the core agent loop, our ambition (not achieved! hoping this is a solid start) is to provide a solid oss implementation of the context updating loop, memory, basic database + a backend sync layer. And evals + continual learning + gepa optimization.

Just like everyone can write their own agent, yet many opt for codex/claude code sdk/opencode, we think that at some point in our journey, many will also opt for standard implementations of these patterns, for projects big or small.

Realistically, though, the case for a standardized environment grows a lot stronger when you have multi-agent, permissioned actions, and generally just a lot more state than what you can get away with using only opencode + some glue. Insofar as big teams have ambitious products, they might be more likely to try it
by dperfect | 2026-02-06 01:26:50+00:00
Nerdsnipe confirmed :)

Claude Opus came up with this script:

https://pastebin.com/ntE50PkZ

It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output:

https://pastebin.com/SADsJZHd

(I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)
by majormajor | 2026-02-06 01:27:23+00:00
CC hits their APIs, And internally I'm sure Anthropic tracks those calls, which is what they seem to be referencing here. What exactly did Anthropic do in this test to have "inefficient use of CC" vs your proposed "efficient use of CC"?

Or do you mean that if an external user replicated this experience they might get billed less than $20k due to CC being sold at lower rates than per-API-call metered billing?
by IhateAI | 2026-02-06 01:27:31+00:00
I'm not trying to signal superiority, I'm legitimately worried about the value of my livelihood and skills I'm passionate about. What if McDonalds went around telling chefs that they're cooking wrong, that there's no reason to cook food in a traditional manner when you can increase profit and speed with their methods?

It would be insulting, they'd get screamed out of the kitchen. Now imagine they're telling those chefs they're going to enforce those methods on them regardless whether they like it or not.
by astrange | 2026-02-06 01:28:00+00:00
> A. You're working on some really deep thing that only world-class expects can do, like optimizing graphics engines for AAA games.

This is a relatively common skill. One thing I always notice about the video game industry is it's much more globally distributed than the rest of the software industry.

Being bad at writing software is Japan's whole thing but they still make optimized video games.
by JoshPurtell | 2026-02-06 01:28:50+00:00
Some notes:
- you can configure claude code, codex, opencode to run in the engine. on-demand or on a cron
- we're striving to make it simple to integrate with existing backends via a 2-way event driven interface, but I'm 99.9% sure it'll change as there are a ton of unknown unknowns
- support for mcp, and we are building with authentication (rbac) in mind, although it's a long-journey
- all self-host able via docker

A very simplistic way to think about it - an OSS take on Frontier, or maybe OpenClaw for prod
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-06 01:29:01+00:00
> I’m saying this to point out that we’re really already in the enshittification phase before the rapid growth phase has even ended. You’re paying $200 and acting like that’s a cheap SaaS product for an individual.

Traditional SaaS products don't write code for me. They also cost much less to run.

I'm having a lot of trouble seeing this as enshittification. I'm not saying it won't happen some day, but I don't think we're there. $200 per month is a lot, but it depends on what you're getting. In this case, I'm getting a service that writes code for me on demand.
by nine_k | 2026-02-06 01:29:04+00:00
It's just, like, not very easy? Say, Digital Ocean is one such entrant. Hetzner Cloud is, too, but it offers much, much fewer services than AWS. If all you want is spinning up instances, attaching storage, and maybe running a managed database and a managed k8s, it may be adequate. If you want DNS, queue services, email services, OCR, etc, etc, AWS has the widest assortment, and uniform access controls.
by Terr_ | 2026-02-06 01:30:13+00:00
I imagine the attacker doesn't even need any presence on the target computer, compromising a home router's DNS settings would be sufficient:

1. Route all requests for ww2.ati.com to a malicious IP.

2. Proxy all HTTPS traffic to/from the real ww2.ati.com, as-is.

3. For HTTP traffic, look for opportunities to inject a malicious binary.

The attacker could also set up a wireless access point and spoof the name of a real one or just title it "Free Wifi."
by secretballot | 2026-02-06 01:30:15+00:00
Strong second here. I’ve read lots and lots of all three.

Clarke wrote good stories. Asimov had some good ideas but was a fairly poor writer of fiction (his characters and dialog, in particular, are rarely better than terrible, and many of his stories hinge on a single gee-what-if shower thought and have little more going for them) and is in my estimation easily the weakest of the three.

Bradbury… is good good. He had a combo of talent and a mind to put it to a certain kind of use, some (or many) elements of which the other two did not possess. I would unhesitatingly recommend Bradbury to a literary fiction reader who’s not much on genre fiction for its own sake, and might not even bother to suggest where they start. I would selectively recommend bits of Clarke’s work where he’s treading a bit closer to the sublime than usual, or some of his short stories that are at least competent, fun short reads with some ideas or imagery or the odd line that sticks with you. I might not recommend any Asimov at all.

Some authors are good, no italics. Bradbury is good.
by jcranmer | 2026-02-06 01:30:57+00:00
> I had hoped one day to re-implement parts of LLVM itself in Rust

Heh, earlier this day, I was just thinking how crazy a proposal would it actually be to have a Rust dependency (specifically, the egg crate, since one of the things I'm banging my head against right now might be better solved with egraphs).
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 01:32:23+00:00
What if I run my own cameras, my own local models, and my own analysis? All from the privacy of my own home... Is that okay?

What if I recruit a few friends around my town to do the same, and we share data and findings? Is that also fine?

What if I pay a bunch of people I don't know to collect this data for me, but do all the analysis myself?

Where do you draw the line? Being able to concretely define a line here is something I've seen privacy proponents be utterly incapable of doing. Yet it's important to do so, because on one end of the spectrum is a set of protected liberties, and on the other is authoritarian dystopia. If you can't define some point at which freedom stops being freedom, you leave the door wide open to the kind of bullshit arguments we see any time "privacy in public" comes up: 100% feels, and 0% logic.
by throwaway894345 | 2026-02-06 01:32:39+00:00
Orwell and Asimov are talking about something entirely different than drawing flawed conclusions due to inexperience—they’re talking about people with access to the facts and choosing not to believe them.

For instance, Alex Pretti’s murder was recorded from several angles and yet the American right still broadly claims that he attacked the agents, that he pulled his gun on them, etc. You don’t need to be an expert in policing or anything else to watch those videos and see that those narratives are plainly false. That’s of course only one example, but there are many others.
by zozbot234 | 2026-02-06 01:33:04+00:00
> unless you are able to run 100 agents at the same time all the time

Except that newer "agent swarm" workflows do exactly that. Besides, batching requests generally comes with a sizeable increase in memory footprint, and memory is often the main bottleneck especially with the larger contexts that are typical of agent workflows. If you have plenty of agentic tasks that are not especially latency-critical and don't need the absolutely best model, it makes plenty of sense to schedule these for running locally.
by majormajor | 2026-02-06 01:33:10+00:00
You couldn't reasonably claim you did a clean-room implementation of something you had read the source to even though you, too, would not have a verbatim copy of the entire source code in your memory (barring very rare people with exceptional memories).

It's kinda the whole point - you haven't read it so there's no doubt about copying in a clean-room experiment.

A "human style" clean-room copy here would have to be using a model trained on, say, all source code except GCC. Which would still probably work pretty well, IMO, since that's a pretty big universe still.
by b1temy | 2026-02-06 01:33:19+00:00
> The bots will quite possibly have no extensions at all

I imagine most users will also not have extensions at all, so this would not be a reliable metric to track bots. Maybe it might be hard to imagine for someone whose first thing to do after installing a web browser is to install some extensions that they absolutely can't live without (ublock origin, privacy badger, dark mode reader, noscript, vimium c, whatever). But I imagine the majority of casual users do not install any extensions or even know of its existence (Maybe besides some people using something like Grammarly, or Honey, since they aggressively advertise on Youtube).

I do agree with the rest of your reasons though, like if bots used a specific exact combinations of extensions, or if there was an extension specifically for linkedin scraping/automation they want to detect, and of course, user tracking.
by pfdietz | 2026-02-06 01:33:42+00:00
It shows that bioenergy is very land inefficient.

There was a book about renewable energy in Britain about 17 years ago, "Sustainable Energy -- Without the Hot Air" that tried to make the argument that renewables could not power Britain, there wasn't enough land. But if you drilled down, this conclusion was due to use of biofuels.
by canucker2016 | 2026-02-06 01:33:56+00:00
MS Word and FrameMaker were never considered competitors in the same market.

Aldus Pagemaker was a closer competitor to Framemaker, but Pagemaker's bread and butter was at the lower end of the market.

see this review for MS Word for Windows 1.0. The competitors listed for their benchmarks include Ami Pro, and the DOS versions of WordPerfect and MS Word.

Review: https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Infow...
by mindslight | 2026-02-06 01:34:08+00:00
I think your lack of understanding stems from seeing this primarily as a "hot political topic."

Secretaries of State work to get this basic civic information out there, but they clearly do not have the reach of well moneyed political media that manufactures "just asking questions" topics out of whole cloth.

For example, here are two links from the WA SOS that I found with 20 seconds of searching:

https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/voters/helpful-information/...

https://www.sos.wa.gov/elections/voters/helpful-information/...

If you've got questions about the integrity of your state's voting, then it's your own civic duty to seek out and understand these basic facts rather than spouting off FUD while demanding others to do the intellectual work for you, spoon feed you the results, and hope that you accept them. The failure of critics to do this basic work is exactly where these "strong assertions without substantiation" come from - the onus is on those making the argument that illegal immigrants are voting to do the basic work of understanding the states' existing systems and describe how exactly they believe this is happening.
by b00ty4breakfast | 2026-02-06 01:35:17+00:00
june 1937, in a letter to Cyril Connolly, written in Barcelona during the Civil War;

>‘I have seen wonderful things and at last really believe in Socialism, which I never did before.’

He was a libertarian socialist at various points, sure, but you're painting him as something he wasn't. He was avowedly a socialist throughout most of his adult life even if he wasn't playing patty-cake with the Trots and the MLs and various other 20th century Euro-centric leftist revolutionary groups
by try_the_bass | 2026-02-06 01:35:45+00:00
I'm not positing the idea that a single CCTV feed is the same? Most places that run CCTVs run many, so there's already some element of scale. I mean, I literally said "traffic cameras", which are ubiquitous and often elements of sets numbering in the hundreds or even thousands, depending on the size of the jurisdiction.

If you can't refrain from immediately strawmanning the argument, I would argue that you are the one with the "deeply unserious position".

Have a little more rigor, please.
by Wowfunhappy | 2026-02-06 01:36:14+00:00
I'm paying $100 per month even though I don't write code professionally. It is purely personal use. I've used the subscription to have Claude create a bunch of custom apps that I use in my daily life.

This did require some amount of effort on my part, to test and iterate and so on, but much less than if I needed to write all the code myself. And, because these programs are for personal use, I don't need to review all the code, I don't have security concerns and so on.

$100 every month for a service that writes me custom applications... I don't know, maybe I'm being stupid with my money, but at the moment it feels well worth the price.
by nikisweeting | 2026-02-06 01:36:52+00:00
Having built production apps on SQLite I can say it's not all sunshine and roses, the complexity explodes the moment you need multiple workers that can all write.

You better hope you dont have any big indexes or your writes will queue and you start getting "database is locked" errors. Good luck queueing writes properly at the application layer without rebuilding a full distributed queue system / network interface / query retry system on top of SQLite.

I really really really wish SQLite or PGLite supported multiple writers, especially if the queries are not even touching the same tables.
by worik | 2026-02-06 01:37:01+00:00
I like PostgreSQL. If I am storing relational data I use it.

But for non relational data, I prefer something simpler depending on what the requirements are.

Commenters here are talking "modern tools" and complex systems. But I am thinking of common simpler cases where I have seen so many people reach for a relational database from habit.

For large data sets there are plenty of key/value stores to choose from, for small (less than a mega byte) data then a CSV file will often work best. Scanning is quicker than indexing for surprisingly large data sets.

And so much simpler
by DannyBee | 2026-02-06 01:37:12+00:00
There are practical differences - phones store a lot more information that you will keep in your mind at once.

You can actually eliminate phones entirely from your second example.

If you had incriminating info on paper at one point, and memorized it and deleted it, it would now be legally protected from being accessed.

One reason society is okay with this is because most people can't memorize vast troves of information.

Otherwise, the view here would probably change.

These rules exist to serve various goals as best they can. If they no longer serve those goals well, because of technology or whatever else, the rules will change. Being completely logical and self-consistent is not one of these goals, nor would it make sense as a primary goal for rules meant to try to balance societal vs personal rights.

This is, for various reasons, often frustrating to the average HN'er :)
by codexon | 2026-02-06 01:37:47+00:00
Even for coding, it seems to still make A LOT of mistakes.

https://youtu.be/8brENzmq1pE?t=1544

I feel like everyone is counting chickens before they hatch here with all the doomsday predictions and extrapolating LLM capability into infinity.

People that seem to overhype this seem to either be non-technical or are just making landing pages.
by kpolevoy1 | 2026-02-06 01:38:40+00:00
Location: Chicago, IL

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Claude Code, Cursor, Vercel, Supabase, Expo, SQL

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirill-polevoy/

Email: kpolevoy [at-symbol] gmail [dot] com

GitHub: https://github.com/kirillpolevoy

10+ years in product at Engine, Beyond Finance, Clearcover, OneMain Financial. Fintech, B2B, insurtech. Looking for fractional/contract work.

Good at going from "we have a problem" to actually fixing it — strategy and execution:

- Took over billing ($80M/mo volume), found scale-blocking gaps, shipped the redesign

- Built a BI data layer from zero, turned it into company-wide KPIs

- Spec’d and shipped an API integration that grew affiliate policies 15%

- Mobile app from idea to 45k DAU

Also build my own stuff with Claude Code and Cursor: Relai (Chrome extension, live on Web Store), Tiny Viewers (tinyviewers.vercel.app), StoryStack (storystackstudios.com).

Small team that needs someone to figure out what to build and go do it — happy to chat.
by billy-enrizky-1 | 2026-02-06 01:39:14+00:00
Location:Toronto, Ontario
Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Frameworks & Technologies: NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Google GenAI, LangChain, Hugging Face, PySpark, Jupyter Notebook, Linux, Git, React, TypeScript, R Language, tidyverse, SQL, AWS, GCP.

ML & DL Techniques: Neural Network, RAG, Multi-Agents, Transformers, Principal Component Analysis, KNN/Logistic/Multinomial Regression, Random Forest, AdaBoost, Support Vector Machine, Clustering.

Github: https://github.com/billy-enrizky

Portfolio: https://billy-enrizky.github.io/portfolio/

CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tE7GedAZgk3wVBJ7eNjIMVJBwyC...

Email: billy.suharno@gmail.com

About me: a results‑driven machine learning developer professional graduating May 2026, with deep expertise in building and deploying scalable AI solutions. Proficient in NumPy, Pandas, Scikit‑Learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, LangChain, Hugging Face, PySpark, AWS, GCP, SQL and React/TypeScript. As a Machine Learning Developer at IBM, he architected an end‑to‑end, multi‑agent Text‑to‑SQL pipeline achieving 93% accuracy and delivered a multimodal RAG system with 97% relevancy, securing over $300 K in contracts. At Toronto General Hospital (T‑CAIREM Award), he engineered a 122 GB pathology slide pipeline, boosting model accuracy from 56% to 83% and achieving 91% on a multimodal fusion model. During a Summer Research Award, he processed 60 high‑resolution videos using OpenCV and MediaPipe. At Sanofi, he built an ETL pipeline handling billions of records and implemented a two‑click Snowflake/Streamlit workflow, cutting manual cycles from days to seconds. A collaborative leader, he consistently enhances team productivity through agile methodologies and data‑driven innovation.
by pessimizer | 2026-02-06 01:39:54+00:00
The entire crisis is because the US has been abusing Cuba since Batista fell, don't get confused. The idea that Cuba is being coddled because it isn't paying market prices when the US has been excluding it from the market for your entire life and most of your parents' lives is sadistic and cynical.

You don't get to criticize the quality of someone's system until you take your foot off their neck.
by jb3689 | 2026-02-06 01:40:05+00:00
It irks me that these "just use Postgres" posts only talk about feature sets with no discussion about operations, reliability, real scaling, or even just guard rails and opinions to deter you from making bad design decisions. The author writes about how three nine's is multiplied over several dependencies, but that's not how this shakes out in practice. Your relational database is typically far more vulnerable than distributed alternatives. "Just use Postgres" is fine advice but gets used as a crutch by companies who wind up building everything in-house for no good reason.
by okanat | 2026-02-06 01:41:26+00:00
The replacement has already happened. It is HTTP and JSON for 99% of the software developed today. The reason C stayed has multiple reasons but most obvious ones are for me are:

- People just stopped caring about operating systems research and systems programming after ~2005. Actual engineering implementations of the concepts largely stopped after the second half of 90s. Most developers moved on to making websites or applications in higher level programming languages.

- C hit a perfect balance of being a small enough language to grok, being indepedent of the system manufacturers, reflecting the computer architecture of 80s, actually small in syntax and code length and quite easy to implement compilers for. This caused lots of legacy software being built into the infrastructure that gave birth to the current contemporary popular OSes and more importantly the infrastructure of the Internet. Add in .com bubbles and other crises, we basically have/had zero economic incentive to replace those systems.

- Culture changed. We cared more about stability, repairability and reusability. Computers were expensive. So are programmers and software. Now computers are cheap. Our culture is more consumerist than ever. The mentality of "move fast and break things" permeated so well with economic policy and the zeitgeist. With AI it will get worse. So trying to make a real alternative to C (as a generic low level OS protocol) has reduced cultural value / optics. It doesn't fill the CVs as well.

It doesn't mean that people haven't tried or even succeeded. Android was successful in multiple fronts in replacing C. Its "intents" and low level interface description language for hardware interfaces are great replacement for C ABI. Windows' COM is also a good replacement that gets rid of language dependence. There are still newer OSes try like Redox or Fuchsia.