MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metalrain | 2026-02-04 20:28:30+00:00
Yes, many don't like Sharepoint, but still they use it. It's the tool they can use.

Customers don't care if Sharepoint uses LLM, they just want to share ideas, files, reports, pages, etc. If LLM makes it easier, great! If some other product makes it easier, great!

It's not about the product it's about the results.
by theamk | 2026-02-04 20:28:42+00:00
I think political interference is a horrible thing for university education.

But that particular part - "laws requiring professors to publicly post their course outlines in searchable databases" - is great, and should be done everywhere. There are actually universities who _claim_ to have great math (or physics or other science) program, but actually just teach it at "advanced high school" level. So public syllabi - something that was very common in 2000's but going out of style today - are critical for anyone choosing the university to go to.
by dmitrygr | 2026-02-04 20:29:06+00:00
>Basically PIO smells like a wart to me. I genuinely don't know who wants it. Regular hackers aren't sophisticated enough to use it productively and the snobby nerds have better options.

what are you blathering on about, sir?

driving complex displays with no spu use: https://dmitry.gr/?r=06.%20Thoughts&proj=09.ComplexPioMachin... (my work)

pretending to be memory stick and sd card at dozens of mhz as a slave to a sync bus (my work)

ethernet: https://github.com/kingyoPiyo/Pico-10BASE-T (not my work)

68k bus slave (my work)

usb host https://github.com/sekigon-gonnoc/Pico-PIO-USB (not my work)

all on a $1 chip
by matu3ba | 2026-02-04 20:29:18+00:00
The ideas sound intriguing at first sight, so I have some questions:
1 Do you have a mathematical formalization and/or why not (yet)?
2 What would be necessary as data/proof to indicate/show either result?
3 Did you try to apply probabilistic programming (theories) to your theory?
4 There is probablistic concolic execution and probablistic formal verification. How do these relate to your theory?
by hebejebelus | 2026-02-04 20:29:34+00:00
Yeah. The times I have let claude off the read-only leash, it's gone fine for me too (with stern warnings not to do anything stupid, and a close eye). But that's not really solving the same problem as this project, I guess. From what I can see this is using a safer and more reproducible method (and not k8s native, so it feels a little foreign to me).
by SirensOfTitan | 2026-02-04 20:29:53+00:00
> It struck me recently how few of the most successful people I know are mean. There are exceptions, but remarkably few.

*mean to Paul Graham. I’ve worked with a lot of mean people in important positions in my career, and they all have a kind, charismatic side when they need to. Those same people are awful to subordinates or people that can’t do something for them. Paul is high value to many people, so they treat him well.

People like Graham who aren’t often in positions where they’re taken advantage of or humbled like to pretend they and their peers are magnanimous and kind but often enough they’re just not exposed to the forces that make people ugly. All other things being equal: it’s often lack of agency over work and over their own lives—this shows up in work where people are given lots of responsibility but without the freedom to fulfill it.

I often find it concerning how elementary a lot of well off tech peoples’ theory of mind is. People are not acausal personalities, they are functions of their internals and their environments. A person mean at a stressful job might be delightful at a party after.
by teachrdan | 2026-02-04 20:30:11+00:00
This is an ignorant take. The New York Times made a profit last year of $550 million. Clearly the problem isn't the internet -- nor should it be for a paper bought by JEFF BEZOS, the man arguably who did more to revolutionize selling stuff on the internet than any other individual.

Another metric: Subscribers to the Times last year went up, while subscribers to the Post went down. It's clearly not just about the internet, or about partisan politics. (as the Post at least used to be about as liberal as the Times)
by xyzzy123 | 2026-02-04 20:31:07+00:00
Many places have "dev", "test" "prod"... but IMHO you need "sandpit" as well.

From an ops point of view as orgs get big enough, dev wraps around to being prod-like... in the sense that it has the property that there's going to be a lot of annoyed people whose time you're wasting if you break things.

You can take the approach of having more guard rails and controls to stop people breaking things but personally I prefer the "sandpit" approach, where you have accounts / environments where anything goes. Like, if anyone is allowed to complain it's broken, it's not sandpit anymore. That makes them an ok place to let agents loose for "whole system" work.

I see tools like this as a sort of alternative / workaround.
by guessmyname | 2026-02-04 20:31:08+00:00
What’s the title for? Is it about “reading” or is it about “books” ?

A lot of people who say they “read books” really mean they bought one or checked it out from the library, then only dipped into it here and there, maybe a few paragraphs at a time.

I haven’t read a proper book cover to cover in years, probably not since high school. But I do read a lot every single day, either for my job or because I genuinely want to grow professionally. I’ll also read a few chapters from books friends or coworkers recommend, especially the parts that seem most relevant. I just don’t really see why I need to finish the whole thing if I’m already getting what I came for.

My parents, meanwhile, will read the same books over and over again, cover to cover, every year.
Show HN: Edge HTTP to S3, now with schema-aware Parquet
by _ben_ | 2026-02-04 20:31:14+00:00
Hi HN,

TL;DR: POST JSON to an HTTP endpoint. Get Parquet and compressed segments in your S3 bucket. No Kafka, no Kinesis, no glue code.

EdgeMQ ingests newline delimited JSON from one or more global endpoints (dedicated vm's). Data is delivered to your S3 with commit markers in one or more formats of your choosing:
* Compressed WAL segments (.wal.zst) for replay i.e. raw bronze
* Raw/opaque Parquet (keeps the original payload in a payload column + ingest metadata).
* Schema-aware Parquet - materialized views defined in YAML

Feedback request:

The platform is now open for public beta (there are a number of current live users) and I am keen to collect further feedback and explore use cases.

I would be grateful for comments and thoughts on:
* Use cases - are there specific ingest use cases that you use regularly?
* Ingest formats - the platform supports NDJSON - do you use others?
* output formats - are there other transformations outside of the 3 supported that would be useful?
* Output locations - S3 is supported today, but are there other storage locations that would simplify your workflows? Object store has been the target to date.
by mschuster91 | 2026-02-04 20:31:14+00:00
> So what if there’s a low collective will at the moment. Do your part to be part to grow the collective will to good. Go volunteer for a good cause (food bank, community organizations, etc.), donate to good causes, just be friendly to other people you see.

The problem is, that way of thinking is just like the "co2 footprint" - individualise responsibility from where it belongs (=the government) to individual people, and let's be real, outside of the very last action item many people don't have the time and/or the money.

At some point, we (as in: virtually all Western nations) have to acknowledge that our governments are utter dogshit and demand better. Optimism requires trust in that what you work for doesn't get senselessly destroyed the next election cycle.
by JoshTriplett | 2026-02-04 20:31:55+00:00
> I often find it concerning how elementary a lot of well off tech peoples’ theory of mind is.

This is a great way of putting it. I always get surprised when I discover that others aren't constantly modeling a theory-of-mind of other people as a part of interacting with people. That's leaving aside whether those models are accurate, people have varying degrees of skill at it, but it shocks me when I discover that some people don't do it at all, badly or otherwise.
by conductr | 2026-02-04 20:32:05+00:00
> Is your enterprise vibe coding its own SaaS?

Yes, a lot.

> Who's taking care of it?

It's not hard.

We wouldn't do it for tools that are purpose made and have sane pricing in the market place. We do it for stuff that would traditionally go on a 'platform' like Salesforce or something that requires a lot of customization to begin with. It's so much easier to just roll your own than even just going through the procurement process of those kinds of tools much less the integration and change process (hiring consultants, etc). I'm not hands on with it, but I know our small group of AI are helping us eliminate $5m recurring annual spend this year and that's directly impacting the topic article. I won't be surprised if at some point we replace our more sticky ERP software or use this leverage to negotiate prices that are sane. Businesses have been gouged by enterprise software long enough.
by jrvarela56 | 2026-02-04 20:32:45+00:00
I’ve been a year deep into my first job out of tech. There is a never ending slew of problems where being able to code, specially now with AI, means you have wizard-like powers to help your coworkers.

My codebase is full of one-offs that slowly but surely converge towards cohesive/well-defined/reusable capabilities based on ‘real’ needs.

I’m now starting to pitch consulting to a niche to see what sticks. If the dynamic from the office holds (as I help them, capabilities compound) then I’ll eventually find something to call ‘a product’.
by gritspants | 2026-02-04 20:33:05+00:00
That sounds like a good strategy to me. We have a couple other products we're looking to knock out to reduce costs, and the decision comes down to me and another colleague. The thing these businesses have in common - difficult to partner with, rough edges for the use cases we need, and no appetite on their end to shore them up. We're paying premium prices for a subpar experience. If instead they adopted your thinking, perhaps we would've looked for savings elsewhere.
by tvink | 2026-02-04 20:33:29+00:00
Sure you can say consumers refusing the ad-ridden paywalled experience killed it, or we could say the lack of adaptation and finding better business models did. I think a lot of players killed themselves off fighting to preserve rather than adapt, or worse have digital content subsidize analog (to this day I keep running into ebooks that cost more than the physical books, and they wonder why people pirate)
Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)
by sberens | 2026-02-04 20:33:35+00:00
There's been a lot of discussion around the california budget and some proposed tax policies, so I asked claude code to research the budget and turn it into an interactive dashboard.

Using async subagents claude was able to research ~a dozen budget line items at once across multiple years, adding lots of helpful context and graphs to someone like me who was starting with little familiarity.

It still struggles with frontend changes, but for research this probably 20-40x's my throughput.

Let me know any additional data or visualizations that would be interesting to add!
by mindslight | 2026-02-04 20:33:57+00:00
Illegal immigrants are not voting, especially in significant numbers.

Meanwhile this exact topic is discussing how our voting system may be directly attacked by foreign powers, after the population was previously swayed by foreign influence in the form of revanchist propaganda highlighting all of America's problems while offering no solution beyond naked fascism red in tooth and claw.

It's also utterly disingenuous to bring up "criminals" to drive focus onto individuals, skipping right past the fish rotting from the head with the corrupt federal executive.
by eli | 2026-02-04 20:34:28+00:00
I don't really agree with this.

Simple CRUD app sure, but we're nowhere near being able to vibe code even a relatively low-complexity enterprise SaaS product.

If it's got customer data in it and/or you're making important business decisions based on it, you really need your system to be accurate and secure. My experience is the people who procure enterprise software know this and tend to care a lot about it. They often have legal and contractual obligations around that.

In the 1990s there were people who thought OOP with point and click tools like FoxPro and Delphi would make it so easy to create software that everything could be built in-house without expert programmers. The invention of SQL was supposed to eliminate roles like Report Writer and Data Analyst because now business people could just write their own queries "in English" and get back answers.
by nerdsniper | 2026-02-04 20:34:32+00:00
I’m really enjoying these LLMs for making ad-hoc tooling / apps for myself. Things that I inly need for a day or a week, that don’t need to work perfectly (i can work around bugs).

It’s really liberating. Instead of saying “gosh I wish there was an app that…” i just make the app and use it and move on.
by kriro | 2026-02-04 20:34:34+00:00
I'd actually say the opposite is the case. B2B (even SaaS) is probably the most robust when it comes to AI resistance. The described "in house vibe coded SaaS replacement" does not mirror my experience in B2B at all. The B2B software mindset I've encountered the most is "We'll pay you so we don't have to wrestle with this and can focus on what we do. We'll pay you even more if we worry even less." which is basically the opposite of...let's have someone inhouse vibe code and push to production. B2B is usually fairly conservative.
by mptest | 2026-02-04 20:34:50+00:00
> The US taxpayer has no moral obligation to send welfare "around the world".

I mean, by way of the atrocities we've committed around the world, we kinda do.

Even if we buy your thesis, foregoing morals, geopolitics, and history, it's a useful soft power strategy...

I'm not saying fund USAID before healthcare for all in america. I'm saying of all the insane things our government wastes money on, USAID was far down on the list of most egregious.
by falloutx | 2026-02-04 20:34:59+00:00
Yeah I have been saying this since the start of vibe coding, Saas companies rely on their sales, who are good enough to sell ther products even in tougher conditions. Software costs for the companies is 100% tax deductible, and they spend a very little on it (Most of times its less than 1% of CapEx). Only reason to optimize this cost is if the Execs of those companies think you can sell the same product.
by B-Con | 2026-02-04 20:35:33+00:00
Yawing seems like it must be adventurous, the contagious part not so much.

Even the mention of a yawn can trigger it.

Perhaps we are almost always in a state of needing a yawn, but the trigger is seldom met, and seeing or hearing about it is enough to make our brain go "oh yeah I forgot about that".

Perhaps yawning is actually underdeveloped and an ideal human would yawn at regular intervals without any prompting.
by NekkoDroid | 2026-02-04 20:35:36+00:00
> Systemd for some reason seems to uniquely be the epicenter of giant facepalm bugs like LEAVING THE SYSTEM FIRMWARE VULNERABLE TO AN RM -RF COMMAND

I am very sorry to inform you but efivarfs is something coming from the Linux kernel. Being able to rm -rf it is squarely something that is entirely on the kernel implementation, WHICH THE AUTHOR OF EFIVARFS EVEN ADMITS[0]

[0]: https://lwn.net/Articles/978640/
What is going on with Crypto and metals?
by cope123 | 2026-02-04 20:37:04+00:00
Lately, I’ve been feeling genuinely uneasy about the current state of both crypto and gold.

The volatility in crypto, combined with uncertainty in traditional “safe haven” assets like gold, makes it hard to understand where real stability is right now. It feels like every option carries a different kind of risk.

I’m curious how others see this moment — are you staying invested, reducing exposure, or shifting into something else entirely?
I’m a bit scared that a war might be coming
by alexhans | 2026-02-04 20:37:10+00:00
Useful tip.

From a strategic standpoint of privacy, cost and control, I immediately went for local models, because that allowed to baseline tradeoffs and it also made it easier to understand where vendor lock-in could happen, or not get too narrow in perspective (e.g. llama.cpp/open router depending on local/cloud [1] ).

With the explosion of popularity of CLI tools (claude/continue/codex/kiro/etc) it still makes sense to be able to do the same, even if you can use several strategies to subsidize your cloud costs (being aware of the lack of privacy tradeoffs).

I would absolutely pitch that and evals as one small practice that will have compounding value for any "automation" you want to design in the future, because at some point you'll care about cost, risks, accuracy and regressions.

[1] - https://alexhans.github.io/posts/aider-with-open-router.html

[2] - https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA
by atonse | 2026-02-04 20:37:22+00:00
I know people who cancelled the subscription because they refused to endorse a candidate.

I don't quite understand why, because refusing to endorse anyone is a neutral step. I've always found newspaper endorsements to feel slimy. I'm not ascribing some kind of noble reason for them choosing not to endorse Harris, but their move to was to endorse _no one_.
Show HN: Joy – What if mood tracking felt like Inside Out meets Duolingo?
by letsfancy | 2026-02-04 20:37:35+00:00
Hi HN! I’m back with my 2nd app, still built with @FlutterFlow, and powered by Gemini (switching it up from ChatGPT this time!). The inspiration was simple: I love the emotional depth of Inside Out and the addictive, clear progress of Duolingo’svertical roadmap. I wanted to merge them into something that makes self-reflection feel like a journey rather than a chore. Introducing: Letsfancy Joy Vertical Roadmap: Log and review your emotional history on a single, continuous path—not another calendar of faces. The Emotion Pill: Each emotion has a "Pill" with varying intensity. As we say: "The deeper the feeling, the longer the memory." Core Memories & Beliefs: When an emotion reaches "Core-level" intensity, link it to a Belief (like Kindness or Curiosity) to strengthen your self-awareness. Vivid Logs: Add images and "trigger contexts" to turn a simple log into a vivid Core Memory. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this approach. Thank you!
by mc32 | 2026-02-04 20:37:49+00:00
This is it. It's a medium and organizational structure that aged out. Even before social media and Google, people were getting more of their news via 24hr news channels, then came the internet and the citizen journalists, then came social media and now the attention industry. The market was getting smaller and smaller but was accelerated by new technologies and habits.

Same with magazines. There are some niche magazines that still do alright and also what were niche broadsheet publications became online subscriptions where they offered the subscriber an ROI of some kind.
by notahacker | 2026-02-04 20:37:50+00:00
It's PG, the definition of the sort of success he advocates in the startup world is "accumulated a lot of money, influence and kudos" and those guys are outlying successes in those areas, regardless of issues in their personal life and how many people detest some of them.

Sure, there are normies with greater levels of personal happiness (as well as plenty of nice normies who also managed to fall out with significant people in their lives for one reason or another), but I don't think PG is likely to consider them higher achievers, even if they're significantly more secure and happy in their career than some of those individuals.
by somat | 2026-02-04 20:37:51+00:00
In that regard it's the plan9 of display servers.

I love the idea of arcan, I like how as a counter point to waylands "X went to hard, the display server should be a dynamically linked shared object" there is one solitary guy doing his own thing saying "X did not go hard enough we need an even more seamless, recursive solution to move our display between different devices" and doing amazing work on this problem.

But just like plan9 I have a hard time actually doing anything with it. Achingly beautiful software, but just a little to different and obscure. And I say that as an OpenBSD daily driver, where apparently I thrive on the pain that comes from using an obscure system.

But I am currently back on the plan9 kick, seeing if I can get it to stick this time. I may give arcan another try as well.
by okok3857 | 2026-02-04 20:38:14+00:00
Yes, at certain points, like when I made that ohmg.dev website, I have looked at this as a re-deployable platform that anyone could self-host. It still technically is, but I've slowed down a lot on that idea (no one really showed up with interest). There are other good places to georeference maps on the web, like mapwarper.net and allmaps.org. That said, I do hope to expand to handle import of other atlases, not only Sanborns, and if you have something particular in mind you can mention it here: https://github.com/ohmg-dev/OldInsuranceMaps/issues/266
by jraph | 2026-02-04 20:38:17+00:00
> I wish this was true.

Exactly what I was thinking as I was tapping the thread link, strange to see the exact same words on the screen a second later.

Either what pg considers means is radically different from what I consider mean, or we have different things in mind when thinking about success, or he lives in a different world.

Several counter examples immediately come to mind, and not only in the startup world. Granted, it's probably easier today than in 2014 but still. It feels utterly naive. The whole piece. For instance:

> Startups don't win by attacking. They win by transcending.

Well, sure, if eliminating all your competitors by burning investor cash and if breaking the law left and right or disregarding ethics or the environment is considered transcending and not attacking or being mean. Now, maybe that stuff is considered fair game in pg's world.
by datsci_est_2015 | 2026-02-04 20:38:19+00:00
Funny, “fuck you, I got mine” has always been, imo, one of America’s core defining cultural values.

/s, a little bit. I find all of this lacking analytical or quantitative rigor and it’s bringing racists and bigots with preconceived worldviews out from their hiding spaces (not necessarily you, but definitely the elsewhere in this thread).

Anyway, we should all bake bread for our neighbors a bit more and make the world a nicer place to live in.
by swe_dima | 2026-02-04 20:38:58+00:00
I admit I have not properly read a single book in a couple of years.

These days when it comes to technical stuff I much more prefer to fill in gaps by reading articles or documentation. Technical books are so long it feels like authors are paid by words.

And when it comes to fiction I have really leaned into audiobooks. My eyes are too tired from computer work, and I can combine audio with other activities like jogging or cooking.

There are some "technical" audiobooks as well, but only a small category of technical books makes sense in the audio format.
by samiv | 2026-02-04 20:39:02+00:00
Some people seem to think that the capital owning class is somehow going to grow a conscious and start sharing their wealth with the common folks. Let's be real that has never happened willingly only by force and bloodshed have the working people ever gotten anything.

Moreover it's possible to use military power to lock things down so hard that the people don't even have a chance to revolt. For example North Korea, or any other despotic regime in the world.

If you think the musks and zuckerbergs are going to ever give anyone anything think again!

The post scarcity post work future means complete poverty for the majority of the worlds people. (So in fact the complete opposite, lots of work and lots of scarcity)