MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Telemakhos | 2026-02-01 18:52:18+00:00
If it's in a library, it's going to be in special collections, and nobody's going to see it. It will be preserved and kept safe for the rare scholar who has a legitimate need to see the original, but for most purposes the archetype is never needed. We don't have the archetype of Vergil's Aeneid, but it's well studied nonetheless.

If it's in a private collection, a scholar who really, really needs to see it might make an arrangement with the owner. For everyone else, though, there are copies at the local bookstore. Bonus, though: if it's in a private collection, there's a chance that it physically is in a library. Some private collections are housed inside public (usually university) library special collections. From the investor's standpoint, it's worth it to have professionals who know preservation keeping the book in climate-controlled, reasonably secure facilities.
by jsattler | 2026-02-01 18:52:24+00:00
Very interesting, thanks for sharing this. After reading Karpathy's recent tweet about "A few random notes from claude coding quite [...]" it got me thinking a lot about offloading thinking and more specifically failure. Failure is important for learning. When I use AI and they make mistakes, I often tend to blame the AI and offload the failure. I think this post explores similar thoughts, without talking much about failure. It will be interesting to see the long-term effects. I wrote down some related thoughts on my blog in case you are interested: https://sattlerjoshua.com/writing/2026-02-01-thoughts-on-ai-...
by bigyabai | 2026-02-01 18:53:05+00:00
> So it seems to imply that Apple phones today are unbreakable.

Indeed. If you don't control the "unbreakable" security though, then the lock is not for your benefit.

> where does the article discuss "all of these protections"?

You could read the danged article, it's pretty clear about the vulnerability of proprietary mitigations. I hate quoting spoilers verbatim but here you go:

The sharper you get, the more important the work. But the more valuable the work, the craftier — and more determined — your adversaries. Every attack is more novel than the last. [...] By the time you land an engineering gig at Apple, you are a twitchy, tinfoily mess.

And it is in this spirit that you develop one of the most secure systems the world has ever known. [...] So adversaries be damned: You finally win on the merits. But who said anything about meritocracy? During the champagne toast, Mr. Fart steps from behind the curtain and pulls the pistol of last resort:

“Don’t ship this. Or else.”
by SatvikBeri | 2026-02-01 18:53:28+00:00
From the article: "So what's an old guy yelling at Claudes going to do? He's going to write his own coding agent harness and give it a name that's entirely un-Google-able, so there will never be any users. Which means there will also never be any issues on the GitHub issue tracker. How hard can it be?"
by dijit | 2026-02-01 18:54:36+00:00
I grew up poor enough that my classmates called me "Tramp". Hand-me-downs so threadbare they could pass for actual rubbish, couldn't afford deodorant or adequate dental hygiene; the works. The 10-year-old £5 computer that barely wheezed into life was my escape into a world that genuinely didn't care about any of that.

On the internet (1hr per day, courtesy of the local library), I was just the words on the screen. Nobody knew I was poor. Nobody knew I was weird-looking. Nobody knew anything except whether my code worked and whether my arguments made sense. That pseudonymity wasn't a limitation of the technology... it was the most liberating feature I'd ever experienced.

When people say "everything is political" and "detaching is privilege", I feel like they're describing a completely different internet to the one that saved me. The privilege wasn't being able to ignore politics- the privilege was finally finding a space where the hierarchies that had crushed me in the physical world simply didn't exist.

Bringing identity and real-world political causes into these spaces doesn't make them more inclusive- it recreates the very social hierarchies we'd escaped. When you insist I must care about your cause, acknowledge your identity, or pledge allegiance to your political framework just to contribute code or discuss technology, you're making the space less meritocratic, not more.

The early internet let us be judged solely on the merit of our ideas. That was radical. That was revolutionary. For some of us, that was the only place we'd ever experienced actual equality of opportunity.

When you demand these spaces become "politically aware", what I hear is: "your refuge wasn't good enough, and now you need to care about my problems too." But this was the one place where I didn't have to perform social status, where I didn't have to prove I belonged based on anything other than what I knew and what I could build.

I'm not saying the world's problems don't matter. I'm saying there used to be spaces where we could focus on intellectual puzzles and technical problems without importing every societal conflict. And frankly, for those of us who were outcasts in the physical world, losing that feels like losing the only place we ever truly belonged.
by yodon | 2026-02-01 18:55:12+00:00
>Why would you share this here?

These are clearly important times, regardless of your politics. The HN guidelines define on topic as "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."

Up-votes are a measure of what is found interesting. Posting the topic and receiving no up-votes (the "posted but not interesting to good hackers" case) means no presence on the front page, which means no one is impacted, aka the cost is low.

Alternatively, pre-emptively censoring something that might have been of interest (the "not posted but interesting to good hackers" case) means no discussion about a topic people would/do find interesting, aka the opportunity cost is high.

The site self-corrects, so we shouldn't live in fear of topics.
by codethief | 2026-02-01 18:56:03+00:00
> Stay in your editor while GitHub does the rest. VisualJJ tracks pull-request status on the change tree and lets you create PRs in a couple of clicks, so moving changes from “draft” to “merged on GitHub” feels like one smooth flow.

Does it support stacking PRs?

EDIT: I should have looked more closely, looks like it does, though only in the Pro version: https://www.visualjj.com/docs/stacking
by fragmede | 2026-02-01 18:56:07+00:00
Can we?

Yes.

Will we?

That remains to be seen. We introduced something worse than heroin to the world, and getting off it as a society isn't going to be easy. Seriously, you run out of heroin (or these days, fetty) and have to leave the house to score more, eventually. TikTok you can watch as the thing you fall asleep to, and as the first thing you do when you wake up, before you have a thought for yourself when you wake up. You can absolutely lose your job to it. It changes your thinking, in some ways good, sometimes bad. You can't accidentally overdose on it and die the same way you can fentanyl, though if you crash your car while driving it traffic because you were on your phone, you're just as dead.

I realize the irony of posting this from my phone, but Betteridge says "no" but I implore everyone to not have something digital be the last thing you see and hear before sleep, to not be the very first thing when you wake up.
by _wire_ | 2026-02-01 18:56:19+00:00
//“It was never a commitment,” Huang told reporters in Taipei. “They invited us to invest up to $100 billion and of course, we were, we were very happy and honored that they invited us, but we will invest one step at a time.” ... The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that the investment plan announced in September [to build 10GW data center(s)] had stalled after some inside Nvidia expressed doubts about the deal.//
by mjg59 | 2026-02-01 18:56:20+00:00
It's a somewhat weird product. There's no real access to any of the hardware that made the Amiga impressive at the time, without an add-on graphics card you're going to have a bad time in X, and it replaces AmigaOS entirely so you don't have any ability to run Amiga software at the same time (it's not like a/is in that regard). It's an extremely generic Unix, and I don't know who Commodore really thought they were selling it to. But despite all this is was cheaper than a comparable Sun? Extremely confusing.
by shdon | 2026-02-01 18:56:42+00:00
I've created my own adventure game engine starting in the late 1990s. Only learned about the existence of AGS many years later. Although my own engine allows much more flexibility than AGS, there is no userfriendly IDE and besides the runtime, it's mostly just a bunch of separate tools. I have to applaud Chris Jones for going all the way, it's really quite impressive.
by borroka | 2026-02-01 18:56:50+00:00
It all depends on the use one makes of it.

It can become an indispensable asset over time, or a tool that can be used at certain times to solve, for example, mundane problems that we have always found annoying and that we can now outsource, or a coaching companion that can help us understand something we did not understand before. Since humans are naturally lazy, most will default to the first option.

It's a bit like the evolution of driving. Today, only a small percentage of people are able to describe how an internal combustion engine works (<1%?), something that was essential in the early decades after the invention of the car. But I don't think that those who don't understand how an engine works feel that their driving experience is limited in any way.

Certainly, thinking and reasoning are universal tools, and it could be that in the near future we will find ourselves dumber than we were before, unable to do things that were once natural and intuitive.

But LLMs are here to stay, they will improve over time, and it may well be that in a few decades, the human experience will undergo a downgrade (or an upgrade?) and consist mainly of watching short videos, eating foods that are engineered to stimulate our dopamine receptors, and living a predominantly hedonistic life, devoid of meaning and responsibility. Or perhaps I am describing the average human experience of today.
by westurner | 2026-02-01 18:57:03+00:00
NewsArticle: "Eco friendly thermal paper made with wood" (2026) https://newatlas.com/environment/liginin-eco-friendly-therma... :

> Researchers at the Swiss Federal Technology Institute of Lausanne (EPFL) recently found a solution that seems to check all those boxes. Instead of toxic chemicals such as BPA or BPS, they used lignin together with a sensitizer derived from plant sugars to make the coating for thermal paper

ScholarlyArticle: "Sustainable thermal paper formulation using lignocellulosic biomass fractions" (2026) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw9912
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-01 18:57:44+00:00
I don't respect the "license" because the very concept is broken and offensive to man and to God.

In an age when computers have enabled infinite duplicate of everything for practically free, it is a barbarian and vampire who would stand there with his hand held out expecting payment, or expecting his permission to be asked every time bytes are copied from A to B.

I have been pirating everything since day 1 and thank God for it. Otherwise I'd still be an ignorant backwards rube like the rest of the huddled masses, with no money to buy any of these books etc to educate myself or gas money to constantly be driving to the library. Now I have one of the largest, best curated private libraries in the world, all for free.

I make no apologies to anyone, nor do I ever ask anyone's permission to copy bits and bytes around or share them freely.

Now somebody came out with a new technological invention which takes advantage of the power of freely shared information in order to do something great, and of course the Copyright Crew is there to scream loudly at the injustice of it all.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2026-02-01 18:57:48+00:00
Vee neet moar AI-controlled Nukkular of whichever sort, and sprinkle them in a (hexagonal) grid over ze planet, maybe 60 to 100 miles apart. So that we can have https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Atmosphere_Processing_Plant s

https://www.space.com/terraforming-in-alien-universe , dynamically overriding all the shit our alien earth system is throwing at us, on demand, even retroactively.
by yoosif | 2026-02-01 18:58:42+00:00
Location: BC, Canada

Remote: Yes or Hybrid

Willing to relocate: Within Canada only

Technologies: Golang, Typescript, React, PostgreSQL, Python, Docker, Node.js, AWS(SNS, EC2, CDK, S3, IAM)

Résumé/CV: https://yoosif.com/resume.pdf

Email: me@yoosif.com

More info: https://yoosif.com

Generalist software engineer and product builder. Worked on infra, backend, frontend, cli interfaces, browser extensions, and web crawlers
by readthenotes1 | 2026-02-01 18:59:04+00:00
This makes me wonder if that line "I only got so many heart beats, I'm not going to waste them running" has some validity

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I thought Satchel Paige said it, but apparently not. He did say "I generally don’t like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench. "

Which also fits the "don't prematurely age the stem cells"
by bigbadfeline | 2026-02-01 18:59:05+00:00
> Maybe China should not have blocked rare earth exports

That was after 150% tariffs on China and the ban of exporting EUV semiconductor equipment to them. China's response was a quite normal negotiation tactic given the chapter of "The Art of the Deal" which was being used against them.

Then the tariffs normalized somewhat but the ban remains, nevertheless China repealed the ban on rare-earths as a sign of good will - only to be blamed for... the policies of others which have shown to bring only suffering, poverty and wars.
by alephnerd | 2026-02-01 19:01:51+00:00
The EU, Japan, and India are not part of the USA.

> China repealed the ban on rare-earths as a sign of good will

This is the crux of the issue. To Indian, Japanese, European, and policymakers of other affected nations even taking such an attempt against them burnt all goodwill to China.

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Following the export controls in 2025, the decision was made in most countries to expand the development of an ExChina supply chain.
by candiddevmike | 2026-02-01 19:02:10+00:00
I can't sign into Apple without going incognito in Chrome. I put in my email, and it throws and error before asking me for my password. It's not an extension, it's not a cookie, idk what it is.

And then when I do get past he password, it sends a OTP to a Mac Mini I never use and have to tap around to get it to generate a SMS code. No option for external TOTP, and no way to remove the Mac Mini I don't use from OTP without signing out of it.
by pengaru | 2026-02-01 19:03:08+00:00
In my teens I ran a combination ipmasq(NAT, this was back when we called it ip masquerading) firewall and dial-up POP for my girlfriend at the time off a scrap 386 motherboard some ISA NICs and a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy drive. It was packed full of SIMMs, I don't remember how much probably 8MB RAM.

The userspace was all in the initramfs, linux booted directly without any LILO or GRUB (this was back in the days the kernel included its own boot loader), and the floppy drive was totally out of the picture once the system was up and running from RAM.

Prior to adding the dial-up aspect for my gf to share my internet from her home, the init was deliberately exited which technically panicked the kernel. Basically it was a /linuxrc shell script setting up the networking then deliberately breaking userspace - not even PID1 existed while it was just my firewall. The kernel keeps doing networking stuff even if panicked.

Fun times.
by astura | 2026-02-01 19:03:24+00:00
>booking flights, hotels, going to concerts, theme parks, the movies, organizing hangouts with friends, exploring new locations... all of these things I do just fine by using a web browser on a desktop computer before

This won't be possible soon, last couple of venues I went to were digital tickets only. Will call is basically dead now, and that used to be my preferred way of getting into events.
by seven237 | 2026-02-01 19:03:28+00:00
I’ve spent the last two decades in the AOL/AIM bot and exploit scene as Seven. I recently moved my archive from an expensive .io domain to https://www.google.com/search?q=sevlegend.com and built a custom V4.Prophecy-inspired layout to host my legacy source code, technical papers, and project logs.

I am currently declassifying and open-sourcing my private tools, starting with OscSeven and ecPrivate-Crack, for historical and educational study. I’d love feedback on the industrial UI and the archive structure.
by ZoomZoomZoom | 2026-02-01 19:03:38+00:00
I'm not sure where you saw ire. The only direct negativity was aimed at restrictions themselves, which is the product of foreign policy of specific countries and Apple politics. I'm not angry at Tailscale, just disappointed and annoyed.

> Actually can you not just pull the app and then side-load it anyway? That's what I would do if I couldn't get Tailscale from the Play Store...

The issue is, even if it's possible (which I doubt, since the users in question are not in the EU), it's technically challenging and the whole point of using a VPN solution was connectivity, which, besides other things, facilitates me technically assisting others. Besides, where do I even get the iOS client to side-load?

The point of my initial post was to ask if Netbird suffers from the same deficiencies as Tailscale (which are a fact). The question still stands, BTW.
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-01 19:03:57+00:00
God has already made the determination. It has been determined that licenses just mean nothing, period. Any claim to the contrary is only mafia figures with guns trying to enforce illegitimate "ownership" claims on something that can't actually be owned by anyone.

The War on Copying Data Freely will surely end in happiness and utopia, just like the War on Drugs did.
by sumul | 2026-02-01 19:03:59+00:00
Thanks for sharing. I’m a musician and programmer, so I’m squarely in what I’d expect is your target audience. Since you’re posting an early version for feedback, here are some of my broadest initial thoughts.

From your README’s philosophy section: “You describe what you want to feel — ÆTHRA handles how it sounds.” But the rest of the documentation doesn’t yet feel aligned to that vision. The closest you get to that is when you describe your example chord progression as melancholic, but you as the composer already happened to know that this particular progression provides the feeling you have in mind.

I love the idea of a high level way to programmatically or idiomatically describe how music should feel, especially how the composition should evolve over time (perhaps even in surprising ways that are beyond current tools). I hope as you progress that you’re able to find innovative ways to build toward that vision.

The current feature set feels like it would be considerably more convenient in a GUI environment. Again, I hope that as you continue to build, it becomes more obvious why this is a language and not a visual synthesis/composition tool.

A little audio output demo would go a very long way in potentially getting me interested in playing around with this.

Good luck!
by yunnpp | 2026-02-01 19:04:12+00:00
How did I lump both together when I specifically called them out separately, lol.

Everybody understands OSS/free software is global (though copyright/left is still subject to export controls and other laws.) No question about that. And I was specifically talking about proprietary software there, you even copied that in your reply...Proprietary software is bad; foreign-owned is even worse, like the EU has learned recently when Microsoft cuts your email short, for example.

The "US model" is obviously big monopolies or duopolies run unchecked, allowed to buy, prevent and starve competition, then seeking regulatory capture to secure a moat. That is what people know, for better or for worse. No laymen knows the FSF, or what that guy in Arkansas in the xkcd is doing for the digital infrastructure.

I think the main challenge for Europe will be to manage those public investments in an effective way for people's benefit. As far as I know, there are few precedents, and maybe nothing of that scale. China pulls off of open/free software significantly, mostly to avoid US proprietary software, but to my knowledge they don't give much/anything back. So it seems challenging, but I'm also excited for how/if they pull it off.

By the way, I donate to both US and EU free software and digital rights organizations. It was not my intention to nurture your conception of a divide, if that is what you took from my comment.

> The more general goal will remain to protect all individual freedoms from all tyrannical governments, not to depend on them.

This is more of an American pov and will probably be a disconnect for Europeans. Their governments don't screw them as much, so they probably don't see them as tyrannical. Those governments investing in proprietary software to move away from other proprietary software would be a mistake; so government investment into free/open source should be seen as a win, not something to shy away from in the name of individual freedom.
by teekert | 2026-02-01 19:06:09+00:00
Fwiw, I 100% agree with this. All of a sudden the constant judging is there, it's seeping into the once clean, apolitical world-of-mind. It started on the big tech platforms, the new weary giants of flesh and steel, but it's overflowing into our hacker-minded spaces as well now.

Like US families torn between 2 sides of their politics, they can't even have normal dinners together anymore. They can't communicate without judging, it's an illness, they've been weaponized against each other.
Show HN: Memory plugin for OpenClaw; cross-platform context sync with major LLMs
by gdad | 2026-02-01 19:06:33+00:00
We built a memory plugin for OpenClaw that syncs context across AI platforms.

The problem: OpenClaw stores memory locally (markdown files + SQLite). Great for single-machine use, but your mac-mini's/desktop's OpenClaw doesn't know what your laptop learned, or what you discussed in Claude or ChatGPT.

Our plugin connects OpenClaw to Maximem Vity, which creates a unified memory layer across OpenClaw, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.

How it works:
- Long-term memory: Stores facts, preferences, goals, constraints in an encrypted cloud vault. Auto-consolidates and forgets stale info intelligently.
- Short-term memory: Captures conversation summaries, tasks, procedures. Converts to long-term when relevant.
- Privacy: Encryption at rest, secure LLM calls, granular delete controls. You own your data.

Install:
openclaw plugins install @maximem/memory-plugin
Then set your API key (free at app.maximem.ai).

Docs: https://memoryplugin-for-openclaw.com

This is an unofficial community plugin, not affiliated with OpenClaw.

Would love feedback from anyone using OpenClaw. What memory/context problems are you running into?
by its_ubuntu | 2026-02-01 19:06:59+00:00
Yes, I can train AI on Disney Movies and sell my own Disney movies. I might have to move to a more civilized nation free of thugs with guns who attempt to stop me from doing this, or I might have to lie very low and be careful not to attract their attention, but in either case it's quite possible, and even easy for me to do this thing. People will soon be doing it all the time on their 10 year old Dell.
by cwillu | 2026-02-01 19:07:08+00:00
Your comment is a complaint that the submission is inappropriate, why would you write it here?

“Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.” --https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html