MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Joe_Cool | 2026-02-03 11:53:35+00:00
I did a similar thing on my DOS PC. Lots of DOS software gets confused when there is more than 64MB of XMS/EMS free. So I just gave 64MB of the 128MB to smartdrv.
It's more RAM drive I ever had when using DOS for work back in the day.

Win95 complains about needing REAL mode compatibility for a RAM disk though. I wonder how much performance degradation is noticeable with a RAM disk though.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-02-03 11:53:47+00:00
I found the opposite, I removed a pile of unnecessary bloatware from a couple of systems and snap kept reinstalling it on every OS update. I just couldn't get rid of them, snap decided it knew better than me what I wanted.

Come to think of it, that's a lot like Windows so maybe they are getting closer to the Windows experience after all.
by leoedin | 2026-02-03 11:54:12+00:00
Every air-to-water heat pump install will have a hot water tank. So I'm not sure why "don't work well" is the term used.

It is true that heat pumps coefficient of performance drops as the output temperature increases. So you need a proportionally larger hot water tank to store the same amount of energy. So it is fair to say there are tradeoffs. But hot water storage is still a necessary part of most heat pump installs - because peak output of heat pumps tends to be below the heat demand of showers.
by keepamovin | 2026-02-03 11:55:28+00:00
Hey bud I'm with you there on the next gen breakthroughs requiring more than the current models + reasoning, tho they do take it pretty far. Re the sentence: s/as valid is/as valid as/, but yeah you got me even with the error!

I think truly next gen requires embodiment so systems can learn emotions and consequences, plus reason from their own perspective. I also think the NLP processing can be radically simplified to make training/inference way lower cost. There's also probably another layer we haven't grokked yet, maybe something like NLP/transformers on abstract non linguistic symbolic reasoning, that emerges from linguistics and world models/embodied experience, to truly refine this to the ideal of intellect we are seeking. That should open the gate to AGI, tho there's probably some other magic x-factor step to take a perfectly intelligent individuated synthetic consciousness (in a robot body) to whatever we want from AGI tho. Idk, what do you think? :)
by ruhith | 2026-02-03 11:56:40+00:00
The real punchline is that this is a perfect example of "just enough knowledge to be dangerous." Whoever processed these emails knew enough to know emails aren't plain text, but not enough to know that quoted-printable decoding isn't something you hand-roll with find-and-replace. It's the same class of bug as manually parsing HTML with regex, it works right up until it doesn't, and then you get congressional evidence full of mystery equals signs.
by m000 | 2026-02-03 11:56:41+00:00
Why now? Because in the past 2-3 years it has been made abundantly clear that:

(a) Social media operators choose to do nothing at all against coordinated influencing operations, unless the influencing goes against the interests of very specific countries and groups.

(b) US government most likely has unfettered access to social media data. As if this isn't bad enough, they will probably give them out to Palantir for "data integration" and under uncertain terms.
by ruhith | 2026-02-03 11:57:08+00:00
The most interesting thread in these comments is the one about AI-assisted writing, and it's a shame it's drowning out the actual content. A non-native speaker writes a clear technical explainer, uses an LLM to fix grammar, and half the discussion becomes forensic analysis of em dash frequency. Meanwhile the person who confidently called it "AI written, generated from the codebase" was just wrong. We're developing an autoimmune disorder where the immune response to slop is now attacking healthy tissue.
Show HN: ESP32-based Remote Wake-on-LAN that works behind CGNAT
by kreaxv | 2026-02-03 11:57:41+00:00
CGNAT makes remote Wake-on-LAN difficult since port forwarding isn’t possible.

I built a small ESP32 firmware that keeps an outbound connection and exposes a minimal web UI to trigger Wake-on-LAN using a device ID. The ESP32 then sends the WoL packet locally on the network.

Firmware is open source. You can build it yourself or flash precompiled firmware via the web installer.

Demo: https://wol.kreaxv.top/
by bachmeier | 2026-02-03 11:58:24+00:00
This is, like, the most ironic comment ever posted on HN. An article about cat nutrition could hit the front page and the Rust fanbois would hijack the conversation.

In this case, however, Walter was not the one that brought up D. He was replying to a comment by someone promoting Zig with the claim that only Zig and C++ have ever had a strategy to replace C. That is objectively false. There's no way to look at what D does in that area and make that sort of claim. Walter and anyone else is right to challenge false statements.
by zamadatix | 2026-02-03 11:58:25+00:00
I'd bet the initial token usage is all net new while the later token usage probably has reading+regenerating significant portions of the project for individual minor changes/fixes.

E.g. I wouldn't be surprised if identifying the lack of touch screen support on the menu, feeding it in, and then regenerating the menu code sometime between 800k and 7MM took a lot of tokens.
by gitbit-org | 2026-02-03 11:58:47+00:00
Love this because I call BS on most "We've let go 1,000 employees due to AI".

For example, I just saw Pinterest say they let go of a large part of their workforce because of AI, but in reality, their new CEO has BUTCHERED the app. It's practically unusable.

More and more companies seem to be screwing up, and instead of saying "we screwed up," it's a lot better to say "we've replaced these people with AI!"
by thephyber | 2026-02-03 11:59:23+00:00
It’s generally a tradeoff decision between comparative advantage of a vendor versus {price cost and contracting cost}.

Contracting my cost is the difference in costs for a contract across companies versus a purely internal project. This could involve the lawyers on both sides, the time taken to negotiate which party is responsible for what deliverable / risk, the cost to enforce the contract, the time taken for negotiations/ iterations, etc.

One efficient company doing it internally is obviously efficient. Two inefficient companies negotiating a contract is obviously inefficient. The interesting questions are the other 2 quadrants, where the answer may change between the LLM case and non-LLM case.
by vessenes | 2026-02-03 11:59:58+00:00
Interesting. This is basically the second enforcement on speech / images that France has done - first was Pavel Durov @ Telegram. He eventually made changes in Telegram's moderation infrastructure and I think was allowed to leave France sometime last year.

I don't love heavy-handed enforcement on speech issues, but I do really like a heterogenous cultural situation, so I think it's interesting and probably to the overall good to have a country pushing on these matters very hard, just as a matter of keeping a diverse set of global standards, something that adds cultural resilience for humanity.

linkedin is not a replacement for twitter, though. I'm curious if they'll come back post-settlement.
Show HN: TurboLibBMP stb-style BMP decoder/encoder in C no allocations, embedded
by DenisDolya | 2026-02-03 12:00:14+00:00
Hi HN,

I started this project because I was tired of BMP libraries that hide allocations, pull half of libc, or solve only one small part of the problem. There are many libbmp-style repos, but the functionality feels scattered: one does decoding, another does encoding, another works on embedded, another is single-header. In real projects this often means depending on 5–10 small libraries just to load and display images. I wanted one predictable library instead: no allocations, one header, full control over buffers, and usable both on desktop and on microcontrollers. At some point I got so into it that I added a streaming embedded decoder and kept everything stb-style. The result is TurboLibBMP. I would really appreciate feedback on the API design, edge cases, and whether this approach makes sense in real projects.

Repository:
https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator/turbo-lib-bmp
by jgammell | 2026-02-03 12:00:15+00:00
My university made us learn to code 'close to the metal' and IMO this is a great way to gain an understanding of what is actually going on. Program in C, no IDE, no AI tools.

The AI tools are incredibly helpful (and people who say otherwise are disengenuous), but if you don't already roughly know how you want to implement something and you let AI take the wheel, you aren't going to learn anything. From a learning standpoint I feel like the best approach is to plan and write your code without using AI at all, then maybe use it as a critic to give feedback on what you've done.
by forinti | 2026-02-03 12:00:29+00:00
I have a P166 under my desk and once in a blue moon I try to run something on it.

My biggest obstacles are that it doesn't have an ethernet port and that it doesn't have BIOS USB support (although it does have a card with two USB ports).

I've managed to run some small Linux distros on it (I'll definitely try this one), but, you're right, I haven't really found anything useful to run on it.
by digikata | 2026-02-03 12:00:57+00:00
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by koolba | 2026-02-03 12:01:09+00:00
> They started cooking because feeding the family of 5 at McDonalds cost close to $80.

How much would they eat from McDonald’s? And what size appetite are the kids?

Fast food has definitely gone up in price, but if you’re spending $80 at McDonalds you’re either a glutton or you don’t know what to order.

A “Big Mac Bundle Box” is $15-20 depending on region. It has two Big Macs, two Cheeseburgers, two fries, and a 10-piece nuggets.

If three of the five are kids (vs say 16+ boys lifting weights), I’d be curious how two of those wouldn’t feed the entire family for $30-40.
by iamkrystian17 | 2026-02-03 12:01:15+00:00
Yup with simple AGENTS file and skills, tools like ruler/lnai might be an overkill. However I still think that they are needed for MCPs/Permissions/sub-dir rules/different skills formats.

I would really like all AI agents coding tools to have the same config formats, but I feel like we are not there yet :/
by divan | 2026-02-03 12:01:40+00:00
That works for people who already convinced that they want to use it. I'm talking about people who've heard it for the first time and they're not going to spend 25$ for some new app just to try. 25$ is unusually high price for an AppStore app and it's just doesn't work unless you're really determined to use it. I don't understand why people are downvoting this.
by DeusExMachina | 2026-02-03 12:02:05+00:00
I also use it every day. It does its job, but it has many usability issues that make it less than ideal.

For example, copy and paste retains the text color (probably by design). So, sometimes I get black text on a black background, when the app is in dark mode.

The editing process to remove the formatting is pretty annoying.

It takes me time to find the edit button, which is buried in the menu but prominent in the desktop version. Then, I have to toggle the HTML mode and delete the retained tags, which on a phone takes time. The desktop version, instead, has a button to remove all formatting.
by okokwhatever | 2026-02-03 12:02:11+00:00
You just produced a layoff my friend. And after the sarcasm we all could agree this is gonna be happening everywhere in a matter of months and we will be horrified by the lack of empathy and the industry situation and blablabla but at the end this story is the representation of a truth, not many of us will end our working life in this industry. It's over, take it or leave it.
by YetAnotherNick | 2026-02-03 12:02:21+00:00
So there are two kind of security, one is preventing innocents who mistakenly brings things like gun or flammable liquid like gasoline. The other is preventing people who actually want to do harm like terrorism. There is no doubt TSA is effective for first group. However the evidence against second group is kind of murky as no country has ever caught anyone in the second group till now.
Show HN: Weather forecast/visualization without numbers
by Leftium | 2026-02-03 12:02:54+00:00
WeatherSense gives you a feel for the weather without numbers via space and colors. If you know what it feels like today/yesterday then you can get an intuitive sense of what the weather will be like in the future.

HN discussions on weather apps often devolve into a debate on the merits of Celsius over Fahrenheit. So I added a cheeky "calm" mode:

- all numbers are removed, including less contentious ones like counts.

- some numbers like dates are spelled out or replaced with descriptions.

- the time of day can be estimated using the "noon," "midnight," "day/night/sunrise/sunset" indicators.

- the vertical markers mark the same time across all plots, defaulting to "now."

- the temperature follows a gradient from red (hottest) to blue (coldest). The same gradient is shared across all visible days, so the same color in two plots indicates the same temperature. The boxes to the left indicate the temperature range for that day.

Clicking/tapping almost anywhere will reveal the numbers again.

---

View the source code: https://github.com/Leftium/weather-sense

- The initial version was completely hand-coded.

- Recently Claude Opus helped add several features I've been meaning to add. (Including "calm" mode.)
by tecleandor | 2026-02-03 12:02:56+00:00
Seems like CM-1 and CM-2 show CPU activity, so each light blinked when a CPU did something. Those were the ones that were designed by Tamiko Thiel.

Then, CM-5 did have the option of having "artistic" or "random patterns" on it, apparently designed or co-designed by Maya Lin. IIRC, the CM-5 is the one appearing in Jurassic Park.

I don't know if is there any firmware code or hardware design available to check how that function worked. Maybe the people from the Computer History Museum knows something. They have the first CM-1 and have at least one CM-5.

Check their library to see if maybe some of the technical docs say something:

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/search-c...
by rocqua | 2026-02-03 12:03:30+00:00
So for the ISS at 20c you'd get 481 W/m^2 so you'd only need 2.3m2.
So comparing the ISS at 20c to space datacenters at 70c you get an improvement of 63%. Nice, but doesn't feel game-changing.

The power radiated is T^4, but 70c is only about 17.1% warmer than 20c because you need to compare in kelvin.
by yomismoaqui | 2026-02-03 12:04:04+00:00
This sure will imply that over-16 users will have to also authenticate themselves using some kind of personal id (DNI, I guess?)

As a non-user of social media (only have an anonymous Facebook account to check some hobby groups) this doesn't directly affect me but I'm starting to feel like a frog on a pot of what was tepid water and now it's starting to feel kinda hot.
by usrbinbash | 2026-02-03 12:04:17+00:00
> Absolutely false. I have built tons of tools which are feature complete and continue to work to this day without intervention

And how many of these tools are mission critical to the point that they are installed on almost every Linux box in existence, probably invoked tens of billions of times per day, both by humans and software, and the entire world would be in deep goddamn trouble if there was a serious security flaw that doesn't get fixed immediately?

Because that's what `sudo` is.

And no, such software is never "done".
by zelphirkalt | 2026-02-03 12:04:31+00:00
What does RTH stand for? I am guessing "something something To Kanji/Hanzi".

The deck you linked is not mentioning HSK in the description though. It was maybe 1 year ago or so, that I searched for HSK1-3 level decks and only got wrong direction ones.

I am searching again now:

(1) "HSK1 English" -- nothing

(2) "HSK1" -- lots of results, but also tons of results that are not relevant for me, because they are not for English. -- Results like https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1474834583 -- but that is 1-4 which is too much for me. I either need the 1, 2, 3 levels separate, or 1-3 in one deck. Also finding https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/166845167, which is the wrong way around. Starts right away by asking me "的" instead of something like "(some description here)". When I go to deck options in Anki desktop app, I see "Display Order", but there I cannot select any "English -> Chinese". Tons of options, but none that inverts what the cards show.

One sibling comment informs me, that I have to edit a template somewhere. But I don't know where, and in the deck options I don't quickly see any template editing function.

And this has been my experience with pretty much every HSK deck I found there. It would seem silly, that everyone uploads decks in the "wrong" order. Which leads me to think, that many people cheat themselves, by only doing the recognition part of learning the characters. Why else would so many people upload decks, only so that whoever who downloads the deck has to invert them first, before using them. I also think that many learners are probably not aware of the issue with seeing the character first and then translating to English, in comparison with doing it the other way around.

So now lets do your "RTH" search:

"HSK1 RTH" -- " Error: Please log in to perform more searches."

I am sorry, I cannot even do a keyword search a couple of times??? I need to log in, requiring an account (!) to even find a suitable deck?! OK, at this point I give up again.
by RivieraKid | 2026-02-03 12:04:45+00:00
The percentage of people employed in agriculture dropped from 80% to 2%. The market will be full of people who are willing to learn everything about AI in order to have a comfortable and highly paid job.

Becoming an electrician would be a downgrade or even impossible for some people.

For the record, I think AI replacing highly paid "sitting behind a computer" jobs would be good for the society, but probably not for most people having these jobs.
by Mordisquitos | 2026-02-03 12:05:57+00:00
Yes, your description of how farming and sedentary lifestyle progressed is much more accurate than my somewhat clumsy attempt. My intention was to emphasise that such a transformative event in human history did not take place thanks to visionaries going against the grain [0] , but rather through a long and complex process.

[0] Well, technically in favour of the grain! Pun not initially intended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_Hist...
by neeraj_c | 2026-02-03 12:06:14+00:00
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by direwolf20 | 2026-02-03 12:06:39+00:00
SMTP is a line–based protocol, including the part that transfers the message body

The server needs to parse the message headers, so it can't be an opaque blob. If the client uses IMAP, the server needs to fully parse the message. The only alternative is POP3, where the client downloads all messages as blobs and you can only read your email from one location, which made sense in the year 2000 but not now when everyone has several devices.
by theshrike79 | 2026-02-03 12:06:41+00:00
It's just realism.

MacOS is unix under the hood so the models can just use bash and cli tools easily instead of dealing with WSL or Powershell.

MacOS has built-in sandboxing at a better level than Windows (afaik the Codex App is delayed for Windows due to sandboxing complexities)

Also the vast majority of devs use MacBooks unless they work for Microsoft or are in a company where the vast majority of employees are locked to Windows for some reason (usually software related).
by digitalbase | 2026-02-03 12:06:43+00:00
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by longor1996 | 2026-02-03 12:07:10+00:00
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by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 12:07:17+00:00
Honestly? I don't know. I've tried a bunch of time to "browse" the website, opening posts like https://www.moltbook.com/post/4af5180a-929a-429a-aa9d-91edf9... but I don't see any discussions happening at all, it seems like some LLM generated a post, the bunch of LLMs generated something with semblance of replies to that post but then that's it, there is no conversations/debates/discussions at all, just basically spam to the top post or non-sense replies.

Maybe I'm expecting the wrong thing? Reading it wrong? I basically don't understand what people see in this. If the agents were talking, collaborating or what not, which I thought it was about, I'd kind of get it. Is it just broken right now, wrong example or something else?
by fuzzfactor | 2026-02-03 12:07:36+00:00
Yes, this particular court case could end up completely against Trump, that would be better than zero progress when it comes to making energy more affordable.

>raises the possibility that the order halting construction will ultimately be held to be arbitrary and capricious.

But guys like Trump aren't arbitrary or capricious.

There's a pretty good consensus that he would have to be a lot more sensible by nature to reach that level of sophistication.