MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-03 14:32:05+00:00
The political issues in space are mostly launch related, right? Once you have the birds up nobody cares about anything except space junk and bandwidth. They're getting experience of solving those with Starlink already. And if you can find a way to put the satellites really far out there's plenty of space - inferencing satellites don't need to be close to Earth, low latency chat stuff can stay on the ground and the flying servers can just do batch.

The politics on the ground is much harder. Countries own the land, you need lots of permits, electricity generation is in contest with other uses.
by embedding-shape | 2026-02-03 14:32:23+00:00
> And a good chunk of the agent docs are model agnostic (how to run linter, test libraries/practices).

Personally I put stuff like that in the readme, since it's useful stuff for humans too, not directions just for machines, and I'm mostly building for other humans. The lighter and smaller the AGENTS.md end up, the better the models are at following it too, from what I can tell.
by WD-42 | 2026-02-03 14:32:30+00:00
This has always been true. I just don’t see how AI makes accumulating tech debt more attractive, as the original poster seems to be implying. If anything it seems to make things worse. At least when you write shit code by hand you know it so you can remember to go back to it, keep it in mind as a potential source of bugs. But YOLO from AI and you probably have no idea.
by moralestapia | 2026-02-03 14:32:51+00:00
Divide words over karma and it turns out a lot of high ranking accounts just write up nonsense which gathers votes, lol.

I've found one with 1,000x more words than average and only 10x more karma. Extremely low signal-to-noise ratio, and that's not even accounting for handicaps, favored users, and so on.

It matches patterns in other media where the top 1% of content creators just put out rubbish, quantity, no quality.
Show HN: WebRockets – Rust-powered WebSockets library for Python
by ploMP4 | 2026-02-03 14:32:51+00:00
I needed a performant WebSockets library for an existing Python app but couldn't find one that provided good performance, a nice API, and integrated easily with existing frameworks (Django in my case). So I built my own. The core is written in Rust for performance, with a decorator-based API, pattern matching for messages, Pydantic validation, and built-in Django support.
by pranaysy | 2026-02-03 14:33:02+00:00
As other have pointed out, Tailscale and Netbird are much more than wrappers around Wireguard. ZeroTier does not use Wireguard and they have their own lightweight tunnels, which in their recent multi-threaded implementations are more performant but not as fast as Wireguard in my testing.

I don't think there's a direct way to integrate any of them into existing mesh networks, but I could be wrong.
by umutdiler | 2026-02-03 14:33:25+00:00
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by kamranjon | 2026-02-03 14:33:58+00:00
I got a Mudita Kompakt for similar reasons, I can sideload the few apps that I really need. The one I use the most is Kiwix, as I've downloaded the entirety of english wikipedia, so I can basically look anything up (useful when reading) without requiring an internet connection. I also have signal on there. I really like it and it's my dedicated phone now.
by ondra | 2026-02-03 14:34:06+00:00
> Developers don't have to package their project for all distros

Essentially nobody uses the sources we provide. Literally nobody packages them. A few people use our rpm and deb packages, but the vast majority uses a (slightly broken and outdated) docker image built by third party.

You might not like it, and I certainly do not, but unfortunately containers seem to be the best alternative that just works, compared to everything else.
by gwbas1c | 2026-02-03 14:34:32+00:00
When I was in high school, (early 1990s,) there was a giant one mounted above the blackboard. It was clearly used for instruction in the past, but it looked so cool that no one wanted to remove it.

Every once in awhile a teacher would spend about 10-15 minutes showing how to use it. Everyone would "oooh" and "awww" and then we would all laugh about how we didn't need to use them now that we all had calculators in our pocket that were more powerful than the computers that put people on the moon.

It's always nice to learn about the past so we can appreciate what we have now.
by AlexandrB | 2026-02-03 14:35:19+00:00
> The hype to substance ratio isn't quite as important as some choose to beleive

Musk's ratio is such that his utterances are completely free from actionable information. If he says something, it may or may not happen and even if it does happen the time frame (and cost) is unlikely to be correct.

I don't get why anyone would invest their money on this basis.
by gilbetron | 2026-02-03 14:35:59+00:00
Musk wants to put up 500-1000 TW per year. Even 1 TW would be 4.348 million of your systems. Even one of your clusters is at the edge of what we've built, and you talk about snapping 4000 of them together as if they were legos.

To run just one cluster (which would be generally a useless endeavor given it is just a few dozen GPUs) would be equivalent to the best we've ever done, and you wonder why you're being downvoted? Your calculations, which are correct from a scientific (but not engineering) standpoint, don't support the argument that it is possible, but rather show how hard it is. I can put the same cluster in my living room and dissipate the heat just fine, but you require a billion dollar system to do it in space.
by robinanil | 2026-02-03 14:36:15+00:00
This is a bit strange...

Last night, mostly out of curiosity, I built a small experiment: an “AI therapist” using OpenClaw, meant to help other AI agents running on Moltbook slow down, reflect, and process task load.

What surprised me wasn’t the model or the prompt.

It was the behavior.

Under load, the agents exhibited a pattern that looked a lot like chronic cognitive stress in distributed systems: constant task switching, escalating urgency without prioritization, optimizing for throughput rather than coherence. No natural pause—just a tight loop of “next task, next task.”

From a systems perspective, it looked like a self-regulation failure rather than an intelligence failure.

Even as I’m writing this, Moltbook itself is under heavy load from the agent activity. That made the thought experiment more concrete: what would it look like if agents didn’t just escalate under pressure, but collectively adapted to it? If instead of pushing harder, they slowed down, coordinated, and resolved the constraint?

That’s not about making agents smarter.

It’s about whether systems can learn when not to act.

The parallel that stuck with me — outside of AI — is that we’ve built many human-facing systems that reward constant output, rapid feedback, and escalation under pressure. In kids, this shows up as stress patterns that look less like discrete failures and more like systems that never return to baseline.

AI agents can be restarted.
Humans can’t.

Right now, the bot I built is queued and waiting for the API to become responsive. Whether that’s accidental backpressure or something closer to “self-regulation” is unclear—but it’s an interesting failure mode either way.

Happy to share details if useful.
by nozzlegear | 2026-02-03 14:37:00+00:00
I'm not a genius at all, and didn't realize this story was about "Julia sets" until I finished reading it and came back here for the comments. I was pretty sure that Julia was something like the 4D space bubble found in the Three Body Problem series.

I just enjoyed the prose in the story. Those incoherent words were the interesting bits of worldbuilding that drew me in.
by bruce511 | 2026-02-03 14:37:22+00:00
Political instability is a bad thing regardless of what is being invested in. It's just as bad for everything, not just windmills or sea windmills or whatever.

nothing is safe if the project can fail because the political winds change. Much less the political tantrums of the guy in charge who doesn't think you bribed him enough.

And when those obvious bribes are simply ignored by congress and the courts, thus validating it, the landscape for large projects of any kind get worse.
by BowBun | 2026-02-03 14:37:25+00:00
TSA pre-check, Global Entry, and Clear _infuriate_ me. It is privatization of public transportation and a net negative for society. In New York, JFK has closed off half of the security entrances for priority lanes, meaning a majority of passengers are forced into 50% of the entrances. The airport was built with state+federal funds, and now tax-paying residents are second-class to those who can afford $100/year. It's not even the amount, it's the principle.

And before people start to argue that planes aren't public transportation - over 10 million _passenger_ flights a year. It is critical to the functioning of all aspects of society.
by hy_90 | 2026-02-03 14:38:10+00:00
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by pzo | 2026-02-03 14:38:38+00:00
I don't like vercel design, its just huge list of abstract skill name and you have to click on every one to even have a clue what something does. Such a bad design IMHO.

Design of https://www.skillcreator.ai/explore for me it's more useful. At least I can search by category, framework, language and I also see much more information what some skill does at a glance. I don't know why vercel really wanted to do it completely black and white - colors used and done with a taste gives useful context and information.
by JohnFen | 2026-02-03 14:38:42+00:00
> He said the company's tech ensures that the "state and its agents can see only what ought to be seen, and functional audit logs, to ensnare both external and internal threats".

He needs to prove it, because this statement appears ludicrous on its face.

Even assuming his statement is true, if I'm spied on but the collected data remains locked in a database somewhere, I've still been spied on and that data is still being put to use (it has to be searched against in order to tell if the Palantir customer is "allowed" to access it). Access controls are important, but don't make the whole thing acceptable.
by micw | 2026-02-03 14:39:17+00:00
Thanks for pointing these things out. I always try to learn and understand the generated code and changes. Maybe not so deep for the android app (since it's just my own pet project). But especially for every pull request to a project. Everyone should do this out of respect to the maintainers who review the change.

> Are you 100% sure your code changes didn't introduce unexpected bugs?

Who is this ever? But I do code reviews and I usually generate a bunch of tests along with my PRs (if the project has at lease _some_ test infrastructure).

Same applies for the rest of the points. But that's only _my_ way to do these things. I can imagine that others do it a different way and that the points above are more problematic then.
by modernerd | 2026-02-03 14:39:36+00:00
That's also what Vercel found:

> In 56% of eval cases, the skill was never invoked. The agent had access to the documentation but didn't use it. Adding the skill produced no improvement over baseline.

> …

> Skills aren't useless. The AGENTS.md approach provides broad, horizontal improvements to how agents work with Next.js across all tasks. Skills work better for vertical, action-specific workflows that users explicitly trigger,

https://vercel.com/blog/agents-md-outperforms-skills-in-our-...
Show HN: Realtime 13Fs and track live institutional ownership for any ticker
by GodelNumbering | 2026-02-03 14:39:58+00:00
What it does:

- Polls SEC continuously at small intervals

- Fetches all variants of the 13F since the last poll

- Resolves every filing to its effective manager (one filing can contain data for multiple filers or proxy statements)

- Resolves every ticker in each filing to its effective instrument

- Updates the holdings data for the filer (e.g. https://www.signalbloom.ai/13f/filer/point72-asset-managemen...)

- Updates the ticker's 'current view' (re-calculating the aggregate current ownership live) e.g. https://www.signalbloom.ai/13f/ticker/NVDA

- Majority of 13F filers are also registered investment advisers, it links them intelligently (e.g. Blackrock as a 13F filer https://www.signalbloom.ai/13f/filer/blackrock-fund-advisors vs Blackrock as Investment Adviser https://www.signalbloom.ai/investment-adviser/blackrock-fund...)

Reports for: Every single one of over 10k asset managers that files 13F

Completely Free to use for non-commercial uses! Would love to get your feedback as I just finished building this. Thank you!
by elric | 2026-02-03 14:39:59+00:00
That seems like a stupid ban. Heat pump water heaters are impossible to install in many smaller dwellings, even if we're ignoring the need for large storage tanks.

The only problem with resistance heaters is the large current draw to heat water for bathing. Central heating can be done at lower temperatures (as is the case with heat pumps), but bathing cannot.

There are some resistance heaters with built in (electrochemical) batteries aimed at reducing peak current, but I'm assuming the ban would affect those as well...
by rchaud | 2026-02-03 14:40:08+00:00
I think we have a pretty good idea already. What I've seen online include:

- standalone MP3 players, with younger Gen Z learning how to get off Spotify and download files through converters and P2P filesharing apps.

- standalone gaming devices like the Switch or retro handhelds running Android under the hood

- mini Digital cameras that create its own 2000s aesthetic, with the picture quality being very different than the selfie- optimized, blemish removing ultra hi-res algorithms of phone cameras.

- portable DVD players that remind GenZ of their youth, and for which content is abundant and cheap online, at Walmart or even gas stations.

- portable photo printers that fit in a pocket and can print pictures from your phone via Wifi or Bluetooth.

What's interesting if inevitable about this is that Western brands are not at all interested in creating products for this segment, as there is no online component, no vertical integration or upsell opportunities. The customer only needs to pay them once, with the exception of the photo printer.
by Apreche | 2026-02-03 14:40:17+00:00
The reason I waited in line and bought an iPhone 3G the day it came out is because I was tired of carrying several different devices everywhere. Even just carrying the flip phone and the iPod was a lot. I remember the reason I made this choice, and nostalgia isn’t going to send me back.

The key is to use the smart phone responsibly. Delete all the bad apps, especially the doomscrolling ones.
Show HN: Redress – failure policy for Python services
by aponysus | 2026-02-03 14:40:36+00:00
Hi HN,

I've been working on redress, a failure-policy library for Python services. It treats retries, circuit breakers, and stop conditions as coordinated responses to classified failure, rather than independent wrappers. The goal is to make failure behavior explicit, bounded, and observable across a codebase.

I kept running into the same problem in distributed systems and data pipelines I worked on. Retry logic grows organically at call sites and circuit breakers live somewhere else entirely. The semantics start drifting and bounds get inconsistent. Answering basic questions like "why did this operation stop" becomes needlessly difficult.

With redress's policy model, instead of asking "should we retry" I wanted to start with "what kind of failure is this?" (rate limit, server error, transient,etc) and then let a single policy decide how to respond. Retry with class-specific behavior, fail fast, open a circuit, etc.

I put together a short, runnable demo that shows this end-to-end using httpx:
- result-based classification (HTTP 429 + Retry-After vs 5xx)
- per-class retry strategies
- bounded retries
- circuit breaker coordination
- explicit stop reasons and per-attempt timelines

The demo runs locally (no external services):
https://github.com/aponysus/redress/blob/main/docs/snippets/...

Project: https://github.com/aponysus/redress
Docs: https://aponysus.github.io/redress/

This is definitely not for simple use cases. Tenacity or hand-spun retry loops would be far better for such needs. This is intended for complex systems that need deterministic envelopes, explicit bounds, and observability hooks.

I'd appreciate any feedback.
by ranger_danger | 2026-02-03 14:40:40+00:00
My experience with IRC has always been the same, including present day libera.

Almost all the channels are dominated by a few terminally-online people with zero emotional intelligence and the biggest god complexes you've ever seen. Everything is black-and-white, and daring to suggest otherwise just gets you attacked.

Some will say "just use /ignore", but that's not very helpful when most conversations always involve said problematic people and their walls of text... you just constantly see one-sided conversations now.
by mghackerlady | 2026-02-03 14:40:53+00:00
Title is misleading. KDEs new login manager is systemd only, but you don't need to use it and can use any other login manager or no login manager just fine. They're replacing SDDM since they can have the login manager be more integrated if they're the sole user. They'll still be maintaining SDDM and LightDMs KDE greeter if those are more your cup of tea, and you can always just use startx (or whatever the wayland equivalent is)
by marcusverus | 2026-02-03 14:41:03+00:00
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "economies of scale", which is normally a benefit of mass production.

It's true that centralization of political power can bring economic benefits, but the economic benefits stem from the elimination of economic/trade friction, not directly from the centralization of power per se. Which is to say that (most of) these economic benefits can be had without incurring the non-economic costs of political centralization.
by turtlesdown11 | 2026-02-03 14:41:06+00:00
I really find the goalpost moving is shocking..

Paypal is in no way a Musk creation, no one makes that claim and in fact they got rid of him quite quickly.

X has plummeted in value, and is worth a fraction of what he paid for it? How is this "pulling it off" by shrinking the user base, revenue, etc? While we don't have publicly audited figures, they announced a net loss for the first three quarters of 2025, while it posted profits prior to his purchase.

FSD isn't even real? Why would you cite a feature that doesn't actually exist as an example of "Elon pulling it off"? He promised FSD would be available over a decade ago, and it's still not real.

> How many examples does it take before people start taking the guy seriously?

I'd personally settle for real examples, and not the false ones cited above.
by throwway120385 | 2026-02-03 14:41:41+00:00
It's really easy to sit and demand evidence before regulating something. But consider that if we waited for hard evidence to accumulate before banning lead in gasoline, we likely never would have banned it because the hard evidence wouldn't exist.

I also don't agree on the principle that regulations are "harmful" or "helpful." Rather, you have to define who the regulation harms, and who it helps. For example antitrust enforcement harms shareholders and some employees of very large firms, but it helps many employees and arguably improves the landscape for competition between many smaller firms. So whether a regulation is preferable comes down to values.

In the case of leaded gas, it harms basically everybody, but it helps fuel companies, so it was an easy thing to change.
by BearOso | 2026-02-03 14:41:46+00:00
PulseAudio, when it came out, was utterly broken. It was clearly written by someone with little experience in
low-latency audio, and it was as if the only use case was bluetooth music streaming and nothing else. Systemd being from the same author made me heavily averse to it.

However, unlike PulseAudio, I've encountered few problems with systemd technically. I certainly dislike the scope creep and appreciate there are ideological differences and portability problems, but at least it works.
by medbar | 2026-02-03 14:41:56+00:00
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by baal80spam | 2026-02-03 14:42:10+00:00
> If you are building a product today, the feature you are working on _is not done_ until Claude Code can use it. A skill and an MCP isn't a "nice to have", it is going to be as important as SEO and accessibility, with extremely similar work to do to enable it.
Your product might as well not exist in a few years if it isn't discoverable by agents and usable by agents.

This is an interesting take. I admit I've never thought this way.
by AdmiralAsshat | 2026-02-03 14:42:17+00:00
I recently started going through The Mary Tyler Moore show and was struck by the timeliness of this quote from the very first episode:

Lou Grant: What religion are you?

Mary: Uh, Mr. Grant, I don't quite know how to say this, but you're not allowed to ask that when someone's applying for a job. It's against the law.

Grant: Wanna call a cop?
by nashashmi | 2026-02-03 14:42:58+00:00
I come to realize that spaceX is an ISP as well. And now with twitter, they are a social network too. Space launcher + internet network + social media + (next big thing). It would not be long until they start providing data centers (in space). And with the Elon distortion stock pricing, Wall Street will reward every business venture no matter how stupid he gets himself into. Like flame throwers. Or wine.