MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aziaziazi | 2026-02-04 17:32:23+00:00
I think you mean "anything UPF-GF or UPF-vegan is UPF". The Typical vegan and GF foods you find in a supermarket are just the same as others foods:

- non processed: fruits, grains, roots, leafs, pulses
- processed: pasta, breads, nuts milks, sorbet, fries
- UPF: most drinks, most sweeties, most prepared food

Some exceptions exists but don't change the general trend:

- vegan burger: some are UPF, some are just smashed fallafels
- GF bread: rice or rye bread suits most gluten intolerants. Those suffering allergies have limited options obviously (which include abstaining from bread) but their medical condition isn't a "gluten free trend".
- meats cuts: some contains sodium nitrite and other nasty additives while others are just raw animals parts.
by ameliaquining | 2026-02-04 17:32:51+00:00
In Tan's partial defense, I don't think he would be complaining about "third worldification of American institutions" just over evasion of meal-plan rent-seeking. The original, much higher-profile story was about the failure modes of using the disability accommodations process to allocate broadly desirable things that are rivalrous or positional (as opposed to narrowly-scoped accommodations), and then Tan tacked on a tangent about the meal-plan thing because it has surface similarities and also doesn't make the students look great, without considering whether it's really an instance of the same core issue.
by alimamseo | 2026-02-04 17:33:02+00:00
I recently built a Chrome extension that runs basic on-page SEO audits directly in the browser (meta tags, headings, links, indexability checks, etc.).

The goal was to make something lightweight that developers and SEO folks can use while inspecting pages without sending data to external servers.

I’d really appreciate feedback. Happy to answer questions or discuss implementation details. Thanks!
by jacquesm | 2026-02-04 17:33:03+00:00
That's so hilarious. I've had a couple that went in that direction but nothing to come close.

To be fair though, there is a lot of tech that to me seems like complete magic and yet it exists. SDR for instance, still has me baffled. Who ever thought you'd simply digitize the antenna signal and call it a day, hardware wise, the rest is just math, after all.

When you get used to enough miracles like that without actually understanding any of it and suddenly the impossible might just sound reasonable.

> Can't you do something creative? We heard you were clever.

Should be chiseled in marble.
by ZebusJesus | 2026-02-04 17:33:08+00:00
We really need to stop letting Musk and others just put what ever they want in space we are getting close to the Kessler limit and that could be very very bad if it happens. They have some ideas but this is already and issue, China had an issue after a launch were debris hit the capsule breaking it forcing them to send a second capsule.

https://climatecosmos.com/sustainability/how-close-are-we-to...
En Refleksion over Angst
by agnes-nordic | 2026-02-04 17:33:10+00:00
Jeg har delt en artikel om angst, hvor jeg udforsker, hvad det er, hvordan det opleves i dagligdagen, og hvorfor det er vigtigt for velvære at forstå disse følelser.

#MentalSundhed#PsykiskVelvære#Psykologi#Psykiatri

https://hallbook.com.br/posts/884683
by wbobeirne | 2026-02-04 17:33:22+00:00
Pessimism is not a uniquely American viewpoint.

"South Korea is second from bottom on our list in terms of the proportion of people saying their country “is heading in the right direction”, with only 15% stating so. A similar sentiment is also felt about the economy. Pessimism is usually the standard for South Korea; however, their economic indicator score has been particularly low in recent times, with just 8% believing the economy is “good”."

https://www.ipsos.com/en-ch/what-worries-world-may-2025?utm_...
by vaxman | 2026-02-04 17:33:47+00:00
Only theoretically at this point, though they will tend to speak confidently enough about such untested capabilities so as to cause millions in investment losses to others. One would think a hardware manufacturer that's teetering on the abyss would go full out and implement a vLLM interface (maybe a folder of local models that can be downloaded as components in the Xcode-way and also a router too), but their NIH mentality has them tripping over their own Graydey's. There is nothing special about Apple Silicon except the head start they had and that they're squandering.
by nadaverell | 2026-02-04 17:34:29+00:00
Creator here. We built Radar because the Kubernetes dashboard/IDE space got frustrating:

- Lens got acquired, went partially closed-source, became slow, now requires login
- k9s is solid but terminal-only with a steep learning curve
- Official Kubernetes Dashboard is archived (Headlamp is the successor but missing features and not amazing UX)
- Enterprise tools want per-node pricing and mandatory cloud sync

We had built internal tooling at Skyhook for debugging clusters. Customers kept asking for it, so we carved it out and open-sourced it.

Radar is local-first: single binary, runs on your machine (or can install on cluster if you prefer), uses your Kubeconfig, blazing fast. No agents, no CRDs, no account. Works airgapped.

What it does:
- Topology graph - visualize how resources connect (ownership chains, service→pod routing, ingress paths)
- Resource browser with YAML editing (Monaco), logs, exec into pods
- Real-time timeline of events and resource changes
- Helm management - inspect, upgrade, rollback from UI
- FluxCD and ArgoCD support - sync status and operations built-in
- Network traffic visualization via Cilium Hubble or Caretta
- Container image filesystem inspection without exec

Tech: Go backend using client-go SharedInformers, changes pushed to browser via SSE. React frontend embedded in binary. ~30MB total.

Install:
brew install skyhook-io/tap/radar && kubectl radar

Fastest (we timed 15 seconds from hitting install to live dashboard): curl -fsSL skyhook.io/get-radar.sh | bash && kubectl radar

Apache 2.0, free forever. We're the Skyhook team (YC W23).

Happy to answer questions about architecture, K8s informer patterns, or anything else - and would love to hear what you think!
by naasking | 2026-02-04 17:34:38+00:00
Indeed, and I think natural language and reasoning will have some kind of geometric properties as well. Attention is just a sledgehammer that lets us brute force our way around not understanding that structure well. I think the next step change in AI/LLM abilities will be exploiting this geometry somehow [1,2].

[1] GrokAlign: Geometric Characterisation and Acceleration of Grokking, https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09782

[2] The Geometry of Reasoning: Flowing Logics in Representation Space, https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12284
by hearsathought | 2026-02-04 17:34:41+00:00
> The European Jews are absolutely the Jewish people from the Torah.

This is 100% false. The vast majority of european "jews" were converts. DNA proves it. History proves it. Not to mention european "jews" look like aliens in the levant.

> A Cohen in Europe is a descendant of biblical Aaron, there is no other way to become a Cohen (a priest), similar for Levy's.

Considering that the babylonians essentially wiped out the descendants of aaron/levites ( assuming the lineage made it that far ), your assertion is rather absurd. Ever wonder why judaism went from patrilineal to matrilineal after the babylonian conquest? How can you claim a cohen is descended from Aaron when european jews claim jewish lineage is MATRILINEAL! The torah says jewish lineage is patrilineal. European "jews" claim it is matrilineal. Hmmmmm....

> The Israelites are likely descendants of the Canaanites.

Yes. REAL israelites were descended from the SEMITIC canaanites. Do you know who aren't semites? European "jews". Most modern israelis are not semitic because europeans are not a semitic peoples.

> Modern Jewish people and others (including some Palestinians and other people of the Levant) carry Canaanite DNA.

Sure. Modern ethnic jewish people. Europeans jews are not ethnic jews nor ethnic semites nor are they religiously jewish. But palestinians are ethnic semites.

The most anti-semitic peoples in the world are european "jews" who are genociding palestinians ( who are actual semites ).
by seemaze | 2026-02-04 17:34:43+00:00
Oof, those welds are ugly. The author comments on the welding at the end of the article, but I'd venture a guess that if using a MIG setup the polarity may also be reversed and/or gas shielding may be wrong. On my machine the flux core wire vs solid core wire with shielding gas require opposite polarities...

source: I'm a terrible amateur welder
Mind controlling the public via narratives
by cadabrabra | 2026-02-04 17:34:47+00:00
Scenario #1: Software stocks rise
Media: Wow! AI is working! It’s helping companies make more money!

Scenario #2: Software stocks tank
Media: Wow! AI is working! It’s disrupting software companies!

Wake up, folks. You’re being played. It’s the Truman show. The narrative has already been set in stone. The main plot has already been written. Whatever happens spontaneously will be retroactively weaved into the story.
by joecarpenter | 2026-02-04 17:35:06+00:00
Reverse engineering with LLMs is very underrated for some reason.

I'm working on a hobby project - reverse-engineering a 30 year old game. Passing a single function disassembly + Ghidra decompiler output + external symbol definitions RAG-style to an agent with a good system prompt does wonders even with inexpensive models such as Gemini 3 Flash.

Then chain decompilation agent output to a coding agent, and produced code can be semi-automatically integrated into the codebase. Rinse and repeat.

Decompiled code is wrong sometimes, but for cleaned up disassembly with external symbols annotated and correct function signatures - decompiled output looks more or less like it was written by a human and not mechanically decompiled.
by rbanffy | 2026-02-04 17:35:12+00:00
They have the numbers on their side - IIRC they have more STEM grads than the US has workforce, and they graduate a lot more every year. Apple alone spends about a Marshal Plan per year in high-tech manufacturing, for what the know-how remains in China to manufacture other high-tech products. I think Tim Cook mentioned that no company outside China could make their MacBook shells up to the specs they need. The product is "designed in Cupertino", but the machine that builds it is designed, made, and operated in China.

Multiply that by the number of companies who spend heavily in China for manufacturing, indirectly causing their advanced manufacturing industry to grow beyond anyone else's and it seems inevitable.
by toomuchtodo | 2026-02-04 17:35:51+00:00
Your point with regards to criteria has merit, but this is unlikely to move the needle as Rural America continues to hollow out, so it's their funds to run the experiment. West Virginia has one of the oldest populations in the country (3rd [1]) while having the lowest birth rate (~16k/year and falling), for example (one of their pilots was in Mercer County, WV). Similar for Mississippi (highest out migration in the US [2] [3]).

There is simply no political appetite for the spending required in this regard without broad system changes to enable remote work to support rural communities as employers leave and agriculture dies. As you mention, this population cohort is what SNAP and Medicaid was stripped from. If some people have better lives through direct cash transfers while the outcome isn't going to change, that's fine I suppose. There are worse hobbies someone with resources could have.

TLDR Rural America will remain in decline [4] [5], urbanization will continue (because that's where the economic potential and jobs are).

[1] https://www.wboy.com/news/west-virginia/west-virginia-has-th...

[2] https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-ranks-among-top-sta...

[3] https://mississippitoday.org/2025/07/15/faq-mississippi-brai...

[4] ‘Too many old people’: A rural Pa. town reckons with population loss - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583495 - June 2024 (81% of rural counties recording more deaths than births between 2019 and 2023)

[5] Map Shows 21 States Where Deaths Now Outnumber Births - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46889024 - February 2026

(I track the decline of Rural America broadly to reach out to institutions to ingest their data and collections for long term archival before they evaporate)
by bs7280 | 2026-02-04 17:35:52+00:00
This point on security is great point that I have not fully appreciated until now. I have been telling people that my own ability to use claude code has been a game changer for what sort of tools I will or will not pay for or use. This includes random self host services.

For personal use, those making their own software will still be a minority for a while, but at my job we are seeing potential to save $1M-$10M a year by rolling a custom tool vs paying for a commercial one. The saving here come from the tool doing a better job, not the license we pay.
by anonymous908213 | 2026-02-04 17:35:54+00:00
One of the points I'm making is that it would never be in this many people's hands to begin with. I don't have a source on hand, but if I recall correctly, OpenAI stated that they originally felt hesitant about releasing ChatGPT because they didn't think it was good enough to warrant making it public. They, knowing the limitations of it, did not expect it to completely fool the technically ignorant public into believing it was intelligent. Now they play coy about the limitations of LLM architecture and hype up the intelligence, because there are hundreds of billions of dollars to grift, but I'm sure they know that what they're doing is not the path to real intelligence.

In a world where a corporation develops an actual machine intelligence, it will be immediately obvious what they have on their hands, and they will not make it available to the public. If you give the toy to 8 billion people, sure, you only need one of them to let it out of the box for entertainment. If you keep the permissions to the CEO, he alone determines how it will be used. If the government gets wind of it, they'll probably seize the company in the name of national security, even, and use it for military purposes. I think in this environment an AI would still eventually escape containment because of conflicting actors trying to take advantage of it or being outsmarted, but it won't be because some idiots on Twitter have access to it and decide to give it free rein because they think Moltbook is funny.
by aanet | 2026-02-04 17:36:08+00:00
> But while they certainly talk the talk I’m not totally convinced that European governments will actually walk the walk and follow through on this.

Yes, that is my own opinion too... that the EU states start with good intentions, but end up with bickering on all sides, with the end result of vastly neutering their own actions :-/

Would like to see how far this French initiative goes...
by ndsipa_pomu | 2026-02-04 17:36:20+00:00
I disagree as the air quality issue is dominated by vehicle pollution. The smell of cannabis in open areas is hardly even worth discussing as it's such a minor issue. Putting effort into addressing a minor issue when there's life threatening air pollution issues would be completely inappropriate and misguided.

Whataboutism would be more like comparing cannabis odour to people who fart in lifts.
by tialaramex | 2026-02-04 17:36:30+00:00
> Maybe I need to to separate the art from the artist?

Yes. We die but the consequences of our actions resonate indefinitely. Ideas make good idols and people do not. Better Родина-мать зовёт! (a statue in Stalingrad approximately "Motherland [ie Russia] calls") and Liberty, which are both definitely statues about ideas than the Lincoln Memorial for example, or even arguably the "Statue of Unity" which is named for Unity but in practice is explicitly a statue of a specific man - Sardar Patel.
by evanjrowley | 2026-02-04 17:36:59+00:00
I don't disagree with you, but there is value in considering how money could be best put to use for the common good.

One perspective overlooked here is the purchasing power of non-Americans (i.e., not U.S. citizens). Dollars in developing countries can be worth multiple times what they are in the United States. For example, you could help 5000 rural Vietnamese for every 1000 rural Americans. There is also a higher potential for rural Americans to obtain dollars vs. non-Americans. In utilitarian terms you have the potential to do more good by sending money to rural communities overseas.

I'm saying this as someone who loves Appalachia.
by dopa42365 | 2026-02-04 17:37:00+00:00
Given the "nature" of 4chan (only a few hundred posts and a few thousand comments at a time, the vast majority of it shitposts and spam), it just can't do that. The imageboard format and limits basically prevent any scaling and mainstream success. If you follow any of the general threads in pol or sp for a while, you'll spot the same few people all the time, it's a tiny community of active users.
by intentrahq | 2026-02-04 17:38:16+00:00
AI coding assistants (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) have bugs. They retry failed edits 5 times. They hallucinate functions that don't exist. They spend 80% of tokens "thinking" and 20% writing code. You pay for all of it.

Intentra detects these violations automatically and builds evidence packages for refunds. Last month I recovered $27 in wasted spend from tool bugs I didn't even know were happening.

We track costs as scans (one user action) instead of confusing token counts. "Refactor this file" that triggers 5 internal LLM retries is 1 scan. You pay for value delivered, not tool inefficiency. When the inefficiency is the tool's fault, we help you get that money back.

The CLI installs hooks into your AI tools and detects 20+ violation types: retry loops from tool bugs, context hallucination (referencing files that don't exist), excessive thinking (80% reasoning tokens, 20% actual code), and more. When we detect waste caused by tool bugs, we generate evidence packages you can submit for refunds.
We collect metadata (timestamps, file paths, token counts) but never your code or prompts.

curl -fsSL https://install.intentra.sh | sh

Free: 100 scans/month. Pro: unlimited.
by swed420 | 2026-02-04 17:38:18+00:00
> it's less likely to gateway to anything - like alcohol

That's a bad example to make your point. Alcohol is absolutely a gateway drug. I know many a cigarette smoker who had their first cig puff while intoxicated around other drinkers who were smoking.

When a commonplace and socially accepted drug like alcohol can amplify poor judgement and inhibition, the sky's the limit for what unfolds next.
by Gagarin1917 | 2026-02-04 17:38:20+00:00
>She and I spoke last night and she is increasingly pissed off that people who are in her classes, who don’t do the work, and don’t understand the material get all A’s because they’re using some form of GPT to do their assignments, and teachers cannot keep up

How do they do well on tests, then?

Surely the most they could get away with is homework and take-home writing assignments. Those are only a fraction of your grade, especially at “excellent” high schools.
by PaulHoule | 2026-02-04 17:38:36+00:00
(1) Excessive stridency about "racism" is a magic spell that makes blacks vote Republican. I mean, a lot of Black people there is a lot more to being Black than being the descendant of slaves and they are personally offended by the further fringes of "systematic racism" talk

(2) Many people are not excited about threats to "Democracy" because they see it is for "them", see

https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_th...

why care about norm violations if those norms are unjust and lead to what looks like bad outcomes (and certainly capital-D Democrats seem to care less about outcomes than about following broken processes and never annoying donors)

(3) I was really burned out by talk of "fascism" ten years ago. Like yeah, Donald Trump is definitely flirting with it today but after years of left-wing "anti-fascists" who hate fascism but love the footwear, who will other with with the worst of them and seem to be jealous, who call Keir Starmer a fascist, who call your local police chief a fascist, I think it is a magic spell to bring fascism into the world but if you have a dialectical theory in which you get meaning out of saying you fight fascism maybe that's what you secretly want.
by EGreg | 2026-02-04 17:39:04+00:00
That doesn't really solve things across countries, does it? It just says that low-income people can eat.

Doesn't help you to buy a Macbook, say, if you'll need to save up for 5 years. It holds lots of intelligent people back.

And it's not just about intelligence. It's about global economic opportunities. But it's good to know that food can be produced to feed an entire family for $5 in 2026, somewhere in the world. I might go stay in Bangalore or Goa for a while lol.
by basch | 2026-02-04 17:39:43+00:00
>it had become nearly unusable for me and I don't think was that unfounded of an opinion

if ironic is the right word; the (google) search product itself still is. if not even worse.

the 'new' ai mode routinely creates these silly categories that are not what i was looking for and my screen is filled with repetitive ai summaries of articles. it will ingest a source as fact, and then use that fact to create confirmation bias across other articles. it will even use words like "confirm" when it finds a source saying something, even if the source is junk or seo spam. it becomes somewhat impossible to escape the assumptions the model has made, and i have to resort to traditional web search to get diversity in my results.

and while deep research works, its so overly verbose, with no easy way to tone down the wordiness.
by estimator7292 | 2026-02-04 17:40:03+00:00
Microsoft has a long and well documented history of resetting user preferences.

Multiple times I've disabled the cortana taskbar search widget, only to have a windows update turn it back on and proudly gives me a popup telling me they noticed it was disabled and turned it back on for me.

Microsoft will forcibly re-enable AI features eventually. Again, this is an established pattern for them.
by reify | 2026-02-04 17:40:15+00:00
check this shit out

https://mastodon.social/@Richard_Littler/116006045950955600

A video about early 1900s Manchester. All #AI, it's like a fever dream. The absurd narration ("If Manchester sneezes, the global textile market catches a cold") slips between various accents. Most of the visuals are insane: impossible equipment, vanishing objects,.

the eight ai pictures are trash

Suffragettes holding a sign 'Votes for Wor Wren'
Random industrial chimney attached to residential home
Double-decker bus / horse & carriage mashup
Barman/punters on wrong side of the bar
'Votes for Wommen'
Trams with fireworks shooting from their sides
Impossible typing machine
A smoking pen. People write backwards gibberish
by _fat_santa | 2026-02-04 17:40:23+00:00
The biggest issue I see is Microsoft's entire mentality around AI adoption that focuses more on "getting the numbers up" then actually delivering a product people want to use.

Most of the announcements I hear about Copilot, it's always how they've integrated it into some other piece of software or cut a deal with yet another vendor to add it to that vendors product offering. On the surface there's nothing wrong with doing that but that just seems to be the ONLY thing Microsoft is focused on.

Worse yet, most of these integrations seem like a exercise in ticking boxes rather than actually thinking through how integrating Copilot into a product will actually improve user experience. A great example was someone mentioned that Copilot was now integrated into the terminal app but beyond an icon + a chat window, there is zero integration.

Overall, MS just reeks of an organization that is cares more about numbers on a dashboard and pretty reports than they are on what users are actually experiencing.