MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ateevchopra | 2026-02-05 08:24:59+00:00
One workaround that’s worked well for me is maintaining two Claude Code subscriptions instead of relying on just one.

When I hit the usage limit on the first account, I simply switch to the second and continue working. Since Claude stores progress locally rather than tying it to a specific account, the session picks up right where it left off. That makes it surprisingly seamless to keep momentum without waiting for limits to reset.
by scratcheee | 2026-02-05 08:25:00+00:00
I know the thread is about tvs, but since gaming has come up, worth noting that at computer viewing distances the differences between 1080p/1440p and 4k really are very visible (though in my case I have a 4k monitor for media and a 1440p monitor for gaming since there’s 0 chance I can run at 4k anyway)
by Imanari | 2026-02-05 08:25:26+00:00
"I want to implement <XYZ oftentime I use the mic and just ramble[0]>.
Please explore the codebase and figure out how things work.
Write down any questions you have.
Then write an implementation plan.
Do all of this in a dedicated markdown file."

The questions are usually 80% useless but those 20% often do point me to stuff I have not considered.

Then I edit the markdown manually or discuss some parts with the agent.

"go ahead and implement"

[0] - https://github.com/cjpais/Handy
by Lutger | 2026-02-05 08:25:46+00:00
Really depends on the domain. I've been in jobs where the domain was much harder than my job as a software engineer, but I've also been in jobs where I quickly got to understand the domain better than the domain experts, or at least parts of it. I believe this is not because I'm smart (I'm not), but because software engineering requires precise requirements, which requires unrelenting questioning and attention to details.

The ability to acquire domain knowledge quickly however, isn't exactly the same as the ability to develop complex software.
by alex43578 | 2026-02-05 08:25:53+00:00
I disagree with the original position that "You could train a state of the art model on cluster of 12+ year old boxes". Regardless of the country's resources, the best training methods can't makeup for the vast difference in compute and scale. The best 100 or 70B models aren't close to GPT, Gemini, or Claude; and there's certainly no chance the best 100B models could've been trained with the compute reasonably available in a single source 10 years ago.
by WalterBright | 2026-02-05 08:26:55+00:00
You were fortunate in attending a better school.

I was an air force brat, and so attended many diverse public schools.

I took 2 years of honors physics in high school. College freshman physics blew through that in 2 weeks. And then I was in deep doo-doo.

I am eternally grateful to Prof Ricardo Gomez, who kindly took the time to coach me one on one. I never thanked him for that, one of my many regrets.
by AtomicLynx | 2026-02-05 08:27:03+00:00
Preposterous. Have you ever worked for a company as a programmer or for that matter as a manager? They don't just replace products ad hoc. There's an enormous amount of due diligence that goes into any new software product - making sure it fits the company, that it's secure, that it works properly... I recently worked at a small startup who spent on sales force @ $100,000 a year. I said you know what we could do this ourselves and you know what they said as every company I've ever said that to says? "We don't want to support it. We need to cover our ass. Everybody knows how to use this"
by InterlooperX | 2026-02-05 08:28:33+00:00
Which is why it is baffling to me that MS won't let the end users alone.

I am still battling with the fact they are hell bend on removing the whole "local users" approach of personal computing.

Why stop giving people the option to use their computer the way they want to?
What does MS get out of pushing everybody into online account for an on prem system?

It should be evident to them by now that there is a portion of users that will continue to find ways to use their computer the way they want to.

This cat and mouse game has gone on long enough. MS should be happy to retain any end user they can at this point and not continue to piss of some nerds that still use your operating system under the one condition that they get to do so the way they see fit.
by int_19h | 2026-02-05 08:28:40+00:00
They are not "exceptions". It's exactly as I wrote: possessing a live grenade is legal, subject only to paying the $200 tax and doing the associated paperwork for the feds. The illegal part is not paying the tax.

State laws are another matter entirely, but even many states with stringent gun laws don't ban DDs specifically (probably because many lawmakers are not aware that such things are legal).

As for the background checks, I own over a dozen NFA-regulated items including a destructive device (a 40mm grenade launcher), and I can't say that the rules aren't really any more onerous than they are for regular firearms. This particular bit about "banning people who were dishonorably discharged from the military" applies equally to any firearm transfer under federal jurisdiction, for example (e.g. buying across state lines, or within states that mandate a federal check for anything). As I recall, the only thing that stood out in NFA forms compared to the regular stuff was the need to submit fingerprints. That aside, it was smooth sailing even back when I wasn't a citizen. So really the only barrier is affordability, and AFAIK this is exactly how the NFA was intended to work back when it was designed ($200 was about 4x the price of a full auto gun like Thompson back then, so it basically made them outlandishly expensive, only available to the rich).
by alex43578 | 2026-02-05 08:28:46+00:00
For reasonable bitrate/resolution pairs, both matter. Clean 1080P will beat bitrate starved 4K, especially with modern upscaling techniques, but even reasonable-compression 4K will beat good 1080P because there's just more detail there. Unfortunately, many platforms try to mess with this relationship, like YouTube forcing 4K uploads to get better bitrates, when for many devices a higher rate 1080P would be fine.
by aenis | 2026-02-05 08:29:11+00:00
I'd rather not name names - but one of the major, popular ones.

We contracted a lot of usage, and are using it literally like a S3 bucket with a malware scanner attached to it, and ignoring the dozens and dozens of document management capabilities it has - that we don't need. (Because really, we only ever needed a S3 bucket with a virus scanner...). This alone will allow us not to renew that contract, and save, maybe, around 2M per year.

Sure, we will have to have our own API that will require support and what not, but... we already HAD to have our own API that requires support and what not, since we have a bunch of legacy document management platforms running in various countries, and we anyway have to operate an abstraction and a router.

I am sure ours might not be the most typical case, but there will be savings, and since the economy is what it is, my bosses are telling me to go for every saving I can find, and thats one of them.

(I'd not try to re-write an ERP system, for instance, or a CRM. But a lot of smaller things where we pay a substantial premium? Sure - we will try.).
by tokyobreakfast | 2026-02-05 08:30:00+00:00
Try comparing a 4K vs 1080p that were created from the same master, like a modern Criterion restoration.

Without HDR the differences are negligible or imperceptible at a standard 10' viewing distance.

I'll take it one step further: a well-mastered 1080p Blu-Ray beats 4K streaming hands down every time.
by nicoloren | 2026-02-05 08:30:51+00:00
I am using CudaText [0] with the Distraction Free mode [1] to have a full screen editor "always on" the weekend when I write (on Windows 11, but it should work on Linux).

There is also a full screen mode plugin on GVim [2] but I haven't tested it.

[0] https://cudatext.github.io/
[1] https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Full-screen_mode
[2] https://github.com/lambdalisue/vim-fullscreen
by alkonaut | 2026-02-05 08:31:03+00:00
I don't see a future in which we play at 4K at top settings either without AI upscaling/interpolation. Even if it were theoretically possible to do so, the performance budget the developers have going forward will be assuming that frame generation and upscaling is used.

So anyone who wants only "real frames" (Non upscaled, non generated) will need to lower their settings or only play games a few years old. But I think this will be something that becomes so natural that no one even thinks about it. Disabling it will belike someone lowering AA settings or whatever. Something only done by very niche players, like the CS community does today where some are playing 4:3 screens, lowering AA settings for maximum visibility not fidelity and so on.
by tombert | 2026-02-05 08:31:12+00:00
I am jealous that you were even able to find a 55 inch 8k monitor. I couldn’t find one.

For my computer monitor, I ended up going with a cartoonishly large 85 inch 8k. It was somewhat of an adventure getting it into my house, but once it was set up I absolutely love it.

I don’t really see the point of 8k for anything but computer monitors but it’s absolutely great for that.
by magic_hamster | 2026-02-05 08:31:13+00:00
> at some point will probably revolutionize a lot of things we do

The revolution already happened. I can't imagine life without AI today. Not just for coding (which I actually lament) but just in general day to day use. Sure it's not perfect but I think it's quite difficult to ignore how the world changed in just 3-4 years.
by SPICLK2 | 2026-02-05 08:32:38+00:00
It's still dissipating near 600W. "I can put my hands on it for a few seconds" tells me it's dangerously hot and would not pass any kind of safety certification. How many other objects do you have in your house that heat up to a similar degree? How many of those objects would you like suspended at eye level with no particular safety guards?
by xp84 | 2026-02-05 08:32:42+00:00
I agree that it’s stupid to judge people for it, but you do have to admit that especially with not all people having RCS, the feature set of SMS and MMS that you have to deal with when not using iMessage is pretty barbaric. From the potato-quality videos (ironically, I recall QuickTime was heavily involved in that spec, lol) to the asinine way Apple lets you apply a reaction and then sends it as a verbose text… From an iPhone user’s point of view, a “green bubble” means “this conversation will work like it’s 2003.”

Yes, I know 99.999% of Android users are on WhatsApp (or WeChat, Line, or Telegram depending on cultural background) but at least half of iPhone users aren’t on those, so we still have to keep using Messages for a lot of people.
by jeroenhd | 2026-02-05 08:32:49+00:00
The (somewhat affordable) productized NASes all suffer from big tech diseases.

I think a lot of people underestimate how easy a "NAS" can be made if you take a standard PC, install some form of desktop Linux, and hit "share" on a folder. Something like TrueNAS or one of its forks may also be an option if you're into that kind of stuff.

If you want the fancy docker management web UI stuff with as little maintenance as possible, you may still be in the NAS market, but for a lot of people NAS just means "a big hard drive all of my devices can access". From what I can tell the best middle point between "what the box from the store offers" and "how do build one yourself" is a (paid-for) NAS OS like HexOS where analytics, tracking, and data sales are not used to cover for race-to-the-bottom pricing.
by _DeadFred_ | 2026-02-05 08:32:51+00:00
Is that the 'police don't need to identify themselves and should wear face masks' or the 'you aren't allowed to film the police because it interferes with our trying to be a secret police force' laws?

Or the 'you aren't doing anything illegal but the masked government agents don't like it so they are going to use your biometrics to harass you in whatever ways the feds can make your life more difficult' laws?
by stephantul | 2026-02-05 08:33:19+00:00
You are right, I do acknowledge their efforts but did not do so here, which I should have.

I don't necessarily mean to berate the public, but rather the politicians, who saw that they could use social media/big tech for their own personal gain, and the media, who went along with the narrative that putting all our public communication into privately owned platforms was good for democracy. And maybe our own governments and institutions (speaking from a EU perspective) for dropping the ball in protecting us.

I think Evgeny Morozov's 2010-ish writing was prophetic in this regard.
by hdgvhicv | 2026-02-05 08:33:34+00:00
So the satelite receives say 13kW of heat energy as it has a 10 square metre surface facing the sun.

That is converted to 2.5kW electic and 10.5kW heat. The electric is then used to power the computer and ply doom or whatever. That 2.5kW of electric is then converted to 2.5kW of heat. That means the satelite has to dissipate 13kW of heat.

But even without the electric use it still receives 13kW of heat and dissipates 13kW of heat.

Any object in space will emit as much energy via radiation as it receives otherwise it will continue to increase in temperature. The question is thus what temperature does it sit at to make this in equilibrium.

If the satelite was perfectly flat it would run at 120c for a black body. If it was a lump of stew it would be about 150c.

To reduce that to 20C you need about 50sqm radistor, or 5 times the surface area in shadow. The shadow is about 350-400m long

So you build it as a cone with the flat circular area facing the sun and the pointy area in its shadow you’d only need a cone height of about 20m to emit enough heat to keep the satelite to room temperature.
by surgical_fire | 2026-02-05 08:33:35+00:00
If that's the case, great then. I did work for a company I find morally objectionable in the past (i.e.: evil), and I eventually found my way out.

At the time I was still paying rent and needed employment to keep my visa. I also had little savings, and an ill parent that depended on me. I certainly couldn't take the principled stance of "fuck this, I'm out".

My point is that if you are in the position to take a principled stance, good for you. Maybe you already own your home, maybe you had time to accumulate savings, maybe you can do a few interviews and land a less evil job even in the current market (and perhaps a pay cut won't be a massive blow in you life). All that is awesome, but also a position of relative privilege.

Prescribing principled stance as universal without recognizing this is just cruelty though.
by rkagerer | 2026-02-05 08:34:23+00:00
Hacker News readers are very protective of the site... reacted negatively... to... stories that... weren’t of high-enough quality to otherwise be credible candidates for the front page... HN users have an intense emotional relationship with the front page... people’s relationship with HN is surprisingly personal

In my case, that observation is bang on.

Caught in a web overgrown with ads,
infested with cookie popups,
impaired by erratically deferred layouts
lost in excessive whitespace,
with signal drowning out
in a coagulation of low-effort,
generated slop;

Sprouting walls of every kind,
from paywalls, to login walls;
even flared walls verifying
you're of the human persuasion

Walls that funnel
toward infinite scroll traps
devoid of true substance
yet ruthlessly honed
to siphon all the personal
and behavioral data

Bound by Terms of Use
amounting to forced consent
extracted absent meaningful agency,
Where it's clear
the very last thing
the jackasses running the place
give a damn about
is that ultimate jewel:
their User

In that horrible,
post-apocalyptic hell
to which my beloved internet
has largely succumbed...
I find in this here nook
something of an oasis

A respite still prizing quality of content
A haven where craftmanship counts
A community of colleagues
whose expertise complements
and fills in the gaps of my own
And, most crucially,
a venue where that priceless commodity
known as my attention
is still generally respected
and treated with value
Show HN: Vibecodr – a social network for sharing runnable web apps
by Braden-dev | 2026-02-05 08:34:44+00:00
A few months ago I built a small flight simulator with an LLM in about an hour. It was genuinely fun — but I didn’t have a good place to share it where people could actually play it (not just see a screenshot or clone a repo).

Glitch used to be the closest thing to “publish weird little web apps and share a link”, but after hosting went away I couldn’t find a replacement that felt lightweight. CodePen is great for snippets, and Vercel/Netlify/Pages are great for real deploys — I wanted the in-between: publish → share → instantly playable.

So I built Vibecodr: a place to publish and share playable web apps (“vibes”). You can write code in the browser or import from GitHub, hit publish, and share a link.

Try the flight sim that kicked this off:
https://vibecodr.space/player/04ef1473-b0da-4c79-a34f-3ea40f...

(fullscreen: https://flight-sim.vxbe.space)

How it runs (security-first): user code executes inside a locked-down, cross-origin sandbox iframe (untrusted bundles don’t execute on the vibecodr.space origin). There are runtime budgets/limits to prevent runaways.

Backend (“pulses”): if your project needs server-side logic (webhooks, API calls, cron-style tasks), you can add a “pulse” that runs on Cloudflare Workers for Platforms. Pulses are quota’d and rate-limited.

One thing I’m experimenting with: a secrets-backed fetch model where pulses can call third-party APIs without the plaintext secret ever being exposed to user code (the platform injects secrets server-side and proxies the request).

This is not enterprise hosting — it’s for the “I made a thing, try it” workflow.

Free tier: unlimited public frontend vibes; backend pulses are limited (e.g. small number of pulses + monthly run quota). Paid tiers bump limits.

Feedback I’d love from HN:

What would make you use this instead of your current “share a demo” workflow?

Is the Workers-based backend model useful, or would you rather keep backend out entirely?
by mamonster | 2026-02-05 08:34:56+00:00
Instead of tennis I would use basketball.

You can be the #1 rated player up to your last year of high school but if you don't hit the growth spurt required for your position your career will take a completely different turn. Conversely, it is the only sport I am aware of where you have people playing at the highest level who picked up their first basketball at 16
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by klausa | 2026-02-05 08:35:11+00:00
Discussions about this are very tedious, because people have hard time making distinction between "being able to see the difference between 1080/4k/8k content" and "being able to see the difference between 1080/4k/8k panels".

I'm sure there's plenty of content (especially streaming content in mediocre bitrate) where people would be hard-pressed to tell the difference.

But I think if people went back to 1080p _panels_; they'd actually rather quickly notice how much worse the text-rendering is, and that the UI looks off for them.

Moving up to 8k would definitely be a smaller step-change in clarity than 1080p->4K and many people wouldn't feel it's worth spending extra; but I don't think it would be literally indistinguishable.
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